Thu.Apr 11, 2024

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VPPs could cover 15% of peak California demand by 2035 using home batteries, demand response

Energy Storage News

Virtual power plants (VPPs) in California using technologies including home batteries and demand response (DR) could provide 7.5GW of capacity in ten years' time, 15% of peak demand, analysis from consultancy the Brattle Group shows.

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Southeast at a Crossroads: Bad Gas Bet or Clean Energy Boon?

NRDC onEarth

The Southeast is facing a spike in electric load growth projections. Utilities are proposing a massive gas buildout to meet it—we can do better.

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AES Hawaii brings online delayed solar-plus-storage project, undercutting fossil fuel costs

Energy Storage News

AES Corporation has brought into commercial operation one of several large-scale renewable energy and battery storage projects in its development portfolio in Hawaii.

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Negative emissions in North Wales: £200 investment advances CCUS plans in Deeside

Envirotec Magazine

Energy-from-waste operator enfinium has announced (on 11 April) it is progressing plans to invest around £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the Parc Adfer energy from waste facility in Deeside, North Wales. The project could capture up to 235,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, said the group. As over half of the waste processed at the facility is organic, installing CCS would enable the plant to take more CO2 out of the atmosphere than it produces.

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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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Engie to build first standalone BESS in Chile at decommissioned coal plant

Energy Storage News

Global utility and IPP Engie will build a 116MW/660MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at the former site of a coal plant it operated in Chile.

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Q&A: Drivers point to growth in Africa’s industrial water market

Envirotec Magazine

Walid Khoury is general manager of Desalytics. With multiple drivers for growth in the industrial market, the challenges for water in Africa are more around implementation than technology, says Walid Khoury of water engineering firm Desalytics, as he prepares for Water Africa 2024 in Ghana in June. What are the main challenges for the water market in Africa?

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UK’s first battery-powered EDM monitor to gain MCERTS certification

Envirotec Magazine

The parts can operate from a battery power supply, a capability said to separate them from the EDM pack. The LIDoTT®, a multi-sensor monitoring system designed and developed by wastewater monitoring specialists, Detectronic, is the UK’s first battery-powered EDM monitor to gain MCERTS certification. This significant achievement demonstrates the LIDoTT’s monitoring performance against the strict standards set out for Event Duration Monitors, says the group.

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Utility ESB gets nod for wind-plus-BESS project in Scotland

Energy Storage News

Irish utility and IPP ESB has received planning consent for a project combining wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) technology in Scotland, UK.

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Two-faced solar panels can generate more power at up to 70% less cost

Envirotec Magazine

Scientists at the University of Surrey have built a new kind of solar panel with two faces, employing flexible perovskite panels with electrodes made of carbon nanotubes. These can generate more power with greater efficiency and at a cost 70% lower than existing solar panels, says the group. Dr Jing Zhang, research fellow at Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute, said: “Our bifacial cells can harvest sunlight from both front and back panels.

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Quinbrook closes financing on BESS for new ‘Supernode’ data centre in Queensland, Australia

Energy Storage News

A Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company will shortly begin construction on a 250MW/500MWh battery storage system in Queensland, Australia.

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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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Origin snaps up Australia biggest wind project and big battery as it ramps up late renewables push

Renew Economy

Australia's biggest utility, still mulling the closure timing for the country's biggest coal plant, buys a massive wind and battery project in NSW. The post Origin snaps up Australia biggest wind project and big battery as it ramps up late renewables push appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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More demand, more gas: Inside the Southeast’s dirty power push

Canary Media

Utilities across the U.S. Southeast are claiming that a massive buildout of data centers and factories will force them to construct gigawatts of new fossil gas-fired power plants over the coming decade — a fleet large enough and dirty enough to potentially put U.S. climate goals out of reach.

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Queensland backs solar recycling pilot, starting with “thousands” of rooftop panels

Renew Economy

Queensland Labor tips $5m into a recycling pilot to tackle the PV waste problem looming on the flipside of its rooftop solar success story. The post Queensland backs solar recycling pilot, starting with “thousands” of rooftop panels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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FuelCell Energy Technology to be Used in Sacramento Wastewater Biofuel Clean Energy Project

FuelCellsWorks

Sewer District will use FCE’s energy delivery and emissions management platform to create clean electricity from onsite biofuel DANBURY, Conn.— FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCEL), announced that its carbonate fuel.

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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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Coalition nuclear plan flips back to SMRs after latest meeting with lobbyists

Renew Economy

The Coalition nuclear policy has flipped back to SMRs after the latest meeting with lobbyists, which - contrary to reports - Rolls Royce says it did not attend. But what about costs and timelines? The post Coalition nuclear plan flips back to SMRs after latest meeting with lobbyists appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Enapter AG Increases Order Intake for AEM Electrolyzers by Over 700% in the First Quarter of 2024

FuelCellsWorks

CORPORATE NEWS Enapter AG increases order intake for AEM electrolyzers by over 700% in the first quarter of 2024 Order intake in Q1 is EUR 9.3 million. 75% of orders.

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Bowen takes capacity tender out west in search of 2GWh of energy storage

Renew Economy

The Capacity Investment Scheme will kick off in Western Australia within just a couple of months, with an initial tender for 2,000MWh of energy storage. The post Bowen takes capacity tender out west in search of 2GWh of energy storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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$59.1M for Hydrogen and Green Metals Commercialisation

FuelCellsWorks

The government’s clean energy funding agency has committed $59.1 million to renewable hydrogen and low emissions iron and steel projects, surprising applicants with almost 20 per cent more than expected. Up.

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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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Albanese announces subsidies for Australian clean energy manufacturing

PV Tech

Australia’s Prime Minister has announced an Inflation Reduction Act-style investment package to stimulate a domestic clean energy manufacturing industry.

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Nanoscale movies shed light on one barrier to a clean energy future

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

New research is shedding light on one barrier to a clean energy future: corrosion. Using nanoscale imaging techniques, researchers have captured high-resolution videos of tiny crystals of ruthenium dioxide -- a key ingredient used to produce clean-burning hydrogen -- as they are eaten away by their acidic environment. The research could pave the way to more durable catalysts and dramatically extend the lifetime of devices needed to turn hydrogen green.

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Akio Toyoda: Making Guilt Free Morizo Donuts With Hydrogen Truck

FuelCellsWorks

Toyota Chairman Fuels Passion for Donuts with Hydrogen-Powered Innovation. Akio Toyoda, the chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation, is not just a high-ranking executive but also a racecar enthusiast known by.

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US grid connection backlog, dominated by solar, grows to 2.6TW in 2023

PV Tech

Grid connection backlog increased by 27% YOY in the US with about 2.6TW of generation and storage capacity now seeking grid interconnection.

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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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Balkan Countries Eye Hydrogen in Rush to Lower Emissions

FuelCellsWorks

BULQIZE, Albania/MOSTAR, Bosnia–– It never occurred to Baki Bajraktari that the presence of hydrogen in the Bulqize chrome mine where he works in northeastern Albania could be considered good news:

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VPPs in California to provide over 7.5GW of capacity by 2035

PV Tech

Virtual power plants (VPPs) in California, US, could provide over 7.5GW of capacity, around 15% of peak demand by 2035, according to a report from consultancy The Brattle Group for non-profit GridLab.

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California’s hydrogen station strategy is proving expensive and inconvenient

Hydrogen Fuel News

So far, the state’s $250 million investment into building out the network isn’t wowing H2 vehicle owners. California has made a $250 million investment commitment to develop and expand a hydrogen station network to serve fuel cell vehicles traveling in the state. Unfortunately, the result so far isn’t wonderful The plan the state had for building out a hydrogen station network has been nicknamed the “hydrogen highway.

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A deep dive into the power electronics used for battery testing (Webinar)

Charged

The need to quickly increase EV battery testing capacity is making validation labs harder to manage and forcing engineering teams to explore ways to sustainably scale up their test lab operations. Battery cyclers that are flexible, open, and connected are critical to achieve the scale needed in modern battery validation labs. Join this webinar , presented by NI—Now Part of Emerson, to take a look into the world of power electronics for battery testing.

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Reverse Osmosis: The Key to Unlocking Sustainable Green Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen Fuel News

The quest for sustainable energy sources has led to a surge in the exploration of green hydrogen, a clean fuel derived from the electrolysis of water. However, the production process demands high-purity water—a requirement that poses a significant challenge amidst growing concerns over water scarcity and wastage in various sectors. The potential answer could lie in an unlikely source—tertiary treated wastewater.

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500,000 smart prepayment meters for Bangladesh

Smart Energy International

The Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) is to install 500,000 smart prepayment meters as part of an advanced metering infrastructure solution from Itron. The BREB, a state organisation and the largest power distributor in Bangladesh, is modernising its distribution system, with the project also opening the way for empowering customers with greater visibility and control over their energy usage.

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Fortescue opens one of world’s biggest electrolyser factories: All it needs now is customers

Renew Economy

Andrew Forrest’s big plans for green energy, hydrogen and “real zero” emissions are – slowly – starting to fall into place. One of the most important has been the opening of Australia’s first large scale factory to make green hydrogen electrolysers: All it needs now is customers. The factory is officially billed as a 2GW […] The post Fortescue opens one of world’s biggest electrolyser factories: All it needs now is customers appeared first on Renew

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Blending financing for transmission infrastructure

Smart Energy International

In this edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook column, Yusuf Latief speaks to Kevin Anderson of Climate Fund Managers (CFM) on their use of a blended model for transmission financing, which uses public capital to balance risk and enable private capital to enter. In early March, at Smart Energy International I covered a major initiative to interconnect Southern African transmission, the Regional Transmission Infrastructure Financing Facility (RTIFF), a $1.3 billion target facility focused on im

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Opportunities across the investment spectrum to recycle and reduce food waste 

Impact Alpha

“Where are we?” It’s the question I’m constantly asking myself about food waste reduction. There are many viable food waste solutions, and many. The post Opportunities across the investment spectrum to recycle and reduce food waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Treasury, IRS Issue Guidance on the Credit for the Production of Clean Hydrogen and the Election to Treat Clean Hydrogen Production Facilities as Energy Property

FuelCellsWorks

WASHINGTON– The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service today issued guidance for the collection of information for taxpayers to request an emissions value from the Department of Energy (DOE) to petition.

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