Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The total amount of household waste generated in Scotland in 2023 was 2.3 million tonnes, a drop of 1.1% from 2022, according to Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) statistics published on 29 October. This is also the lowest amount of household waste generated since the start of the current recording period in 2011. Of this, 43.5% was recycled, a 0.2% increase from 2022.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Network operators want consumers to pay more for gas pipeline access, because they fear accelerated switch to all electric homes will leave their assets stranded. The post Death spiral: Network blows up renewable gas claims, wants to hit consumers for cost of stranded assets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The safe use of lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles and stationary energy storage systems, critically depends on condition monitoring and early fault detection. Failures in individual battery cells can lead to serious issues, including fires.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Spanish independent power producer (IPP) Grenergy has secured a 1.25GWh energy storage supply agreement with CATL for its Oasis de Atacama project in Chile.

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Energy Energy 121

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

Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sponsored by Infineon. Join our expert on-demand webinar to discover the game-changing potential of Infineon’s newly introduced CoolSiC Automotive MOSFET 750 V G1 family. Learn how these innovative power switches can simplify, robustify, and optimize your on-board charger, HV-LV DC/DC converter, and battery disconnect applications. Don’t miss out on the latest trends in top-side cooling and how to unlock the full potential of your automotive power conversion systems.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With talks of repowering nuclear power plants in the US for data centres, VPPs can be an immediate alternative to cover data centres needs.

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Nuclear Power 119

TechXplore

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Retrofitting a portion of the US shipping fleet from internal combustion engines to battery-electric systems could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be largely cost effective by 2035, according to a new study from Berkeley Lab researchers recently published in Nature Energy.

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Batteries Electricity Energy Energy 103

CleanTech Group

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the carbon offset market grows, the importance of accurate, transparent, and scalable monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems cannot be overstated. For. The post Unlocking Value and Trust in Carbon Offsets: The Role of MRV Innovation appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A network of more than 300 solar-powered homes started supplementing the New York grid this summer — the result of an unusual partnership that could unlock more localized clean energy for the state.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 30, 2024

New research from North Carolina State University provides a deeper understanding of precisely what is happening in organic solar cells as light is converted into electricity. Researchers have developed a new method that visualizes interfaces where sunlight's energy is converted to electrical charges, and they have used the findings to develop a set of design rules that can improve the efficiency of organic solar cells.

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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.

Transportation

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Saludos, Agents of Impact! Welcome to October’s ImpactAlpha Latin America. It was great to see Carmen Correa, Laura Ortiz, Rodrigo Villar, Justin Schwartz, Aldo Soto, Corentin Larue and so many other Latin. The post ImpactAlpha Latin America: Building Central America’s market for impact investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment 96

PV Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2024

UK-based research group Cornwall Insight has projected that Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) will add 150GW of solar PV, wind and energy storage capacity by 2043.

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Energy Energy Electricity 94

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The federal government has cleared its state counterpart's plan for a massive 250 MW electrolyser and 200 MW hydrogen power plant at Whyalla. The post Australia’s biggest hydrogen project wins federal green tick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Government Policy 91

PV Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Materials science firm Corning has unveiled plans to build a solar wafer manufacturing plant in the US, according to a local news outlet.

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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

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Greetings Agents of Impact! October’s edition of ImpactAlpha Latin America drops later today. Opt-in to the speciality newsletter, at no additional cost. ¡Disfruta! The post The Brief: Wealthy families warm to climate investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment 91

Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The dry electrode process is transforming battery manufacturing by eliminating solvents and streamlining production. Unlike the traditional wet slurry method, the dry electrode coating process relies on the use of special binders that can form an electrode coating without being dissolved in a solvent, such as fluoropolymer binders with Teflon from specialty chemical company Chemours.

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Batteries Technology Lithium Energy 88

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Consumption of hard coal in power plants to generate electricity fell by 39 per cent in 2024, despite the closure of the last nuclear plants last year. The post German coal use plunges nearly 40 per cent in 2024, despite nuclear exit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Electricity Policy 86

Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Canada-based Laserax, which manufactures industrial laser machines, has developed a new system that accelerates the laser welding of battery cells using machine vision software from German firm MVTec. The Battery Welding Machine speeds up the process of welding the current collector and busbar to the battery module. The system is suitable for batteries used in the automotive industry, for automated guided vehicles (AGVs), e-bikes, and for power tools.

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Automotive Batteries Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 87

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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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By ensuring that routine road maintenance projects include complete streets elements, we can build a transportation system that protects people and the planet.

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Transportation 78

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

What is climate change doing to the world's driest inhabited continent? Latest CSIRO and BoM report checks in on the worsening impacts of global warming on Australia's environment and communities. The post Australia’s land is already 1.5°C hotter and faces intense fire season, ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The geothermal heating and cooling system at the Australian War Memorial has officially been switched on, supplying energy to the building from 216 vertical closed-loop boreholes drilled to depths of up to 150 meters. The project is described as the largest geothermal heat exchange system in Australia and was designed by Sydney-based GeoExchange Australia.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Apple went to unusual lengths to ensure it accounted for and neutralized all the pollution that the new Mac Mini might produce. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Pollution Carbon 78

Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Polish bus manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach will supply Arriva, a private transportation company operating in the Netherlands, with 26 Urbino 12 electric buses and four articulated Urbino 18 electric buses for service in the West-Brabant region. Equipped with central traction engines, the buses are based on a modular drive system architecture that eliminates the so-called engine tower.

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Transportation Electricity Hydrogen Batteries 74

Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street – Number 10 Flickr page, OGL 3, [link] Today, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stood up in the House of Commons and delivered her first ever budget. Much has been made of the new Labour Government’s green growth strategy, so did the budget deliver on the narrative? Here is my immediate reaction based on the Chancellor’s speech and some skimming of the official budget documentation : Transport: new investment in rail, a modest

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Carbon Hydrogen Pollution Investment 77

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Australian utility Origin Energy yesterday (30 October) confirmed it had started construction on the second phase of its 2.1GWh Eraring battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales, Australia.

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Construction Batteries Energy Energy 73

Canary Media

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Many of the world’s hardest-to-decarbonize industries face a similar challenge: how to obtain the white-hot heat their operations need — without using fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Startups Energy Energy 75

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Tier-1 battery manufacturer EVE Energy will be the first to mass-produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells with more than 600Ah capacity for stationary applications.

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Batteries Lithium Energy Energy 71

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A combined hydrogen and solar project is up for public consideration in the federal green queue, proposed by a company featuring several former key players in the LNP. The post Former Coalition minister and Nationals boss emerge as chair and CEO of solar and hydrogen hopeful appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Policy 69

PV Tech

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has opened a new AU$6.8 million (US$4.47 million) printed flexible solar cell facility in Victoria.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Canadian asset manager Brookfield will be required to divest French IPP Neoen’s operational assets and six development projects in Victoria, Australia, which includes the 350MW/450MWh Victoria Big Battery.

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Batteries 68

TechXplore

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Reforming the regulation of gas distribution systems will be crucial to aligning future energy demand with decarbonization goals and protecting consumers, concludes a new study by Oeko Institut and the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP).

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Demand Energy Energy 68

Solar Industry

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Solar development company Apollo Flutuantes has chosen to deploy 97,200 Tigo Energy optimizers, including the Tigo TS4-X-O MLPE line, in what the company calls Brazil’s largest floating solar plant. The project, scheduled for completion next December, will be located on the Lajeado Hydroelectric Power Plant reservoir in Tocantins. The project, designed and installed by Apollo Flutuantes, includes high-albedo platforms that optimize light reflection to maximize backside energy output of th

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy 64

TechXplore

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Cornell engineers have come up with a solution to a tricky problem: where to install charging stations for electric vehicles so they're convenient for drivers and profitable for investors. The findings are published in the journal Applied Energy.

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