October, 2024

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Toyota report grapples with energy storage challenge in logistics

Envirotec Magazine

A hydrogen fuel cell forklift truck from Toyota at the opening of a new hydrogen fuelling station at Teesside International Airport in January (image credit: Toyota UK). A report from logistics specialist Toyota Material Handling (UK) indicates priorities and directions for the logistics industry, given the required trajectory of emissions reduction.

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Next-generation perovskite solar cell can absorb near-infrared light beyond the existing visible light range

TechXplore

Existing perovskite solar cells, which are unable to utilize approximately 52% of total solar energy, have been improved upon by a Korean research team. The team has developed an innovative technology that maximizes near-infrared light capture performance while greatly improving power conversion efficiency. This greatly increases the possibility of commercializing next-generation solar cells and is expected to contribute to important technological advancements in the global solar cell market.

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How AI is fuelling the climate crisis, not solving it

Energy Transition

‘Artificial intelligence will make it easier to combat climate change.’ That’s the bold claim made by billionaire and self-proclaimed climate problem–solver Bill Gates. But Gates – a well-known advocate of geoengineering – is not alone in promoting the idea that technology can be our saviour. Seden Anlar reports.

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‘Whole Fortune 500’ looking at tax credits now, but new entrants means risks like fraud – Foss & Company

Energy Storage News

Transferability and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have opened up tax equity financing to the wider corporate world, but significant risks remain with so many new entrants and technologies in the mix, tax credits specialist Foss & Co told Energy-Storage.news.

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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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Liebherr and Fortescue to expand zero-emission equipment partnership

Charged

German-Swiss multinational equipment manufacturer Liebherr and Australia-headquartered metal mining company Fortescue have announced a deal for the development and supply of zero-emission technologies that, once they enter series production, will become available for mining companies worldwide. The partnership features a total of 475 zero-emission Liebherr machines that include 55 electric excavators, 60 battery-powered dozers, and approximately 360 autonomous T 264 trucks that will commence on-

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Toyota’s Portable Hydrogen Cartridges Debut

Hydrogen Fuel News

Toyota Unveils Portable Hydrogen Cartridges at Japan Mobility Show 2024 Toyota has once again demonstrated its commitment to pioneering carbon-neutral technologies by unveiling a revolutionary portable hydrogen energy cartridge at the Japan Mobility Show Bizweek 2024 in Tokyo. This innovative technology promises to significantly impact the future of hydrogen-powered vehicles and energy consumption in everyday life.

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Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%

TechXplore

A team of engineers at AI inference technology company BitEnergy AI reports a method to reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95%. The group has published a paper describing their new technique on the arXiv preprint server.

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Carbon Mapper Releases First Emissions Detections from the Tanager-1 Satellite

Planet Pulse

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). ### PUBLISHED ARTICLE FROM CARBON MAPPER Pasadena,

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California now has more than 13GW of battery storage

Energy Storage News

Installed battery storage capacity in California has grown from just 500MW in 2018 to more than 13,300MW at the latest count.

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Stop pushing heat pumps or face major backlash, green energy magnate tells Labour

The Guardian: Energy

Party donor Dale Vince warns that urging homeowners to switch to clean-power technology risks political storm bigger than Ulez The government risks a huge political backlash if it keeps pushing the public to install heat pumps to replace their boilers, one of Britain’s leading green entrepreneurs has warned. Dale Vince , a major Labour donor and renewable energy advocate, called on Keir Starmer to rethink national programmes, championed by Boris Johnson , pushing the technology.

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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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Broken Hill has a wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery. So, why are the lights out?

Renew Economy

Broken Hill has a big wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery, all of which are all looking pretty useless now. The battery, in particular, is not doing what it says on the box, and highlights industry frustration with the grid management process. The post Broken Hill has a wind farm, a solar farm and a big battery. So, why are the lights out? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Surrey academic wins air quality’s ‘Nobel Prize’  

Envirotec Magazine

Professor Kumar. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has recognised Professor Prashant Kumar with the prestigious Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award – an honour widely considered to be the “Nobel Prize” in air quality achievement. Professor Kumar, Founding Director of the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) , has been recognised for his contribution to international education.

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Reliably estimating the capacity of household systems to store the excess electricity generated by photovoltaics

TechXplore

The use of photovoltaics (PVs) to generate household electricity is on the rise, as a growing number of individuals worldwide are now choosing to power their home using solar panels. To store the excess energy generated by solar panels on sunny days and re-use it at night and on cloudy days, one requires additional energy technologies known as home storage systems.

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How $1 Billion in US Hydrogen Incentives Will Change the Game

Hydrogen Fuel News

US Introduces New Hydrogen Incentives As the race towards carbon neutrality intensifies, the U.S. government is gearing up to make significant strides in clean energy with the introduction of demand-side incentives for hydrogen. Scheduled to roll out in 2025, these incentives are set to reshape the landscape of hydrogen energy by making it more financially viable for industries to adopt and integrate into their operations.

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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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Tesla revealed as only AAA-Rated supplier in new Battery StorageTech bankability report

Energy Storage News

Exclusive preview and key takeaways from the Battery StorageTech Bankability Ratings Report, launched by our colleagues at PV Tech Research.

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Driving the future of EV battery assembly with adhesives

Charged

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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Google inks nuclear deal for next-generation reactors

The Verge: Energy

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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AI to enable autonomous underwater robots to perform precision offshore wind farm repairs

Envirotec Magazine

One of the underwater robot undergoing trials in Heriot Watt Universitys wave tank facility. Technology could reduce the use of large maintenance vessels in wind farm repairs, reducing fuel consumption by 97%. That’s according to the National Robotarium – an innovation hub based at Heriot Watt University’s Edinburgh campus – which is supporting the development of new artificial intelligence and control systems that could allow underwater robots to operate autonomously and

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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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Student develops award-winning method to desalinate water

TechXplore

Tayia Oddonetto was an undergraduate student when her professor inspired her to solve water scarcity. "During class, the professor said that if someone discovered how to turn brine, water with a high salt concentration, into something of value, it'd be revolutionary for the planet," said Oddonetto. "At that moment, I told myself I was going to be the one who found the solution for brine, and that thought has never left me.

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A Big Potential Win for Childhood and Environmental Health

Andrew Winston

Some great news in childhood and environmental health: A new EPA rule requiring utilities to remove all lead water pipes in 10 years The industry says, unsurprisingly, it will cost a lot — the EPA estimates it will take about $45 billion over a decade. For fun, let’s double that and call it about $10 billion per year. That’s less than the $12B Americans spend on Halloween annually ($3.6B just on candy), and the $11B the US oil and gas industry spent just on exploration last yea

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Alaska’s Chugach Electric commissions 80MWh Tesla Megapack BESS

Energy Storage News

US-based utility Chugach Electric Association has successfully commissioned a new 40MW/80MWh 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

Charged

The challenges involved in getting EV chargers hooked up to the grid are well-known to Charged readers. Various off-grid solutions are available, but the best approach may be a flexible one—using some combination of onsite generation, battery storage and grid power, according to what’s available and what’s needed for the application. Paired Power offers a pair of microgrid-based products.

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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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SunHydrogen Launches Large-Scale Hydrogen Module Testing

Hydrogen Fuel News

Large-Scale Hydrogen Module Testing for Low Cost Green Hydrogen Production This week marks a significant milestone for SunHydrogen, Inc. (OTCQB: HYSR) as the company announces the official commencement of initial fabrication and testing of its large-scale green hydrogen modules. This development is integral to the company’s mission to produce renewable hydrogen through its innovative technology.

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Scottish universities initiative to “drive the transition to net-zero electronics”

Envirotec Magazine

The Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre (REACT) was announced on 7 October, one of five new centres to share in £25m from a new UKRI programme intended to support the innovation necessary for net zero. Described as the UK’s first sustainable electronics centre, REACT aims to address both the environmental and economic challenges of achieving net zero in the electronics arena, while promoting the adoption of green technologies.

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New research reveals how large-scale adoption of electric vehicles can improve air quality and human health

TechXplore

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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Orsted, SRP Celebrate Commencement of Solar + BESS on Power Grid

Solar Industry

Ørsted and Salt River Project (SRP) have commenced operations at the Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300 MW solar project and 300 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Pinal County, Ariz. The center is SRP’s largest co-located solar and BESS project, providing power to businesses, homes and Meta’s data center in Mesa, Ariz. “Solar energy paired with battery energy storage will be critical to the reliable delivery of power as the demand for electricity grows,” says David Hardy, Group EVP and CE

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BESS could save EU €9 billion a year in gas costs by 2030, says Ember

Energy Storage News

The EU could save €9 billion a year in gas costs by deploying BESS to capture excess wind and solar, according to think tank Ember.

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Video: The benefits and challenges of dry electrode coating technology for EV batteries

Charged

The dry electrode process is transforming battery manufacturing by eliminating solvents and streamlining production. Unlike the traditional wet slurry method, the dry electrode coating process relies on the use of special binders that can form an electrode coating without being dissolved in a solvent, such as fluoropolymer binders with Teflon from specialty chemical company Chemours.

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Sweden’s Port of Gothenburg opens busy truck green hydrogen station

Hydrogen Fuel News

The location sees some of the highest amounts of truck traffic in the country The Port of Gothenburg in Sweden sees some of the highest numbers of heavy-duty truck traffic in the country and is opening a new hydrogen station that will dispense only H2 produced using renewable energy. The location for the facility will be at one of the busiest gates at the port The hydrogen station will be used for refueling H2-powered heavy-duty vehicles such as shipping trucks that frequent the location.

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Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 predicted by IEA report

Envirotec Magazine

Renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity demand by the end of this decade, according to a new IEA report, with solar as the leading approach. Due to supportive policies and favourable economics, the world’s renewable power capacity is expected to surge over the rest of this decade, with global additions on course to roughly equal the current power capacity of China, the European Union, India and the United States combined, according to a new IEA report on 9 October.

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Rooftop solar panels impact temperatures during the day and night in cities, simulation study shows

TechXplore

Widespread coverage of building rooftops with conventional photovoltaic solar panels may increase temperatures on hot days and lower them at night, says new modeling.

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RUSA, Ameresco Partner on Solar Adoption for Public Utilities

Solar Industry

Ameresco has partnered with the Roseburg Urban Sanitary Authority (RUSA), with the aim of bolstering the resilience, sustainability and cost-effectiveness of RUSA’s key facilities, including its main office, Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and Natural Treatment System (NTS). Under the collaboration, Ameresco will oversee the design, construction and integration of solar PV systems across RUSA’s facilities, building on a comprehensive Technical Energy Audit conducted to identify energy-sa