Amazon eliminates 15 billion plastic ‘air pillows’ from delivery boxes
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
The retailer’s latest step to remove single-use plastic across its North American distribution network.
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CATL provides more details on ‘zero-degradation’ Tener BESS product at ees Europe
Energy Storage News
JUNE 19, 2024
CATL, the world's largest lithium-ion OEM, has given more details around its new battery energy storage system (BESS) product, Tener, including how it claims to have achieved no degradation in the first five years of operation.
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A new thermal regulator could enhance the safety of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries
TechXplore
JUNE 21, 2024
High-capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) could play a crucial role in the electrification of vehicles and other large electronics. To successfully deploy these batteries on a large scale, however, engineers will first need to ensure that they can safely operate at different temperatures and do not explore when overheated.
Material gains: Overcoming the recycling challenge with aluminium
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 21, 2024
To reach Net Zero, manufacturing more products in the UK that contain recycled content, and ensuring that they are reprocessed domestically, will be crucial. One material that exemplifies progress in this direction is aluminium, says resource expert EMR, which outlines important initiatives and progress, below. The aluminium recycling process requires only 5-10 percent of the energy needed to produce the primary metal, resulting in significant carbon emissions savings.
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.
$10 billion Bezos Earth Fund director: ‘Next wave’ in green finance is climate adaptation
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
Two key areas for climate investment are resilience to warming temperatures and phasing down fossil fuels, says Paul Bodnar
Grid-forming technology and its role in the energy transition
Energy Storage News
JUNE 17, 2024
Aaron Philipp Gerdemann explores some of the grid-forming technologies emerging as alternatives to traditional solutions for safeguarding the grid.
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Vermont Becomes Second State to Take Big Steps for Bees
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 18, 2024
The Vermont legislature enacted a bill curbing the use of bee-toxic neonic pesticides on the first day of Pollinator Week.
Salesforce commits $25 million to ‘steep learning curve’ of carbon removal
GreenBiz
JUNE 18, 2024
The company also signed its first renewables contract in Europe with projects in six Italian regions.
US sees 84% year-on-year rise in Q1 energy storage deployments, three states dominant
Energy Storage News
JUNE 20, 2024
The US energy storage industry saw its highest-ever first-quarter deployment figures in 2024, with 1,265MW/3,152MWh of additions.
New catalyst unveils the hidden power of water for green hydrogen generation
TechXplore
JUNE 20, 2024
Hydrogen is a promising chemical and energy vector to decarbonize our society. Unlike conventional fuels, hydrogen utilization as a fuel does not generate carbon dioxide in return. Unfortunately, today, most of the hydrogen that is produced in our society comes from methane, a fossil fuel. It does so in a process (methane reforming) that leads to substantial carbon dioxide emissions.
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
CA Climate Bond Must Invest in Resilient Food & Farming Infrastructure
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 18, 2024
In the coming days, the Senate and Assembly must work together to craft a climate bond that includes substantial investments in food and farming infrastructure.
Amazon, Google and Harvard demonstrate the value created by regenerative buildings
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
Featuring all-electric systems, water reuse and innovative solar power, these buildings improve “the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people.
India’s NTPC launches 500MWh BESS tender, with competition bringing lower costs
Energy Storage News
JUNE 17, 2024
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India has opened bidding invitations in a tender for 250MW/500MWh of battery storage in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
A perovskite for the efficient photocatalytic conversion of ethane into ethylene and hydrogen
TechXplore
JUNE 19, 2024
Ethylene (C2H4) is a highly flammable compound widely used in numerous settings, including the manufacturing of packaging and plastic-based items, the chemical industry, agriculture and health care. Developing effective and sustainable methods to produce ethylene on a large scale could help to meet the rising demand for this versatile hydrocarbon.
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.
By the Numbers: How Are U.S. Fisheries Doing?
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 17, 2024
Here is our breakdown of the NOAA’s 2023 Status of Stocks report, which shows more progress is needed to ensure healthy and resilient fisheries.
Sustainable packaging helps drive superior product experience
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2024
Procter & Gamble’s Responsible Beauty approach focuses on delivering superior consumer experience and value with sustainable packaging playing a key role.
EY examines ‘complex’ battery storage market in Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index
Energy Storage News
JUNE 21, 2024
Rankings by EY of the most attractive markets for renewable energy investment include battery storage, with US, China and UK as frontrunners.
Strategic dam placement can balance hydropower and fish preservation
TechXplore
JUNE 20, 2024
Hydropower plants need not be disastrous for fishermen and nature. For that, we need to place new dams more strategically, but also modify or even remove some existing ones. Valerio Barbarossa and Rafael Schmitt showed that with a computer model of the Asian Mekong basin.
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.
Sea Turtle Week Highlights a Need to Safeguard Ocean Habitat
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 21, 2024
The Blake Plateau is home to several sea turtle species and requires greater protection.
Construction giant CRH’s reuse strategy is winning customers such as Google
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2024
40 percent of the company’s revenue comes from climate-resilient infrastructure or concrete and asphalt with reduced emissions.
Smart Cube AI-optimised battery storage: Smart integration equals energy independence
Energy Storage News
JUNE 17, 2024
The Haier Smart Cube AI-optimised energy storage system enables the smooth integration of solar energy generation, powering appliances and equipment, electric vehicles and low-carbon heating, while giving the user total control.
New process makes battery production more eco-friendly
TechXplore
JUNE 20, 2024
Switching from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles is one way to reduce carbon emissions, but building the lithium-ion batteries that power those EVs can be an energy-intensive and polluting process itself. Now researchers at Dalhousie University have developed a manufacturing process that is cheaper and greener.
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?
Call to make London a ‘sponge city’
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 19, 2024
The River Rom in Dagenham, East London (image credit: ©Thames21). London will need to urgently become a ‘sponge city’ – a city better designed to absorb and hold rainwater – in order to ward off the negative impacts of the climate emergency, the organisers of London Rivers Week have urged. The climate emergency has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and governments, businesses and communities must protect London’s rivers in order for them to be better prepared to tac
Nearly half of all $1 billion-plus companies are failing the Plastics Scorecard
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2024
107 of 225 companies received an F grade, Amazon and Macy’s among them, as “plastic intensity” increases.
Jupiter Power unveils plan for 700MW BESS at former ExxonMobil oil depot in Massachusetts
Energy Storage News
JUNE 18, 2024
Jupiter Power has unveiled plans to construct a 700MW standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) facility at the site of a former oil depot previously owned by ExxonMobil in Everett, Massachusetts.
Bringing GPT to the grid: The promise and limitations of large-language models in the energy sector
TechXplore
JUNE 20, 2024
Much has been discussed about the promise and limitations of large-language models (LLMs) in industries such as education, health care and even manufacturing. But what about energy? Could LLMs, like those that power ChatGPT, help run and maintain the energy grid?
NYC Proposes Bill to Shift Cost of Lead Pipe Replacement to Property Owners
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 18, 2024
The New York City Council has proposed a controversial new bill that would require property owners to take on the task and expense of replacing all of their building’s lead water service lines within the next ten years, costing them thousands.
The dos and don’ts of corporate tree planting efforts
GreenBiz
JUNE 19, 2024
Credible partners ensure companies get behind high-integrity restoration projects with lasting benefits.
Recurrent Energy, Hecate Grid raise US$640 million for US battery storage projects
Energy Storage News
JUNE 20, 2024
Recurrent Energy has closed US$513 million financing on a battery storage project in Arizona, US, which has a 20-year utility tolling agreement in place.
New strategy improves performance of spent high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide batteries
TechXplore
JUNE 21, 2024
In a study published in Advanced Materials, a research team led by Prof. Zhang Yunxia from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an integrated bulk and surface commodification strategy to upgrade spent lithium cobalt oxide (S-LCO) batteries to operate at high voltages.
Much of the Nord Stream gas remained in the sea
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 20, 2024
The researchers took water samples in an area northeast of Bornholm, near the site of the Nord Stream leaks (Image credit: Adele Maciute). A lot of the methane simply dissolved in the surrounding water of the southern Baltic Sea following the September 2022 explosion, according to measurements taken by the University of Gothenburg, and reported in Nature Scientific Reports.
A new model for additionality can steer carbon markets to a sustainable future
GreenBiz
JUNE 21, 2024
The primary model for assessing additionality has limitations, according to Verra's founding CEO. He proposes more forward-looking approaches to accelerate the green transition.
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