Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

A flurry of funding rounds have underscored how many big corporates are keen to turbocharge the fledgling hydrogen market. Its pitch: the approach uses 80 per cent less electricity than electrolysis, another "clean" hydrogen approach. Electrolyser technology can generate large amounts of hydrogen cheaply. Molloy agrees. "We

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

If the federal and provincial governments live up to their climate commitments (namely on methane reduction, industrial carbon pricing, an emissions cap and ensuring that new LNG projects reach net zero on scope 1 and 2 emissions), over eight Site C’s worth of additional electricity would be required to electrify the six LNG projects in B.C.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

A new project exploring how hydrogen gas could be used to heat homes and deliver green energy will start performing tests from 2022, National Grid announced today. Costing £10m, the testing project will be delivered by DNV GL in partnership with Durham University and the University of Edinburgh.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LIVERPOOL – A senior executive at the UK’s largest gas distributor has been accused of lobbying to slow down climate action after pushing for the use of hydrogen in heating at a Labour Party conference panel on net zero. It is one of over 40 studies that find hydrogen should only ever play a “limited and complementary role” in heating.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

Hybrid vehicles are playing a strong role in Europe’s largest countries, and an unfortunate amount of investment is going to methane gas engines, especially in France, Spain and Italy. Good news: Hydrogen fuel cell buses made up only a tiny percentage of the buses bought in the quarter.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. It was included for the first time in 2022, when food also got its first ever mention. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 billion (13.3

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

I asked Otto Waterlander, Chief Commercial Officer at TES , how green hydrogen and green gas can both support European energy security in the face of the sanctions on Russia, while also taking a lead to support the EU meet its climate change obligations. The original plan was that by 2045 TES would supply 100% green hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Ofgem announces fresh funding awards for cutting-edge hydrogen gas network and advanced transmission technology projects. The project aims to help understand how transmission assets could be used to transport hydrogen in the future to heat homes and deliver green energy to industry. The £12.7m

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Pathways Alliance formed in June of 2022. Shell’s Quest project is a ‘blue hydrogen’ project in Alberta that generates hydrogen from natural gas and uses an on-site carbon capture capability to negate the otherwise carbon intensive process. published in the journal Energy Science and Engineering.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

He also suggested that the UK and UAE could collaborate more closely on the development of nuclear small modular reactors, and hydrogen – which critics say is being heavily pushed by the fossil fuel industry. Rees-Mogg held the meeting on 17 October 2022, during the short-lived tenure of former Prime Minister Liz Truss.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

The CEC is considering stakeholder proposals for a revision to state building code Title 24 that would ban natural gas for new buildings in the state starting in 2022. If taken up by the CEC, it would be the first such move by a state agency.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 1, 2024

You can leverage carbon fiber in various applications as a replacement for steel—think in transmission lines, in hydrogen-storage tanks—and these have gigaton-scale impact potentials.” “Enabling the widespread proliferation of carbon fiber is a large part of our vision. and fast-growing acrylamide market.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

The Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update takes an all-of-the-above approach to decarbonize California. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Brian McCall.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Canadian Hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel gained significant traction as a climate solution in 2022, with governments and industry pledging billions of dollars towards new development projects. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report, which looks to a 2030 energy system in which clean tech plays a significantly greater role than today, states how sheltering consumers from volatile fuel prices in 2022 cost governments $900 billion in emergency support.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 15, 2023

This includes EDF’s work on methane, emerging technologies such as hydrogen and CCS, decarbonizing electricity, and moving beyond gas and other fossil fuels. Build, refine, and adapt EDF’s EJ Strategic plan, first adopted by the EDF board in fall 2022, as it relates to EDF’s work on the global clean energy transition.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The University of Houston recently released a white paper describing high potential for hydrogen cars in urban areas, referring to them as both competitive and friendly to the environment as a gasoline and diesel vehicle alternative. In 2022, there were 5.5 Take our fun and engaging Hydrogen Quiz now!

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2022

Youth climate strike, May 20, 2022, Portland, Oregon. Critics cite that all of these concepts are expensive , and some, including renewable natural gas and blue hydrogen , may never prove to be economically competitive at the scale needed to replace gas across the entire residential and commercial buildings sector.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2021

Tax incentives for a number of clean energy sector industries, such as EV and battery manufacturing, renewable power, and green hydrogen, will also help ensure our best companies choose to stay here—rather than seeking a more generous playing field south of the border. million over four years, starting in 2022-23, with $77.9

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

California's new decarbonisation plan, Austria's windfall tax, and global methane reduction efforts. The new 100-page strategy sets out how India plans to rapidly expand its renewables capacity, build a major new green hydrogen industry, and boost forest cover, among a host of other measures. Together they are responsible for 3.4

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. ”  That leaves basically three options for decarb: electric planes, hydrogen planes, or cleaning up the fuel powering today’s fleet.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. Access the full Market Framework in the Sightline Climate platform. 

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a remarkable testament to the power of innovation, collaboration, and strategic investment, the United States has made a monumental leap from 10th to 2nd place in the Hydrogen Progress Index in just two years, positioning itself as a global leader in the hydrogen industry.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. Fuels are hydrocarbons, meaning they are long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms strung together (sometimes along with nitrogen or oxygen). These lower-carbon fuels are only as good as their ingredients.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Some have also pointed out that positioning hydrocarbons as necessary to enable supplies of hydrogen fuel is misleading, given hydrogen can be produced with zero emissions using renewable energy and electrolysers. — David Sheppard (@OilSheppard) March 14, 2022.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Starting with the final texts agreed at the summit, the Glasgow Climate Pact requests all nations to resubmit emissions reduction pledges in 2022 and, crucially, requires these pledges to be more ambitious and in line with the targets set in the Paris Agreement. The Glasgow Climate Pact is clear: we are moving away from fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Hydrogen is the future of net-zero — at least that is what the governments of Australia , the Netherlands , Canada , and the European Union believe. Nevertheless, examples of the energy industry’s overly optimistic hype on hydrogen abound. " [link] — Jason Kenney (@jkenney) April 27, 2022.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Air Products, a global hydrogen manufacturing company, is proposing to build a $4.5 billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026. Lake Maurepas at sunrise.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The German government has reportedly approved new procurement rules designed to boost demand for 'climate-friendly' products that will come into effect from January 2022. US and EU pursuing global methane deal. German government beefs up green procurement rules. India approves $3.5bn green vehicle incentive package.

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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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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. The post What is in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022? 100 billion. . . 15 billion.

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