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Delta, Prologis and PepsiCo: The art of winning corporate buy-in for sustainability

GreenBiz

Preaching the benefits for customers is the best way to get support for environmental initiatives, they say.

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Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again last year — and the gap is growing

Canary Media

Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces. Again. According to data from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute released last week, Americans bought 21 percent more heat pumps in 2023 than the next-most popular heating appliance, fossil gas furnaces.

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The domino effect of transport sector decarbonization

GreenBiz

Cross-industry collaboration and innovation can put global decarbonization on the fast track.

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AGL and AEMO search for answers on Loy Yang outage, but “woke” energy not to blame

Renew Economy

It will likely take some time to fully understand the events after an intense storm tore down at least six transmission towers in Victoria. But one thing is for sure - it was not the fault of "woke" renewables. The post AGL and AEMO search for answers on Loy Yang outage, but “woke” energy not to blame 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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What’s Missing in Your Sustainability Reporting: Focus Areas for 2024

GreenBiz

GHG emissions reporting has dominated the sustainability disclosure landscape in recent years. However, that’s starting to change. As regulators and investors recognize the holistic nature of the climate crisis and its impacts on business strategy, they’re honing in on additional interrelated ESG issues. Yet despite increasing pressure, critical areas of sustainability reporting remain largely overlooked.

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Corporate Clean Power Buying Grew 12% to New Record in 2023, According to BloombergNEF

BloombergNEF

• BNEF’s 1H 2024 Corporate Energy Market Outlook shows that a surge of activity in Europe was the biggest catalyst in record activity • Big tech remains a large contributor of PPA growth • Amazon, Engie were the largest buyer and seller in 2023, respectively New York and London, February 13, 2024 – Corporations publicly […] The post Corporate Clean Power Buying Grew 12% to New Record in 2023, According to BloombergNEF appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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New York could rewrite its relationship to fossil gas with this bill

Canary Media

New York’s future is fossil-gas-free, and it’s time for state policies to fully reflect that. That’s the upshot of testimony last week from climate advocates, who called on Governor Kathy Hochul (D) and the state legislature to pass the NY Home Energy Affordable Transition Act in this year’s budget.

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Another solar and battery project approved in Victoria

Renew Economy

British solar and storage developer Elgin Energy says it has secured development approval for another solar and battery project in Australia, this time in Victoria. The post Another solar and battery project approved in Victoria appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New Regional Project to Power Growth of South West Hydrogen Sector

FuelCellsWorks

A consortium led by South West-based hydrogen developer, Tower Group involving Element 2 will deliver the Exeter H2 Hub, a 5 MW pilot plant with mobile refuelling capability in East.

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CATL big battery to be removed from US Marine base over China security fears

Renew Economy

American energy company Duke Energy pressured by Congress to decommission big batteries made by China's CATL from their installation at a military base. The post CATL big battery to be removed from US Marine base over China security fears 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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Plug Power marks new liquid hydrogen achievement

Hydrogen Fuel News

Plug Cryogenic Trailers make liquid H2 deliveries only two days after operations start. Just two days after the official start of its operations at its Charleston, Tennessee hydrogen production plant, Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) has filled Plug cryogenic trailers with liquid hydrogen to be delivered at east coast pedestal customer sites, including Walmart , Home Depot and others.

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Massive Victoria blackout underlines need to accelerate transition to firmed renewables

Renew Economy

Victoria blackouts a copy book demonstration that reliance on massive, centralised end-of-life coal-fired power plants is a fool’s errand and a fundamental strategic weakness. The post Massive Victoria blackout underlines need to accelerate transition to firmed renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Senate Advances Bill to Propel Hydrogen Energy in Aviation, Spearheaded by Sen. Ossoff and Rep. Johnson

FuelCellsWorks

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has successfully passed the Hydrogen Aviation Strategy Act, a bipartisan initiative led by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, U.S.

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“Price the damage:” Garnaut and Sims reboot calls for carbon “fee” for big polluters

Renew Economy

Ross Garnaut and former competition tsar Rod Sims say basic economics means you must price the damage that fossil fuels impose on everyone. The post “Price the damage:” Garnaut and Sims reboot calls for carbon “fee” for big polluters appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Europe’s Hydrogen Import Dilemma: Balancing Ambition with Reality

FuelCellsWorks

Navigating the Challenges of Meeting Hydrogen Targets Amidst Uncertain Imports. Europe’s ambitious hydrogen strategy is under the microscope as a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E) signals caution against the heavy.

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Honeywell Technology launches the first ever Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier project

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company is aiming to use clean H2 as an efficient, safe and effective way of storing energy. Honeywell Technology has just announced that leading Japanese energy company ENEOS will develop the first Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) project in the world at a commercial scale, and it will be using Honeywell’s solutions at several locations.

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Sunfire Successfully Installs First Industrial-Scale Electrolysis Plant in Finland

FuelCellsWorks

Harjavalta– Finland’s first industrial-scale electrolysis plant has been installed in Harjavalta, one year after the groundbreaking ceremony. The project partners expect production of green hydrogen in the second half of.

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Offshore geothermal resource explored in new white paper

Envirotec Magazine

Schematic showing offshore geothermal resource exploration and development adjacent to sea floor spreading centres. Such a location holds forth the potential to generate baseload power, fresh H2O, green H2 and NH3 with the potential for CO2 storage and controlled ocean fertilisation, according to CGG’s research (image credit: © CGG). A white paper outlines the potential of offshore geothermal energy as a green energy resource of global significance and sets out a framework for its responsi

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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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New 1.2-GW Natural Gas-Fired Plant Announced for Texas

POWER Magazine

A Texas-based energy company has announced plans to build a 1.2-GW natural gas-fired power plant in Lee County, Texas, with construction expected to begin in 2025. Sandow Lakes Energy Co. […] The post New 1.2-GW Natural Gas-Fired Plant Announced for Texas appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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British Telecom is repurposing old street cabinets as EV charging points

Charged

Streetscapes change as technology evolves. As phone booths became obsolete, most disappeared, but some were repurposed as WiFi hotspots, neighborhood libraries and other useful things. British Telecom has thousands of boxy green metal cabinets, used to store internet and phone cabling, all over the UK, and the nationwide rollout of fiber broadband connections is making many of these boxes unnecessary for their original purpose—but many are in great locations to be converted into curbside EV char

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Super Bowl LVIII powered entirely by Nevada solar-plus-storage project

PV Tech

Super Bowl LVIII was powered entirely by renewables, with an EDF Renewables solar-plus-storage project meeting the game's energy demands.

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Hexagon Purus ASA: Results for the Fourth Quarter 2023

FuelCellsWorks

Selected key developments in Q4 2023 and after balance sheet date: Revenue of NOK 366 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. Full-year 2023 revenue ended at NOK 1,320 million, up.

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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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The Brief: Stewarding purpose through a perpetual trust

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Ownership Economy This sustainable investing firm is stewarding its purpose with a perpetual trust. Natural. The post The Brief: Stewarding purpose through a perpetual trust appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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JOGMEC and H2Global Signed Memorandum of Understanding to Promote the Clean Hydrogen Societyope

FuelCellsWorks

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) and H2Global Stiftung (H2Global) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to initiate the cooperation in the area of clean hydrogen. Hydrogen and its.

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Avaada Energy bags 1.4GW of PV in Indian state tenders

PV Tech

Avaada Energy has acquired 1,400MWp of solar PV projects through several central and state government tenders across India.

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ANEMEL Project Explores Green Hydrogen Production From Seawater and Wastewater

FuelCellsWorks

The ANEMEL project, funded by the European Innovation Council, investigates innovative approaches for producing green hydrogen using low-quality water sources, including seawater and wastewater. ANEMEL will develop electrolyzes, producing a prototype within.

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VNEM lets renters in on rooftop solar – and California needs it most

PV Tech

VNEM incentivises builders to adopt rooftop solar and share the benefits – both financial and environmental – back to renters.

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ABL Completes German Subsea Pipeline Installation Project

FuelCellsWorks

Global energy and marine consultancy ABL has recently finalised its marine warranty survey scope in connection with the successful installation of Germany’s Ostsee Anbindungsleitung (OAL) subsea pipeline, with the first gas feed-in expected.

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Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl flight shows what’s wrong with carbon removal

Grist

To get to the Super Bowl on time, Taylor Swift took a private jet from Tokyo to Los Angeles and then hustled to Las Vegas. The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 tons of carbon dioxide — about what is generated by charging nearly 5 million cell phones. But don’t worry, the company assured her critics: It would take those emissions right back out of the sky.

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NTE’s Kråkøya Plant in Norway Successfully Produces its First Green Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk (NTE), a leading Norwegian energy company, is thrilled to announce the inaugural production of green hydrogen at its Kråkøya facility located in Nærøysund municipality. As the first hydrogen.

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Eaton breaks ground on new EV fuse manufacturing facility in the Dominican Republic

Charged

Power management company Eaton is opening a new assembly plant in Santiago de los Caballeros, the company’s fifth manufacturing site in the Dominican Republic, to meet growing customer demand for its fuses. The project will increase supplies of Eaton’s Bussmann series fuses, which provide critical safety functionality in EVs, renewable generation and energy storage projects.

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Hyvolution Paris Emerges as the World’s Leading Event in the Hydrogen Industry

FuelCellsWorks

A significant increase in attendance with 11,503 visitors and 572 exhibitors and brands gathered over 3 days! The 2024 edition of the expert event dedicated to hydrogen took place on.

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