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Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says

Renew Economy

AEMO boss says nuclear too slow to replace coal, and confirms that "notion of baseload" will not compete with grid powered by cheaper renewables. The post Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How oil barons and right-wing billionaires are manipulating the free market to extend fossil fuels

Impact Alpha

The House Judiciary Committee has delivered a clear message to the free market: shut up about climate change or pay the price. The. The post How oil barons and right-wing billionaires are manipulating the free market to extend fossil fuels appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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First stage of Australia’s biggest battery project energised to start flattening solar duck

Renew Economy

The first stage of what will be the biggest battery project in Australia has been energised little more than a year after it was first announced. The post First stage of Australia’s biggest battery project energised to start flattening solar duck appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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World’s First Successful Industrial-Scale Production of Aluminium Slab Using Hydrogen Combustion

FuelCellsWorks

Constellium announced today the successful completion of its first industrial-scale hydrogen casting at C-TEC, Constellium’s primary R&D center. This casting was performed in a 12-ton furnace following strict internal procedures.

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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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“The silence has been deafening:” Matt Kean urges industry to take on renewable naysayers

Renew Economy

Former NSW energy minister says deniers have not gone away, and the renewables industry needs to step up to counter the anti-wind and solar propaganda. The post “The silence has been deafening:” Matt Kean urges industry to take on renewable naysayers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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TCP Celebrates the Production of 500 Hydrogen Lighting Towers

FuelCellsWorks

TCP Group have reached the milestone of operating a fleet of 500 hydrogen fuel-cell mobile lighting towers available to hire, with the support of a fully managed service. “The TCP.

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IPCEI: Hydrogenious LOHC Receives Multi-Million Grant for Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube

FuelCellsWorks

German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Dr Robert Habeck and Dr Markus Wittmann, Ministerial Director of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy personally.

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Wind farm and big battery planned for coal seam gas hub seeks federal green tick

Renew Economy

Plans to develop a 400MW wind farm and big battery in Queensland's Maranoa region joins queue for federal environmental assessment. The post Wind farm and big battery planned for coal seam gas hub seeks federal green tick appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Olympic Debate: France Hydrogen Defends Hydrogen’s Role Amid Criticism

FuelCellsWorks

As the Olympic Games spotlight hydrogen vehicles, a group of researchers dispute their role in decarbonization, advocating solely for battery electric vehicles. France Hydrogen rebuts, emphasizing hydrogen’s essential place alongside other.

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Plug installs impressive number of hydrogen stations in Europe in just two years

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company has installed 10+ H2 stations on the continent. Plug Power (NASDQ: PLUG) announced that it has successfully completed the deployment of 13 hydrogen stations in Europe over the past two years. The installations of these hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) will support a range of applications, benefiting the company’s European material handling customer base.

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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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Green Light for Aberdeen Hydrogen Hub

FuelCellsWorks

bp Aberdeen Hydrogen Energy Limited – the joint venture between bp and Aberdeen City Council – has announced that the final investment decision for its Aberdeen Hydrogen Hub project has.

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Sun Cable gets environmental tick for solar and transmission part of “world’s biggest” project

Renew Economy

Sun Cable can now start the groundwork leading up to a final decision on the project, which will initially supply Australian customers. The post Sun Cable gets environmental tick for solar and transmission part of “world’s biggest” project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hamburg Hydrogen Project Secures State Funding for Large Scale Electrolyser

FuelCellsWorks

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) awards funding: Hamburg Hydrogen Industrial Network and large-scale electrolyzer of the HGHH project receive IPCEI-funding Berlin/Hamburg— Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck.

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The Brief: Seizing India’s climate tech moment

Impact Alpha

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Climate Tech As India gets hotter, its climate tech ecosystem has become cool. A booming. The post The Brief: Seizing India’s climate tech moment appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Expanding Green Fleet Secures Transit Systems’ Place on AFR ‘Sustainability Leaders’ List

FuelCellsWorks

It’s been another successful year of zero emission achievements for Transit Systems, with the launch of hydrogen buses adding to the company’s globally recognised sustainability capabilities, while also boosting local.

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U.S. Oil Production Develops Massive Lead Over Russia And Saudi Arabia

Energy Central

In June, the Energy Institute released the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Each year, I do a series of articles covering the Review’s findings. In two previous articles, I discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, as well as.

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Electrochemical Society Names Toyota Scientist a Fellow in 2024 Class

FuelCellsWorks

ANN ARBO– The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has named Dr. Rana Mohtadi, a senior principal scientist at the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a Fellow in its Class of.

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EOI – Consultancy for geothermal project construction, Chachimbiro, Ecuador

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Ecuadorian Government, through the Electric Corporation of Ecuador (CELEC), has published an invitation for Expressions of Interest (EOI) and financial proposals for consulting services for the construction of a geothermal power plant at the Chachimbiro site in Ecuador. The period for the preparation and submission of proposals will be until the 9th of August 2024.

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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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Hydnum Steel Obtains Government Support to Become the First Green Steel Plant in Spain

FuelCellsWorks

The plant, to be located in Puertollano, Ciudad Real, will produce emission-free steel and will involve an investment of €1.65 billion It will reach an annual production of 2.6 million tons of rolled steel and.

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Kraken Technologies opens clean tech superhub in Manchester

Smart Energy International

Kraken Technologies has launched what they are calling the UK’s first energy technology superhub , EnTech R&D hub, which will house engineering teams and work as a testing hub for integrating third-party devices with Kraken. The Octopus Energy-owned clean tech platform has dubbed the superhub the ‘Kraken Tech Centre’, which is based in Manchester, UK.

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Protium and Fuel Cell Systems Join Forces at Goodwood Festival of Speed

FuelCellsWorks

Protium and Fuel Cell Systems Ltd. (FCSL) announce a partnership to enhance the availability and demonstration of green hydrogen technology at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This collaboration showcases Toyota’s.

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Italy’s national energy plan a missed opportunity for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Geothermal Technical Table has described Italy’s recently submitted National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) as a “missed opportunity” to create a long-term plan for the valorization of geothermal energy in its various forms. This comes despite the series of dialogues held between the Geothermal Technical Table and the Ministry of the Environment (MASE) in the past months to present a detailed proposal for a national action plan for geothermal energy to support I

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New Insights Into Catalysts Could Support Transition to Green Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

New research published in Nature Catalysis could help design improved technologies for green hydrogen. Green hydrogen could play a crucial role in reducing emissions and storing renewable energy, supporting the.

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The National Geothermal Centre: A unified voice for the UK geothermal sector

ThinkGeoEnergy

In June 2024, the National Geothermal Centre (NGC) was launched to bring together key stakeholders to enable geothermal development at speed and scale and contribute to building the UK’s secure energy future. As the first UK-wide geothermal non-profit association, the NGC aims to drive collaboration between government, industry, and academia to champion the increased integration of geothermal into the national renewable energy mix.

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HyTerra Receives Approval to Drill Second Well at Nemaha Hydrogen and Helium Project

FuelCellsWorks

HyTerra Ltd, via its 100% owned and operated subsidiary HYT Operating LLC, has received a Permit to Drill from the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) for the Blythe 13-20 well at.

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Archer’s Midnight air taxi completes first transitional flight

Charged

Archer Aviation , a developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, has announced that its Midnight air taxi prototype has completed its first transitional flight. A transitional flight is defined as one in which a VTOL aircraft transitions from hovering to horizontal flight. Midnight weighs approximately 6,500 lbs (2,948 kg) and is believed to be one of the largest and heaviest eVTOL aircraft to complete a demonstration of transitional flight, which is key to making it commercially

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Hydrexia Expands Hydrogen Business Operation to Australian Market

FuelCellsWorks

MELBOURNE, Australia and SHANGHAI– In conjunction with the Connecting Green Hydrogen APAC Conference (CGHA) 2024 held in Melbourne last week, Hydrexia Pty Ltd (Hydrexia), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydrexia Holding Limited, a leading integrated hydrogen refueling.

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Understanding Financed Emissions: A New Priority for Sustainable Investment

CleanTech Group

In the evolving landscape of climate disclosures and sustainable investment, understanding and managing financed emissions has become a critical focus for financial institutions. The post Understanding Financed Emissions: A New Priority for Sustainable Investment appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Chinese Firm Huture to Go Public in $1 Billion SPAC Deal

FuelCellsWorks

Huture, a Chinese hydrogen vehicle manufacturer, announces plans to go public via a SPAC deal valued at $1 billion. The company aims to trade on the Nasdaq under the Huture.

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Jinko Solar to supply 150MW n-type TOPCon modules to Algerian projects

PV Tech

Chinese solar module manufacturer Jinko Solar has secured two contracts to supply 150MW of modules to two solar PV projects in Algeria.

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Extreme E and ENOWA Achieve Major Green Hydrogen Milestone at Hydro X Prix

FuelCellsWorks

Extreme E and ENOWA celebrated a unique milestone in motorsport at the recent Hydro X Prix in Scotland, producing 80 per cent of the race site power with hydrogen fuel.

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Paris Olympics taps AI cloud solution to measure power consumption

Smart Energy International

The Paris Olympics International Olympic Committee (IOC) will deploy Energy Expert, a data-driven and cloud-based solution, to help measure and analyse smart meter-gathered power consumption data from across all 35 competition venues of the forthcoming Paris 2024 Olympics Games. According to computer software company Alibaba Cloud, which owns Energy Expert, migrating intelligence on power consumption and demand of the competition venues to the platform will enable more accurate analysis and bett

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Brazil: Chamber Approves Bill Providing Incentives for Low-Carbon Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

The Chamber of Deputies has approved Senate amendments to Bill 2308/23, which regulates the production of low-carbon hydrogen, establishing voluntary certification and federal tax incentives. The bill now awaits presidential.

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