GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP will cut its oil and gas output by 40 percent by 2030 and increase its low-carbon investment tenfold by then, the company announced Tuesday as it begins to detail its 2050 net-zero strategy. BP's renewables target includes a 20-gigawatt goal by 2025, up from the 2.5 Carbon offsets. gigawatts it has today.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. Nonetheless, the long-term transition to low-carbon energy systems continues to see strong momentum and, in several respects, acceleration.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke Energy is the latest major utility to commit to a carbon-free future, with a plan to cut its emissions in half by 2030 and eliminate them completely by midcentury. It’s the first time Duke has pledged to zero out carbon-emitting resources from its fleet, albeit with a target deadline decades in the future.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Boiler manufacturers and Energy Networks Association call for sale of greener alternatives to fossil fuel boilers to be mandatory within five years. The government has been supporting the development of prototype hydrogen-ready boilers under the Hy4Heat project.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A regional cooperation for a greener beer brewing process and a greener regional gas network. This sustainable alternative for fossil natural gas will supply gas which is equivalent to the gas needs of approximately 700 households. A sustainable gas with the same properties as natural gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Just outside Delta, Utah, there is a small one-stoplight town that will soon be home to a massive underground battery that will use hydrogen fuel for storing excess energy. The idea is to make it possible to produce carbon-free energy that can be stored in caverns so that it can be cleanly used to generate electricity when it is needed.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

It is also better for everyone's wallet if we use less natural gas. According to Euroactiv, few countries are as reliant on gas to heat homes as the Netherlands. "The urgency of sustainability is great and the pace must be increased," said Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning, Hugo De Jonge. "It

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. By 2035, oil and gas will still meet around half of global energy demand, though coal consumption flatlines.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects. Burning all that gas could release 13.7

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. million by 2025 and 3 million by 2030. and the Netherlands. Jerry Brown in 2018.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Southern California Gas Co.,

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Next month, EDF plans to launch its MethaneSAT, a satellite that will track emissions of methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources. million metric tons of leaking methane a year.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Renewables are already ridiculously cheap, with the cheapest forms of solar energy already at less than half the price of fossil fuels. The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. People have yet to catch up on this fact. Source: BP Outlook 2018.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

Meanwhile, jobs in clean energy surpassed those in fossil fuels for the first time. In response to the federal government’s new plan to prepare workers for the energy transition , Premier Danielle Smith replied , “We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. liquefied natural gas (LNG). ING headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Henrik Poulsen took over as CEO at Ørsted in 2012, when it was still known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas. By 2025, Ørsted will be carbon-neutral. In 2017 Dong sold its last oil and gas assets to U.K. Dong produced just short of 200,000 barrels a day in 2012.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2023

Canada’s oil and gas lobby is right about one thing: There is indeed a bright future for Canadian energy. It’s just not in fossil fuels. In the inevitable net-zero 2050, Canadian jobs in the oil sands and oil production decline by 98 per cent compared with 2025, our research finds. Aside from the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. They also share a common solution. Canadians clearly see the benefits too.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” “Unlike blue hydrogen, which is formed using fossil fuels and capturing the carbon emissions, green hydrogen is made by using renewable energy to split water – helping provide cleaner fuel for energy intensive industries and transport.” Time is ticking for the future of our planet.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. CCS is carbon capture and storage.). Zero-C Hydrogen in a Circular Carbon Economy. Credit: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. kgH2 by 2030.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a first for the United Kingdom, wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources have generated more electricity than their fossil fuel counterparts of coal and natural gas. s first power plant was established in 1882, zero-carbon energy has finally generated more clean terawatt hours.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Costs of clean power A recent Clean Energy Canada report, A Renewables Powerhouse , looked at the costs of producing power from wind and solar in Alberta and Ontario compared to gas power. Solar power is already cheaper than natural gas power in Alberta and is on track to be 16% less expensive by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals. The world's largest oil companies have today announced a new target to reduce carbon intensity across the industry, in a bid to bring its upstream greenhouse gas emissions into line with the Paris Agreement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Russia eyes fossil fuel growth as it unveils 2030 climate goal. Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have stepped up his support of the Paris Agreement, signing a decree on Wednesday ordering the country's government to draw up plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, according to reports.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lead generation specialist Leads writes: Arguably, the biggest contributor to CO2 emissions is home heating and the use of fossil-fuelled boilers. Air-to-water heat pumps can heat the water used in a traditional central heating and hot water system, eliminating the need for a boiler (eliminating the associated carbon emissions).

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

We are determined to work with our partners to reduce the carbon footprint of wind turbines; together we can be the example of how an industry transforms its value chain to support the green transition and the critical move to a circular economy.". Nearly a third of LM Wind Power's carbon footprint comes from waste disposal.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

utilities have been grappling with the pressure to decarbonize their generation portfolios, seek early retirement of financially challenged and carbon-emitting coal-fired power plants, and in some cases to shift from competitive generation or fossil fuels businesses to regulated utility businesses with more stable revenue prospects.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As an alternative to landfill, which is due to be phased out, the GAYA chain is positioned as the channel of reference for making use of non-recyclable waste to produce a storable renewable gas, which can substitute for natural gas and as such has multiple end uses, in sectors such as sustainable mobility, industry and the tertiary sector.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Boiler manufacturers stake claim for future green heating market by calling for a phase-out of new fossil gas boilers from 2025. This price-promise from the 'big four' ensures that consumers will be able to access an affordable low carbon heat and hot water solution.".

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion Virginia’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), announced Friday, represents a potentially historic shift for the state’s largest utility, which has seen previous plans rejected by Virginia regulators for their over-reliance on fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure to be paid for by ratepayers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Global sales of heat pumps are set to hit record levels again this year, as demand for the low carbon technology soars in key markets around the world. There is no sign of the market slowing down as more grant schemes and policy measures such as bans on the installation of gas boilers in new homes come into effect.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

The gas comes from decomposing trash in landfills, methane-emitting microbes in rice paddies, and infamously from livestock burping and pooping. It also routinely escapes from oil and gas fields, pipelines, and even home appliances. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Progressive Energy says pilot project will provide evidence base to support switch from fossil fuel to hydrogen, as industry advances plans for UK's first hydrogen fuelled town. Andy Burnham, Metro Mayor for Greater Manchester, said the Rochdale pilot project would help establish the region as a leader in the UK's low-carbon economy.

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