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IPP International Electric Power proposes California LDES zinc battery project at Marine Corps Base

Energy Storage News

International Electric Power is proposing a long-duration energy storage project on the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California utilising Eos Energy Enterprises's zinc cathode battery technology.

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“DC factory” picks up Energy Efficiency Award from German Energy Agency

Envirotec Magazine

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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Germany’s Klim raises $22M to take its regenerative farming platform international

TechCrunch: Climate

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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Asia Pacific’s Cleantech Investment Monitor

CleanTech Group

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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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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Vulcan starts lithium hydroxide production from geothermal brine in Germany

ThinkGeoEnergy

Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan) has announced the start of lithium hydroxide production at the company’s Central Lithium Electrolysis Optimisation Plant (CLEOP) located at the Industriepark Höchst in Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany. From the downstream CLEOP facility, Vulcan will be supplying lithium hydroxide for the battery-grade qualification process with the company’s offtake partners including, Stellantis , Renault, LG, and Umicore.

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VIDEO: Battery storage trading strategies for ERCOT and CAISO market success

Energy Storage News

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents our sponsored webinar with GridBeyond, on successful battery storage trading strategies in the ERCOT and CAISO markets.

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‘Establish national targets for energy storage,’ IRENA Coalition for Action says

Energy Storage News

National deployment targets should be set for energy storage technologies, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Coalition for Action has said.

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Bloom Energy’s Record-Breaking Fuel Cell Project with SK Eternix

Hydrogen Fuel News

Bloom Energy has unveiled a landmark project to deliver fuel cells to the largest single-site installation in history, in collaboration with SK Eternix. This ambitious 80 MW project is set to transform regional energy dynamics and stands as a testament to the advancing capabilities of clean energy technologies. Last year, Bloom Energy significantly contributed to environmental sustainability, achieving net emissions reductions of 992,481 tonnes of CO2e, with an additional 120,000 tonnes avoided

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Rolwind claims first EIA approval for standalone, 800MWh BESS in Spain

Energy Storage News

Developer Rolwind has won a favourable environmental impact assessment (EIA) result for a 200MW/800MWh BESS in Spain, the first standalone one to do so and the largest in the country, it claimed.

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New Map Shows Syracuse Lead in Tap Water Hot Spots

NRDC onEarth

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

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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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Swiss investors, German utilities inaugurate 100MW/200MWh Fluence BESS in Bavaria

Energy Storage News

A group of investors and utilities from Switzerland and Germany have inaugurated a 100MW/200MWh BESS project in Bavaria, Germany, deployed by Fluence - concurrent with separate announcements from S4 Energy and EnBW.

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Vattenfall Investing $5 Billion in Germany for Renewable Energy

POWER Magazine

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall plans to invest more than $5 billion in Germany to increase the company’s renewable energy portfolio in that country. Robert Zurawski, Vattenfall’s chief financial officer in […] The post Vattenfall Investing $5 Billion in Germany for Renewable Energy appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Navisun, Queen City Solar Partner on Maryland Community Solar Portfolio 

Solar Industry

Navisun and North Carolina-based developer Queen City Solar have structured a co-development partnership that is advancing 30 MW of community solar in Maryland. Queen City Solar is expected to acquire sites, advance development and move projects through permitting. Navisun is slated to take ownership and fund the projects from an early stage, with the partners sharing both risk and upside in the work.

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China floats its first gigawatt scale offshore solar park, and completes 3GW PV project at old coal mine

Renew Economy

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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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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Bollinger Motors delivers first Class 4 B4 electric trucks to West Coast

Charged

Michigan-based electric truck maker Bollinger Motors, a majority-owned company of California-headquartered Mullen Automotive, has delivered three 2025 Bollinger B4 Chassis Cabs to TEC Equipment dealerships on the West Coast. The trucks, equipped with 158 kWh battery packs, were delivered to Lacey, Washington; Fontana, California; and Oakland, California.

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Batteries come of age, and are now doing the heavy lifting around the solar duck

Renew Economy

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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A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry

Canary Media

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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UK sets “shining example” for 2035 targets as COP29 gathers pace. Will Australia match its ambition?

Renew Economy

UK PM lays down the gauntlet on climate action to Australia and the rest of the developed world, committing to an interim emissions reduction target of at least 81% on 1990 levels by 2035. The post UK sets “shining example” for 2035 targets as COP29 gathers pace. Will Australia match its ambition? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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How Russia’s energy minister plotted merger of country’s oil majors

Financial Times: Energy

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

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Solar Leader Enphase Energy Cutting 500 Jobs

POWER Magazine

California-based Enphase Energy, a company known for its solar power and electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, announced it is laying off about 500 workers. The company in a Nov. 8 […] The post Solar Leader Enphase Energy Cutting 500 Jobs appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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OneEnergy to Construct Solar Projects for Wisconsin Utilities

Solar Industry

OneEnergy Renewables has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS) and Madison Gas and Electric Company (MGE). Through this agreement, OneEnergy will construct two utility-scale solar projects, the 98 MW Good Oak project and 67 MW Gristmill project, both located in Columbia County, Wis. The company is developing and constructing the projects with handover at commercial operations. “At OneEnergy, we are committed to developing hig

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This DOE-backed software is helping to unclog the grid

Canary Media

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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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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NitroVolt is helping farmers make their own fertilizer using renewable power

TechCrunch: Climate

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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NT unveils plans for a $400 million solar and battery hub in Darwin

Renew Economy

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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TENDER ROUND-UP: Nepal awards 1GW solar PV, Italy 320MW and Bahrain seeks 44MW

PV Tech

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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How hospitals are partnering with CDFIs to invest in the social determinants of health

Impact Alpha

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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Australia sees 1.4GW of renewable energy generation committed to in Q3 2024

PV Tech

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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Renewable energy developers raise questions about apparent cap on community funds in NSW

Renew Economy

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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Nuclear fusion start-up claims milestone with unconventional reactor

Financial Times: Energy

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

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Ember calls for greater policy support, with solar on track to meet 2030 targets

PV Tech

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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Managing Risk in Colombia with High-Res Real-Time Satellite Monitoring

Planet Pulse

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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Stubborn fossil fuel emissions threaten to blow global carbon budget

Renew Economy

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.