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Institute of Physics awards ‘revolutionary’ waste heat-to-electricity technology

Envirotec Magazine

A technology that converts low-temperature waste heat into electricity has earned the Institute of Physics (IOP) Business Innovation Award for FeTu, the Elland-based green energy business behind the approach. The award celebrates FeTus success in translating physics research into a viable commercial enterprise with a product that the IOP judges described as a revolutionary heat engine.

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Hydrogen Trucks Are Here—But What Will It Take to Fuel Them?

Hydrogen Fuel News

Southwest Research Institute’s H2HD REFUEL Project Aims to Solve Hydrogen Refueling Delays The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched an ambitious project aimed at tackling the challenges in hydrogen refueling technologies for heavy-duty vehicles. Known as the Hydrogen Heavy Duty Refueling Equipment and Facilities Utilization Evaluation Laboratory (H2HD REFUEL), this joint industry project (JIP) is designed to strengthen hydrogen infrastructure while empowering the transition to

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Biogas would provide a £400 annual saving for households on the road to net zero, says analysis

Envirotec Magazine

The analysis was carried out by technology firm BMA (Business Modelling Applications). The cost of meeting Britains net zero targets in 2050 could be nearly 300 billion less than official projections, according to new analysis drawing on the computer model used by Whitehall. The savings over the period to 2050 equivalent to 415 for every household every year would come about from a greater use of home-grown renewable green gas in the energy mix.

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Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall 20% in 2024 amidst ‘fight for market share’

Energy Storage News

Global average lithium-ion battery prices have fallen 20% to US$115 per kWh this year, going below US$100 for electric vehicles (EVs), BloombergNEF said.

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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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Work concludes on AI-powered flood risk digital twin prototype

Envirotec Magazine

QuantCube Technology and French space agency, CNES, have announced the successful delivery of a flood warning and risk mapping prototype, the SCO FloodDAM Digital Twin. The prototype, which can detect, monitor, assess and predict the financial and socio-economic risks related to flood events, harnesses continental water data from earth observation data, in-situ ground sensors and drone data.

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Texas utility enters tolling agreement with OCI Energy for 120MW/480MWh BESS

Energy Storage News

San Antonio, Texas utility CPS Energy and developer OCI Energy entered into a long-term storage capacity agreement (SCA) for a 120MW/480MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) 6 December.

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Key additives improve zinc-based rechargeable batteries for safer energy

TechXplore

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power everything from electric vehicles to wearable devices. But new research from Case Western Reserve University suggests that a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative may lie in zinc-based batteries.

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Don’t stop the rot – what fungi can teach us about the circular economy

Terra Infirma

(L-R) Prof Karen Johnson, Cosmo Sheldrake, Dame Giuliana Furci, Merlin Sheldrake, Dr Anna Kryzwoszynska Last Thursday, I went to a celebration of all things fungal in Durham at a World Soil Day event organised by my partner, Prof Karen Johnson, and featuring the rock star of fungi, the wonderfully druidically named Merlin Sheldrake (although his brother Cosmo is the actual musician and weaves natural sounds into electronica).

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Report calls for Canada to build large-scale solar projects

TechXplore

Canada should focus on building mass utility-scale solar mega-projects to kickstart its green energy transition, according to a new report from Simon Fraser University's Clean Energy Research Group.

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Sometimes Sustainability Costs More. So What?

Andrew Winston

[fyi, this was written before the election and published in MIT SMR that week. Some things have obviously changed, but this long-standing challenge in sustainability hasn’t] Corporate sustainability efforts are seemingly facing a slump of low enthusiasm , with some tired clichs like sustainability always costs more resurfacing. Its a blunt, unnuanced argument.

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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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Sleepers made from recycled plastic could make railways even more eco-friendly

TechXplore

Railways, the most climate-friendly mode of transport bar long-distance buses, are bound to play an important role in the fight for net zero. The total emissions of railway travel are currently 31 grams of CO2 equivalents (CO2e) per passenger kilometer, half the amount as for the most economical electrical vehicles.

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3.5GWh of co-located BESS awarded in Australia’s first CIS tender

Energy Storage News

The first Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) tender round in Australia successfully awarded 3.5GWh of co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS) as renewables-plus-storage projects.

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Indonesia's new coal phase-out goal sets 'daunting task'

TechXplore

Meeting Indonesia's pledge to phase out coal power in just 15 years and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century is a "daunting task" that will require immediate and ambitious action, experts warn.

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Germany: Nofar Energy claims first physical fixed-price toll for BESS in Continental Europe

Energy Storage News

IPP Nofar Energy has agreed a Flexibility Purchase Agreement (FPA) for a 209MWh BESS project in Germany, the first of its kind in Continental Europe, it claimed.

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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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High efficiency meets sustainability: Next-generation tandem solar cells

TechXplore

The development of perovskitesilicon tandem solar cells made of stable materials and manufactured using scalable production processes is the basis for the next technological leap in the photovoltaic industry.

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Why Enhanced Geothermal Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy

R-Squared Energy

Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are quietly transforming how we think about renewable energy, turning one of the Earth’s most underutilized resourcesits internal heatinto a reliable and sustainable power source. The DOE Department of Energy (DOE) has estimated that there is approximately 100,000 megawatts of clean, baseload power possible through EGS technology in the United States The beauty of this technology, which extracts thermal energy from deep beneath the surface, is that it is w

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EPA awards $135 million to California to phase out big diesel trucks

TechXplore

The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $135 million in grants to fund 13 projects in California to help the state wean off fossil fuels and phase out big rigs that run on diesel.

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Habitat Energy to optimise the Australian Capital Territory’s largest BESS

Energy Storage News

Optimiser Habitat Energy has secured a deal with Eku Energy to optimise its 250MW/500MWh Williamsdale BESS in the ACT.

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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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High rises made out of wood? What matters in whether 'mass timber' buildings are sustainable

TechXplore

A material that's been around since people built shelterswoodis increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings.

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Sungrow, CREC ink 1.5GWh BESS supply agreement in the Philippines

Energy Storage News

Sungrow has inked an agreement with CREC to supply 1.5GWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the Philippines.

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Toshiba releases automotive photorelay for 400 V battery-related control systems

Charged

Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced a high-voltage transistor output photorelay for 400 V automotive battery-related control systems. The automotive-compliant TLX9150M is housed in a compact SO12L-T package. Its space-saving form factor of 7.76mm 10mm 2.45mm is 25% smaller than Toshiba’s existing package SO16L-T. This helps to miniaturize the battery unit and reduce costs.

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More coal, more gas, higher prices, higher emissions: What Coalition’s nuclear plan will do to the grid

Renew Economy

New analysis shows that Coalition nuclear plan would result in more coal, more gas, higher wholesales, and higher emissions. The post More coal, more gas, higher prices, higher emissions: What Coalition’s nuclear plan will do to the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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ExxonMobil Planning Large Gas-Fired Plant to Serve Data Centers

POWER Magazine

ExxonMobil is preparing to join the power generation business, seeing an opportunity to support the electricity supply for energy-intensive data centers. The company on Dec. 11 said it is designing […] The post ExxonMobil Planning Large Gas-Fired Plant to Serve Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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“Ripping off customers:” Energy utilities force households to pay more than double than business

Renew Economy

New research finds a clear case of price gouging by Australias two biggest energy retailers, where households pay more than double the price of big business for the same amount of electricity. The post “Ripping off customers:” Energy utilities force households to pay more than double than business appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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NET Power and CRC Team to Deploy 1 GW of Carbon-Free Gas Power Plants in California

POWER Magazine

NET Power, developer of a novel gas-fired power plant that captures all atmospheric emissions, will explore deploying up to 1 GW of power capacity in Northern California with partner California […] The post NET Power and CRC Team to Deploy 1 GW of Carbon-Free Gas Power Plants in California appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Bowen declares new offshore wind capable of hosting 20 GW, despite being shrunk and push out to sea

Renew Economy

A week after Peter Dutton pledges to scrap offshore wind zones and "rip up contracts," federal Labor declares new development zone capable of hosting 20 of capacity. The post Bowen declares new offshore wind capable of hosting 20 GW, despite being shrunk and push out to sea appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Innovative Breakthrough in Green Hydrogen Production by Independent Researcher

Hydrogen Fuel News

Energy Solutions with Green Hydrogen and Independent Innovation Over two decades ago, an independent researcher embarked on a journey to explore hydrogen production, investing scarce resources into this critical field. In 2019, a significant milestone was achieved with the discovery of a new method to produce hydrogen using less energy and without the need for expensive platinum catalysts.

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Coalition to dump environment from grid objective in latest bizarre thought bubble on green energy

Renew Economy

Opposition energy spokesman Ted O'Brien reportedly wants to drop environmental considerations - or what he calls a "carbon price by stealth" from regulatory decision on energy. The post Coalition to dump environment from grid objective in latest bizarre thought bubble on green energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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NREL says thinner, taller solar modules contributing to increased rate of breakages

PV Tech

Larger and thinner PV modules has contributed to increase breakages, although there is no single contributing factor, according to NREL.

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Nursery rhyme to the editor: There was a whole country who swallowed a lie 

Renew Economy

There was a whole country who swallowed a lie - about coal, gas, and nuclear. Perhaps they will die. The post Nursery rhyme to the editor: There was a whole country who swallowed a lie appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Study urges Canada to build solar power mega-projects

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

Canada should focus on building mass utility-scale solar mega-projects to kickstart its green energy transition, according to a new report. The recommendation comes from a new article which looks at the current state of solar power and compares the benefits of both mass-scale projects and smaller, decentralized approached like individual homes and commercial buildings installing their own solar panels.

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“Expensive and implausible:” Shipping green hydrogen to save Germany steel industry said to be not viable

Renew Economy

Germany should not count on future long-distance green hydrogen imports in its drive to make the steel and chemicals industries climate-friendly. The post “Expensive and implausible:” Shipping green hydrogen to save Germany steel industry said to be not viable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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