Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Image credit: AVOXY / Shutterstock.com. New research exploring the effects of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in Glasgow appears to find that while traffic flow has remained largely unchanged since the Zone was enforced, air quality has improved. The study, undertaken by researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Auckland and University College Dublin, gathered hourly data from traffic sensors and air quality monitors in the city’s busy Hope Street and High Street within the LEZ to produce figure

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 2, 2024

DETROIT — In 1913, Henry Ford unveiled the moving assembly line at his Highland Park plant, reducing the time it took to make a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes and igniting a revolution in modern manufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Resource management firm Veolia and Imperial College London teamed up to decommission the Reactor Centre at Imperial’s Silwood Park eco-campus in Ascot, Berkshire, making it the first civil nuclear site in the UK to achieve this status. The ten-year project has now reached completion, and the Office for Nuclear Regulation has ended the requirement for regulatory controls, making it safe for the public.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

New report says AEMO's 2024 Integrated System Plan is far from being a signal for greater investment in gas, with the role of gas generation on the grid being rapidly eroded by cheaper, better alternatives. The post Gas power in future grid will be “tiny” and its cost exorbitant, report finds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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.

Sustainability

The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Bill to formalise state net zero target for 2050 left off list of legislative goals ahead of March election Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian Labor government has been accused of shelving plans to introduce climate change laws before a state election next March after it left the bill off a list of legislation it hopes to pass.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers at McGill University have made a significant advance in the development of all-solid-state lithium batteries, which are being pursued as the next step in electric vehicle (EV) battery technology.

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Charged

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Ford Motor has teamed up with Southern California Edison (SCE) to compensate EV owners for participating in the utility’s Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP), which aims to enhance grid resilience that also advances vehicle-to-grid integration (VGI). Ford is supporting participation in ELRP through its California Power Response program, which uses its managed charging solution to help reduce load on the grid during times of peak demand by sending power from car batteries to the grid.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The first month of spring has delivered multiple renewable energy records for Australia – and served as a reminder of how important big spinning turbines will be in the future energy mix. The post Windy south stars in month of “eclipsing” renewable energy records appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

China’s CINOVA H2: A Leap in Green Rail Transport China has made a groundbreaking advancement in sustainable rail transport with the debut of its CINOVA H2 hydrogen-powered high-speed train. Showcased at the InnoTrans 2024 trade fair in Berlin, Germany, this innovative train represents a significant step in the global pursuit of greener transportation solutions.

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Charged

OCTOBER 2, 2024

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Those words, spoken by Juliet in Shakespeare’s great tragedy “Romeo and Juliet,” imply that names are meaningless. But don’t tell a product manager that, especially one in the automotive industry. Car names follow trends in culture and history. For example, the mid-century Atomic Age gave us powerful one-word American car nameplates that either hinted at space travel (Comet, Starfire, Galaxy, Mercury, Tau

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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

Energy

POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Project Tundra, a demonstration project that seeks to capture an average of 4 million tons of carbon dioxide from flue gas from two lignite-fired units at the 705-MW Milton R. […] The post Lignite Coal Power CCS Project in North Dakota Gets First Tranche of $350M Federal Funding appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Climate change has been viewed almost universally as a burden, a hot potato to be passed from country to country at annual climate change conferences. Although it's widely known that climate-friendly solar and wind energy have become cheaper and easier to produce, most don't realize that they are very likely to get even less expensive and grow quickly.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws. But the team of entrepreneurs and food scientists won’t be remixing their protein cocktails in close proximity to La Sagrada Família for much longer — they’re moving to new, larger digs […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A hybrid 360MW solar farm and two-hour big battery – and with a first of its kind grid connection agreement – has been cleared for construction in Victoria. The post Hybrid solar and battery project dubbed first of its kind gets green light for construction appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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PV Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The 360MW Mortlake solar-plus-storage project in Victoria, Australia, is the latest large-scale renewable energy project to be fast-tracked for development by the state government.

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Charged

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Unipart Manufacturing is participating in Project PULSE (Power electronics Upscale for Localization and Sustainable Electrification), an £11-million ($14.5-million) initiative funded by the UK government through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC). The project, led by Protean Electric, brings together five industrial partners and two leading universities—Coventry University and Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) —to industrialize the assembly and manufacture of inverters and converters in the UK

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to IRENA, the renewable energy employed 16.2 million people in 2023, of which 7.1 million jobs were in the solar PV industry.

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Charged

OCTOBER 2, 2024

UK EV charging network Be.EV , majority-owned by Octopus Energy Generation , plans to install a charging hub with 16 ultra-rapid charging bays at Gallagher Retail Park in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of the UK. The launch of the hub is slated for November. The shopping destination, located near a busy M6 motorway junction, is owned by UK commercial property management company Wesleyan Assurance Society.

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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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PV Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The choice of glass in a PV module has become a key consideration in efforts to improve durability in the face of extreme weather conditions.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

California-based Clearway Energy Group said it has closed financing and started construction of standalone solar and energy storage projects in Hopkins County, Texas. The company on October 2 said the […] The post Clearway Starts Construction on Texas Solar and Storage Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Industrial Decarbonization How the shipping industry can set sail toward a low-carbon future. Greening fossil-fueled. The post The Brief: Steering shipping toward a low-carbon future appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The European Commission (EC) has approved a €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) Portuguese state aid scheme to support investments in the production of renewable energy equipment.

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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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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

After decades of stagnation, the world’s biggest tech groups and banks are considering an alternative energy option

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Event will push for greater transparency and aims to rank AI firms in terms of ability to meet climate goals World leaders at the next AI summit will focus on the impact on the environment and jobs, including the possibility of ranking the greenest AI companies, it has been announced. Rating artificial intelligence companies in terms of their ecological impact is among the proposals under consideration, while other areas being looked at include the effect on the labour market, giving all countri

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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

UK ministers make contingency plans to fund £20bn-plus power plant

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Electric cooperatives across the Southeast describe Hurricane Helene’s devastation as vast and unprecedented, warning that restoring some crucial infrastructure serving the not-for-profit entities’ customers will take a long and arduous […] The post Helene’s Historic Devastation Spurs Largest-Ever Mutual Aid Response, Signals Power Sector Reckoning appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Renewable energy developer Frontier Energy has halted developing its 120MW solar-plus-storage project in Western Australia after it missed out on Reserve Capacity Credits (RCCs) from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

To realise its full offshore wind potential, Australia will need to overcome a raft of challenges – and adopt the lessons learnt by more mature markets. The post Pitfalls Australia’s offshore wind industry must avoid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Patrick Pouyanné says he has been ‘arguing’ with the Labour government over plans to increase the levy

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Australian solar innovator says first order for solar cladding shows the value the market is starting to place on energy efficient smart building solutions. The post “Pivotal moment” for ClearVue as it lands first order for solar cladding on iconic Perth building appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Nuclear waste dump in Cumbria pleaded guilty to leaving data that could threaten national security exposed for four years, says regulator Sellafield will have to pay almost £400,000 after it pleaded guilty to criminal charges over years of cybersecurity failings at Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site. The vast nuclear waste dump in Cumbria left information that could threaten national security exposed for four years, according to the industry regulator, which brought the charges.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Perth-based Altech Batteries switches on prototype sodium-chloride solid state battery in Germany. The post Perth company successfully switches on solid state battery using table salt appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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