Offshore wind power vast boondoggle that New York can no longer afford – NMY Post

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Offshore wind is the renewable-energy industry’s shiny new toy. Led by New York, seven Atlantic-coast states have now imposed mandates to expand offshore wind use over the next decade, with the Empire State last week soliciting bids for an additional 2,500 megawatts of offshore power, on top of the 1,700 megawatts procured previously.

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Brasil lanza una guía para promover la fotovoltaica en edificios públicos municipales – PV Magazine

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La publicación, desarrollada en colaboración con el Gobierno alemán, presenta los principales aspectos que deben considerarse en la elaboración de proyectos financiables de eficiencia energética y energía solar fotovoltaica, con énfasis en las escuelas y hospitales, con el fin de promover inversiones sostenibles en Brasil.

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Hydro-Quebec denies influencing Maine elections after spending to oppose anti-corridor vote – Bangor Daily News

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Hydro-Quebec, which has spent millions fighting a November referendum aimed at defeating its proposed $1 billion hydropower project with Central Maine Power, told Maine lawmakers Thursday that it is not trying to influence the results of elections.

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This hybrid offshore wind farm will be a green energy ‘supergroup’ – Electrek

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Oil giant Shell and Dutch utility Eneco have won a tender to build a super-hybrid offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. It will consist of two sites located 11.5 miles (18.5 km) off the west coast, near the town of Egmond aan Zee.

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Compañía de California anuncia un plan para introducir un nuevo sistema de energía limpia en el hogar – World Energy Trade

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Fourth Wave Energy, con sede en San José, California, ha anunciado que está preparando el lanzamiento de su nuevo sistema de energía limpia para hogares inteligentes que utiliza el sol y la tierra para calentar, enfriar y suministrar energía a los hogares.

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Florida podría ser el próximo estado en aprovechar la energía eólica – REVE

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A pesar de su ubicación en el sureste, un nuevo estudio muestra cómo Florida, con la ayuda de nuevas tecnologías, podría aprovechar la energía eólica.

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Águas de Portugal Group to go energy self-sustaining with 100% renewable power – WaterWorld

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The AdP – Águas de Portugal Group today set out its ZERO Energy Neutrality Program at an event that counted on the participation of João Pedro Matos Fernandes, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Inês dos Santos Costa, the Secretary of State for the Environment, and João Galamba, the Assistant Secretary of State and for Energy.

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¿Deberíamos poner una central nuclear en la Luna?, por Caroline Delbert – Esquire

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Los científicos del Laboratorio Nacional de Idaho del Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos (DoE) tienen un nuevo diseño para una planta de energía nuclear que dicen podría permitir a los humanos vivir más fácilmente en la Luna.

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What’s Holding Geothermal Energy Back?, by Irina Slav – Oil Price

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It’s abundant, and it’s emissions-free: the heat from the earth’s mantle that reaches well into the crust and gives deep drillers a headache occasionally is the new star on the renewables block. Nevertheless, oil and gas companies have been somewhat reluctant to embrace it.

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Qué puede enseñarnos la industria de la heroína sobre la energía solar, por Justin Rowlatt – BBC Mundo (UK)

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Si alguna vez has dudado sobre el poder de la energía solar como una tecnología transformadora, continúa leyendo. Esta es la historia de como la energía que brinda el Sol muestra su poderío en el ambiente más difícil posible.

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Republic Services aims to increase beneficial reuse of biogas – Biomass Magazine (USA)

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Republic Services Inc. released an annual sustainability report on July 22 that highlights the company’s renewable energy production and sets a goal to significantly increase the volume of biogas it sends to beneficial reuse by 2030.

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P&G reafirma su compromiso con la sostenibilidad con su adhesión a Lean & Green – Corresponsables (ESP)

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El objetivo de la iniciativa, impulsada por AECOC, es ayudar a compañías de todos los sectores a reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero asociadas a sus operaciones logísticas.

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Social at the Center of ESG, by Del Anderson and Olivia A. Albrecht – Pimco (UK)

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As we actively engage with bond issuers through this pandemic-driven economic crisis, we see five major social themes affecting creditworthiness and driving new social bond issuance.

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Searching for the missing link: Options for firm zero-carbon power – Atlantic Counsel (USA)

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Governments and electric utilities are rapidly embracing the imperative to decarbonize energy use. In the context of this effort, they have made substantial commitments to renewable energy generation and battery-based electricity storage through renewable portfolio standards and contractual commitments.

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NREL: New catalytic process produces diesel biofuel blendstock – Biomass Magazine (USA)

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A new single-phase catalyst that enables the conversion of renewable and waste carbon into sustainable diesel fuels has been developed through a unique collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and two U.S. Department of Energy consortia…

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Swiss Earthquake Service and ETH Zurich aim to make geothermal energy safer – Think Geoenergy (ICL)

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The Swiss Seismological Service (Earthquake Service) and ETH Zurich are working on making geothermal development safer using new software and the computing power of supercomputers.

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Honeywell to supply Ukraine’s first grid-scale battery storage system – Energy Storage (UK)

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US equipment manufacturer and engineering solutions company Honeywell has signed a contract to supply what is thought to be the Ukraine’s first large-scale battery energy storage system.

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Why wind and solar would offer the DRC and South Africa better energy deals than Inga – The Conversation (USA)

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Seven years ago the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) proposed the Inga 3 – a 4.8GW hydropower project on the Congo River – with great fanfare. Third in a series of dams that would form the Grand Inga complex on the Congo river, the project was touted as a solution…

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Vietnam: New Circular amending rules on biomass power projects and revised model biomass power purchase agreement (PPA) – Lexology

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam ("MOIT") recently issued Circular No. 161 dealing with the development of biomass power projects, including tariffs and a new model form of PPA (amending Circular No. 442).

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Geothermal Drilling Market Exclusive insight on Transformation 2028 – Cole of Duty (UK)

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The oil and gas industry has witnessed promising growth over the past decades. Despite global outburst against the toxicity of certain sites for oil exploration, the industry’s growth graph hasn’t suffered much restraint.

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Rains Complicate Ethiopian Hydro Dam Dispute – Power Magazine (USA)

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Ethiopia says it had reached a “major common understanding” with Egypt and Sudan related to the first filling and annual operation of the 6.4-GW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), paving the way to a “breakthrough agreement” in the contentious dispute that is primarily about use of the River Nile’s waters. 

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Elon Musk says Tesla Energy set to be as big as electric vehicle business – Recharge News

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Elon Musk said Tesla’s energy business will end up as big as its flagship automotive arm, as its Megapack utility-scale battery operation turned profitable.

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¿Qué puede hacer la agricultura por el desarrollo sostenible? – La Voz de Almería (ESP)

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En un contexto en el que las Naciones Unidas se han comprometido a adoptar los 17 objetivos de desarrollo sostenible y el acuerdo de París (COP21) para reducir las emisiones de efecto invernadero y el cambio climático, así como para proteger y restaurar el medio ambiente…

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Un jardín santafesino, el primero de Argentina en vender energía limpia – Mirador Provincial (ARG)

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Se trata del Jardín de Infantes N° 337 de San Carlos Sud, que desde mediados del 2018, vende la energía solar que produce a la EPE. Además desde abril de este año el Centro de Jubilados de esa localidad, pudo conectarse a la red interconectada de la provincia.

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La sostenibilidad como único futuro del emprendimiento – Tiempo de Negocios

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La crisis financiera de 2008 afectó a gran parte del planeta y asoló economías como la española, la griega o la irlandesa. Muchas de ellas han sabido recomponerse a base de atracción de talento, impulso de otras industrias como el turismo y el fomento de la cultura emprendedora.

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A Greener Way to Make Hydrogen Emerges in France – Bloomberg

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As the European Union launches a new push to make hydrogen one of the clean fuels of the future, two French industrial giants say they’ve found the right project to rapidly scale up the nascent industry.

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7 Alternative Energy Stocks With Massive Market Growth in the Coming Years – 24/7 Wall St (USA)

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Renewable sources accounted for more than half of new electricity generation infrastructure added in the first four months of 2020. More than 5 gigawatts (GW) of the 9.1 GW added through April were the result of new solar, wind, hydropower or biomass.

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Post-Pandemic, a Sustained, Essential Recovery Will Depend on Energy, by David Holt – Real Clear Energy

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As states attempt to slowly return to some degree of normalcy from COVID-19, the pandemic with its incalculable consequences clearly illuminates how essential it is to reinvigorate our economies and critical industries to allow us to better offset any future disruption.

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Love-hate relationship of solvent and water leads to better biomass breakup, by Kimberly A Askey – Phys.Org

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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering and supercomputing to better understand how an organic solvent and water work together to break down plant biomass, creating a pathway to significantly improve the production of renewable biofuels and bioproducts.

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Former Oil Execs To Launch New Hydrogen Investment Fund – Oil Price (UK)

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A former Shell executive and a veteran fund manager and former Exxon figure are launching a hydrogen-focused investment fund to great fanfare as governments the world over shift strategy to this clean fuel source that until now hasn't managed to break the investment barrier.

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Sustainability and Advanced Technologies to Disrupt Conventional Business Models in Building Construction – Yahoo! Finance (USA)

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Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Business Model Innovations in the Building Construction Industry, 2020, finds that the building construction value chain will shift from sequential (conventional value chain) to innovative business models with increased penetration of building construction technology.

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China's mega-dams are giving way to cheaper renewable energy – Al Jazeera (ARB)

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It's the beginning of the end for the era of mega-dam building in China. China Three Gorges Corp. last week turned on the first set of generators at the massive Wudongde hydropower plant, deep in the mountains of Yunnan province.

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Foreign firms flock to Australian renewable energy – Financial Review (AUT)

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Infigen's $856 million takeover by Spanish utility Iberdrola will leave just five of Australia's top 20 renewable energy developers in local hands, analysis by Rystad Energy shows.

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The Next Energy Battle: Renewables vs. Natural Gas, by Ivan Penn – The New York Times (USA)

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Dominion Energy, one of the nation’s largest utilities, in late June erected wind turbines off the Virginia coast — only the second such installation in the United States — as part of a big bet on renewable energy.

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Hydrogen to become gamechanger as large-scale source of cleaner power, reveals GlobalData – H2View

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Hydrogen is likely to play a crucial role in clean energy transition in sectors such as transportation, buildings and power generation. Interest in the use of hydrogen technology is increasing in a range of niche transport market segments, besides other applications.

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Las energías renovables alemanas alcanzan el 55,8% de la generación neta para el primer semestre de 2020 – World Energy Trade (ESP)

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La energía renovable representó el 55,8 por ciento de la generación neta de electricidad de Alemania durante el primer semestre de 2020, según las nuevas cifras publicadas el miércoles por el Instituto Fraunhofer para Sistemas de Energía Solar (ISE).

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Understanding and Refining Emissions Markets – Energy Institute at Haas

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After California’s May allowance auction settled at the minimum price and generated almost no revenues for the state, the long knives are again out in Sacramento for the state’s cap and trade program. What’s the point of a carbon market, some are asking, if price and revenue volatility make planning nearly impossible?

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Bridge to nowhere: does natural gas energy have a future?, by Heidi Vella – Power Technology

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As the cost of renewable energy falls and global economies set their sights on achieving net zero emissions targets, recent reports have found that up to $1tn of gas assets are at risk of being stranded. We find out more.

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Sydney da el paso a usar solo energía renovable con un ahorro de medio millón de dólares al año – Somos Eléctricos (ESP)

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Cada vez son más ciudades y países que detectan la importancia de dar un paso decisivo a la hora del consumo de energía y de esta forma además de que obtener un ahorro importante al año, supone un importante impacto positivo para el medio ambiente.

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New Room-Temperature Liquid-Metal Battery Could Be the Path to Powering the Future – UT News (USA)

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built a new type of battery that combines the many benefits of existing options while eliminating their key shortcomings and saving energy.

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flexJET project wins award at Ketbio Booster Conference – Renewable Energy News

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James Hygate, founder and CEO of Green Fuels Ltd, ‘virtually’ presented the project to the European biotech stakeholder community. More than 300 EU-funded biotech projects were screened for their potential for commercialisation.

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Energía renovable: Un parque solar en Jujuy empieza a generar – Economis (ARG)

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El parque solar Cauchari, de 300 Mw (megavatios), comenzará a inyectar energía renovable al sistema argentino de interconexión -a un costo de 60 dólares el megavatio-hora (MWh)-, en principio desde fines de este mes si supera las pruebas necesarias para el enlace.

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