Environmental News Bits

JULY 8, 2024

Renewables but unjust? Critical restoration geography as a framework for addressing global renewable energy injustice. Energy Research & Social Science, 114, 103609.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The company will offer microgrids, hydrogen fuel cells, battery storage, and an energy management system as part of the new initiative. The post GM Unveils Energy Management, Technology Business appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2024

As Diné scholar Andrew Curley wrote in his recent book, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation, “colonialism is a shape-shifter.”

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Green Bang

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Here are the seven areas I am watching: 1 - Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) represent a significant advancement in nuclear technology, offering a promising solution to meet future energy needs sustainably. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to deploy SMRs worldwide, providing a stable, low-carbon energy source.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This document from DOE is intended to help Better Buildings, Better Plants partners navigate the renewable energy market by providing background on renewable technologies and their benefits, as well as a wide range of purchasing options available to organizations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MS: There is a lot happening on that front, but I’d like to focus on energy storage. To decarbonize the power grid, we’re going to need tons of renewable energy from sources such as solar and wind. We’re also going to need a significant amount of energy storage to save some of that renewable energy for later.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

Under Article 10, the Siting Board could elect not to apply local law if it found that the local requirement was unreasonably burdensome “in view of the existing technology or the needs of or costs to ratepayers whether located inside or outside of such municipality.”

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

trillion, and has targeted large investments in renewable energy. billion (€900 million) to the renewable energy investment firm, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). NBIM invests the revenue from the Scandinavian country’s oil and gas industry in global stocks, fixed income, real estate and renewable energy assets.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The company will offer microgrids, hydrogen fuel cells, battery storage, and an energy management system as part of the new initiative. The post GM Unveils Energy Management, Technology Business appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

From solar to wind and geothermal to hydro, the world of renewable energy options can be hard to navigate. Through Better Plants, DOE has developed a guidance document on renewable energy for industry.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

by Lisa Sheppard, Prairie Research Institute As renewable energy is poised to replace fossil fuels long term in Illinois, the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) is delving into a looming issue: what to do with solar modules, wind turbines, and electric vehicle batteries that are no longer used.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The report explores existing technology, policy, and finance conditions as well as reforms needed to enable global circularity in the mineral value chains of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines. Download the report.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 1, 2021

In its latest move to advance hydrogen trains, Siemens Mobility will begin testing liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology (LOHC) technology in partnership with Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energy. Read more ».

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

“This is the first time Argentina has put into numbers the transformation needed in its energy sector to deliver on the country’s climate pledges,” Juan Carlos Villalonga, a renewable energy consultant and former deputy in the national congress, told Diálogo Chino. Last October, the government relaunched a plan to invest US$1.4

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2021, Evoqua Water Technologies' total company-wide water reuse exceeded 55% — and the company is focused on mitigating climate and water risk. The post Evoqua Water Technologies Mitigates Climate And Water Risk Using Smart Tech appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen A joint project between the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Masdar, the innovative United Arab of Emirates (UAE) energy company, is planning to start a knowledge project outlining how to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. Photo credit: IRENA.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 1, 2023

Advent Technologies has announced a collaboration with Safran Power Units to develop HT-PEM Fuel Cell Technology.

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2021, Evoqua Water Technologies' total company-wide water reuse exceeded 55% — and the company is focused on mitigating climate and water risk. The post Evoqua Water Technologies Mitigates Climate And Water Risk Using Smart Tech appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There’s a valley in rural southwest Utah that’s become a hub for renewable energy. From the surface, Fervo … Continue reading Petroleum drilling technology is now making carbon-free power Dozens of tall white wind turbines whoosh up in the sky. A sea of solar panels glistens in the distance.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. But the agency was caught skewing information , suppressing modeling that supported renewable energy options and showed that their use would actually reduce consumers’ costs. .

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Environmental Leader

MARCH 7, 2022

Akamai Technologies made strides in reaching its 2030 sustainability goals with progress in renewable energy and emissions reductions. The post Akamai Makes Progress on Renewable Energy, Efficiency and Reducing Platform Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. Many countries prefer the easier option of electrification through renewable energy sources.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Investments in renewable energy and low-carbon technologies are growing at unparalleled levels globally. Despite the pandemic’s challenges, last year saw one of the world’s largest-ever annual increases in renewable power generation. Sales and distribution.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The program seeks to slash prices, enhance technology development for the renewable energy source. The post DOE Seeks to Tap Into US’s Geothermal Energy Potential appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. This could help to prevent the placement of MRE technologies on vulnerable sites.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Brazil-based aviation and aerospace company Embraer unveiled today the Energia Family of aircraft concepts using renewable energy propulsion technologies, aimed at helping the aviation industry achieve its goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Read the full story at ESG Today.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Record adoption of clean energy technologies over the past two years keeps targets to avoid global warming above 1.5 ̊C C within reach, according to a report from the International Energy Agency

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

by Scott Shackelford, Indiana University; Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University; David Bosco, Indiana University, and Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The program seeks to slash prices, enhance technology development for the renewable energy source. The post DOE Seeks to Tap Into US’s Geothermal Energy Potential appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 27, 2022

From solar to wind and geothermal to hydro, the world of renewable energy options can be hard to navigate. Through Better Plants, DOE has developed a guidance document on renewable energy for industry.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2022

(Credit: Canva) The 2022 Standard Scenarios, a collection of forward-looking scenarios for the electricity sector in the United States, have been made available by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The post NREL Releases Eighth Edition of Annual Standard Scenarios appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

This is different from long-term storage, which refers to the amount of time a system can store energy before discharging it. As large amounts of wind and solar resources are connected to the grid, long-duration energy storage could prevent curtailment of renewable energy sources resources during periods of excess generation.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The economic, societal and environmental benefits of renewable energy are numerous – It is available in abundance, cheaper and a healthier option for us and our planet. Read the full story from the United Nations.

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Green Bang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The University of Texas at Dallas announced that it will lead a new initiative funded by the Department of Defense (DOD), receiving $30 million over three years to develop and commercialize advanced battery technologies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The end of the year can be a fine time for taking stock, and that’s true in the energy space just as in our personal lives. Lots of stories of clean energy progress caught my eye for 2021. Here are five of them–about renewable energy technologies and markets that seem particularly worthy of note and […].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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