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40+ courses on renewable energy transitions, technology and financing

GreenBiz

Learn how to drive the adoption of renewable energy with courses that provide everything from a big-picture understanding of the energy transition and justice considerations to the details of energy generation and storage technologies and financing.

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Bring your WEEE collection ideas…

Envirotec Magazine

Small Electricals Recycling banks were installed in seven locations across the Scottish Highlands in ILM Highland’s project (image credit: ILM Highland). Material Focus has reopened its Electricals Recycling Fund, offering £750,000 of funding to support projects that make it easier for people to reuse and recycle small household electricals. Previous rounds of funding have provided £1.8 million to fund over 40 UK projects, some of which are described here.

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Amazon to suppliers: We will ‘prioritize’ those who tell us their emission reduction plans

GreenBiz

The $2.1 trillion e-commerce giant offers its highest-emitting suppliers free tips and guidance, based on its playbook.

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Punta Sur Eco Beach Park: A Paradise of Natural Beauty

The Environmental Blog

Nestled on the southern tip of Cozumel, Mexico, Punta Sur Eco Beach Park stands as a testament to the breathtaking beauty of nature. This pristine sanctuary captivates visitors with its unspoiled landscapes, diverse wildlife, and rich cultural heritage, making it a must-visit destination for eco-conscious travelers and nature enthusiasts alike. Why Punta Sur Eco Beach Park Call Eco Beach “Punta Sur Eco Beach Park” earns its name from its commitment to ecological conservation and sust

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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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How Google, Meta, Salesforce and other companies are joining forces to fund climate action

GreenBiz

Advance market commitments have accelerated solutions deployment for other global challenges, such as vaccine distribution. Here’s how they could speed carbon reduction and removal.

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Microplastic pollution in landfill leachate: A few drips of progress?

Envirotec Magazine

The microplastic pollution that turns up in landfill leachate has received much less attention than the stuff appearing in wastewater, and there seem to be far fewer studies exploring it. Envirotec comes across a recent summary of the situation. The avenues by which microplastics find their way into landfills are obviously numerous, with the toxic load receiving a notable fillip from the events of 2020, and an estimated 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves finding their way into waste st

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BNG deal completed in Braintree District

Envirotec Magazine

The land management scheme includes nature areas and farming (image credit: Spains Hall Estate). Essex farm Spains Hall Estate has completed what is believed to be the first off-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) deal in Braintree District in north west Essex. A developer working in Braintree District secured the required off-site habitat units from a local pioneering nature recovery project after maximising the on-site compensation they could achieve.

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Data Centers Gobbling Up Existing Nukes Threatens Grid Decarb Goals

NRDC onEarth

Diverting existing clean power will increase pollution

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New toolkit and grants aim to help tackle litter across the UK

Envirotec Magazine

The environmental charity Hubbub has launched Neatstreets.org.uk a new website to help local authorities and other organisations combat litter using a range of tried and tested ideas. Artwork for posters and bins, audience insights and ideas for litter interventions are among the free tools available on the site which is seemingly designed to guide organisations on how to deliver a successful litter campaign in their local area.

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Germany Awards Tender to Fertiglobe for Green Ammonia From Egypt

FuelCellsWorks

BERLIN– Germany has awarded a tender to buy 259,000 tons of green ammonia between 2027 and 2033 from UAE-based Fertiglobe, Germany’s Economy Ministry said, marking the first in a round.

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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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Kansas City adopts acoustic leak detection technology for fire hydrants

Envirotec Magazine

An acoustic fixed-base pipe monitoring technology that uses fire hydrants to host multi-sensor devices, has already found more than 30 leaks for Kansas City Water, says Lou Rossetti senior vice president of sales North America at Orbis Intelligent Systems. Non-revenue water loss in Kansas City, Missouri, is being driven down by a successful collaboration between the municipality and California-based technology company Orbis.

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Throwback Thursday: Mitsubishi Power Delivers First Shipment of Equipment to ACES Delta Hub for Clean Hydrogen Production at One of the Largest Systems in Construction

FuelCellsWorks

The integrated technology is key to facilitating the deployment of utility-scale green hydrogen in the U.S. and to achieving global decarbonization goals LAKE MARY, Fla.– Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. has.

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Fast-acting relief valves for UK sludge treatment facility

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with T-T Flow. Government-backed funding saw a Stockport site become the first in the UK to be retrofitted with an innovative new technology that boosts biogas production by up to 20%. Valves play a critical role in its deployment. The Stockport Sludge Treatment Centre in Greater Manchester processes over 600 m3 of sludge from local wastewater treatment facilities every day.

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Weatherization can keep you cool this summer — and warm next winter

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to update their homes for a clean electric future. Canary thanks EnergySage for its support of the column. Bennie Tillman Jr.

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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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Is there gold in that wastewater?

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Castle Water. Could your wastewater be more valuable than you think? Water retailer Castle Water explains, below. No matter the industry you are in, you will need to deal with wastewater at some point. Whether you end the day with gallons of industrial effluent or simply dirty dishwater from the office coffee pot, make sure your water is being safely treated before reentering the water supply.

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‘All of Our Tricks Worked’: Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It’s Been for Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

This article was first published in Common Dreams and is reprinted here. A new parody ExxonMobil advertisement released Tuesday by a group founded by Adam McKay — the Academy Award-winning writer and director of the blockbuster doomsday climate comedy Don’t Look Up — mocks humanity for letting Big Oil get away with causing one of the biggest existential threats of all time. “There’s a world we all want to live in again.

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Reuse hub for lighting launches

Envirotec Magazine

The Reuse Hub for lighting products was launched by Recolight at the end of 2023. It is a platform to facilitate the donation of surplus or used lighting products and equipment for a manufacturer or end user to request. There is no other system like it in the UK to facilitate finding a new life for lighting products that have not reached the end of their life.

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FuelCell Energy Marks a Significant Milestone in Korean Market Expansion

FuelCellsWorks

Executives gather with Industry Leaders to Discuss Energy Transition, Enabling Technologies, and Introduce New Market GM DANBURY, Conn– FuelCell Energy, Inc., (Nasdaq: FCEL) held a pivotal event in Seoul on.

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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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Power of jetting: New trade show

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with The WJA Trade Show. A new trade show dedicated to the industrial and commercial applications of water jetting is to be held in London in September. The Water Jetting Association, the member organisation for the UK’s water jetting industry, is holding the free-to-attend event at the StoneX Stadium, North West London, on 12th September 2024.

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Greek developer puts gigawatt-scale Australian solar and battery portfolio up for sale

Renew Economy

Greek giant formerly known as Mytilineos puts Australia renewables assets up for sale, including eight solar farms and 2.8GW development pipeline with battery storage and hydrogen projects. The post Greek developer puts gigawatt-scale Australian solar and battery portfolio up for sale appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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System repairs damaged factory coating at railway terminal

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd. (Above) Densoclad 70 Tape is applied over the bitumen-based primer (inset) before the whole system is encapsulated with Denso Glass Outerwrap. A bitumen tape wrap system from Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd was utilised for the repair of damaged pipework at the new HS2 terminus at London Euston train station.

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San Francisco launches world's first commercial hydrogen ferry

Canary Media

Most ferries in the United States run on diesel fuel, with groaning engines that spew harmful emissions into waterfront communities. But in San Francisco, passengers on the city’s newest vessel will find the trip to be much quieter and cleaner as they zip around the bay.

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Dräger: meet the team

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Dräger. Ryan is a Fixed Gas Detection Regional Account Manager based in Wiltshire, responsible for Dräger’s Fixed Gas Detection customers in the South-West of England. Ryan joined the FGDS Dräger team in March. How are you finding things with the Dräger team so far? I’ve only joined the team a little less than a month ago but so far, it’s been great!

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BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions breaks ground on new green hydrogen investment in Budenheim, Germany

FuelCellsWorks

New facility will produce electrolysis and fuel cell components to support the global energy transition Production is planned to commence in the summer of 2025 Joint investment with other partners.

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The Brief: Creating affordable housing and shared equity in West Baltimore

Impact Alpha

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Real Revitalization Worker co-op turns distressed homes in West Baltimore into affordable housing and shared. The post The Brief: Creating affordable housing and shared equity in West Baltimore appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Triton EV Unveils Revolutionary Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine

FuelCellsWorks

Developed in India, this Triton EV’s hydrogen engine produces water vapour as a byproduct of combustion. The engine boasts an advanced combustion process optimised for hydrogen, which ensures complete fuel.

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German coal power production drops to record low in Q2 as renewables soar to 65 pct share

Renew Economy

Coal power plunged to a record low in Germany in the spring, while renewables produced a record 65 per cent share. The post German coal power production drops to record low in Q2 as renewables soar to 65 pct share appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Ballard Announces Q2 2024 Results Conference Call

FuelCellsWorks

VANCOUVER, BC,– Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) will hold a conference call on Monday, August 12th, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to review second quarter 2024 operating results.

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Digital technologies key to integrate and decarbonise energy and mobility

Smart Energy International

A ‘digital spine’ and generative AI form the basis of the digital technologies for energy and mobility integration in Europe, a report from Fraunhofer FIT indicates. The study, which was supported by the European Commission’s DG Connect, points to the need for significant investments to interconnect the energy sector with mobility as well as with industry, building and agriculture to meet Europe’s 2050 net zero objectives.

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Energy Transition: Rolls-Royce Reaches Milestone With H2-Ready Certificate for Mtu Engines

FuelCellsWorks

New H2-ready certificate for mtu engines increases investment security for operators First 1 MW 100% hydrogen mtu CHP to be delivered in the next few months Infrastructure for hydrogen ready.

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Huawei ushering in new era of smart renewable energy generators

PV Tech

Huawei Digital Power has showcased its all-scenario smart PV+ESS solutions, also launching its latest smart renewable energy generator and new smart string grid-forming ESS platform.

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AMSL Aero and Aeria Bring Hydrogen Aviation Fuel to Bankstown Airport in Australia

FuelCellsWorks

AMSL Aero, the zero-emission long-range VTOL aircraft designer and manufacturer, announced it has partnered with Aeria Management Group to make Australian aviation history by introducing hydrogen as an aviation fuel at Bankstown.

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Hydrogen flight looks ready for take-off with new advances

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

The possibility of hydrogen-powered flight means greater opportunities for fossil-free travel, and the technological advances to make this happen are moving fast. New studies show that almost all air travel within a 750-mile radius (1200 km) could be made with hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2045, and with a novel heat exchanger currently in development, this range could be even further.

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