Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Mandatory evacuation orders were issued by local authorities in Escondido, California, after a fire broke out at a battery energy storage system (BESS) facility.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A raft of big new projects will propel South Australia to its target of 100 per cent net renewables by 2027, showing the world that it can be done with wind, solar and storage. The post The massive new projects propelling South Australia towards 100 per cent net renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Georgia Power has secured a battery and equipment supply agreement (BESA) with Tesla for a 500MW/2,000MWh BESS portfolio made up of four projects of varying sizes under development by the investor-owned utility (IOU).
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The stealthily operating startup thinks it can narrow the gap by helping miners extract more copper from their mines. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The energy storage system integration arm of Canadian utility Hydro-Québec, EVLO, will deploy 300MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Virginia, US.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A European hydrogen test project has successfully linked a wind turbine with two electrolysers, which could make it possible to generate off-grid green hydrogen at sea and drive down production costs. The post Wind turbine feeds directly into electrolysers in hydrogen first, paving way for off-grid production appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Four new solar farms are underway in the Middle East, including a 2GW project that will double the installed PV capacity of Qatar, and three huge projects in Saudi Arabia. The post Middle East oil states announce four mammoth solar projects totaling 7.5GW appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The energy regulator of Grenada is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) for a solar or solar-plus-storage project at the Caribbean island nation's main international airport.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
An award-winning dynamic network pricing trial that started with around 200 participants will expand to 1,000 households via three new virtual power plant partners. The post Trial that calmed network fears about impact of rooftop PV expanded to bring in big retailers appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Home battery storage aggregation projects have launched with participation of Tokyo Electric Power Co, and Tokyo Gas, two major utility companies in the Japanese capital.
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
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Conservative Party leadership candidates have received tens of thousands in donations from a funder of the UK’s main climate science denial group. The latest register of MPs’ interests shows that James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat each received £10,000 in August from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).
The Verge: Energy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Netflix The Verge spoke with Bill Gates about AI, misinformation, and climate change. Bill Gates has spent billions funding technologies he thinks will shape the future — from fighting climate change to eradicating disease. Gates gets into the thick of it all in a new Netflix series called “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates.
PV Tech
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The modules themselves comprise 72 of Oxford PV’s perovskite-on-silicon cells with a conversion efficiency of 24.5%.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Sustainable Fashion To disrupt the $3 trillion fashion industry, VCs back tech for sustainability and. The post The Brief: These VCs are looking to disrupt fashion with sustainability and authenticity appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
A sea snake added to the federal government's endangered species list could scupper Woodside's $30 billion-plus Browse Basin gas plans. The post Endangered sea snake could kill plans for massive $30 billion offshore gas field appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Sponsored by Telsonic. Telsonic’s advanced torsional SONIQTWIST ® welding technology has been successfully applied in a groundbreaking solution for fixing silver-plated aluminum busbars using screws. This innovation, developed in collaboration with the KERN-LIEBERS Group, a producer of precision stamped parts, promises to set new standards for reliability and conductivity in electrical connections for industrial applications.
POWER Magazine
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 293 hydroelectric projects across 33 states that will receive up to $430 million in incentive payments for capital improvements directly related to grid […] The post DOE Injects $430M to Revitalize, Modernize U.S. Hydropower Fleet appeared first on POWER Magazine.
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firms Fossil fuel companies’ funding of universities’ climate-focused efforts is delaying the green transition, according to the most extensive peer-reviewed study to date of the industry’s influence on academia. For the study, published in the journal WIREs Climate Change on Thursday, six researchers pored over thousands of academic articles on industries’ funding of research from t
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.
POWER Magazine
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Installations of renewable energy projects hit 19 GW of generation capacity through the first half of 2024, more than double the five-year average for that time period, according to a […] The post ACP Report Shows Record-Breaking Quarter for Clean Energy Installations appeared first on POWER Magazine.
ThinkGeoEnergy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Federal Cabinet of Germany has approved several legislative changes that aim to remove barriers to the approval of development of geothermal energy and the expansion of heat pumps and heat storage systems. The approved changes will now be forwarded to the Bundesrat. The individual changes to the law are as follows: The Bureaucracy Reduction Act IV (BEG IV) clarifies that near-surface geothermal energy (up to 400 m) does not fall within the scope of mining law, and thus mining law approval pr
Charged
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The new stationary energy storage system (ESS) that supplies power to the Porsche plant in Leipzig covers an area nearly as big as two basketball courts and is made up of 4,400 end-of-service-life Taycan batteries salvaged from pre-series and works vehicles. The system has a total energy capacity of 10 MWh, and can deliver up to 5 MW of power. It can be operated at up to 20% overload for short periods and is designed for a useful life of more than 10 years.
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
This question was asked by an audience member during our recent USEA Virtual Press Briefing on the topic of what is going on with gas (fully replay can be watched here) With the engaging conversation taking place between our esteemed expert guests and the press panel, we were unable to get to this question during the Press Briefing so we wanted to pose it here to the Energy Central.
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?
Charged
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Join this webinar at the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by Schunk Sonosystems North America, to learn about the benefits of ultrasonic metal welding in various applications in EVs. In this presentation, we’ll explore and discuss the battery tab, wire splicing, and terminal with bus bar welding for low- and high-voltage applications.
ThinkGeoEnergy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) of Kenya has announced the establishment of the Geothermal Risk Underwriting Facility, a program that aims to leverage local insurance to de-risk geothermal and attract private investment in the sector. The facility will underwrite up to Ksh260 million (approx. USD 2 million) to cover early-stage development drilling risks for geothermal projects in Kenya.
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
This question was asked by an audience member during our recent USEA Virtual Press Briefing on the topic of what is going on with gas (fully replay can be watched here) With the engaging conversation taking place between our esteemed expert guests and the press panel, we were unable to get to this question during the Press Briefing so we wanted to pose it here to the Energy Central.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
South African electricity supplier Eskom has launched an EV pilot at the Eskom Academy of Learning (EAL) in the town of Midrand, Gauteng Province. The pilot project includes the procurement of 20 vehicles ranging from light delivery vehicles to light trucks for operational use. The company will install 10 charging stations in partnership with South African charging point manufacturer Gridcars at five Eskom sites across the country.
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
This question was asked by an audience member during our recent USEA Virtual Press Briefing on the topic of what is going on with gas (fully replay can be watched here) With the engaging conversation taking place between our esteemed expert guests and the press panel, we were unable to get to this question during the Press Briefing so we wanted to pose it here to the Energy Central.
Hydrogen Fuel News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Ford’s EV Strategy Shift Ford is reassessing its electrification strategy due to slower-than-anticipated EV adoption. CEO Jim Farley recently discussed plans to reevaluate in-house battery production and vertical integration. The company’s EV business has faced significant financial challenges , with the Model e segment incurring: $4.7 billion in losses last year An additional $1.57 billion in the first two quarters of 2023 In response , Ford is shifting focus towards hybrids while c
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
This question was asked by an audience member during our recent USEA Virtual Press Briefing on the topic of what is going on with gas (fully replay can be watched here) With the engaging conversation taking place between our esteemed expert guests and the press panel, we were unable to get to this question during the Press Briefing so we wanted to pose it here to the Energy Central.
TechCrunch: Climate
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
With a fresh $35M in the bank, French cleantech startup Calyxia has profitability within sight. But it's just getting started. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
This question was asked by an audience member during our recent USEA Virtual Press Briefing on the topic of what is going on with gas (fully replay can be watched here) With the engaging conversation taking place between our esteemed expert guests and the press panel, we were unable to get to this question during the Press Briefing so we wanted to pose it here to the Energy Central.
Financial Times: Energy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Members of group were set to unwind voluntary cuts from October but prices remain close to lows this year
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