Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2024
An RAF Typhoon landing in Turkey. The Royal Air Force has used a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with normal jet fuel on routine operations for the first time. Aircraft including Typhoon and Poseidon submarine hunters, operating from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, have been using a blend of conventional and SAF in an apparent first for the air force.
NRDC onEarth
AUGUST 22, 2024
Fossil fuel un-reliability and PJM’s failure to speedily connect new clean resources to the grid are to blame for the 2025/26 auction price spike.
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Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 20, 2024
It is estimated that worldwide, a staggering 2.2 billion tonnes of waste is produced per year. Much of this waste is packaging from food and beverages, a great deal of which will end up in a landfill, since certain types of packaging are non-degradable or can take hundreds of years to break down. Some plastic bottle types, for instance, may take as long as 450 years to do so.
Canary Media
AUGUST 23, 2024
Zero-carbon energy is just about the only form of energy the U.S. is building anymore. In the first half of this year, developers and power plant owners built 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generation capacity, per the U.S.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2024
Yuanhui Zhang with a model of a biowaste recycling project (image credit: College of ACES). Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a Circularity Index that they say provides a comprehensive method to quantify circularity in bioeconomic systems. In a new paper , they outline the method and apply it to two case studies – a corn/soybean farming operation and the entire US food and agriculture system.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 22, 2024
Three years of daily simulations show that very close to 100% renewable electricity is feasible for Australia’s main grid at reasonable cost, using just several hours of battery storage. The post A near 100 per cent renewable grid is readily achievable and affordable appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Canary Media
AUGUST 23, 2024
A big facility for recycling lithium-ion batteries is now operating in Central Ohio, where workers are busy salvaging and repurposing the metals and minerals needed to drive the clean energy transition.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2024
Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel and postdoctoral researcher David Stupski of the University of Nevada (image credit: Chris Moran). How does a fly find its way to that mouldy banana lying concealed in a kitchen cupboard? A question of that order was posed by researchers at the University of Nevada. The answer seemingly offers clues as to how robotic systems might be trained to find the source of chemical leaks or odours, as explained in a study published in the journal Current Biology.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 22, 2024
The unseasonably warm weather is causing renewable energy records to tumble early, driven by surge in solar output in Australia's most coal dependent state. The post Renewable records season arrives early as solar pushes sunshine state to new highs appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 20, 2024
Mattresses pose a serious problem when it comes to disposal. These large household products take up more than their fair share of space in landfills because they’re difficult to compact, clog machinery, and create large soft spaces that can turn into sinkholes after filling. The problem of mattress disposal can be confronted from two sides. The first is to recycle old mattresses, reusing their components to make new products.
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
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2024
Sharon Darcy is chair of the Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel and an independent non-executive board member at Portsmouth Water. The water sector needs to build infrastructure at scale over the coming decades. Ahead of her keynote address to the Water Industry Forum on 25 September, Sharon Darcy, chair of the Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel, says competing demands with other sectors over allocation of resources means a collaborative approach is vital.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 21, 2024
At the request of Tesla and other developers, big batteries could be exempted from a contentious energy market rule designed to plug future supply gaps. The post Big win for Tesla and Co in push to exempt batteries from contentious reliability rule appeared first on RenewEconomy.
PV Tech
AUGUST 20, 2024
Renewable energy developer Sun Cable has secured approval from the Australian government for the Australian element of its Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink) interconnector.
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.
Hydrogen Fuel News
AUGUST 20, 2024
Fuel cells could be the cheaper option for energy and storage. A team of researchers at the University of Applied Sciences in Germany compared an offgrid PV-electrolyzer fuel cell system with a standalone solar-plus-storage counterpart to see which one had better economic performance. The research, which was carried out in Niger, revealed that decentralized PV-driven hydrogen had lower levelized cost of energy and levelized cost of storage compared to the PV-battery system.
Canary Media
AUGUST 22, 2024
Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Canary thanks EnergySage for its support of the column. Fraudsters can dim even an industry as bright as solar.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 21, 2024
AEMO says world is watching as Australia leads in the penetration of wind and solar in the grid and addresses the engineering challenges. The post “Purely phenomenal:” AEMO says world is watching as rooftop PV leads surge to 100pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
FuelCellsWorks
AUGUST 23, 2024
Swinburne University of Technology is addressing the immediate skills gaps across the burgeoning hydrogen industry. The university worked with industry to develop a suite of 11 micro-learning modules. The program.
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.
The Guardian: Energy
AUGUST 20, 2024
Faced with community anxiety over building for the energy transition, Energy UK’s Emma Pinchbeck stresses the wins, near-term and far The prospect of pylons, wind turbines and solar farms springing up across the countryside has upset a number of UK communities. But the head of Energy UK, Emma Pinchbeck, believes there is a way to decarbonise our electricity and sooth these tensions.
Canary Media
AUGUST 21, 2024
When Max Kanter bought an electric vehicle back in 2022, he didn’t expect it to be so hard to find accurate data on the cost and carbon-intensity of the electricity surging through the power grid.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 21, 2024
The Texas grid has many similarities to Australia, and this week it dealt with record demand in a searing heatwave with no problems, thanks to solar and battery storage. The post “Energy transition in real time:” Texas grid hits demand records, and for solar and battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.
POWER Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2024
State-run China Energy News reported that officials on August 19 approved construction of 11 nuclear reactors across the country, part of a wave of new reactors that could see China […] The post China Approves 11 New Nuclear Reactors, Including Fourth-Generation Design appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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?
FuelCellsWorks
AUGUST 21, 2024
The Dutch government is launching a significant €1 billion subsidy auction in October to promote green hydrogen projects, aiming to bridge the investment and operating cost gap compared to grey.
Canary Media
AUGUST 22, 2024
Steel and concrete form the backbones of our modern infrastructure. Billions of metric tons of both materials are churned out every year to make the world’s buildings, bridges, sewers, electrical grids, and seemingly everything else.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 20, 2024
Victoria lays out plan to reach its target of 95 pct renewables target by 2035, by which time it expects to close the last of its coal fired generators, relegated gas to a minor support role. The post Victoria lays out plan for 95 pct renewables, with no coal, not much gas and a big lift in demand appeared first on RenewEconomy.
BloombergNEF
AUGUST 18, 2024
•BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook: Australia details how the country can still meet decarbonization targets and net-zero commitment by mid-century •$2.4 trillion investment and spending required for BNEF’s Net Zero Scenario, only 12% more than the baseline Economic Transition Scenario •290 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity installed by 2050, power demand grows 2.5-fold Sydney, 19 […] The post Urgent Scale-Up of Clean Technologies Needed to Keep Australia on Net-Zero Trajectory appeared
FuelCellsWorks
AUGUST 23, 2024
Last week, Energy Vault’s new microgrid storage tank for Pacific Gas and Electric Company was delivered to the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC). The CRC is a hybrid long-duration energy storage (LDES).
Canary Media
AUGUST 19, 2024
In vanguard markets like California, the demand for places to charge electric vehicles, and battery-powered big rigs in particular, is outstripping the pace at which charging depots are being built. The companies rolling out electric trucks are increasingly eager to close that gap.
Renew Economy
AUGUST 20, 2024
Updated: Federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek gives approval for first stage of Sun Cable, with enough solar and battery storage to provide 4 GW of continuous power to Darwin. The post Sun Cable: Plibersek approves first stage of world’s biggest solar and battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 22, 2024
The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Experts say the BBC has been “greenwashing” the image of companies and countries contributing to global emissions by trumpeting their dubious climate credentials and promoting their favoured solutions to the crisis.
FuelCellsWorks
AUGUST 23, 2024
On August 20, Huafeng Fuel Cell Co., Ltd. (FCTS) and United Fuel Cell System Research and Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (FCRD) officially commenced production at their new plant in the.
Canary Media
AUGUST 20, 2024
Cement is one of the most widely used materials in the world, but making it causes a lot of planet-warming carbon emissions.
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