How the world's largest design firm is spearheading the sustainable building movement
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Gensler is pioneering best practices on how to institutionalize the new normal of sustainable building.
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Over 1.8GW of energy storage clears in ISO New England’s latest Forward Capacity Auction
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Results of the 18th Forward Capacity Auction (FCA) held by ISO New England have been filed, with energy storage’s participation having soared in recent years.
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Boiling tap water helps remove microplastics, says study
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Image credit: Eddy Zeng. Nano- and microplastics are seemingly everywhere — water, soil and the air. While many creative strategies have been attempted to get rid of these plastic bits, one unexpectedly effective solution for cleaning up drinking water, specifically, might be as simple as brewing a cup of tea or coffee. As reported in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters , boiling and filtering calcium-containing tap water could help remove nearly 90% of the nano- and microplasti
The U.K. is Burning Canadian Forests for Fuel
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Twenty-three environmental organizations stress that the U.K. government funding the incineration of imported Canadian wood pellets threatens climate progress.
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.
Giving back to the land — one food and drink product at a time
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Manufacturers and retailers have the keys to unlocking a food system that regenerates rather than degrades nature, via circular design. The Big Food Redesign Challenge shows them how.
Canada Infrastructure Bank loan enables Indigenous communities to hold stake in energy storage projects
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Energy Storage Canada (ESC) is “thrilled” that the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s (CIB’s) investment into a large-scale battery storage portfolio will enable Indigenous communities to hold a stake in it.
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Big Oil Made Billions Amidst the Hottest Year on Record
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
As the climate crisis intensifies, the fossil fuel industry is spending billions to secure oil and gas production into the 2030s.
5 steps to create a sustainability upskilling strategy for your company
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Take these 5 actions to develop your employee sustainability training strategy based on your company’s unique priorities, budget and resources.
UK grid connection specialist G2 Energy moving into full wrapped BESS EPC services under Mitie ownership
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
UK firm G2 Energy is moving into full BESS wrapped EPC services under its new owner Mitie, having focused on a grid connections and balance-of-plant (BOP) engineering services prior to its predecessor company's bankruptcy last year, CEO Kelvin Ruck said.
EcoFABs could lead to better bioenergy crops, say researchers
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
A fabricated ecosystem, or EcoFAB (image credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) A greater understanding of how plants and microbes work together to store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil will help in the design of better bioenergy crops for the fight against climate change, say the authors of a new paper. Deciphering the mechanics of this mutually beneficial relationship is challenging, however, as conditions in nature are extremely difficult for scientists to replicate in the laboratory
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
How to Lower Your Energy Bills in Any Season
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
From weather-stripping windows to using the right fan settings, these simple tips can reduce your electricity costs—and keep your family comfortable all year-round.
The US bioeconomy is worth $950 billion, and growing, thanks to these federal policies
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The bioeconomy is already a strong sector for the U.S. Here’s how we ensure it's decarbonized.
BayWa, Ampt and Fraunhofer complete ‘European-first’ wind-solar-flow battery hybrid project in Germany
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A microgrid project combining solar PV, wind and a 10MWh flow battery in Germany has been completed by BayWa r.e., Ampt and Fraunhofer.
Catalyst-based approach suggests new way of removing furans
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Furans can be produced as a by-product of waste incineration. A new study appears to reveal avenues for better pollution mitigation by enhancing the effectiveness of vanadium-based catalysts through nitrogen-doped biomass carbon for the degradation of furan at lower temperatures. Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans are dangerous pollutants due to their carcinogenicity and persistence in the environment.
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.
Low-income communities will soon get $7 billion for local solar
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
One of the Inflation Reduction Act's most potentially transformative programs is close to being finalized — and now we have a window into how it could take shape. States are vying for a share of a historic $7 billion in federal funding to help low-income families access clean solar power.
Companies risk greenwashing with their trade group activities, report says
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Unilever, BASF, Procter & Gamble, Walmart and Colgate-Palmolive aren't assessing this 'climate alignment', according to Planet Tracker.
UK batteries, pumped hydro get 2.9GW of T-4 Capacity Market contracts at record price
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The UK electricity system operator's T-4 Capacity Market Auction (CMA) for delivery year 2027/28 cleared earlier this week (27 February) after two rounds at an “all-time high” clearing price of £65 (US$82.23)/kW/year.
Improvements to grid connection needed to achieve net zero goals
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Andrew Normand is Business Development Director at Encora Energy. By Andy Normand Grid connections – sticking points and solutions With electricity demand forecast to double by 2050, the energy industry is busy devising ways of how best to meet this increased demand in the coming years. There is a vast array of ingenious and varied ways of making the most of the new regime through power generation, storage and demand flexibility.
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.
The network of conservative think-tanks out to kill the switch to renewables
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Australia's renewable energy plans are being targeted by coordinated campaigns from conservative "think tanks", as the Coalition embraces nuclear and rails against large scale renewables and transmission lines. The post The network of conservative think-tanks out to kill the switch to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The week in climate policy: 6 updates you need to know
GreenBiz
MARCH 1, 2024
The US House approved a nuclear power bill, and the SEC plans to drop its Scope 3 reporting requirement.
Thermal energy storage startup Antora raises US$150 million for industrial decarbonisation
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
US$150 million has been raised in a Series B by Antora Energy, a US-based startup with a novel ‘thermal battery’ technology claimed to be suitable for decarbonising industrial processes.
Resource demand gap requires investment, says water minister
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The MOU signing on 19 February. Robbie Moore MP, UK government minister for water, has addressed the demand gap in resources during his keynote address at British Water’s International Reception, which took place in London on 19 February 2024. He called for greater collaboration and innovation in finding solutions. “Growing demand for water and more intensive periods of drought are projected to create a supply-demand gap if we don’t improve water efficiency and invest in new water resource infra
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?
Iberdrola to build 245MW PV plant in Sicily, Italy’s “largest”
PV Tech
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Spanish utility Iberdrola has signed an agreement with solar developer ib vogt for the construction of a 245MW solar PV plant in Sicily, northern Italy.
What to do in the first 90 days as a chief sustainability officer
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The CSOs from Apollo Global Management, James Hardie building materials and Insulet medical devices provide advice and highlight pitfalls to avoid.
Fluence starts work in Australia on 300MW grid-forming battery project with advanced inverters
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Fluence has been issued the required Notice to Proceed on a battery storage project in Australia, which will provide inertia services via the system’s advanced inverter equipment.
Using voltage optimisation to improve energy efficiency in commercial properties
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
James Goodby, director at voltage optimisation specialist, Powerdown220, presents what he describes as the most effective strategy available to enhance energy efficiency and reduce overall consumption. The single largest operating expense that commercial buildings face is energy consumption, which accounts for approximately one third of typical budgets and makes up almost 20 per cent of the nation’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
South Australia fast-tracks 100 pct renewables target to 2027
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
South Australia fast tracks its target of "net 100 pct" renewables to 2027 - rather than 2030 - as a result of the state's new wind and solar developments and ambitious hydrogen plans. The post South Australia fast-tracks 100 pct renewables target to 2027 appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Cleveland summit spotlights growing corporate interest in clean energy projects
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Corporate commitments and federal incentives help bolster the business case for clean energy projects, easing the path to getting projects off the ground.
India: Modi welcomes biggest BESS, support for ‘Round-the-Clock’ renewables discussed
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The largest battery storage facility in India is now online and was visited last week by the country’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
Data defence: Reflections on the recent water industry cyber-attacks
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Matt Eustace, Data Protection Officer at UK AI firm Aiimi, which works with a number of water companies on cyber-security, offers perspective on recent events, and advice on making data watertight against such attacks. Last month, not one, but two major water companies were the victims of ransomware attacks. Veolia North America, in the US, and Southern Water, in the UK, both suffered data breaches as a consequence of the attacks, with the Black Basta ransomware group claiming responsibility for
Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state in 2024
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
California and Texas have a new clean-energy superlative to compete over: who’s got the most grid batteries. Last year, Texas overtook California in large-scale solar power capacity. When huge amounts of solar power rush onto the grid, batteries tend to follow.
How BlackRock, JPMorgan and State Street can show they’re committed to climate action
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Large U.S. asset managers must nudge companies to act on the clean energy transition. Climate-conscious proxy voting is one way to do so.
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