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H&M is funding offshore wind in Bangladesh to get garment factories off fossil fuels

GreenBiz

H&M will co-invest in a project it hopes will supply 40% of the country’s power.

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Nanomaterials research could help sustain life on Mars

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers at the University of Sussex have identified electrical properties within gypsum nanomaterials – a development said to offer a promising avenue to developing sustainable habitation on Mars, where there is an abundance of the mineral. Using resources and techniques currently applied on the International Space Station and by NASA, the work investigates the potential of nanomaterials for clean energy production and building materials on Mars.

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Bochum, Germany to extract geothermal heat from abandoned coal mines

ThinkGeoEnergy

Construction is currently ongoing for new buildings that will be served by a planned geothermal heating project in Bochum, Germany that aims to utilize water from abandoned coal mine shafts for emissions-free heating and cooling. By 2027, the geothermal heating and cooling system is expected to supply new buildings at the project site including offices, research facilities, and university institutes.

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Chart: Coal-fired electricity may have peaked in 2023

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The dirtiest source of electricity — coal — may have reached its peak in 2023.

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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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? $32bn and 30% drop as market hits pause in 2023

Climate Tech VC

Climate tech has undergone a visible evolution over the past few years, transitioning from a phase of abundant funding for innovation to capital more focused on large-scale deployments that approach being bankable and 'boring' Our annual report on climate tech investment trends examines this evolution, with a particular focus on venture and growth investment, which serve as crucial indicators.

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Ford Hydrogen Investment Could Pay off Big Time

FuelCellsWorks

Though it remains heavily vested in EVs, Ford has also made it quite clear that fully electric power isn’t quite feasible for larger trucks at the moment. Instead, the automaker.

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NRL Researchers Win Award for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research in Unmanned Aerial Systems at Defense Conference

FuelCellsWorks

WASHINGTON– U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers, Kevin Cronin and Drew Rodgers, receive Technology Achievement Award for Lightweight Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) research efforts at Defense.

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Plug Power installs electrolyzer for Amazon green hydrogen production

Hydrogen Fuel News

The equipment was installed at one of the online marketplace giant’s Colorado fulfillment centers. Plug Power Inc. has announced that it has successfully completed the installation of an electrolyzer at a Colorado Amazon fulfilment center, where it will be used for green hydrogen production. The H2 produced by the electrolyzer will be used to power fuel cell forklift trucks at the site.

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H2 Clipper Achieves Major Advanced “Swarm Robotics” Breakthrough For Large Scale Airship Manufacturing

FuelCellsWorks

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— H2 Clipper, Inc., an aerospace and alternative energy company developing uniquely capable hydrogen-powered airships and end-to-end hydrogen infrastructure solutions, announces that it has been granted US Patent No. 11,851,214.

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EVs with sodium-ion batteries are rolling off production lines in China

Charged

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. Now, after years of anticipation, cars equipped with sodium-ion batteries have begun rolling off production lines.

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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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Hydrogen-Powered Generators Support Safe Rail Operations While Safeguarding the Environment

FuelCellsWorks

Deployment of new hydrogen fuel-cell power generators is helping Union Pacific Railroad ensure continued safe operations while having a positive impact on the environment. Back-up power generators are used on.

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Another reason to buy electric trucks—driver recruitment and retention because they love them

Charged

The trucking industry has a serious driver shortage, and operators are exploring all kinds of ways to improve driver recruitment and retention. Meanwhile, trucking industry trade groups are fighting tooth and nail against electrification. They might be surprised to learn that deploying EVs could be a major hiring advantage, because drivers love them.

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Portugal’s renewables production hit record in 2023

PV Tech

Wind energy supplied 25% of the consumption in Portugal, followed by hydropower (23%), solar PV (7%), and biomass (6%).

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Blue Bird launches fleet electrification-as-a-service joint venture

Charged

US school bus manufacturer Blue Bird and sustainable investment company Generate Capital have formed Clean Bus Solutions, a joint venture (JV) designed to meet increasing demand for electric school buses. Blue Bird recently opened its 40,000-square-foot EV Build-up Center, designed to enable the company to increase its electric school bus production capacity to as many as 5,000 annually in coming years.

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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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The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: ? The Call: Compensating impact fund managers for… impact. To explore the hows and whys (and. The post The Week in impact investing: Inclusion alpha appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Drop in coal power sends German emissions to lowest level in 70 years

Renew Economy

Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions fell to the lowest level since around 1950, as a weak economy and high prices caused energy-intensive industry to lower production and coal power fell. The post Drop in coal power sends German emissions to lowest level in 70 years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Closed Loop Partners Invests in Hydrogen Energy Innovations

FuelCellsWorks

At Closed Loop Partners, we focus on investing in the circular economy––advancing solutions that reduce waste through material reduction, alternative materials, reuse and end-of-life solutions like recycling.

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Solar Powers Illinois on the state’s role in US energy transition

PV Tech

“The formation of Solar Powers Illinois stems from the passage of critical legislation: the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.

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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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2 questions all solar contractors should ask their insurance agents

Solar Power World

Residential and commercial solar installation contractors should pay attention to the type of insurance coverage they purchase. Although pollution incidents are less frequent and not always immediate, the cost of claims can cripple a company when they occur. Every commercial general liability (CGL) policy contains some form of pollution exclusion. Your agent may work with… The post 2 questions all solar contractors should ask their insurance agents appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Tory MP Chris Skidmore quits with attack on UK climate policy

Financial Times: Energy

Fresh by-election challenge for Sunak as ex-energy minister condemns North Sea oil drilling and softening on net-zero

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Ford and Resideo to conduct V2H energy management pilot

Charged

Ford and home automation company Resideo Technologies have announced a joint V2H simulation project called EV-Home Power Partnership. The project involves pairing the bidirectional EV charging of Ford’s F-150 Lightning with a Resideo smart thermostat to explore the potential of the EV batteries to optimize home energy management, reduce customer electricity costs and relieve strain on the electric grid.

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KPI Green Energy, Emmvee ink 300MW bifacial mono-PERC module supply agreement

PV Tech

Indian independent power producer (IPP) KPI Green Energy has signed a supply agreement for 300MW of bifacial mono-PERC modules from PV manufacturer Emmvee.

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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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FirstEnergy Subsidiary Completes Solar Site at Fort Martin Power Station 

Solar Industry

FirstEnergy subsidiary Mon Power has completed its solar site at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, W. Va., the first of five projects Mon Power and its sister company Potomac Edison have planned. Nearly 50,000 panels generate up to 18.9 MW per hour on the approximately 80-acre site, says the company. Ultimately, the five sites are expected to collectively generate up to 50 MW.

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Chesapeake and Southwestern in talks to form largest US gas producer

Financial Times: Energy

$17bn combination of shale drillers would be latest deal in industry consolidation wave

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CLOU Signs BESS Purchase Order with Stella Energy

Solar Industry

CL Energy Storage Corporation (CLOU) has signed a purchase order with Stella Energy Solutions to deliver approximately 480 MWh of containerized battery energy storage systems and 200 MW of PCS Skid to support Stella’s clean energy projects. Based in Texas, Stella develops and constructs energy storage and solar infrastructure projects. It has built and operated more than 2 GW of utility-scale battery storage projects in the region.

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Feathers from deceased birds help scientists understand new threat to avian populations

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

Animal ecologists developed an analytical approach to better understand one of the latest threats to feathered creatures: the rise of wind and solar energy facilities.

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Dealflow spotlight: Climate tech looks to shake off its doldrums in 2024

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 5 — Batteries, green steel and hydrogen were among the bright spots for climate tech investment in 2023, even as overall. The post Dealflow spotlight: Climate tech looks to shake off its doldrums in 2024 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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MGE, We Energies Complete Construction on Badger Hollow Farm

Solar Industry

Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) and We Energies have completed construction on Badger Hollow Solar Farm with the site’s final panels in service, making the Wisconsin project fully operational. The project, a 300 MW facility located near the communities of Montfort and Cobb in Iowa County, Wis., came online in two 150 MW phases. The second phase began powering customers across the state last month, with the facility’s first phase coming online in 2021.

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China’s Reform Commission sets out V2G planning recommendations

Smart Energy International

China’s state planner National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released reform recommendations on how China, the largest EV market globally, can optimally integrate electric vehicles into power grid planning. Through the recommendations, the NDRC calls on the establishment of a technical standard system for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interaction by 2025, by when charging peak and time-of-use electricity prices should be fully implemented.

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BP wins approval to revamp oil refinery for biofuel production

Financial Times: Energy

BP’s eco-friendly announcement comes after it reverses shift away from fossil fuels

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ESMAP publishes report on socioeconomic benefits of geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) under the World Bank has published a detailed report on the socioeconomic contributions of the geothermal sector, as well as the potential opportunities and benefits at national and local levels of geothermal project development and operation. The full report, “Geothermal Energy: Unveiling the Socioeconomic Benefits” can be accessed via this link.

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Forensic accountants unable to identify bank account owner in Endeavour sacked CEO case

Financial Times: Energy

Sébastien de Montessus was fired as chief executive of the gold miner after sending an alleged irregular payment instruction

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