DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This story is the sixth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. is California’s aggressive push toward a carbon-neutral future. Jim Robbins.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Yet while those transport sectors are advancing towards low-carbon solutions — with promising technologies cultivated by multilateral accords — industrial heat lacks any consensus plan and has a long to-do list to develop low-carbon alternatives. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The energy transition necessitates new low-carbon hydrogen facilities. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

This story is the fourth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe and published in partnership with Le Monde. Another 15 envisage retrofitting existing hydrogen plants with carbon capture, while the status of four remained undetermined. Credit: Sabrina Bedford.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. An extremely potent greenhouse gas, methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide in the short term.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But balancing a reduction in carbon emissions with the need for profit isn’t always easy. 1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% Marc McElhinney is Managing Director of GFD. on 2019 2 – the trend towards on-farm AD is set to continue.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the industry reckons with its role in a decarbonized future, advocates, utilities and regulators alike are calling for a carefully-managed transition that avoids costly long-term investments. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest World Energy Outlook (WEO) report finds that, as the world moves towards a more electrified and renewables-based energy system, which will be needed to prevent costs associated with potentially volatile fuel prices, investment in robust, digitalised grid systems will need follow suit.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Renewable carbon gases is a euphemism for biomass and hydrogen, among others.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

The key question we will have to answer is, will we see spending plans, policies and packages that support a low-carbon future or not? Maintain energy security : The need to meet rising energy demand and protect industry jobs means that fossil fuels will remain part of the global energy mix for some time to come.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Even in Indiana, whose electricity generation is dominated by coal, utility regulators rejected a proposed new gas plant , citing “the potential risk that customers could sometime in the future be saddled with an uneconomic investment” if the plant were built. In fact, recent research found that methane leaks in major U.S.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. In a climate conscious world, there is less demand for dirty gas.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Now with funding of $4.3

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The promise of a hydrogen economy to replace fossil fuels is commonly centered on the potential for ‘green hydrogen,’ generated via electrolysis of water with carbon-free electricity. But natural gas can also be converted to hydrogen without the carbon emissions, via another spectrum of the hydrogen palette.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This exquisite instrument will act as the “eye” of the satellite, allowing us to detect, pinpoint, and quantify point source emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Detecting methane from space An engineer prepares the imaging spectrometer instrument for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at JPL.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

Kelp can draw down carbon, restore the health of coastal ecosystems, nourish people and revive coastal economies. Demand has grown slowly, but will it boom? The first thing needed is demand. The kelp market is still young and demand has grown slowly and steadily. Kelp and carbon, what's the deal?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Businesses today need to know and understand their carbon footprint in order to make progress toward becoming a more sustainable and eco-friendly business. You can also use it to determine the amount of carbon offsets to purchase in order to get to carbon neutral. .

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I look forward to tapping into that desire and building on the strong foundation that Bob has built as we meet society’s demand for cleaner, better energy," he added. One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". Playing catch-up on renewables.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Growing demand for natural gas will start to be curbed in the coming years, but more needs to be done to meet net zero goals, IEA report warns. Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6 The annual increase in global demand for natural gas is teh expected to hit an average of 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. It's targeting €1 trillion of climate action and sustainability investments between 2021 and 2030. New era for gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As the world seeks to reduce its carbon footprint, hydrogen is being explored as a possible option for long-haul trucking. Taking the investment plunge Hydrogen as a vehicle fuel requires a technological investment regardless of deployment due to its unique storage and usage requirements.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. Others warm it.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Researchers will develop new ways to monitor carbon emissions from vast swathes of peatland after winning almost half a million pounds to develop new sensors that can be used in remote areas. Peatlands store around one-third of the world’s soil carbon, playing a vital role in reducing carbon emissions and combatting climate change.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our climate be like on Earth Day 2050?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The reforms, set out by the EU's executive body yesterday, have been designed to accelerate uptake of low carbon gases, such as hydrogen, that could replace fossil fuels and help deliver on the EU's goal of reducing emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 on 1990 levels.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The world's largest oil companies have today announced a new target to reduce carbon intensity across the industry, in a bid to bring its upstream greenhouse gas emissions into line with the Paris Agreement. Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. These industries now have a mandate to slash emissions even as fuel demands increase , and existing decarbonization solutions for lighter transportation aren’t up to snuff.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The EU anticipates investment of up to €470 billion (US$557B) into hydrogen production and infrastructure by 2050, with annual capital expenditure of US$200 billion. Conventionally, hydrogen has been produced via steam methane reforming (SMR) using natural gas as the feedstock.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. He added that energy demand is expected to continue growing, and thus there is a growing need to address the associated carbon emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Investment is starting to flow towards efforts to tackle one of the biggest clean energy challenges going - industrial heat. As consumer and corporate demand for renewables grew, the value of the RECs rose, thereby incenting new wind and solar projects. You may not know it, but you rely on industrial heat every day.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. Many of B.C.’s Adding further uncertainty to B.C.’s currently proposed or under construction.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Guter described the convention attendees as “climate leaders” who would chart a new course to ensure “that our future energy supply would be both secure and carbon free.” When combined with carbon capture and storage (CCS), ATR theoretically can capture more carbon dioxide at a lower cost. A hydrogen-powered car. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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