Tue.Oct 10, 2023

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5 clean energy trends businesses shouldn’t ignore

GreenBiz

Sponsored: As you tackle decarbonization and measure your climate risk, these are five clean energy trends to account for in your future strategy.

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‘No evidence’ that the Government is on track to meet crucial 2030 nature target

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Marc Barrot , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. The Government has claimed that it is “on track to reach its target to protect 30% of UK land and sea for nature 2030”, but the department responsible cannot provide any evidence to back-up these assertions, as new findings reveal, which were published on 10 October by environmental groups. The 30×30 target is a leading international commitment that the UK spear-headed at COP-15.

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How building bridges within supply chains can unlock opportunities in regenerative agriculture

GreenBiz

Land to Market’s Wyatt Ball discusses building bridges between brands and farmers, and turning land into a force for good.

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Michigan Adopts Filter First Protections for Kids

NRDC onEarth

Michigan lawmakers approve Filter First bills providing the nation’s strongest protections against lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers.

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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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Survey: Majority of CEOs committed to improving ESG performance, despite economic headwinds

GreenBiz

A KPMG survey of over 1,300 leaders of some of the world’s largest companies highlights the growing threat to business posed by political instability and climate impacts.

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Research finds only one in five British SMEs are investing in green energy solutions

Envirotec Magazine

YouGov research commissioned by energy company ScottishPower seems to have found that only one in five (20%) of the nation’s small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have invested in green energy solutions including solar panels, battery storage, heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points. The survey of senior decision makers found an intention among some SMEs to invest in sustainable tech with 23% confirming they have sustainability targets in place for the next five years or are working t

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The problem with making green hydrogen to fuel power plants

Canary Media

Today, utility Florida Power & Light will begin operations at its Cavendish NextGen Hydrogen Hub, one of the country’s first green hydrogen facilities.

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European Council adopts increased renewables directive, passes into law this month

PV Tech

The EU will now meet 42.5% of its energy demand with renewables by 2030, up from the 40% originally included in the REPowerEU scheme.

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Gas Executive ‘Lobbying to Slow Climate Action’ At Labour Party Conference

DeSmogBlog

LIVERPOOL – A senior executive at the UK’s largest gas distributor has been accused of lobbying to slow down climate action after pushing for the use of hydrogen in heating at a Labour Party conference panel on net zero. Tony Ballance, Cadent’s chief strategy and regulation officer, told a packed event on Monday to ignore a growing body of scientific evidence that finds the fuel to be expensive, resource intensive and inefficient at heating homes.

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Blue Whale Materials to build Li-ion battery recycling facility in Oklahoma

Charged

Battery recycling firm Blue Whale Materials plans to build a Li-ion battery processing facility in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The new plant will be located within a 35-acre campus including 150,000 square feet of warehouse space at the Bartlesville Industrial Park, and encompasses multiple lots designed to facilitate comprehensive battery processing, testing, dismantling and storage.

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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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Italy’s first hydrogen train will be the Coradia Stream H

Hydrogen Fuel News

Alstom and FNM have presented Italy’s first H2 train. FNM jointly with Alstom presented the hydrogen train, Coradia Stream H™ train, in Italy at a recent event that was held as part of EXPO Ferroviaria 2023. The H2 train marks the beginning of a new era of passenger rail transport in Italy. The event followed the agreement FNM , the leading integrated group in sustainable mobility in Lombardy, signed with Alstom, the manufacturer of the hydrogen train and global leader in smart and

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itselectric to use SWTCH software to optimize its curbside charging network

Charged

itselectric , a Brooklyn-based curbside EV charging company, has partnered with SWTCH Energy, which specializes in EV charging solutions for multi-tenant buildings. SWTCH will provide software to itselectric for managing, maintaining and optimizing its charging network. “Today, the biggest barrier to deployment is the cost and complexity of connecting an EV charger directly to the utility’s main in the roadway,” said Tiya Gordon, COO and co-founder of itselectric.

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First Element to install world’s largest heavy truck hydrogen station

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company plans to open the first H2 refueling location in the Port of Oakland in California. First Element Fuel has announced its intentions to open its first hydrogen station for refueling heavy trucks, which will also reportedly be the largest of its kind in the world. The announcement was made by the company’s founder and chief development officer Shane Stephens.

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GoodWe Debuts Utility-Scale String Inverter

Solar Industry

GoodWe, a provider of solar products and energy solutions, has launched its new three-phase 1,500 V utility string inverter, the UT (320/350 kW). The inverter is designed to meet the demands of large-scale power plants, offering high power efficiency, streamlined operation and maintenance (O&M), and reliable system stability, the company says. With this addition, GoodWe strengthens its utility portfolio by providing increased capacity and significantly reducing the levelized cost of energy (

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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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NLC India to develop 810MW solar plant in Rajasthan

PV Tech

NLC India has won a tender to develop an 810MW solar photovoltaic project in the northern state of Rajasthan.

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‘It’s not our job to pick winners’: How Jigar Shah and the DOE Loan Programs Office is backing the energy transition

Energy Storage News

Jigar Shah, the clean energy industry veteran leading the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, speaks with Energy-Storage.news.

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Ascendum Machinery electrifies job sites with the Voltstack mobile site power and EV charger

Charged

Ascendum Machinery, which has represented Volvo Construction Equipment in the US for over 65 years, and claims the title of the country’s largest Volvo dealer, has partnered with Portable Electric to offer the latter’s Voltstack line of portable electric construction equipment chargers (e-Chargers) and power stations (e-Generators). Voltstack mobile electric equipment chargers offer a versatile solution for on-site power at construction sites.

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Finland investigates potential sabotage to Baltic gas pipeline

Financial Times: Energy

Helsinki also reports break in undersea data cable connecting it to Estonia

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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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First Power Flows from World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

POWER Magazine

The massive Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which will be the world’s largest offshore wind installation when completed, has begun sending power to the UK grid. GE officials on Oct. 10 […] The post First Power Flows from World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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We are in a period of climate stuckness

Financial Times: Energy

The need for faster action is widely accepted, but we’re not making the progress required

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Developer Hexagon selling 2GW standalone ERCOT BESS pipeline

Energy Storage News

Developer Hexagon is talking to investment bankers with a view to selling a portfolio of battery storage projects in the ERCOT, Texas market, totalling 2GW.

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Powering AI could use as much electricity as a small country

TechXplore

Artificial intelligence (AI) comes with promises of helping coders code faster, drivers drive safer, and making daily tasks less time-consuming. But in a commentary published October 10 in the journal Joule, the founder of Digiconomist demonstrates that the tool, when adopted widely, could have a large energy footprint, which in the future may exceed the power demands of some countries.

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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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Undersea pipeline damage appears to be deliberate, says Finland

The Guardian: Energy

Media cites intelligence sources saying Russian sabotage suspected after unusual drop in pressure Extensive damage to an undersea gas pipeline and communications cable connecting Finland and Estonia “could not have occurred by accident” and appears to be the result of a “deliberate … external act”, Finnish authorities have said. “It is likely that the damage to both the gas pipeline and the communication cable is the result of external activity,” the Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö , said on X

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GeoEnergy Discovery Centre launched in Northern Ireland

ThinkGeoEnergy

A new mobile GeoEnergy Discovery Centre in Northern Ireland as part of the GeoEnergy NI project , which is being delivered by the Department for the Economy (DfE) with scientific support from the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (GSNI). The facility aims to help inform the public about the potential for geothermal energy in Northern Ireland as a renewable and sustainable energy source.

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Total accused of involuntary manslaughter over 2021 Mozambique attack

Financial Times: Energy

Survivors of Palma terror assault say French company failed to take measures to ensure safety of subcontractors

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Dogger Bank: World's largest offshore wind farm starts exporting power

Business Green

Giant North Sea offshore wind farm reaches major milestone on path to delivering clean power for six million homes a year

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Wind energy powerhouse Iowa seeing a spike in grassroots opposition

Canary Media

This story was first published by Distilled. In April, the Facebook group "Protect Our Aviation & Eagles, Inc. – Palo Alto County, Iowa" posted a meme to share with its followers. “I SAW SATAN LAUGHING WITH DELIGHT,” the meme begins. The text is laid over the image of a man in red face paint with horns.

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BP says transition strategy ‘unchanged’ by leadership turmoil

Financial Times: Energy

Interim chief tells investors oil supermajor remains committed to Bernard Looney’s planned production cuts

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Foret Plasma Labs pushes hydrogen technology forward

Hydrogen Fuel News

The company is highly active in the industry, including its many valuable H2 patents. Foret Plasma Labs, LLC is a company based in Houston, Texas focused on plasma research and development, but that also owns a number of patents for cutting edge hydrogen technology, helping to move H2 forward.  The company has combined plasma’s power with angular momentum for a spectrum of applications.

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Czech minister warns over attacks by newspaper co-owned by K?etínský

Financial Times: Energy

Jozef Síkela accuses billionaire of using his media assets to criticise government’s acquisition of gas pipeline operator

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?oconut shells can make concrete more durable

TechXplore

Scientists have found that concrete's compressive strength can be increased by 4.1% and its flexural strength by 3.4% by adding a small amount of coconut shell (only 5%). The material's performance increased by 6.1% compared to clear concrete. This effect is due to the fact that the cement paste—the bridge between all solid concrete particles—penetrates into the pores of the shell, firmly binding it with other components.

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Australia’s richest person raises stake in lithium producer, threatening $4.3bn takeover

Financial Times: Energy

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is muscling in on Albemarle’s mine proposal

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