Fri.Nov 15, 2024

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California’s rooftop solar is a benefit, not a cost, to the state

Canary Media

For years, California utilities, regulators, and consumer advocates have argued that residents with solar panels on their rooftops are making electricity more expensive for everyone else in the state.

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Microsoft bets a carbon removal bake-off will help offset its skyrocketing AI emissions

TechCrunch: Climate

Microsoft is buying 10,000 tons of carbon credits from Deep Sky, a direct air capture developer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Maxeon to launch protests against CBP’s continued detention of modules made in Mexico

PV Tech

Maxeon has announced plans to submit 'one or more protests' against CBP for its continued detainment of its modules produced in Mexico.

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Massachusetts passes bill to speed clean energy and slow gas expansion

Canary Media

Yesterday, Massachusetts lawmakers made major moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition the state to clean energy.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

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.

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‘Our long-term vision is solar-plus-storage’, Freyr says, following Trina module manufacturing plant acquisition

PV Tech

Freyr told PV Tech Premium that its acquisition of a Trina solar plant aims to build a solar and storage manufacturing space in the US.

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XCharge and Grensol partner to improve recycling solutions for EVSE supply chain waste

Charged

XCharge North America , a provider of DC fast charging solutions, is working with Swiss startup the Grensol Group to address the challenge of reducing the end-of-life waste associated with EVSE—specifically EV charging cables and modules. Effective immediately, XCharge NA will provide broken or worn-down EVSE materials to Grensol and its research partner Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), for the development of an industrial recycling solution for such equipment.

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Recycling batteries with citric acid

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

A simple, highly efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly process could provide a viable pathway for the sustainable recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): No chemicals beyond citric acid need to be added to leach out and separate over 99 % of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese metals contained in NCM batteries. The resulting recycled material can be directly converted into NCM electrodes, reports a research team.

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US shale boss Chris Wright leads race to be Trump’s energy secretary

Financial Times: Energy

Fossil fuel barons including Harold Hamm have pushed for the Liberty Energy chief’s candidacy

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Australia to invest $125m in Pacific island off-grid and community scale renewables

Renew Economy

Australian investment will help deliver off-grid and community-scale renewable energy in remote and rural parts of the Pacific, as well as grid studies. The post Australia to invest $125m in Pacific island off-grid and community scale renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Chart: Most Americans support expanding solar and wind power

Canary Media

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.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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

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How Forest Carbon Data Helps Bridge Observation to Action

Planet Pulse

A groundbreaking and alarming report found that Earth’s land carbon sink absorbed almost no carbon last year. Consider that for a moment: the ecosystems that have buffered our excess emissions for decades may not continue to do so indefinitely. While a slowdown has long been anticipated as climate change disrupts ecosystem function, its early arrival only increases the urgency of cutting emissions while conserving forest landscapes.

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NXP announces ultra-wideband wireless battery management system

Charged

NXP Semiconductors has unveiled a new wireless battery management system (BMS) solution with ultra-wideband (UWB) capabilities. UWB technology uses high-bandwidth pulses instead of a modulated carrier frequency (sinusoidal signal) as used in 2.4 GHz narrowband technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy. This provides higher resistance to reflections and frequency-selective fading for improved data transfer, according to NXP.

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Move towards renewable energy is unstoppable, says Ed Miliband

The Guardian: Energy

Exclusive: UK energy secretary says at Cop29 that people see the economic advantages of making the transition Cop29 climate summit – live updates Renewable energy is now “unstoppable”, and no government can prevent the shift to a global low-carbon economy, UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has said. He said the UK was acting out of national self-interest by taking a global lead on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting financial help available to poor countries at crunch UN climate talks th

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Delta's big plans for sustainable aviation fuel need incentives up and down supply chain

Business Green

Delta Air Lines pledged in 2021 to use SAF for at least 10 per cent of the fuel filling its planes by 2030 - Here's a progress report on how that's going

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

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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Caltrans Secures $32 Million for Concrete Decarbonization Programs

NRDC onEarth

Federal Highways Administration funding could help Caltrans unlock emission reductions from concrete and asphalt used in state transportation infrastructure.

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Almost 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit

The Guardian: Energy

More lobbyists for the controversial technology were present this year, despite debate about its viability At least 480 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been granted access to the UN climate summit, known as Cop29, the Guardian can reveal. That is five more CCS lobbyists than were present at last year’s climate talks , despite the overall number of participants shrinking significantly from about 85,000 to about 70,000.

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Floating Solar Plant Installed at Mortkasee Artificial Lake

Solar Industry

In a joint project between RWE , the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), 190 floating solar modules have been installed on the Mortkasee artificial lake in Lohsa, Saxony. The collaboration is aimed at investigating the extent to which floating solar islands can be implemented and operated in harmony with aquatic ecology.

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Western groups step up efforts to win nuclear contracts in eastern Europe

Financial Times: Energy

Senior executive at engineer AtkinsRéalis says region ripe for business as it struggles to hit EU net zero targets

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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.

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Fossil fuel bosses get ‘red carpet’ at Cop29 despite concerns over influence

The Guardian: Energy

Revealed: more than 100 executives given special guest badges as activists challenge role of oil and gas firms at talks The host country of this year’s UN climate summit, Azerbaijan, has rolled out “red carpet” treatment to fossil fuel bosses and lobbyists, the Guardian can reveal. At least 132 oil and gas company senior executives and staff were invited to the Cop29 summit , and had special badges denoting they were guests of the presidency.

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Countries Have Been Overlooking Their Biggest Climate Allies: Local and Regional Governments

The City Fix

Cities are home to more than half the world’s population: 4.4 billion people commuting, working, eating, shopping, and using light, heat and air conditioning. As a result, cities collectively produce over 70% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions warming the planet. They.

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Six bids for ‘most ambitious storage project in Central America’, in Honduras

Energy Storage News

Last week (7 November) saw bids opened for a 75MW/300MWh BESS tender launched by the government of Honduras, in Central America.

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Ameresco, UCI Health Collaborate on All-Electric Hospital Campus

Solar Industry

Ameresco has collaborated with the University of California, Irvine and its health system, UCI Health, to install two solar PV arrays atop new parking structures at the zero-emission medical campus, with the acute care hospital set to open next year. Ameresco is responsible for the turnkey design, engineering, arrangement of financing and construction of the new PV systems, which have a a combined 1.4 capacity.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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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Brazil increases import tariffs on solar modules to 25%

PV Tech

The Brazilian government has raised this week (12 November) the import tax rate on solar modules from 9.6% to 25%.

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Recycling batteries with citric acid: Research introduces highly efficient process for NCM lithium-ion batteries

TechXplore

A simple, highly efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly process could provide a viable pathway for the sustainable recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): No chemicals beyond citric acid need to be added to leach out and separate over 99% of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese metals contained in NCM batteries.

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HYTING’s Heating Technology Validated as

Hydrogen Fuel News

HYTING Proves Emission-Free Heating Without Harm In a significant advancement for sustainable technology, HYTING, a dynamic start-up company, has unveiled pivotal independent test results showing that its hydrogen heating system operates without producing harmful emissions. Conducted by the renowned emissions specialist Wöhler Technik GmbH, these tests confirm that HYTING’s catalytic hydrogen heating system emits only water as a by-product.

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The Week’s Jobs: November 15, 2024

Impact Alpha

Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: In Washington, DC: Arnold Ventures is recruiting an affordable housing-focused impact investing director; Carlyle. The post The Week’s Jobs: November 15, 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Santos figured out net zero roadmap ‘literally on the fly’, court hears in world-first greenwashing case

The Guardian: Energy

Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility accuses Australian oil giant of misleading and false claims in closing arguments Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Santos misled investors by positioning itself as a “clean fuels company” with a credible net zero plan, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has alleged in closing remarks to a world-first greenwashing case.

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Infrastructure tender completed for geothermal greenhouse project in Simav, Türkiye

ThinkGeoEnergy

A new phase has been achieved in the Simav Geothermal-Based Greenhouse Organized Industrial Zone (TDIOSB) project in Kutahya, Türkiye. In the area where construction equipment and personnel from the Kutahya Provincial Special Administration are working, leveling of the roads between the planned parcels has been completed. Following this work, the tender process for infrastructure construction in the area was carried out.

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COP29: UK unveils new carbon market principles, as climate finance negotiations rumble on

Business Green

Frustrations grow at Baku Summit, as leading former diplomats declare COP process is 'no longer fit for purpose'

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Searching for global climate leadership

Impact Alpha

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The search is on for global climate leadership. The post Searching for global climate leadership appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Governments Spending $7 Trillion Annually To Subsidize Fossil Fuels

Energy Central

At COP29 in Baku, rich and poor nations have gathered to fund mitigating climate change to keep it from running rampant. The call is for dedicating $1 trillion US annually to fight global warming with much of it coming in the form of grants and investments from the richest countries, business organizations and billionaires. The richest countries and the fossil fuel industries they.

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The Week’s Dealflow: November 15, 2024

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Agrifood investing. AgDevCo provided $9.5 million in mezzanine debt to Agventure, a Kenyan agri-business, to expand. The post The Week’s Dealflow: November 15, 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.