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Supply chain collaboration key to UK clean power ambition

Envirotec Magazine

The entire supply chain must work together to ensure a successful energy transition, suggest the authors. The success of the UKs energy transition will rely on collaboration between businesses to maintain a robust supply chain, according to energy specialist Aggreko, discussing the launch of its latest research. “Rebalancing the Energy Transition” reports that CEOs in the UK cite supply chain issues as the main risk to the energy transition, followed by lack of investment and access

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Light, flexible and radiation-resistant: Organic solar cells for space

TechXplore

Radiation testing suggests that solar cells made from carbon-based, or organic, materials could outperform conventional silicon and gallium arsenide for generating electricity in the final frontier, a study from the University of Michigan suggests.

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Stena RoRo takes delivery of hybrid vessel Guillaume de Normandie

Charged

Swedish roll on/roll off cargo and passenger vessel supplier Stena RoRo has taken delivery of hybrid ship Guillaume de Normandie from the Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling (Weihai), which it has long-term chartered to the French shipping company Brittany Ferries. The vessel will be powered by multi-fuel engines as well as a 12 MWh hybrid package, allowing it to operate at speeds of up to 17.5 knots on batteries.

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Exploring quinone-based carbon capture: A promising path to safer CO₂ removal

TechXplore

Carbon capture, or the isolation and removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during industrial processes like cement mixing or steel production, is widely regarded as a key component of fighting climate change. Existing carbon capture technologies, such as amine scrubbing, are hard to deploy because they require significant energy to operate and involve corrosive compounds.

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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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Flatiron Energy gets ISO green light for 1.2GWh indoor BESS in Boston, Massachusetts

Energy Storage News

System operator ISO New England has given the go-ahead for a 300MW/1,200MWh BESS located in Boston, Massachusetts under development by Boulder, Colorado-based developer and IPP Flatiron Energy.

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April event will focus lighting manufacturers on cutting carbon

Envirotec Magazine

Lighting and electrical manufacturers are invited to gather at a special event to share insights and learnings on cutting their carbon emissions. The Net Zero Lighting 2025 conference “which made its hugely successful debut in 2024” is set to be held again on Thursday 29 April 2025. Taking place at the Coin Street Conference Centre in London, the event “will unite industry leaders, sustainability experts, and key stakeholders from both the lighting sector and beyond to discus

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UK regulator Ofgem considers 10-hour minimum duration for long-duration energy storage

Energy Storage News

Ofgem, the UKs energy market regulator, is considering raising the minimum duration of technologies eligible for a long-duration energy storage (LDES) support scheme.

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Rio Tinto to invest $2.5 billion to expand Rincon lithium project in Argentina

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Global mining group Rio Tinto has approved an investment of $2.5 billion to expand its first commercial-scale lithium operation, the Rincon project in Argentina. Plans call for an increase in annual production capacity of battery-grade lithium carbonate from the current starter plant capacity of 3,000 tonnes (3,307 US tons) to a total of 60,000 tonnes (66,139 US tons).

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Constellation Moves to Acquire Calpine in $16.4B Deal, Forming Competitive Generation Goliath

POWER Magazine

Competitive generation giant Constellation has agreed to acquire Calpine Corp. in a $16.4 billion deal that is set to create the largest producer of clean and reliable energy in the […] The post Constellation Moves to Acquire Calpine in $16.4B Deal, Forming Competitive Generation Goliath appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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BMW Group Plant Regensburg produces record 100,000 EVs in 2024

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In December, BMW Group s car factory in Regensburg, Germany, produced its 100,000th EV for the year, a BMW iX1 premium compact model to be shipped to the island of La Runion. The Regensburg plant has been in operation since 1986. Each workday, more than 1,400 BMW X1 and BMW X2 models are manufactured at the facility. The BMW X1 model is produced in combustion engine, plug-in hybrid, and fully electric variants.

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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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Sustainable building components use passive dehumidification to create a good indoor climate

TechXplore

Whether it's the meeting room of an office building, the exhibition room of a museum or the waiting area of a government office, many people gather in such places, and quickly the air becomes thick. This is partly due to the increased humidity.

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Debug automotive serial buses faster with advanced tools

Charged

Sponsored by Keysight. Debugging complex electronic systems in automotive applications can be daunting. One key challenge is ensuring proper communication between transmitters, receivers, and sensors by analyzing the captured serial bus data and decoding it into meaningful symbols. This requires an oscilloscope with serial protocol analysis, deep and segmented memory, and a fast waveform update rate.

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US Treasury, IRS release final rules for technology-neutral clean energy tax credits

Energy Storage News

The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released final rule for the Clean Electricity Investment and Production Tax Credits also known as the technology-neutral credits.

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How insurance analytics power the hydrogen push

Hydrogen Fuel News

From $0.2 Billion to $38.1 Billion: How Predictive Analytics and Smart Tech Are Revolutionizing Green Hydrogen’s Future 5.2 billion – that’s today’s green hydrogen worth on the market. Yet beneath these impressive numbers lurks a fascinating transformation happening right now in how this burgeoning sector manages its risks and secures its future.

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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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Eneco to take Netherlands’ largest BESS into operation in 2025

Energy Storage News

Utility Eneco will optimise a BESS project in the Netherlands that, at 31.6MW/126.4MWh, will be the country's largest when it comes online before the end of the year.

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Chart: 96 percent of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024

Canary Media

Canary Medias chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The amount of carbon-free energy built in the U.S. last year far eclipsed the growth of new fossil-fueled power plants. The U.S.

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Geothermal heating plant in Konin, Poland targets operation in current heating season

ThinkGeoEnergy

Heating supply from the newly built geothermal heating plant in Konin, Poland has been stalled by several legal proceedings. However, the President of MPEC Konin , the municipal heating company operating the plant, is optimistic that the plant can start operations by April 2025, just before the end of the current heating season. In October 2024, MPEC Konin announced the completion of construction of the 8.1-MWth geothermal heating plant in Konin.

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In Chicago, all city buildings now use 100 percent clean power

Canary Media

It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicagos more than 400 municipal buildings every year.

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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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Considerations for Starting Your Solar Business

Hydrogen Fuel News

Have you ever considered launching a company that benefits your wallet and the planet? The solar panel business might be a great match. Solar power is a renewable resource that will not run out any time soon. Additionally, there is a multitude of support services offered by the government to help individuals get going. While capital and industry contacts are necessary, solar power will continue to see rising demand as supplies dwindle.

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Hemlock Semiconductor secures up to US$325 million funding under CHIPS Act

PV Tech

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has awarded polysilicon producer Hemlock Semiconductor up to US$325 million in direct funding.

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UK gas stores ‘concerningly low’, warns Centrica

Financial Times: Energy

Owner of British Gas says low temperatures have strained supplies

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The top 10 PV module suppliers in 2024

PV Tech

Finlay Colville, head of market research at PV Tech, reveals the top ten PV module suppliers last year which comprises only Chinese manufacturers.

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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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Why have Britain’s energy costs soared and what does it mean for Labour?

The Guardian: Energy

Claims that power plants are gaming the system to charge huge sums to switch on in the UKs cold weather No 10 insists UK has sufficient energy supply A rise in electricity costs this week has raised fears that officials operating Great Britains power market could be held to ransom by owners of gas power plants during cold, windless days in order to keep the lights on.

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NREL: efficiency and production capacity key for commercial perovskite tandem modules

PV Tech

The report said that tandem modules need a minimum efficiency of 25% to be competitive with other solar technologies on price.

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Latest InFlow Generation: State of the Art Novel InFlow Tech: ·1-Gearturbine Reaction Turbine Rotary Turbo, ·2-Imploturbocompressor Impulse Turbine 1 Compression Step

Energy Central

Latest InFlow Generation State of the Art Novel InFlow Tech: ·1-Gearturbine Reaction Turbine Rotary Turbo, ·2-Imploturbocompressor Impulse Turbine 1 Compression Step ·Wordpress Blog State of the Art Novel InFlow Gearturbine Imploturbocompressor: [link] [link] *1-GEARTURBINE.

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Smaller projects, greater potential: Rgreen Invest on the growth in Europe’s rooftop solar sector

PV Tech

Nicolas Rochon and Mathilde Ketoff tell PV Tech Premium that ensuring strong margins are of paramount importance for the rooftop solar sector.

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China’s solar sector could be on course for a glow-up

Financial Times: Energy

After a plague of overcapacity and falling prices, there are signs the sector may be approaching a bottom

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The Week in impact investing: Reality premium

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Disinformation risk. Freedom of speech underpins free societies and productive markets. So too does trusted information rooted in. The post The Week in impact investing: Reality premium appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Devastation and subrogation

Financial Times: Energy

Californias wildfire fund could face a test

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Hopes grow for nascent heat battery market

Business Green

Government hints it could extend green heat subsidies to support emerging heat battery sector

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4 Graphics Explain Los Angeles’ Rare and Devastating January Fires

The City Fix

Wildfires have been rapidly spreading across the Los Angeles area since Jan. 7, displacing upwards of 175,000 people and claiming at least five lives as of Jan. 9. The Palisades fire the first to erupt and the biggest blaze.

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Legislative hurdles dominated Italian solar in 2024, 2025 could be no different

PV Tech

We close our round of interviews with a look at the Italian market, which has had legislative setbacks in 2024 that may continue in 2025.