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AI data centers are undermining climate solutions

GreenBiz

The scrutiny of data centers has intensified because of tech company secrecy, energy consumption and societal impacts on customers, policymakers and communities.

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Highly efficient and stable solar cells can now be mass produced like printing newspapers

TechXplore

Scientists at the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) have developed highly efficient, printable and stable perovskite solar cells to achieve carbon neutrality and promote sustainable development.

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Greece national wildfire monitoring system provides a model for other countries – and for companies in fire-ravaged regions

GreenBiz

Orbital thermal imaging technology promises to aid not only Greece’s firefighters, but also major U.S. utilities like PG&E.

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‘World’s first’ large-scale semi-solid BESS connects to grid in China

Energy Storage News

A 100MW/200MWh project using semi-solid batteries has been connected to the grid in Zhejiang, China, reportedly the first project of its scale in the world.

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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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New material paves the way to on-chip energy harvesting

TechXplore

Researchers from Germany, Italy, and the UK have achieved a major advance in the development of materials suitable for on-chip energy harvesting. By composing an alloy made of silicon, germanium and tin, they were able to create a thermoelectric material, promising to transform the waste heat of computer processors back into electricity.

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Eneos Renewable Energy to retrofit BESS at solar PV plant with Japanese government support

Energy Storage News

Eneos Renewable Energy will add energy storage to an existing solar PV power plant in southern Japan, after successfully applying for subsidies to support the project’s cost.

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Catalyzing Renewable Energy Adoption Among Your Suppliers

GreenBiz

Is your supplier engagement program action-oriented? Does it inspire suppliers to reduce their emissions, right now?

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Hexagonal perovskite oxides: Electrolytes for next-generation protonic ceramic fuel cells

TechXplore

Researchers from Tokyo Tech have identified hexagonal perovskite-related Ba5R2Al2SnO13 oxides (R = rare earth metal) as materials with exceptionally high proton conductivity and thermal stability.

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Navigate the New Carbon Market Rules to Maximize Returns

GreenBiz

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State assesses geothermal, hydrogen power to help make Colorado 100% renewable

TechXplore

Colorado's goal is to get to 100% renewable energy by 2040, and state officials are looking to geothermal and hydrogen power as important pieces of making the transition.

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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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LG ES Vertech CEO talks system integrator strategy, explains BESS manufacturing ‘pause’

Energy Storage News

The CEO of LG Energy Solution Vertech, Jaehong Park, speaks to Energy-Storage.news Premium for an exclusive interview.

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Can a computer chip have zero energy loss in 1.58 dimensions?

Envirotec Magazine

Fractals (image credit: Max Iter , CC BY 2.0 license). Fractals might solve energy waste in information processing, according to a recent paper from researchers at the University of Utrecht. What if we could find a way to make electric currents flow, without energy loss? A promising approach for this involves using materials known as topological insulators.

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FRV Australia turns first solar-plus-storage project online

Energy Storage News

Developer and IPP Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) Australia has puts its first solar-plus-storage project in the country online.

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UK Government must accelerate renewable energy deployment, says Scotland’s green energy supply chain

Envirotec Magazine

Scottish Renewables has joined forces with 67 organisations, representing approximately 20,000 jobs from across the renewable energy industry, in an appeal to the new UK Government to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy projects, in an 8 July announcement. The Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme is the UK Government’s main mechanism for unlocking investment in low-carbon electricity generation.

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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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No room for nuclear: AGL says flexibility is key as it switches from coal to renewables in a decade

Renew Economy

AGL outlines plans for renewables, storage and industry at its Hunter Hub targeted by Coalition for nuclear, and says flexible generation is they key The post No room for nuclear: AGL says flexibility is key as it switches from coal to renewables in a decade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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UK AD pioneer to collaborate with Japanese construction giant

Envirotec Magazine

Sandra Sassow, CEO of SEaB Energy. SEaB Energy and others enter commercial discussions with Shimizu following UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme reverse pitch SEaB Energy , the developer of a pioneering anaerobic digestion system that produces energy from organic waste, has won the opportunity to forge a partnership with Shimizu Corporation , one of Japan’s largest civil engineering, construction and architecture companies.

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The US is about to get its first solar-covered canal

Canary Media

The first canal-based solar project in the U.S. is nearing completion on tribal lands south of Phoenix, Arizona. Native Americans have been using canals to irrigate the Gila River Valley for thousands of years , starting with the Huhugam people.

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ITM Power Signs a 500MW Capacity Reservation With a Global Industrial Customer

FuelCellsWorks

ITM is pleased to announce that it has signed a 500MW capacity reservation with a global industrial customer. This reservation secures future production capacity for the manufacturing of our state-of-the-art.

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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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Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – UK politics live

The Guardian: Energy

New chancellor says she will make statement to MPs before summer recess about financial situation as she says UK economy has been ‘held back’ Rachel Reeves has finished the speech, in which she confirmed a range of measures to speed up planning. I will post a full summary shortly. She is now taking questions. I have repeatedly warned that whoever won the general election would inherit the worst set of circumstances since the second world war.

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Hydrogen Buses to Power Sarawak Metro’s KUTS Project

FuelCellsWorks

KUCHING– Sarawak Metro Sdn Bhd will procure 55 additional hydrogen buses for its ambitious Kuching Urban Transport System (KUTS) project. These buses will serve as the feeder bus network as.

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Canberra trial shows EVs can provide backup power to grid in blackouts and emergencies

The Guardian: Energy

Researchers say models with vehicle-to-grid capability will be a huge and flexible resource able to respond to emergencies Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast On 13 February, when freak winds brought down a transmission line in Victoria and shut down the state’s largest power station , a fleet of electric cars plugged into a charger in Canberra 500km away stirred.

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Gillard-chaired investor makes first big battery play as it seeks to build 15 GW energy platform

Renew Economy

New Gillard-chaired investment group makes first big battery play as it seeks to build a major renewable and storage platform in Australia. The post Gillard-chaired investor makes first big battery play as it seeks to build 15 GW energy platform 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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From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

The Guardian: Energy

New government faces massive task in repairing UK’s degraded environment and fighting climate crisis. Here’s what will be top of its in-tray The new Labour government faces a massive task in seeking to repair the UK’s degraded environment and fight the climate crisis. After 14 years in which the Conservative government ducked many of the big decisions, deliberately underfunded regulators, picked culture wars rather than formulated policy, and set out target after target without putting in place

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“Sad, pathetic:” Farmers say arcane network rules take the cream off the clean energy they produce

Renew Economy

Plenty of farmers are “all-in” on alternative energy solutions to power their operations, but there are plenty of barriers making the task difficult and the result disappointing. The post “Sad, pathetic:” Farmers say arcane network rules take the cream off the clean energy they produce appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How to avoid panel upgrades so we can electrify more homes

Canary Media

Homeowners across the country increasingly have access to a powerful carbon-cutting tool: electrification programs, which can make it cheaper for residents to ditch gas and fuel-oil appliances for super-efficient electric equipment.

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Australians overpaid $1.8 billion to gas networks – now they’re being asked for more

Renew Economy

Between 2014-2022, regulated gas networks made $1.8 billion in supernormal profits, on top of their $2 billion profit allowance. What does this mean for consumers? The post Australians overpaid $1.8 billion to gas networks – now they’re being asked for more appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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American Airlines to buy 100 hydrogen engines from ZeroAvia

Hydrogen Fuel News

The major US airline’s purchase commitment agreement with ZeroAvia is conditional. American Airlines is further investing in ZeroAvia, announcing it has entered into a conditional purchase agreement with the hydrogen-electric aircraft developer. The airline plans to purchase 100 hydrogen engines to power regional jet planes. With these engines, the only emission produced inflight would be water vapor.

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Carrefour and HysetCo Inaugurate New Hydrogen Station in Pontault-Combault, Expanding Green Mobility Options in Île-de-France

FuelCellsWorks

Pontault-Combault, France– Today marks a significant milestone in the advancement of sustainable transportation in the Île-de-France region, as Carrefour and HysetCo unveil their latest hydrogen fuel station located at the.

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Analyst Says Nuclear Industry Is ‘Totally Irrelevant’ in the Market for New Power Capacity

POWER Magazine

Nuclear power has consistently provided about 19% to 20% of total annual U.S. electricity generation since 1990. It provides significant amounts of electricity in many other countries as well. According […] The post Analyst Says Nuclear Industry Is ‘Totally Irrelevant’ in the Market for New Power Capacity appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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The billion dollar takeover with an eye to Australia’s nascent offshore wind market

Renew Economy

Singapore-based company that describes itself as the world's first "pure play" company specialising in the provision of offshore wind farm vessels, wins approval for $1.1 billion takeover of Australian listed company. The post The billion dollar takeover with an eye to Australia’s nascent offshore wind market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Yacht Club De Monaco Addresses Hydrogen Innovation in the Maritime Industry

FuelCellsWorks

MONACO– Addressing hydrogen innovation in the maritime and yachting industry. It is the goal of the annual Hydrogen Round Table (5th edition this year) organised by the Prince Albert II.

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Clearway Begins Repowering of Texas Wind Farm

POWER Magazine

Clearway Energy Group on July 8 said it has closed financing and begun a repowering project for the California-based company’s Cedro Hill wind farm in Webb County, Texas. Clearway said […] The post Clearway Begins Repowering of Texas Wind Farm appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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