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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university. Toward the end of her studies in 2019, she got her big break. It wasn’t easy.

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ABB, Hydrogène de France jointly to manufacture megawatt-scale fuel cell systems capable of powering ocean-going vessels

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With the use of renewables to produce the hydrogen, the entire energy chain can be clean. The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency responsible for regulating shipping, has set a global target to cut annual emissions by at least 50% by 2050 from 2008 levels. —Damien Havard, CEO of HDF.

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Anellotech, IFPEN and Axens partner on bio-aromatics production from non-food biomass; targeting 2019 for industrial implementation

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Within the alliance, Anellotech will continue its research work at the Pearl River facility on the clean technology platform for inexpensively producing bio-based aromatics from renewable non-food biomass. The partners expect that the technology will be ready for industrial implementation in 2019. Biomass Biorefinery'

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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. Among the transportation-related actions for the proposed scenario are: VMT per capita reduced 12% below 2019 levels by 2030 and 22% below 2019 levels by 2045.

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EVs At 24.3% Share In France — BEVs Grow Volume 45% YoY

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Overall auto volume was 146,979 units, up 11% YoY, though remaining below 2017–2019 seasonal norms (~185,000). The auto market saw plugin EVs at 24.3% share in France in April 2024, growing from 21.1% year-on-year. Full electric volume was up by a strong 45% YoY, while plugin hybrid volume was flat. continued] The post EVs At 24.3%

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Solar PV, Wind, and Biofuel Markets Expand by 11.4% to $139.1B in Collective Global Revenues in 2009

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In 2009, combined global revenue for the three major clean-energy sectors—solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, and biofuels—grew by 11.4% over 2008, reaching $139.1 billion by 2019, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2010 report issued by Clean Edge Inc., Ron Pernick, Clean Edge co-founder and managing director.

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The Age of the Car is Gone, that of the SUV has succeeded

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The production-weighted annual carbon footprint of all domestic and imported SUVs has improved by an impressive 33 percent since its worst year, in 1995, but in 2019 the average U.S. The financial crisis of 2008 induced only a small dip and by 2010 SUVs made up nearly 30 percent of all sales and reached half of the market in 2020.

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