Fri.Jun 21, 2024

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A new model for additionality can steer carbon markets to a sustainable future

GreenBiz

The primary model for assessing additionality has limitations, according to Verra's founding CEO. He proposes more forward-looking approaches to accelerate the green transition.

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Material gains: Overcoming the recycling challenge with aluminium

Envirotec Magazine

To reach Net Zero, manufacturing more products in the UK that contain recycled content, and ensuring that they are reprocessed domestically, will be crucial. One material that exemplifies progress in this direction is aluminium, says resource expert EMR, which outlines important initiatives and progress, below. The aluminium recycling process requires only 5-10 percent of the energy needed to produce the primary metal, resulting in significant carbon emissions savings.

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Labour’s Shadow Decarbonisation Minister Received Sponsorship from Gas Industry Lobbyists

DeSmogBlog

Sarah Jones, Labour shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation, accepted sponsorship for a fundraising event from a public affairs company that represents BP and British Gas, DeSmog can reveal. Jones’s register of interests shows that she received food and drink worth £2,500 on 10 May from Beyond 2050, a pro-hydrogen PR firm that represents some of the UK’s biggest gas producers and distributors.

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Fossil energy hits another peak

Envirotec Magazine

Global energy consumption reached a record peak of 620 Exjoules (EJ) in 2023, with fossil fuel consumption and energy sector emissions also hitting record highs, according to the Statistical Review of World Energy , published on 20 June by the Energy Institute, Kearney and KPMG. The report noted that in 2023 global fossil fuel consumption rose 1.5% to 505 EJ, which was driven by coal rising by 1.6%, and oil rising by 2% to over 100 million barrels for the first time, while gas consumption remain

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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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Sea Turtle Week Highlights a Need to Safeguard Ocean Habitat

NRDC onEarth

The Blake Plateau is home to several sea turtle species and requires greater protection.

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Nikola Corporation Faces Tough Road Ahead with Reverse Stock Split and Ongoing Financial Challenges

FuelCellsWorks

Nikola Corporation, the US-based hydrogen and battery electric truck manufacturer, is grappling with significant financial challenges, as evidenced by its recent decision to undertake a drastic 1-for-30 reverse stock split.

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Hydrogen and Car Pooling Key to Future of Mobility

FuelCellsWorks

Autonomously driving “guide dogs” also imaginable as more and more ideas emerge The ITS World Congress 2021 for Intelligent Transport and Mobility Systems broke all visitor records when it was held in.

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Toyota and electric utility Pepco to study V2G technology

Charged

Toyota Motor North America and utility Potomac Electric (Pepco) will collaborate on vehicle-to-grid ( V2G ) research for EVs. Owned by Exelon, Pepco serves Washington DAC and surrounding communities in Maryland. Toyota and Pepco will conduct the V2G research at Pepco’s Watershed Sustainability Center in Montgomery County, Maryland, using a bidirectional charger.

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Dovetail Selects Siemens Xcelerator to Design Hydrogen and Battery Propulsion Systems

FuelCellsWorks

Siemens’ NX X for cloud enabled computer-aided design (CAD) will help Dovetail develop the propulsion systems and engines by teams in Spain and Australia Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today.

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The Brief: Participatory economics for the new majority

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! May your summer solstice be light and warm – not dangerously hot! To kick off this “Summer of Impact,”. The post The Brief: Participatory economics for the new majority appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Indigenous Partnership Announced for 25MW of Green Hydrogen Production in Canada

FuelCellsWorks

Vancouver, BC– Representatives of Salish Elements and the Indigenous government of Xaxli’p signed an Agreement in Principle (AIP) in May of this year to collaborate on the development of a.

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Webinar – Geothermal Africa: Zambia and Nigeria, 28 June 2024

ThinkGeoEnergy

Geothermal Africa is inviting everyone to the second online Geothermal Talk, this time focusing on the geothermal potential in Zambia and Nigeria. Relevant details are as follows: Date: 28 June 2024 Time: 16:30 East Africa Time (GMT+3) Registration link: Click here to register Speakers: Agnelli Kafuwe, Senior Energy Officer, Zambia Princewill Okechukwu, Founder of Pioneer Energy, Nigeria The event will be moderated by Meryem Redouane of Geothermal Africa.

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E1 Air Unveils Affordable and Clean On-Site Hydrogen Production and Electrical Charging for Aviation

FuelCellsWorks

AVIATION SERVICE PROVIDERS AND EHVTOL OPERATORS CAN ACCESS INEXPENSIVE H2 AT SELECT AIRPORTS IN 2025 McLean, Virginia– e1 Air, a leader in sustainable aviation solutions, has reached a significant milestone.

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Chart: Electric vehicle growth is slowly eating into global oil demand

Canary Media

By the end of this decade, global demand for oil will peak — and that’s largely thanks to the rise of electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, according to the International Energy Agency’s “ Oil 2024 ” report.

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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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Hydrogen Wear vs Hydrogen Embrittlement: What’s the Difference?

FuelCellsWorks

Hydrogen is the most abundant element there is, estimated to contribute to around 75% of the mass of the universe. Many people believe it to be the key to achieving net.

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Responding to Deadly Heat, Uttar Pradesh Drafts Urban Cooling Policy

NRDC onEarth

With record breaking temperatures taking a devastating toll on human health, the state of Uttar Predesh (UP) has prepared a long-term heat resilience plan.

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Valmet to Deliver Critical Valve Solutions to Hycamite’s New Hydrogen Production Plant in Finland

FuelCellsWorks

Valmet will deliver critical valve solutions to Hycamite’s new Customer Sample Facility (CSF) in Kokkola, Finland. The new facility is expected to start operations during the second half of 2024.

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EY examines ‘complex’ battery storage market in Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index

Energy Storage News

Rankings by EY of the most attractive markets for renewable energy investment include battery storage, with US, China and UK as frontrunners.

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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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Brazil: Senate Approves Basic Text of the Bill That Establishes the Legal Framework for Low-Carbon Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

The Federal Senate approved, this Wednesday (19), the basic text of Bill 2,308/2023 that establishes the legal framework for low-carbon hydrogen. The agenda returns to the House Plenary for consideration.

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POSCO breaks ground on nickel and battery precursor production plants in South Korea

Charged

South Korean steel manufacturer POSCO Holdings and Chinese battery precursor producer CNGR have started construction of nickel and precursor production plants for secondary batteries in Pohang, South Korea. The companies will invest approximately KRW 1.5 trillion ($1.09 billion) to build the plants, and mass production is scheduled to begin in 2026.

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LONGi announces 30.1% efficiency silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell

PV Tech

LONGi has announced a commercial M6 size wafer-level silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell with 30.1% efficiency at Intersolar Europe 2024.

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ARENA funds ‘Australian-first’ residential vehicle to grid trial

Smart Energy International

In what they are calling an Australian first, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced AU$3.2 million ($2.1 million) in funding to Amber Electric to trial battery electric vehicle (BEV) smart charging and provision of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services with residential customers. Through the trial, Amber is developing a software solution to facilitate BEV smart charging and V2G bi-directional charging for its residential customers, including the installation of 100 smart chargers

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We can and must adjust to climate change – and not kill billions

Energy Central

Earth’s climate has changed many times over four billion years, and 99.999% of those changes occurred before humans were on this planet. During that short time, humans adjusted their housing, clothing and agriculture in response to climate changes. Can we now control the climate? Except for decades-long droughts or massive volcanic explosions that ended some civilizations, humanity.

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Solar PV to provide 20% of global power on the summer solstice

PV Tech

Solar PV is expected to generate 20% of global power across midday peaks on the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, up from 16% in 2023.

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Real-Time Data Show the Air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ is Even Worse Than Expected

DeSmogBlog

This article by Grist is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “ Cancer Alley.” The name stems from the fact that the area’s residents have a 95 percent greater chance of developing cancer than the average American.

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Scientists achieve 20% efficiency in organic solar cells with new molecular design

TechXplore

To make organic solar cells (OSC) competitive, the light-absorbing molecules should simultaneously satisfy multiple key requirements, including a weak-absorption charge transfer state, a high dielectric constant, suitable surface energy and proper crystallinity.

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E-fuels startup Aether Fuels is raising $34.3 million, per filing

TechCrunch: Climate

The e-fuels startup is working on producing fuel for aviation and maritime shipping using carbon dioxide and other waste carbon streams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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A new thermal regulator could enhance the safety of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries

TechXplore

High-capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) could play a crucial role in the electrification of vehicles and other large electronics. To successfully deploy these batteries on a large scale, however, engineers will first need to ensure that they can safely operate at different temperatures and do not explore when overheated.

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There is no shortage of Coalition U-turns on nuclear. But this Aukus example might be the most remarkable

The Guardian: Energy

From the nuclear submarine pact to community vetoes, Peter Dutton has abandoned pledges the Coalition made in government with his latest announcement When he unveiled preliminary details of his nuclear power plan this week, Peter Dutton was not asked any questions about the relevance of the Aukus agreement. His energy spokesperson, Ted O’Brien, mentioned the nuclear-powered submarine pact in his opening remarks at Wednesday’s joint news conference, called to name seven sites for possible future

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Summit Ridge Energy, Qcells extend community solar partnership with 2GW PV module supply

PV Tech

US community solar developer Summit Ridge Energy and PV manufacturer Qcells have extended their module supply partnership.

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The Hydrogen Council has a new Co-Chair, and he’s the perfect choice

Hydrogen Fuel News

Hyundai Motor Company President and CEO Jaehoon Chang is the new Co-Chair. Earlier this week, the Hydrogen Council announced that Hyundai Motor Company President and CEO Jaehoon Chang would be joining Linde CEO Sanjiv Lamba as the Council’s new Co-Chair. Together, Chang and Lamba will work closely with member CEOs as the Council moves forward in its next chapter.

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North Carolina Environmental Commission Dithers on Necessary Standards

NRDC onEarth

The newest members of the Environmental Management Commission are keeping PFAS pollution flowing to North Carolina's taps.

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Powin signs 15GWh master supply agreement with Eve Energy at ees Europe

Energy Storage News

US-headquartered battery storage system integrator and manufacturer Powin has signed a multi-year, 15GWh deal for the supply of battery cells with China’s Eve Energy.

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