Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Nonetheless, the long-term transition to low-carbon energy systems continues to see strong momentum and, in several respects, acceleration. The report presents specific outlooks per fuel type such as natural gas, oil, coal, hydrogen and sustainable fuels, as well as a view on the role of CCUS in decarbonising the energy sector.

Global warming 361

Global warming Fossil fuels Hydrogen Demand 361

Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. But those vessels use conventional methanol, which is made from coal or natural gas.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Natural gas Fossil fuels 130

Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The diversity in their approach – from leveraging natural gas with carbon capture to harnessing renewable and biomass energy sources – showcases the multifaceted potential of hydrogen. This involves not only the production of clean hydrogen but also its storage, delivery, and end-use across various sectors.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Innovation Sustainability 111

GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 528

Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

billion Gulf Coast Hydrogen Hub (HyVelocity) State Involved: Texas Key Features: Large-scale hydrogen production from natural gas with carbon capture and renewables-powered electrolysis Job Creation: Approximately 45,000 direct jobs (35,000 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs) Funding: Up to $1.2

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Hydrogen Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Natural gas 123

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new 5-gigawatt “low-carbon” hydrogen target for 2030 has been revealed, along with an ambition to heat an entire town with hydrogen by the end of the decade. He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5

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Hydrogen Carbon Aviation Electric vehicle 130

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.,

Natural gas 130

Natural gas Electricity Cooling Construction 130

Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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Hydrogen Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 103

Charged

JANUARY 21, 2021

Most automakers may have rejected hydrogen as an energy storage medium for passenger vehicles ( Toyota is the notable exception), but the technology may yet find applications for industrial processes, and in other forms of transportation such as aviation and shipping. The Strategy is supported by a federal investment of $1.5

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Hydrogen Government Fossil fuels Natural gas 144

Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

New Zealand company Fabrum , a world leader in zero-emission transition technologies to enable a lower-carbon economy, has completed the acquisition of Alec Farrar Engineering Limited, a Christchurch-based engineering manufacturing company and foundry. This acquisition is another important milestone on our journey.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Aviation Transportation 71

The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hydrogen combustion creates water vapor, unlike fossil fuels that release greenhouse gas emissions when burned. That’s seen as especially valuable for cleaning up aviation , maritime shipping, and heavy industries like steel that are more difficult to run on renewable energy and batteries.

Hydrogen 107

Hydrogen Methane Fossil fuels Fashion 107

Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

UK government urged to avoid backing blue hydrogen after US study finds its production could be worse for climate than natural gas. It concludes that "there really is no role for blue hydrogen in a carbon-free future". As the authors note, emissions are still significant if zero carbon electricity is used.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane 94

Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s fantastic to work together to advance hydrogen technologies to enable a lower-carbon economy.” Fabrum has several other green hydrogen projects under construction internationally. The company’s core competencies include green hydrogen production, storage, dispensing, and system integration.

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Hydrogen Packaging Technology Natural gas 75

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

The UK's nascent hydrogen economy celebrated a major milestone this week, when a 1MW boiler was fired up with the low carbon fuel at a test centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. 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.

Hydrogen 98

Hydrogen Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Natural gas 98

AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? 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. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

Hydrogen 36

Hydrogen Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. Natural gas remained the largest source of U.S.

Sustainability 92

Sustainability Natural gas Energy Energy 92

Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They found that in order to have a 50 percent chance of achieving this target, 58 percent of known oil reserves, 59 percent of natural gas reserves, and 89 percent of coal reserves cannot be extracted. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I degrees Celsius (2.7

Fossil fuels 145

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Carbon Natural gas 145

The City Fix

MARCH 30, 2023

China’s transport CO2 emissions accounted for 11% of the world’s transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, following only the United States (21%), according to data from Climate Watch. And these numbers have been growing rapidly: The average annual growth rate of China’s transport.

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Transportation Carbon Natural gas Aviation 98

Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Based on the global carbon budget of 400 billion tonnes between 2020 and 2050, identified by the IPCC in its 2021 Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the new OECM research calculates carbon budgets for the highest emitting industries.

Global warming 64

Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Aviation 64

Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

This project demonstrates a new kind of energy future and a model of lower-carbon energy production that can be replicated worldwide," said Huibert Vigeveno Shell's downstream director, at the project's opening ceremony. In addition, a plant for liquefied renewable natural gas, known as bio-LNG, is also in development, the company said.

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Europe Hydrogen Natural gas Carbon-neutral 87

Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Three out of four of the scenarios in the grid operator's annual exploration of credible decarbonisation pathways see the power sector achieving net zero emissions by 2050, with the remaining pathway diverging from the UK's carbon budgets around 2025 and achieving smaller emissions reductions of 73 per cent by 2050 on 1990 levels.

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Carbon-negative Energy Energy Natural gas 101

Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Matt Gorman, Heathrow's director of sustainability, said the biomethane deal with ENGIE would help reduce emissions compared to using natural gas derived from fossil fuels, building on the recent announcement that the airport's infrastructure has achieved carbon neutral status.

Building Energy Monitoring 84

Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Energy Monitor 84

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

New partnership to explore plans to convert a town in Lincolnshire to run on low carbon hydrogen gas. The project could draw on hydrogen produced at Equinor's proposed H2H Saltend project on the Humber, which forms part of the wider Zero Carbon Humber project, and then be distributed through Cadent's gas network in the region.

Hydrogen 91

Hydrogen Aviation Carbon Investment 91

Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

World is on track to drain remaining carbon budget for 1.5C The carbon budget for a 1.5C While oil demand is expected to halve and coal use to shrink by a third by 2050, natural gas demand is set to grow slowly this decade and remain flat in the 2030s, before only then tapering off by 10 per cent by 2050, the analysts predict.

Fossil fuels 50

Fossil fuels Carbon Hydrogen Packaging 50

Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

Hydrogen can be produced from a variety of resources, such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. million from the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM). Gulf Coast – Leveraging Avangrid Renewables Wind Generation to Develop Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia.

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Natural gas 114

Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

However, the report warns that despite this welcome focus from policymakers, governments still face a major challenge if they are to close the price gap between low-carbon 'green' and 'blue' hydrogen and the carbon intensive hydrogen produced from natural gas that currently dominates the market.

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Hydrogen Investment Aviation Government 78

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Mission Possible Partnership publishes fresh plans to help decarbonise production of aluminium, ammonia and steel across aviation, shipping, and trucking industries. The group this week released two new STS reports for aluminium and ammonia, as well as an updated steel strategy. above pre-industrial levels.

Aviation 69

Aviation Carbon Recycling Recycling 69

Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. Carbon dioxide removal doesn’t directly cut emissions from any particular industry, like agriculture or aviation.

Energy Monitor 88

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 88

DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

InfluenceMap said two of the most egregious examples are the Airlines for Europe, an aviation trade group, and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), a lobby for the maritime shipping industry. For aviation, airline companies take the lead. But it opposes the EU’s efforts to end a tax break for jet fuel.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Europe Carbon-neutral 98

Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Time will tell, but it seems like there were some tangible steps of progress: a good deal was reached on carbon offset markets which should help add credibility to carbon trading schemes and avoid double counting between governments and private actors. we’ve probably seen this the most in sustainable aviation fuels so far.

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Natural gas Aviation Electric vehicle COP 52

Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2021

World is on track to drain remaining carbon budget for 1.5C The carbon budget for a 1.5C While oil demand is expected to halve and coal use to shrink by a third by 2050, natural gas demand is set to grow slowly this decade and remain flat in the 2030s, before only then tapering off by 10 per cent by 2050, the analysts predict.

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Carbon Hydrogen Packaging 36

Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As DeSmog explains, “there are several ways to produce hydrogen, but almost all of it currently in production uses methane (natural gas) as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.” Hydrogen can also be produced from water via an electrolysis process, using renewable energy—this is known as green hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Technology Batteries 135

GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. National Grid ESO itself has a goal of being able to support a carbon-free grid by 2025, which it is on track to achieving. ’s aviation sector puffs out in an average year. But National Grid says the U.K.

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Carbon-negative Hydrogen Electric vehicle Nuclear Power 130

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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Pollution Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon 72

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. In this third post, we examine how California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program factors into the state’s GHG reduction goals and how the LCFS Program may be amended in the near future.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Transportation Carbon-neutral 52

38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

property designed to capture, remove, use or sequester carbon dioxide emissions; e. equipment designed to refine, electrolyze or blend any fuel, chemical or product that is renewable or low-carbon and low-emission; f. other advanced energy property designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as may be determined by the U.S.

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Energy Energy Recycling Recycling 64

Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

The plan also includes $1 billion to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which are responsible for almost 10 percent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions About $215 million of that money will help fund projects for thermal waste treatment — methods that transform waste into energy that can be used for such things as heating.

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Natural gas Electric vehicle Transportation Electricity 52