Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

However, the report - titled Africa Energy Outlook 2022 - argues that it is entirely possible to both reverse this worrying trend and deliver energy access across the continent by 2030 while delivering on emissions reduction goals and enhancing climate resilience. "The

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. Alberta, long the heart of Canada’s oil and gas industry, is banking on hydrogen, too. “It

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 . Methane and Superfund. -$15 Part 1 (First 3 years or 2022-2024). Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. CLEAN HYDROGEN. Provides production tax credit for solar, wind and battery facilities until 2032.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Things happening in Québec: Hydro-Québec posts record $4.56-billion MW ], and the seventh-largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. Waterstof - Hydrogen in Rotterdam. Download Hydrogen Cost Tool.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. This explores what is needed to build a green hydrogen refinery. About 400,000 metric tonnes of grey hydrogen is used each year in Rotterdam.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Thereafter, as previous IPCC reports have indicated, global emissions must fall by 43 per cent by 2030, in addition to a reduction in methane emissions of around a third, from 2019 levels. Even if emissions are halved by 2030 and methane is cut by a third in the same timeframe, it is "almost inevitable" warming will rise above that 1.5C

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

California-based WattEV is building a network of charging hubs designed for electric trucks, incorporating solar generation, battery storage and active energy management. We’ve started construction, and are looking forward to having the site operational by the end of 2022. Charged : You’ve broken ground on your first facility.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. Louisiana Oilfield Site Restoration Commission meeting on April 21, 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

More than 100,000 ships over 100 gross tons sailed the seven seas in 2022. Technologies like hydrogen and batteries don’t have a high enough energy density to volumetrically power vessels. BioLNG can be used as a drop-in fuel replacement and due to the higher methane concentration, BioLNG is often a better burning fuel.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

The report said that during the final quarter of last year major developments in the EU, US, Canada, and Australia signaled an increase in policy ambition in support of clean power, low carbon industry, sustainable transport, and green building development, with efforts to tackle methane from oil, gas, and agriculture also beginning to emerge.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

A 2022 study by Ortiz et al. Another 2022 study by Luna and Nicholas showed that our existing energy system disproportionately endangers these same communities, where energy infrastructure is often older and more poorly maintained. A 2022 study by Barbose et al. A 2022 study by Barbose et al. Source: Barbose et al.,

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

With a 40% decrease in climate tech venture investments compared to the first six months of 2022—and growth-stage activity experiencing the greatest decline, even as early-stage deals increased —the data could indicate a reshuffling of the ecosystem. Happy Monday! ICYMI, our H1 2023 funding report dropped at the end of June.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

Climate tech companies that attracted substantial funding for their innovations in 2021 and 2022 are now reaching important proof points on the journey to commercial scale. Geologic hydrogen raises $91M and heating and cooling efficiency draws in $67M. Happy Monday! In deals this week, supply chain software scoops up $192M.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries have all followed this trajectory over the past two decades. LaBarge also produced small amounts of toxic hydrogen sulfide, which the company learned to bury back in the field along with some CO?. The first real commercial application, in the 1930s, came in equipment maintenance.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Second Life Batteries Get Serious (Panel Discussion): The ecosystem enabling organizations to tap used electric car batteries for stationary grid storage continues to mature and grow. These lightning talks will make the case for green hydrogen, nuclear and offshore wind. All access pass $99 until September 11, 2020.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Still, the company plans to double-down on CCS, making the underperforming technology an essential part of its billion-dollar blue hydrogen plans , which rely on fossil gas. A methane flare at an oil and gas site in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The statement that I want a 100% renewable energy system is not sufficient.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Environmental groups in the Climate Action Network recently called for COP26 to be postponed until 2022, arguing the talks risked unfairly locking out poorer nations and civil society. Coronavirus and a lack of vaccinations may make it impossible for many delegates to turn up, especially from Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Latin America.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

  Predictions Will climate tech venture / growth funding increase? ($) In 2022 total funding was $40B, in 2023 (as of end-November) the total is $28B. I don't think we'll get back to 2022 levels just yet, but the urgency is increasing and I think the number and commitment level of funders will go up next year.

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