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African Utility Week’s growth and success a reflection of confidence in continent’s energy and water sectors
“Everyone who was part of this year’s African Utility Week felt the same passion for the energy and water sectors on the continent and had the feeling that we are on the brink of enormous progress“, says Evan Schiff, event director of the African Utility Week conference and exhibition that took place in Cape Town and gathered a record 6445 attendees from 17-19 May. ...
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The Circular Economy In The Spotlight At Ecomondo And Key Energy: 116,131 Visitors At Rimini Expo Centre For The Italian Exhibition Group Event
The priority commitments for the Green and Circular economy of the European Commission were the highlights of expo contents and events at Ecomondo and Key Energy, which ended today at Rimini Expo Centre. Four days for sharing knowledge, technologies and strategies to ensure enterprises a leading role in the European scenario that aims at reducing the production of waste, and encouraging its ...
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MIT announces five-year plan for action on climate change
Original story at MIT News MIT is launching a multifaceted five-year plan aimed at fighting climate change, representing a new phase in the Institute’s commitment to an issue that, the plan says, “demands society’s urgent attention.” Citing “overwhelming” scientific evidence, “A Plan for Action on Climate Change” underscores the “risk of ...
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Pall highlights contamination control and water reclaim technologies at Intersolar 2011
Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, will showcase a new silane gas purification system and other contamination control products for the photovoltaic (PV) industry at Intersolar North America in San Francisco. The products are designed to help increase yield and reduce cost of ownership in solar cell manufacturing. Purification of the process ...
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CPUC Proposal Aims To Modernize State's Decarbonization Incentive Efforts
The California Public Utilities Commission, in ongoing actions to evolve decarbonization incentive efforts to meet the state's groundbreaking clean energy goals, recently (Dec 13) issued a proposal that would revise current Net Energy Metering (NEM) rules and create a Net Billing Tariff that balances the needs of the electric grid, the environment, and consumers. The proposal will be on the ...
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Alternative Energy News: Trace Metal Analysis as An Established Technique Drives Advances in Alternative Energy Materials
For the modern alternative energy field, qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing metal and heavy metal contaminants in battery components and semiconductor raw materials is of crucial importance. Aiming to play a role in the alternative energy industry, Alfa Chemistry recently demonstrated its trace metal analysis capability for clients worldwide. The laboratory technical team is highly ...
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CSIRO’s ‘sustainable cities’ science on show
Climate adapted buildings and sustainable cities are the focus of CSIRO research to be presented at the World Sustainable Building Conference (SB08) in Melbourne next week. ”CSIRO’s research in this field is of critical importance to Australia, where nine out of 10 Australians live in cities or the increasingly urban coastline,“ says CSIRO’s urban systems program leader, Dr Matthew Inman. ”The ...
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Heliogen Selected for U.S. Department of Energy Award to Demonstrate First-of-its-Kind Design for Decarbonizing Cement Manufacturing
Heliogen, Inc. (Heliogen) (NYSE: HLGN), a renewable energy technology company utilizing concentrated sunlight and thermal storage to decarbonize industry, today announced that it has been selected to receive a $4,100,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar-thermal power ...
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Aquatech Mexico, a strategic event featuring the latest trends, innovations and solutions for the mexican water industry
The 4th edition of Aquatech Mexico, the international B2B and B2G event for the water industry, will be held from 3 - 5 September 2019 at the World Trade Centre in Mexico City. Cooperation with the National Association of Water and Sanitation Utilities of Mexico (ANEAS) will strengthen what this international platform has to offer. The 2nd edition of the Aquatech Latam Awards for new ...
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Black & Veatch Analysis of Carbon-Neutrality Projects Informs Sacramento Municipal Utility District's 2030 Zero Carbon Plan
Zero-carbon technologies, including carbon capture, energy storage, hydrogen, solar and wind, will allow the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to achieve its goals of zero-carbon emissions in its electricity supply by 2030, finds a recent analysis by decarbonization solutions leader Black & Veatch.The 2030 Zero Carbon Plan was completed to help the public utility inform its ...
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Bangladesh: Minor Contributor to GHG Emissions, but Major Victim of Climate Change
Bangladesh is a small contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions as the country contributes 0.25% to global emissions. “Still, we need to exercise restraint and curb our emissions, and adapt to climate change,” according to Dr Zaidi Sattar, chairman of the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI). The global community has come to realize that in the 21st century, economic ...
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2016 SNO Conference Will Focus on Sustainable Nanotechnology Systems
The 2016 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) conference will be held November 10-12, 2016. The conference sessions will be organized around selected “systems,” and sessions will be populated with talks on applications, effects and implications, analytical methods, and lifecycle aspects of nanomaterials within each system. The aims are to identity where nanomaterials and ...
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SMUD and TEPCO Partnership Accelerates Transportation Electrification, Decarbonization
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, incorporated (TEPCO), Japan's largest electric utility, announced an agreement to collaborate on vehicle-grid integration technologies with the purpose of accelerating transportation electrification and decarbonization. "As SMUD pushes forward to become the first large utility in the nation to achieve ...
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US VC Investment in Cleantech Reaches $1.14 Billion in Q1 2011, a 54% Increase From Q1 2010
US venture capital (VC) investment in cleantech companies increased by 54% to $1.14 billion in Q1 2011 from $743.3 million in Q1 2010, despite a 13% decrease in deals year on year from 79 to 69, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The top 10 deals in Q1 2011 totaled $683.1 million, 60% of the total raised for the quarter and two deals ...
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2011 U.S. Venture Capital Investment in Cleantech Steady at $4.9 Billion Despite Tough Economy
BOSTON, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- US venture capital (VC) investment in cleantech companies reached $4.9 billion in 2011, flat in terms of deals and down 4.5% in terms of capital invested compared to 2010, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource. However, this represents a 29% increase from the $3.8 billion raised in 2009. In Q4 2011 VC ...
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Ecomondo mexico, IEG: a green economy platform in north america
From 26th to 28th April, at Expo Guadalajara, a new venue for the 2nd edition of the circular economy exhibition organised by Italian Exhibition Group and Deutsche Messe 18 Italian companies will be exhibiting, 13 in the collective organised by the Italian Trade Agency https://hfmexico.mx/ecomondo Guadalajara (Mexico)/Rimini 18th April 2023 – Mexico is getting ready to turn green ...
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Berkeley researchers find new route to nano self-assembly
If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex ...
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