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From kicks to compost: Puma’s playbook for circular sneakers

GreenBiz

The RE:SUEDE project attempts to give old sneakers new life as agricultural compost.

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SMuRFs could help make nuclear decommissioning work safer

Envirotec Magazine

Nuclear power stations could be decommissioned in the future with the help of teams of autonomous robots known as the SMuRFs, scientists have suggested. Engineers from University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Heriot-Watt University are behind the development of the SMuRF system, which is short for Symbiotic Multi-Robot Fleet.

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Tech must lead on carbon neutrality

GreenBiz

Sponsored: The tech industry is far from the biggest polluter, but it’ll be a key leader in solving the most pressing issue of our time: saving our planet.

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Six Sovereigns Achieve Pathway to Snake River Dam Retirement

NRDC onEarth

The historic agreement is a major step forward to create a more equitable and balanced future for tribes of the Pacific Northwest.

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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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Electromechanical innovators celebrated at the 2023 AEMT Awards

Envirotec Magazine

The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT) returned to Coventry on 23 October for its Annual Awards Ceremony. With a record number of submissions across the seven categories, this year’s programme produced some exceptional entries from the electro-mechanical arena. The Doubletree by Hilton played host to the gala presentation dinner, which celebrated professional endeavour and innovation in this field.

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Food Matters: Year-in-Review

NRDC onEarth

Through NRDC's Food Matters initiative, U.S. cities work to prevent food from becoming waste, rescue surplus food, and recycle food scraps.

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2023 Wins in Food Waste & What’s Next in 2024

NRDC onEarth

NRDC’s food waste team reflects on all we’ve accomplished this year and what we’re most excited for in 2024

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NSW secures another $4.2 billion of wind, solar and storage to help shift from coal

Renew Economy

NSW lands another $4.2 billion in wind, solar and storage projects, including big wins for Andrew Forrest and Neoen, and three ground-breaking long duration storage projects. The post NSW secures another $4.2 billion of wind, solar and storage to help shift from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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TotalEnergies Inaugurates H2Benelux Hydrogen Refueling Stations in Rotterdam and Utrecht

FuelCellsWorks

TotalEnergies yesterday inaugurated new public hydrogen refueling stations in the Rotterdam region, in Capelle aan den IJssel, and in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in the presence of Robert Joore, Managing Director.

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Frontier beefs up solar and green hydrogen plans, as it joins renewables race in wild West

Renew Economy

The race to harness Western Australia's huge renewables potential has a new contender, following Frontier Energy's acquisition of Waroona Energy. The post Frontier beefs up solar and green hydrogen plans, as it joins renewables race in wild West 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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SunHydrogen Enters Consulting Agreement With 3 of Japan’s Most Esteemed Green Hydrogen Production Experts

FuelCellsWorks

CORALVILLE, IA– SunHydrogen, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, today announced that the Company has entered into a consulting agreement with.

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General Motors to provide Autocar heavy vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells

Hydrogen Fuel News

GM and Autocar Industries have agreed to collaborate on the development of the vehicles. General Motors and Autocar Industries have jointly announced that they will be working together on the development of H2 powered heavy vehicles equipped with GM’s Hydrotec hydrogen fuel cells. The companies will be collaborating on the heavy vehicles powered by the Hydrotec units.

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Advent Technologies Secures €1.8 Million Frame Contract With Volta Energy for the Supply of Methanol-Powered Fuel Cell Units

FuelCellsWorks

BOSTON– Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADN) (“Advent” or the “Company”), an innovation-driven leader in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology sectors, is pleased to announce the signing of a.

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US Treasury and IRS provide additional guidance for 45X manufacturing tax credit for batteries

Energy Storage News

More detailed proposed regulations around the US government's 45X tax credit for domestic clean energy manufacturing have been released, clarifying what battery components and materials qualify.

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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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Electrolyser Company Thyssenkrupp Nucera Achieves Two-And-A-Half-Fold Profit Surge, Exceeding Expectations in 2022/2023 Financial Year

FuelCellsWorks

Achieving dynamic and profitable growth through successful project execution and further progress in implementing the growth strategy Order intake in the chlor-alkali business is at a record high High increase.

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Two- and three-wheel EVs delivering more emissions reduction than cars

Charged

We humans are, at least in theory, proceeding with a broad range of measures to slow climate change —deploying renewable energy sources, protecting forests, cleaning up industrial emissions, etc. According to a recent study by the World Resources Institute , only a single one of these projects is currently on track to meet the goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement: light-duty electric vehicle sales.

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H2U and De Nora Enter Research & Development Agreement to Discover High-Performance Materials for Green Hydrogen Production

FuelCellsWorks

De Nora Will Utilize H2U’s Catalyst Discovery Engine™ to Identify Low-cost, Durable Catalysts for Water Electrolysis. De Nora advances on its growth path in energy transition with electrocatalysts 10 thousand times.

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The clean energy backlog barely budged this year. What’s the way forward?

Canary Media

When it comes to the existentially important process of connecting new clean energy to the grid, 2023 is ending much as it began: in a literal gridlock.

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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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Exxonmobil to Build Ccs Pilot Plant With Fuelcell Energy Using Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology

FuelCellsWorks

First time for carbonate fuel cell technology to be piloted for carbon capture in an industrial environment Captured CO2 will be transported and stored via the Porthos project for permanent storage.

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Contractor’s Corner: Burns & McDonnell Utility-scale EPC prioritizes training to save time on big jobs.

Solar Power World

Utility solar sites are becoming more challenging to develop, with most of the vast, flat options already gobbled up by now. Choosing an EPC that’s organized, experienced and well-trained in the latest technology for less-than-ideal site layouts can be the difference between an on-time and on-budget completion or a missed target. Kansas City, Missouri-based Burns… The post Contractor’s Corner: Burns & McDonnell <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font

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Producing green hydrogen efficiently and at low cost made possible with ruthenium

Hydrogen Fuel News

Joint research team finds interesting green H2 production solution. Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology – IIT) and BeDimensional’s researchers have discovered that producing green hydrogen using nanoparticles of ruthenium lead to increased efficiency of the overall electrolyzer process and is far cheaper than using platinum.

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Toyota to Compete in the Thailand 10-Hour Endurance Race With Prius

FuelCellsWorks

Expanding the wide range of options to achieve a carbon-neutral society Toyota City, Japan– Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that it will be participating in the IDEMITSU SUPER ENDURANCE SOURTHEAST.

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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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CubicPV inks US$1 billion polysilicon supply deal with OCIM for US wafer production

PV Tech

US solar manufacturer CubicPV has signed a long-term supply agreement with South Korean-owned polysilicon producer OCIM to support its planned solar wafer manufacturing facility.

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Nova Scotia Releases Green Hydrogen Action Plan

FuelCellsWorks

A new action plan will help grow Nova Scotia’s green hydrogen industry and advance the transition to clean energy.“Nova Scotia is poised to be a world leader in the production.

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Renewables cover more than half of Germany’s electricity demand for first time in 2023

Renew Economy

Germany has generated more than half of the electricity it used this year with renewable energy for the first time, new data shows. The post Renewables cover more than half of Germany’s electricity demand for first time in 2023 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DOE Announces $59 Million to Advance the National Clean Hydrogen Strategy

FuelCellsWorks

The Department of Energy (DOE) today released a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for up to $59 million to accelerate the research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) of affordable clean-hydrogen technologies.

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The Brief: At Stake in 2024: Returns on inclusion and the ownership economy

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ⚡ Plugged In: Investing in inclusion-focused entrepreneurs. Earlier guests on Plugged In with ImpactAlpha contributing editor Sherrell Dorsey include. The post The Brief: At Stake in 2024: Returns on inclusion and the ownership economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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CNX Provides Update on Hydrogen Project Location and 45V Hydrogen Production Tax Credit Rules

FuelCellsWorks

PITTSBURGH– Citing delays and increasing uncertainty over implementation rules guiding the use of the 45V hydrogen production tax credit provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and an inability to.

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Newest peaking gas plant fires up for first time: At least it’s connected to a pipeline

Renew Economy

EnergyAustralia fires up country's newest peaking gas generator for first time. It won't likely be needed often, but at least it is connected to a pipeline. The post Newest peaking gas plant fires up for first time: At least it’s connected to a pipeline appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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This seasoned electrician is helping to build a clean energy workforce

Canary Media

As a child, Tonya Hicks was fascinated by car engines. She spent her summers in her grandparents’ garage with her uncle, an industrial mechanic, who taught her how to build a motor from scrap by the time she was 8.

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From dirty diesel to nearly 70pct solar powered, Lord Howe goes electric

Renew Economy

Lord Howe has a solar farm and battery storage that is performing beyond expectations, and incorporating a growing fleet of EVs. The post From dirty diesel to nearly 70pct solar powered, Lord Howe goes electric appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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FERC Rule Will Get Clean Energy onto the U.S. Power Grid Faster?

NRDC onEarth

Reforming the interconnection process is critical to advancing clean energy. FERC’s Order 2023 is an important first step, and NRDC stands with FERC to defend it.