How EV maker Rivian plans to halve the carbon footprint of its vehicles by 2030
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
The company has published its strategy for ‘zero materials waste and zero pollution.
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Strata breaks ground on 1GWh Arizona BESS
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 19, 2024
Developer and operator Strata Clean Energy has started construction on its 255MW/1,020MWh Scatter Wash BESS project in Arizona, US.
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Artificial 'power plants' harness energy from wind and rain
TechXplore
JANUARY 17, 2024
Fake plants are moving into the 21st century. Researchers developed literal "power plants"—tiny, leaf-shaped generators that create electricity from a blowing breeze or falling raindrops—and described them in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. The team tested the energy harvesters by incorporating them into artificial plants.
Virtual power plants: the importance of integrating smart-enabled tech with microgeneration
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2024
Jordan Brompton is co-founder of myenergi, a UK designer and manufacturer of renewable energy products. Jordan Brompton explains how developments in smart tech are enabling increasingly eco-conscious consumers to more easily and effectively transition towards off-grid renewable energy. During last year’s COP climate conference, the world agreed to triple its renewable capacity by 2030.
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.
Microsoft will buy enough U.S.-made solar panels to power 1.8 million homes
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2024
The deal will fund 12 gigawatts from Qcells over the next eight years.
Federal Resources Minister opens AVL’s flow battery electrolyte plant in Western Australia
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 16, 2024
An official opening took place this morning for the new vanadium flow battery electrolyte factory in Western Australia build by Australian Vanadium (AVL).
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The decade ahead for hydrogen: Report offers predictions
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2024
A new report offers an overview of the hydrogen value chain, including an appraisal of different production methods, distribution and where the authors believe it will be used. Market initelligence firm IDTechX writes Decarbonization efforts have gained momentum globally in recent years. Renewable energy, electrification, and battery storage are primary solutions.
5 years in, how does General Mills’ regenerative agriculture commitment measure up?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
General Mills aims to spur ‘systems change’ and advance regenerative agriculture on 1 million acres of land by 2030.
Long-duration: Eos electrolyte supply, funding for ‘electrothermal’ startup, iron flow for military project
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 16, 2024
A trio of announcements in the long-duration energy storage (LDES) sector, from RedoxBlox, Eos Energy Enterprises and ESS Inc.
Using AI to develop a battery that uses less lithium
TechXplore
JANUARY 17, 2024
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft working with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has used AI to develop a battery that uses less lithium. Together, they have published a paper describing their work on the arXiv preprint server.
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
Time for a Different Approach to Building Upgrade Programs
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 18, 2024
One size does not fit all, building retrofit programs should be designed at a community level to ensure low-middle income homes don’t get left behind. A new guidelines doc co-authored by NRDC with partners helps set up community-driven retrofit programs.
Insurers hope new policies covering carbon credits will restore trust in a battered market
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
Cloverly is selling coverage that will compensate carbon credit buyers in the event of fraud or invalidation.
SK Group companies enter energy storage joint venture with US developer Apex Clean Energy
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 18, 2024
SK Gas and SK D&D, two companies in the South Korean SK Group conglomerate, have entered a joint venture (JV) for the ownership of energy storage facilities in the US with Apex Clean Energy.
Machine learning method speeds up discovery of green energy materials
TechXplore
JANUARY 18, 2024
Researchers at Kyushu University, in collaboration with Osaka University and the Fine Ceramics Center, have developed a framework that uses machine learning to speed up the discovery of materials for green energy technology.
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.
New Mexico Legislature Should Move on Clean Energy, Jobs, and Climate
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 16, 2024
Here are some of the initiatives we will be engaged in—and encouraging lawmakers and the governor to act on.
Israel’s climate tech sector plummeted in 2023
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
The war and infighting over Netanyahu’s moves wreaked havoc on the country’s sustainability startups.
Sodium-ion tech firms Tiamat and Altris bag combined €29 million
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 18, 2024
Europe-based sodium-ion battery technology firms Tiamat and Altris have secured a total of €29 million (US$31.5 million) in new funding, from a fundraise round and the Swedish state respectively.
Next-generation batteries could go organic, cobalt-free for long-lasting power
TechXplore
JANUARY 18, 2024
In the switch to "greener" energy sources, the demand for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries is surging. However, their cathodes typically contain cobalt—a metal whose extraction has high environmental and societal costs. Now, researchers in ACS Central Science report evaluating an earth-abundant, carbon-based cathode material that could replace cobalt and other scarce and toxic metals without sacrificing lithium-ion battery performance.
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.
Development of first UK dry anaerobic digestion plants on the table in Greater Manchester waste strategy
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2024
A plant design (image credit: Thzorro77 , CC BY-SA 4.0 licence ) At a meeting on 17 January, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Waste and Recycling Committee approved an option to commission the building in the North West of two dry 1 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants – the very first plants ever built in England – as part of its Biowaste Management Strategy.
We can do better: Redesigning climate change, biodiversity and plastic waste negotiations
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
Global negotiating processes must shift to achieve more meaningful climate results.
Powin and Hithium in 5GWh LFP supply deal
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 17, 2024
Lithium-ion manufacturer Hithium will supply 5GWh of LFP battery cells to system integrator Powin over a three year period.
Green tech pumps water from air at CES
TechXplore
JANUARY 13, 2024
Tech aimed at battling climate change and even pumping fresh water out of thin air attracted crowds as the annual CES gadget extravaganza showed its green side.
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?
Barclays launches climate tech hub in Cambridge
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2024
Barclays has relaunched its Cambridge Eagle Lab with an apparently new focus on becoming a centre of excellence for climate tech start-ups. The group says it wants to help high growth climate tech startups to connect, grow and scale. The International Energy Agency has estimated that 35 per cent of emission reductions needed by 2050 will come from new technologies currently not on the market 1.
Grant seeks to recruit Appalachian manufacturers for clean energy economy
GreenBiz
JANUARY 19, 2024
A group of regional partners is seeking to find and support more than 1,000 small and medium manufacturers to play a supply chain role in the growing clean energy industry.
Japan’s low-carbon capacity auctions ‘will have significant impact’ on business case for batteries
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 14, 2024
Energy storage projects will be eligible to take part in competitive capacity auctions for low-carbon power set to be launched this month by the Japanese government.
New fuel cell harvests energy from microbes in soil to power sensors, communications
TechXplore
JANUARY 15, 2024
A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt.
Emergency authorisation of bee-killing pesticide is a “deathblow” says charity group
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2024
(Text: The Wildlife Trusts) On 18th January 2024, the UK Government’s Farming Minister, Mark Spencer, approved ‘emergency’ authorisation for the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid, Thiamethoxam, on sugar beet for the fourth year in a row. This pesticide has been banned in the UK since 2018 but has been approved for use on British sugar beet crops.
How tech firms Adyen and Zendesk are securing carbon removal credits
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
3 strategies Adyen and Zendesk use to guide their funding of carbon removal technologies and projects.
Australia needs renewables, transmission and lots of storage to quit fossil fuels
Energy Storage News
JANUARY 16, 2024
Australia runs a great risk of failing to meet its ambitious but achievable renewable energy goals, writes Stephanie Bashir, CEO of Nexa Advisory, who explains why utility-scale energy storage is among the crucial tools in the country’s energy transition toolkit.
Advancement in thermoelectricity could light up the Internet of Things
TechXplore
JANUARY 16, 2024
Imagine stoplights and cars communicating with each other to optimize the flow of traffic. This isn't science fiction—it's the Internet of Things (IoT), i.e., objects that sense their surroundings and respond via the internet. As the global population rises and such technologies continue to develop, you might wonder—what will power this digital world of tomorrow?
Major revamp of UK’s constraint management system needed urgently, says report
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2024
The UK’s approach to constraint management is outdated and needs a major revamp to maximise the UK’s renewable electricity generation and deliver best value for consumers, a new report appears to find. It was published on 16 January by The Energy Landscape and commissioned by Scottish Renewables. When implemented, prior to the boom in wind generation, the current constraint management system worked efficiently.
Sustainable investors more likely to engage on climate policy, MIT Sloan analysis suggests
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2024
MIT Sloan School of Management working paper challenges the idea that sustainable investing detracts from work on climate policy.
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