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The massive new projects propelling South Australia towards 100 per cent net renewables

Renew Economy

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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Endolith is using ‘Olympic caliber’ copper microbes to address the copper shortage

TechCrunch: Climate

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.

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Wind turbine feeds directly into electrolysers in hydrogen first, paving way for off-grid production

Renew Economy

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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Fire at battery storage facility in California triggers evacuation order

Energy Storage News

Mandatory evacuation orders were issued by local authorities in Escondido, California, after a fire broke out at a battery energy storage system (BESS) facility.

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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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Middle East oil states announce four mammoth solar projects totaling 7.5GW

Renew Economy

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.

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Georgia Power secures Tesla battery supply agreement for 2GWh BESS portfolio

Energy Storage News

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).

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Hydro-Québec’s EVLO to deploy 300MWh of BESS in Virginia

Energy Storage News

The energy storage system integration arm of Canadian utility Hydro-Québec, EVLO, will deploy 300MWh of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Virginia, US.

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Endangered sea snake could kill plans for massive $30 billion offshore gas field

Renew Economy

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.

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Bill Gates has a good feeling about AI

The Verge: Energy

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.

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Advocates push back on DOE-funded plan to make steel with plastic-based fuel

Canary Media

This article was originally published by Inside Climate News. Jane Williams read the announcement with dismay. A Pennsylvania company was getting tens of millions of dollars in federal loan guarantees to turn plastic waste into a fuel for steelmaking, claiming the climate would benefit.

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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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French cleantech startup Calyxia nets $35M to tackle microplastics pollution

TechCrunch: Climate

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.

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Oxford PV ships first commercial perovskite tandem modules

PV Tech

The modules themselves comprise 72 of Oxford PV’s perovskite-on-silicon cells with a conversion efficiency of 24.5%.

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The Brief: These VCs are looking to disrupt fashion with sustainability and authenticity

Impact Alpha

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.

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Revolutionary screw solution for silver-plated aluminum busbars: a case study

Charged

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.

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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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University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

The Guardian: Energy

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

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DOE Injects $430M to Revitalize, Modernize U.S. Hydropower Fleet

POWER Magazine

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.

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Opec plans two-month delay to production increases

Financial Times: Energy

Members of group were set to unwind voluntary cuts from October but prices remain close to lows this year

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ACP Report Shows Record-Breaking Quarter for Clean Energy Installations

POWER Magazine

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.

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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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Porsche powers plant in Germany with second-life EV batteries

Charged

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.

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What is the impact of the apparent increasing need for energy (and electricity) in the US? Many forms of new energy resources cannot be stored in seasonal quantities but gas can, so how does that impact the viability of gas as an energy source?

Energy Central

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.

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Webinar: Ultrasonic welding for low and high-voltage EV applications

Charged

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.

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Underwriting facility established to de-risk geothermal in Kenya

ThinkGeoEnergy

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.

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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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As an industrial facility looking to switch some of our sites to on-site electricity production with natural gas generation and CHP, we continue to face extensive delays on switchgear components. How are we going to fix this supply chain issue?

Energy Central

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.

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South African utility pilots EV charging infrastructure

Charged

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.

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Ford Shifts Focus from EVs to Hybrids

Hydrogen Fuel News

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

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While natural gas burns with lower emissions than coal, I am concerned about methane leakage from upstream emissions of natural gas pipelines, with the climate damage being comparable to burning coal. What is the industry solution for this?

Energy Central

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.

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University ties to fossil fuel industry face growing scrutiny

Financial Times: Energy

A new study raises concerns over the oil and gas industry’s influence on higher education

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California lawmakers punt on chances to deal with utility bill crisis

Canary Media

California’s power system is in a difficult spot — and so are the utility customers stuck paying for it. The state’s utilities have to expand their power grids to support the shift to carbon-free electricity, and they must harden those grids to reduce the risk that they’ll cause deadly wildfires.

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What is the role of biomass in generation? Private utilities in the South do not appear to encourage biomass generation.

Energy Central

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.

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Thames Water creditors examine cash injection to avoid nationalisation

Financial Times: Energy

Lenders including US hedge fund Elliott in talks over back-up plan as UK’s largest utility struggles to raise equity

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What is the role of natural gas in Europe’s energy mix over the next decade, especially in balancing the transition to renewables? And what is the role of U.S. LNG in providing for European electricity generation baseload and energy security?

Energy Central

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.

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Five geothermal sites in Indonesia to be tendered in 2025

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Director General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (EBTKE) Eniya Listiani Dewi has announced five geothermal sites in Indonesia that the agency will offer for tender by 2025 in a bid to attract more investment in the country’s geothermal sector. Three of the sites are classified as Preliminary Survey and Exploration Areas (WPSPE) while two are Geothermal Working Areas (WKP).