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Chart: 85% of new electricity built in 2023 came from renewables

Canary Media

Renewable energy still supplies less of the world’s electricity than fossil fuels do, but it’s being built at a rate that far outpaces the construction of non-renewable forms of energy.

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Nel Doubles Alkaline Electrolyser Production Capacity to 1 GW Annually

FuelCellsWorks

Nel has achieved a significant milestone by doubling its annual alkaline electrolyser manufacturing capacity to 1GW, following the installation of a second 500MW automated production line at its Herøya factory.

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CrowdStrike chaos leads to grounded aircraft — and maybe an unusual weather effect

TechCrunch: Climate

The IT outage may have an unexpected effect on the climate: clearer skies and maybe lower temperatures this evening © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Nikola Sets New Hydrogen Refueling Record in California

FuelCellsWorks

Nikola Corporation, has set a new record for hydrogen refueling at its HYLA station in Ontario, California. According to a LinkedIn post by CEO Stephen Girsky, the station achieved a significant milestone.

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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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Eulogy for a cactus

Grist

James Lange remembers the day he and a team of botanists and conservationists gathered at a rock formation encircled by a thicket of mangroves in Key Largo, Florida. They’d come to the nation’s last wild stand of a rare cacti to confront the inevitable. With sea level rise bringing the Atlantic Ocean ever closer to the withering plants, the group had made the difficult decision to remove the cacti’s remaining green material, preserve it in nurseries, and hope that it might one day be reint

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Study Finds Health Risks in Switching Ships From Diesel to Ammonia Fuel

FuelCellsWorks

Ammonia could be a nearly carbon-free maritime fuel, but without new emissions regulations, its impact on air quality could significantly impact human health. As container ships the size of city.

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Germany Will Need to Import Up 50–70% of Hydrogen in 2030, Paper Says

FuelCellsWorks

BERLIN– Germany must import more than half of the hydrogen it needs in 2030, according to a government paper seen by Reuters, highlighting the challenges the country faces in securing.

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‘US’ largest’ solar-plus-storage project, Gemini, comes online in Nevada

Energy Storage News

Project owners Quinbrook and Primergy have put their 1.4GWh Gemini solar-plus-storage project in Nevada online, claiming it is the largest such project in the US.

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Energy Minister Chris Bowen Says Fortescue’s Changing Hydrogen Targets No Issue for Australia’s Goals

FuelCellsWorks

The Federal Energy Minister says the death of Australia’s green hydrogen sector has been greatly exaggerated since the country’s biggest industry advocate Fortescue shifted expectations on 2030 targets. Speaking after.

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Lhyfe to supply green hydrogen to Hyliko’s refueling station, a center of excellence for H2 trucks

Hydrogen Fuel News

A first of its kind in France. Lhyfe, a France-based company and green hydrogen production pioneer, announced that it will supply green H2 to Hyliko’s refueling station for hydrogen trucks. This is a significant milestone for Lhyfe and France as the hydrogen refueling station is part of the nation’s first dedicated hydrogen truck center.

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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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AWARDS FINALIST: Hiringa Energy – Heavy Transport’s Biggest Decarbonisation Network

FuelCellsWorks

Hiringa Energy’s green hydrogen refuelling network is not only a first for this country, but also one of the largest hydrogen infrastructure projects for transport in the southern hemisphere. Hydrogen.

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Corporate interest in community solar rising in the US

PV Tech

The corporate world is taking an increased interest in community solar, which can take multiple forms, from tax equity to offtake.

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Fallback Friday Story: 400 Hysetco Hydrogen Taxis in Circulation in ÎLe-De-france

FuelCellsWorks

HysetCo, an asset company dedicated to the development of hydrogen mobility that owns the largest fleet of hydrogen taxis in the world, announced on January 19, 2021 the acquisition of.

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Green hydrogen company happily welcomes investment from 3M

Hydrogen Fuel News

3M continues efforts to expand groundbreaking climate technologies. American multinational conglomerate, 3M, has announced it has invested in Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company specializing in the development of electrolyzer systems for the production of renewable hydrogen. The investment is part of 3M’s commitment to advance breakthrough technologies designed to support the transition from traditional fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy. 3M is exploring more ways to decarbon

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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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NYK Completes World’s First Truck-to-Ship Ammonia Bunkering of Ammonia-Fueled Tugboat

FuelCellsWorks

In cooperation with JERA and Resonac to provide safe and secure fueling On July 17, NYK supplied fuel ammonia to an NYK-owned ammonia-fueled tugboat (“A-Tug”) scheduled to become the world’s.

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Offshore wind port siting stirs debate among coastal Mainers

Canary Media

This story was originally copublished by Energy News Network , the Maine Monitor , and Grist. Ron Huber rifled through a thick folder full of decades of state environmental records outside a community hall in the tiny coastal Maine town of Searsport.

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Ohmium Launches Newest PEM Electrolyzer Gigafactory

FuelCellsWorks

Located just outside of Bengaluru, the 2GW factory, expandable to 4GW, will produce hyper modular PEM electrolyzers to meet the growing demand for green hydrogen from customers in India and.

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Florida, Puerto Rico to tap federal funding for emergency BESS, Sunrun VPP powers Californian heatwave

PV Tech

The Energy Storage for Resilient Homes Act would allow residents of the two states to use funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to purchase residential BESS.

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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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Pennsylvania’s New Carbon Capture Legislation Could Influence Hydrogen Future

FuelCellsWorks

Pennsylvania has enacted a new law establishing a framework for carbon capture and storage (CCS) to combat carbon emissions from fossil fuels. The law has sparked controversy, with environmental groups.

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Mullen Automotive will allow customers to retrofit new Solid-State Polymer Battery Pack, increasing EV range

Charged

Southern California-based Commercial EV manufacturer Mullen Automotive has two vehicle plants located in Tunica, Mississippi and Mishawaka, Indiana. It began EV production in Tunica in August 2023. Now the company is developing a new solid-state polymer battery pack that it says can almost double the range of its EVs, and it will allow existing customers to upgrade to the new pack when it’s ready.

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Yanmar Commercializes Compact Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power System

FuelCellsWorks

Osaka, Japan– Yanmar Energy Systems Co., Ltd. (Yanmar ES), a subsidiary of Yanmar Holdings, has commercialized the “HP35FA1Z”, a compact and multi-unit controllable hydrogen fuel cell power generation system, and.

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Intersect Power closes financing for 1GWh of battery projects due in 2024

Smart Energy International

US clean tech company Intersect Power has closed $837 million in financing for the construction and operation of three standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Texas, representing 1GWh in storage that will move from concept to commissioned in under 12 months. The three BESS — Lumina I, Lumina II and Radian — are already under construction and are expected to be operational in 2024.

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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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Constellation Resources Explores Natural Hydrogen Prospects in Western Australia

FuelCellsWorks

Constellation Resources Limited reports promising developments in natural hydrogen and helium exploration in Western Australia, alongside mineral discoveries at its Orpheus Project. The company completed a $1.4 million funding round.

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European venture capital continues to smile on the energy sector

Smart Energy International

This week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook looks at recent data on venture capital financing in Europe, finding the energy sector taking the lion’s share, with e-mobility and hydrogen companies flourishing, specifically. In the Power Playbook, I often talk about the immense amount of financing needed to fuel the energy transition. Arguably the biggest arena this cash can come from is that of venture capital.

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Hystar to Supply 0.75 MW Electrolyser to Fortum, Expands Into Finland

FuelCellsWorks

Hystar signs contract with Finnish company Fortum to supply a 0.75 MW electrolyser Hystar AS has signed an agreement with Finnish mostly state-owned energy company Fortum to supply a 0.75 MW electrolyser.

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New humidity-driven membrane removes carbon dioxide from the air

TechXplore

Direct air capture was identified as one of the "seven chemical separations to change the world." This is because although carbon dioxide is the main contributor to climate change (we release ~40 billion tons into the atmosphere every year), separating carbon dioxide from air is very challenging due to its dilute concentration (~0.04%).

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Cooper Standard’s new eCoFlow Switch Pump simplifies EV thermal management systems

Charged

Michigan-headquartered Cooper Standard, a global supplier of sealing and fluid handling systems and components, recently debuted the first member of its new eCoFlow product line. The eCoFlow Switch Pump , created in partnership with the Saleri Group, offers features of both an electric water pump and electrically driven valve in a single integrated coolant control module.

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Engineers eliminate surface concavities to produce more efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

TechXplore

A research team from the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has shown the existence of surface concavities on individual crystal grains, which are the fundamental building blocks of perovskite thin films, while revealing their significant effects on film properties and reliability.

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Geothermal well to be drilled for baths facility in Oldenburg, Germany

ThinkGeoEnergy

Baths operator Bäderbetrieb Oldenburg has assigned drilling specialist Daldup & Söhne AG to drill exploratory and doublet drilling for geothermal wells that will supply sustainable heat to a new sports and health pool at Flötenteich in the city of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. The drilling is scheduled to being by the fourth quarter of 2024.

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Study unveils solvent-free dry electrodes that boost lithium-ion battery performance

TechXplore

A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in developing an eco-friendly dry electrode manufacturing process for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The new process, which does not require the use of harmful solvents, enhances battery performance while promoting sustainability.

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Protected: A comprehensive DERMS for multiple stakeholders

Smart Energy International

For more than a decade, DERMS has been associated to solutions that grid operators have been using to operate their grid.

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Renewable electricity to outstrip coal next year: IEA

TechXplore

The amount of electricity produced from renewable sources worldwide is set to surpass output from coal-fired plants for the first time in 2025, the International Energy Agency said Friday.