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Scottish universities initiative to “drive the transition to net-zero electronics”

Envirotec Magazine

The Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre (REACT) was announced on 7 October, one of five new centres to share in £25m from a new UKRI programme intended to support the innovation necessary for net zero. Described as the UK’s first sustainable electronics centre, REACT aims to address both the environmental and economic challenges of achieving net zero in the electronics arena, while promoting the adoption of green technologies.

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Liebherr and Fortescue to expand zero-emission equipment partnership

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German-Swiss multinational equipment manufacturer Liebherr and Australia-headquartered metal mining company Fortescue have announced a deal for the development and supply of zero-emission technologies that, once they enter series production, will become available for mining companies worldwide. The partnership features a total of 475 zero-emission Liebherr machines that include 55 electric excavators, 60 battery-powered dozers, and approximately 360 autonomous T 264 trucks that will commence on-

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California now has more than 13GW of battery storage

Energy Storage News

Installed battery storage capacity in California has grown from just 500MW in 2018 to more than 13,300MW at the latest count.

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Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%

TechXplore

A team of engineers at AI inference technology company BitEnergy AI reports a method to reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95%. The group has published a paper describing their new technique on the arXiv preprint server.

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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.

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Massive global growth of renewables to 2030 predicted by IEA report

Envirotec Magazine

Renewables are on course to meet almost half of global electricity demand by the end of this decade, according to a new IEA report, with solar as the leading approach. Due to supportive policies and favourable economics, the world’s renewable power capacity is expected to surge over the rest of this decade, with global additions on course to roughly equal the current power capacity of China, the European Union, India and the United States combined, according to a new IEA report on 9 October.

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Stop pushing heat pumps or face major backlash, green energy magnate tells Labour

The Guardian: Energy

Party donor Dale Vince warns that urging homeowners to switch to clean-power technology risks political storm bigger than Ulez The government risks a huge political backlash if it keeps pushing the public to install heat pumps to replace their boilers, one of Britain’s leading green entrepreneurs has warned. Dale Vince , a major Labour donor and renewable energy advocate, called on Keir Starmer to rethink national programmes, championed by Boris Johnson , pushing the technology.

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New research reveals how large-scale adoption of electric vehicles can improve air quality and human health

TechXplore

A new study from the University of Toronto's Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits.

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Shredding is unappreciated microplastics source

Envirotec Magazine

Line for washing shredded PET plastic at a recycling facility. Australian researchers have identified a new, or previously overlooked, culprit in the release of microplastics into the environment: The shredding process used to recycle plastics. The group say they have also developed a preventative measure to reduce its impact on the environment. Professor Faisal Hai , Director of The University of Wollongong’s Strategic Water Infrastructure Lab, and Dr Michael Staplevan, who recently compl

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Arizona’s biggest battery storage system goes online to feed Meta data centre demand

Energy Storage News

Danish renewable energy company Ørsted and US utility Salt River Project (SRP) have confirmed that their 300MW solar-plus-storage project in Pinal County, Arizona, has commenced operations.

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Google inks nuclear deal for next-generation reactors

The Verge: Energy

Illustration: The Verge Google plans to buy electricity from next-generation nuclear reactors. It announced the deal yesterday, which it says is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase electricity from advanced small modular reactors (SMRs) that are still under development. Google inked the deal with engineering company Kairos Power, which plans to get its first SMR up and running by 2030.

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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

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Chalcogenide perovskite film generates electricity when squeezed or stressed

TechXplore

Imagine tires that charge a vehicle as it drives, streetlights powered by the rumble of traffic, or skyscrapers that generate electricity as the buildings naturally sway and shudder.

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A Big Potential Win for Childhood and Environmental Health

Andrew Winston

Some great news in childhood and environmental health: A new EPA rule requiring utilities to remove all lead water pipes in 10 years The industry says, unsurprisingly, it will cost a lot — the EPA estimates it will take about $45 billion over a decade. For fun, let’s double that and call it about $10 billion per year. That’s less than the $12B Americans spend on Halloween annually ($3.6B just on candy), and the $11B the US oil and gas industry spent just on exploration last yea

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Nikola’s Strategic Path Amid Layoffs and New Partnerships

Hydrogen Fuel News

Nikola’s (NKLA) 19th US Dealership Launches in California In Nikola news headlines today, the zero emission truck manufacturer has recently expanded its sales and service locations to nineteen across the United States. The latest addition is the “Next Generation Truck” (NGT) division of GTS Group in Fontana, Southern California. This new dealership will not only offer Nikola’s innovative trucks but also assist customers in accessing local, state, and federal incentives.

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Hithium launches desert-specific BESS solution, plans Saudi Arabia factory

Energy Storage News

Hithium has launched a battery storage solution for use in desert conditions and plans to build a 5GWh production plant in Saudi Arabia.

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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.

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Engineers develop new method for ultra-clean biofuel combustion

TechXplore

In new research published in the journal Fuel, Baylor University researchers with the Cornerstone Atomization and Combustion Lab (CAC) have unveiled a pioneering method for the efficient combustion of biofuels, using a revolutionary Swirl Burst (SB) injector to burn glycerol/methanol blends with near-zero emissions. This new technology enables ultra-clean combustion of fuels that are typically difficult to burn due to their high viscosity.

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Google Bets Big on Nuclear: Inks Deal with Kairos Power for 500-MW SMR Fleet to Power Data Centers

POWER Magazine

In a deal that marks the first corporate agreement to deploy multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) in the U.S., Kairos Power and Google have signed a Master Plant Development Agreement […] The post Google Bets Big on Nuclear: Inks Deal with Kairos Power for 500-MW SMR Fleet to Power Data Centers appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Vale and Green Energy Park partner on green hydrogen in Brazil

Hydrogen Fuel News

The companies are working together to examine production opportunities in South America Vale and integrated European H2 company Green Park Energy (GEP) have teamed up to look into the opportunities Brazil has to offer for the production of green hydrogen. The efforts are a component of Vale’s “Mega Hubs” initiative The “Mega Hubs” project at Vale is a strategy for the production of hot briquette iron (HBI) in addition to other steel-based products through the u

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Lack of regulation slowing down BESS growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Energy Storage News

A lack of regulation and policy regarding BESS is challenging the growth of the technology in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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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.

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Research team develops key n-type thermoelectric semiconductor technology to recycle waste heat

TechXplore

A research team has developed a bismuth telluride (Bi-Te) based thermoelectric material with artificially formed atomic-scale defects and proposed a solution to improve its properties in order to harness wasted thermal energy. This is a semiconductor technology applied to thermoelectric power generators that generate electricity by recycling waste heat below 200℃ from industrial and transportation sectors such as factories, automobiles, and ship engines.

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US DOE publishes series of geothermal heat pump case studies

ThinkGeoEnergy

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) has published 19 case studies of large-scale geothermal heat pump applications across the United States. The complete list of geothermal heat pump case studies can be accessed at the official GTO website. The case studies highlight the incredible versatility of geothermal heat pump applications.

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Hyundai Recalls Nexo Models Amidst Hydrogen Leak Concerns

Hydrogen Fuel News

Hyundai Recalling Nexo Models Due to TPRD Defect Hyundai Motor America announced a recall for certain 2019-2024 Nexo models due to a defect in the thermally activated pressure relief device (TPRD). This component, crucial for managing hydrogen gas pressure within the vehicle’s storage tank, may break, leading to a potential hydrogen gas leak. Such a leak poses a significant fire risk, especially when the vehicle is parked.

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Few BESS suppliers offering products for grid-forming, enduring BESS projects, developer says

Energy Storage News

While there is much more variety in the BESS supply landscape today, there are relatively few suppliers able to offer products for 'grid-forming, enduring infrastructure assets', developer and operator Dais Energy's CEO said.

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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?

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Excelsior, Proximal Partner on AI-Powered Asset Management

Solar Industry

Excelsior Energy Capital has entered into a multiyear partnership with Proximal Energy, with the aim of utilizing Proximal’s AI platform to optimize Excelsior’s portfolio of energy storage assets. Proximal’s platform is expected to introduce Excelsior to the provider’s Agentic Asset Management, a system powered by generative AI models that is meant to assist asset managers and O&M providers.

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BASF unveils new PPA housing material for IGBT semiconductors

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The world’s largest chemical producer, Germany’s BASF , has developed a polyphthalamide (PPA) for manufacturing housings of insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) semiconductors for next-generation power electronics. The Ultramid Advanced N3U41 G6 is designed to meet the growing demand for high-performance, reliable electronic components for EVs, as well as high-speed trains, smart manufacturing and renewable electricity generation.

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Pylons rule and rural beauty is up for sale. Why do those in power so hate the countryside? | Simon Jenkins

The Guardian: Energy

Ed Miliband seems happy to see the landscape blighted. We value townscape – everywhere else has to fend for itself Does Labour believe in beauty? The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, celebrated his arrival in office this summer by permitting three of the largest solar panel arrays in Britain. One, a Suffolk array covering nearly 2,800 acres, was described by a county councillor as “the poorest infrastructure application that I have ever dealt with”.

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Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups

TechCrunch: Climate

The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck. Startups are looking to make data centers more […] © 2024 TechCrunch.

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SOLARCYCLE Partners with Runergy Alabama as Glass Supplier and Recycling Partner

Solar Industry

Runergy Alabama has entered into a strategic partnership with SOLARCYCLE , in which SOLARCYCLE will be the company’s major glass supplier for its solar modules, as well as its dedicated recycling partner. Under the terms of the agreements, SOLARCYCLE is expected to provide at least 4 GW, or 30 million square meters of domestically manufactured glass, to Runergy Alabama over a 5-year period for use in Runergy’s bifacial solar modules.

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JET Charge participates in V2G study to support Australia’s grid during blackouts

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Australian EV charging infrastructure company JET Charge has joined a study to establish technology for discharging power from EVs into Australia’s national power grid. The study was led by the Australian National University (ANU) and the Realising Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services (REVS) project of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). The study monitored a fleet of 51 Nissan LEAF EVs installed across Canberra.

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'Age of Electricity' coming as fossil fuels set to peak: IEA

TechXplore

More than half of the world's electricity will be generated by low-emission sources before 2030 but the deployment of clean energy is "far from uniform" across the globe, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.

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New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

The Guardian: Energy

Oil majors’ conduct can constitute reckless endangerment due to fossil fuels’ affect on global heating, advocates claim New York state prosecutors could press criminal charges against big oil for its role in fueling hurricanes and other climate disasters, lawyers wrote in a new prosecution memorandum that has been endorsed by elected officials across the state.

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Huge New Jersey offshore wind farm project hurting from supply chain pain

Hydrogen Fuel News

The controversy surrounding the largest project of its nature in NJ isn’t its biggest problem Offshore wind farm projects planned for the waters off the shores of New Jersey have been plaguing the market in the state, but for one huge project, it’s not the biggest issue. Jersey shore residents have been arguing against the structures Communities from Brigantine and other beach areas have been speaking out against offshore wind farm initiatives in their areas at the same time that o

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West Virginia Solar Site Generates Clean Energy

Solar Industry

Mon Power and Potomac Edison have completed their second utility-scale solar site in West Virginia, with 14,000 solar panels producing 5.5 MW at the Rivesville site in Marion County. The new solar facility is situated on 27 acres of company-owned property along Morgan Ridge Road. The site had gone unused since the Rivesville Power Station was deactivated in 2012.

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