COP28:
¶ “Fossil Fuel Industry Nearly Quadrupled Registrations At Climate Summit Since Last Year, Watchdog Report Says” • More than 2,400 people connected to the fossil fuel industry registered to attend the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. That’s nearly four times the number that signed up for last year’s climate gathering, according to an analysis. [CNN]
Entrance to COP 28 (UNCTAD, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
¶ “Climate Summit Leader Defends Controversial Comments” • Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP28 and oil executive, held a surprise news conference, in which he fiercely defended his commitment to climate science, after an increasing number of scientists and advocates expressed alarm at the comments and concern for the direction of the talks. [CNN]
¶ “Kamala Harris Announces New $3 Billion US Pledge To Global Climate Action At Dubai Summit” • Vice President Kamala Harris announced new funding for climate action at the COP28 summit in Dubai. She said the US would pledge another $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund, the main finance vehicle to help developing nations adapt to the climate crisis. [CNN]
Kamala Harris (Lorie Shaull, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
¶ “Al Gore And Science Take Center Stage On Day 5 Of COP28” • Al Gore may have got in the best zinger of COP28 so far when he told Reuters,” This industry is way more effective at capturing politicians than they are at capturing emissions. [They named] the CEO of one of the largest and least responsible oil companies in the world as head of the COP.” [CleanTechnica]
World:
¶ “India Builds Its Largest Renewable Energy Project In Salt Deserts” • Rising from the bare expanse of the large salt desert that separates India from Pakistan is what will likely be the world’s largest renewable energy project when completed three years from now. The Khavda renewable energy park will supply 30 GWh of electricity annually. [ABC News]
Gujarat (Tasmay and Shikha Rachhadia, Unsplash)
¶ “Global CO₂ Emissions Rise Through 2050 In Most IEO2023 Cases” • The US EIA said “Growing populations and incomes increase fossil fuel consumption and emissions, particularly in the industrial and electric power sectors.” This offsets emissions reductions from improved efficiency, lower carbon intensity of fuels, and growth in clean energy. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “BMW iX With ONE Battery Pack Drives 978 Km On Single Charge” • ONE (Our Next Energy), a battery company, said it had equipped a BMW iX with one of its Genesis battery packs. The car then drove for 978 km (608 miles) on a single charge, using the European WLTP testing standard. But this was no ordinary battery pack. [CleanTechnica]
BMW iX (Courtesy of Our Next Energy)
¶ “Australia’s Biggest Solar Farm To Supply Renewable Energy To Coles” • CleanCo has signed an agreement with Coles to supply its supermarkets in Queensland with power from Neoen’s recently completed 400-MW Western Downs Green Power Hub solar farm. The Western Downs Green Power Hub is the largest solar farm in Australia. [pv magazine Australia]
¶ “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Suffers Eighth Power Blackout” • The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost off-site power for the first time since May, and it had to rely on emergency diesel generators for nearly five hours at the weekend, prompting renewed safety concerns amid the on-going war. The 750-kV line has been restored. [World Nuclear News]
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant (IAEA image)
¶ “Sellafield Nuclear Site Hacked By Groups Linked To Russia And China” • The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China. The astonishing disclosure and its potential effects have been consistently covered up by senior staff at the vast nuclear waste and decommissioning site. [The Guardian]
US:
¶ “Autonomous Electric Truck Transports GE Appliances” • Einride is one of many startups that have been built on big goals regarding autonomous, electric transport. Most of them never get far and never make much of an impact. Einride got a deal actually putting its autonomous truck to work … in Selmer, Tennessee, of all places. [CleanTechnica]
Autonomous Electric Truck (Courtesy of Einride)
¶ “DOE: $13 Million to Connect More Puerto Rico Communities with Residential Solar And Battery Storage” • The DOE released a slate of community groups and nonprofits getting up to $13.85 million to help vulnerable Puerto Rican households get solar and battery storage and provide education and consumer protection services to residents. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “New York Developer Launches $1.2 Billion Renewable Energy Fund For USA” • Fresh off the launch of the New York Climate Exchange, New York City is becoming an epicenter of renewable energy development. Though space for new wind turbines and solar panels within the city is limited, the $1.2 billion fund will set up clean power assets across the US. [CleanTechnica]
New York wind project (Courtesy of energyRe)
¶ “Texas Goes Green: How Oil Country Became The Renewable Energy Leader” • If you had to guess which state in America was hands down producing the most green renewable energy, what would you guess? Well, it’s Texas. The state that epitomizes oil and gas and got rich powering the nation for decades is now the biggest producer of wind and solar. [PBS]
¶ “Native Americans Are Building Their Own Solar Farms” • Tribes struggled to tap into the billions in renewable energy incentives offered by the government. They’ve struggled to have any access to electricity. When Two Bears left politics in 2017, he formed Indigenized Energy, a native-led energy company that installs solar farms for tribal nations, free of charge. [BBC]
Have a stupendously edifying day.
geoharvey 