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CATL provides more details on ‘zero-degradation’ Tener BESS product at ees Europe

Energy Storage News

CATL, the world's largest lithium-ion OEM, has given more details around its new battery energy storage system (BESS) product, Tener, including how it claims to have achieved no degradation in the first five years of operation.

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The dos and don’ts of corporate tree planting efforts

GreenBiz

Credible partners ensure companies get behind high-integrity restoration projects with lasting benefits.

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A perovskite for the efficient photocatalytic conversion of ethane into ethylene and hydrogen

TechXplore

Ethylene (C2H4) is a highly flammable compound widely used in numerous settings, including the manufacturing of packaging and plastic-based items, the chemical industry, agriculture and health care. Developing effective and sustainable methods to produce ethylene on a large scale could help to meet the rising demand for this versatile hydrocarbon.

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Queensland designates battery-backed ‘Local REZ,’ approves local network energy storage

Energy Storage News

The Queensland government confirmed yesterday (18 June) that Caloundra, Australia, will house a Local Renewable Energy Zone (LREZ), with plans to triple rooftop solar PV generation.

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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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Researchers develop technique to boost sodium-ion battery capacity

TechXplore

Researchers have developed a new technique to solve the problem of how to increase the capacity of sodium-ion batteries.

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Sunwoda applying decades of experience to push into ESS market

Energy Storage News

Executives from Sunwoda, one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery OEMs, share the latest updates around the company's grid-scale, residential, and commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage system (ESS) activity.

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Renalfa IPP starts operating Bulgaria’s largest BESS project with Hithium/Kehua tech

Energy Storage News

A 25MW/55MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) has been commissioned by operator Renalfa IPP, using technology provided by Chinese firms Hithium and Kehua.

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Public support traffic-light labeling for advertising high-carbon products like petrol cars and air travel

TechXplore

There is public support for introducing traffic-light labeling and levies for the advertising of high-carbon products and services like petrol and diesel cars, meat and air travel, new research shows.

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TWAICE, NARDAC partner to provide better insurance terms for BESS using software analytics

Energy Storage News

TWAICE has partnered with NARDAC to bolster insurance coverage for battery energy storage system (BESS) asset owners, investors and lenders.

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Call to make London a ‘sponge city’

Envirotec Magazine

The River Rom in Dagenham, East London (image credit: ©Thames21). London will need to urgently become a ‘sponge city’ – a city better designed to absorb and hold rainwater – in order to ward off the negative impacts of the climate emergency, the organisers of London Rivers Week have urged. The climate emergency has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and governments, businesses and communities must protect London’s rivers in order for them to be better prepared to tac

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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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Why the newest large nuclear plant in the US is likely to be the last

Renew Economy

After years of delays and cost over-runs, the US has finally opened its newest large scale nuclear unit, using the design favoured by Peter Dutton. Here's why it could be the last the US ever builds. The post Why the newest large nuclear plant in the US is likely to be the last appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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RenewableUK CEO and former COP President call for bold leadership on offshore wind

Envirotec Magazine

Speaking at the opening session of RenewableUK’s Global Offshore Wind 2024 conference and exhibition at Manchester Central, RenewableUK’s Chief Executive Dan McGrail has called for the sector to put the troubles of recent years behind it. His address came a few days after the group published a report showing that global offshore wind operational capacity had increased by 21% over the last 12 months, from 61.5 gigawatts a year ago to 75GW today.

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Nuclear thuggery: Coalition will not take no for an answer from local communities or site owners

Renew Economy

Coalition vows to override objections of states, asset owners and local communities to their nuclear plans. The post Nuclear thuggery: Coalition will not take no for an answer from local communities or site owners appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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This NYC high-rise is using heat pumps and waste heat to cut fossil fuels

Canary Media

Buildings everywhere need to get off fossil fuels in order to help the world avoid climate catastrophe.

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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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Australia’s first floating wind farm edges closer with feasibility licence awarded to 2GW project

Renew Economy

An up to 2GW offshore wind project proposed for the New South Wales Hunter region, has been awarded a feasibility licence by the federal government. The post Australia’s first floating wind farm edges closer with feasibility licence awarded to 2GW project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Key Milestone Achieved for European Hydrogen Network Development

FuelCellsWorks

Today marks a crucial development in European energy collaboration, with 37 infrastructure companies finalizing agreements in Brussels for the establishment of the European Network of Network Operators for Hydrogen (ENNOH).

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GenCost doesn’t just rule out nuclear, it makes solar thermal impossible to ignore

Renew Economy

GenCost's findings on nuclear are worth revisiting this week, but so are its findings on solar thermal, as offering the lowest LCOE of any "flexible load, low emission" generation technology. The post GenCost doesn’t just rule out nuclear, it makes solar thermal impossible to ignore appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Norway is investigating massive hydrogen cargo ship possibilities

Hydrogen Fuel News

A new project aims to retrofit a huge LNG vessel with H2 fuel cells Norway has focused on a new hydrogen cargo ship conversion project and is funding the effort, which will take an existing LNG-powered multipurpose vessel and retrofit it to operate on the power from fuel cells. The funding will come from the Norwegian government’s ENOVA fund ENOVA is intended to support initiatives created to accelerate decarbonization in the country.

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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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Australia’s biggest solar project that will help power giant smelter seeks green tick from government

Renew Economy

The largest solar project on Australia's main grid, to provide power to smelters and refineries, seeks federal green tick. The post Australia’s biggest solar project that will help power giant smelter seeks green tick from government appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Join Electric, Propane and Natural Gas Fleets for 14th Annual Georgia Clean Energy Roadshow

FuelCellsWorks

AUSTELL, Ga. and CARTERSVILLE, Ga. and ALPHARETTA, Ga.– The 14th annual Georgia Clean Energy Roadshow hosted by PSC Vice Chairman Tim Echols and produced by Event Energy Partners will roll into town promoting the benefits of alternative fuels, starting July 9th with.

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Kicking out gas: Canberra lays out plan to become Australia’s first all electric city

Renew Economy

The ACT government has unveiled its Integrated Energy Plan which lays out the pathway to become Australia's first 100 per cent renewable, all electric city. The post Kicking out gas: Canberra lays out plan to become Australia’s first all electric city appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen bikes need only seconds to refuel

Hydrogen Fuel News

Recharging time has been a challenge for some ebike riders, but H2 could overcome that The majority of ebikes currently being ridden are battery electrics, but hydrogen bikes are starting to move into the radar and are drawing attention due to some of their notable conveniences. Ebikes are becoming increasingly popular, and this trend is expected to continue Hydrogen bikes are typically lighter than battery electrics, simply because they don’t need the larger battery to power them, and th

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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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HRS Launches International Expansion Outside Europe Order for a HRS Hydrogen Refueling Station in Saudi Arabia

FuelCellsWorks

Grenoble– HRS , European designer and manufacturer of hydrogen refueling stations, announces the first order for an HRS14[1] hydrogen station outside Europe, from a Saudi Arabian developer. With considerable renewable energy.

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Ensuring Sustainable Urban Development and Protecting Biodiversity with the Government of New South Wales

Planet Pulse

Earlier this year, the Australian government of New South Wales (NSW) designated $100 million towards housing development and biodiversity protection. This allocation is set to enhance the existing programs run by the government of NSW, such the Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan. This 35-year plan aims to enable needed housing development in Western Sydney while protecting areas of high biodiversity value across the landscape – including the home of the largest koala population in the Syd

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Congress votes to advance nuclear energy development in the US

The Verge: Energy

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California on Oct. 25, 2022. | Laura Dickinson/San Luis Obsipo Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Congress has passed a bill aimed at giving nuclear energy a boost in the US. The Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act is now waiting for President Joe Biden’s signature to become law.

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Lhyfe and Deutsche Bahn Cooperate for the Use of Climate-Neutral Trains Thanks to Green Hydrogen

FuelCellsWorks

Lhyfe has built a hydrogen production plant for DB Energie’s Tübingen innovation hub Production of up to 30 tons of green hydrogen per year (corresponding to 1 MW of installed.

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World’s first wind turbine foundation poured from decarbonised concrete

Renew Economy

Two French companies say they have successfully completed the pouring of the world’s first wind turbine foundation made from decarbonised concrete. The post World’s first wind turbine foundation poured from decarbonised concrete appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hyundai Engineering & Construction Spearheads Nuclear-Powered Hydrogen Production Initiative

FuelCellsWorks

Hyundai Engineering & Construction has partnered with several major Korean institutions and companies to create a hydrogen production base using nuclear power, marking a significant advancement in clean energy technology.

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Mullen introduces battery version of PowerUP mobile EV charger

Charged

US-based commercial EV manufacturer Mullen Automotive has developed a new battery-powered version of its mobile EV charging truck, based on its Class 3 electric cab chassis truck. The previous version of PowerUP announced in July 2023 used a gasoline Class 5 cab chassis platform and a propane and natural gas power generation unit. Unlike traditional fossil fuel-powered generators, the new version operates with minimal noise pollution, making it suitable for use in noise-sensitive environments.

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Zinedine Zidane Represents Alpine at the Legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans

FuelCellsWorks

Brand ambassador Zinedine Zidane came to support Alpine at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend. He was the starter of the legendary race the year Alpine returned to.

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Drought forces Tasmania to fire up its biggest gas plant for first time in five years

Renew Economy

Tasmania fires up its biggest gas generator for first time in five years. It says this is because of low water levels, not low wind. The post Drought forces Tasmania to fire up its biggest gas plant for first time in five years appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Bramble Energy’s ‘Hydrogen Bus’ reaches a crucial milestone, taking a significant innovative step toward transforming the transport sector

FuelCellsWorks

Bramble Energy – in partnership with Equipmake, Aeristech, and the University of Bath – has reached a significant milestone in the Hydrogen Electric Integrated Drivetrain Initiative (HEIDI) project. A project expected.

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