Smart Energy International

APRIL 4, 2024

Smart Energy Solutions (SMS) has begun laboratory testing of Interoperable Demand Side Response (IDSR) solutions as part of the UK Government’s Flexibility Innovation Programme. An estimated 30GW of low-carbon flexible assets are projected to be deployed across the grid by 2030 (representing a three-fold increase on today’s levels).

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

We are not yet where we need to be to fully exploit the benefits of demand side flexibility, smartEn reports in its 2021 Market Monitor. The new annual update reviews 30 European markets to find that participation of demand side flexibility is developing in the region but significant progress is still required. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In Europe, national electricity markets are right now being challenged by commodity price trends, weak electricity demand, nuclear and coal phase-outs and increasing contributions from wind and solar. Renewables are central to regional and national energy policies in Europe. The role of dispatchable demand.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Back in February, the novel coronavirus was something happening in China, and the first cases in Europe had only just been identified. Of the €68 billion of organic investment, half will be allocated to renewables, catapulting the firm’s installed renewable capacity to 60 gigawatts by 2025 and 95 GW by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 24, 2024

The remote reading of water meters is a key tool for managing water supplies on both the supply and demand sides, with the potential to enable early leak detection and consumption monitoring by consumers.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

PepsiCo Europe has today announced a new ambition to replace all virgin plastics used in its crisp and chip bags with 100 per cent recycled or renewable plastic by 2030. Company announces goal to ensure Walkers, Doritos, and Lay's crisps use recycled or renewable plastic packaging by end of the decade.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Aviation biofuels could account for up to five per cent of global jet fuel demand before the end of the decade, up from less than 0.1 But analyst warns of 'significant hurdles' in scaling nascent sustainable aviation fuel market, including scarcity of supply and competition for feedstock with renewable diesel market. billion gallons - or 7.5

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 16, 2022

The European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) assesses Europe’s storage needs around 200GW by 2030 and 600GW by 2050. Current market trajectories for storage will fail to meet these requirements of the energy system by 2030 if urgent measures to boost deployment are not taken now,” the organisation states in its report.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

2024, making Germany a pioneer country for this type of tax in Europe. To avoid this taxation, they are now demanding that relevant waste codes be established for all waste covered by the BEHG regulations in the future. A new, national CO2 tax will be introduced in the German market from January 1.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 3, 2020

Far from depressing the market, the response to the COVID-19 outbreak looks set to accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles across Europe. Murray says there are currently 2 million EVs on Europe’s roads at present but this figure is forecast to balloon to 40 million by 2030. charging infrastructure from now to 2030.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The energy landscape is in a period of major turmoil and, while there is positive evidence of clean energy progress, for our net zero and climate targets to be reached, policy action and doubling of global investment to $4 trillion by 2030 will be needed. Demand for cooling needs to be a focus for policy makers, as it makes the second?largest

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The EU will increase its 2030 emission reduction target to “at least 55 percent” up from 40 percent, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission confirmed Wednesday. In terms of total energy demand, renewables will have to reach 38-40 percent compared to the 33 percent expected under current policies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chemically-recycled plastic could be in high demand by the end of this decade, major companies predict. A dozen of the world's largest consumer goods companies, including Mars, PepsiCo, Unilever, and Danone, have joined forces to signal that there is significant and growing demand for chemically recycled plastic from corporates across Europe.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Demand 74

Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 22, 2022

smartEn’s new ancillary services map indicates that interest remains in Europe in opening different markets to demand side flexibility but progress is mixed. Demand side flexibility in Europe: 130-164GW by 2030 Demand-side flexibility and system efficiency paramount for net zero goals – SmartEn boss.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Countries across Europe have been facing increasing challenges with the demand to wind down fossil fuel generation and replace it with growing shares of renewables and other clean energy. Demand side flexibility in Europe: 130-164GW by 2030 Horizon Europe: Five flexibility projects. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google on Monday pledged that by 2030 it will run its entire business on carbon-free energy — every hour of every day of the year. Europe and Chile. Google's supply, demand and policy approach. senior corporate campaigner for Greenpeace, which tracks corporate climate commitments.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The second, known as the Sustainable Use Regulation, or SUR, would see pesticide use halved by 2030. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. million (£3.7

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

This raises several questions which must be discussed together including: How can we prepare the electricity grid for such a structural change in both supply and demand of electricity? Demand side measures. Electricity supply and demand need to be perfectly balanced for the safe delivery of electricity. Image: GridBeyond.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest BloombergNEF report predicts booming demand throughout the 2020s should see global energy storage market hit one terawatt hour by the end of the decade. The US and China are tipped to dominate the global market, accounting for over half of global storage installations by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

New analysis from LCP has revealed that the UK Government’s recently released energy strategy will boost efforts to decarbonise power supply but create complex challenges in balancing the supply and demand of electricity across the grid from 2030 onwards. Excessive energy. Image courtesy of LCP.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

More from IRENA Innovation Week: Energy storage needs greater innovation say Europe and Africa commissioners California energy agenda “California’s climate agenda is based on rapid electrification. With renewables we need to start forecasting supply and match demand to it.”

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Charged

APRIL 2, 2021

Volkswagen and bp have announced a partnership to deploy DC fast charging facilities at bp and Aral retail sites in the UK, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Oil giant bp aims to grow its public charging network to over 70,000 charging points worldwide by 2030. That is about 1/3 of the estimated ultra-fast charging demand in 2025.”.

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Europe Retail Electric vehicle Demand 91

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A major new Horizon Europe project is seeking to reduce the release of a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25,000 times higher than CO2. Electrification lies at the heart of decarbonisation and we will need expanded electrical networks to meet growing electricity demand from industry, transport and buildings.” “But

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Europe Global warming Technology Demand 147

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. The targets are steep: to cut pesticides by 50 percent and fertilisers by 20 percent by 2030.

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 97

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Europe’s gas transmission system operators (TSOs) are planning to make substantial investments and can point to tangible progress on projects for the European hydrogen backbone network. Join Enlit Europe in Paris. Don’t miss out on the most important energy transition conversations. Register now

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Shell this afternoon began operations of Europe's largest PEM hydrogen electrolyser at its Energy and Chemicals Park in south west Germany, pledging to deliver up to 1,300 tonnes of green hydrogen a year from the trail-blazing facility. Today, 30 per cent of German demand for hydrogen already comes from North Rhine-Westphalia's industry.

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Europe Hydrogen Natural gas Carbon-neutral 85

Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

Sweden's state-owned mining firm LKAB says it has discovered major deposits of rare-earth oxides in the north of the country, prompting hopes of boosting Europe's supply chain security for a host of green technologies.

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Europe Electric vehicle Politics Technology 53

Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The European energy giant said it was "massively stepping up the pace" of its clean energy transition plans by funnelling €5bn each year towards offshore and onshore wind, solar, batteries, flexible generation, and hydrogen project, in a bid to double its clean energy portfolio from 25GW to 50GW across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2019

COPENHAGEN — Demands for local content and manufacturing are growing louder in many offshore wind markets, and that includes the world's most advanced and locally supplied market: Europe. offshore wind farms from a target of 50 percent today to 60 percent by 2030. Germany and the Benelux nations. Danielle Lane, U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 16, 2020

billion from its oil and gas portfolio, while baking in a new carbon price forecast of $100 per ton by 2030 — up from the $40 figure it factors in now. Europe's oil super majors — BP, Shell, Total and Eni — have made a series of investments across the low-carbon sector over the past half-decade.

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Carbon Energy Energy Demand 130

Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

The European aluminium industry has set itself a new target to achieve 'full circularity' by 2030 as part of a major new circular economy action plan. Our end goal is to achieve the full potential of aluminium circularity by 2030 and we won't stop until we've achieved it.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But production levels can still increase substantially by 2030 if all announced projects are realised and greater efforts are made on encouraging uptake. If all announced projects are realised, a total of 420GW could be achieved by 2030, an increase of 75% compared to the IEA’s 2022 review. “We of total hydrogen demand.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

And right now, there isn’t enough demand for decarbonized steel for manufacturers to justify investing several millions of dollars into lower-carbon steel facilities. But there has been little demand because the end product is so expensive. Members include Lendlease, Mace Group, Multiplex Construction Europe and WSP UK.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The IEA’s recent report on Electricity grids and secure energy transitions presenting a global stocktake came under the spotlight at Enlit Europe 2023. The grids are the backbone of the energy transition,” said Marianne Laigneau, CEO of Enedis, in the opening keynote at Enlit Europe 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

” Now its next milestone could be as one of the first 100-megawatt scale green hydrogen sites in Europe. gigawatts, the hard coal plant will likely prove to be one of the final five new coal plants built in Western Europe, according to data from Beyond Coal. Demand is king for green hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The firm this week unveiled a sweeping new investment strategy that revealed plans to invest €160bn directly in new low carbon infrastructure, while catalysing a further €30bn of investment from other parties, bringing total spending to €190bn by 2030.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 31, 2023

Combined with an onsite electrolyser capacity of one GW and an industrial-scale ammonia cracker, the Wilhelmshaven hub could provide 10 percent to 20 percent of Germany’s hydrogen demand in 2030.

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