Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) is proposing a major green hydrogen infrastructure build for the Los Angeles region. SocalGas to monitor distribution network with hydrogen drones A gigawatt-scale green hydrogen hub planned for Texas Gulf Coast. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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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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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report was released on the eve of the WEF's annual Davis Summit, which kicks off next week and is again expected to see hundreds of business and political leaders jet into the Swiss resort. Most notably, the French government is pursuing plans to ban commercial domestic flights where the rail network provides a viable alternative.

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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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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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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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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

CI is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emitted per unit of energy provided by that fuel, taking into account the GHG emissions over the lifecycle of the fuel — including production, transportation to market, and consumption. The LCFS Program sets annual CI standards that decline over time. emphasis added) [4].

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

This new Office should take ownership of delivering the net zero agenda with oversight from both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working closely with devolved governments, the National Audit Office, and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), among other agencies.

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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. The space funding programme is also aimed at supporting innovative AI technologies and 5G communications.

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Also worth mentioning on the corporate front is the purchases and support for Sustainable Aviation Fuel from airlines, particularly United Airlines. Tangible research, development, and demonstration support for new energy technology was also included in the infrastructure bill.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 🏦 The Loans Program Office kept busy. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. 💪 Climate joined the labor movement.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. energy sector pathway". energy sector pathway". pathways". climate scenarios, it stresses. climate scenarios, it stresses.

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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. work with business to deliver cost reductions for clean technologies.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Political and business leaders have certainly talked a good game in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. This morning sees the publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) influential Global Energy Review 2021 and it makes for sobering reading. Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5

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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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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

Galvanising business investment behind the UK's climate goals should be a top priority for the new Prime Minister, argues the CBI's Tom Thackray. And with the wide-ranging disruption caused by our recent summer heatwave fresh in their minds, businesses will be looking for a bold and ambitious agenda to emerge.

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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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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, intensive, through?investment

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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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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). The year-long partnership will focus on an H2 storage solution for UAVs.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

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

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. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all of the reaction from the green economy.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

Research published by the coalition - which is encompasses major trade groups and energy companies - warned that investment in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), direct air capture (DAC) and natural climate solutions that suck carbon from the air needs to increase 30-fold to put the world on a safe pathway.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. They had figured it out — but what they figured out had nothing to do with hydrogen. Shaun Meehan was burned out.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Are fats and oils the key to the aviation fuels of the future? Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. Biodiesel production in the laboratory. What is SAF? Destined for a back seat?

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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

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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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. The picture was less rosy for new wind and heat pumps, both of which have suffered from high interest rates. .

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Would Rishi Sunak deliver the sweeping net zero financial plan and green stimulus measures that businesses, campaigners, economists, and scientists broadly agree are urgently needed to meet statutory climate goals? Ahead of yesterday's Budget, anticipation was high.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

From nuclear and innovation funding to the continuing reluctance to engage with behaviour change, the Net Zero Strategy provided businesses and investors with the clearest insight yet on the government's thinking around how to accelerate the net zero transition. Could the Treasury be 'starting to get it'? Technology costs will fall.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

In addition to celebrating the bill’s clean energy cost-cutting measures and job-creating potential, we are providing a few additional considerations and themes that are relevant to our portfolio and systems change work. airports can accommodate electrified aviation. Allume Energy , Transcend ). CarbonCure ). Nth Cycle ).

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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

JULY 22, 2020

And as commentators have pointed out , the EU Council's agreement is scant on detail in a number of crucial areas, most notably how the proposed 30 per cent climate spending proportion will actually be monitored, and what type of projects it should be spent on.

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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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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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