Tue.Jan 23, 2024

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Why you shouldn't go net zero this year

GreenBiz

Sponsored: You want to move the needle on climate change? Stop trying to achieve net zero.

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Scientists Discover the World’s Largest Deep-sea Coral Reef Habitat

NRDC onEarth

The U.S. Southeast’s Blake Plateau is a biodiversity hotspot and a world-class treasure in our own backyard.

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The world’s clothing boom is a climate changer

GreenBiz

What will it take to redress the textile industry’s devastating environmental impact?

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What DC Water's Boil Advisory Fumble Teaches Us About Lead

NRDC onEarth

DC Water put customers at risk. Safeguards being considered by the EPA for the new Lead and Copper Rule could help—if the agency gets it right.

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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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Here are the innovators and startups set to transform the circular economy

GreenBiz

11 circular economy startups have emerged as $1 billion-plus companies since 2020.

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Comment: “A move away from ‘fabric first’ is a step in the wrong direction”

Envirotec Magazine

Paul Spence is Technical Manager with heatly, a firm developing an app for the heat pump sector. Paul Spence calls for caution when it comes to promoting the idea that heat pumps should be installed regardless of a property’s energy efficiency credentials. Following a new report from Nesta (“Insulation impact: how much do UK houses really need?

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Waste and Plastic Reduction Is Necessary to Protect Our Health

NRDC onEarth

Why New York’s Waste Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is a critical step forward.

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The State of the Voluntary Carbon Market

GreenBiz

Limiting global warming to 1.5 ℃ above pre-industrial levels requires significant carbon reductions and 6 to 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide removal per year by 2050. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a key mechanism to scale those solutions. The 2023 edition of the State of the Voluntary Carbon Market report from Carbon Direct provides carbon credit buyers, carbon project developers, and policymakers with an analysis of key trends and market developments.

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A bundle of tech can replace gas boilers and help millions of homes go off-grid, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Destined for the dumpster? The researchers say the proposal offers “a pragmatic approach to achieving zero-energy homes by harnessing wind and solar power”. Inefficient UK homes, which were built decades ago, can do away with their gas boilers and get all their energy needs off-grid by retrofitting a combination of existing renewable energy technologies, new research seemingly shows.

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Rio Tinto signs contract for Australian grid’s first gigawatt scale solar project

Renew Economy

Rio Tinto signs contract to buy all the output for what will be the biggest solar project on Australia's main grid, and will help power its smelters and refineries. The post Rio Tinto signs contract for Australian grid’s first gigawatt scale solar project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Trials identify “five key ingredients to successful reuse systems”

Envirotec Magazine

The impact and learnings from six reuse projects, funded by over £1.4 million from the Bring It Back Fund are published in a new report (on 23 January) and provide insights which could help boost reuse and return systems across the country, says charity group Hubbub, which oversees the fund alongside Starbucks. The trials which include city-wide returnable takeaway packaging; electronic tagging of reusable alternatives and doorstep packaging collections, involved over 100 food and drink business

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Plug Has Started Operation of the Largest Liquid Green Hydrogen Plant in the U.S. Market

FuelCellsWorks

The largest electrolytic liquid hydrogen production plant, and largest PEM electrolyzer deployment operating in the U.S., representing a landmark achievement in Plug’s build-out of a vertically integrated hydrogen ecosystem.

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Survey will shape 2050 Water Innovation Strategy

Envirotec Magazine

The UK water sector should give more focus to the themes of delivering resilient infrastructure systems and protecting and enhancing natural systems, according to a survey about the UK 2050 Water Innovation Strategy. Spring, the water innovation centre of excellence, launched the sector-wide survey in July 2023. The aim was to seek views to inform the future direction of the Water Innovation Strategy, which was published in 2020 by all UK water and wastewater companies and contains seven key the

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A novel way to improve energy efficiency: Take over the utility bill

Canary Media

Energy efficiency is often called the “lowest-hanging fruit” of decarbonization — it’s a lot cheaper to use less energy than to make more clean energy.

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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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Novel biomembranes project receives €3m Pathfinder grant

Envirotec Magazine

A project aiming to develop a novel bioinspired membrane to selectively extract compounds from water has won a €3m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme. BIOMEM is a consortium led by Danish biotech company Aquaporin, with research led by Aston University’s Dr Alan Goddard. Current water filtration technologies require high pressure and energy inputs and are not selective about the molecules they filter.

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World's first major green steel project locks down $5B in funding

Canary Media

The first step to removing fossil fuels from steelmaking is to build facilities that can produce the all-important alloy with little to no carbon emissions. And the first step to building those new facilities is to lock down billions and billions of dollars in project financing.

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Hydrogen Mobility: The Next Leap in Europe’s Sustainable Transport Revolution

FuelCellsWorks

In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of sustainable transport, hydrogen mobility is emerging as a promising contender, poised to redefine the ecosystem of eco-friendly transportation. Amidst the gradual shift towards.

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Italy generates record 30.6TWh of electricity from solar projects in 2023

PV Tech

Italy generated record-breaking volumes of both solar PV and wind power in 2023, producing 30.6TWh and 23.4TWh of electricity, respectively.

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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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Quantron Contributes 14 Trucks in the First Large-Scale Deployment of Fuel Cell Electric Commercial Vehicles in the UK

FuelCellsWorks

In collaboration with Novuna Vehicle Solutions and together with fuel cell electric vehicle manufacturer Electra Commercial Vehicles, QUANTRON will deploy FCEV trucks in different categories in the Tees Valley region.

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Planet, Microsoft, and Researchers Build New AI-focused Resource for Environmental Reporting

Planet Pulse

Authors: Seamus Lombardo and Amy Rosenthal As a Public Benefit Corporation, we think a lot about sustainability and the solutions our customers, partners, and the world need. These solutions require an up-to-date, close-up view of the Earth, as well as the deep analytics that provide reliable, quantitative insights about how Earth’s surface is changing.

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Nikola Corporation Announces Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results and Webcast and Q&A Platform for Shareholders

FuelCellsWorks

PHOENIX— Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy supply and infrastructure solutions, via the HYLA brand, today announced it will report is fourth quarter and full year ended December 31,

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Ten Things to Watch in Global Carbon Markets in 2024

BloombergNEF

BloombergNEF expects the prices of some carbon markets around the world to begin to converge. The post Ten Things to Watch in Global Carbon Markets in 2024 appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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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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New Green Technology for Producing Hydrogen Using Renewable Energy

FuelCellsWorks

Professor Avner Rothschild’s research group at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology developed a new green technology for producing hydrogen. A group of researchers from the Technion Faculty of.

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EnergyAustralia plans to build massive four hour battery in South Australia

Renew Economy

EnergyAustralia plans massive four-hour battery in wind and solar dominated South Australia, to be built next to an existing gas fired power station. The post EnergyAustralia plans to build massive four hour battery in South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Connecticut regulators more than double incentive cap for residential battery scheme

Energy Storage News

Up to US$16,000 in upfront incentives are available per customer for residential battery purchases in Connecticut after changes were made to a utility scheme in the US state.

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Air Liquide Participates in HYGUANE Project for a Greener Space Center

FuelCellsWorks

Air Liquide, a global leader in gases, technologies, and services for industry and health, has announced its active involvement in the HYGUANE project, a collaborative effort supported by the European.

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BMW collaboration unveils hydrogen plane with 1,800km range

Hydrogen Fuel News

The aircraft will be capable of vertical take-off and landing will have a useful range. In a collaboration including BMW and a top Formula 1 engineering firm, start-up Sirius Aviation from Switzerland has unveiled a hydrogen plane design with a range of as much as 1,800 kilometers on one fueling. The aircraft would be powered by liquid H2 and would be able to fly without carbon emissions.

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Highlighting overlooked solar products from Intersolar North America 2024

Solar Power World

The exhibitors I spoke to at Intersolar North America this year felt that the show is not as popular or jam-packed with attendees as other clean energy conventions, however, that gave them the chance for longer, higher quality conversations with prospective customers. Intersolar happens a few months months following RE+, and that show has garnered… The post Highlighting overlooked solar products from Intersolar North America 2024 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Fortescue to build batteries, EV chargers and eloctrolysers at site of first Ford factory

Renew Economy

Fortescue secures grant and tax incentives to set up manufacturing facility at the site of the first Ford factory in Detroit to build batteries, EV fast chargers, and electrolysers. The post Fortescue to build batteries, EV chargers and eloctrolysers at site of first Ford factory appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Yanmar’s hydrogen fuel cell maritime tech gets green lighted by ClassNK

Hydrogen Fuel News

The approval is a landmark achievement for the maritime industry. Japanese company Yanmar Power Technology (YPT) has received AiP (Approval in Principle) certification for its maritime hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) system, marking the first time a Japanese manufacturer has been granted AiP certification for this type of system. Yanmar’s system has been designed to provide easy installation on ships.

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JinkoSolar on the importance of investing capex into TOPCon, its Shanxi plant and module products

PV Tech

PV Tech spoke with Jinko’s Victor Wei and Wally Zang, Senior IR Director and Technical Service Centre General Manager respectively, about the company’s investment in TOPCon, its fully vertically integrated plant currently being built in China’s Shanxi province and how it is looking at module products for deployment in offshore solar projects subject to hail conditions.

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Infinium and Amogy Team Up to Spearhead Green Ammonia and eFuels Solutions

FuelCellsWorks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. and BROOKLYN, N.Y— Leading eFuels provider Infinium and Amogy Inc. (“Amogy”), a pioneer of carbon-free, energy-dense power solutions, have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore opportunities to integrate their technologies and.

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