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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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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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 30, 2024

NAMIBIA’s active green hydrogen projects are making significant progress, with the largest among them, the Hyphen Green Hydrogen Project, already employing 400 people. In addition to the Hyphen project, seven.

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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

Energy

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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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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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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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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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 27, 2024

A significant milestone achieved as the Danish partnership of Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas inaugurated a green ammonia plant in Ramme, Northwest Jutland, Denmark. The plant will demonstrate how renewable.

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BloombergNEF

AUGUST 27, 2024

More than 40% of the world’s electricity came from zero-carbon sources for the first time in 2023; 14% from wind and solar Almost 91% of global net power capacity additions came from solar and wind in 2023 versus 6% from fossil fuels Renewable energy attracted $313 billion of new investment in the first half of […] The post Clean Electricity Breaks New Records; Renewables on Track for Another Strong Year: BloombergNEF appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Experts say the BBC has been “greenwashing” the image of companies and countries contributing to global emissions by trumpeting their dubious climate credentials and promoting their favoured solutions to the crisis.

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POWER Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

State-run China Energy News reported that officials on August 19 approved construction of 11 nuclear reactors across the country, part of a wave of new reactors that could see China […] The post China Approves 11 New Nuclear Reactors, Including Fourth-Generation Design appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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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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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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 23, 2024

Canada’s clean hydrogen strategy is developing with new projects and increased government support, but familiar challenges plague the industry. Canada unveiled its clean hydrogen strategy in 2020 and in a.

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BloombergNEF

AUGUST 27, 2024

The global PV industry is expected to install 592 gigawatts of modules this year, up 33% from the boom year of 2023. Low prices for modules are stimulating demand in new markets, but hurting manufacturers, who are competing intensely to maintain market share. The post 3Q 2024 Global PV Market Outlook appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 16, 2024

JR Howard of Texas Solar Sheep can’t buy sheep fast enough. He supplies them to solar farms, where their grazing keeps grass short for less than the cost of mowing it. Demand for his animals has skyrocketed over the past few years as more and more large solar installations are being built.

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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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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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The City Fix

AUGUST 6, 2024

“Hum faltu hai [in English, “We are useless”] …I don’t even know what the budget of the council is. Nobody tells me about the procurement process [or] the number of tenders that have gone public…I don’t have enough knowledge about.

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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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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 23, 2024

Swinburne University of Technology is addressing the immediate skills gaps across the burgeoning hydrogen industry. The university worked with industry to develop a suite of 11 micro-learning modules. The program.

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BloombergNEF

AUGUST 18, 2024

•BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook: Australia details how the country can still meet decarbonization targets and net-zero commitment by mid-century •$2.4 trillion investment and spending required for BNEF’s Net Zero Scenario, only 12% more than the baseline Economic Transition Scenario •290 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity installed by 2050, power demand grows 2.5-fold Sydney, 19 […] The post Urgent Scale-Up of Clean Technologies Needed to Keep Australia on Net-Zero Trajectory appeared

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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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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 8, 2024

Second activist also arrested during ‘summer of heat’ protest against second largest financier of fossil fuels A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in prison after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York.

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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 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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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 12, 2024

Hyundai Rotem has been awarded a significant contract to supply hydrogen electric trams for the upcoming Daejeon Subway Line 2, marking a substantial step forward in urban transit.

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BloombergNEF

AUGUST 27, 2024

Batteries are the next big green investment opportunity, the co-head of climate strategy at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Emmanuel Lagarrigue, told BloombergNEF. The post Batteries Are the ‘Next Solar’ for Investors, Says KKR appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 15, 2024

New England states are attempting to make good on their climate pledges while addressing some very real concerns about the long-term stability of the region’s electrical grid. The Department of Energy awarded $389 million in grant funding last week to strengthen that system.

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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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TechXplore

AUGUST 26, 2024

For the past decade, disordered rock salt has been studied as a potential breakthrough cathode material for use in lithium-ion batteries and a key to creating low-cost, high-energy storage for everything from cell phones to electric vehicles to renewable energy storage.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 26, 2024

Biggest battery in Queensland to double in size after AGL signs up to a 10-year "virtual" contract as big generators lock in to battery storage. The post Queensland’s biggest battery to double in size after AGL signs “virtual” contract appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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FuelCellsWorks

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Dutch government is launching a significant €1 billion subsidy auction in October to promote green hydrogen projects, aiming to bridge the investment and operating cost gap compared to grey.

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