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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. million metric tons of hydrogen per year, with an estimated value of about $17.6 The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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Nuclear question: Are new avenues opening up for the UK's hydrogen roadmap?

Business Green

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. There may be on-going debates about how best to use hydrogen - should it be deployed to heat buildings, provide energy storage, decarbonise heavy industry, or fuel trains and planes?

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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered

Envirotec Magazine

Transport tidbits A freeze on fuel duty continued a long-standing policy of successive budgets (14, so far), with the 5p cut introduced in 2022 – to address rising fuel costs – also to be kept in place for another year. Crumbs of consolation were welcomed, such as the 25% boost to landfill tax. This brings the fund up to £1.1

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Global Briefing: EU set to push for more stretching 2030 climate target

Business Green

Plus Poland and South Korea coal-phase outs, Siemens Gamesa hydrogen project, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Poland accelerates coal phase out, pushes for nuclear and offshore wind. million, in addition to increasing the number of hydrogen vehicles from 8,000 to 200,000 over the coming years.

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Analysis highlights complex post-2030 grid challenges for UK

Smart Energy International

It shows that during more than half of the time across 2030 (53% of the hours in the year), the UK’s electricity grid is expected to have an oversupply of renewable and nuclear power. For comparison, it is expected that in 2022, the UK will experience an oversupply from these sources for just 6% of the hours. Required capacity.

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Germany hits acceleration button on hydrogen infrastructure development

Hydrogen Fuel News

Germany is striving to make the switch to clean energy and developing hydrogen infrastructure as quickly as possible is one of its goals to make the transition as fast as possible. The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. Most of Germany’s existing grid can transport hydrogen.

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Global Briefing: Coronavirus crisis will have 'negligible' impact on emissions without green recovery, study warns

Business Green

A new report published in the journal Scientific Reports has warned that extreme droughts are set to become much more frequent across central Europe in the coming decades as climate impacts escalate. Germany advances plans for green hydrogen hub. Study: China accounts for over 90 per cent of planned global coal power capacity.