Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

New analysis from energy think tank Ember shows that the wood-burning Drax power station is the UK’s largest source of CO2 emissions at 12.1 million tonnes in 2022. This is significantly greater than any other single UK power station, including coal and gas. The plant is by far the largest single CO2 emitter in the UK power sector, accounting for over double the amount of CO2 emissions of the second largest emitter, RWE’s Pembroke Gas Power Station, with 5.3 million tonnes CO2 emissions.

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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 22, 2024

Fossil fuel un-reliability and PJM’s failure to speedily connect new clean resources to the grid are to blame for the 2025/26 auction price spike.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 1, 2024

Countries in many parts of the world are already experiencing the effects of climate change, and Global South populations are particularly vulnerable. According. The post Global South Ecosystems are Producing Breakthrough Innovation to Solve Local Climate Needs appeared first on Cleantech Group.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

It is estimated that worldwide, a staggering 2.2 billion tonnes of waste is produced per year. Much of this waste is packaging from food and beverages, a great deal of which will end up in a landfill, since certain types of packaging are non-degradable or can take hundreds of years to break down. Some plastic bottle types, for instance, may take as long as 450 years to do so.

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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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Renew Economy

AUGUST 31, 2024

South Australia sources more than 101 per cent of its demand over past week from wind and solar, in last week of winter. The post South Australia runs on more than 100 pct net renewables in last week of winter appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 29, 2024

Campaigners hail Labour’s ‘proactive approach’ after series of policy U-turns under Conservatives UK politics live – latest updates Business live – latest updates The UK government is considering making further commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, likely to be announced at the UN climate summit this year. It is hoped the plan will help kickstart global ambitions on cutting emissions and encourage other countries to follow suit.

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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 6, 2024

Negotiations are underway to finally slow this endless stream of plastic waste into our environment, food, and bodies.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 30, 2024

Solar has been gaining popularity for years now, but in 2023 the clean energy source really took off: A staggering 428 gigawatts’ worth of solar was installed worldwide last year, up by 76 percent from what was deployed in 2022, per new BloombergNEF data. That’s more than double the industry’s recent growth rates.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

Joe’s Organic Cleaners had a clear green mission, to protect the health of their people, their town and the local environment. Core to that mission was replacing their cleaning system with a new state-of-the-art organic dry cleaning solution. They knew becoming an eco-friendly business was key to their future and the right thing to do. Green Business Movement Whether it’s to keep up with competition or to abide by new legislation that is being introduced, today’s business environment is reinfo

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 28, 2024

A new big battery was approved after just nine weeks, marking the first renewables project to be fully processed under the state's new fast-tracked approvals pathway. The post Victoria’s biggest battery becomes first project through new renewables fast track 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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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 28, 2024

Investments in solar, wind, batteries, pumped hydro and transmission links must be delivered ‘on time and in full’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s electricity authority has declared the country’s main power grid will remain reliable as it shifts from coal domination to running overwhelmingly on renewable energy – but only if investments in new generation are delivered “on time and in full”.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

An RAF Typhoon landing in Turkey. The Royal Air Force has used a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with normal jet fuel on routine operations for the first time. Aircraft including Typhoon and Poseidon submarine hunters, operating from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, have been using a blend of conventional and SAF in an apparent first for the air force.

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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 15, 2024

Diesel trucks, making up just 6 percent of vehicles in California, are responsible for a disproportionate amount of harmful emissions, severely impacting communities near freight routes like those in the Inland Empire.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Texas power grid has broken new records throughout this summer — for how much electricity it has had to deliver as residents cranked up their air conditioners and for how much it has used solar power and batteries to keep grid emergencies at bay.

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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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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mattresses pose a serious problem when it comes to disposal. These large household products take up more than their fair share of space in landfills because they’re difficult to compact, clog machinery, and create large soft spaces that can turn into sinkholes after filling. The problem of mattress disposal can be confronted from two sides. The first is to recycle old mattresses, reusing their components to make new products.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 27, 2024

Rooftop solar sends operational demand on Australia's main grid to a new winter low, as coal, wind and solar all forced to dramatically curtail output. The post Rooftop PV sends grid demand to new winter low, as big wind and solar hit by record curtailment appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 27, 2024

Open letter to Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, says biomass plants are putting forests and biodiversity at risk Business live – latest updates More than 40 green groups have called on Ed Miliband to scrap plans to pay billions in subsidies to the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire for it to keep burning wood pellets imported from overseas forests.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Ultrafine particles, UFPs, the smallest particles that contribute to air pollution ( and still a challenge to measure ), hinder the function of mitochondria in human olfactory mucosa cells, according to a new study, findings that appear to clarify some of the adverse health effects believed to be linked to exposure. Led by the University of Eastern Finland, the study appeared to show that traffic-related UFPs impair mitochondrial functions in primary human olfactory mucosa cells by hampering oxi

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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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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 5, 2024

I just had my lead service line replaced, and I couldn’t be happier.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 26, 2024

One of the most promising new forms of clean electricity just got a significant boost. Earlier today at a U.S. Department of Energy workshop, next-generation geothermal energy startup Sage Geosystems announced that it had agreed to supply Meta , the owner of Facebook, with 150 megawatts of geothermal power.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 27, 2024

Australia is headed for a future where solar is on every rooftop. The electricity market must be redesigned to see this as a resource to slash consumer bills – and not a risk. The post Solar saturation: Seven changes to the electricity market needed to put consumers first appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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PV Tech

AUGUST 20, 2024

Renewable energy developer Sun Cable has secured approval from the Australian government for the Australian element of its Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink) interconnector.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Bugs Matter app. As the summer holidays begin, the Bugs Matter 2024 survey, led by Buglife and Kent Wildlife Trust, is calling on citizen scientists across the UK to participate in this insect population study. Since the first reference survey in 2004 led by RSPB, analysis of records from nearly 26,500 journeys across the UK shows a continuing decrease in bug splats, with the number of splats sampled on vehicle number plates by citizen scientists decreasing by 78% nationwide between 2004 a

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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 12, 2024

Recent polling in Georgia and coastal South Carolina reveals overwhelming support for action to protect key areas on the Blake Plateau.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 23, 2024

Zero-carbon energy is just about the only form of energy the U.S. is building anymore. In the first half of this year, developers and power plant owners built 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generation capacity, per the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Fuel cells could be the cheaper option for energy and storage. A team of researchers at the University of Applied Sciences in Germany compared an offgrid PV-electrolyzer fuel cell system with a standalone solar-plus-storage counterpart to see which one had better economic performance. The research, which was carried out in Niger, revealed that decentralized PV-driven hydrogen had lower levelized cost of energy and levelized cost of storage compared to the PV-battery system.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 26, 2024

Big batteries projects are charging ahead beyond all expectations, helped by plunging costs. But where is the wind and solar, and what are the big utilities up to? The post Big battery market charges beyond expectations, now the grid just needs more wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 11, 2024

Coal and gas exports expected to remain roughly at current level until at least 2035 with 4.5% of emissions linked to Australia, report finds Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s coal and gas exports cause more climate damage than those from any other country bar Russia, according to a new study that argues the country is undermining a global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

EGL2 will connect Peterhead (pictured) with Drax in North Yorkshire. Around 430km of the cable will be under the North Sea. A £3.4 billion funding package has been awarded to build a proposed new subsea and underground 500km cable between Scotland and Yorkshire which could power up to 2 million homes, and expedite the delivery of energy generated via offshore wind in the North Sea.

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NRDC onEarth

AUGUST 26, 2024

Strong building codes save lives and money. FEMA made millions of dollars available to update outdated codes—but states are not taking full advantage of this opportunity.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 23, 2024

A big facility for recycling lithium-ion batteries is now operating in Central Ohio, where workers are busy salvaging and repurposing the metals and minerals needed to drive the clean energy transition.

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