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4 steps to boost your ESG influence with the board or C-suite

GreenBiz

Securing buy-in on ESG from board members and leadership requires a planned, strategic approach built on a foundation of trust.

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Offshore Wind Turbines Offer Path for Clean Hydrogen Production

FuelCellsWorks

NREL Researchers Identify Promising Locations off US Coastlines for Installation of Technology. Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may.

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The Hawaii seabed mining ban doesn’t spell the end of EV batteries

GreenBiz

A growing US recycling marketplace is taking its place

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SafeH2Pipe JIP: Tenaris Partners to Advance Hydrogen Transportation in Europe

FuelCellsWorks

Tenaris is participating in the SafeH2Pipe Joint Industry Project (JIP) along with five other major steel and energy companies –CPW, OCAS, Rosen, Shell Global Solutions International B.V., GRTGaz, and EPRG– in conjunction.

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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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Maxeon faces lawsuit over alleged damages to investors

PV Tech

The Pomerantz Law Firm has brought a class action lawsuit against Singapore-headquartered solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies concerning whether “Maxeon and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.

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Hyundai Launches Pilot Test for Mighty Fuel Cell Light-Duty Truck in New Zealand

FuelCellsWorks

Hyundai Motors New Zealand is set to initiate a year-long pilot test of the new Mighty Fuel Cell (FCEV) light-duty hydrogen truck, marking another significant step towards green transportation solutions.

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Dutch Students Complete North Sea Journey From Netherlands to Ramsgate With Self-Built Hydrogen Boat

FuelCellsWorks

Dutch students from the TU Delft Hydro Motion Team arrived in Ramsgate last night (July 11) aboard their self-built hydrogen boat, becoming the first to cross from the Netherlands to.

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Why Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ superconducting magnet sale is more than it seems

TechCrunch: Climate

Fusion power may still be a few years away, but one startup is laying the groundwork for what it hopes will become a bustling sector of the economy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Rowan Atkinson Tests Hydrogen-Powered Toyota Yaris GR H2 at Goodwood Festival of Speed

FuelCellsWorks

Yesterday, the actor Rowan Atkinson graced the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an exhilarating annual event held on the picturesque grounds of the Goodwood Estate in England. During his visit, Atkinson.

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China boasts two-thirds of utility-scale solar and wind projects under construction

PV Tech

China is building two-thirds of new solar and wind projects globally as it is building 180GW of utility-scale of solar generation capacity.

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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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Toyota Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Challenges in California

FuelCellsWorks

Toyota customers in California have filed a class action lawsuit against the automaker, alleging false advertising and misrepresentation due to the scarcity of hydrogen refueling stations for their Mirai vehicles.

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Brookfield buys majority stake in Indian developer Leap Green Energy

PV Tech

Canadian asset owner Brookfield has acquired a majority stake in Indian clean power company Leap Green Energy in a US$200 million equity investment.

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Boots on the Ground, Hydrogen Trucks on the Road: FTcase Revolutionizes Hydrogen Fueling

FuelCellsWorks

FTcase Makes a Big Splash in the Desert The hydrogen revolution is gaining momentum, and San Francisco-based Zero Emission Industries (ZEI) is at the forefront with its groundbreaking mobile hydrogen fueling system,

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A Different Kind of Message from the Climate Scientists

Energy Central

I personally know several climate scientists, including ones who have been part of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That’s the official arm of the UN which monitors climate change and produces the widely anticipated Reports that serve as both status checks and forecasts for overall global warming, as well “check-up” measurements on nations are doing in.

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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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Fallback Friday Story: Hyundai Motor and Plus Collaborate to Launch First Level 4 Autonomous Fuel Cell Electric Truck in the U.S

FuelCellsWorks

Hyundai Motor and Plus collaboration aims to enhance road safety and freight efficiencies by demonstrating benefits of XCIENT Fuel Cell truck equipped with Plus’s Level 4 autonomous driving software LAS.

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Here’s What Nigel Farage’s Reform Party MPs Have to Say About Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Last week’s general election handed power to a Labour government committed to climate action, and four seats for the Green Party for the first time. But it also saw the election of five MPs from Reform UK , a climate science denial party led by right-wing populist Nigel Farage. Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and backs new fossil fuel extraction, including via fracking and opening new coal mines.

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New Hydrogen Storage Facility in Hamburg Metropolitan Region

FuelCellsWorks

Storengy to build salt caverns in Stade region – commissioning in 2030 Storengy Deutschland announced Tuesday (June 11, 2024) plans to build new underground caverns to store up to 15,000 tonnes.

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Eastern Munich geothermal expansion to proceed despite financing challenges

ThinkGeoEnergy

The joint geothermal company AFK Geothermie GmbH , the first inter-municipal geothermal energy project in Germany, has long called for support for the expansion of their geothermal heating network. However, the Free State of Bavaria has not provided the funding support needed to help the company secure loans. “Everyone is talking about geothermal energy, the projects are politically desired.

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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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Nanomalaysia Forges Strategic Partnerships With Australia’s Fortescue in Green Hydrogen Development

FuelCellsWorks

The MOU marks a pivotal moment in Malaysia’s journey for it to be a leading Hydrogen Economy country by 2050. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA– NanoMalaysia Berhad (NMB), a company limited by guarantee.

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Spain could get its first aviation hydrogen hub thanks to Airbus and its partners

Hydrogen Fuel News

Airbus has joined forces with five other companies to study H2 aviation in the country. Airbus, the European multinational aerospace giant, has teamed up with Aena, Iberia, Air Nostrum, Repsol, and Exolum to study the creation of Spain’s first aviation hydrogen hub. Specifically, the six companies have teamed up to address the main challenges Spain faces to make hydrogen-powered aviation a reality in the nation.

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American Airlines signs conditional purchase agreement for 100 hydrogen-powered engines from ZeroAvia

Charged

ZeroAvia is developing hydrogen-fueled engines for commercial aircraft, and has successfully completed flight tests of electric aircraft in the US and in the UK (see our 2021 interview with CEO and founder Val Miftakhov ). Now the company has secured a conditional agreement from American Airlines to purchase 100 hydrogen-electric engines intended to power regional jet aircraft.

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Hopium Secures Extension for Fuel Cell Project

FuelCellsWorks

Observation Period Extended to January 2025 by Paris Commercial Court Paris– HOPIUM (FR0014000U63 – ALHPI), the cleantech, which aims to decarbonize heavy transport, announces that it has obtained a six-month extension.

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Hydrogen aircraft set to take off following new developments

Energy Central

The possibility of hydrogen-powered aircraft means greater opportunities for fossil-free travel, and the technological advances to make this happen are moving fast. New studies from Chalmers University of Technology show that by 2045, almost all air travel within a 750-mile radius could be made with hydrogen aircraft. Moreover, with a novel heat exchanger currently in development, this.

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GÖPEL introduces NG+ upgraded tester for automotive technologies

Charged

GÖPEL Electronic, which provides systems for validating the network compliance of control units, has released its updated network tester, NG+. The new NG+ system architecture supports classic bus systems, such as CAN-FD, CAN-SIG, LIN and FlexRay, as well as the latest Automotive Ethernet (AETH) standards—10BASE-T1S, 100BASE-T1, and 1000BASE-T1. The system is also prepared for future trends such as CAN-XL.

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'Error in law': Government drops legal battle over Cumbrian coal mine approval

Business Green

Ministers pull out of three-day hearing where they were due to defend planning approval of controversial project, as speculation mounts over plan to halt new oil and gas licenses

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Unlocking the Benefits of Virtual Power Plants with Digital Technology

POWER Magazine

Most people, when they imagine a power plant, picture equipment like smokestacks that stretch hundreds of feet into the sky, massive, spinning turbines and the hum of electric transmission lines […] The post Unlocking the Benefits of Virtual Power Plants with Digital Technology appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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A startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers

TechCrunch: Climate

The founders of HERO Software didn’t start out to help small tradespeople in construction with a platform. They started out to fight the climate crisis. But in doing so, they stumbled on a way to help the whole business. Now, the company has closed a €40 million Series B financing round, and plans to expand […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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EV Engineering Virtual Conference September 2024: first session topics announced

Charged

The first session topics for the Fall 2024 Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering are out now. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem, including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EMI/EMC and more.

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The World’s First Hydrogen-Fueled Ferry Service Just Started Running in San Francisco

FuelCellsWorks

Sea Change, a new San Francisco ferry, runs on hydrogen fuel cells—and uses its exhaust as drinking water for passengers on board.

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Hydrogen deals boost European venture capital

Impact Alpha

European investors have some cheery news to send them off on their summer holidays: venture capital investment across the bloc is on the. The post Hydrogen deals boost European venture capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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German hydrogen testing company gets scooped up by UL Solutions

Hydrogen Fuel News

The Illinois-based testing, inspection and certification specialist has acquired TesTneT. UL Solutions, a world leader in applied safety science, has acquired German-based hydrogen testing company, TesTneT Engineering GmbH. TesTneT is a leader in hydrogen component and system testing. Testing for various hydrogen storage systems. Established in 2009, TesTneT is an expert in offering comprehensive testing services for a variety of hydrogen storage systems, hydrogen refueling stations , as well as

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‘Utility-scale market in Ecuador is starting to take off,’ says Zelestra

PV Tech

Even though the solar PV market in Ecuador is currently non-existent, with only a few projects operational and mostly in the distributed generation market, it is about to take off, says José Luis García Pérez, Latin America’s CEO at Spanish developer Zelestra, formerly known as Solarpack.

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IRENA: Record global renewables growth still not enough to meet 2030 goals

Business Green

Renewable electricity capacity continues to grow at a record pace, yet the world remains off track to meet global clean power and climate goals for 2030