Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches today (15 October) with a warning that households are wasting over one billion items every year that could be recycled. New statistics reveal millions of recyclable bottles, sprays and toilet roll tubes are facing incineration, or landfill (words: WRAP). Britain’s most binned items include: 845 million cleaning product bottles 526 million aerosols 7.4 million yoghurt pots* 6 million aftershave and perfume bottles Toilet roll tubes** Recent figures show UK re

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The first annual report from the National Education Nature Park has been published, showing that more than 1 in 8 schools and colleges across England have joined the free programme in its first year, which is creating a network of green spaces across the education estate. Children and young people at more than 3,000 schools, nurseries and colleges across England are leading the way in turning their learning sites from grey to green by exploring, mapping and creating habitats in their school grou

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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.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Window.ID is intended to act as a digital identification tag for REHAU’s windows, doors and accessories Polymer window manufacturer REHAU says it has successfully integrated its Window.ID service package with a number of its leading partners, in an effort to help demonstrate the material history of each window, a powerful ingredient to help enable circularity in the sector.

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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.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Carbfix CCS project under construction in Iceland. Global CO 2 capture capacity is on track to double to over 100 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) of CO 2 , once facilities currently under construction commence operation, according to the “Global Status of CCS 2024” report , produced by not-for-profit think tank group the Global CCS Institute, which has a brief to accelerate deployment.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

WA approves new four hour 100 MW Wellesley battery in industrial zone. The post Another four hour battery project gets development approval in W.A. appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Tropical Cyclone Idai caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique (image credit: bpcreativedesign / Shutterstock.com). Researchers from the University of Bristol and across the world are joining forces this week, in a professed bid to advance early warning systems and disaster preparedness across southern Africa, as climate change worsens.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The killers who committed horrific mass shootings in Norway, New Zealand and Texas are examples of “extreme environmentalists” who want to reduce the Earth’s population to conserve resources, according to a class taught at Peterson Academy , the new online school from conservative influencer Jordan Peterson. These mass shooters are “people who don’t rely on persuasion, or government action, but instead take matters into their own hands and start to kill the members of the human race at least in

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This latest MZT deployment at the Deep Sky installation is the first to operate in sub-zero temperatures. The startup behind the UK’s first commercial direct air capture (DAC) plant has begun delivery of its first international project, at an installation in Alberta, Canada. Mission Zero Tech nologies (or ‘MZT’) announced the delivery and installation of their third modular system at partner Deep Sky’s carbon removal innovation and commercialisation centre, Deep Sky Labs, in Innisfail, Alberta,

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Does the perfect pairing exist? Some would argue that it’s peanut butter and chocolate. Every year, people around the world eat more than. The post Why affordable rental housing Is a perfect asset class for impact investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bring in ‘future homes standard’ or leave families at risk of higher bills and emissions for decades, MPs and experts say Ministers must take steps now to ensure that all homes are built to the most efficient low-carbon standards, or risk locking households into higher bills and greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come, a group of MPs and experts have urged.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Runergy Alabama has entered into a strategic partnership with SOLARCYCLE , in which SOLARCYCLE will be the company’s major glass supplier for its solar modules, as well as its dedicated recycling partner. Under the terms of the agreements, SOLARCYCLE is expected to provide at least 4 GW, or 30 million square meters of domestically manufactured glass, to Runergy Alabama over a 5-year period for use in Runergy’s bifacial solar modules.

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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 ).

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By modernizing its aging electrical grid, New Jersey can ensure electricity is affordable, reliable, and clean for generations to come

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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.

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The EU would benefit from policies to develop 'nature-inclusive solar', according to SolarPower Europe and the Nature Conservancy.

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Financial Times: Energy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Internal review acknowledges pellets ‘highly likely’ to have come from ecologically-important areas in Canada

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PV Tech

OCTOBER 15, 2024

France installed 4GW of solar PV capacity in 2023, a “record” according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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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

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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.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Meet Storio, a French startup that’s focused on providing smart energy storage for commercial and industrial customers. Founded in 2023, the startup raised a €5 million seed round earlier this year (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) and has signed its first client. Storio believes solar panels have a bright future. But the company […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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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.

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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.

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