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FOG recovery innovator wins drainage innovation award

Envirotec Magazine

Green technology company, Eco Clarity, has been recognised for its groundbreaking FOG (fat, oil and grease) management solution by scooping the prestigious innovation award at the National Drainage Awards in London on 27 November. Sustainable solution The judges praised Eco Clarity’s breakthrough service and technology, which collects problematic FOG waste and converts it into a sustainable source of renewable energy.

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U.S. Solar Manufacturing Surges

Solar Industry

The U.S. added a record-breaking 9.3 GW of new solar module manufacturing capacity in the third quarter, including five new or expanded factories in Alabama, Florida, Ohio and Texas. Total U.S. solar module manufacturing capacity is now nearly 40 GW. The latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Q4 2024 report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie shows that at full capacity, U.S. solar module factories can produce enough equipment to meet nearly all demand for solar in

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Hydrogen For Life Conference Shines Spotlight on Hydrogen Race Cars

Hydrogen Fuel News

Exploring Hydrogen Combustion Through Motorsport The Hydrogen For Life conference in London last week showcased a forward-looking discussion on the future of hydrogen technology in motorsport. Bosch, Ferrari, and Alpine Racing, along with other key industry players, shared groundbreaking updates on their hydrogen race cars and how these advances could shape not only motorsport but the broader transportation industry.

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Flow battery player Invinity claims new product can enable ‘solar baseload’ for the grid

Energy Storage News

New vanadium redox flow battery technology from Invinity Energy Systems makes it possible for renewables to replace conventional generation on the grid 24/7, the company has claimed.

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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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Tennessee Tech receives $4.8-million federal grant to improve EV battery recycling

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Researchers at Tennessee Tech University are set to receive a $4.8-million grant from the U S Department of Energy to help improve the nation’s EV battery recycling ecosystem. The grant is part of a $45-million federal initiative supporting projects at eight businesses or institutions, including General Motors, Caterpillar and Siemens. Tennessee Tech University’s project aims to develop a mobile preprocessing hub that can be taken to local collection sites, allowing EV owners to have batteries s

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Proton batteries: An innovative option for the future of energy storage

TechXplore

A team of scientists at UNSW Chemistry have successfully developed an organic material that is able to store protonsand they have used it to create a rechargeable proton battery in the lab.

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Minimising the role of EPCs in BESS and the ‘shocking’ cost of US manufacturing: American Energy Storage Innovations CEO interview

Energy Storage News

Energy-Storage.news hears from the CEO of American Energy Storage Innovations (AESI), about its BESS technology, battery cell strategy, manufacturing in East Asia and the "shocking" price of manufacturing in the US and buying US-made cells.

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CATL and ATL joint venture Ampace debuts Kun-Era battery series for micro-EVs

Charged

Sponsored by Ampace. As the world moves steadily toward sustainability, Ampace’s debut at EICMA 2024 in Milan marks a milestone for the e-mobility sector, showcasing its newest Kun-Era series battery technology. EICMA, one of the world’s largest motorcycle and bicycle trade shows, is the premier event for industry leaders to unveil innovations and discuss emerging trends.

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Michigan PSC approves utility’s ‘cost-competitive’ BESS PPA with Jupiter Power

Energy Storage News

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved an application from Consumers Energy Co. for a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Voyager Energy Storage LLC for a 100MW/400MWh battery energy storage facility.

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Asahi Kasei and Honda form joint venture to produce Li-ion battery separators in Canada

Charged

Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei and automaker Honda Motor have agreed to collaborate on the production of lithium-ion battery separators in Canada. The two companies plan to convert E-Materials Canada into a joint venture, to be tentatively renamed Asahi Kasei Honda Battery Separator, in which Honda Canada will acquire a 25% stake. Honda will invest a total of approximately C$417 million ($300 million) in the venture.

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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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Energy strategy could help advance low-carbon road transport while keeping it economically competitive

TechXplore

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have presented a concept for decarbonizing transport while keeping it economically competitive. Increasing the utilization of carbon dioxide from biogas plants plays an important role.

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Balancing Growth and Sustainability: Power Challenges for Data Centers in the Age of AI

POWER Magazine

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized how industries operate, and data centers have become the nerve center of this transformation. From streaming services to real-time collaboration tools, the […] The post Balancing Growth and Sustainability: Power Challenges for Data Centers in the Age of AI appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Tandem solar cells made from perovskite and organic material break efficiency record

TechXplore

Trying to improve the efficiency of solar cells to become independent from fossil energy sources is a major goal of solar cell research. A team led by physicist Dr. Felix Lang from the University of Potsdam, Prof. Lei Meng and Prof. Yongfang Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, has now combined perovskite with organic absorbers to form a record-level tandem solar cell as reported in Nature.

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Recent Deals – 3 December

CleanTech Group

Tokamak fusion systems, reusable modular orbital vehicles, and an AI-powered platform that optimizes protein development: Recent Deals worth looking at Agriculture & Food. The post Recent Deals – 3 December appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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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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Jet zero? Why net zero in aviation can't get off the ground

TechXplore

The airline industry is on course to miss its 2050 net zero target for aviation. Passenger numbers continue to soar, while alternatives to fossil fuels remain underdeveloped. Missing this target matters because aviation contributes significantly to climate change. UK aviation emits about 5% of global aviation emissions.

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Advancing total-cost-of-ownership parity of electric heavy-duty long-distance trucking (Webinar)

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Electric long-distance heavy-duty trucking is uneconomical compared to diesel trucks in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO), measured in $/mile. TCO parity is expected to be quite far out in the future, closer to 2030, in the current scenario. Join this webinar , where we will discuss a novel approach to lower the TCO for long-haul electric trucks meaningfully, thereby advancing TCO parity much sooner.

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Scalable technique enhances 2D layer formation in solar cells

TechXplore

Solar cells based on perovskites, a class of materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties, have recently achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) comparable to those of some silicon-based photovoltaics. Moreover, perovskite-based solar cells could be more affordable than their silicon counterparts, which could facilitate their widespread adoption.

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Australia: Victoria’s second-largest BESS completed by Macquarie-Shell Energy

Energy Storage News

Battery energy storage developer Eku Energy has completed the construction of the second-largest battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Australian state of Victoria.

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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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Unified testing protocol could improve the durability of flexible photovoltaic devices

TechXplore

Flexible portable devices, also known as FlexPVs, have great potential in multiple applications. For example, wearable technology, intelligent fabrics, curved surfaces such as car roofs or lightweight applications such as drones or aerospace transportation.

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Pacific Green eyes battery energy storage park in New South Wales, Australia, with land acquisition

Energy Storage News

Energy storage developer Pacific Green is eyeing a future grid-connected battery energy storage park in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

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Origami packaging technology offers sustainable alternatives to conventional materials

TechXplore

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, in collaboration with Aalto University and Finnish industrial partners, has developed a new technology for shaping cardboard in a unique continuous process to create reel-to-reel, origami-inspired structures for fiber-based packaging materials.

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VIDEO: Balancing safety and profitability in European BESS asset management

Energy Storage News

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents our sponsored webinar with Greensolver, on the role of asset management for battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Europe.

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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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Report: Harmful Pesticide Contamination Rampant in Minnesota Waters

NRDC onEarth

A new report documents widespread “neonic” pesticide contamination in Minnesota waters, with dire implications for aquatic life.

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Women strongly opposed to nuclear power, just one in three men willing to live near one

Renew Economy

Survey finds just 26 pct of women think nuclear power would be good for Australia. That compares to 51 pct of men, but only one in three males willing to live near one. The post Women strongly opposed to nuclear power, just one in three men willing to live near one appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Duke Energy to knock down coal plant and build its biggest battery yet

Canary Media

Mega-utility Duke Energy is about to knock down a coal plant that has run west of Charlotte, North Carolina, since 1957. Soon the company will build its largest grid battery on that spot, part of an unprecedented energy-storage construction spree.

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Australia storage start up says it is ready to produce lower cost sodium batteries from 2025

Renew Economy

Queensland company PowerCap is set to produce sodium batteries from 2025. The post Australia storage start up says it is ready to produce lower cost sodium batteries from 2025 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Major Midwest transmission line gets a big but uncertain federal boost

Canary Media

The Grain Belt Express , a $7 billion transmission line project that’s been more than a decade in development, has won conditional approval for a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee.

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“Concrete proof:” SunDrive marks major milestone on path to bring low-cost solar cells to market

Renew Economy

Australian solar innovator SunDrive has passed a major milestone on the road to commercialising its homegrown copper-based PV technology. The post “Concrete proof:” SunDrive marks major milestone on path to bring low-cost solar cells to market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Tech Giant Meta Seeking Nuclear Power to Support Data Centers

POWER Magazine

Facebook parent Meta wants to find developers that can provide nuclear reactors to support electricity demand from the tech company’s data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. The group said […] The post Tech Giant Meta Seeking Nuclear Power to Support Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Spain’s Naturgy raises $2.3 billion for Australian renewables portfolio as new wind farm comes online

Renew Economy

Spanish energy giant Naturgy raises $2.3 billion to expand Australian portfolio as it commissions its latest wind project. The post Spain’s Naturgy raises $2.3 billion for Australian renewables portfolio as new wind farm comes online appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Avangrid, PGE sign 120MW PPA backed by Meta data centre

PV Tech

Power from the project, which is under construction, will be sold to PGE under a 25-year contract and marketed through its Green Future Impact (GFI) scheme.

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Australia could build a $3 billion industry making hydrogen electrolysers, CSIRO says

Renew Economy

New report by CSIRO suggest electrolyser manufacturing by Australian companies could be worth $2.9 billion a year - by 2050. The post Australia could build a $3 billion industry making hydrogen electrolysers, CSIRO says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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