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Transforming buildings into circular material banks

GreenBiz

Sponsored: The construction sector consumes large amounts of precious resources, but it’s also a sector that can break new ground and accelerate the circular economy in real estate.

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South Australia enjoyed 82 pct wind and solar for entire December quarter. So it can be done

Renew Economy

South Australia reached a record average of 82% renewables in the December quarter, establishing a stunning blueprint for the way the entire Australia grid could reach the federal government's current national target for 2030. The post South Australia enjoyed 82 pct wind and solar for entire December quarter. So it can be done appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Total boss warns governments risk mis-selling energy transition

Financial Times: Energy

States must acknowledge shift to less-polluting system will lead to higher energy costs

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Households need a fair go on the grid for solar, batteries and EVs

Renew Economy

When you have excess solar energy from your roof, it shouldn’t be resold to your neighbour at the retail rate charged for the market's regulatory mess. The post Households need a fair go on the grid for solar, batteries and EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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US ban on Russian uranium would boost western industry, says Urenco

Financial Times: Energy

Biggest supplier of enriched uranium to American power plants says it has enough capacity to replace Russian imports

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Heart attacks, cancer, dementia: Four essential reads on the health effects driving US EPA’s fine particle air pollution standard

Renew Economy

The US Environmental Protection Agency's has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine particulate air pollution. Scientists explain why. The post Heart attacks, cancer, dementia: Four essential reads on the health effects driving US EPA’s fine particle air pollution standard appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Woodside climate strategy “hoodwinks” communities

Renew Economy

Woodside has been accused of trying to "hoodwink" communities, governments and investors with misleading net-zero goals, while expanding oil and gas production. The post Woodside climate strategy “hoodwinks” communities appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Oxford under fire for increasing fossil fuel investments

Financial Times: Energy

University’s exposure has risen despite landmark 2020 commitment to divestment

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Wind in the west, solar in the east as NSW and Qld set new output records

Renew Economy

January kicks off 2024 with another two solar records for Australia, including all-time monthly highs for utility solar generation in NSW and Queensland. The post Wind in the west, solar in the east as NSW and Qld set new output records appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Diamondback Energy close to buying Endeavor in $25bn US oil deal

Financial Times: Energy

Acquisition would create one of the biggest producers in America’s booming Permian Basin

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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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Redflow gets green light to supply 15MWh battery for California microgrid

Renew Economy

The Brisbane-based company will make 15MWh of "energy pods" for a microgrid project funded by the California Energy Commission. The post Redflow gets green light to supply 15MWh battery for California microgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Woodside dramatically expands oil and gas exploration spend despite net zero pledge

The Guardian: Energy

Australia’s largest oil and gas producer stands accused of distracting from credible action to cut emissions by greenwashing its fossil fuel plans Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s largest oil and gas producer, Woodside Energy, has expanded its focus on fossil fuel exploration and increased its direct greenhouse gas pollution since announcing it had an “aspiration” of reaching net zero emi

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How a Melbourne company helped break the Top End’s solar farm stalemate

Renew Economy

Energy intelligence company Proa has revealed the key role its proprietary technology played in powering up two long delayed solar farms in Darwin. The post How a Melbourne company helped break the Top End’s solar farm stalemate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How do you stop a glacier from melting? Put up an underwater curtain.

Grist

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists are working on an unusual plan to prevent Antarctic glaciers from melting. They want to build a set of giant underwater curtains in front of ice sheets to protect them from being eroded by warm sea water. Ice in polar regions is now disappearing at record rates as global warming intensifies, and urgent action is needed to slow down this loss, the international group of

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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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West Midlands approves £1.2bn budget to help region shoot for net zero by 2041

Business Green

West Midlands Combined Authority allocates funding to projects to expand and decarbonise transport links, support green skills, and develop zero carbon homes

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South East Water owners provide £150mn loan to ease financing pressures

Financial Times: Energy

Debt-laden privatised utility is already under investigation for water supply failure

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Wanderers of the Wild: Unraveling the secret paths of elephants

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Prologue Scientists, armed with advanced modeling techniques, embark on a digital safari. They have unearthed an ancient map of once invisible trails that are now laid bare, waiting to tell their story.

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Colombia | Hydrogen Roadmap

Energy Central

Colombia | Hydrogen Roadmap Colombia meets the necessary conditions to exploit the hydrogen opportunity and become a regional leader in energy transition thanks to its privileged geographic location and a stable regulatory and political framework capable of attracting long-term investments. The development of hydrogen production and the adaptation of economic sectors to its use will.

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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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Statnett to tap CERN for grid innovation

Smart Energy International

Norwegian TSO Statnett is to collaborate with the European particle physics lab CERN on sustainable solutions for the operation of future power grids. Under a memorandum of cooperation Statnett and CERN intend to explore collaborative opportunities across a range of areas that can address the challenges and opportunities for managing highly complex systems, such as the evolving transmission system with its demand for high reliability.

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'Substantial potential': Biodiversity Net Gain rules come into force in England

Business Green

Developers in England are now legally required to deliver 10 per cent Biodiversity Net Gain on new housing, industrial, and commercial projects

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CeraPhi Energy - CeraPhi Acquires former fracking company, Third Energy Limited

Global Renewable News

CeraPhi Energy has acquired the business of Third Energy Limited, a former shale gas development company with plans to repurpose the existing wells into clean geothermal energy centres. The acquisitio.

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Behind the scenes at the heat network powering the City of London

Business Green

BusinessGreen reports from Citigen, the tri-generation plant which supplies low-carbon heat to some of London's most iconic buildings

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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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Minesto AB - Minesto reaches historic milestone - first electricity to grid with tidal powerplant Dragon 12 (1.2 MW)

Global Renewable News

Minesto, leading ocean energy developer, today (Feb 9) announces that a key milestone has been reached: The utility-scale tidal powerplant Dragon 12 - rated at 1.2 MW - has been successfully commissio.

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ICROA unveils updated carbon credit 'code of practice'

Business Green

International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance announces refreshed Code of Best Practice for firms trading carbon credits

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory - New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals

Global Renewable News

ORNL and UT researchers created a new method to calculate the power grid's inertia in real time, using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities such as TVA's Raccoon Mountain proj.

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Netherlands Starts the Year with 23% BEV Share!

CleanTechnica

In the context of a recovering overall market (+6% YoY), BEVs surged +57% year over year (YoY) in January, to. [continued] The post Netherlands Starts the Year with 23% BEV Share! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Alaska Energy Authority - AEA releases 2023 Renewable Energy Fund Impact and Evaluation ReportReport highlights renewable energy fund's 15-year investment in clean energy

Global Renewable News

The Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) today (Jan 29) announced the release of its 2023 Alaska Renewable Energy Fund (REF) Impact and Evaluation Report. The report details information about the REF's e.

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Panasonic Energy Partners with NOVONIX for Sustainable Synthetic Graphite Supply in EV Battery Production

CleanTechnica

Off-take agreement with NOVONIX advances Panasonic Energy’s commitment to carbon footprint reduction and resilient supply chain in North American Osaka, [continued] The post Panasonic Energy Partners with NOVONIX for Sustainable Synthetic Graphite Supply in EV Battery Production appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Colorado Energy Office - Governor Polis and the Colorado Energy Office Celebrate New Tax Incentives to Lower Cost of High Efficiency Heating and Cooling

Global Renewable News

Today (Feb 1), Governor Polis and the Colorado Energy Office announced that new Colorado Heat Pump Tax Credits are available to assist Coloradans who are installing eligible heat pump technology for s.

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Marvel Moviegoers Come for the Action & Stay for the Science

CleanTechnica

Experts from Argonne and Fermilab celebrate the science behind ​The Marvels with a movie screening and panel discussion When Captain Marvel becomes. [continued] The post Marvel Moviegoers Come for the Action & Stay for the Science appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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ESS Tech, Inc. - ESS Expands Deployment Footprint in California, Commissions New Project and Advances Energy Center Product Line

Global Renewable News

ESS Tech, Inc. ("ESS") (NYSE: GWH), a leading.

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EV Ads, GHG Emissions From Jets, & More: It’s Super Bowl Weekend

CleanTechnica

Kickoff for the 2024 Super Bowl LVIII is scheduled for 6:30 pm ET today on CBS and on streaming channels. [continued] The post EV Ads, GHG Emissions From Jets, & More: It’s Super Bowl Weekend appeared first on CleanTechnica.