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Rolls-Royce makes Duisburg container terminal climate-neutral with mtu hydrogen technology

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Rolls-Royce’s Power Systems business unit is supplying its latest mtu hydrogen technology for this purpose, in order to supply the future terminal with electrical energy and heat in a sustainable manner: mtu fuel cell solutions for electrical peak load coverage as well as mtu hydrogen heat and power generation station.

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Veolia completes refuse truck vehicle-to-grid trial in the UK – Charged EVs

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Veolia says it intends to expand the trial to a real-world pilot program using Westminster Council waste collection vehicles. This would allow it to provide the grid with a daily flexible power capacity of about 200 MW.

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thyssenkrupp’s water electrolysis technology qualified as primary control reserve in Germany; hydrogen production for the electricity market

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In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. Operators can now link their plants to the German electricity market via E.ON’s virtual power plant. With this we have achieved a further important goal.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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million in funding for 10 projects to advance technologies and processes for electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling and reuse. Supplying Refined Battery Materials into the United States Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain by Synergizing Lithium-ion Battery Recycling with Mine Waste Reclamation. Element Energy. UC San Diego.

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Rolls-Royce mtu Kinetic PowerPack approved for renewable diesel

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For HVO, waste vegetable and animal fats and used vegetable oils can be used as base materials, which are converted into hydrocarbons by means of a catalytic reaction with the addition of hydrogen. Power from the public grid drives the synchronous generator, which acts as an electric motor in this operating mode.

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Audi e-gas plant qualified to participate in balancing market to stabilize grid

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The Audi e-gas plant in the city of Werlte in Lower Saxony ( earlier post ) produces CO 2 neutral-fuel (synthetic methane from water, renewable electricity and CO 2 ); it now also contributes toward stabilizing the public power grid.

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Thomas Built Buses achieves zero-waste-to-landfill

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Thomas Built Buses, a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA), says it has become the first school bus manufacturer to achieve Zero-Waste-to-Landfill operations. Zero-Waste-to-Landfill means that everything received or produced by the company is used, reused, recycled or sold, and nothing is sent to the landfill.

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