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Over recent years, the EU has emphasized collaboration between industries and academia to create eco-friendly and profitable products, focusing on transforming industrial waste into valuable resources. Alufluor, a Swedish chemical company, produces aluminium fluoride and has partnered with the EU-funded iWAYS project to address its environmental challenges. The iWAYS initiative aims to reduce emissions, recycle materials, heat, and water. Through this collaboration, Alufluor intends to conserve about one-third of its water waste and decrease its biogas usage by 20%. The core technology introduced by iWAYS, the heat pipe condensing economiser (HPCE), facilitates heat, water, and material recovery. Alufluor is also implementing an integrated water treatment system to save approximately 60,000 m3/year of drinking water. The iWAYS project's innovations benefit various industries, ensuring sustainability without compromising economic growth.
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What are innovations along the hydrogen value chain?
The "Hydrogen Patents for a Clean Energy Future" report highlights hydrogen's role in sustainable energy. It details its growing importance, especially in Spain's renewable energy sector. The study covers increased hydrogen-related patent activities from 2011-2020, advancements in production technologies, and its diverse end-use applications. The report concludes with hydrogen's potential in the global energy transition.
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Stimulating Consumer Demand for Energy Efficiency Investments
The Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG) will soon publish its final report from an expert working group on accelerating consumer demand.
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An Uber for heat: How a new platform can help industries reuse excess heat and meet decarbonisation goals
Mafalda Silva is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She has participated and managed multiple projects concerning energy planning and sustainability. Silva has developed a heat and cold matching platform that determines the costs and benefits related to excess heat utilization routes for the industry and end users.
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Research and Development Funding: IT services to help municipalities transition towards Circular Economy
European cities, regional and national organisations have to transition towards Circular Economy. Only 10% of the cities have advanced on circular transition, as it is particularly complex. Municipalities and local businesses across Europe are facing four interlinked challenges.
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Race to Renewables: Win Prizes in Our Fast-Paced RE4Industry Quiz Challenge!
Next week sees the start of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2023 in Brussels. The RE4Industry project uses this flagship event to showcase its amazing results and has developed a fun-learn mobile quiz: 5 questions, 45 seconds, fastest 25 daily winner get a nice price.
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Transforming Europe’s Social Housing: Survey on Energy Efficient Refurbishment Strategies
SUPER-i survey is an online survey aimed at collecting insights on the current state of the energy-efficient refurbishment of social housing stocks in Europe. Results will identify areas for improvement, enable benchmarking of energy efficiency performance, and inform decision-making processes at various levels.
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On the road towards a European Common Energy Data Space
OneNet project delivered a report on Cross stakeholder Data Governance for Energy Data Exchange. It was concluded that the majority of the recommendations are yet to be addressed. The deliverable analyses the OneNet system architecture and functional approach from.
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‘Uber’-like platform to match heat supply and demand released
Until now, there was no efficient way for industries generating excess heat to provide it to nearby users who need it. Now the EMB3Rs platform, a tool that matches thermal energy sources with potential demand, offers an effective way for these heat sources and sinks to find each other.
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Riding the Green Wave: The Meteoric Rise of Sustainability-Linked Bonds
The market for sustainability-linked bonds hit the $100 billion mark in 2021. This growth rate is significantly faster than that of green bonds, which took almost six years to reach the same market size.
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