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JANUARY 23, 2024
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California solar-plus-storage project with world’s largest BESS fully online
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Edwards & Sanborn solar-plus-storage project in California is now fully online, with 875MWdc of solar PV and 3,287MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, the world's largest.
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£147 million deal will double Scottish energy storage capacity
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2024
The facility at Blackhillock: how it will look. Construction has commenced on a new energy storage facility in Scotland, part of a drive to maximise the efficacy of renewables and reduce the cost of wasted wind to consumers. The facility, Kilmarnock South, is the third major investment of a large programme of battery storage assets provided by Zenobē, a specialist in fleet electrification and battery storage. “The portfolio of assets will enable the country to become a world leader in rene
International Community Wants Biden to Act on LNG
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 26, 2024
Allies from key countries around the world came out resoundingly in support of the Biden administration's decision to pause permitting of new liquefied natural gas export facilities.
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.
France will jail corporate directors who fail to adhere to new CSRD requirements
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2024
No get-out-of-jail-free-card will save companies that don't comply with this new French law.
Tesla deployed 14.7GWh of energy storage in 2023
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Tesla’s energy storage and generation revenues have tripled since 2020, largely driven by deployments of Megapack battery storage systems.
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Liquefied Natural Gas has Limited Impact in Displacing Coal Emissions
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 25, 2024
The fossil fuel industry is selling a false narrative that liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion is a “climate solution” because it displaces coal consumption globally. This claim doesn’t stand up against the facts. U.S. LNG has no or very limited.
Intel is using hot water to cut natural gas use in its factories
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2024
Industrial heat recovery is an untapped opportunity that could save an estimated $152.5 billion in annual energy costs globally.
Manufacturers, materials dominate Mercom 2023 list of top VC-funded energy storage companies
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 26, 2024
UK-headquartered Zenobē Energy attracted the most venture capital (VC) funding of any company in the energy storage industry during 2023, as found by Mercom Capital.
£8m project aims to deliver first retrofit E-CTV with offshore and onshore charging
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
A seemingly groundbreaking project aims to deliver the world’s first retrofit electric crew transfer vessel (E-CTV) – retrofitting a diesel CTV to be fully electric while also developing infrastructure to charge the E-CTV onsite directly from a wind turbine. The design and engineering phase of the project is being undertaken by Tidal Transit, a supplier of purpose-design crew transfer vessels for the offshore wind industry.
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
Fossilized Finances: Oil and Gas Subsidies in the Permian Basin
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 24, 2024
A new NRDC report shows how, despite the need to curb fossil fuel production, outdated tax giveaways incentivize further extraction in the country's largest oil and gas region.
What is transition finance, and why it matters
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2024
Wall Street sees transition finance as a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for investors.
BESS projects represent ‘encouraging progress’ in New York efforts to replace dirty and polluting peakers
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 22, 2024
Battery storage is playing an active role in helping New York City retire its fleet of peaker power plants, with around 700MW of its most polluting power generation assets already fully retired.
As cities and systems scale up, does waste scale accordingly?
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
The study explores how three types of waste production — municipal solid waste, wastewater, and greenhouse gas emissions — scale with city size (image credit: Elisa Heinrich Mora). A recent study attempts to predict the future state of urban ecosystems, and suggests the need for a new science of waste. Living systems have evolved to reconstitute waste — creatures like dung beetles fill an ecological niche of breaking down other organisms’ faeces — but waste is a problem that still plagues human
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.
Transportation Funding Gets a Potential Boost
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 24, 2024
A new bill from Congressman Hank Johnson could help secure desperately needed operations funding for transit agencies across the country.
The world’s clothing boom is a climate changer
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2024
What will it take to redress the textile industry’s devastating environmental impact?
Regulator quashes ERCOT’s proposed state-of-charge rules for BESS
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 26, 2024
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has ordered the state's grid operator ERCOT to rescind state-of-charge (SOC) rules requiring batteries to hold additional capacity to provide ancillary services.
A bundle of tech can replace gas boilers and help millions of homes go off-grid, says study
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
Destined for the dumpster? The researchers say the proposal offers “a pragmatic approach to achieving zero-energy homes by harnessing wind and solar power”. Inefficient UK homes, which were built decades ago, can do away with their gas boilers and get all their energy needs off-grid by retrofitting a combination of existing renewable energy technologies, new research seemingly shows.
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.
First-ever Regional Offshore Wind and Wildlife Science Plan Released
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 25, 2024
The research plan identifies data needs to efficiently scale up offshore wind responsibly.
Here are the innovators and startups set to transform the circular economy
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2024
11 circular economy startups have emerged as $1 billion-plus companies since 2020.
Connecticut regulators more than double incentive cap for residential battery scheme
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Up to US$16,000 in upfront incentives are available per customer for residential battery purchases in Connecticut after changes were made to a utility scheme in the US state.
Trials identify “five key ingredients to successful reuse systems”
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
The impact and learnings from six reuse projects, funded by over £1.4 million from the Bring It Back Fund are published in a new report (on 23 January) and provide insights which could help boost reuse and return systems across the country, says charity group Hubbub, which oversees the fund alongside Starbucks. The trials which include city-wide returnable takeaway packaging; electronic tagging of reusable alternatives and doorstep packaging collections, involved over 100 food and drink business
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?
New Policy Boosts Access to EV Charging
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 22, 2024
The federal action will improve access for millions of Americans.
4 critical steps to embed sustainability into your organization
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2024
Integrating a sustainability strategy throughout the company can put your ESG goals on the fast track.
Queensland battery storage programme ‘fundamental to success’ of net zero policies
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 22, 2024
The government of Queensland, Australia, will invest in 48MW/96MWh of distributed battery storage and trial the use of flow batteries to integrate rooftop PV generation into local networks.
Survey will shape 2050 Water Innovation Strategy
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
The UK water sector should give more focus to the themes of delivering resilient infrastructure systems and protecting and enhancing natural systems, according to a survey about the UK 2050 Water Innovation Strategy. Spring, the water innovation centre of excellence, launched the sector-wide survey in July 2023. The aim was to seek views to inform the future direction of the Water Innovation Strategy, which was published in 2020 by all UK water and wastewater companies and contains seven key the
Scientists Discover the World’s Largest Deep-sea Coral Reef Habitat
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 23, 2024
The U.S. Southeast’s Blake Plateau is a biodiversity hotspot and a world-class treasure in our own backyard.
3 effective ways social media ‘influencers’ communicate about sustainability
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2024
More ‘influencers’ are talking up sustainability topics to large followings on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and others. They offer examples on how to do it well.
QuantumScape and 24M: Solid state, ‘SemiSolid’ battery tech not yet primed for ESS applications
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Semi-solid battery technology firm 24M expects to sell its latest product into the ESS market starting in 2025, while Quantumscape is ‘not revealing a commercialisation roadmap for non-automotive applications’ for its solid state battery, the companies told Energy-Storage.news.
Novel biomembranes project receives €3m Pathfinder grant
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2024
A project aiming to develop a novel bioinspired membrane to selectively extract compounds from water has won a €3m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme. BIOMEM is a consortium led by Danish biotech company Aquaporin, with research led by Aston University’s Dr Alan Goddard. Current water filtration technologies require high pressure and energy inputs and are not selective about the molecules they filter.
What DC Water's Boil Advisory Fumble Teaches Us About Lead
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 23, 2024
DC Water put customers at risk. Safeguards being considered by the EPA for the new Lead and Copper Rule could help—if the agency gets it right.
The Reusies awards celebrate communities, innovators and activists
GreenBiz
JANUARY 26, 2024
Companies advancing product and packaging reuse business models compete for recognition at the awards in May at Circularity 24 in Chicago.
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