jueves, 9 de julio de 2020

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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lunes, 6 de julio de 2020

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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