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Bosch’s Exit from Fuel Cells Signals a Turning Point for Hydrogen Innovation

Hydrogen Fuel News

Bosch Shifts Focus to Hydrogen Production, Ending Solid-Oxide Fuel-Cell Development Bosch , a global engineering and technology company, has announced a significant strategic realignment that underscores its commitment to hydrogen technology. The company will cease its development of solid-oxide fuel-cell technology, a decision rooted in the slower-than-expected market adoption of these systems.

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ESS Inc CEO resigns, potential transaction explored to enable ‘new strategic direction’

Energy Storage News

The CEO of All-iron flow battery manufacturer ESS Tech Inc (ESS Inc) has resigned, one of a number of steps the company has taken to 'position it for the future' after slower-than-expected growth.

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RMI report finds rideshare drivers prefer to charge their EVs at home

Charged

Electrifying vehicles used by rideshare drivers delivers a lot of emissions-reduction bang for the buck, because drivers for services such as Uber and Lyft travel many more miles than average drivers. Electrification can also save money for the drivers, who are usually responsible for their own vehicles fuel and maintenance costs. Obviously, drivers are only going to go electric if they know theyll be able to reliably and conveniently charge their EVs.

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Essential Energy switches on three community batteries in New South Wales, Australia

Energy Storage News

Essential Energy, a state-owned electricity infrastructure company, has switched on three community batteries in the New South Wales towns of Maloneys Beach, Leeton and Goulburnin Australia.

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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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Two Giants, One Goal: How TotalEnergies and Air Liquide Are Tackling CO2 Head-On

Hydrogen Fuel News

TotalEnergies and Air Liquide Commit 600 Million to Green Hydrogen in the Netherlands Green hydrogen is gaining momentum as a powerful clean energy solution, and two major players, TotalEnergies and Air Liquide, are doubling down on its potential. Announcing a joint investment of 600 million (approximately USD 627 million), the companies aim to develop two large-scale green hydrogen projects in the Netherlands.

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PG&E, Citizens Energy Program Will Fund Grid Investments, Benefit Ratepayers

POWER Magazine

California-based Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and nonprofit charitable organization Citizens Energy Corp. are partnering on a proposed investment program that expects to provide more than $450 million to […] The post PG&E, Citizens Energy Program Will Fund Grid Investments, Benefit Ratepayers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Aramco forms Saudi lithium JV with Ma’aden

Charged

Saudi energy firm Aramco and mining and metals company Maaden have signed an agreement to form a joint venture in Saudi Arabia to potentially start lithium production by 2027. The proposed JV aims to extract lithium from high-concentration deposits and advance direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies to help meet growing demand domestically and globally.

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“Is the electricity grid ready for Net Zero?” with Paul Glendinning, Northern Powergrid

Terra Infirma

With electrification emerging as the prime route to the decarbonisation of transport, space heating and many industrial processes, the gazillion dollar question is, can the electricity grid deliver sufficient zero carbon electricity to make this happen? To get some answers, this week on the Net Zero Business Podcast, I caught up with Paul Glendinning, Energy Systems Director of Northern Powergrid (NPG) we discuss the following: The remarkable decarbonisation of the UK electricity grid to date

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BW ESS and Penso Power’s 330MWh Bramley BESS project in UK online

Energy Storage News

Commercial operation has started on the 100MW/331MWh Bramley battery energy storage system (BESS), a project in the UK deployed by owner-operator BW ESS, developer Penso Power and BESS provider Sungrow.

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Solar solutions: Bio-inspired approach creates bespoke photovoltaics

TechXplore

There is more to photovoltaic panels than the materials that comprise them: The design itself can also driveor potentially diminishthe widespread adoption of solar technology.

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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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Anker’s 58-liter solar fridge is a noisy power-monster

The Verge: Energy

Human, for scale. Anker is pushing portability limits with the launch of its giant 58-liter Solix EverFrost 2 dual-zone refrigerator / freezer. It’s portable because it has wheels, a handle, and slots for two batteries. But this thing weighs 64 pounds (29kg) empty and quickly reached 120 pounds when I filled my review unit with drinks and food.

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Pacific Green sells 500MWh South Australian BESS for AU$460 million

Energy Storage News

Pacific Green Technologies has agreed to sell its 500MWh Limestone Coast North Energy Park BESS in South Australia to Intera Renewables.

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The promise of green iron, steel and ammonia is keeping the green hydrogen dream alive

TechXplore

Hydrogen was once sold as a universal climate fixa clean, green wonder fuel for cars, homes, power grids and even global export. But reality has cooled that buzz.

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Developer submits application for 362MWh California BESS after settling legal dispute with development partner

Energy Storage News

The US development arm of Spains Ignis has submitted an application with the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a 350MWh+ battery storage facility in Alameda County under the regulatory bodys Opt-In Certification Programme.

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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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Waste-based perovskite solar cell achieves 21.39% energy efficiency

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Akaysha Energy inks offtake agreement for 410MWh BESS in Queensland, Australia

Energy Storage News

Akaysha Energy has penned an offtake agreement with commodities trader Guvnor Group for its 205MW/410MWh Brendale BESS in Queensland.

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New bifacial linker enhances adhesion in flexible solar cells

TechXplore

Flexible perovskite solar cells (F-PSCs) have attracted attention for their potential in diverse applications. However, their commercialization faces challenges related to low mechanical flexibility, which leads to poor adhesion between the perovskite absorber layer and the flexible substrate.

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EnBW wins European Geothermal Innovation Award for lithium extraction technology

ThinkGeoEnergy

The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has awarded the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2025 to EnBW Energie for its pioneering CASCADE project, an innovative approach to lithium extraction from geothermal brines. The EGIA award, recognises outstanding companies that have made outstanding contributions towards the development of the geothermal field in Europe.

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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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Italy adds 6.8GW of PV in 2024 as utility-scale projects surge

PV Tech

According to Italys solar association, last year saw a divergence in the fortunes of the utility-scale and residential solar sectors.

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Climatetech 'free store' opens to support hurricane-hit North Carolina

Canary Media

In the disaster relief industry, its dubbed the second disaster: a mass of donations, from food to bars of deodorant, that ends up rotting or collecting dust on shelves because they serve the wrong need or cant be distributed.

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UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear plant yet to attract new investors, says EDF boss

Financial Times: Energy

Focus falls on future of flagship energy project, the first for a generation

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The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture

TechCrunch: Climate

Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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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Thames Water receives £7bn bid from Hong Kong’s CK Infrastructure

Financial Times: Energy

Deal would require debt-laden utilitys bondholders to take significant writedowns

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London transport operator Go Ahead orders 25 Volvo electric buses

Business Green

New electric buses are set to hit the UK capital's streets later this year as part of ongoing collaboration between Go Ahead and Volvo Buses

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As the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?

The Guardian: Energy

Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decades Labour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines between the Treasury and the governments green ambitions, as advice for the UKs next carbon budget is published. Plans for the energy sector, housing, transport, industry and farming will all be called into question in a sweeping set of recommendations for how the UK can meet the legally b

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What an Ohio agrivoltaics project says about rural solar stereotypes

Canary Media

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday.

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CHINA ROUND-UP: CEEC active in Cambodia and the Philippines, CECEP subsidiary starts construction at 650MWp project

PV Tech

A round-up of news from China with an EPC contract for a 250MW solar PV plant in Cambodia, the Philippines' 'first' large-scale floating solar PV (FPV) project and CECEP's subsidiary begins construction on 650MWp plant.

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Europe’s tricky double transition should pay dividends

Financial Times: Energy

Spending on defence and net zero can result in longed-for growth if done right

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EDPR North America commissions 100MW Mississippi solar project

PV Tech

EDP Renewables North America has commissioned its 100MW Ragsdale Solar Park in the US state of Mississippi.

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Webinar – Bridging gaps with the IADC Geothermal Well Classification, 28 February 2025

ThinkGeoEnergy

As part of the regular Focus on Geothermal Webinar series a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy, we are proud to host Scott Farmer of Helmerich & Payne and the IADC Geothermal Committee for a webinar on “Bridging Gaps with the IADC Geothermal Well Classification.” Date: 28 February 2025 Time: 14:00 CET / 08:00 ET Registration: Click here to register Speaker: Scott Farmer, Well Engineering Manager at Helmerich & Payne, and Chairman of the IADC Geothermal Committee Jo

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IEW2025: Global energy leaders chart path for sustainable growth

Energy Central

New Delhi: Global exploration and production (E&P) leaders have emphasised the critical need to balance energy expansion with decarbonisation, digitalisation, and sustainable exploration strategies as India’s energy sector evolves. Speaking at India Energy Week 2025, which concluded last week in New Delhi, industry experts highlighted key initiatives aimed at ensuring energy.

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Studies completed for geothermal-powered agricultural zone in Ayvacik, Türkiye

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Canakkale Ayvacik Geothermal-Powered Greenhouse Agricultural Specialized OIZ (TDIOSB) in Trkiye is progressing, with plans to be established on 2,500 decares of land. The project aims for annual production of 65,000 tons of fresh fruits and vegetables. Efforts to establish a geothermal-powered agricultural specialized greenhouse OIZ in Ayvacik are moving forward rapidly.