Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Co-authors James Norris and Michelle St Claire. Using its trusted geospatial expertise, Ordnance Survey (OS) on behalf of the UK has been working closely with experts from Barbados and Tonga to co-author a new report from the UN-GGIM Task Team on Geospatial Information for Climate Resilience ‘Applying Geospatial Information to Climate Challenges’ , which focuses on how geospatial data is transforming climate action, and can help with climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 11, 2024

If America hopes to meet its grid decarbonization goals or its nuclear power targets, the country needs to deploy fission reactors in volume — and it needs to get started today. That’s according to the recently updated Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear report by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

US-based utility Chugach Electric Association has successfully commissioned a new 40MW/80MWh 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The location sees some of the highest amounts of truck traffic in the country The Port of Gothenburg in Sweden sees some of the highest numbers of heavy-duty truck traffic in the country and is opening a new hydrogen station that will dispense only H2 produced using renewable energy. The location for the facility will be at one of the busiest gates at the port The hydrogen station will be used for refueling H2-powered heavy-duty vehicles such as shipping trucks that frequent the location.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

Sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Speakers at the WBA Brazil Congress: (left to right) Luis Zavaleta, LATAM Environmental Sustainability & Compliance Director, PepsiCo (speaking); Rodrigo Regis, Consultant, Planning Department, Government of Paraná; Dr Airton Kunz, Senior Researcher, Embrapa Suinos e Aves; Charlotte Morton OBE, Chief Executive, World Biogas Association. The World Biogas Association BRAZIL Congress 2024 took place on 1 October, and ran concurrently with the G20 Energy meetings in Foz do Iguaçu.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column. Last year’s COP28 meeting produced an ambitious goal: More than 100 countries pledged to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Form Energy, the US startup behind a battery technology that aims to cost-effectively provide 100-hour duration energy storage, has closed a Series F funding round.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Just published research in Nature Sustainability shows that building a renewable energy system for a telescope in Chile's isolated Atacama Desert could also cover 66% of a nearby community's energy needs, giving hope for win-win development around other remote infrastructure projects.

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The US Department of Energy ’s (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) program has released a draft roadmap to improve processes for interconnecting clean energy resources to the distribution and sub-transmission grids. The draft document provides stakeholders with 37 solutions organized around: increasing data access, transparency and security for interconnection; improving interconnection processes and timelines; promoting economic efficiency in interconnection; and maintaining a reli

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Trucking Association Clashes with CARB Over ZEV Mandates The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is facing legal challenges from the NTEA – The Work Truck Association and the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) over its Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulations. These organizations have filed a lawsuit to prevent the implementation of electric vehicle mandates, arguing that the regulations exceed CARB’s authority and impose undue burdens on the trucking industry.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

Energy

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Enhanced wastewater treatment holds the key to reducing sewage overflows to the environment in a sustainable way, says Dominic Hurd, managing director, ACWA Services. Public and political pressure on water companies to address the issue of sewage spills into rivers and seas means overflows are no longer solely an issue for operations teams. They top the in-trays of water company chief executives, who are personally invested in finding the best solutions available to address this highly charged c

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

JA Solar filed two lawsuits at the German offices of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) against fellow Chinese solar manufacturer Astronergy in July.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

More and more of our residual waste is incinerated, as much as 65 per cent of it goes up in smoke. PhD candidate Kim Rainer Mattson believes much of this can be recovered and recycled (image credit: Photo: Sølvi W. Normannsen). In the sea of environmental problems over which we have little control, recycling has alway been an area where it feels like we can all do something positive.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Caldas Hydroelectric Power Plant (Chec) , Ecopetrol and Baker Hughes recently joined forces to develop non-conventional renewable energy in Colombia through geothermal energy. This project, recently highlighted in an article in La Patria, is coordinated by Julián López Palacio and is intended to be carried out in the Nereidas Valley, near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Drivers in New Jersey who purchase an electric vehicle will—for the first time since 2004—have to pay sales tax on the transaction. The return of the EV sales tax comes on the heels of the July 2024 introduction of a new annual electric vehicle fee of $250 in addition to the existing vehicle registration fee. The new fee is considered to be a road-use fee, and the funds it brings in will ostensibly be used for road and bridge repairs and improvements.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Arenko has agreed to a framework deal with RWE Supply and Trading, in which RWE is set to use Arenko’s Nimbus Trade product as part of its U.K. trading desk. The technology is expected to be deployed on three DC-coupled solar projects which are currently under construction, with the first two projects scheduled to go live next year. Under the agreement, RWE’s in-house trading algorithms and trading capabilities will be integrated into Arenko’s Nimbus Trade product.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A research team has developed a process technology that enables ultrafast, 30-second preparation of hard carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries using microwave induction heating.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Editor’s note: Special thanks to William Thompson and Steam Srl for the material used in this article. On October 8, 2024, one of Italy’s leading political parties, Fratelli d’Italia , called a special Parliamentary hearing entitled “Energy Independence: Geothermal’s Contribution” (“Indipendenza energetica: il Contributo della Geotermia”). Following the recent release of the Piano Nazionale Integrato per l’Energia e il Clima (PNIEC, “National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate”)

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

Sustainability

Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

UK oil major expects higher exploration write-offs

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2024

UK-based Durakool, a manufacturer of power-switching components, has introduced three new products for the EV market. The DG82M is a micro-ISO automotive plug-in relay featuring magnetic arc blowout technology. It is optimized for DC switching, capable of handling up to 3 A 110 VDC for 100,000 cycles and 7 A 110 VDC for 20,000 cycles. The DG82M has an additional magnet but still fits standard micro-ISO sockets, making it well-suited for industrial vehicles transitioning to electric power and hig

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Mosaic

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The solar industry continues to make impressive growth: solar installations have increased by five times since 2016, and residential solar installations surpassed 5 million this year! To celebrate our trailblazing industry, here’s a few must-know facts to bring to your next kitchen table conversation. Solar is great for the economy Solar energy provides 364,500 jobs across the United States, and if you include those who work in the solar battery industry, that number jumps to 454,000!

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In this week’s episode, I discuss the state of Sustainability with one of the sector’s leading voices, Brendan May of Robertsbridge. In a wide ranging conversation, we take in recent UK political developments, the difficulties with transition, the threat of culture war populism, the unintended consequences of not doing things (eg offsetting, nuclear, palm oil), the success and failure of various NGO campaigns and deep sea mining of transition metals.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The loan will support the development of the Guayepo I and II solar PV projects, as well as Enel's distribution business.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: US Jobs In New York: Acumen is hiring an associate director for institutional partnerships. The post The Week’s Jobs: October 11, 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

India's NHPC seeks to procure up to 1.2GW of solar PV capacity with up to 1.2GW 'greenshoe option' capacity bringing the total to 2.4GW.

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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Companies are struggling to establish a clear path in their energy transition strategies

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Canada has announced up to C$500 million in finance for the country’s Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways (SREPs) programme.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) cited their milestones in the field of geothermal development in China as one of the company’s ten achievements during the “Touching Sinopec” stakeholder event held in Beijing. The event is the first time that Sinopec has announced the practical results of their projects to help support China’s modernization in the field of energy security, industrial development, and scientific and technological innovation.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Danish renewable energy company Ørsted and US utility Salt River Project (SRP) have confirmed that their 300MW solar-plus-storage project in Pinal County, Arizona, has commenced operations.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As part of the regular Focus on Geothermal Webinar series – a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy – we are proud to host the GRE-GEO team for a webinar on “ Beyond Steel: EU Funded Research Project GRE-GEO Presents New Glass Fiber Solutions for Corrosion-Resistant Geothermal Casings.” The multinational consortium of geothermal experts, that has launched the GEOTHERMICA project GRE-GEO has developed a new glass fiber reinforced epoxy casing system for geothermal application.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Inkia Energy has revealed a solar PV expansion in Peru, targeting more than 1GW of new solar PV capacity operational by the end of 2025.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It’s Friday so today’s post is a collection of “Did You Know” tidbits which are interesting (hopefully) items related to clean energy and climate change. Today we cover “coal-powered” EVs, what today’s children may experience weather-wise, the state of the insurance industry, and an unexpected benefit of clean air zones.

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