Thu.Nov 16, 2023

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The US/China climate agreement: 5 takeaways for business leaders

GreenBiz

With geopolitical tensions high and the stakes for the global environment rising, the countries reached the starting point for a path forward on mitigating the climate crisis.

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Fish eDNA project highlights promise of environmental survey work at offshore wind farms

Envirotec Magazine

A new report validates the use of fish environmental DNA (eDNA) survey methods, declaring that they could transform the way fish ecology surveys are conducted for offshore wind farm developments. It has been produced by renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, along with project partners, EDF Renewables and environmental DNA and nature intelligence expert, NatureMetrics.

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14 training resources for designing circularity into business models and products

GreenBiz

Learn how to apply circular economy principles at your organization — whether you’re starting from scratch or reimagining the status quo.

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New Mexico Adopts Crucial Package to Clean up Cars and Trucks

NRDC onEarth

Adoption of the Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty Low NOx standards will provide significant benefits to New Mexico

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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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Petro-aggression and the energy transition

GreenBiz

Azerbaijan’s conflict with Armenia provides a case study of how oil and gas-fueled aggression can impede the energy transition. Here’s what corporations can do about that.

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Cracking Ammonia: Dissociation and Fuel Innovation

CleanTech Group

Ammonia is often touted as the fuel of the future. It is gaseous at room temperature but can be liquefied under low pressure.

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Australia has everything battery storage needs, except the ability to make them at scale

Renew Economy

Australia could support up to five giga-factories, just for domestic energy storage and commercial electric vehicles. The post Australia has everything battery storage needs, except the ability to make them at scale appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Chevron plots carbon storage future despite Australia plant setbacks

Financial Times: Energy

Oil major’s $54bn Gorgon natural gas project has failed to meet targets for capturing CO₂

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S&P: US nearing 15GW of battery storage, ERCOT rebounds from quiet second quarter

Energy Storage News

The US’ cumulative battery storage installations reached 14.689GW at the end of Q3 2023, with Texas’ ERCOT market contributing 40% of new additions during the quarter.

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NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable!

Renew Economy

The NSW Planning department has performed a remarkable backflip on the messaging from its wind farm map. Everywhere is now deemed "suitable" for wind turbines. The post NSW Planning backflips on wind energy map messaging: Everywhere is now suitable! appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Concordia Damen: Trial Run of World’s First New-Build Hydrogen-Powered Inland Shipping Vessel ‘Weva’ Goes Well

FuelCellsWorks

Lenten Scheepvaart (the Netherlands) will go down in history as the owner of the world’s first-ever newbuild hydrogen-powered inland shipping barge. With this, the shipping company sets a new standard.

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Incredible new hydrogen research sounds more like sorcery than science

Hydrogen Fuel News

Australian scientists have found a way to pull hydrogen directly out of the air. Scientists from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne, Australia have revealed via their hydrogen research that they have produced and analyzed an enzyme that pulls hydrogen from the atmosphere and transforms it into electricity. The enzyme is called Huc and comes from a common soil bacterium.

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Contrail-Chasing Blue Condor Makes Airbus’ First Full Hydrogen-Powered Flight

FuelCellsWorks

The modified glider at the centre of Airbus UpNext’s hydrogen contrail-studying experiment, Blue Condor, made its first hydrogen-powered flight over Nevada in the United States on 8 November. The flight.

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JFF Ventures aligns venture capital with a national nonprofit to invest in the future of work

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 16 – Creating the tools and technologies to move more than 100 million low-income Americans comfortably into the middle class with. The post JFF Ventures aligns venture capital with a national nonprofit to invest in the future of work appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Port of Amsterdam Bolsters European Hydrogen Position With New Agreements

FuelCellsWorks

Together with a wide variety of partners, Port of Amsterdam announced three agreements during the H2 Connecting Event in Duisburg, which bolster the port’s position as a key supplier of.

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Orange EV produces its 1,000th heavy-duty electric terminal truck

Charged

Since Orange EV produced its first electric terminal truck in 2015, we’ve seen many a commercial EV manufacturer boom and bust, as Orange quietly went about its business. Now the company is celebrating the production of its 1,000th electric terminal truck. ( Terminal trucks , also known as drayage trucks or yard goats, shuttle cargo around ports and logistics facilities, and represent an excellent use case for EVs.

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South Australia Landmark hydrogen and renewable energy Bill passes state parliament

FuelCellsWorks

South Australia’s landmark Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Bill has passed both Houses of the South Australian Parliament, paving the way for the state to capitalise on its abundant wind and.

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The POWER Interview: DOE’s Unique New Advanced Nuclear Reactor Test Beds

POWER Magazine

In October, the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) kicked off a ceremony to repurpose the iconic Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) containment structure at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) as a new […] The post The POWER Interview: DOE’s Unique New Advanced Nuclear Reactor Test Beds appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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“Net zero greenwash:” Energy giants called out over plans to burn more fossil fuels

Renew Economy

Woodside Energy was among those assessed to be at significant risk of "net zero greenwash" because of their efforts to influence governments against phasing out fossil fuels. The post “Net zero greenwash:” Energy giants called out over plans to burn more fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Omni introduces an electric powertrain for skid steers

Charged

Omni Powertrain Technologies provides electrical, hydrostatic and mechanical powertrain solutions to on- and off-highway markets, including agricultural and construction equipment and commercial vehicles. Omni products include enclosed transmissions, planetary drives, PTO shafts, electric motors and power electronics. The firm has operations in the US, China and Italy.

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Maxeon to lay off 22% of global workforce, sues Aiko Solar for patent infringement

PV Tech

Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies will lay off about 22% of its global workforce as it decided to entirely phase out its Maxeon 6 interdigitated back contact (IBC) modules as well as other operational realignment.

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Volvo orders two Tesla-style Giga Presses for Slovakia EV plant

Charged

Tesla pioneered megacasting, a technique that uses giant casting machines to make car bodies with just a few massive cast parts (a Matchbox car is said to have provided the inspiration), and other automakers quickly took notice. In 2021, the LK Group reported that it would supply giant casting presses to several Chinese companies. In October of this year, Reuters reported that Italian firm Idra, which supplies Giga Presses to Tesla, had delivered machines to Ford and Hyundai.

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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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Nexus Development Capital to invest in NA’s first zero-emission hydrogen ferry fleet

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company has announced that its sixth investment will be in SWITCH Maritime’s H2-powered fleet. Nexus Development Capital has announced that its sixth investment will be to fund SWITCH Maritime for its first North American zero-emission hydrogen ferry fleet. The company made this news as it announced its second capital raise, reaching its managed capital total to $50M.

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Emerging strategies to improve EV charger uptime (Webinar)

Charged

The growth of the EV market is driving an increase in the demand for public fast charging station infrastructure. However, the uptime reliability of these charging stations remains a problem for EV drivers and Charge Point Operators (CPOs). Join this session on December 4th at the Virtual Conference on EV Infrastructure, where Franklin Electric will explore some of the uptime challenges faced by CPOs and the emerging strategies to enhance DC fast charger station uptime.

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America's first hydrogen-powered ferry is set to sail

Canary Media

America’s first hydrogen-fueled ferry is set to launch in San Francisco early next year after more than five years in development.

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Engie North America signs VPPAs for 282MW of Texas PV generation

PV Tech

Engie North America – the US subsidiary of the French energy utility – has signed two virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA) with WestRock, a sustainable paper and packaging producer.

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How an off-road rally for women keeps EVs rolling using clean energy

The Verge: Energy

Photos by Tim Sutton, Mayfield Media, courtesy of Rebelle Rally Sustainably charging electric vehicles and providing power to over 250 people for eight days in the middle of the desert is no easy task. Renewable Innovations has the answer. It’s not often a motorsports event puts an emphasis on sustainability. Then again, the Rebelle Rally isn’t your average motorsports event.

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‘Wild card’ batteries particularly valuable for virtual power plants, DOE advisor says

Energy Storage News

The versatility of battery storage to provide a broad range of services makes them “particularly valuable” to virtual power plants (VPPs), according to a senior advisor to the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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“A hybridised portfolio”: Sonnedix on its plans to decarbonise the Chilean energy mix

PV Tech

Sonnedix's Daniel Garrido speaks about the company's acquisition of a 416MW Chilean solar portfolio, and its plans in the country.

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Britishvolt owner blames business woes on tax officials, media and ‘sabotage’ by staff

Financial Times: Energy

Former and current employees say David Collard’s repeated promises of investment never materialised

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It’s one of Europe’s last pristine rivers. Can scientists save it from 50 dams?

The Guardian: Energy

The Neretva, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the most biodiverse rivers on the continent – supporting bears, wolves, lynx and many rare species – but more than 50 planned dams could permanently transform the ecosystem At the bottom of a ravine, near the mountain town of Ulog, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lie the sparkling turquoise waters of the Ljuta, a tributary of the Neretva.

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How traceability of gold became a focus for independent jewellers

Financial Times: Energy

Certification of small-scale miners provides ethical reassurance but consumer demand for low prices creates pressure

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