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How Wells Fargo is slashing HVAC energy use more than 70% with a simple building retrofit

GreenBiz

Wells Fargo was an early investor in Turntide Technologies, which makes switched reluctance motors that drive down energy consumption for HVAC systems by an average of 64%.

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Nanomaterials research could help sustain life on Mars

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers at the University of Sussex have identified electrical properties within gypsum nanomaterials – a development said to offer a promising avenue to developing sustainable habitation on Mars, where there is an abundance of the mineral. Using resources and techniques currently applied on the International Space Station and by NASA, the work investigates the potential of nanomaterials for clean energy production and building materials on Mars.

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Bochum, Germany to extract geothermal heat from abandoned coal mines

ThinkGeoEnergy

Construction is currently ongoing for new buildings that will be served by a planned geothermal heating project in Bochum, Germany that aims to utilize water from abandoned coal mine shafts for emissions-free heating and cooling. By 2027, the geothermal heating and cooling system is expected to supply new buildings at the project site including offices, research facilities, and university institutes.

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Could 2024 be a breakout year for the transmission grid?

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Down to the Wire column tackles the more complicated challenges of decarbonizing our energy systems. It’s hard to solve a challenge as sprawling and complex as doubling or tripling the scale of the transmission grids across the U.S. in a little over a decade.

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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.

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How 2024 will accelerate New York City's EV future

GreenBiz

New statewide EV infrastructure incentives will give New York City's charging capacity a significant boost.

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Germany’s coal power production drops to lowest level in 60 years in 2023 after nuclear exit

Renew Economy

Germany's coal power production drops to lowest level in 60 years in 2023, even after closure of the last of its nuclear generators. The post Germany’s coal power production drops to lowest level in 60 years in 2023 after nuclear exit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?

Canary Media

This article by Knowable Magazine is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. About twice a month, many of Australia’s wind farms receive an important visit from dogs and their handlers. The dogs are professionals and know exactly what they’re there for.

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The year ahead in ESG: Assurance, transition finance and natural capital

GreenBiz

3 hot topics for 2024: regulations for ESG assurance; international agreements for transition finance; and new ways to measure investment in nature and biodiversity.

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Carbon-Free Energy Is the Name of the Game: Renewables, Nuclear Poised for Growth

POWER Magazine

Solar, wind, and nuclear power, as well as battery storage systems, are the obvious winners as the world aims to decarbonize energy systems. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has been following trends The post Carbon-Free Energy Is the Name of the Game: Renewables, Nuclear Poised for Growth appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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‘Electricity is fundamental to quality of life’: the man bringing off-grid, pay-as-you-go power to Africa

The Guardian: Energy

Mansoor Hamayun, the co-founder and chief executive of Bboxx, started out with a university project to bring solar power to a few villages in Rwanda. Now he is set to expand tenfold across sub-Saharan Africa In the next four years, British entrepreneur Mansoor Hamayun expects to connect 36 million people to an electricity source, many for the first time.

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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

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5 New Year’s resolutions to electrify your life

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Just a few major decisions about your home and commute can massively cut your carbon pollution — and have a giant collective impact.

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Shopify: 3 lessons from investing $55 million in 40 carbon removal startups

GreenBiz

Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.

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Kuwait launches request for qualification for 1.1GW solar project

PV Tech

The government of Kuwait has launched a tender for 1.1GW of solar projects, to be installed at its Al Shagaya Renewable Energy facility.

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Satellite imagery analysis shows immense scale of dark fishing industry

TechCrunch: Climate

Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the number and activities of fishing and transport ships at sea. Turns out there are way more of them than publicly available data would suggest, a fact that policymakers should heed. As a shared global resource, the oceans […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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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.

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Chart: Coal-fired electricity may have peaked in 2023

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The dirtiest source of electricity — coal — may have reached its peak in 2023.

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H&M is funding offshore wind in Bangladesh to get garment factories off fossil fuels

GreenBiz

H&M will co-invest in a project it hopes will supply 40% of the country’s power.

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Globeleq completes acquisition of 41MW Mozambique solar plant

PV Tech

Globeleq has finalised its acquisition of a 75% stake in the 41MW Central Solar de Mocuba solar project in Mozambique from Scatec KLP.

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? $32bn and 30% drop as market hits pause in 2023

Climate Tech VC

Climate tech has undergone a visible evolution over the past few years, transitioning from a phase of abundant funding for innovation to capital more focused on large-scale deployments that approach being bankable and 'boring' Our annual report on climate tech investment trends examines this evolution, with a particular focus on venture and growth investment, which serve as crucial indicators.

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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.

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Ford Hydrogen Investment Could Pay off Big Time

FuelCellsWorks

Though it remains heavily vested in EVs, Ford has also made it quite clear that fully electric power isn’t quite feasible for larger trucks at the moment. Instead, the automaker.

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Q&A: Shopify’s sustainability chief on what companies should know about carbon removal contracts

GreenBiz

Stacy Kauk argues it’s worth paying more for credits based on emissions removal than emissions avoidance.

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Climate tech might be the hot job market in 2024

TechCrunch: Climate

While much of the tech world has been besieged by layoffs, climate tech continued to hire. Next year looks no different. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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‘Global surge’ in large-scale energy storage deployments predicted this year by EnergyTrend

Energy Storage News

Analysis firm EnergyTrend has forecast that a “surge” in global large-scale energy storage system deployments is likely in 2024.

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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?

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Solarpack begins construction on 300MW ‘largest’ PV site in Peru

PV Tech

Spanish PV developer Solarpack has begun construction on its 300MW San Martin solar project in Peru. It said that the site will be the “largest” in the country upon completion in Q2 2025.

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Only 7% of US climate tech venture capital funding went to female founders in 2023

GreenBiz

VC investment for female founders dropped in 2023.

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How PG&E Almost Became the Nation’s Largest Cooperative

POWER Magazine

The history of electric cooperatives is one of individuals striving to improve their local communities. Perhaps the most inspiring electric cooperative formation was initiated by Peggi Timm. Timm, whose accomplishments […] The post How PG&E Almost Became the Nation’s Largest Cooperative appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Big offshore wind farms are now transmitting sweet, sweet battery juice to the US grid

TechCrunch: Climate

Moments before midnight on Tuesday, a single turbine near Martha’s Vineyard delivered 5 megawatts of renewable energy to the New England grid. The turbine is one out of 62 planned for Vineyard Wind. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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5 cleantech startups that didn't survive to see 2024

Canary Media

Canary Media chronicles many of the bold venture-capital investments made in cleantech, but the flip side of that coin is that most VC-funded startups fail.

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Shopify: 3 lessons from investing $55 million in 27 carbon removal startups

GreenBiz

Shopify’s head of sustainability, Stacy Kauk, shares secrets from four years of investing in early-stage carbon removal.

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Electrified Transport Market Outlook 4Q 2023: Growth Ahead

BloombergNEF

With 3.7 million units sold globally in 3Q 2023, electric vehicles made up 18% of total passenger vehicle sales in the world. The post Electrified Transport Market Outlook 4Q 2023: Growth Ahead appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Rolls-Royce kicks off liquid hydrogen fuel pump testing for easyJet aircraft system

Hydrogen Fuel News

Pump testing has begun for future hydrogen-powered aircraft propulsion systems. British automotive and manufacturing company Rolls-Royce is testing liquid hydrogen pumps that it hopes will be able to meet the demands of the low temperatures and pressures required for future aircraft propulsion systems powered by hydrogen fuel. The company is working with easyJet to develop hydrogen combustion aero engines.

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First Solar cashes in with sale of IRA tax credits worth up to $700M

Canary Media

A wonky new process that’s meant to help clean energy firms maximize Inflation Reduction Act subsidies is starting to gain traction. First Solar , the biggest U.S.-based manufacturer of solar panels, has entered into two deals to sell up to $700 million worth of tax credits, just a week after the U.S.

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3 lessons from sustainability leaders on accelerating impacts on food systems

GreenBiz

Tackling tough issues, enlisting unlikely partners, and harnessing local communities will be crucial to making progress on sustainable food systems in 2024.