Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As interest seemingly grows in geoengineering as a strategy for tackling global warming, the world’s largest association of Earth and space scientists has launched a putative “ethical framework” intended to function as a guide to responsible decision-making and inclusive dialogue. The report , facilitated by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and advised by a global panel of experts, says any research into large-scale interventions in Earth’s climate system must be grounded in soun

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Today, Golden State Natural Resources released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on its industrial-scale wood pellet project proposal. The project would include two industrial-scale wood pellet plants, one in the central Sierras and another in Northern California, as well.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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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Energy Transition

OCTOBER 22, 2024

‘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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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.

Sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite public promises to embrace zero-emission trucks, some manufacturers are quietly sabotaging the shift to cleaner vehicles, putting public health at risk.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The presidential election may well decide the future of the United States' ambitious new clean energy agenda, but a handful of smaller, less-discussed races will have a more immediate and direct impact on the energy transition in several different states.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Before (left) and after (right) images of the chambers at Lower Largo (image credit: Lanes Group). Wastewater maintenance and repair specialist Lanes Group has carried out the first spray lining project commissioned by Scottish Water to rehabilitate chambers serving a large wet well. The innovative project has successfully strengthened the two chambers on the outfall of the wet well at Lower Largo, Fife, preventing the assets from having to be excavated and replaced.

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The world has a strategic plan to reverse global biodiversity loss. We must follow through by working with each other to address the critical issues and build a new relationship with nature.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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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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

Canary Media

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This August, Xcel Energy submitted a proposal to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission asking permission to build nearly 800 megawatts of distributed solar and energy storage. That a large, investor-owned utility wants to “leverage fast-to-deploy, modular distributed energy resources” is exciting news.

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Charged

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Explore a new model illustrating potential pathways to scale up international climate funding for the Paris Agreement's new collective quantified goal on climate finance

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

South Australia has gone from near zero renewables in 2007 to a planned 100 per cent renewables share just 20 years later. The head of the state's transmission company explains how. The post From zero to 100 pct renewables in just 20 years: South Australia’s remarkable energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Sparse nation-level insights and inconsistent scenario designs leave U.S. policymakers ill-equipped to make responsible decisions on energy transition minerals.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

An end of life wind turbine nacelle has been repurposed as a tiny house, offering an interesting solution for the 10,000 nacelles yet to be decommissioned. The post Wind turbine nacelle gets second life as tiny house 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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Canary Media

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Donna Ballinger has lived in the shadows of Ohio’s Middletown steel mill her entire life. The hulking furnaces surrounding Ballinger’s home have long been an economic engine for this city just north of Cincinnati.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Lee Todd is Head of Advisory Services, ABB Electrification Services. Efforts to ensure the continuity of today’s mission-critical industrial operations are blunted by the burden of aging and increasingly complex electrical systems. ABB’s Lee Todd explains how forward-looking approaches to equipment maintenance can reward organizations with optimized business continuity and greater sustainability as well as reduced costs.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Gridstor, a US-based developer and operator of grid-scale battery storage systems, has kicked off construction of its first project in the Texas ERCOT market.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Singapore grid gives conditional approval to import electricity as part of SunCable's massive Australia-Asia PowerLink project in major step forward to $30 billion project. The post SunCable: Singapore gives nod to imports from world’s biggest solar and battery project 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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Canary Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A few relatively simple policy fixes could cut the amount of planet-warming methane released by U.S. landfills in half in the next 25 years, according to research published on Tuesday.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

PPC Renewables (PPCR) has published three tenders for Geothermal Consultancy Services for Lesvos Island, Milos Island, Nisyros Island, and Methana Peninsula. The links to the individual tenders and corresponding deadlines are as follows: Lesvos Islands (submission deadline: 5 November 2024) Milos Island (submission deadline: 20 November 2024) Nisyros Island & Methana Peninsula (submission deadline: 19 November 2024) Scope of consultancy services In all four mentioned areas, geological, geoph

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Charged

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Mercedes-Benz has opened its own EV battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, Germany, which uses an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process to recover raw materials. The plant has an annual capacity of 2,500 metric tons and an expected recovery rate of more than 96%. The plant carries out all steps, from shredding battery modules to drying and processing active battery materials.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Solar power will grow four-fold by 2030, overtaking nuclear, hydro and gas, and then coal by 2033. By 2050, it will produce more than all these technologies combined. The post Solar will leap four-fold by 2030, ending the rule of King coal and overtaking all other grid supplies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The city of Magna, Utah, was once the home of a major coal-fired power plant that provided electricity for Rio Tinto’s enormous copper mine next door. But in 2019, the company shuttered the last of the four coal units, opting instead to power its mining operations with wind and solar energy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

DHL and Diageo Roll Out Hydrogen-Powered Trucks from Nikola DHL Supply Chain, a leader in contract logistics, in partnership with Diageo North America, a prominent premium drinks company, has announced the integration of two hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks into their U.S. fleet. These Class 8 trucks, developed by Nikola Corporation, will be deployed at the Diageo campus in Plainfield, Illinois, using a HYLA modular refueler.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Power from new co-located renewable energy and battery projects in California will be bought by Amazon and a number of Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs).

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Tesla says a million EVs will have limited impact on the grid and will help soak up excess solar. Right now, the company is often paid to charge its EVs because of negative prices. The post Tesla says one million EVs would barely make dent on Australian grid, and mostly soak up excess solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 23, 2024

There’s no good way for a company to abandon its customers. But Enel X Way , the EV-charging subsidiary of Italian utility and energy conglomerate Enel Group , may have picked the worst way to go about it — and critics say it’s running out of time to choose a better path.

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Charged

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS) say they have located high concentrations of lithium brine in the Smackover Formation in southern Arkansas. Dating back to the Jurassic period, the Smackover Formation is a relic of an ancient sea that left an extensive, porous and permeable limestone geologic unit that extends under parts of Arkansas , Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida The team of scientists, led by Dr.

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