How Starbucks doubled the number of its 'Greener Stores'
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2024
The coffee chain's new building standards are now a publicly available training course.
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Lazard: IRA brings LCOS of 100MW, 4-hour standalone BESS down as low as US$124/MWh
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
According to Lazard, the impact of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) incentives on the business case for battery storage in the US is now significant.
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Feeling stuck in your sustainability job? Here are 8 steps to reclaim your job satisfaction
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2024
Whether you’re feeling uninspired by your organization’s progress, or are just ready for new growth opportunities, here’s how to handle feeling stuck in your current role.
Leeward signs cross-border RA deal with California’s PG&E for 450MWh Arizona BESS
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
Developer and IPP Leeward Renewable Energy and California utility PG&E have agreed a long-term resource adequacy (RA) agreement for a large-scale, PV co-located BESS in Arizona.
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.
Analysis: Weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel poses greater threat than publicly acknowledged
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
An analysis published in the journal Science found that, contrary to a widely held assumption, the high assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) now being produced with federal subsidies to fuel the next generation of small nuclear power reactors can be used directly to make nuclear weapons, and thus presents greater terrorism and nuclear proliferation threats than publicly acknowledged by the federal government and industry.
LDES deployments in Ireland held back by lack of incentives and market design, report says
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
While short-duration BESS has flourished in Ireland, a 'policy vacuum' threatens the long-duration energy storage (LDES) rollout required for its renewables goals, research firm Cornwall Insights said.
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ROUNDUP: Powin HVAC deal, ESS Inc California flow battery, New Zealand’s first 2nd life BESS
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
Another edition of news in brief from around the world in energy storage, with Powin, ESS Inc and New Zealand's Counties Energy.
Solar farms can eat up farmland—but 'agrivoltaics' could mean the best of both worlds for NZ farmers
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
New Zealand plans to commission about eight gigawatts of solar photovoltaic projects—more than the maximum power demand of the whole country on a typical winter's day—by 2028, according to the government's latest generation investment survey.
Germany’s Eco Stor to start building another 238MWh BESS in November 2024
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
Germany-based developer and EPC Eco Stor will start building another 103.5MW/238MWh BESS project in November this year.
New method helps determine the suitability of offshore wind turbine sites
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
The EOLO group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) presents a new method for analyzing the long-term mechanical fatigue of floating offshore wind turbines.
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
Prevalon-Rept partnership targets 2.5GWh of US BESS deployments in 2024
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
Prevalon, the US battery storage solutions provider spun out of Mitsubishi Power Americas, intends to deploy 2.5GWh of systems using Rept Battero’s technologies this year.
Hydropower damages river systems in Africa: How more solar and wind power can solve this problem
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
Across the African continent, more than 300 new hydropower projects are planned to meet the growing demand for electricity. Some of these will require big dams, which can have major negative environmental impacts. Another looming problem with hydropower is that the water cycle is affected by climate change. Water availability will be reduced and become more variable in some locations in the next decades.
Memo to Water Utilities: Don’t Pit Safe Water Against Affordable Water
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 6, 2024
Let’s reject water utility scare tactics on treatment costs for toxic forever chemicals.
Chile's lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
As night falls in Chile's Atacama desert, the world's driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to measure levels of lithium—a crucial mineral for the global switch to cleaner energy, but harmful in its own way.
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.
New CEO to oversee expansion of leading water treatment and handling businesses
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
The firm behind water handling and treatment solutions Selwood and Siltbuster has appointed a new CEO. Dan Lee is now Workdry International CEO, with a brief to lead market-leading water handling and treatment businesses and oversee expansion into Europe Dan has 15 years’ experience at the helm of high-performing asset-based industrial services businesses.
Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan commits AU$26 billion to Australian state’s renewables and storage push
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
Steven Miles, premier of Queensland, Australia, unveiled plans yesterday (7 June) to allocate a record AU$26 billion (US$17 billion) to the state’s Energy and Jobs Plan over the next four years, facilitating the rollout of solar PV and energy storage technology.
Tiny crop-health sensors could help cut the cost of groceries
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
The prototype comprises a filter made with a thin layer of vanadium dioxide that can switch between edge detection and detailed infrared imaging. A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging capabilities could be easily fitted to a drone for remote crop monitoring, according to the group behind it. The flat-optics technology is said to have the potential to replace traditional optical lens applications for environmental sensing in a range of industries.
Labour Under Pressure for Reselecting Climate Denial Group Director as Election Candidate
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 6, 2024
The Labour Party has been criticised by campaigners after a board member of the UK’s leading climate science denial group was reselected as a candidate at the upcoming general election. Graham Stringer , a Labour MP since 1997, has been reselected as the party’s candidate for Blackley and Broughton in Greater Manchester. Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to li
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.
USVs set to collect water pollution data in SW England pilot
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
MSeis USV on the River Dart (image credit: Daniel Rasmussen, HydroSurv). A consortium of British marine technology companies has secured Innovate UK funding to deploy non-invasive Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) for water quality monitoring in three key South West regional ports; Dartmouth, Falmouth and Plymouth. Led by Somerset-based marine acoustic monitoring experts, MSeis, the ‘Smart Ports, Clean Waters’ project partners aim to transform public understanding of water ecosystems in ports and
Dutch Government Supports Four New Nuclear Reactors
POWER Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
The incoming new government of the Netherlands reportedly will support construction of at least four new utility-scale nuclear power reactors, as part of a program to more than triple the […] The post Dutch Government Supports Four New Nuclear Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.
‘Painting with light’ project makes air pollution visible
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
Airport road, Addis Ababa, with PM2.5 levels of 10-20µg per cubic meter (image credit: Robin Price). Researchers and artists have joined forces to ‘paint with light’ – making invisible air pollution visible and demonstrating the health risks posed to people living and working in Ethiopia, India, and the UK. Combining digital light painting and low-cost air pollution sensors, the team produced photographic evidence of pollution levels in cities across the three countries – sparking debate among l
Tanager-1 Is Ready for Launch: Planet’s First Hyperspectral Satellite
Planet Pulse
JUNE 6, 2024
We are proud to announce today that our first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1—made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition and its philanthropic partners—is ready for launch. The spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 3rd in preparation for liftoff as early as July on board the Transporter-11 Rideshare mission with SpaceX. Tanager-1 will be the first of a next-generation hyperspectral fleet which will expand Planet’s imaging capabilities in the spectral domain to complement
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?
Swiss renewable energy battle moves to the ballots
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
Switzerland's largest wind farm, sitting astride the ridge of the Jura mountains by the French border, consists of only 16 turbines -- tiny compared to those of other European countries.
Electric lawn equipment, solar could be home-electrification ‘gateways’
Canary Media
JUNE 6, 2024
The best way to get people to electrify everything might be getting them to electrify something — anything at all.
Germany Outlines and Clarifies Funding Strategy for National Hydrogen Network
FuelCellsWorks
JUNE 6, 2024
The Federal Network Agency in Germany has recently issued a key determination detailing the funding mechanisms for the nation’s hydrogen network infrastructure for the upcoming years. This move is a.
The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heat
Grist
JUNE 6, 2024
Predicting the future has always been a difficult, sometimes fruitless task, but scientists are surprisingly good at divining how hot the year ahead will be. For decades, their models have largely ended up matching global temperatures. Then 2023 came along. At the beginning of the year, climate scientists at four organizations — Berkeley Earth, NASA, the U.K.
Developing recyclable lightweight battery housing and a second life for old battery cells
TechXplore
JUNE 6, 2024
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF are developing battery housings that are as light and recyclable as possible, including those made of plastic for e-mobility.
Ohio makes history as the first to produce the only FCEV made in the USA
Hydrogen Fuel News
JUNE 6, 2024
Production will take place at the Performance Manufacturing Center. Honda has kicked its American hydrogen strategy into high gear with the production launch of its all-new 2025 CR-V e:FCEV, the only fuel cell electric vehicle made in the United States. Production has started at the Performance Manufacturing Center (PMC) in Marysville, Ohio. The H2 vehicle is unique in two ways.
Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) Secures Deal to Supply 30 Fuel Cell Trucks to Explore Plant & Transport Solutions
FuelCellsWorks
JUNE 6, 2024
Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS), the UK’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell truck OEM, has today signed a Partnership Agreement with Explore Plant & Transport Solutions (Explore) to supply 30 HVS hydrogen.
Could US golden hydrogen be worth trillions?
Hydrogen Fuel News
JUNE 6, 2024
There are countries and companies around the world looking for this type of H2 opportunity Worldwide, there are searches for golden hydrogen – among other clean energy opportunities – that include even the most remote locations such as the Sahara Desert, Antarctica, the Moon, and even passing asteroids. Now, it looks like the US may have scored huge Ongoing research projects have been increasingly discovering resources rich in golden hydrogen in areas across the United States, part
Toyota Tests Liquid Hydrogen-Burning Corolla in Another 24-Hour Race
FuelCellsWorks
JUNE 6, 2024
The experience has taught it how to improve thermal efficiency, Toyota says.
US breaks Q1 record to add 11.8GWdc solar capacity in previous quarter
PV Tech
JUNE 6, 2024
The US installed 11.8GWdc of capacity in the first quarter of 2024 and added more than 40GW of solar capacity last year, according to SEIA.
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