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Environment Agency secures Proceeds of Crime Award for £313,382.45

Envirotec Magazine

An image of the site in Northampton in February 2020 (credit: the Environment Agency). The Environment Agency has secured a Proceeds of Crime judgment for 313,382.45 against two men from Northampton who ran an illegal waste tyre site. At Northampton Crown Court on Friday 28 March, a confiscation hearing concluded against Nimesh Patel, age 52, of Jasper Walk, Thorplands Brook, and Andrew Eyre, age 55, of Poppy Field Road, Wootton.

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Single-atom catalysts transform hydrogenation, improving food and fuel production

TechXplore

A chemical reaction that's vital to a range of commercial and industrial goods may soon be initiated more effectively and less expensively thanks to a collaboration that included Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers.

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Daimler Truck to launch semi-public European charging network

Charged

In an effort to alleviate Europes current deficit in charging points and charging capacity for heavy commercial vehicles, Daimler Truck plans to enable its TruckCharge customers to open their charging infrastructure for external, paid use, starting in the third quarter of 2025. Plans include offering a system for planning, booking and reservation, along with additional cost benefits and simplified payment.

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Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers found to be the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

TechXplore

When the International Maritime Organization enacted a mandatory cap on the sulfur content of marine fuels in 2020, with an eye toward reducing harmful environmental and health impacts, it left shipping companies with several main options.

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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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Extension of huge offshore windfarm in Sussex approved

The Guardian: Energy

Plan to add 90 turbines to Rampion will create 4,000 jobs in construction and could power 1m homes The government has approved plans to build an offshore windfarm capable of powering about 1m British homes before the end of the decade. The plan to extend the Rampion offshore windfarm by adding 90 turbines off the Sussex coast is expected to add about 1.2 gigawatts of clean power for British households and businesses.

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Cuba looks to sun to solve its energy crisis

TechXplore

Not far from the ruins of an unfinished nuclear power plant in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos, hundreds of workers are hastily installing 44,000 solar panels as the island seeks once again to reduce its reliance on oil to escape an energy crisis.

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Q1 2025 Market Wrap: Energy Stocks Defy S&P 500 Downturn

R-Squared Energy

The first quarter of 2025 ended on a challenging note for the financial markets, as the S&P 500 posted a 4.6% declineits first quarterly loss since Q3 2023. The Dow and Nasdaq also declined in Q1. Macroeconomic and geopolitical factors weighed heavily on investor sentiment, leading to widespread equity sell-offs and significant sector rotations.

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The quest to fix the irony at the heart of every heat pump

Grist

Heat pumps are essential for ditching fossil fuels. The appliances are many times more efficient than even the best gas furnaces, and they run on electricity, so they can draw power from renewables like wind and solar. But the very thing that makes them such an amazing climate solution is also their biggest challenge. A common refrigerant called R-410A pumps through their innards so they can warm and cool homes and offices and anything else.

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American Clean Power Association proposes BESS safety plan and policy recommendations

Energy Storage News

Clean energy trade body American Clean Power Association (ACP) has released a battery energy storage system (BESS) safety framework outlining key actions and policy recommendations for the industry.

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Download case study: How JE Dunn overcame EV charging installation obstacles with scalable track busway

Charged

Sponsored by Starline. JE Dunn Construction, one of Americas largest general contractors, decided to install an electric vehicle charging station in the parking garage next to its world headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. JE Dunn faced the following challenges when designing the infrastructure to support the charging stations: Installing power panels on the EV charging station walls would have been costly, disruptive, time-consuming, and very visible to drivers and pedestrians in the garage.

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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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Report: Energy leaders present six big ideas to help avoid US electricity crisis

TechXplore

After about 20 years of scant growth, U.S. electricity demand is expected to grow about 15-20% in the next decade and double by 2050, according to the Department of Energy. In light of these predictions, more than 80 U.S. energy experts met at Stanford in February to discuss how to avoid the U.S. electricity grid being overwhelmed by rising demand. This meeting, which was organized by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability's Precourt Institute for Energy, has resulted in a report focused on

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Alfen moves 10MW operational BESS from one wind farm to another in Netherlands

Energy Storage News

A 10MW/10MWh battery storage system at a wind park in the Netherlands has been relocated to a new site as part of a repowering project.

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Big batteries provide one third of state’s power needs, smashing records and “big banana” tropes

Renew Economy

Batteries become dominant player in Australia's most renewable state, providing more than one third of state demand in early morning peak. The post Big batteries provide one third of state’s power needs, smashing records and “big banana” tropes appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Japan Launches World’s 1st Hydrogen Dual-Fuel Tugboat | Tsuneishi Leads Marine Decarbonization

Hydrogen Fuel News

The world marines market saw something of a coming-of-age in December 2023 when Japanese shipbuilder Tsuneishi Shipbuilding launched the very first tug with its power sulfur-capable molecular natural gas injected, which led Saigyo’ s demonstrationfrom Norway to Japan. The award winning single sitter, which can bepowered by hydrogen and traditional fuels represents an important milestone in global environmental initiatives to curb pollution emissions from fossil fuel burning vehicles.

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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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Lawmakers Must Uphold Commitments to Environmental Justice, Climate Resilience, and Community Engagement

Front And Centered

As Washington State faces a multi-billion dollar budget deficit during this legislative session, tough decisions about funding will need to be made. Our elected officials are currently deliberating potential new revenue sources and cuts to the state budgets. Often, when confronted with financial challenges, social programsespecially those that serve Overburdened Communitiesare the first to feel the cuts.

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French and German geothermal lithium projects classified as strategic by the EU

ThinkGeoEnergy

The geothermal lithium projects of Vulcan Energy Resources in Germany and Eramet and lectricit de Strasbourg (S) in France have been classified as “strategic projects” by the European Commission under the Critical Raw Materials Act. With this distinction, the two projects can benefit from streamlined and priority processing, thus facilitating administrative procedures and funding applications.

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Off-highway battery maker Jungheinrich leaves competitors in the dust in 2025 Interact Analysis rankings

Charged

Interact Analysis has published an analysis of the market for battery packs for off-highway EVs, and found that Hamburg-based material handling company Jungheinrich has by far the largest market share in the category. Jungheinrich led the market-share rankings for battery packs for loaders, telehandlers, excavators and tractors in Europe/Middle East and the Americas.

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Colorado announces new round of grants for geothermal heating projects

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) has announced a total of $14.4 million in funding awards from the Geothermal Energy Grant Program (GEGP) and Geothermal Energy Tax Credit Offering (GETCO) for geothermal heating projects across Colorado. The funding will enable the awardees to plan and install geothermal heat pumps and thermal energy networks. The selection of awardees includes local governments, school districts, residential communities, a medical campus, and a wastewater treatment facility.

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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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The POWER Interview: Proper Planning Key to Support Electrification

POWER Magazine

Several members of the energy community recently provided POWER magazine with their insights on electrification, looking at the challenges for continuing adoption of technologies driving the transition. The post The POWER Interview: Proper Planning Key to Support Electrification appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany expands funding support for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

A new funding package in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany has been announced to support geothermal projects. The funding will subsidize exploration drilling while also hedging the discovery risk for production wells. The new funding package was announced by Mona Nuebaur, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, during a visit to the drilling site of a geothermal research well in Krefeld.

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Chart: Top 15 states where IRA repeal could raise energy bills

Canary Media

See more from Canary Medias "Chart of the week column. Congressional Republicans are taking aim at the Inflation Reduction Act as they seek to slash federal spending.

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Webinar – Experimental geochemistry to de-risk geothermal, 11 April 2025

ThinkGeoEnergy

As part of the regular Focus on Geothermal Webinar series a partnership of Enerchange and ThinkGeoEnergy, we are proud to host Bruce Mountain of GNS Science for a webinar on “Experimental science to de-risk the future of geothermal.” The webinar details are as follows: Date: 11 April 2025 Time: 08:00 CEST / 18:00 NZT Registration: Click here to register Speaker: Bruce Mountain, Senior Geochemist and Lead Scientists, Experimental Geochemistry Lab, GNS Science Join Dr.

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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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Siemens Gamesa claims world’s most powerful wind turbine with new offshore behemoth

Renew Economy

Siemens Gamesa has taken the top spot for the worlds most powerful wind turbine, after successfully installing it a test field in Denmark. The post Siemens Gamesa claims world’s most powerful wind turbine with new offshore behemoth appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BP chair Helge Lund to step down

Financial Times: Energy

Exit follows a bruising period for UK oil major

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EV rebates work but B.C. is shutting out the middle class

Clean Energy Canada

News recently broke that B.C.s electric vehicle rebate is under government review, a decision some have tied to the removal of B.C.s consumer carbon tax and whether it creates a funding gap for the program. It helps to start with the facts. B.C.s EV rebate was not funded by the provinces late consumer carbon tax and, in fact, the policy isnt funded by taxpayers at all.

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Planning application withdrawn for Whitehaven coal mine

Business Green

Government confirms West Cumbria Mining has withdrawn planning application for controversial coal mine

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Silicon Ranch secures US$500 million investment from AIP Management

PV Tech

US independent power producer (IPP) Silicon Ranch has secured a US$500 million investment from Danish fund manager AIP Management.

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Rampion 2: Government gives green light to giant 1.2GW Sussex offshore wind farm

Business Green

90-turbine project expected to be up and running by 2030, providing a major boost to government's clean power mission

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Astronergy, four Turkish PV manufacturers to invest US$2.5 billion in solar cell plants

PV Tech

Chinese-owned solar manufacturer Astronergy has planned to invest US$584 million in a solar cell plant in Turkey.

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The KJ Show #124: Net Zero's Demise

Energy Central

Every week, I host 'The KJ Show,' which offers a mix of breaking news and practical advice on how the energy industry affects the consumer. During this fast-paced show, I combine weekly energy updates with conversations with leaders in the energy efficiency community. After each show, I'll share it here with the Energy Central Community in case you were unable to join me live.

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Gonvarri Solar Steel launches TracSmarT+1P trackers

PV Tech

Spanish tracker manufacturer Gonvarri Solar Steel has launched its latest tracker, a dual-row 1P solar tracker, dubbed TracSmatT+1P.

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AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance: The Future of Reliability in Power Plants

Energy Central

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the energy sector, particularly in the realm of predictive maintenance for power plants. By leveraging advanced algorithms and real-time data analytics, AI enables operators to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance reliability. This transformative technology is reshaping how power plants manage equipment health, ensuring smoother.

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