Why Unilever’s downshift on sustainability is good news
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Environmental and social commitments are aligning more closely with tangible financial goals, a sign of sustainability’s maturity in business.
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Georgia Power updated IRP ups targets for renewable energy, battery storage
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Georgia Power update to its integrated resource plan (IRP) would see the company procure up to 1GW of battery storage resources.
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Lightening the load: Researchers develop autonomous, customizable electrochemistry robot
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed an automated laboratory robot to run complex electrochemical experiments and analyze data.
£36m award will use waste heat from data centres to heat homes in London
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. The innovative project is the first of its kind to secure GHNF support and will provide low carbon heating captured from data centres into buildings. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK.
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.
Unilever CEO signals radical shift in sustainability agenda
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Under new Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher, sustainability will become part of a composite score by which brand managers will evaluate performance.
Developer Pacific Green secures £124 million financing for 249MW UK battery storage project
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Pacific Green has secured £123.5 million (US$153 million) facility to support construction of its 1.5-hour, 249MW/373.5MWh BESS in Kent, UK.
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Colorado: A National Leader in Transportation and Climate
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
New analysis shows Colorado’s remarkable clean transportation progress—and a need for greater transit investment
Emissions keep rising among world's biggest meat and dairy producers
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Urgent policy is needed to combat this trend, according to an analysis led by the FAIRR investor network.
Arevon completes ‘one of first’ ITC transferability deals for solar-plus-storage project in California
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Renewable energy developer and operator Arevon has completed the financing for a 600MWh solar and storage project in California, US, including US$191 million of investment tax credits (ITC) provided using new transferability provisions.
New study finds electric vehicles are driven less than gas cars
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Mass adoption of electric vehicles (EV) is a key part of plans to decarbonize the United States' energy system. As EV ownership in the U.S. increases, understanding how much EV owners are driving their cars informs everything from climate and energy models to U.S. policy and energy planning.
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
National Scorecard Says Illinois Can Do Better on Transportation
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
A new scorecard from NRDC shows that Illinois is trailing behind its neighbors in building a clean and equitable transportation system.
Master class: Planning your transition for later career and life
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Here's how late-career sustainability professionals can effectively navigate the transition and identify priorities and interests.
CATL, Quinbrook partner to deploy over 10GWh of battery storage in the next five years
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
CATL has signed an agreement with Quinbrook to deploy over 10GWh of its EnerC Plus battery storage technology over the next five years.
Battery materials: What is the battery of the future made of?
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The Empa research group led by Maksym Kovalenko is researching innovative materials for the batteries of tomorrow. Whether it's fast-charging electric cars or low-cost stationary storage, there's a promising material or a novel manufacturing process for every application.
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.
Problem Plastics Are Poisoning People and Polluting the Planet
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Plastic polymers, chemical additives, and plastic products that pose the greatest hazards and/ or are unnecessary should be phased out.
Finding the right message for taking the sustainability movement mainstream
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
How to use the power of advertising for the fight against climate change.
‘EV batteries could be instrumental in integration of renewables’, India’s Central Electricity Authority says
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The Central Electricity Authority of India's report identifies potential for bidirectional EV charging to serve as a grid resource.
The secret to longer lasting batteries might be in how soap works, new study says
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
When it comes to making batteries that last longer, a team of researchers including engineers at Brown University and Idaho National Laboratory believes the key might be in how things get clean—specifically how soap works in this process.
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.
Batteries Can Be a Game Changer for the Power Grid If We Let Them
NRDC onEarth
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
What is the value of battery storage, and what do we need to get more of it on the grid soon?
Listen up, utilities: The EV industry is telling you what it needs
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Utility queuing challenges, standardizing charging equipment and improving financing mechanisms are driving the conversation on EVs.
Hithium and US developer Perfect Power in 1GWh battery MOU
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
China-based lithium-ion battery manufacturer Hithium has agreed to supply 1GWh of products to US energy storage project developer Perfect Power through a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Seeking stability to support sustainable outdoor solar cells
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The molecular structure of organic semiconductors is key to the outdoor stability of organic solar cells. Molecular-level insight into one family of organic solar cell materials, known as Y-series nonfullerene acceptors (Y-NFAs), could help enhance their outdoor stability.
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?
Generating electricity from sewage: Awards for Nottingham startup
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
A biofuel cell technology for generating electricity from wastewater has secured two national engineering awards for a team of researchers at the University of Nottingham. The team met in 2020 as PhD researchers at the university via the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme. Now, their early-stage cleantech startup, Pipeline Organics, is seeking further support.
How Unilever uses AI to cut petrochemicals out of laundry soap
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Unilever used AI to identify replacement ingredients for its laundry and cleaning products five times faster than previously possible.
Argentina to launch call for energy storage proposals
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Argentina is set to launch a call for expressions of interest (EOI) for energy storage projects as it looks to reach 20% renewable energy in 2025.
Abandoned oil rigs could scrape carbon from the sky and store it in empty undersea reservoirs
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Keeping control of our planet's thermostat is proving tricky these days. Temperatures are rising slowly, and inaction is proving costly as we awkwardly lurch towards a cleaner future.
The sins of omission: A cool reception for the King’s speech
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The King’s Speech on 7 November seemed to put little wind in the sails of those seeking to address environmental problems. Commentators noted an absence of material on sewage spilling into rivers, or raising energy efficiency standards in rented accommodation, or providing the support for local authorities to implement Simpler Recycling – to name a few concerns whose omission seemed to provoke comment.
Why leading VCs are rethinking their food investments
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Funding for innovation in food and agriculture systems is due for a reality check after years of startup overvaluation.
Developer Pacific Green secures land for half-gigawatt BESS project in South Australia
Energy Storage News
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
US-headquartered developer Pacific Green Technologies has scouted a potential site for another large-scale battery project in Australia.
Engineered 'living materials' could help clean up water pollution one day
TechXplore
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Water pollution is a growing concern globally, with research estimating that chemical industries discharge 300–400 megatonnes (600–800 billion pounds) of industrial waste into bodies of water each year.
Q&A: Gearing up for smart meter mass rollout
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem UK. Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. In this Q&A, Andrew Welsh, discusses the sector’s readiness, and how the company is gearing-up for a rapid increase in demand. What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers?
Filling this 'forgotten element' of the energy transition is critical to net zero
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The pipeline of investable renewable energy and low carbon infrastructure projects in developing nations needs to be up to nine times larger, warns the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
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