EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Keep climate on Congress’s agenda The House passed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels for some agencies and programs until January 19th, and others through February 2nd, 2024. The CR also extends the authorization of the Farm Bill until September 30th, 2024. Contact Sean Hackett via email.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. However, the biggest challenge for CCS-backed blue hydrogen could be keeping pace with the cost reductions green hydrogen makes en route to the 2024 and 2030 targets. Many details are left to fight over.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has filed a $3 billion plan for the years 2024-2027 towards its ongoing clean energy drive. Among proposals for the gas infrastructure is an acceleration of the replacement of ageing plastic natural gas pipelines to improve safety and reliability and reduce methane emissions.

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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. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

The digester, and another the dairy installed a few years later, reduced the size of open lagoons of manure that release methane into the atmosphere. But last year, Holsum Dairies changed course, upgraded the two digesters and began producing renewable natural gas for California’s burgeoning renewable fuels market.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 11, 2021

The stated aim is to make green hydrogen cost-competitive as a replacement fuel for methane (which is the largest component of natural gas). Design work on Oyster will begin now, with the project running through 2024. Pilots plan to answer islanded green hydrogen’s big questions.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Nimbus: Italgas’ new hydrogen-ready smart meter Italgas has unveiled its new hydrogen-ready smart gas meter under the name ‘Nimbus’, with the first 20,000 units going into the field by around year-end for testing during 2024 and wide-scale rollout across Italy to start in 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead. That trend is spreading in the Northwest.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Capturing and sequestering CO 2 from existing gas plants. LADWP’s latest planned 840 megawatt (MW) natural gas plant will run on 30 percent hydrogen on day one of its operation beginning in 2025, with plans to run it on 100 percent hydrogen by 2045.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”. Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Capturing and sequestering CO 2 from existing gas plants. LADWP’s latest planned 840 megawatt (MW) natural gas plant will run on 30 percent hydrogen on day one of its operation beginning in 2025, with plans to run it on 100 percent hydrogen by 2045.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

energy mix is heavily reliant on natural gas. has also become the world’s leading exporter of natural gas , building out extensive infrastructure to convert the fuel into a form that’s easier to store and transport — liquefied natural gas, or LNG — and ship it to markets in Europe.

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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. Dominion Energy.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dear Colleagues, The EDF team recently returned from COP28 , which brought important progress including a pledge by 50 oil and gas companies to cut methane emissions up to 80-90% (see EDF’s statement ) and the launch of the Dairy Methane Action Alliance. Methane rules are here! Methane rules are here!

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

While climate impacts intensify along the Gulf Coast, the Louisiana, Texas, and federal governments are poised to permit a growing number of proposed hydrogen manufacturing facilities equipped with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2022

The newly enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains the world’s first-ever fee on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas believed to be responsible for roughly 30 percent of global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. billion in financial incentives to clean up their methane.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

each year 2020-2023, and a higher than average allocation in years 2024-2035. $40 Direct Bill Assistance (share of total fee revenue and claimed credits). Average annual costs of worker support, 2020-35 (USD 2020) 12 Includes $12.5M 40 million. 120 million. Investment performance needed, 2026-2035 average ($/tCO 2 e, USD 2020). $41

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. Given our lack of knowledge on this specific topic, we cannot state with confidence the energy required to create a metric ton of synthetic fuel, whether it would be methane or diesel.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. It is the EU’s ambition to increase electrolyzer capacity six-fold to 6 GW by 2024, allowing the production of 1 million metric tons of hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 12, 2024

The company says that 70 per cent of its investments are in natural gas operations. Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas. Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of emissions of methane, a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” In 2022, American consumers spent $269 billion on natural gas supplies, up sharply from $150 billion in 2019, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Introducing a renewable natural gas mandate that requires 15% of natural gas consumption to be renewable. Capping oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and introducing five-year targets starting in 2025 to reduce emissions in line with a net-zero 2050. Working with the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Data on subsidies was provided by Oil Change International , which plans to launch a database of government support for CCS in 2024. For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. What CCS Projects Promise.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2024

Repeating Patterns Congressional investigators identified a similar pattern in industry responses to a 2019 decision by Andrew Wheeler , then the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Donald Trump, to roll back a rule designed to reduce methane emissions. Internally, BP agreed with Wheeler’s decision.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And because we can’t help ourselves, we then attempted to extrapolate the straight line between these divergent views of what’s to come for climate tech in 2024. Andrew Beebe , Obvious Ventures : Yes, 2024 will beat both 2023 and 2022. Potentially a fair number will go under in 2024, again as a lagging indicator.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

million metric tons of plastic each year once it opens in 2024. According to the Climate Accountability Institute , Chevron was the investor-owned company with the greatest contribution to the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide and methane emissions from 1965 – 2018.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 19, 2024

CERAWeek 2024 featured an address by Aramco CEO Amin Nasser in which he called a transition away from fossil fuels "a fantasy.": The post Aramco CEO Blasts Energy Transition “Fantasy” At CERAWeek 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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