Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. Currently vague plans must be quickly pinned down for improving home energy efficiency for the 60% of UK households that are owner-occupiers but not in fuel poverty.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Form Energy raised a $450M Series E for its cost-effective, multi-day energy-storage systems. American Battery Technology Company was awarded a $57M Department of Energy grant to build a $115M, first-of-kind commercial-scale facility to manufacture battery-grade lithium hydroxide from Nevada-based sedimentary resources.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2020

PM marks first year in Number 10 with support for raft of CCS, hydrogen, green construction, space and transport projects. Johnson said the UK now had a "huge opportunity to cement its place at the vanguard of green innovation, setting an example worldwide while growing the economy and creating new jobs".

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Tank-up of Tomorrow Transportation accounts for ~16% of global GHG emissions , and while passenger vehicles have likely gone the way of EVs, cleaning up the remaining 55% of hard-to-decarbonize aviation, heavy ground transport, and maritime shipping is still—well, hard! Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Cheap, abundant renewable energy reduces the value of CCS in all areas.”. by the end of the century. Renewables. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Latest round of reports on long-overdue energy independence plan suggest Number 10 and 11 continue to be at loggerheads over the cost of actions that could protect consumers from record energy bills.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. The power sector. Heat and Buildings Strategy.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The rich and powerful are swarming to Davos to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors using the most unequal and polluting form of transport: private jets," she said. Paris Climate Target, this annual private jet bonanza is a distasteful masterclass in hypocrisy.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. In new funds, energy transition infrastructure is bringing in the big bucks with Brookfield's record-breaking $28B infra fund and Antin's $1.2B

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

International post-crisis stimulus spending is likely to dwarf existing spending on climate change and strategies that deliver new carbon-intensive energy, transport, and industrial infrastructure projects would prove a "historic mistake", they warned.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

This morning sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) influential Global Energy Review 2021 and it makes for sobering reading. The report predicts that global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to surge by 1.5 Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The news follows criticism from the government’s own climate advisers that the country’s recently-announced net zero strategy excludes measures to tackle aviation growth, an increasing source of emissions. The PRI was working with investors to make the aviation sector “less carbon?intensive, carbon budget if left unchecked.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meta-Headlines of 2023 As our beloved industry matures, our hope for when climate tech grows up is for it to “become boring.” for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. Come on in, the water’s warm!

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

The energy crisis and its impact on the cost of living will loom large immediately, with ever more worrying predictions for where October's price cap might land. Industrial energy users are already under extreme pressure with costs but will also be faced with impacts caused by potential gas shortages in Europe in the colder winter months.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

Currently, only power plants emitting less than 250 grammes of CO2 per kilowatt-hour currently eligible for support under the bank's rules, but the EIB now intends to phase out all funding for fossil fuels before the end of the year. Hamburg coal power plant to be converted into mega-electrolyser for green hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Honeywell has teamed up with the DOEs National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to prototype and support the commercialization of a cartridge-based hydrogen storage solution for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). ” Hurst explained that “Today’s long-range drones are typically powered by internal combustion engines.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

(NASDQ: ADN) announced an agreement with Airbus for a joint benchmarking hydrogen technology project involving an optimized Ion Pair™ Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) for hydrogen fuel cells. The hydrogen technology project’s main focus is on the needs for future hydrogen-powered planes.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Drought conditions are causing saltwater to creep into the drinking water of communities along the Mississippi River, and the DOE puts $325M toward long-duration energy storage projects. Sunak also disbanded the home Energy Efficiency Taskforce , created earlier this year, which was designed to hasten home insulation and boiler upgrades.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It it is also clear that more investment is required, particularly in clean tech R&D, and - crucially - that far more transparency is needed around net zero policies to help build public support for the agenda and spur greener consumer behaviours.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The government, on top of an already bulging in-tray for 2021, is legally-required to respond to the CCC's recommendations by June next year, and many businesses leaders, politicians, experts and campaigners have called on the ministers to endorse the report as soon as possible, and to urgently get started on building a net zero emission economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. We need an industrial strategy that removes barriers to investment.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

2024 is here, and it’s full of promise for the climatetech industry. Circularity for critical metals and minerals Recommended to Axios’ Climate Deals by Clean Energy Ventures Carbon To Stone is developing a carbon mineralization technology coupled with high-value minerals and metals recovery.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Deliveries giant announces it is to team up with electric aviation pioneer Eviation to put zero emission planes into service. The fledgling electric aviation sector received another major vote of confidence this week, after DHL Express announced it has placed an order for 12 fully electric cargo planes.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Bringing together a raft of existing commitments made over the past year and a sprinkling of new targets and policies, the roadmap provides a 350-plus page deep-dive into how the government aims to deliver a more sustainable future for the transport, heating, power, building, and industrial sectors. Technology costs will fall.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!    Lots of spice for clean investment this week. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B of dollars put to work.   Manufacturing.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. airports can accommodate electrified aviation. Allume Energy , Transcend ). What We Love: Building Community Capacity. Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

  …We hope you didn’t miss our tax credit coverage ;) New year, new IRA guidance on hydrogen, domestic manufacturing, and SAFs.   In deals,   $2.2bn in electric cars, $800m for Octopus’ expansion, and $34m for EVs in India. Verdagy , Electric Hydrogen ).  Antora , Rondo Energy ).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. Drax engineers at work within the UK's biggest renewable power plant | Credit: Drax. Biomass wood pellet storage dome and conveyor system, Drax Power Station, North Yorkshire | Credit: Drax.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“We’re looking forward to partnering deeply with Cohort 9 companies and their community partners to help improve existing water, food, circular economy, energy and mobility systems.” ” And finally, the twin threats of a pandemic and economic calamity made this a year unlike any other in memory. Why do we love them?

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Africa is home to vast thermal, wind, solar, and hydro energy resources (some 60% of the world’s renewable energy potential ) as well as mineral deposits essential for the global energy transition.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

But the work of ensuring this unprecedented bundle of funding for clean energy actually leads to reduced emissions is just beginning. The current emissions of the power sector is 1.5 They would shut down investment in the industry, “effectively making it dead on arrival.” electricity still comes from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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