GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? Thu, 11/19/2020 - 01:30. 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. Jim Robbins. This summer, a large U.S.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The Oakland-based company working to wean itself off of natural gas as it has done with carbon-intensive electricity.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The increased use of natural gas in power generation has grown significantly, while at the same time, carbon intensity has fallen, new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows: “From 2016 to 2020, the carbon intensity of U.S. power generation fell 18 percent, driven by a shift in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:15. Companies and cities are increasingly adopting lower-carbon fleets — including trucks and buses that run off electricity, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas — according to a new report from the research team at Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA). . Katie Fehrenbacher.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Making natural gas renewable . Adam Aston.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

Energy Information Administration (EIA) has finally come around to the view that renewables will overtake natural gas in the country’s electricity mix. As recently as last year, the EIA forecast that natural gas would remain the country’s top source of electricity out to 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Amid a historic economic contraction, renewable resources grew to account for a fifth of electricity produced in 2020, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a coalition of clean energy, utility and natural gas companies. solar installations, at 16.5

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2024

ExxonMobil saw a “limited” role for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in fighting climate change, but still promoted the technology in its advertising campaigns, internal company documents show. She worked at the oil major from 2009 to 2020 and is involved in ongoing litigation with the company over her employment there.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 24, 2024

One area that has experience significant upheaval is the consumption patterns of coal, natural gas, and renewables. Natural gas consumption was also substantial at 23.3 By 2005, natural gas consumption stood at 22.7 Coal Natural Gas Renewables 2000 to 2023. Natural gas consumption reached 32.6

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GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2020

Watch for ADM to pioneer biofuels, more carbon capture projects. Wed, 05/13/2020 - 02:57. million MWh) came from natural gas. It’s more likely, instead, that the company will opt for multiple options that also include biogas, renewable natural gas and — potentially in the future — hydrogen. "We

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.?

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Using waste carbon feedstocks to produce chemicals. Wed, 05/27/2020 - 14:36. The extent to which new CCU technologies become commercially successful is based on multiple factors, including proximity of the consuming entity to the source of the waste carbon. Elizabeth R. Stakeholders and business models. But the speed of U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

The UK has been ranked 5th out of 15 countries in its deployment of low-carbon hydrogen as a fuel source, according to a new analysis of countries that have branded themselves as potential leaders in the new hydrogen economy. The low-carbon hydrogen index explores countries with a strong potential for production or consumption of the fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 00:30. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral. Jesse Klein.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

California has just 25 years to achieve its economywide carbon-neutrality target. Buildings account for about a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, so concerted efforts will be needed to squeeze carbon out of the sector, especially existing buildings. Wave of natural-gas bans.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SMUD is the first utility in the country to count avoided carbon emissions from the existing building stock as part of its progress on energy efficiency. The switch to "avoided carbon" is part of SMUD’s ambitious effort to accelerate decarbonization of its existing building stock. A holistic vision.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Evergy has become the latest utility to pledge to long-term carbon cuts even though the states it serves, Kansas and Missouri, aren’t demanding them. gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A seemingly significant milestone was confirmed on 16 February for the gas grids in Northern Ireland which will see the injection of biomethane into the SGN Natural Gas network this year through a unique collaboration with Granville Eco Park Ltd, part of the Bio Capital Group and based in Dungannon.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. million barrels a day in 2020, "erasing almost a decade of growth". per cent, the report said. of warming.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the previous article , I discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions. For 2020, the Review reported the largest decline in oil* consumption on record. million BPD in 2020. million BPD, and was the only country in the Top 10 to report an increase in oil consumption in 2020. A Record Decline in Oil Demand.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

A Record Decline In Carbon Emissions. Remained The World’s Top Oil Producer In 2020. Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. Renewable energy was the one category that bucked the global trend of declining energy consumption in 2020. In 2020, that had tripled to 31.7 Global hydropower consumption in 2020 was 38.2

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

Withers & Rogers, reviews five cleantech innovations to watch for in 2020. Accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, the current process for making cement is far from eco-friendly. At the same time, carbon dioxide is released and captured, alongside oxygen and hydrogen. Electrified cement.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By far the biggest grid edge story of 2020 was the continued commitment of U.S. utilities to midcentury decarbonization goals — or more pertinently, those utilities that aren’t already facing state-level mandates to eliminate their carbon footprints. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. energy accelerated in 2020 and the benefits will be felt for years to come.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. The data showed us that their carbon capture plans are not working at scale.” What CCS Projects Promise. And What They Deliver.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2022

Faced with falling natural gas prices and the growth in wind and solar energy, coal plants from Illinois to New Mexico closed their doors. In 2005, coal plants generated 2 trillion kilowatt-hours of American power; by 2020, that number had been cut by more than half. greenhouse gas emissions edged down. In 2020, U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In a bid to “boost the amount of hydrogen in the UK’s gas supply”, National Grid has signed up to trial a new kind of decarbonisation device developed by graphene technology firm Levidian (formerly Cambridge Nanosystems).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free. It projected that annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector would rise from 2,400 million to 3,000 million metric tons from 2005 to 2020. And 46 U.S.

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