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How Pandora, the world's largest jewelry maker, switched to recycled silver and gold

GreenBiz

The changes affected more than 40 suppliers, which help it produce more than 100 million pieces annually.

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UK’s first Small Modular Reactors to be built in North Teeside

Envirotec Magazine

North Teeside will host the first Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the UK, with facilities to be delivered by a collaboration between US nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric Company and Community Nuclear Power (CNP), based in Cumbria. The 8 February announcement detailed the intention to deploy four Westinghouse AP300 SMRs at the site, a technology previously selected by Great British Nuclear (GBN) in October.

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When to laugh about climate change

GreenBiz

Comedian Stuart Goldsmith says stand-up offers strategies for those working day to day to mitigate the climate crisis.

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Grid drama and power cuts as multiple coal units and lines trip in midst of heatwave

Renew Economy

Updated: Grid drama in Victoria in midst of heatwave as all four units at Loy Yang trip, transmission lines fail and other generators off line. The post Grid drama and power cuts as multiple coal units and lines trip in midst of heatwave appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Simplifying sustainability: 4 concepts to power our purpose

GreenBiz

Applying these principles can lend more authenticity to sustainability decisions and strengthen understanding among key audiences.

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Can solar for low-income families work in Georgia's tough market?

Canary Media

Georgia is a tough market for home solar. It’s even tougher if you’re trying to offer home solar to lower-income households at no upfront cost, and with monthly payments that don’t cost more than what their solar power enables them to save on their utility bills.

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Solar for apartments: Huge demand expected for first round of rebates

Renew Economy

Solar for Apartments aims to help around 5,000 apartment owners and renters to install rooftop solar by addressing two key barriers to uptake: cost and complexity. The post Solar for apartments: Huge demand expected for first round of rebates appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen garbage trucks – The key to decarbonizing a hard-to-abate industry in North America

Hydrogen Fuel News

Hyzon and New Way Trucks collab on H2 refuse vehicles. Hyzon Motors Inc. and New Way Trucks have come together to establish a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to develop hydrogen garbage trucks for the North American Market. The goal is to help reduce emissions produced from the waste management industry by powering vehicles with fuel cells. Providing clean fuel options to reduce emissions in hard-to-abate industries.

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World must spend $A18 trillion in renewables and grids by 2030 to meet climate targets

Renew Economy

World must spend at least $A18 trillion on renewables and the grid to meet climate targets, and most can come from scrapping fossil fuel plans. The post World must spend $A18 trillion in renewables and grids by 2030 to meet climate targets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Digital identities for ‘trust’ in Germany’s energy system

Smart Energy International

The German Energy Agency (DENA) is leading the DIVE project to leverage digital identities to integrate and manage renewable energies in a decentralised landscape. The DIVE – ‘Digital identities as trust anchors in the energy system’ – project, which has been reported by Energy Web, is focussed on establishing secure and reliable digital identities for devices and systems within the energy sector.

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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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Giant four-hour battery lands “biggest”debt financing for an Australia big battery

Renew Economy

Owners of a giant four-hour battery project on the outskirts of Melbourne say they have closed the "largest" non-recourse debt financing package for an Australian grid scale battery. The post Giant four-hour battery lands “biggest”debt financing for an Australia big battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Grants HINT.CO GmbH €3.53 Billion to Boost Hydrogen Economy

FuelCellsWorks

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action has awarded HINT.CO GmbH a substantial grant of €3.53 billion. This funding is earmarked for the next phase of double-sided tenders following the.

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Utility-scale PV in the US is poised for liftoff

PV Tech

With the United States on the cusp of an IRA-driven surge in utility-scale PV deployment, Mark Bolinger and Joachim Seel of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cover key technology and market trends in this synopsis of their annual “Utility-Scale Solar” report series.

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World Hydrogen 2024 Summit & Exhibition Returns to Rotterdam, 13–15 May, Promising Its Most Impactful Event Yet.

FuelCellsWorks

Rotterdam, Netherlands– The World Hydrogen 2024 Summit & Exhibition, a pivotal event in the global hydrogen industry, is set to return to Rotterdam with its largest and most influential edition.

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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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Turning sewage sludge into activated carbon

Envirotec Magazine

Participants in the study (image credit: University of Córdoba). A new and apparently sustainable process turns sewage sludge into activated carbon. The work was completed by a group at the University of Córdoba According to data from the Spanish government,* 1.2 million tons of sewage sludge were produced in the country in 2021, and its management is a growing problem.

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Bloom Energy Introduces Load Following Capability to Enable Customers and Utilities to Meet Variable Electricity Load and Demand

FuelCellsWorks

“Be Flexible™” offering provides much-needed economical and sustainable solution for variable electricity load and demand with up to 50% cost savings, 50% carbon reduction at reduced load, and more than 5 times faster power ramp than.

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NHS Scotland welcomes its first pop-up solar car park and electric vehicle charging hub

Envirotec Magazine

A pop-up solar car park and electric vehicle (EV) charging hub has been completed at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, said to be the first deployment of its kind to be operational in Scotland and providing hospital users with access to 12 charge points boosted by renewable energy. With a fleet of EVs already in operation at the hospital, the new Papilio3 system – provided by 3ti – will support destination and workplace EV charging, while addressing the growing demand for accessible an

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How grid-forming inverters will enable continuing growth of solar and grid reliability?

Solar Power World

A non-descript, boxy piece of connection equipment known as a grid-forming inverter could hold the key to restarting the grid after an outage. Like the difference between self-driving and conventional cars, grid-forming inverters are not physically different from their traditional grid-following counterparts. What sets the inverters apart are the controls inside.

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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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Redflow in California: grant award and NTP for two projects totalling 21.6MWh

Energy Storage News

Zinc-bromine flow battery technology company Redflow has received a grant award and notice-to-proceed (NTP) for two projects in California, US, totalling 21.6MWh.

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Hydrogen production plant given the green light to power brewery, but not everyone is happy about it

Hydrogen Fuel News

The hydrogen will be produced next to a brewery in Lancashire. A proposed hydrogen production facility was given approval in the UK. The new H2 facility will be constructed at the Cuerdale Lane site on greenbelt land next to the AB InBev (Anheuser-Busch InBev) brewery in Samlesbury and will power the brewery in place of natural gas. Approval was given despite concerns over gas pipelines.

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Qcells inks recycling agreement with Solarcycle for US-made modules

PV Tech

Korean-owned solar manufacturer Qcells has signed an agreement with Texas-based solar module recycling firm Solarcycle to recycle Qcells’ decommissioned modules in the US.

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Iron ore giants’ green steel collaboration leaves carbon capture even further behind

Renew Economy

Rio Tinto, BHP and BlueScope collaboration on making iron ore suitable for processes that don’t use coal, it's becoming even clearer carbon capture and storage will not play a meaningful role in steel decarbonisation. The post Iron ore giants’ green steel collaboration leaves carbon capture even further behind 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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TÜV SÜD Accredited for Testing and Certification of H2 Generation Systems According to Iso 22734

FuelCellsWorks

TÜV SÜD Product Service GmbH is the first certification body to receive accreditation from the German accreditation body DAkkS for the testing and certification of hydrogen generation systems and electrolysis.

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Fervo reports improved drilling times at Cape Station geothermal project, Utah

ThinkGeoEnergy

Fervo Energy has reported a 70% reduction in drilling time at a geothermal well in the Cape Station project in Utah compared to the first horizontal well drilling at Project Red in 2022. The fastest Cape Station well was drilled in just 21 days, despite the wells in Cape being drilling hotter and deeper than the Project Red wells in Nevada. This increase in drilling efficiency has translated into significant cost reductions, with drilling costs across the first four horizontal wells at Cape fall

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Calix Completes Engineering Study for a 30,000 Ton Per Annum Zero Emissions Steel Technology (ZESTY) Hydrogen Direct Reduced Iron (H-DRI) Demonstration Plant

FuelCellsWorks

Calix is pleased to announce that it has completed a Front-End Engineering and Design (FFED) study for a 30,000 tonne per annum Zero Emissions Steel Technology (ZESTY) Hydrogen Direct Reduced.

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Axpo commissions first BESS in Sweden

Energy Storage News

Swiss-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) Axpo has brought its first BESS project in Sweden online, a 20MW/20MWh system in Landskrona.

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Germany and Algeria Establish Hydrogen Task Force

FuelCellsWorks

Joint declaration of intent for future hydrogen deliveries Introduction. Germany and Algeria want to work more closely together on the production of green hydrogen. Algeria should be supported in particular.

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Top 5 clean energy hiring trends of 2024

Solar Power World

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) had already created over 100,000 clean energy and climate-related jobs in the United States six months after it was signed into law, and an additional 9 million jobs are anticipated to be added over the next decade. In fact, it is estimated that 99% of people who will be working… The post Top 5 clean energy hiring trends of 2024 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Gensol Engineering and Matrix Gas Secure Incentives for Hydrogen Electrolyzer Production

FuelCellsWorks

Gensol Engineering Ltd, alongside Matrix Gas & Renewables Ltd, has been selected for government incentives aimed at bolstering their joint electrolyzer production capabilities, targeting an annual output of 63 MW.

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Victoria’s SEC, Equis Australia get AU$400 million for NEM’s first 4-hour battery storage project

Energy Storage News

Equis Australia and the State Electricity Commission have secured AU$400 million in financing for their Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) battery storage project.

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Glasgow Airport Hydrogen Hub to Support Zero-Emission Flight by 2027

FuelCellsWorks

Attendees at the Glasgow Airport Hydrogen Innovation Hub summit held yesterday (Thursday 8 February) heard that the infrastructure needed to support zero-emission flight could be in place as early as.

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Going Viral for Good: How to Create Shareable Content for Green Energy Marketing Campaigns on Social Media

Hydrogen Fuel News

Social media has become a key platform for sharing information and encouraging action in the battle against climate change. These platforms hold significant sway in shaping opinions and behaviors, particularly among the youth.  A survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that 69% of Gen Zers feel anxious about the future when they see online content about climate change.

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