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Toyota report grapples with energy storage challenge in logistics

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Alaska’s Chugach Electric commissions 80MWh Tesla Megapack BESS

Energy Storage News

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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Carbon Mapper Releases First Emissions Detections from the Tanager-1 Satellite

Planet Pulse

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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Rooftop solar panels impact temperatures during the day and night in cities, simulation study shows

TechXplore

Widespread coverage of building rooftops with conventional photovoltaic solar panels may increase temperatures on hot days and lower them at night, says new modeling.

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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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Geospatial data and climate action: New UN report

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Tesla revealed as only AAA-Rated supplier in new Battery StorageTech bankability report

Energy Storage News

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

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Scientists improve catalytic converter efficiency to cut harmful pollution from hydrogen engines

TechXplore

Hydrogen-burning internal combustion engines offer great promise in the fight against climate change because they are powerful without emitting any earth-warming carbon. They can power heavy-duty trucks and buses and are suited for off-road and agricultural equipment and backup power generators, providing cleaner alternatives to diesel engines.

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Biogas congress in Brazil promotes inter-country collaboration

Envirotec Magazine

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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US ‘multi-day’ energy storage firm Form Energy closes US$405 million funding round

Energy Storage News

Form Energy, the US startup behind a battery technology that aims to cost-effectively provide 100-hour duration energy storage, has closed a Series F funding round.

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Orsted, SRP Celebrate Commencement of Solar + BESS on Power Grid

Solar Industry

Ørsted and Salt River Project (SRP) have commenced operations at the Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300 MW solar project and 300 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Pinal County, Ariz. The center is SRP’s largest co-located solar and BESS project, providing power to businesses, homes and Meta’s data center in Mesa, Ariz. “Solar energy paired with battery energy storage will be critical to the reliable delivery of power as the demand for electricity grows,” says David Hardy, Group EVP and CE

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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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DOE releases draft roadmap to improve EV charger, solar and distributed energy resources interconnections

Charged

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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Telescopes can help bring renewable energy to isolated Chilean communities

TechXplore

Just published research in Nature Sustainability shows that building a renewable energy system for a telescope in Chile's isolated Atacama Desert could also cover 66% of a nearby community's energy needs, giving hope for win-win development around other remote infrastructure projects.

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Giga Storage contracts Sweco to design 2.8GWh Belgium BESS

Energy Storage News

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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Severe Solar Storm Threatens Power Grid Amid Hurricane Helene, Milton Recovery

POWER Magazine

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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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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Nissan’s LFP battery production receives Japanese government certification

Charged

Nissan Motor has received certification for its development and mass production of in-vehicle, lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan. Nissan intends to establish a base in Japan by strengthening the supply chain of storage batteries, a Japanese government policy, and promoting the use of EVs fitted with LFP batteries, the company said.

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Streamlining solar cell structure and fabrication for more affordable energy

TechXplore

A new fabrication technique for substantially enhancing the prospects of commercializing perovskite solar cells through improved stability, reliability, efficiency and affordability is underway at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK).

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SSE Renewables begins construction of 640MWh BESS in the UK

Energy Storage News

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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Nereidas geothermal project seen to strengthen Colombia’s energy matrix

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Caldas Hydroelectric Power Plant (Chec) , Ecopetrol and Baker Hughes recently joined forces to develop non-conventional renewable energy in Colombia through geothermal energy. This project, recently highlighted in an article in La Patria, is coordinated by Julián López Palacio and is intended to be carried out in the Nereidas Valley, near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.

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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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BaCta is using engineered bacteria to grow natural rubber and slash CO2 emissions

TechCrunch: Climate

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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Hypersaline brine produced by fracking has left us in a pickle, but new process could help dry it up

TechXplore

Seemingly miraculous innovations have made it possible to slake the ever-growing thirsts of our industrial society. Need more energy? Frack it from deep-bedded rocks. Fresh water? Desalinate ocean flows. Precious metals? Leach them from low-grade ores that were previously unminable.

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TagEnergy energises UK’s largest transmission-connected battery storage project

Energy Storage News

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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America’s Newly Discovered Whale Is Already in Trouble

NRDC onEarth

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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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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Emptying “drawers of doom” could fix UK’s impending copper crunch

Envirotec Magazine

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

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A quick and easy way to produce anode materials for sodium-ion batteries using microwaves

TechXplore

A research team has developed a process technology that enables ultrafast, 30-second preparation of hard carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries using microwave induction heating.

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Australia: Stanwell wants 4GWh pumped hydro project, negotiating ‘Supernode’ deal

Energy Storage News

Queensland’s Stanwell Corporation seeks to add 5GWh of energy storage to its resource mix through two new deals.

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Labor springs surprise nuclear power committee to call Coalition bluff on energy policy

Renew Economy

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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Royal Society of Chemistry commends new PFAS limits, but says more to be done

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Renewables revolt in Sardinia, Italy's coal-fired island

TechXplore

The bolts securing the towering wind turbine were unscrewed under cover of darkness, an act of sabotage symbolizing a vehement pushback against renewable energy in Sardinia.

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Reducing risk in battery procurement for large energy storage projects in the US

Energy Storage News

In the rapidly growing but still relatively new battery energy storage sector, equipment procurement and integration for large projects presents numerous risks.

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Call for Australia to make wind turbine towers as well as solar PV and battery storage

Renew Economy

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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More action needed to protect future water resources, says EA

Envirotec Magazine

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

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Generator system set to transform offshore renewables

TechXplore

A new type of generator developed by Edinburgh engineers could reduce the cost of electricity produced by offshore renewable technologies.