Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). ### PUBLISHED ARTICLE FROM CARBON MAPPER Pasadena,

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NRDC onEarth

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Described officially for the first time in 2021, Rice’s whale has the distinction of being one of the most endangered whales on the planet.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) from several firms helped the energy system recover after the NSL interconnector, which connects the UK and Norway, suddenly stopped exporting power to the UK. At 8:47am local time, 8 October, Norwegian power exports via the North Sea plummeted from 1.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A new study from one of the world's leading methane scientists finds that over its life cycle LNG emits a third more CO2 than coal. The post Green washed: LNG emits 33% more carbon that coal, new report finds 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

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Unveiling Toyota’s Portable Hydrogen Cartridges: A New Era in Sustainable Energy Toyota is set to showcase its groundbreaking portable hydrogen cartridges for the first time in Japan, October 15th to the 18th, at the Japan Mobility Bizweek event. These innovative cartridges are crafted to revolutionize the future of hydrogen energy by providing a swappable power source for next-generation fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A newly published study examining property values near dozens of large Midwest solar farms has found no significant negative impact — and even a slight positive effect — from the projects, according to the data.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Labor has sprung a surprise move to create a committee to look into nuclear power. It will be chaired by an MP whose electorate is one of those targeted by the Coalition for a large reactor. The post Labor springs surprise nuclear power committee to call Coalition bluff on energy policy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a G4-level severe geomagnetic storm watch, urging the North American power grid to prepare for a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) […] The post Severe Solar Storm Threatens Power Grid Amid Hurricane Helene, Milton Recovery appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Form Energy just hit a funding milestone few startups reach, announcing a $405 million Series F financing round on Wednesday that brings its total funding to more than $1.2 billion. That’s a lot of money for a novel long-duration energy storage startup.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

UK utility SSE's renewable energy arm has started constructing a 320MW/640MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in North Yorkshire. When completed, it will be one of the country’s largest.

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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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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Gina Rinehart has described solar farms as an "eye sore", but her mining company plans to build one on her family property to help power and cut emissions at a new iron ore project. The post Gina Rinehart to build “eye sore” solar farm on family property to help power new iron ore project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Energy analysts have said the increasing need for reliable baseload power generation means natural gas-fired power plants will become even more important as demand for electricity increases. Several experts who […] The post Experts Say Gas-Fired Power Key to Reliable U.S. Electricity Supply appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This story is the third part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with the Guardian. The UK government’s move to award £22 billion in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. Oil and gas giants such as Equinor, BP, and ExxonMobil attended 24 out of 44 external ministerial meetings to discuss carbon capture and storage (CCS) in

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Exclusive preview and key takeaways from the Battery StorageTech Bankability Ratings Report, launched by our colleagues at PV Tech Research.

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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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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A machine that can extract nearly 100% of materials from end-of-life solar modules powers up as rock bottom Chinese solar prices collapse the export market for second-hand Australian panels. The post Solar recycling machine powers up as key export market closes to used Australian panels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After keeping Century under wraps for several months, the startup gave TechCrunch a peek under the hood. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Steam rises out of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island on March 26, 2019 before it closed later that year. | Photo: Getty Images Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US. Tech giants are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors to power their energy-hungry data centers.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Renewable energy developer TagEnergy has energised what it claims is the UK’s ‘largest’ transmission-connected battery energy storage system (BESS): the 100MW/200MWh Lakeside project in North Yorkshire.

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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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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Australia could create thousands of jobs and transition workers out of the fossil fuel industry if wind towers were produced at home, a research group says. The post Call for Australia to make wind turbine towers as well as solar PV and battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Some batteries serve to bolster utility power grids. Other batteries provide backup power to buildings in case the grid goes down. And sometimes, with effort and coordination, batteries can do both jobs at once. That’s what’s happening in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a town of about 27,000 just north of Boston.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Editor’s note: Special thanks to William Thompson and Steam Srl for the material used in this article. On October 8, 2024, one of Italy’s leading political parties, Fratelli d’Italia , called a special Parliamentary hearing entitled “Energy Independence: Geothermal’s Contribution” (“Indipendenza energetica: il Contributo della Geotermia”). Following the recent release of the Piano Nazionale Integrato per l’Energia e il Clima (PNIEC, “National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate”)

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Engineering consultancy Sweco has been contracted to design one of Europe’s largest battery energy storage systems with a storage capacity of 2,800MWh in Belgium.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Australia's growing fleet of big battery projects are rapidly shifting their main revenue source from frequency control to arbitrage. Here's why. The post Australia’s big battery fleet now making more money from arbitrage than frequency control appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 11, 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. Last year’s COP28 meeting produced an ambitious goal: More than 100 countries pledged to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In a significant breakthrough for the development of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles, the 10-MWe Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Demo pilot plant in San Antonio, Texas, has wrapped […] The post Breakthrough for sCO2 Power Cycle as STEP Demo Completes Phase 1 of 10-MW Project appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Kobold Metals has raised $491 million of a targeted $527 million round, which could value the company at over $2 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

New records over the long weekend underline the fundamental change happening in Australia's energy mix, and the key role of rooftop solar in driving these. The post Rooftop PV takes biggest bite yet out of coal as fossil fuels and grid demand hit new lows appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The facility will be located on over 600 acres not too far from Houston, Texas ECL, a data center-as-a-service pioneer, recently announced that it would be opening the first 1 gigawatt hydrogen fuel-powered off-grid AI Factory data center , a facility it intends to open in Texas near Houston. This will be the first fully sustainable 1 GW AI Factory data center The company only recently unveiled the first ever off-grid, modular, sustainable, built-to-suit data centre in June.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) announced six companies have successfully bid to provide deconversion services for high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel to support advanced nuclear reactors. The DOE on […] The post DOE Picks Six Companies to Provide HALEU Fuel Services for Advanced Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The US Department of Energy ’s (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) program has released a draft roadmap to improve processes for interconnecting clean energy resources to the distribution and sub-transmission grids. The draft document provides stakeholders with 37 solutions organized around: increasing data access, transparency and security for interconnection; improving interconnection processes and timelines; promoting economic efficiency in interconnection; and maintaining a reli

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The first battery containers have been installed in what will likely be the country's first 2 gigawatt hour (GWh) battery project being built in the Western Australian coal town of Collie. The post First units installed at Australia’s first 2 GWh big battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The synthetic biology and precision fermentation space is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity these days. But it’s not every day you come across a startup that’s using genetic engineering to produce natural rubber — a substance that’s challenging to reproduce in a lab because of how long its polymer is. Paris-based baCta has a proof […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Plug Power Advances Global Hydrogen Solutions with Strategic Partnerships Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG) is making significant headway in the global green hydrogen sector through strategic partnerships and impactful projects. The company has recently secured a pivotal framework agreement with Allied Green Ammonia in Australia, a move aimed at establishing one of the largest green ammonia facilities globally.

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