Does the SEC climate rule really matter? Investors will still demand disclosure
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Attacks against ESG reporting have done little to dampen investors’ demand for consistent and comparable sustainability information.
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Energy storage tax credits in US priced highest among all clean energy types
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Energy storage investment tax credits (ITC) were priced more highly than any other clean energy type in transferability transactions last year, according to a report from tax credit ecosystem Crux which its CEO discussed with Energy-Storage.news.
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Medieval heritage site to be heated using energy from the Clyde
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
The interior of Govan Old Church (image credit: SP Energy Networks). A group dedicated to preserving and promoting one of the most renowned collections of early medieval sculptures in Europe has been awarded a grant of £150,000 by SP Energy Networks’ Net Zero Fund to make vital sustainable upgrades to the home of the archaeological site in the heart of Govan.
As Demand Grows for Electric Cars, So Does the Market for Green Jobs in the EV Industry
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Analysts expect openings for all types of electric vehicle jobs to expand over the next decade, with new opportunities across the country.
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.
How Pandora, the world's largest jewelry maker, switched to recycled silver and gold
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The changes affected more than 40 suppliers, which help it produce more than 100 million pieces annually.
Redflow in California: grant award and NTP for two projects totalling 21.6MWh
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Zinc-bromine flow battery technology company Redflow has received a grant award and notice-to-proceed (NTP) for two projects in California, US, totalling 21.6MWh.
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New Mexico Leaders Chart Jobs, Health and Environmental Advances
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
This environmental progress came about through committed efforts by the governor, key state legislators, and public interest advocates on behalf of the people of New Mexico. Now we need Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to sign into law at least four key measures.
Delta, Prologis and PepsiCo: The art of winning corporate buy-in for sustainability
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Preaching the benefits for customers is the best way to get support for environmental initiatives, they say.
sonnen CEO: ‘We gained credibility in the US through Utah virtual power plant’
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Utah is not perhaps a US state people would immediately associate with cutting edge clean energy tech development, but that’s where sonnen’s virtual power plant (VPP) offering took shape.
UK’s first Small Modular Reactors to be built in North Teeside
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
North Teeside will host the first Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the UK, with facilities to be delivered by a collaboration between US nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric Company and Community Nuclear Power (CNP), based in Cumbria. The 8 February announcement detailed the intention to deploy four Westinghouse AP300 SMRs at the site, a technology previously selected by Great British Nuclear (GBN) in October.
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
Dead Right Whale Confirmed Entangled in Maine Fishing Gear
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A juvenile female North Atlantic right whale died from severe entanglement injuries caused by ropes used by the Maine lobster fishery.
EPA named 9 new ‘forever chemicals’ it wants out of supply chains
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Manufacturing and chemical industries are responding to the new business-as-usual.
US project financing roundup: SMT Energy, UBS, Plus Power, Available Power strike deals
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
A roundup of US battery storage project financing news from this week, with deals struck by SMT Energy and UBS, Plus Power, as well as CleanCapital and Available Power, covering over 1GW of projects.
Wind and solar are delivering an energy transition at record speed
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
As Dutton renews call for renewables to be stopped and coal closures suspended until nuclear is built, wind and solar are delivering the fastest transition the world has seen. The post Wind and solar are delivering an energy transition at record speed appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Report: Plastics, Oil Industry Deceived Public on Recycling Use for More Than 50 Years
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
An explosive new report finds that the plastics industry has misled the public for decades about the viability of recycling plastic, promoting reuse despite the fact that mechanical recycling was not feasible – perpetuating the plastic waste crisis the world faces today. “The plastics industry has ‘sold’ plastic recycling to the American public to sell plastic,” according to the report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for legal action to hold the
When to laugh about climate change
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Comedian Stuart Goldsmith says stand-up offers strategies for those working day to day to mitigate the climate crisis.
California utility SDG&E brings online 180MWh of community-resiliency microgrids
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), one of California’s main investor-owned utilities (IOUs), has brought online a portfolio of four ‘advanced’ microgrids equipped with 180MWh of battery storage.
“Baseload getting more difficult:” Origin doubles profits, still coy on Eraring and green energy transition
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Australia's biggest energy retailer doubles underlying earnings to $1.995 billion, taking advantage of higher bills and lower fuel costs, but remains coy about the future of the Eraring and pace of green energy transition. The post “Baseload getting more difficult:” Origin doubles profits, still coy on Eraring and green energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again last year — and the gap is growing
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces. Again. According to data from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute released last week, Americans bought 21 percent more heat pumps in 2023 than the next-most popular heating appliance, fossil gas furnaces.
What Comcast learned from issuing its $1 billion green bond
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The market for sustainability bonds reached almost $940 billion in 2023, with more growth expected in 2024.
Ardian enlists Merus Power for 40MWh Finland BESS
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Global private equity firm Ardian has enlisted power solutions firm Merus Power for its first BESS project, a 38MW/40MWh system in Finland.
Is Ted O’Brien a fit for purpose shadow energy minister?
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In pursuit of blind, dogged virtue signalling to their base, the Coalition is prepared to sacrifice what remains of the Liberal Party in favour of a declining rural constituency. The post Is Ted O’Brien a fit for purpose shadow energy minister? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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?
Corporate Clean Power Buying Grew 12% to New Record in 2023, According to BloombergNEF
BloombergNEF
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
• BNEF’s 1H 2024 Corporate Energy Market Outlook shows that a surge of activity in Europe was the biggest catalyst in record activity • Big tech remains a large contributor of PPA growth • Amazon, Engie were the largest buyer and seller in 2023, respectively New York and London, February 13, 2024 – Corporations publicly […] The post Corporate Clean Power Buying Grew 12% to New Record in 2023, According to BloombergNEF appeared first on BloombergNEF.
The domino effect of transport sector decarbonization
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Cross-industry collaboration and innovation can put global decarbonization on the fast track.
Wärtsilä’s high energy BESS solution to get first field deployment at 600MWh Scotland project
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
The first energy storage asset built using Wärtsilä’s new Quantum High Energy battery energy storage system (BESS) solution will be a 300MW/600MWh project in Scotland, UK.
AGL and AEMO search for answers on Loy Yang outage, but “woke” energy not to blame
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
It will likely take some time to fully understand the events after an intense storm tore down at least six transmission towers in Victoria. But one thing is for sure - it was not the fault of "woke" renewables. The post AGL and AEMO search for answers on Loy Yang outage, but “woke” energy not to blame appeared first on RenewEconomy.
How much electricity does AI consume?
The Verge: Energy
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
How many watts and joules does it actually take to generate a single Balenciaga pope?
Simplifying sustainability: 4 concepts to power our purpose
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Applying these principles can lend more authenticity to sustainability decisions and strengthen understanding among key audiences.
Illinois BESS project owner seeking damages from LG for ‘defective’ supplied batteries
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
The owner of a battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Illinois, US, is seeking at least US$10 million in damages from LG Energy Solution for supplying allegedly defective batteries, a court document shows.
Grid drama and power cuts as multiple coal units and lines trip in midst of heatwave
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Updated: Grid drama in Victoria in midst of heatwave as all four units at Loy Yang trip, transmission lines fail and other generators off line. The post Grid drama and power cuts as multiple coal units and lines trip in midst of heatwave appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Adaptive Management Should Anchor California’s Ocean Conservation Goals
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
A prime opportunity to bolster California's MPA network is close at hand. State decision makers should move to ambitiously conserve our state's vulnerable seascape.
DOE awards $4 million to build local energy incubators
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Here are the innovation hubs that were awarded grants from the US DOE to support clean energy startups in their regions.
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