TechXplore
OCTOBER 15, 2024
A new study from the University of Toronto's Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits.
Charged
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Sponsored by DuPont. The automotive industry is rapidly evolving, and electric vehicles are at the forefront of this transformation. Continued EV adoption hinges on several key factors: reducing costs, building a robust charging infrastructure, and designing efficient, durable battery packs with longer-range and fast-charging capabilities. As automakers strive to match the cost and efficiency of internal combustion engine vehicles, the race to develop high-performing EV battery packs is on—and a
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The Verge: Energy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Illustration: The Verge Google plans to buy electricity from next-generation nuclear reactors. It announced the deal yesterday, which it says is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase electricity from advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) that are still under development. Google inked the deal with engineering company Kairos Power, which plans to get its first SMR up and running by 2030.
ThinkGeoEnergy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) has published 19 case studies of large-scale geothermal heat pump applications across the United States. The complete list of geothermal heat pump case studies can be accessed at the official GTO website. The case studies highlight the incredible versatility of geothermal heat pump applications.
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.
Solar Industry
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Excelsior Energy Capital has entered into a multiyear partnership with Proximal Energy, with the aim of utilizing Proximal’s AI platform to optimize Excelsior’s portfolio of energy storage assets. Proximal’s platform is expected to introduce Excelsior to the provider’s Agentic Asset Management, a system powered by generative AI models that is meant to assist asset managers and O&M providers.
TechXplore
OCTOBER 15, 2024
More stable and efficient materials for solar cells are needed in the green transition. So-called halide perovskites are highlighted as a promising alternative to today's silicon materials. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have gained new insights into how perovskite materials function, which is an important step forward.
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TechXplore
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The U.S. is ramping up plans for a major increase in offshore wind production, with 30 gigawatts of new installations expected by 2030 and a total of 110 gigawatts by 2050. But to be successful, the country needs to design turbines that can withstand the challenges of tropical storms.
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The maritime industry is heavily reliant on fossil fuels, but new tech may change that direction Hexagon Purus Maritime of Norway has announced a $2.75 million purchase order for a green hydrogen fuel system that would power a sustainable ship commissioned by Greenpeace. The vessel is a type of hybrid clean energy ship The international environmental organization ordered the green hydrogen powered ship designed by Dykstra Naval Architects in the Netherlands.
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Tech company orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power Business live – latest updates Google has signed a “world first” deal to buy energy from a fleet of mini nuclear reactors to generate the power needed for the rise in use of artificial intelligence. The US tech corporation has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035.
TechXplore
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The technologies for storing alternative energy sources have reached a new milestone with the development of Korea's first cryogenic turboexpander, capable of cooling gases to temperatures as low as -183°C.
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
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Highview Power has revealed its second planned long-duration energy storage (LDES) project using its liquid air energy storage (LAES) technology, in Scotland, UK.
TechXplore
OCTOBER 15, 2024
In the race to combat climate change, scientists are developing technologies to turn carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable fuels and chemicals. These innovations help curb greenhouse gases while providing a low-carbon fuel to power our future. As the U.S. shifts to a low-carbon economy, we need environmentally friendly fuels to power vehicles that are hard to electrify, like planes, ships and trains.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) will play an important role in reducing curtailment issues Chile has been facing in 2024, keynote speakers said at the third edition of Solar Media's Energy Storage Summit Latin America 2024 today.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
IEA says rapid deployment of low cost wind and solar the key if world is to navigate narrow path to 1.5°C climate target. The post Solar and batteries steal the show, but world needs more renewables quickly to meet 1.5°C target appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Canada’s Capstone Infrastructure and Denmark’s Eurowind Energy are proposing to construct a 400MW/3200MWh standalone BESS in Alameda County, California. The pair’s Potentia-Viridi battery energy storage system (BESS) project is in development through a 50:50 joint venture (JV) that the two independent power producers (IPPs) formed back in 2022.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Australia's biggest utility - without a trace of irony - says renewables not being built fast enough to replace ageing and "unreliable" coal fleet. The post “Renewables not coming online fast enough,” says utility that didn’t build any while courting state coal deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Utility Celestia has deployed what it claimed is the first lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery energy storage system (BESS) in Colombia.
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Illinois is phasing out full retail net metering and transitioning to a new solar incentive structure called Smart Solar Billing on January 1, 2025. This change was set forth in 2021 through the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), so the solar industry, utilities and other stakeholders have had four years to prepare for this… The post Q&A: What you need to know about the switch to Smart Solar Billing in Illinois appeared first on Solar Power World.
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.
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Solutions provider nVent on the industry's increasing demand for energy storage systems with smarter design and technology to deliver a smaller footprint.
Financial Times: Energy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Adnoc’s $16bn takeover of Germany’s Covestro is a key part of its strategy to diversify its business
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Australian startup Green Gravity has secured AU$9 million in Series A capital funding to complete product development of its gravity-based energy storage technology.
Canary Media
OCTOBER 15, 2024
This story was first published by Energy News Network. When farmer Trent Gerlach found out a solar farm would be built on the land he had long worked in northwestern Illinois, he was disappointed.
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?
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Cloud-based battery analytics provider ACCURE is monitoring a fleet of large-scale battery storage systems in Germany for Iqony, a subsidiary of utility Steag.
Canary Media
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The federal government has just finalized a $861 million loan guarantee to fund what will be Puerto Rico’s largest utility-scale solar and battery storage installations.
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Energy minister Chris Bowen suggests the federal government already knew Equinor and its local partner Oceanex had backed out of Illawarra offshore zone. The post Federal government says it already knew of withdrawal of key offshore wind project in Illawarra appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Solar Industry
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Cordelio Power has advanced two solar projects from development to construction, the 150 MW Winfield solar project in Lincoln County, Mo. and the 300 MW Box Canyon solar project in Pinal County, Ariz. The company also advanced the 20 MW McHenry battery energy storage system, located in McHenry County, Ill., to construction. The company expects the projects to achieve commercial operations next year.
Financial Times: Energy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Higher temperatures and rising incomes could boost power demand coming from home cooling units by 280% by 2050
Solar Industry
OCTOBER 15, 2024
In its 2024 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission and the North Carolina Utilities Commission, Dominion Energy Virginia laid out portfolio options to meet rising power demand through investments in new power generation. The IRP is not a request to build any specific project, but instead a long-term planning document based on current technology, market information and load projections.
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The government’s carbon capture scheme is an expensive distraction, argues Dr Richard Carter, while Kate Macintosh and Edric Brown call for a more far-sighted solution to curb emissions George Monbiot rightly eviscerates the government’s foolish plan to waste nearly £22bn on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) venture ( Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions, 11 October ).
Solar Industry
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Sumitomo, through Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) and SCOA subsidiary Perennial Power Holdings , has formed a joint venture with CEP Solar to deliver clean energy projects across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The investment enables both Perennial and CEP to commercialize its 1.5 GW portfolio of solar and battery storage assets, with construction expected to commence next year.
PV Tech
OCTOBER 15, 2024
France installed 4GW of solar PV capacity in 2023, a “record” according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Solar Industry
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Fluke has introduced its 283 FC Solar Digital Multimeter and a283 FC True-RMS Wireless Clamp, geared towards solar professionals working in high voltage environments such as testing individual panels, strings or inverters in a PV array. The multimeter is designed to enhance safety while providing technicians with reliable and repeatable results. Features include video and audio polarity indicators, as well as a user-defined limit gauge. “Our digital multimeters are renowned for their excep
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