Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Image from the awards ceremony in Edinburgh in 2023. The Scottish Green Energy Awards announced its shortlist on 17 October, with projects poised for the spotlight including a large-scale wind farm and a pioneering training centre equipping engineers for the energy transition. This year’s awards, headline sponsored by EDF Renewables UK, will “bring together an unprecedented number of guests to recognise and honour the achievements of those whose revolutionary work is securing Scotland’s fu

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Some great news in childhood and environmental health: A new EPA rule requiring utilities to remove all lead water pipes in 10 years The industry says, unsurprisingly, it will cost a lot — the EPA estimates it will take about $45 billion over a decade. For fun, let’s double that and call it about $10 billion per year. That’s less than the $12B Americans spend on Halloween annually ($3.6B just on candy), and the $11B the US oil and gas industry spent just on exploration last yea

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity demand by the end of this decade, according to a new IEA report, with solar as the leading approach. Due to supportive policies and favourable economics, the world’s renewable power capacity is expected to surge over the rest of this decade, with global additions on course to roughly equal the current power capacity of China, the European Union, India and the United States combined, according to a new IEA report on 9 October.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Labor has a whole list of great energy policy achievements, but it doesn't appear capable of selling them. We look at what they have done, and what they should do. The post Federal Labor has great energy policy achievements, but they can’t sell them appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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

Energy

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Residents in Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford will now be able to recycle a wider range of plastic items in their household mixed recycling bin, says Greater Manchester Combined Authority, following changes to its recycling facilities and to the recent contract extension with SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A $900 million funding opportunity released by the Department of Energy (DOE) on Oct. 16 seeks to spur “first mover” teams that could deploy the first two Gen III+ light […] The post DOE Releases $900M to Spur Gen III+ Nuclear SMR Deployment, Targets Two ‘First Mover’ Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Greetings Agents of Impact! It was great to see so many of you on our lively Call yesterday. Thanks to Ruth Gao, Jazmin. The post The Brief: What new GEMs data does – and doesn’t – tell us about lending risks in emerging markets appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Wind and solar industry warns the market for renewable energy certificates could crash if Tasmania succeeds in its push for changes that could deliver windfall gains to its old hydro assets. The post Wind and solar developers warn of market crash as Tasmania chases windfalls gains for old hydro assets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Hyundai Recalling Nexo Models Due to TPRD Defect Hyundai Motor America announced a recall for certain 2019-2024 Nexo models due to a defect in the thermally activated pressure relief device (TPRD). This component, crucial for managing hydrogen gas pressure within the vehicle’s storage tank, may break, leading to a potential hydrogen gas leak. Such a leak poses a significant fire risk, especially when the vehicle is parked.

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Hydrogen Technology Innovation Automotive 115

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While there is much more variety in the BESS supply landscape today, there are relatively few suppliers able to offer products for 'grid-forming, enduring infrastructure assets', developer and operator Dais Energy's CEO said.

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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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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new company offering solar and battery storage "as a service" for commercial and industrial customers has launched under the leadership of former SwitchDin CEO Andrew Mears. The post New venture promises to slash power costs using solar, battery storage and “radical transparency” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Oil majors’ conduct can constitute reckless endangerment due to fossil fuels’ affect on global heating, advocates claim New York state prosecutors could press criminal charges against big oil for its role in fueling hurricanes and other climate disasters, lawyers wrote in a new prosecution memorandum that has been endorsed by elected officials across the state.

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Fossil fuels Law Energy Energy 111

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

NSW won't reduce the 8-hour definition for long duration energy storage and is setting both a new target and regulations to make this field more attractive to developers. The post NSW sets new long duration storage target as it readies for grid after coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Climate change is intensifying natural disasters in Central and South America, from raging forest fires to devastating floods and landslides. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in the region have increased significantly in recent years, leading to a 23% rise in the number of recorded natural disasters in the last decade.

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Technology South America Climate change Government 104

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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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Massive wind and battery project attracts nearly 100 hundred objections, but none from locals and most from people who don't live anywhere near the project. The post Massive renewables hub gets all clear from locals, but long distance activists complain about the view appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DCED Guidelines Now Available

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Solar panel technology that keeps lights on around the world and batteries made from waste have been recognised at an awards gala. The post Australian solar PERC pioneer wins technology innovation gong appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The buildings sector contributes as high as 39 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions; to change this, we need innovations that revolutionize how buildings are planned, built, retrofitted, and managed. Decarbonizing this key greenhouse-gas-emitting sector will require collaboration across the climatetech ecosystem, with corporate leaders, investors, policymakers, and others working in concert with technology entrepreneurs to scale solutions.

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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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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Big generation companies seize on unplanned baseload and network outages to cause a spike in wholesale electricity prices in September, and reverse the long-term downward trend in some states. The post Rapacious utilities send power prices soaring as they seize on coal and network faults, and low wind output appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Electricity Policy 114

Solar Industry

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Primergy Solar has closed commitments for $350 million in tax equity financing for the 408 MW Ash Creek Solar project in Hill County, Texas. This brings the total capital raised for the Ash Creek Solar project to nearly $1 billion, says the company. Earlier this year, Primergy announced $588 million in project financing for construction of the project and secured a long-term power purchase agreement with Microsoft.

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Construction Resilience Investment Energy 97

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A lack of regulation and policy regarding BESS is challenging the growth of the technology in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lightsource bp ’s 188 MW Honeysuckle solar project in St. Joseph County, Ind. has entered commercial operation. “With our project partners, we are supporting the rapidly growing U.S. solar manufacturing sector, local unions and investing in rural America,” says Emilie Wangerman, COO of Lightsource bp USA. “Honeysuckle Solar showcases these and other quantifiable benefits Americans are deriving from the Inflation Reduction Act.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Community energy group hopes for local electricity trading as part of its ‘better system’ of supply and ownership In the shadow of the Didcot power station in Oxfordshire, a small group of people sat around a kitchen table and thought “let’s replace it” with green community energy. That was in 2011. Now, in 2024, that little group has become the Low Carbon Hub with 1,773 members and 55 renewable energy installations around Oxford, including two hydroelectric dams on the River Thames.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Aspen Power has completed two community solar sites in Corinth and Prospect, Maine, which together deliver 8.5 MW of capacity. The projects consist of 17,000 ground-mounted solar arrays across 50 acres. “These projects are more than just construction milestones for Aspen Power; they’re tangible steps toward a cleaner, more sustainable future for Maine,” says Jorge Vargas, CEO of Aspen Power.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Researchers have unveiled a pioneering method for the efficient combustion of biofuels, using a revolutionary Swirl Burst (SB) injector to burn glycerol/methanol blends with near-zero emissions. This new technology enables ultra-clean combustion for fuels that are typically difficult to burn due to their high viscosity.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

BNZ has signed its first virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA), with the European subsidiary of packaging supplier Ardagh Group.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Travertine Technologies , a Colorado-based climate tech company, is building a multi-million dollar demonstration plant alongside a metals refining facility near Rochester, New York. The plant will recycle discarded gypsum to make sulfuric acid while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The capacity comes from the Arica solar PV and Victory Pass solar-plus-storage projects in Riverside County, California.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The startup's technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions of the whole are sold off to various customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The city of Toronto has passed a motion aiming to restrict fossil fuel advertising on municipal property, one of several recent efforts to curtail fossil fuel advertising in major Canadian cities. The motion passed on Thursday, October 10, giving Toronto city councillors one year to come up with a draft of the proposed legislation. The effort comes as transit agencies in Canada’s two largest cities have either implemented or are considering similar restrictions on using public transit to adverti

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Fossil fuels Law Health Pollution 80

NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The NRDC Action Fund and partners have filed a legal petition demanding that the state act to stop harmful, unnecessary pesticide pollution.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The startup's technology is a twist on the virtual power plant concept, in which batteries are aggregated and portions of the whole are sold off to various customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Greening has been awarded the construction of a 60 MW PV power generation plant that is expected to supply renewable energy to a major technology company at one of its facilities in Indiana. The group secured both the contract through Greening USA, and the construction of the plant, that will be carried out under an EPC agreement. “For Greening, this project solidifies the success of our commitment to the North American market, which now represents 40% of our total portfolio,” says I

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