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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Overall, industrial thermal energy accounts for about a tenth of global emissions, according to a December study by Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF, a Japan-backed multinational expert group). Adam Aston. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15.

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'Significant milestone': United Airlines flies passenger aircraft using 100 per cent biofuel engine

Business Green

is the first to use unblended sustainable aviation fuel in one of its engines. An aircraft using 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to entirely power one of its engines successfully flew between Chicago's and Washington D.C. yesterday, in what United Airlines has hailed as a first for the global aviation sector.

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Smart Energy Finances: Global equity funds acquire Energy Exemplar

Smart Energy International

In this week’s Smart Energy Finances, Blackstone and Vista’s acquisition of market simulation software provider Energy Exemplar and GE announced its official time frame for spinning off from energy business GE Vernova.

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Airports’ decarbonisation plans remain intact despite Covid-19 impacts, says report

Envirotec Magazine

They will have to work collaboratively with other aviation stakeholders like airlines and will require government support to stimulate the development of a sustainable, resilient, low?carbon carbon aviation system, for example, through mandating the use of sustainable aviation fuels.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

Investment is starting to flow towards efforts to tackle one of the biggest clean energy challenges going - industrial heat. Overall, industrial thermal energy accounts for about a tenth of global emissions, according to a December study by Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF, a Japan-backed multinational expert group).

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NYPA approved for drone use beyond visual line of sight to inspect energy assets

Smart Energy International

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced that it will be expanding its drone capabilities as part of the asset monitorisation and inspection of its electric infrastructure around the state, following the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) granting of a waiver to fly drones beyond visual line of sight.

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Angeles Link – a proposed hydrogen hub for California’s LA Basin

Smart Energy International

The initiative, the largest to date in the US, is envisaged as delivering more renewable energies into the region and supporting decarbonisation of the power sector, industry, heavy-duty transport and other hard to electrify sectors of the local economy, a statement reads. .