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Business action on energy efficiency could save $2 trillion a year, new research claims

GreenBiz

A World Economic Forum and PwC report sets out a host of energy efficiency actions it claims are 'doable today, at attractive returns with no need for new technology.

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Increasing number of local authorities require over 10% Biodiversity Net Gain

Envirotec Magazine

In advance of the statutory requirement for biodiversity net gain (BNG) for new developments from January 2024, new research appears to reveal a gradual increase in the number requesting in excess of the 10% biodiversity net gain. Law firm Carter Jonas conducted the research, analysing the emergence of BNG policies and guidance within local planning authorities (LPAs) in a series of research from spring 2022.

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3 technologies helping the aluminum industry decarbonize

GreenBiz

Aluminum production emits about 3 percent of the world’s direct industrial CO2 emissions.

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UK solar targets for 2035 under threat as projects stall

Envirotec Magazine

A perfect storm of inflation, supply chain disruption, spiralling interest rates and delays in connection to the National Grid means that the swathe of solar farms approved and going through planning permission in the UK are likely to be severely delayed or cancelled undermining any hopes of achieving the Government target of a fivefold increase to 70GW by 2035.

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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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3 technologies helping the aluminum industry decarbonize

GreenBiz

Aluminum production emits about 3 percent of the world’s direct industrial CO2 emissions.

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Experts welcome the new WEEE consultation

Envirotec Magazine

Measures that will make it easier to recycle and reuse electrical goods appear in the government’s WEEE consultation , launched on 28 December 2023. The proposals include setting up a new category for vapes, to ensure the additional cost of their disposal is borne by vape producers only. Experts in the WEEE sphere were quick to welcome the consultation, and offer thoughts on what has been going wrong to date, with recycling WEEE.

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Distilling industry wastewater could create green hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

Nanoparticles (left) being added to distillery wastewater. Wastewater from the distilling industry could be used to produce green hydrogen using new nanoscale materials that scientists at Heriot-Watt University say they have developed. Distilleries in Scotland alone produce an estimated 1 million litres a year of wastewater from the whisky distilling process.

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Big boon for US solar supply chain as Microsoft places 12GW module order

Renew Economy

Microsoft places huge solar order with QCells designed to drive large-scale production of US-made PV modules. The post Big boon for US solar supply chain as Microsoft places 12GW module order appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Accounting for plastic persistence can minimize environmental impacts

Envirotec Magazine

The research has developed a sustainability metric for the ecological design of plastic products, like cup-lids, recognizing and quantifying their propensity to break-down more quickly in the environment (image credit: Bryan James/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Researchers have developed a sustainability metric for the ecological design of plastic products that have low persistence in the environment.

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As Earth records hottest year, Coalition digs in against climate action and renewables

Renew Economy

As the world takes in the horrifying data on the world's hottest year on record, the federal opposition is gearing up to fight 2035 emissions targets and rally against renewables. The post As Earth records hottest year, Coalition digs in against climate action and renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping when offered at just 10 regional fuel ports

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: IOP Publishing. A study published on 9 January appears to find that green ammonia could be used to fulfil the fuel demands of over 60% of global shipping by targeting just the top 10 regional fuel ports. Researchers at the University of Oxford looked at the production costs of ammonia which are similar to very low sulphur fuels, and concluded that the fuel could be a viable option to help decarbonise international shipping by 2050.

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Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

Grist

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than previously known: It turns out that bottled water harbors hundreds of thousands of even tinier pieces of the stuff. A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of bottled water for plastic granules, going down to just 50 to 100 nanometers in length — roughly the width of a

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Wind power turbine fleet output grows 25 pct in Germany over five years

Renew Economy

The share of wind power in total electricity generation is also increasing as new capacity is added and existing projects are re-powered. The post Wind power turbine fleet output grows 25 pct in Germany over five years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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A small Texas town is home to the state's first all-EV school bus fleet

Canary Media

This story was first published by The Texas Tribune. Keith Kimbrough is the first to admit that electric school buses were not an easy sell in the tiny unincorporated town of Martinsville.

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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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Sub-zero heat pump challenge delivers new tech – and a fresh blow to gas

Renew Economy

Pushed along by the US government, companies are designing heat pumps that can work through a northern winter and not resort to gas backup. The post Sub-zero heat pump challenge delivers new tech – and a fresh blow to gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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LACI ANNOUNCES LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & SEVEN OTHER CITIES REPRESENTING 55 MILLION AMERICANS TO JOIN INAUGURAL CITY CLIMATE INNOVATION CHALLENGE TO ADVANCE ZERO EMISSIONS DELIVERY; PARTNERS INCLUDE C40 & CLIMATE MAYORS

LA CleanTech Incubator

First of its Kind City Challenge is Designed to Help Cities Pilot and Scale Innovation to Reduce Congestion & Emissions from Exploding E-Commerce and Goods Movement Los Angeles, January 9, 2024 – The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)–in partnership with Climate Mayors and C40–announced the selected cities for the inaugural City Climate Innovation.

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Honda bets its electric future on ‘thin, light’ 0 series EVs at CES 2024

TechCrunch: Climate

It's not much to go on, but it's still our closest look yet at Honda's electrified future. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI

The Verge: Energy

Samples of the new solid electrolyte discovered by Microsoft AI and HPC tools. | Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large-scale cloud computing is speeding up the search for new battery materials. An AI-enhanced collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has already produced one promising new material, which the two are sharing publicly today.

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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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ClearVue lands first home market order to supply solar facade for new building

Renew Economy

ClearVue marks its commercial launch in Australia with its first order to supply a solar window facade for a new building in Melbourne. The post ClearVue lands first home market order to supply solar facade for new building appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Revo Zero green lights pre-orders for its hydrogen SUV, Energy

Hydrogen Fuel News

It’s a first-of-its-kind plug-in hydrogen-battery hybrid vehicle. Revo Zero, a Virgina-based start-up, is taking pre-orders for its hydrogen SUV, Energy, which is a pFC (plug-in fuel cell) technology zero-emissions SUV vehicle. A vehicle unlike other hybrid cars. Unveiled in December 2023, Revo Zero’s hydrogen SUV breaks the mold of traditional electric vehicle hybrid vehicle designs.

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Hyzon Achieves 2023 Vehicle Deployment and Fuel Cell Development Milestones

FuelCellsWorks

Deployed 19 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks Across Three Continents in 2023, Meeting Guidance of 15-20 Trucks Produced 25 200kW Fuel Cell B-Samples, Advancing Development to C-Sample Stage Leading Heavy-Duty Single.

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New York Power Authority issues RFI for renewables and battery storage

Energy Storage News

Utility New York Power Authority (NYPA) is seeking to collaborate with renewable energy and energy storage developers and operators, as part of the state's push to deploy more clean energy resources.

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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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Hydrogen-Powered Crew Transfer Vessel Launched by Frs Windcat Offshore Logistics in Germany

FuelCellsWorks

FRS Windcat Offshore Logistics announces the deployment of the first hydrogen-powered dual-fuel Crew Transfer Vessel in Germany for 50Hertz. Following the delivery of the vessel in spring 2023, this marks.

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2023 code changes to rapid shutdown requirements solar installers should know

Solar Power World

The National Electrical Code (NEC) is a frequently changing set of rules published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), also referred to as NFPA 70. The latest edition was published in August 2022, but four jurisdictions have already adopted it with 13 others in the process to adopt. The solar industry should pay particular… The post 2023 code changes to rapid shutdown requirements solar installers should know appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Denmark Announces Alliance on Green Fuels in India Including Green Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

A.P. Moller – Maersk, one of the founding members of the Green Fuels Alliance India, will take a seat on the steering committee as one of the representatives of the.

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Morocco wants its renewable energy to draw green hydrogen investors

Hydrogen Fuel News

The country’s ample wind and solar production is aiming at becoming an opportunity for making clean H2. Morocco has already invested heavily into renewable energy as a part of its decarbonization strategy, and now it is hoping that this will appeal to investors seeking to produce green hydrogen. The country has set a goal of being able to achieve 10 gigawatts of renewable power production by 2030.

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Hydrogen Solaris Buses Also Heading to Düsseldorf

FuelCellsWorks

The German operator Rheinbahn Düsseldorf has ordered 10 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses. The manufacturer will deliver the vehicles to Düsseldorf in 2025. The city has set itself the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2035. Solaris Bus & Coach will.

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‘Highly attractive’ revenues forecast in Australia’s new Very Fast ancillary services opportunity

Energy Storage News

The newest ancillary services product in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) has been forecast to offer “significantly higher” revenues than other opportunities for battery storage.

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HNO International, Inc. Celebrates Milestone Achievement: Successful Refueling of Toyota Mirai Using Innovative CHRS™ Technology

FuelCellsWorks

HNOI has successfully refueled a Toyota Mirai with their new technology CHRS, the Compact Hydrogen Refueling Station. CHRS produces clean hydrogen made from water on site and is perfect for.

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New York City pilot casts V2G as path to energy storage adoption and lowering fleet costs

Energy Storage News

Energy-Storage.news learns about New York City’s first-ever vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot project, which is entering a second stage after a successful start to its operational life.

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Hyundai Motor Reveals Vision for Hydrogen Energy and Software Solutions Beyond Mobility at CES 2024

FuelCellsWorks

Under the theme ‘Ease every way,’ Hyundai highlights its commitment to lead human-centric life innovations with hydrogen energy as well as software and AI Introduces HTWO’s hydrogen value chain solution.

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Transport Canada, US DOT and DOE issue joint statement on action to reduce rail-sector emissions

Charged

The US and Canada have created a Rail Decarbonization Task Force to explore ways to reduce emissions from the rail sector. According to a joint statement from the US DOT and the Canadian Transport Ministry , “The decarbonization of the rail sector is a crucial component of our global efforts to reduce emissions and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.