Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Britain's gas networks have today unveiled proposals to invest over £900m in developing net zero infrastructure over the coming five years as part of the UK's coronavirus recovery efforts, with a major focus on ramping up the use of biomethane and hydrogen for heating, cooking, industry, and transport. We have a plan that's ready to go.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Many climate activists and clean energy enthusiasts warn against the continued use of, and investment in, natural gas infrastructure, insisting it isn’t a substitute for clean energy. should not plan to maintain its current fossil-based natural gas systems indefinitely. By Jonathan Cristiani, Black & Veatch. They are correct. .

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Investment is starting to flow towards efforts to tackle one of the biggest clean energy challenges going - industrial heat. The world's kilns, reactors, chillers, and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. On average, each RNG project requires $17m of capital investment, based on data from the RNG Coalition.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

Campaigners are urging the UK government to prioritise and support the production of 'green' hydrogen made using renewable energy, after a major US academic study today found that 'blue' hydrogen produced using fossil fuels could be worse for the climate than burning natural gas.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Many politicians are sold on hydrogen— Canada and the UK have announced major investments with the goal of developing a “hydrogen economy.”. One major source is the fossil fuel industry. What’s behind the recent resurgence of hydrogen hype? To understand why Big Oil is so keen on hydrogen, you need to understand the color code.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The reforms, set out by the EU's executive body yesterday, have been designed to accelerate uptake of low carbon gases, such as hydrogen, that could replace fossil fuels and help deliver on the EU's goal of reducing emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 on 1990 levels.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . Meanwhile, there are applications with few low-carbon options that need the biomass more, such as biofuels for aviation," said Meera Atreya, Energy Transitions Commission Bioeconomy lead.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

PG&E’s public support for such a move is a rarity among utilities invested in natural gas infrastructure, Stephanie Greene, a principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said in a Friday interview. Utilities taking sides. and Berkeley neighbor Oakland, Calif. according to a recent report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Oil and gas giant signs up several more potential customers for hydrogen produced at its Teesside fossil fuel and CCS facility. While the impact of investments may be felt most acutely in the north-east, the decarbonisation benefit of H2Teesside is expected to be felt countrywide.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Oil and gas giant signs up several more potential customers for hydrogen produced at its Teesside fossil fuel and CCS facility. While the impact of investments may be felt most acutely in the north-east, the decarbonisation benefit of H2Teesside is expected to be felt countrywide.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Late last week, Britain's biggest boiler manufacturers joined together to announce a promise to homeowners who make the switch to hydrogen-ready appliances that doing so will cost them no more than purchasing pure-fossil fuel gas equivalents.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VS: Traditionally, hydrogen has been industrially produced from the methane contained in natural gas, releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the process. It could have an important role to play in decarbonizing difficult-to-electrify sectors like industry, maritime transportation, and aviation. Courtesy: Equinor).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The climate crisis may have stayed near the top of the political and corporate agenda, net zero commitments have come thick and fast, and renewable and electric vehicle investment may have toppled records, but there is barely a country on the planet on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. The fossil fuel problem is being named. trajectory.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

ShareAction explained that comparisons are difficult due to banks setting different targets for different sectors, with only 14 of the banks having set methane targets, despite being a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. A version of this article first appeared at Investment Week.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Partner Content: For financially constrained local authorities, deciding where to invest public money to achieve net zero carbon targets is increasingly complex. Investing in decarbonisation means investing in the future and establishing a region where people want to live and where businesses want to invest.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Upfront investments in low carbon infrastructure deliver much faster paybacks than they did a year ago, because the fossil fuels they displace are orders of magnitude more expensive. per cent gain, almost entirely as a result of higher fossil fuel prices. per cent loss of GDP to a 0.5

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds. In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

While global gas prices had already surged over the past year, the conflict in Ukraine has seen an even greater spike, which has in turn driven up the cost of products made from fossil gas, such as ammonia and hydrogen, according to BloombergNEF.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Turbocharging natural and technology-based carbon removal efforts will also be critical, as will the conversion of heavy industry to become more efficient, more circular, and less reliant on fossil fuels. If progress is slower and fossil fuel cars still account for the majority of the market by the end of the decade, the pathway to 1.5C

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

This year’s rise is in response to reduced availability of hydropower generation and a corresponding increase in fossil fuel generation to meet demand. Things happening in Québec: Hydro-Québec posts record $4.56-billion million Energy sources Quebec: [link] 94% hydro, 5% wind, 0.7% biomass/geothermal 212.9 MMT CO2e in 2018 to 21.9

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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

“I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I I’m investing in the team — I’m investing in the ability for you guys to figure it out,” Meehan said the venture capitalist told them. But the investor was undeterred. That’s where carbon removal comes in. “The

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Meanwhile, there are applications with few low-carbon options that need the biomass more, such as biofuels for aviation," said Meera Atreya, Energy Transitions Commission Bioeconomy lead.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

This year, the price spread has contracted , shrinking the savings gained by investing in scrubber installations. LSFO (low sulfur fuel oil) is an HFO with less than 1% sulfur content. LSFOs can be burned in open waters, but there are stricter restrictions on the sulfur content of fuels burned closer to shore.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Meanwhile, there are applications with few low-carbon options that need the biomass more, such as biofuels for aviation,” said Meera Atreya, Energy Transitions Commission Bioeconomy lead.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I think what the cancellation shows is that people have had enough of fossil fuel infrastructure being forced upon them,” said Lorne Stockman, research co-director with Oil Change International. “It It doesn’t surprise me that communities are standing up to these projects and occasionally winning.” Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

The third in a trilogy of reports published over the last eight months by the IPCC as part of its sixth assessment review, the document offers policymakers around the world a peer-reviewed roadmap for the policies, investments, and technologies scientists believe are required to avoid climate catastrophe. is now lower than it was in 2018.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. At Mr. Sustainability however, we are not interested in replacing all fuels. The investment costs for the eelctrolyzers alone are in the order of €2.5

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? Because sea going vessels are hard to electrify and we are Mr. Sustainability Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. How much would the fuel cost?

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

Amid depressed prices and slumping demand for fossil fuels, firms have embraced cloud computing and data services that allow them to make their operations more efficient and reduce overheads. The oil and gas sector is in the midst of a digital transformation.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The second project is the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project, which will invest roughly $1 billion to develop a nearby underground salt dome to store compressed hydrogen. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?". federal government. and Europe.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

VC investment in climate tech is growing five times faster than overall VC, with a $60 billion increase in funding over the last seven years. Women founders generate more than twice as much per dollar invested than their male counterparts, exit one year earlier, staff up with 2.5 43 — Aviation. Finance & Investing.

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