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Can the fashion industry close the gap in sustainable raw materials?

GreenBiz

A new report from BCG spells out what will "make or break brands" in fashion and apparel.

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The struggles of the offshore wind industry

Financial Times: Energy

Governments around the world have set ambitious targets to tackle climate change, but developers say power prices will have to rise to pay for it

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Where to find hope you can change the world

GreenBiz

Here are highlights of an inspiring conversation between two 21-year-old youth climate activists and Google chief sustainability officer Kate Brandt.

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GB News Owner’s Hedge Fund Has $2.2 Billion Fossil Fuel Investments

DeSmogBlog

One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal. This news comes after former prime minister Boris Johnson was announced as a new presenter on the television broadcaster on Friday. An investigation by DeSmog in May found that one in three GB News presenters had spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while more than half had attacked climate action.

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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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How the US can electrify its public fleets, from city buses to garbage trucks

GreenBiz

How can fleet operators plan ahead?

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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA).

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Mainers will vote on replacing for-profit utilities with public power

Canary Media

Many people, and not just climate advocates, have wished they could make their utility company disappear. On November 7, the people of Maine may actually do that.

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How solar contractors can meet IRA apprenticeship requirements

Solar Power World

The solar workforce is changing because of IRA apprenticeship and prevailing wage requirements that went into effect in January. Contractors that haven’t yet made a long-term recruitment plan have a few options available to help them do so. To collect the full 30% ITC for projects 1 MWAC and larger, contractors with four or more workers… The post How solar contractors can meet IRA apprenticeship requirements appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Green Genius secures €16.4 million for solar projects in Romania and Lithuania

PV Tech

Lithuanian energy supplier Green Genius has secured €9.5 million (US$10.07 million) from investment and insurance company INVL towards building 500MW of renewables projects in Romania.

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The Brief: Climate + gender in agriculture lending, pollinating impact tech, collateral-free trade finance, digital edge for Black entrepreneurs

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital Doubling down on guarantees, MCE Social Capital aims to unlock capital for climate + gender. Moving. The post The Brief: Climate + gender in agriculture lending, pollinating impact tech, collateral-free trade finance, digital edge for Black entrepreneurs appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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US-made DC containers to be cost-competitive with China in 2025 thanks to IRA, says CEA

Energy Storage News

US-made battery energy storage system (BESS) DC container solutions will become cost-competitive with those from China in 2025 thanks to incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Clean Energy Associates said.

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GKN Automotive unveils off-the-shelf electric drive unit concept

Charged

GKN Automotive has unveiled a new plug-and-play eDrive concept aimed at the niche EV and EV conversion markets. GKN will use the concept to test market appetite for a new eDrive that’s suitable for various purposes, including small to large cars and light commercial vehicles in series production. The first commercial products based on the concept could be available as early as 2025.

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Lessons from the desert for green investors

Financial Times: Energy

Chile’s lithium boom highlights challenges for the clean tech supply chain

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Circontrol’s eVolve Smart EV charger gets cybersecurity, communications and contactless payment upgrades

Charged

Barcelona-based Circontrol provides efficiency solutions for public and private car parks, along with smart EV chargers. Now the company has made important improvements to its eVolve Smart “semi-fast” EV charger. The latest upgrade of the eVolve Smart charger adds new cybersecurity, electrical protection and communications features, as well as a new integrated contactless payment system.

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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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From Brooklyn to Albany, the Hudson eyes a commercial revival

Financial Times: Energy

What was once America’s premier waterway for trade looks to a wind farm boom to power its renewal

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Technology Trending: Energy sector digital identity app and hydrogen-powered superyacht

Smart Energy International

Energy sector digital identity app spins off for global use, an intelligent power solution for China’s high energy physics platform and a hydrogen-powered superyacht unveiled are in the week’s technology radar. Energy sector digital identity app spins off for global use A digital identity application that was developed by the Belgian TSO Elia Group and Energy Web has been adopted by the OpenWallet Foundation as a new project.

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Edify closes on 370MWh BESS to support Renewable Energy Zone in Victoria, Australia

Energy Storage News

Edify Energy has closed financing on a battery storage project which will support the hosting of solar and wind at a government-designated Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) in Victoria, Australia.

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Webinar: Discover the latest advancements in venting technology that helps protect electric drive modules

Charged

As the demands for electric vehicles evolve, so do the venting requirements used to protect Electric Drive Modules. Applying the appropriate Electric Drive Module (EDM) venting solution helps maintain vehicle performance in both every day and more challenging driving conditions. Join this session and discover the role venting technology plays when considering pressure equalization and contaminant protection in EDM environments.

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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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BlackRock warns investor disdain for mining threatens green transition

Financial Times: Energy

World’s biggest asset manager hits out at complacency over supply of transition metals

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Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022

The Guardian: Energy

Exclusive: Projects that risk 1.5C heating target operated by companies receiving financing from European, Chinese and US banks Banks pumped more than $150bn last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal. The carbon bombs – 425 extraction projects that can each pump more than one gigaton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – cumulatively hold enough coal, oil and gas to burn

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Hoymiles’ Three-Phase Solar Microinverter Enters North American Market

Solar Industry

Hoymiles has announced the North American launch of its three-phase microinverter, the HMT-2000-4T-208-NA series. This new microinverter is purpose-built to meet the demands of high-powered PV modules and deliver strong performance, cost-effectiveness and safety for commercial and industrial PV applications across North America. “Today, we are thrilled to introduce the HMT-2000-4T-208-NA series three-phase microinverter to the North American market,” says Rocky Gao, CEO of Hoymiles U

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Protected: Powerline communication – “There’s life in the old dog yet!”

Smart Energy International

Narrowband powerline communication technologies enjoy enduring success and are set to remain vital components of the smart grid landscape.

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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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Aspen Power Adds 50 MW to Georgia Solar Portfolio

Solar Industry

Aspen Power has completed construction on 14 solar projects that the company acquired from Inman Solar in Georgia. The projects total 49.4 MW DC of generation capacity, with Aspen Power acting as the long-term owner and operator. Inman Solar originated and developed the projects and provided engineering, procurement, and construction services. This portfolio of projects brings Aspen Power’s holdings in Georgia to 43 projects totaling over 140 MW DC.

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Coffman Engineers Broadens Scope with New Hire and Hydrogen Fuel Endeavors

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company recently broadened their services into the Houston market with the hiring of Steven Hill. Coffman Engineers, Inc. recently announced that they have hired Steven Hill, PE, a mechanical engineer, in a key position to support the company’s hydrogen fuel and Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) projects. Coffman is moving forward as momentum in the H2 and CCUS markets rapidly builds.

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Emissions of Beetaloo Basin gas projects ‘significantly underestimated’ by government, analysis finds

The Guardian: Energy

Climate Analytics says onshore emissions of proposed fracking understated by up to 84% in ‘a rosy picture that simply doesn’t reflect reality’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Fracking to extract gas from the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin could lead to much larger greenhouse gas emissions than the territory government has claimed, according to new analysis.

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BMW Triumphs with its iX5 Hydrogen Car in Extreme UAE Climate Trials

Hydrogen Fuel News

The H2-powered vehicle was able to stand up to the harsh weather in the United Arab Emirates. The BMW iX5 hydrogen car is a 401-bhp SUV that offers a range of as much as 313 miles on 13.2 pounds of H2. As many people look to alternative vehicles to those using fossil fuels, they want a realistic option. Electric vehicle ownership has been associated with a number of challenges that aren’t experienced by drivers of conventional gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.

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Three Key Transmission Links Get $1.3B Boost With Federal Capacity Contracts

POWER Magazine

Three interregional transmission lines connecting six U.S. states will receive the first $1.3 billion tranche of $2.5 billion in federal funding designated under the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP), a revolving […] The post Three Key Transmission Links Get $1.3B Boost With Federal Capacity Contracts appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Canadian Solar to Build Cell Production Facility in Indiana

Solar Industry

Canadian Solar Inc. says it is establishing a 5 GW solar cell production facility at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, Ind. Canadian Solar is building a state-of-the-art solar manufacturing plant whose output will be approximately 20,000 modules per day. The Jeffersonville facility represents a projected investment of more than $800 million and will create approximately 1,200 skilled high-tech jobs once production is fully ramped up.

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Universal Hydrogen and JBT AeroTech team-up to activate new airport hydrogen fuel plan

Hydrogen Fuel News

A joint development agreement has been signed by the two companies. Universal Hydrogen Co. and JBT AeroTech announced that they will jointly design and develop an H2AmpCart™, a mobile battery charger powered by hydrogen fuel cells for existing electrified airport ground support equipment (GSE). The aviation industry is moving away from diesel-powered GSE.

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Five things to know about decarbonizing cement, steel and chemicals

Canary Media

The industries that produce the building blocks of modern society — steel, cement and chemicals — are incredibly carbon-intensive.

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Geothermal heating and cooling system to be built in Carbondale, Colorado

ThinkGeoEnergy

The design phase has started for a geothermal heating and cooling demonstration project in the municipality of Carbondale in Colorado, USA. Test drilling for the project is then likely to commence by November. The Carbondale Community Geothermal Coalition has been awarded a grant of USD 716,000 for the feasibility, modeling, design, and planning of a large-scale geothermal heating and cooling system that will supply a 16-acre block of institutional and residential buildings.

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The right is firing misinformation bullets in its climate war on renewables – here’s a way to fight back | Peter Lewis

The Guardian: Energy

In the disinformation age it’s not enough for us to shake our heads about the lies the other side perpetrates Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Fresh from dragging an invitation for reconciliation into a mire of racial division, the reactionary right is prepping a new community consensus to infect, recasting the transition to renewables as a reckless attack on the environment.