Wed.Sep 20, 2023

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IRA spurs $213 billion in clean tech investments

GreenBiz

A new database tracks the real-time investment numbers catalyzed by the IRA.

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NRDC Stands with Striking Autoworkers

NRDC onEarth

NRDC is committed to supporting the UAW, and we pledge to work with the union to ensure no worker is left behind in the transition to the clean car economy.

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COP28 will be a make-or-break moment for climate finance

GreenBiz

One thing the finance community really needs to stimulate $100 billion in annual commitments: a better definition for what qualifies as climate projects.

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Nick Offerman 'Face Plants' To Show Benefits Of Cover Crops

NRDC onEarth

Nick Offerman's quirky new video concludes with the tagline, "Don't treat soil like dirt," and is a key part of NRDC's campaign to promote cover crops in the next Farm Bill.

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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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'Milestone': Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures publishes final recommendations

GreenBiz

GSK becomes the first company to pledge to officially adopt the nature risk disclosure guidance.

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New Oxfordshire-wide air quality website launches

Envirotec Magazine

The website offers countywide information and updates about particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. A new Oxfordshire air quality website launched on 18 September, offering air quality guidance and resources covering the county. The website ( www.oxonair.uk ) aims to integrate all relevant air quality-related information from all district councils in Oxfordshire under one single platform.

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Scottish Water tops water company performance survey

Envirotec Magazine

A strong performance on contractual approach, collaboration and communication has catapulted Scottish Water to the top of the 2023 annual water company survey carried out by British Water. Key findings from the survey include: Last year’s joint lowest performing water company, Southern Water, has risen by one place to 10th, while Northern Ireland Water remains in last place The highest scoring company for innovation remains Northumbrian Water The most significant drop was Anglian Water, down fro

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Hedge funds add fuel to oil price rally with bets on rise above $100

Financial Times: Energy

Speculators have increased their long positions as crude has climbed almost 30% since June

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Director of Climate Science Denial Group Tony Abbott Reappointed as Board of Trade Adviser

DeSmogBlog

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch has today announced the 13 advisers who will provide counsel to the Board of Trade – one of the government’s most high profile economic advisory bodies.

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How South Australia’s biggest gas plant sat idle during summer blackouts

Renew Economy

Federal Court finds Pelican Point gas plant breached energy market rules during controversial South Australia blackouts – at the time pinned on renewables. The post How South Australia’s biggest gas plant sat idle during summer blackouts 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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Dominion Energy in ‘innovative and timely’ pilot of long-duration energy storage technologies

Energy Storage News

Dominion Energy will pilot deployment of two novel non-lithium technologies designed for long-duration energy storage (LDES) applications.

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Britain’s industrial strategy is still missing in action

Financial Times: Energy

Short-term tax incentives and constant policy changes are weighing on companies’ investment drive

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Texas utility CPS issues 500MW energy storage RFP

Energy Storage News

CPS Energy, a municipal utility serving San Antonio, Texas, has launched a request for proposals (RFP) for up to 500MW of energy storage projects.

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Irish Rail Spearheads Europe’s 1st Hydrogen Fuel Freight Retrofit

Hydrogen Fuel News

Irish Rail will be the first in Europe to trial a retrofitted hydrogen freight locomotive. Ireland’s National railway Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has partnered with DiGas, a traction technology company based in Latvia, to undertake a proof-of-concept hydrogen fuel project that will see the conversion of a diesel freight locomotive to hydrogen.

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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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Merchants Fleet Conference Takes Electric Vehicles to New Levels

Green Living Guy

Merchants Fleet Summit: A Gathering of Industry Experts I recently attended the Merchants Fleet Conference in New Hampshire. Day One was at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway where there was a kickoff event and a ride and drive on the racetrack. So so cool. This Fleet Summit is Merchants Fleet main event for its customers. […] The post Merchants Fleet Conference Takes Electric Vehicles to New Levels appeared first on Green Living, Electric Vehicle Consultants, Companies, Car Expert, Electri

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BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase

Greentown Labs

Sneakers made from food waste. Ultracapacitors built with hemp sourced from Black and Indigenous farmers. Ultra-light solar panels you can place anywhere. These are just some of the groundbreaking climatetech solutions being developed by the inaugural ACCEL cohort. ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, res

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NYC’s big building-decarbonization law faces its first major test

Canary Media

Local Law 97, New York City’s groundbreaking, multistage effort to rein in carbon emissions from its big buildings, is facing its first major test — and it’s just a preview of the much steeper challenges to come.

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Macquarie bets big on WA wind, with new JV and 2.4GW pipeline of projects

Renew Economy

Macquarie's Green Investment Group has teamed with a local developer to roll out 2.4GW of new onshore wind projects in Western Australia. The post Macquarie bets big on WA wind, with new JV and 2.4GW pipeline of projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Major steel users band together to place first big ‘green steel’ order

Canary Media

NEW YORK CITY — Companies that use huge amounts of steel to construct buildings or clean-energy equipment are banding together to push North American steelmakers to adopt greener manufacturing methods. On Wednesday, corporations including tech giant Microsoft, major U.S.

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Harmony Energy Poland bidding 500MW into upcoming capacity market auction

Energy Storage News

The Poland arm of UK-based developer Harmony Energy is looking to bid in around 500MW of battery storage projects into the upcoming capacity market auction, executive director Michał Maćkowiak said.

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Q Energy to begin construction on 74.3MW floating solar plant in France, Europe’s largest

PV Tech

Q Energy will begin construction on a floating solar project in north-eastern France this month, which will have a capacity of 74.3MW.

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Sunak’s big green gamble: the story behind the PM’s decision to U-turn

The Guardian: Energy

With PM’s electoral options narrowing, strategists came to conclusion policy could help create dividing line with Labour Isaac Levido, the strategy guru behind Boris Johnson’s 2019 victory, has spent much of the summer working on the overhaul of Rishi Sunak’s green policies. One of the goals has been to find that elusive political property: a dividing line with Labour that Tory strategists believe will present voters with a clear choice at next year’s election.

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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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Incredible Beast Omnimedia and NRDC team up to “Face Plant” Nick Offerman

NRDC onEarth

NEW YORK —Actor, author and woodworker Nick Offerman takes on his dirtiest role to date, starring in an NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) campaign created and produced by Incredible Beast Omnimedia in which Offerman, who hails from a farming family in Minooka,

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Humanity has ‘opened gates to hell’ by letting climate crisis worsen, UN secretary warns

The Guardian: Energy

António Guterres opened United Nations climate ambition summit with attack on wealthy countries and the fossil fuel industry Humanity has “opened the gates to hell” by allowing the climate crisis to worsen, the secretary general of the United Nations has warned at a climate summit of leaders that saw angry denunciations of the fossil fuel industry but was undercut by the absence of many of the biggest carbon-emitting countries.

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Frustration with delays in implementing the Megawatt Charging System standard

Charged

The Charging Interface Initiative ( CharIN ), an industry alliance with over 320 members, is working to establish a new Megawatt Charging System (MCS) for heavy-duty electric vehicles. The new standard is expected to be operational as early as 2024, but some in the industry are complaining about delays, and putting pressure on CharIN to accelerate the timeline for bringing MCS to market.

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Rishi Sunak announces U-turn on key green targets

The Guardian: Energy

UK prime minister delays ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars as he pushes back net zero goals UK politics live – latest updates Rishi Sunak has announced a major U-turn on the government’s climate commitments as he promised to put his party on a more radical path in an attempt to close the gap with Labour before the next general election. In one of his biggest policy changes since taking office, Sunak confirmed the UK would push back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and

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Enel Signs PPA with BXP for 21 MW from Texas Solar Project

Solar Industry

Enel North America has signed a power purchase agreement with BXP , the largest publicly traded developer, owner and manager of premier workplaces in the United States, for a 21 MW portion of the Estonian solar project under construction in Delta County, Texas. “Enel offers companies a variety of tools to manage energy efficiently and lower their carbon footprint – from clean power contracts to load-side solutions like demand response,” says Paolo Romanacci, head Enel Green Power Nor

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Cynical Rishi sells net zero targets down the river to appease the right

The Guardian: Energy

There’s nothing long term about the prime minister diluting green policies in the hope of clinging on to power You could sense the panic when news was leaked of Rishi Sunak’s plans to water down some of his climate change targets. Instead of a controlled speech later in the week – probably somewhere with green connections: Rish! never knowingly undersells the irony – we got a hastily arranged press conference.

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Andersen EV doubles production capacity of home chargers

Charged

To meet growing demand, UK home charging point producer Andersen EV is increasing the production capacity of its A2 unit by a factor of two. In an upgrade to the headquarters and production site of Andersen EV and its parent company, EVIOS , in Stewartby, Bedfordshire, Andersen EV is doubling the footprint of its factory. The upgrade includes installing advanced manufacturing equipment and recruiting to fill additional positions in R&D, installation, customer service and manufacturing.

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Sunak’s net zero U-turn is so toxic that it’s united Greens and car manufacturers against him | Caroline Lucas

The Guardian: Energy

With climate change a top priority for the public, surely time is up for a prime minister who couldn’t seem to care less? Caroline Lucas is the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion It’s quite a moment when a Green party MP finds herself on the same side of an argument as the chair of Ford UK – but here we are. Claims reported by the BBC yesterday evening that Rishi Sunak is planning to weaken some of the government’s key climate commitments have managed to unite businesses, the energy sector, car manu

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PureSpace prevents spoiled produce by removing ripening gas

TechCrunch: Climate

The UN estimates that about one-third of all food produced goes to waste before it even gets the chance to decompose in your fridge. That abysmal stat explains one key reason why leading VCs and celebrities have poured cash into companies that aim to prevent supply-chain food loss.

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The push for nuclear energy in Australia is driven by delay and denial, not evidence | Adam Morton

The Guardian: Energy

Unsubstantiated claims of nuclear energy’s worth distracts from the urgency to act now on climate crisis The vague, ideological push for nuclear energy backed by the Coalition and News Corp and given legitimacy this week on the ABC’s Q+A should be treated as what it is: the latest step in a decades-long campaign of delay and denial on the climate crisis.

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