Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Image credit: Thomas Köhler/photothek. An important industry award in Germany has gone to direct current (DC) power technology firm Schaltbau for what’s described as the world’s first DC factory. Schaltbau’s NExT Factory in Velden, Germany has been in full operation since September 2023, incorporating advanced DC smart grid components and intelligent energy management, battery and thermal storage, and in a format that “can serve as a blueprint for green production in EuropeR

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NRDC onEarth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Syracuse city officials downplay extraordinarily high levels of lead in city drinking water.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Chinese company completes world’s second-largest solar facility, a 3 GW PV farm built on an old cold mine, and starts first generation from the world's first gigawatt scale floating solar project. The post China floats its first gigawatt scale offshore solar park, and completes 3GW PV project at old coal mine appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A significant shift is underway in the electric-car segment. No, I’m not talking about the shift to EVs. That’s still progressing despite a few manufacturers getting cold feet. What I’m referring to here is a subtle change in the makeup of EV batteries that carries some significant implications.

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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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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Falling costs and rapidly increasing scale means that big batteries are doing the heavy lifting at crucial points for the grid, particularly around the solar duck curve. The post Batteries come of age, and are now doing the heavy lifting around the solar duck appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Pitch by Sergei Tsivilev, a relative of Vladimir Putin, aimed to tighten oversight of Rosneft and nationalise Lukoil

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Brian Fitzsimons, CEO of GridUnity , doesn’t think his company alone can solve the grid interconnection backlog that’s holding back the U.S. energy transition. But he’s sure that its software is a lot better than the combination of paper, spreadsheets, and email that most grid operators use right now.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Incoming administration’s policies might eventually lead to a decrease in US LNG exports to the EU

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TechCrunch: Climate

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The majority of the world’s ammonia is produced using the 115-year-old Haber-Bosch process, which is heavily reliant on natural gas. NitroVolt could change that. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

NT announces plans for a major renewable energy hub near Darwin focusing on solar and battery storage. The post NT unveils plans for a $400 million solar and battery hub in Darwin appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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PV Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

News round-up of recent tenders globally; Nepal awarded 1GW of solar, Italy 320MW and Bahrain seeks 44MW of PV capacity.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The new NSW benefit sharing guidelines have thrown up a potential problem for renewable and storage projects: Did they just cap developer contributions to community funds? The post Renewable energy developers raise questions about apparent cap on community funds in NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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PV Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) has found that over 1.4GW of large-scale renewable energy generation projects worth over AU$3.3 billion (US$2.61 billion) were committed to in the third quarter of 2024.

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Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Scientists including Australia's CSIRO warn that there is a 50% chance the world's "carbon budget" will be exceeded in six years. The post Stubborn fossil fuel emissions threaten to blow global carbon budget appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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TechCrunch: Climate

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Global food production generates at least a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, more than 80% of which comes from agriculture. But addressing that impact is easier said than done since there are simply so many moving parts to address. “Regenerative” farming is often touted as one way to make progress towards several sustainability goals, as it offers […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As nonprofit hospitals shift from volume-based to value-based care, a powerful opportunity emerges to invest in the social determinants of health. Research indicates. The post How hospitals are partnering with CDFIs to invest in the social determinants of health appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Researchers examined fruit fly larvae from multiple geographic locations, following their developmental time, behaviour, and long-term survival. Measuring exposure to over 1,000 different agrochemicals, researchers reported significant changes in behaviour and long-term survival of different insect populations in a new study (words: European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Design by New Zealand’s OpenStar levitates a giant magnet inside a cloud of superheated plasma

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Hydrogen as a “clean” energy source attracts billions of dollars in public and private funding every year. The U.S. government has created multiple programs to stimulate production and use, resulting in steady growth in interest and investment. And the U.S. and other countries clearly have the technology and natural resources to produce a lot of hydrogen.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Ofgem gives green light to five interconnectors capable of powering millions of homes Business live – latest updates Projects to lay five subsea power cables capable of powering millions of homes have been given the green light as Great Britain prepares to use its giant offshore windfarms to become a net exporter of green electricity in the 2030s. The energy regulator, Ofgem, has approved three subsea cable projects linking Great Britain to power grids in Germany, Ireland and Northern Ireland to

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PV Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Greater policy support will be needed if the world is to meet its 2030 renewable energy targets, according to Ember Climate.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Note: This piece can also be read in Spanish and Portuguese. In Search of Sustainable Land Management Illegal deforestation, unsustainable land use, and climate change pose significant threats to Colombia’s rich and diverse landscapes and the communities who depend on them. Gustavo Marulanda Morales , Director of the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), addresses these challenges every day.

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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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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This article by Mark Jensen, CEO of ReElement Technologies Corporation, based in Indiana, concerns the challenges that car owners, communities, insurance companies and recyclers are facing in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. It is particularly relevant to owners of EVs and hybrids, as water is the mortal enemy of any electrical system.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Interconnectors will tackle intermittency and strengthen North Sea industry, says Ofgem

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Tozero launched in Munich two years ago with a low-carbon way to extract lithium from battery waste streams. The “hydrometallurgy” process, which extracts. The post Tozero lands €11 million to extract lithium and other critical materials from waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Resolute Mining chief and colleagues held as junta squeezes gold producers for greater share of profits

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Greenpeace and Uplift say Rosebank and Jackdaw licences were granted unlawfully by former Tory government Climate campaigners have urged a Scottish court to cancel the licence to drill the UK’s largest untapped oilfield, arguing it will cause “sizeable” and unjustified damage to the planet. Greenpeace and Uplift accuse the former Conservative government of having unlawfully given the Norwegian oil giant Equinor a licence to exploit the Rosebank oilfield, which sits 80 miles (130km) north-west of

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Financial Times: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Having sold 70 per cent of its oil assets in two years, the Spanish energy group is pursuing a renewable future

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Contrary to initial interpretations, it is possible for residential solar projects to take advantage of the domestic content bonus credit in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). However, homeowners aren’t the ones gaining the tax break. When projects use domestically made solar components, they can tack on an additional 10% to the Investment Tax Credit (ITC),… The post Financiers—not homeowners—qualify for domestic content on residential solar appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

CBI, Corporate Leaders Group, and others welcome clarity provided by government's new target to slash emissions by 81 per cent by 2035

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After five years making Energy UK ‘noisier’ on green issues, Emma Pinchbeck has been picked to lead the UK’s fight against global heating ‘I was a risk when they hired me,” smiles Emma Pinchbeck. The chief executive of Energy UK, the voice of the industry, is hours away from a black-tie awards event that will serve as her unofficial leaving do. After almost five years in the role, she will join the government’s climate watchdog , the Climate Change Committee, in a matter of days.

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CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Asia-Pacific’s cleantech dynamic through 2024 has marked an ecosystem preparing for a pivot to the next sectors of promise as the powerhouse sectors. The post Asia Pacific’s Cleantech Investment Monitor appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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