Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2024
A hydrogen fuel cell forklift truck from Toyota at the opening of a new hydrogen fuelling station at Teesside International Airport in January (image credit: Toyota UK). A report from logistics specialist Toyota Material Handling (UK) indicates priorities and directions for the logistics industry, given the required trajectory of emissions reduction.
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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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,
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.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Image credit: Recycle Your Electricals. Around £266 million of copper resides in the UK’s unused or binned electricals, 1 says charity group Recycle Your Electricals, citing “drawers of doom” that “groan with stashed tech” New research from the group appears to reveal that the UK’s 1.3 billion unused or binned electricals, including 627m cables, could hold the answer to the nation’s fast approaching gap in the supply of copper to meet growing demand. 2 The recycling
Energy Storage News
OCTOBER 11, 2024
US-based utility Chugach Electric Association has successfully commissioned a new 40MW/80MWh 2-hour duration battery energy storage system (BESS) in Anchorage, Alaska.
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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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Co-authors James Norris and Michelle St Claire. Using its trusted geospatial expertise, Ordnance Survey (OS) on behalf of the UK has been working closely with experts from Barbados and Tonga to co-author a new report from the UN-GGIM Task Team on Geospatial Information for Climate Resilience ‘Applying Geospatial Information to Climate Challenges’ , which focuses on how geospatial data is transforming climate action, and can help with climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation.
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.
Canary Media
OCTOBER 11, 2024
If America hopes to meet its grid decarbonization goals or its nuclear power targets, the country needs to deploy fission reactors in volume — and it needs to get started today. That’s according to the recently updated Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear report by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Ffestiniog pumped storage scheme in North Wales. The Department for Net Zero and Energy Security (DESNZ) has confirmed the go-ahead of a scheme intended to stimulate investment in the UK’s long-duration energy storage (LDES) sector. Announced on 10 October, DESNZ said the Long Duration Electricity Storage investment support scheme will “boost investor confidence and unlock billions in funding for vital projects” “This could see the first significant long duration energy storage
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 11, 2024
The location sees some of the highest amounts of truck traffic in the country The Port of Gothenburg in Sweden sees some of the highest numbers of heavy-duty truck traffic in the country and is opening a new hydrogen station that will dispense only H2 produced using renewable energy. The location for the facility will be at one of the busiest gates at the port The hydrogen station will be used for refueling H2-powered heavy-duty vehicles such as shipping trucks that frequent the location.
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.
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.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
The Royal Society of Chemistry has welcomed the Drinking Water Inspectorate’s decision to apply stricter limits on PFAS levels allowed in English and Welsh drinking water but cautions there is more to be done to improve chemicals monitoring and regulation. PFAS, more commonly known as ‘forever chemicals’, are a group of chemicals found in thousands of products, from toilet paper and non-stick cookware to firefighting foams.
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).
Financial Times: Energy
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Business leaders say Europe’s policymakers are ill prepared for just how expensive the shift is likely to be
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.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Water pipes for drinking water supply are visible on a construction site: The EA said 19% of water supplies are still being lost due to leakage before reaching consumers. Almost a fifth (19%) of water supplies are lost by water companies before reaching customers’ taps, a new report from the Environment Agency appears to find. The new report published on Monday 7 October assesses water companies’ annual performance data against their Water Resources Management Plans (WRMPs), which include steps
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 8, 2024
WASHINGTON (October 8, 2024) – The Environmental Protection Agency released the Lead and Copper Improvements Rule that requires nearly every lead water pipe in the nation to be removed within the next ten years, a monumental victory for public health.
The Guardian: Energy
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Industry divided over whether plan to vary electricity cost depending on location really could make bills cheaper for all This summer the windfarm dubbed the most productive in Britain stood idle in the country’s windiest area. The Viking windfarm in the Shetland islands is expected to harness the UK’s most abundant wind resources to generate enough electricity to power almost half a million homes.
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?
Renew Economy
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The growth of rooftop solar is creating new headaches for the market operator in terms of minimum demand. But the first big battery in the country's most vulnerable state may have already fixed the problem. The post Big batteries have already put an end to minimum demand shocks in Australia’s most vulnerable grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Volcano on Ascension island in the mid-Atlantic ocean. A project to extract rare minerals and elements from the plumes of a volcano, and another to extract them from mining waste are among nine innovation partnerships that have been awarded £3.5 million of funding from Innovate UK. The projects are: Ascension Earth Resources: A partnership between Marriott Well Engineering and Management Services and the University of Oxford to assess the potential for Rare Earth Elements from volcanic tuffs on
Canary Media
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Renewable energy developer BrightNight just closed a $440 million strategic investment from banking giant Goldman Sachs.
TechXplore
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Widespread coverage of building rooftops with conventional photovoltaic solar panels may increase temperatures on hot days and lower them at night, says new modeling.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
The CGEN team on Mocean Energy’s BlueX wave converter (image credit: Mocean Energy). A new spinout company has developed modular generator technology the founders say could reduce the levelized cost of energy for offshore renewables by 10 to 15 per cent. CGEN Engineering’s lightweight, stackable generator system can be easily transported to onshore and offshore wind, wave, and tidal installations, where it is assembled into a complete power system for converting mechanical energy into elec
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.
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.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Speakers at the WBA Brazil Congress: (left to right) Luis Zavaleta, LATAM Environmental Sustainability & Compliance Director, PepsiCo (speaking); Rodrigo Regis, Consultant, Planning Department, Government of Paraná; Dr Airton Kunz, Senior Researcher, Embrapa Suinos e Aves; Charlotte Morton OBE, Chief Executive, World Biogas Association. The World Biogas Association BRAZIL Congress 2024 took place on 1 October, and ran concurrently with the G20 Energy meetings in Foz do Iguaçu.
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