Sat.Nov 16, 2024

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Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals Acquires ATI New Bedford, MA and Remscheid, Germany Precision Rolled Strip Operations

Hydrogen Fuel News

North Haven, CT, November 16, 2024 – Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals is excited to announce the acquisition of ATI’s precision rolled strip operations in New Bedford, MA and Remscheid, Germany further expanding its precision-rolling capabilities and strengthening its position in the global market. Under Ulbrich’s ownership, the New Bedford, MA facility will be named Ulbrich Precision Alloys and the location in Remscheid, Germany will be Ulbrich Europe Metals.

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Lots of oil but no power: how Iran ran low on energy

Financial Times: Energy

Rolling blackouts underscore impact of US sanctions, lack of investment and costly subsidies

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Groups Sign Development Agreement for Malaysia Hydrogen Hub

POWER Magazine

A consortium of developers and state-run agencies announced plans for a 10-GW green hydrogen hub in the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the northern tip of Borneo. Property developer LBS […] The post Groups Sign Development Agreement for Malaysia Hydrogen Hub appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Lithium producer says west cannot end reliance on China in critical minerals

Financial Times: Energy

Albemarle’s Kent Masters says economics do not support pivot away from Asia on commodities in EV supply chains

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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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Accelerating Hydrogen Adoption: The Urgent Call for Private Sector Leadership

Hydrogen Fuel News

Federal Hydrogen Incentives: A Slow Path to a Greener Future As the quest for cleaner energy intensifies, hydrogen emerges as a pivotal element in the transition toward a sustainable future. Its ability to decarbonize industries, power vehicles, and offer viable, sustainable fuel alternatives is widely recognized. However, realizing this potential in the United States is hampered by the slow rollout of necessary investment and incentive frameworks.

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COP29: Businesses demand 'decisive leadership' from G20 to unblock sluggish UN climate talks

Business Green

Scores of top businesses and organisations voice deep concern about 'lack of progress and focus' in fragile UN climate talks in Azerbaijan

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U.S. Has Agreement to Help Build SMRs for Ukraine Power Generation

POWER Magazine

Officials from the U.S. and Ukraine said the countries will partner on building small modular reactors (SMRs) to replace the latter’s coal-fired power generation, with the SMRs used to help […] The post U.S. Has Agreement to Help Build SMRs for Ukraine Power Generation appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Diablo Canyon Manages Nuclear Reactor Paperwork with AI

Energy Central

Diablo Canyon Manages Nuclear Reactor Paperwork with AI Oklo to Acquire Atomic Alchemy to Expand into Radioisotope Market Oklo Sets Plans to Power Data Centers with 750 MW Radiant Marks Milestone in Development of Its Kaleidos Microreactor Experiment Radiant Secures $100 Million in Series C Funding Clean Core Hits Fuel Burnup Milestone in Test of its Thorium Fuel at INL.

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Carbon Mapper data from the Tanager-1 satellite reveals methane and carbon dioxide super-emitter activity around the world

Planet Pulse

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). ### PUBLISHED ARTICLE FROM CARBON MAPPER Just thr

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Namibia seeks to double GDP growth from oil and gas finds

Financial Times: Energy

Energy minister Tom Alweendo eyes economic boon as population grows restive ahead of elections

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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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'Oil shaming is absolutely meaningless': COP29 business champion hits back at criticism of climate talks

Business Green

EXCLUSIVE: High Level Champion for COP29 Nigar Arpadarai rejects criticism of Baku Summit, as she argues fossil fuel industries have a key role to play in tackling climate change

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Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival

Financial Times: Energy

Legal threats, skills shortages and regulatory challenges complicate reopening of plant at site of nuclear accident

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COP29: Businesses demand 'decisive leadership' from G20 to unblock UN climate talks

Business Green

UPDATED: Scores of top businesses and organisations voice deep concern about 'lack of progress and focus' at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan, as new climate finance text released

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Northvolt’s future hangs in balance as bankruptcy looms

Financial Times: Energy

Troubled European battery maker in race against time to secure short-term funding

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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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COP29: UK backs global pledge to ramp up energy storage to 1,500GW worldwide by 2030

Business Green

Collective target to deliver sixfold increase in global energy storage capacity among flurry of energy initiatives officially unveiled in Baku as crunch UN climate talks move into second week

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Thames Water’s £3bn loan will hit customers, warn experts

Financial Times: Energy

Mooted emergency loan could rack up £800mn in costs and further drain troubled utility’s resources

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DBS ‘circumspect’ about scaling Indonesia’s first early coal retirement nationwide

Eco-Business

Cirebon 1’s financial advisor says the model "might not be replicable" nationwide as grid stability costs were overlooked early on and transition credits – being trialled in the Philippines – may not apply. Updates are expected at COP29.

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Fracking hell: Donald Trump selects oil and gas CEO and climate denier to be energy secretary

Renew Economy

Donald Trump selects oil and gas CEO, a loud fracking advocate and climate denier, to head the US energy department, to the delight of the fossil fuel industry. The post Fracking hell: Donald Trump selects oil and gas CEO and climate denier to be energy secretary appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Trump Picks Oil and Gas Executive as New Energy Secretary

POWER Magazine

President-elect Donald Trump announced that Chris Wright, the CEO and founder of Denver, Colorado-based Liberty Energy, will lead the Department of Energy (DOE) in the new administration. “I am thrilled […] The post Trump Picks Oil and Gas Executive as New Energy Secretary appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Trump picks oil and gas industry CEO Chris Wright as next energy secretary

The Guardian: Energy

Oilfield services exec denies climate crisis and is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize oil and gas production Donald Trump said on Saturday that Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive and a staunch defender of fossil fuel use, would be his pick to lead the US Department of Energy. Wright is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, an oilfield services firm based in Denver, Colorado.

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British Gas Given Under the Radar Access to COP29 Climate Summit

DeSmogBlog

BAKU – The CEO of Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, has quietly gained access to the flagship COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, DeSmog can reveal. The UN’s official attendee list indicates that Christopher O’Shea is attending the conference as a guest of the African Centre for Climate Actions and Rural Development Initiative (ACCARD), an NGO focused on “sustainable green development [and] youth empowerment”.

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Kia to Unveil New EV(s) at LA Auto Show — Which One(s)?

CleanTechnica

Kia has announced that it’s going to launch 5 new models at the LA Auto Show. It shares that will include a variety of powertrains — ICEV (100% gasoline powered), HEV (100% gasoline powered but somewhat more efficient thanks to a small battery and motor), PHEV (plugin hybrid), and EV. [continued] The post Kia to Unveil New EV(s) at LA Auto Show — Which One(s)?

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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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Algae Biofuel Is Booming Without Any Help From ExxonMobil

CleanTechnica

ExxonMobil dropped the algae biofuel ball last year but many other firms are racing to fill the gap, with an eye on algae-based plastics, fertilizers, and other products, too. The post Algae Biofuel Is Booming Without Any Help From ExxonMobil appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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States Can & Should Save Climate Research & Weather Service

CleanTechnica

It’s no secret that the incoming second Trump administration has it out for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The obvious beef there is that the agency does a lot of research into climate change. Finding and sharing truth about that topic isn’t great for oil companies, so the. [continued] The post States Can & Should Save Climate Research & Weather Service appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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China Activates World’s Largest Offshore Floating Solar Installation

CleanTechnica

China has just activated a 1 GW offshore floating solar installation and has a 2 GW project already underway. The post China Activates World’s Largest Offshore Floating Solar Installation appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Climate Mis- and Disinformation Are Shaping Discourse & Opposition To Renewables

CleanTechnica

Do you ever wonder why so many people just don’t get how severe the climate crisis is? One big reason why is because Big Tech companies are fostering climate mis- and dis-information. The blatant hypocrisy is taking place even as our world is on a precipice where a single degree. [continued] The post Climate Mis- and Disinformation Are Shaping Discourse & Opposition To Renewables appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Government Subsidies And Untaxed Externalities. Is Elon Crazy Or Crazy Like A Fox?

CleanTechnica

The first time I ever heard the phrase “untaxed externalities,” it was when Elon Musk used it more than a decade ago. It is a term of art used by economists to describe things that have a cost that the people who make things don’t have to pay. But they. [continued] The post Government Subsidies And Untaxed Externalities. Is Elon Crazy Or Crazy Like A Fox?