Fri.Jan 26, 2024

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The Reusies awards celebrate communities, innovators and activists

GreenBiz

Companies advancing product and packaging reuse business models compete for recognition at the awards in May at Circularity 24 in Chicago.

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International Community Wants Biden to Act on LNG

NRDC onEarth

Allies from key countries around the world came out resoundingly in support of the Biden administration's decision to pause permitting of new liquefied natural gas export facilities.

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Chart: Is LNG worse for the climate than coal?

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Conventional wisdom has long been that it’s better for the planet to burn fossil gas for electricity than it is to burn coal.

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Next-Gen Honda Fuel Cell System Plays Key Role in Hydrogen Business Strategy

FuelCellsWorks

Honda expanding hydrogen business to realize global goal of carbon neutrality Production of new Honda fuel cell system has begun at Fuel Cell System Manufacturing (FCSM) joint venture facility in.

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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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Big electric-truck charging depots are coming soon to California

Canary Media

California leads the U.S. in the push to swap out diesel-fueled trucks for electric — and in the buildout of the electric truck stops and depots those new trucks will depend on.

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Offshore wind energy to be stored on massive green hydrogen fuel islands

Hydrogen Fuel News

The H2 will be used to store electricity generated by the wind farms but that won’t be used immediately. Offshore wind energy is already picking up, and as this trend is only expected to continue for the next quarter century, using green hydrogen and other means of storing excess energy will become highly important to ensuring reliable electricity.

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It’s time the solar industry embraces e-commerce

Solar Power World

Solar installers and EPC contractors are looking for new strategies to simplify procurement and ensure they have solar components when they need them. E-procurement is emerging as a preferred strategy to source solar panels and components, and B2B solar marketplaces provide product buyers with a central location to request quotes and order supplies.

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A group of Spanish companies plan to develop the world’s first hydrogen high speed train

Hydrogen Fuel News

This endeavor is to be carried out by Talgo and others. Talgo (Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol), a Spanish manufacturer of intercity, standard and high-speed passenger trains, and a consortium of 10 Spanish companies and organizations, have been awarded a grant of €6.5 million ($7 million) to co-develop the first hydrogen high speed train in the world.

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Regulator quashes ERCOT’s proposed state-of-charge rules for BESS

Energy Storage News

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has ordered the state's grid operator ERCOT to rescind state-of-charge (SOC) rules requiring batteries to hold additional capacity to provide ancillary services.

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Lucid quadruples size of its Arizona assembly plant for Gravity SUV launch

Charged

While sales of the Air sedan have been slow, Lucid is planning much greater capacity for the Gravity, a three-row luxury SUV with 440 miles of range. Startup electric-car maker Lucid Motors cut the ribbon Wednesday on a massive expansion of its U.S. assembly plant in Casa Grande, Arizona. The company has built the Lucid Air luxury sedan there for about two years, but the enlarged plant is needed for production of its second EV, the Gravity three-row SUV.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses to Be Tested in the Budapest Area

FuelCellsWorks

Hydrogen fuel cell buses will be tested on the roads of the Budapest agglomeration – between Budapest, Kelenföld station, and Szigethalom – from January 22, 2024, for at least half.

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TeraWatt and New Mexico DOT secure $64-million grant to deploy heavy-duty EV charging along I-10 corridor

Charged

TeraWatt Infrastructure , in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), has been selected to receive $63.8 million in federal grant funding via the US DOT’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) grant program. TeraWatt’s grant is one of 47 awarded to projects nationwide in the first $623-million tranche of the CFI program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Will Auxin Solar’s latest AD/CVD lawsuit be a thorn in the side of US solar?

PV Tech

Earlier this month California-based solar manufacturer Auxin Solar announced that it was suing the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and Customs & Border Patrol over unclaimed payments from the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs.

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Veolia completes refuse truck vehicle-to-grid trial in the UK

Charged

Veolia , a water, energy and waste recycling services multinational headquartered in France, has presented the results of a successful vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial that enabled two specially designed bidirectional vehicles to be charged and then to discharge 110 kW of energy, or enough to power 110 households for over two hours during peak evening hours.

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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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Chinese Investors Enter Serbian Renewable Energy With €2Bn Green Hydrogen and Power Project

FuelCellsWorks

Serbia has signed an agreement to enable the Chinese company Shanghai Fengling Renewables and Serbia Zijin Copper to build a €2bn hydrogen and power generation plant, known as an electrolysis.

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The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Category curation. Diversification across asset classes is one of the things that makes the “ownership economy” an attractive. The post The Week in impact investing: Fund discovery appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Pertamina and Toyota Join Forces to Develop Hydrogen Ecosystem for Transportation From Upstream to Downstream

FuelCellsWorks

Jakarta– Pertamina New & Renewable Energy (Pertamina NRE) is collaborating with Toyota to develop a hydrogen ecosystem as a vehicle fuel in Indonesia. During the groundbreaking hydrogen refueling station (HRS).

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Nautilus Solar Energy seals US$72 million tax equity deal for 62MW solar portfolio

PV Tech

US community solar company Nautilus Solar Energy has signed a US$72 million tax equity deal with institutional investment management firm Foss & Company for a 62MW solar portfolio.

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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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Hydrogen-Source Heat Pumps in UK Households Could Significantly Reduce UK Carbon Footprint, New Research Finds

FuelCellsWorks

New research by the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University of Sheffield has revealed that using hydrogen-source heat pumps to heat UK households could markedly reduce the carbon footprint.

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Origis Energy secures US$317 million tax equity for New Mexico and Mississippi solar projects

PV Tech

Origis Energy has secured US$317 million in project tax equity for two US solar projects with a combined capacity of 350MWac.

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USTDA Advances South Africa’s Green Hydrogen Ambitions

FuelCellsWorks

Arlington, VA– The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will bring a delegation of South African clean energy sector decision-makers to the United States to build partnerships between South Africa.

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This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING

DeSmogBlog

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities.

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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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California Energy Commission Awards Enchanted Rock Grant for Hydrogen Blending Study

FuelCellsWorks

Funds Support Research into Innovative Hydrogen Blending Technology that will Mitigate Emissions and Improve Grid Resiliency STOCKTON, Calif.— Enchanted Rock, a leading provider of electrical resiliency microgrids, today announced that the.

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Gove’s plan for thousands of Cambridge homes at risk from lack of water

Financial Times: Energy

Local leaders warn ‘nonsensical’ pledge by central government ignores absence of infrastructure

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Charles Darwin University (CDU) Has Produced Hydrogen in the Northern Territory of Australia for the First Time

FuelCellsWorks

Charles Darwin University (CDU) has produced hydrogen in the Northern Territory for the first time. The University and the Northern Territory has today taken a step forward in the goal.

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Networked geothermal pilot project to be built in Boston, MA

ThinkGeoEnergy

The first networked geothermal pilot project in the city of Boston, Massachusetts is will be built at the Franklin Fields Apartments in Dorchester. The project was announced by Mayor Michelle Wu along with the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) and utility company National Grid. The project design is set to start in early 2024 and construction activity will commence by 2025.

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Innovative Green Hydrogen Shore Power Trial Launched at the Port of Leith

FuelCellsWorks

A consortium of four Scottish renewable and maritime companies have been awarded a UK Government Department for Transport grant of over £535,000 to develop an innovative UK-first approach that will.

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Geothermal Technical Table gearing up for Italy’s geothermal renaissance

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Geothermal Technical Table, coordinated by the Italian Geothermal Union (UGI) and the Italian Urban Heating Association (AIRU), has started a series of dialogues with Italy’s Ministry of the Environment (MASE) to work on the relaunch of geothermal energy as a renewable and strategic energy resource for the country. Despite Italy’s undisputed role as a technological leader in the use of geothermal energy for over a century and the local skills being recognized globally, the curren

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Mabanaft and Tui Cruises Sign Mou for the Supply of Methanol

FuelCellsWorks

Hamburg-based energy company Mabanaft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TUI Cruises, one of the leading cruise operators, to supply green methanol in the future. The cooperation between Mabanaft.

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Nautilus Solar, Foss & Company Announce $72M Tax Equity Partnership

Solar Industry

Nautilus Solar Energy and Foss & Company have announced a $72 million tax equity partnership, covering a 62 MW portfolio of 16 projects across Maine, Minnesota, New York and Maryland. “The collaboration with Foss & Company highlights the growing demand for community solar projects that offer an equitable and affordable renewable energy choice,” says Julian Erfurth, Nautilus’ executive director of capital markets. “This partnership not only reinforces our commitment to

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Greenvale Announces Update in Acquisition of Premium Helium and Hydrogen Assets

FuelCellsWorks

Greenvale Energy Limited (ASX: GRV, “Greenvale” or “the Company”) refers to its previous announcement dated 17 October 2023 “Acquisition of High-Quality Helium and Hydrogen Opportunity” (ASX Release). As set out in.

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Middle East conflict could fuel gas price volatility, warns IEA

Financial Times: Energy

Energy watchdog notes ‘unusually wide range of uncertainty’ in its forecasts for this year

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