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Electric buses are on a roll worldwide, thanks to their compelling economic and environmental benefits. SouthAmerica, which is rapidly urbanizing, heavily dependent on bus transit and plagued by air pollution, is emerging as a major market for e-buses. In 2018, 271 electric buses were delivered in Latin America.
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Patrick Collignon, former COO for Volvo Trucks North and SouthAmerica, has launched a startup called Trova Commercial Vehicles. The new company, which is located at a business incubation center in Fairlawn, Virginia, offers customized engineering and manufacturing expertise for electric trucks.
This company is a big deal in SouthAmerica with 132.5 The first, the Mantiqueira Conservation Project managed by The Nature Conservancy, is focused on a mountainous region that supplies electricity for cities including Sao Paolo, Campinas and Rio de Janeiro. million active users and 649.2 million items shipped during 2020.
Sebastien Farnaud, Professor of Bio-innovation and Enterprise, said: “Most of the world’s lithium lies under the Atacama Desert in SouthAmerica, where mining threatens local people and ecosystems. Bioleaching, on the other hand, can offer a more sustainable and effective solution to recycling electric car batteries.”.
Danfoss Editron has been selected as the official supplier for drivetrain systems that will power fully-electric trucks manufactured by Fábrica Nacional de Mobilidades (FNM) in Brazil. Danfoss Editron is providing the electric drivetrains to power the FNM 832 and FNM 833 models for commercial fleets.
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Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast and South Africa have exceptionally high-power densities, ideal for electricity generation. With densities over 2,500 watts per square meter, these regions are 2.5 times more energy-dense than 'excellent' wind resources.
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Once heat is extracted for re-use in thermal processes, compressed air is sent underground and stored in caverns where it can be converted to electricity as needed. The company’s project pipeline represents more than 6 GW and 65 GWh and is focused in North America, SouthAmerica and Australia.
The study shows that the greatest investment need is in Australia, to supply the Asian markets, with large production clusters also predicted in Chile (to supply SouthAmerica), California (to supply the Western USA.), 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants.
Pompano Beach, Florida-based Land ‘N’ Sea Distributing, a marine and recreational vehicle parts distributor, and Servientrega International, a Bogota, Colombia-based logistics company with operations in Miami, each signed a multi-year Ryder ChoiceLease agreement that will enable them to incorporate light-duty electric cargo vans into their fleets.
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The Netherlands comes in second with nearly 7GW; Ireland nearly 4GW; and China and Spain with 2GW each The recent growth in hydrogen projects follows significant efforts by governments across the world to promote the hydrogen industry.
The system can start running fairly quickly, both on the electrical side and the fluid plumbing side. The company is considering going beyond the business of leasing their technology, and possibly growing into owning and operating oilfields, power facilities, and selling electricity to the grid or directly to end-users through PPAs.
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Addressing the unseen challenges of the geothermal industry Seequent and its software products have a played an important role in the global geothermal industry, supporting more than half of the world’s geothermal electricity production and bringing clarity to the complex and unseen challenge of managing subsurface resources.
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Plug Power also recently announced the construction of a green hydrogen production facility and electric substation in the Western New York Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, joining the company’s existing plant in Tennessee.
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The solar plant is expected to cover all of the mine’s electric power needs during peak solar generation hours, and 65 percent of its overall electricity consumption. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.
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GeoMap allows users to explore and rank geothermal development opportunities utilizing factors like state and county boundaries, pollution point sources, transmission lines, heat and electricity demand, regulatory incentives, and techno-economic considerations.
Burning biomass for energy is not new, and traditionally has its problems , but Lignium Energy’s unique, cost-competitive technology employs a simple technique that doesn’t involve hard chemicals and needs little electricity. Lignium Energy says its technology can reduce a farm’s manure emissions by up to 68 percent.
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The US investment giant has switched to 100 per cent renewable electricity, cut emissions and bought offsets. Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. Both goals were established in 2016 with a target date of 2021.
UKEF confirmed it now had representatives in Africa, SouthAmerica, the Middle East, and Asia helping it identify projects with long-term and sustainable growth potential, adding it planned to "significantly increase" this network in 2021.
The Caribbean… as well as SouthAmerica and Central America are highly vulnerable in human terms. The company transports and distributes gas and electricity in several Latin American countries. We are affected in a way that is disproportionate to the responsibility of our communities in generating this emergency.” .”
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that while shifting towards electric vehicles remained key to the UK reaching its climate goals, using bioethanol in place of traditional petrol for existing cars also had a role to play.
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