Wed.Jun 26, 2024

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Investors and activists demand an end to funding for lobby groups that oppose climate legislation

GreenBiz

They’re asking why companies with net-zero goals support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which often opposes federal climate legislation.

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Major Donor to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Owns Russian Assets

DeSmogBlog

One of the biggest donors to Nigel Farage ’s anti-net zero Reform UK during the general election campaign has significant Russian business interests, DeSmog can report. Natural resources investor David Lilley donated £100,000 to Reform on 10 June – a week after Farage announced that he was returning as the party’s leader. Lilley’s donation was the third largest to Reform during the campaign so far.

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Preserving biodiversity to safeguard the planet and human prosperity

GreenBiz

Sponsored: In restoring the world’s declining biodiversity—an overlooked crisis—business, especially agriculture, must lead by example and nurture nature the same way it has nurtured us.

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As the Coalition goes nuclear, Labor is free to ensure fossil fuels are burned with abandon and little scrutiny | Greg Jericho

The Guardian: Energy

How can Australia get to net zero by 2050 while approving projects that will run for decades beyond that date? Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The sham of Australia’s climate change policy has been made clear in the past two weeks. No, not nuclear power.

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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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Why Lime uses big electric trucks to haul its small electric scooters

GreenBiz

The company cut emissions by 16% with modular scooters and switching its operational fleet to electric trucks.

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Dutton compares wind turbines to 5G towers as he declares “huge support” for renewables

Renew Economy

Peter Dutton reportedly compares wind turbines to 5G towers as Coalition insists it is really a "huge" supporter of renewables, despite Nationals plan to bring them to a stop. The post Dutton compares wind turbines to 5G towers as he declares “huge support” for renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Just how bad are gas appliances for your health?

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Canary thanks EnergySage for its support of the column.

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Gold Hydrogen Begins 2D Seismic Survey for Ramsay Project to Enhance Natural Hydrogen Exploration

FuelCellsWorks

Ramsay 2D regional seismic survey commenced over the Company’s flagship Ramsay Project, within PEL 687 on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. The seismic survey will be over approximately 650.

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Microgrids Take Major Role for Reliability, Resiliency

POWER Magazine

An array of technologies, both thermal and renewable, are being used in the design of microgrids, supporting distributed power generation across several sectors. The use of microgrids to provide reliable […] The post Microgrids Take Major Role for Reliability, Resiliency appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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HDF Energy Receives Up to EUR 172 Million in Public Funding for Its High-Power Hydrogen Fuel Cell Industrial Project

FuelCellsWorks

Bordeaux– HDF Energy (Hydrogène de France), manufacturer of high-power fuel cells and d eveloper of large-scale hydrogen infrastructure , announces that the European Commission has approved French financial support for.

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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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Worldwide support for climate change action is “stunning”

Energy Central

Yesterday’s topic discussed the faction of the population that continues to deny climate change. Largely falling along political lines, the opposition against actions to neutralize global warming seems counterproductive. A new UN poll illustrates that in many countries it may also be politically unwise. Except perhaps in the U.S. where the results indicate that the polarization runs.

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Australia will not come close to net zero by 2050 under Coalition’s nuclear plan

Renew Economy

Under the Coalition’s plan for nuclear power, emissions from the electricity sector in 2050 would be nearly 19 times higher than under Labor’s plan The post Australia will not come close to net zero by 2050 under Coalition’s nuclear plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Subsidy Delays Hamper Spain’s Green Hydrogen Industry, Iberdrola Says

FuelCellsWorks

MADRID– Spain has the right conditions to be a global leader in green hydrogen but the development of the industry is being hindered by the slow allocation of subsidies, Jorge.

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How Oil Giant Exxon Bought Influence Over the Swedish Moderate Party

DeSmogBlog

Editor’s note: This story, released in Swedish on June 4, is republished here in English for the first time. Following publication, the story prompted a request for a formal parliamentary inquiry into Exxon’s possible influence over the current leadership of Sweden, editorials in the country’s largest news outlets, including DN , and demonstrations outside Timbro’s offices.

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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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Air Products Membrane Solutions Breaks Ground on $70 Million Expansion of Its Missouri Manufacturing and Logistics Center

FuelCellsWorks

Expansion Driven by Growing Interest in Energy Transition Technologies in the Biogas, Aerospace and Marine Industries Air Products (NYSE:APD), the global leader in the production of gas separation and purification.

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Why Colorado’s Celebrated Oil Well Cleanup Reforms Face a $3 Billion Shortfall

DeSmogBlog

Published in partnership with The Guardian. As costs related to aging oil and gas wells start to pile up across the U.S., regulators are looking for ways to force fossil fuel companies to foot the bill — and Colorado is supposed to have the answer. The state recently overhauled the financial and regulatory tools it uses to hold producers accountable, a much-lauded approach that Colorado governor Jared Polis last year called “an example the nation can follow.

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The Brief: New Ventures is going big by going niche in Latin America

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! The June edition of our specialty newsletter, ImpactAlpha Latin America, is out later today. As an ImpactAlpha subscriber, you. The post The Brief: New Ventures is going big by going niche in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Lodestone Energy to build 220MW agriPV project in New Zealand

PV Tech

Lodestone Energy has announced a partnership with the Haldon Station farm to build a 220MW agriPV project on New Zealand’s South Island.

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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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Building a Better Grid—Infrastructure Upgrades Require Ingenuity, Innovation, and Investment

POWER Magazine

The need for more reliability and resilience of power delivery, both in the U.S. and worldwide, has utilities and grid operators looking for solutions to the challenge of bolstering the […] The post Building a Better Grid—Infrastructure Upgrades Require Ingenuity, Innovation, and Investment appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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JERA Completes Successful Ammonia Co-Firing Tests at Hekinan Power Station

FuelCellsWorks

JERA Co., Inc. (“JERA”) hereby announces that demonstration testing of fuel ammonia substitution at Hekinan Thermal Power Station Unit 4 has concluded today. Together with IHI Corporation (“IHI”) and the.

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Strengthening America’s Electric Power Grid: How the Government and Industry Are Improving T&D Systems

POWER Magazine

The U.S. transmission and distribution (T&D) network is reliable and well-maintained, but as renewable energy continues being added to the grid, and demand increases due to growing data center needs […] The post Strengthening America’s Electric Power Grid: How the Government and Industry Are Improving T&D Systems appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Goldenstone Acquisition Limited. And Infintium Fuel Cell Systems, Inc. Announce Definitive Business Combination Agreement

FuelCellsWorks

Infintium’s advanced hydrogen fuel cell technologies for material handling vehicles bring carbon-free and clean power source to major automotive, industrial, and retail companies Corporate net zero commitments expected to propel.

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The benefits of longer-duration storage and energy project co-location: Ireland’s first 4-hour grid-scale BESS

Energy Storage News

Statkraft's Rory Griffin writes about the challenges and opportunities encountered in developing Ireland’s first-ever 4-hour duration battery storage project, which is co-located with a wind farm.

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Volkswagen to invest up to $5 billion in Rivian over the next 2 years, companies will share software

Charged

The Volkswagen Group will invest up to $5 billion in US EV maker Rivian in a complex deal under which the two companies will form an equally controlled joint venture to share EV architecture and software. As reported by Reuters , Volkswagen will immediately invest $1 billion in Rivian through a convertible note, and also pledges to invest $2 billion more in Rivian stock—a billion each in 2025 and 2026—subject to the startup hitting certain milestones, and to provide a $1-billion loan in 2026.

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EU Approves €265M for H2 Green Steel’s AB’s Large-Scale Green Steel Plant in Sweden

FuelCellsWorks

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €265 million Swedish measure made available in part through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (‘RRF’) to support H2GS AB.

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Unlocking geothermal potential with AI and data science

ThinkGeoEnergy

Geothermal power has emerged as a promising solution in the pursuit of cleaner and more sustainable energy sources. However, maximizing the potential of geothermal energy requires strategic planning and advanced technologies. One such technology that is transforming the way to approach geothermal power plant development is Enovate ’s Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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AFC Energy’s Ammonia Cracker Integration Boosts Engine Combustion Efficiency

FuelCellsWorks

AFC Energy, a leading provider of hydrogen power generation technologies, is pleased to announce that Dr. Mike Rendall, Chief Technology Officer of the Company’s Fuel Conversion Division, is today presenting.

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Planning for a Reliable and Resilient Electric Power Grid

POWER Magazine

In the U.S., regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) are responsible for overseeing the reliable operation of the high-voltage transmission system within their respective regions. In other […] The post Planning for a Reliable and Resilient Electric Power Grid appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Michigan utility Consumers Energy signs 100MW BESS PPA with developer Jupiter Power

Energy Storage News

Consumers Energy, one of eight investor-owned utility (IOU) companies in the US state of Michigan, has signed a 100MW battery storage deal with developer Jupiter Power.

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Mitigating EMP and GMD Risks for Power Grid Resilience

POWER Magazine

Risks posed by geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) events add challenges to an already complex power system environment. But they remain crucial to address. How prepared is the […] The post Mitigating EMP and GMD Risks for Power Grid Resilience appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Canada passes clean hydrogen investment tax credit law

Hydrogen Fuel News

The new law will provide developers with tax rebates as high as 40 percent on project costs Canada has just passed a major clean hydrogen investment tax credit (formerly known as the C-69 bill), which will provide H2 developers with tax rebates as big as 40 percent off their project costs when they develop within the country. This strategy has been in the works for quite some time.

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GE Vernova Building Synchronous Condenser Sites to Support New York Grid

POWER Magazine

GE Vernova said it has been awarded a contract by National Grid’s upstate New York business to supply and construct two separate 115 kV synchronous condenser sites at the company’s […] The post GE Vernova Building Synchronous Condenser Sites to Support New York Grid appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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California utility SCE seeks approval for 750MW of energy storage resource adequacy contracts

Energy Storage News

SCE is seeking approval from the California Public Utilities Commission of two new RA agreements covering 750MW of nameplate battery storage capacity.

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