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'Missing link': Could nuclear power up the clean hydrogen industry?

Business Green

Hydrogen is increasingly seen as an important component of efforts to decarbonise the global energy system, providing a potential means of eradicating emissions from "difficult to decarbonise" sectors such as aviation, shipping, heating, and heavy industries such as cement manufacture.

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Bloomberg report: Urgent deployment of existing technology can get world close to net zero

Envirotec Magazine

The solutions needed to abate the remaining quarter of emissions are among the most challenging to scale: biofuels in shipping and aviation; hydrogen in industry and transport; and carbon capture and storage in industry and power. The numbers above the bars indicate cumulative investment and spending figures from 2024 to 2050.

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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered

Envirotec Magazine

Citizens care less about short-term tax cuts and more about long-term investment in public services and getting help with their energy bills, so in that sense the Chancellor had “failed to ‘read the room’”, said Ashden. A pivotal deal? This brings the fund up to £1.1

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Government teams up with Bill Gates and top corporates to catalyse wave of green tech investment

Business Green

Prime Minister announces £9.7bn of inward infrastructure investment, as government launches new £400m public-private clean tech innovation fund. The fantastic £9.7bn of new investment we have secured today will power our economic recovery, creating thousands of jobs and helping to level up across the country.

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Fresh U.K. Proposals Chase More Nuclear and Higher Carbon Prices

GreenTechMedia

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. billion) of government investment will trigger another £36 billion in private money by 2030, it claims. Nuclear talks with EDF to resume.

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UK Boosts Hydrogen, EVs and Carbon Capture With New Net-Zero Plan

GreenTechMedia

The private investment will come if the revenue mechanism is right. Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. billion) of investment, previously announced. “Jet Zero” efforts to cut aviation sector emissions, as well as greener maritime emissions.

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Treasury Department Announces Second Round of Section 48C Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing Facilities

38 North Solutions

1 The credit is an investment tax credit, meaning it equals 30 percent of the qualified investment for such taxable year with respect to any qualifying advanced energy project placed in service in the taxable year. low- or zero-carbon process heat systems; b. carbon capture, transport, utilization and storage systems; c.

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