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Busting the Myths of New York's Congestion Pricing Program

NRDC onEarth

New Yorks congestion pricing infrastructure is ready for its January 5 startto the benefit of mobility, public health, and the economy throughout the city and beyond.

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Strong Foundations: Innovative Solutions for Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

CleanTech Group

As the planet grapples with increasingly severe weather events, our infrastructure faces a critical test. Buildings, utilities, and other physical assets must be. The post Strong Foundations: Innovative Solutions for Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Texas Coal Plant Will Convert to Solar Plus Storage with Help of Fed Funding

POWER Magazine

San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. (SMECI), a not-for-profit generation and transmission rural electric cooperative located in Atascosa County, Texas, was awarded more than $1.4 billion through the U.S. Department of […] The post Texas Coal Plant Will Convert to Solar Plus Storage with Help of Fed Funding appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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China Sparks Change with the First Pure Hydrogen Gas Turbine at 30MW Scale

Hydrogen Fuel News

China Achieves Milestone with First 30MW-Class Pure Hydrogen Gas Turbine China has set a new benchmark in the field of renewable energy by successfully igniting the world’s first 30MW-class pure hydrogen gas turbine. Named Jupiter I, this groundbreaking accomplishment was achieved through the efforts of the Mingyang Group in collaboration with other firms and research teams.

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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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Nuclear power had a strong year in 2024, but uncertainty looms for 2025

Canary Media

2024 was a breakout year for the U.S. nuclear power sector at least on paper. Theres more government, industry, and civilian support for nuclear energy than there has been in decades. There arent enough retired nuclear plants to keep up with the newfound desire to plug mothballed facilities back into the grid.

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American Battery Technology joins US DOE to develop battery and EV workforce

Charged

American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), which is commercializing manufacturing and recycling technologies has joined the US Department of Energys Battery Workforce Challenge and launched a new Design for Recyclability category for the three-year collegiate and vocational engineering competition. The Battery Workforce Challenge supports 12 North American university teams and their regional vocational partners that are each designing, building, testing and integrating a next-generation advance

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What comes after microgrids? Energy parks based around wind, solar and storage

Renew Economy

Co-locating renewable generation, load and storage offers substantial benefits, particularly for manufacturing facilities and data centres. The post What comes after microgrids? Energy parks based around wind, solar and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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New York approves 125MW AES solar project on industrial land

PV Tech

New York state has issued its final siting permit for AES 125MW Somerset solar project, to be built on former industrial land.

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Heat pump sales surge in Germany on fears conservatives will scrap subsidies

Financial Times: Energy

Conservatives forecast to win February elections may scrap grants to replace gas boilers

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How AI Data Centers Are Quietly Wreaking Havoc on Your Power Grid

Hydrogen Fuel News

The Unseen Electrical Problem Affecting Household Appliances Imagine your refrigerator suddenly working harder than it should, using more electricity, and wearing out faster. Or envision your dishwasher struggling through its cycles due to subtle yet persistent electrical stress. This isnt science fiction. The growing issue of harmonic distortioncommonly referred to as bad harmonicsis quietly impacting homes across the United States, costing consumers more in energy bills and appliance replaceme

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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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IONNA and Sheetz to open 50 EV chargers in the Midwest and Eastern US

Charged

IONNA , the charging network founded by eight of the worlds top automakers BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Kia, Stellantis and Toyotahas formed a strategic partnership with Mid-Atlantic restaurant and convenience chain Sheetz. IONNA opened EV Rechargeries at three Sheetz locations in late December 2024: Springfield and Willoughby, Ohio; and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Supervisors in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa pass ordinance to prohibit BESS on agricultural land

Energy Storage News

Supervisors in the northern Iowa county of Cerro Gordo have passed an ordinance prohibiting the installation of new utility-scale solar, wind and BESS facilities located on land zoned for agricultural use.

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Johannesburg bears brunt of South Africa’s water crisis

Financial Times: Energy

Cost of supply cuts threatens to dwarf economic damage caused by countrys years of power blackouts

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Enlight secures US$550 million financing for solar-plus-storage project in Arizona

Energy Storage News

IPP Enlight Renewable Energy has announced debt financing for the 290MWdc/940MWh solar-plus-storage Roadrunner project near Tucson, Arizona.

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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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Trina Solar on ending price competition and solar-plus-storage potential ahead of 2025

PV Tech

Yang Bao, Trina Solar's global sales and marketing president spoke to PV Tech about the company's 2024 performance and 2025 expectations.

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Freyr closes acquisition of Trina’s US solar facility

Energy Storage News

Freyr has completed the acquisition of Chinese firm Trina Solars Texas solar manufacturing assets, completing its transition from a European battery company to a US solar one.

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Freyr finalises deal to acquire Trina’s US solar manufacturing facility

PV Tech

Freyr has completed the acquisition of Trina Solars Texas solar manufacturing assets, first announced in November.

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ChargeLab to take over support for discontinued Shell Sky charge point management system

Charged

Shell Recharge recently notified North American customers that its Shell Sky CPMS will discontinue services on April 30, 2025. Shell Sky is a cloud-based back-end EV charger management system. Such a system, often called a charge point management system (CPMS) or charging station management system (CSMS), provides site hosts with such features as power management, proactive alerts and reports on EV charger usage.

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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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Forum speakers announced

Low Carbon Prosperity

State Senator Joe Nguyen , Governor-Elect Ferguson’s nominee for Director of the Department of Commerce State Representative Joe Fitzgibbon , House Majority Leader And officials from leading businesses: Amazon Nathan Hill, Head of Energy Policy Helion Tom Bugert, Head of State & Local Public Affairs Rivian Hannah Steinweg, Public Policy Manager MTR Western Jeremy Butzlaff, President Forum Mobility Adam Browning, Executive Vice President Policy & Communications and others.

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The Lex 2024 hits and misses: slick on oil, blown off course on wind

Financial Times: Energy

Right on the price of crude but who would have thought renewables would have another bad year?

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Papers Directory, Fourth-Quarter 2024 Update

Energy Central

This document contains links to all of the major / educational papers I have written and posted to Energy Central. I originally posted this document at the end of 2018. This quarterly update is at the end of the fourth quarter (December) of 2024.

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Wallbox Supernova charger earns Germany’s Eichrecht certification

Charged

Wallbox Chargers has announced that its Supernova DC fast charger has been certified as compliant with Germany’s Mess- und Eichgesetz , or Measurement and Calibration Law. Eichrecht , as it is typically referred to, is Germanys measurement and calibration legal framework. In the case of EV chargers, it standardizes how charging stations measure and record energy consumption.

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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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Green Hydrogen Atlas

Energy Central

Green Hydrogen Atlas Hydrogen Networks

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Misha Dhanak: 'The leaders of tomorrow are from our local communities'

Business Green

CEO at community funding platform Spacehive discusses the climate impact of 'small but mighty' ideas and taking inspiration from the launch of the Eden Project

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Nepal’s forest-protecting communities could miss out on World Bank carbon funds

Eco-Business

The World Bank is set to pay the country up to US$45 million in results-based financing to reduce its land use emissions. But only 72 per cent of the funds are expected to reach the beneficiaries after administrative deductions.

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From Nebraska to Africa – Mapping a Global Hydrogen Energy Strategy

Hydrogen Fuel News

The Promise of Natural Hydrogen as a Clean Energy Source Natural hydrogen, also referred to as white hydrogen , has emerged as a promising energy source in the global push for decarbonization. Unlike hydrogen derived through electrolysis or from hydrocarbons, natural hydrogen is naturally occurring and continuously generated underground due to geochemical reactions.

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The climate crisis is also an inflation crisis

Eco-Business

Rising prices and climate change are closely linked. Rather than being treated solely as an environmental issue, climate change must be central to economic policy.

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Industry Experts Say Storage, Renewables, Transmission Key Parts of 2025 Energy Outlook

POWER Magazine

The outlook for the power generation sector in 2025 promises a continuation of the energy transition, though there’s plenty of debate about the direction of the industry. Advocates for renewable […] The post Industry Experts Say Storage, Renewables, Transmission Key Parts of 2025 Energy Outlook appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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India’s road to net zero needs a renewable energy boost

Eco-Business

India's power distribution companies need a least cost-based procurement strategy and a people-centric energy transition to achieve net zero.

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Developers Eye Louisiana, Texas Coasts for Offshore Carbon Storage

DeSmogBlog

This article by Floodlight is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The fishers in Gulf of Mexico waters off Cameron Parish, Louisiana, estimate their catch has fallen catastrophically from 1 million tons a season to 150,000 tons since the first liquefied natural gas terminal in the parish began operating eight years ago.

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How New York state is defying Donald Trump’s plans to roll back climate action

The Verge: Energy

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/06/29: Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press briefing at office on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. | Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images New York governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark climate legislation into law last week, showing how states can keep holding polluters accountable even when President-elect Donald Trump rolls back environmental protections.

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The PV review, Q4 2024: Trump wins, more policies and tariffs, inverter manufacturers see downturn

PV Tech

The US general election and its aftermath, along with struggles from Western inverter manufacturers have dominated Q4 news in 2024.

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