Science and Technology:
¶ “Wildlife Populations Decline By 73% In 50 Years: Study” • The average size of global wildlife populations has declined by 73% in 50 years, a study by the World Wildlife Fund found. The study, the 2024 Living Planet Report, monitored wildlife populations of 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles between 1970 and 2020. [ABC News]
Kingfisher (Vincent van Zalinge, Unsplash)
¶ “The Wave Energy Dam Is Beginning To Bust Wide Open” • The power of ocean waves has been beckoning renewable energy innovators since the early 2000s, and now their work is starting to pay off. So far, it has been modest demonstrations, but the Israeli startup Eco Wave Power is looking at a 400-MW wave energy opportunity in Taiwan. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Alfa Laval To Supply First Systems For Ammonia-Fueled Marine Vessels By End Of 2025” • Alfa Laval is working hard to help the marine industry meet net zero targets. The sector accounts for nearly 3% of global carbon emissions, and it is starting to see a new fuel landscape. Ammonia may become a future low-carbon fuel. [CleanTechnica]
Ammonia powered ships (Courtesy of Alfa Laval)
¶ “AI May Not Need Nuclear Power Feeding, New Algorithm Reduces Energy Use By 95%” • A research team at BitEnergy AI has developed a promising technique to drastically reduce AI’s energy use. The new method, known as Linear-Complexity Multiplication, optimizes the mathematical operations that run AI, so AI may not need nuclear power. [MSN]
World:
¶ “UK Seals £24 Billion In Green Project Investments” • The UK government welcomed over £24 billion of private investment for “pioneering” energy projects before the International Investment Summit on 14 October. It said the cash will boost clean energy across the nations and regions and represents “a huge vote of confidence in the UK.” [reNews]
Solar farm ( UK government via Flickr)
¶ “Global Emissions Will Peak In 2024, Claims DNV In Latest Report” • In a press release, international accredited registrar DNV said 2024 will be the year of peak emissions. DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook says energy-related emissions are at the cusp of a long period of decline for the first time since the start of the industrial revolution. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “FuturEnergy, SSE File 122-MW Irish Array Plans” • SSE Renewables and FuturEnergy Ireland have submitted a planning application for the Cummeennabuddoge wind farm in Ireland to An Bord Pleanala. The renewable energy project of up to 122 MW is located on a site 5 km north-west of Ballyvourney near the boundary of Counties Cork and Kerry. [reNews]
Wind turbine (FuturEnergy Ireland image)
¶ “Mexico’s New President Has A Plan: A Cheap Mexican EV For The Masses Called “Olinia”” • Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s new president, wants to bring Mexico into the 21st century, pivoting to tech, drones, semi-conductors, and EVs. She announced she’ll make sure that, by the end of her term, Mexico owns a locally designed and built, affordable EV. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “$1.5 Trillion Needed Yearly To Hit COP28 Targets” • A report found despite unprecedented renewable energy deployment in 2023, progress still falls short to triple renewables by 2030, with current national plans and targets set to deliver only half of the required number, and an investment of more than $1 trillion per year is needed to get back on track. [reNews]
Wind turbines (Ben Jessop, Pexels)
¶ “Britain Sets Out Funding Model For Renewable Energy Storage Projects” • The UK will offer developers of renewable energy storage projects, such as pumped hydro, a guaranteed minimum income to spur investment in technologies that help the country meet its climate targets. Britain aims to decarbonize its power sector by 2030. [MSN]
US:
¶ “Ørsted And SRP Open Largest Co-located Solar And Battery Storage Project On Salt River Project Power Grid” • Ørsted and Salt River Project opened the Eleven Mile Solar Center, a 300-MW solar project with a 300-MW, 1200-MWh battery energy storage system in Arizona. Ørsted is investing $20 billion in US energy capacity. [CleanTechnica]
Pinal County’s Eleven Mile Solar System (Ørsted image)
¶ “Hurricane Milton Damage Emerges After Storm Passes Into Atlantic Ocean” • The damage that emerged after Milton struck Florida’s west coast include loss of the roof of Tropicana Field in St Petersburg, a number of deaths of people at a senior living community in St Lucie County, and destruction of a 10,000-square-foot sheriff’s facility. [ABC News]
¶ “GM Offers Another Reason To Buy An Electric Vehicle, Just In Time For The Next Power Outage” • The GM Energy branch of GM has rolled out PowerBank. The basic elements are familiar to those who follow the news about electrification, with tie-ins for EVs. Home energy storage can pave the way to rooftop solar, and virtual power plants. [CleanTechnica]
GM Energy’s PowerBank (Courtesy of GM Energy)
¶ “Report Outlines Grid Plans For US Mid-Atlantic” • A report from The Brattle Group highlighted how the US Mid-Atlantic states have multiple avenues for developing critical transmission lines that they can act on. The study was commissioned by the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition. [reNews]
¶ “Advocacy Groups Pitch Solar Microgrids As New Orleans Power Backups” • The New Orleans City Council has voted to consider proposals for a distributed power grid across the city. Individual generator sources, such as solar PVs on a house, can be connected to each other to form a grid that gets its power from distributed sites. [Louisiana Illuminator]
Have a relaxingly unhurried day.
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