Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Europe’s TSOs set out vision roadmap to 2025 Greening the grid is vital for energy transition says Schneider’s Lawrence “This concept is totally unique,” says Salla Saastamoinen, JRC Deputy Director-General. It will help them gauge the future impact of energy policies in every community across Europe.” Have you read?

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MAY 30, 2023

anything other than diesel-only) from August 2021 to December 2025, and half of these need to have zero-emission powertrains. The targets will increase to 33-65% in 2026, so diesel’s days in Europe are clearly numbered. Bad news: Europe still lags far behind China, where zero-emission buses took 91% of the market in 2022.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The geothermal heating and cooling system has been designed to entirely replace the use of natural gas by Schneider Electric Bulgaria in their smart factory. Schneider Electric Bulgaria , a subsidiary of the French energy management and automation company Schneider Electric, has invested EUR 1.8

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 18, 2024

The energy conservation measures include the installation of LED lighting, boiler plant and heating system upgrades, converting fuel sources from natural gas to electric heat pump systems, upgrading electrical distribution systems and installing a geothermal ground source heat pump system.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

The company has not stated where the meters have been deployed but the aim is to test the technology in the field during 2024, prior to a widescale rollout across Italy starting in 2025. The meter utilises thermo-mass-based technology for measurement of natural gas and methane or hydrogen blends up to 23%.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

million smart thermostats across Europe in 2022. The Task Force itself has reportedly met regularly to discuss options to reduce Europe’s demand for natural gas and has also met with key stakeholders to promote the deployment of heat pumps, smart thermostats, and energy demand response solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“This represents the largest number of commercial scale green hydrogen production projects announced at once anywhere in Europe, helping to place the country at the forefront of this emerging industry.” .” She also confirmed that suppliers will receive a guaranteed price from the government for the clean energy they supply.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 25, 2024

According to the current legal situation, it can be assumed that heating with natural gas will no longer be allowed from 2045. The conversion of natural gas-fired thermal power and heating plants to green hydrogen is also being considered. Drilling is expected to begin in early 2025.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hydrogen meters are under development and testing in the prospect of hydrogen blending into the gas distribution networks for supply to consumers. The reason for modifications, simply, is the different energy characteristics of hydrogen compared to natural gas. Its energy content is about only one-third that of natural gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” As Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has shut down its last nuclear power plants, its looking toward developing hydrogen infrastructure to help supply the power that so many of its industries desperately need. These projects would include repurposing existing gas lines and the building of new links.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 18, 2022

First, the variability in the gas composition will significantly increase due to the blending of natural gas with liquid natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, and biogas. This imposes the need for a measurement of the gas’s calorific value at or close to the point of consumption to achieve fair billing.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

Policy in Europe is showing just how impactful action at the international level can be, closing the cost gap between fossil- and low-carbon fuels for the first time.” Notes [1] EU ETS and FEUM come into effect from 1st January 2024 and 2025 respectively. [ii[ iii] Applicable to fleets operating in Europe only.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It also revealed tax breaks for natural gas that were not extended to coal. A few months later he was quoted saying the shutdown could be complete by 2025. Europe's coal phase out. Nuclear-heavy France has Europe's most aggressive coal phase out plans with a target year of 2022.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

Tessa Hillen, energy transition analyst at Stedin, discussed with us the Power to Gas project in Rozenburg , which is a collaboration between the Dutch DSO Stedin and the French DSO GRDF. Firstly, it aims to demonstrate that it is possible to produce natural gas from electricity with the method of electrolysis. Don’t you agree?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

Tessa Hillen, energy transition analyst at Stedin, discussed with us the Power to Gas project in Rozenburg , which is a collaboration between the Dutch DSO Stedin and the French DSO GRDF. Firstly, it aims to demonstrate that it is possible to produce natural gas from electricity with the method of electrolysis. Don’t you agree?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

McKinsey estimates that repurposed EV batteries could supply 200 gigawatt-hours of grid storage by 2030 and will cost 30 percent to 70 percent less than new batteries by 2025. Both natural gas and battery mineral components are finite. Natural gas is not only finite but in decline. It has no second or third life.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The report said some countries in Europe saw heat pump sales double in the first half of 2022 compared with the same period last year. 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

European policymakers have determined that hydrogen will be an essential tool to decarbonize industry and transport as Europe aims for a net-zero economy by 2050. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone. Read GTM's green hydrogen explainer here.). The 4-gigawatt project , led by U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

The figures include carbon emissions scenarios through 2040, plus annual solar, storage and wind forecasts through 2025. Batteries will become a key grid asset during the first half of the 2020s, and long-duration projects will start to displace diesel, oil and natural-gas plants. ERCOT’s Wild Summer Is Over.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the second special Enlit Europe 2023 edition, Nimbus and Globy – the new hydrogen and electricity smart meters, a new fast network deployment partnership and digitalising smart secondary substations are on the week’s technology radar. Following adoption in Europe, the next target is to have the solution adopted globally.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The drilling work is set to start by 2025 and the operation of the first loop is expected by 2026. The goal of the utility company is to phase out not just coal, but also natural gas.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. Currently, both provinces are planning for natural-gas-fired power to play a leading role in filling this gap. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

and Europe. In Europe, the retirement of aging plants is increasingly seen as a matter of national concern. is the support package secured for workers at utility PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant , California's last operating nuclear power plant that is scheduled for permanent closure in 2025. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The installed base of smart gas meters in Europe amounted to 45.9 million units per year during 2023-2025. Europe’s smart electricity meter penetration reaches 56% Putting smart meters and analytics at the centre of the energy transition. Smart gas meter communications. between 2021 and 2027, reaching 75.9

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A number of pundits were suggesting that the clean economic transition would need to take a backseat to energy security and that it would not yet be economically viable, pointing to increased coal use in Asia and Europe, soaring LNG prices, and predicting a deadly European winter without heat. by 2025/26 to make the math work.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Repsol's announcement underscores the pressure that oil and gas companies, and particularly those based in Europe, are under to acknowledge the long-term financial challenges of their carbon-intensive business models. gigawatts by 2025. The non-binding decarbonization goal includes interim targets for 2020 and 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 6, 2019

By 2025 it will invest half of its entire annual outlay — not just the energy budget — on climate action and sustainability. After efficiency comes decarbonization of the power sector, which in practice means phasing out its support for gas-fired generation. Two broad targets will inform its more detailed lending plans.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. Company profile. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The IPCC spotlighted the urgency of methane reductions in its Sixth Assessment Report, as the International Energy Agency emphasized the cost-effectiveness of solutions, and dozens of countries pledged to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas and other sectors in advance of COP 26. routine flaring.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

The publication of China’s 14 th five-year plan, covering 2021-2025, is expected this month. GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. It expects the economic recovery to drive further growth in 2021 before coal demand peaks this side of 2025. percent during 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

million EV charging points to be installed globally by 2025. China, North America and Europe will continue to lead electrification of transportation, with China capturing around half the market by 2025. had adopted some form of natural gas ban to either mandate or strongly encourage all-electric new construction.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Eneco, producer and supplier of natural gas, electricity and heat in the Netherlands, will extract heat from the surface water of the IJmeer lake, after which it will be upgraded to heat suitable for the heat network or stored in underground wells. Courtesy Eneco.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

The CCC's net zero pathways require that 400,000 heat pumps per year are installed by 2025, rising to over 900,000 per year by 2028, considerably more than the Ten Point Plan commitment. Decarbonisation of heat will be essential to deliver the 2050 target, given that 70 per cent of our heat is produced from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. Up to three onshore equivalents will boost import capacity further. Last week, U.S.

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