Tue.Oct 31, 2023

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Sustainability professionals shouldn’t (and don’t want to) be accountants. Don’t make them

GreenBiz

The sustainability industry wants more data. But does it really need it? And what does that mean for sustainability professionals of tomorrow?

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NOAA Denies Key Protections in Fight to Protect Rice’s Whale

NRDC onEarth

On Friday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries denied a petition to establish a 10-knot vessel speed limit and other protective measures in the Gulf of Mexico to protect the endangered Rice’s whale, which is estimated to have a.

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The first frontier for electric aviation: Short-haul flights

GreenBiz

A third of flights are less than 250 miles, which is already within range for electric planes.

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South Australia to reach 100 pct wind and solar within a few years, says network company

Renew Economy

Wind and solar reached 100 per cent of demand on 282 days in last year in South Australia, and the state will average 100 per cent within a few years, grid owner says. The post South Australia to reach 100 pct wind and solar within a few years, says network company appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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Green construction practices could unlock this $1.5 trillion opportunity, study finds

GreenBiz

Major emissions cuts and investment opportunities arise from shifting to greener materials and processes in construction and buildings, according to the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.

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Smith College, MA embarks on $220-million geothermal project

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. With an estimated cost of USD 220 million, the ambitious project will make the Smith College fully independent from fossil fuels for their heating and cooling The Geothermal Campus Energy Project of Smith College was first announced in 2022 after receiving the approval from the board of trustees to begin construction,

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American Battery Factory breaks ground on Arizona LFP gigafactory

Energy Storage News

American Battery Factory has started construction on its gigafactory in Arizona, US, which will produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells.

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“New era:” SunDrive wins funds to scale up Australia made solar cell production

Renew Economy

"Making more things here:" SunDrive gets federal funding boost towards commercial production of its lower-cost, high efficiency solar cells, on Australian soil. The post “New era:” SunDrive wins funds to scale up Australia made solar cell production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Heat pumps are everywhere — even in clothes dryers

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Canary thanks Lunar Energy for its support of the column. Last year, Dan Fulop faced a problem.

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Gina Rinehart unveils a bright pink electric locomotive, to beat Forrest at his own game

Renew Economy

Roy Hill Mines, owned by climate skeptic and renewables doubter Gina Rinehart, unveils a bright pink electric locomotive powered by a 7MWh battery. The post Gina Rinehart unveils a bright pink electric locomotive, to beat Forrest at his own game 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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Hope Gas and Watt Fuel Cell to Offer Clean Energy Technology to Residential Customers in West Virginia as Part of the Local Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub Project

FuelCellsWorks

Morgantown, WV– In mid-October, Senator Joe Manchin announced that the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) was selected to negotiate for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to.

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Utah solar project among first to choose PTC post-IRA

Solar Power World

Iron County, Utah, is achieving some firsts for solar in 2023. The county has hosted several large-scale solar projects since the early 2010s, and by year’s end it will have close to 1.5 GW of PV production within its borders. The latest project approaching completion there is Appaloosa Solar 1, a 200-MW array built about… The post Utah solar project among first to choose PTC post-IRA appeared first on Solar Power World.

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New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends. The report , released today by Beyond Plastics and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), exposes the failures and perils of chemical recycling as an approach to manage plastic waste.

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Huawei and BYD among global top five system integrators of 2022 amidst China ‘price war’

Energy Storage News

Huawei and BYD were among the five largest battery energy storage system (BESS) integrators globally last year, with the Chinese market going through a 'price war' of competition, according to research from Wood Mackenzie.

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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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Advanced Nuclear Fuel with Enrichment Exceeding Historical Limits Approved for Installation at Plant Vogtle

POWER Magazine

Southern Nuclear, Southern Company’s nuclear power plant operations business, announced in late September that it had received “first-of-a-kind approval” from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to use advanced fuel—accident tolerant […] The post Advanced Nuclear Fuel with Enrichment Exceeding Historical Limits Approved for Installation at Plant Vogtle appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Keystate’s Clean Hydrogen and Carbon Storage Project Secures Funding Through the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) $925 Million Federal Grant

FuelCellsWorks

KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis to receive substantial funding from US Department of Energy ARCH2 grant to advance the clean hydrogen economy. KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis is developing a Clean Hydrogen.

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Blue Bird delivers its 1,500th electric school bus

Charged

Yellow school bus maker Blue Bird has delivered its 1,500th electric school bus. Modesto City Schools in California purchased the historic EV through Blue Bird’s authorized school bus dealer A-Z Bus Sales. Modesto’s milestone unit is one of 1,500 Blue Bird electric school buses now serving school districts across 41 US states. The company says replacing 1,500 diesel-spewing buses with EVs has reduced carbon emissions by nearly 16,000 metric tons annually, and spared 110,000 students per day from

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Earth is getting extra salty, an ‘existential threat’ to freshwater supplies

Grist

Humanity is messing with the Earth’s “salt cycle,” with potentially dangerous consequences for drinking water supplies, crop production, and ecosystems. That’s according to a new study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment on Tuesday. It’s the first time that scientists have documented the extent to which humans have changed the salt content of the land, water, and air across the globe.

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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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“Unsung hero:” New big battery next to Australia’s biggest coal unit gets go ahead

Renew Economy

Construction will begin within weeks on a 300 MWh big battery to be built in Queensland, alongside the country's biggest coal unit. The post “Unsung hero:” New big battery next to Australia’s biggest coal unit gets go ahead appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Viking Cruises working on ships powered by hydrogen fuel cells

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company is taking firm steps forward to slash the carbon footprint of its cruise ships. Viking Cruises is moving solidly forward toward the use of hydrogen fuel cells on its ships, according to the company’s founder and chair Torstein Hagen. The cruise line is aiming to power a considerable part of its ocean-going ships’ energy needs with H2.

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Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did the modelling make it look otherwise?

Renew Economy

A Murdoch University deep dive into the CSIRO Beetaloo report found its emissions projections are underestimates of up to 84% in some cases. The post Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did the modelling make it look otherwise? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Germany: Spie Sets up a System to Provide Hydrogen for a Pilot Project for Carbon-Neutral Cold Steel Strip Production

FuelCellsWorks

Hagen– SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, developed and installed a hydrogen-based energy supply system for a pioneering project in cold.

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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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bp orders $100 million worth of Tesla EV chargers

Charged

Does bp’s purchase of $100 million worth of Tesla EV chargers signal that the British oil giant is preparing for a future beyond petroleum? Has it decided to join ‘em instead of trying to beat ‘em? Well, not just yet. The company has said it plans to invest “up to $1 billion in EV charging across the US by 2030,” but it’s also expected to pour between $14 billion and $18 billion annually into fossil fuels over the same period.

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Water Bill Amendments to Enable Hydrogen Production and Support Community Management of Irrigation Schemes

FuelCellsWorks

The Rockliff Liberal Government is delivering opportunities for future water development with debate beginning today on the Water Miscellaneous Amendments (Delegation and Industrial Water Supply) Bill 2023. The amendments to the.

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Download the Techniques & Methods of Battery Failure Analysis whitepaper

Charged

Sponsored by Intertek. Identifying the root cause of a problem Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to identify the root cause of a failure. The findings from a failure analysis are often used to determine corrective actions such as preventing the failure of similar products, improving the design of future products or to address liability claims.

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The US solar landscape: challenges, growth, and potential for perovskite

PV Tech

Scott Graybeal, CEO of Caelux, writes on the market opportunity for perovskite development in the US, along with its challenges for market implementation.

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24M’s Electrode-to-Pack tech does away with cells and modules

Charged

Since the advent of modern EVs, the mantra has been “cell/module/pack.” More recently, some battery makers have started removing modules from the equation with cell-to-pack architectures. Now Massachusetts-based battery developer 24M Technologies wants to eliminate the whole hierarchy. The company calls its Electrode-to-Pack system, which it introduced at the recent Japan Mobility Show, “a streamlined battery pack system that features electrodes packaged directly into the battery pack, removing

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Big banks take on greening of Australia’s $10 trillion housing stock

Renew Economy

Australian banks are in the box seat to develop and advocate for new, inventive measures that green up the nation’s single largest asset class, the housing market. The post Big banks take on greening of Australia’s $10 trillion housing stock appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Freudenberg Sealing Technologies adds battery testing lab at its Michigan HQ

Charged

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has added a new battery testing laboratory to its R&D labs at its North American headquarters in Plymouth, Michigan. The company says the multi-million-dollar investment will facilitate in-house battery and battery component testing, including simulated thermal runaway, and will increase the company’s functional knowledge and product development capabilities in the field of EVs.

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Flow battery player ESS Inc: ‘Bringing home the idea of green baseload’

Energy Storage News

Eric Dresselhuys, CEO of iron and saltwater electrolyte flow battery provider ESS Inc speaks to Energy-Storage.news about markets, strategy and profitability for long-duration energy storage (LDES).

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A surprising finding shows that light can make water evaporate without heat could enable new approaches to desalination

TechXplore

Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But science's understanding of this ubiquitous process may have been missing a piece all this time.

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Future of fossil fuels leaves nations at odds ahead of UN climate summit

Financial Times: Energy

France, Spain, Ireland, Kenya and 11 other countries push for an end to new oil and gas projects