EDF + Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Consolidation might even be better for the environment Something else we know is that industry urgently needs to eliminate methane emissions. All the largest western oil and gas companies have joined OGMP 2.0 , committing to significantly reduce methane intensity and flaring.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. The alternative to electrolysis is a process called steam-methane reforming.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The last 15 percent of the economy is hard to clean up — aviation, shipping, manufacturing, long-distance trucking," Fakhry said in an interview. Hydrogen derived from methane — usually from natural gas, but also coal and biomass — was pioneered in World War II by Germany, which has no petroleum deposits. Green hydrogen can do that.".

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

So as the aviation industry has gradually climbed aboard global pledges to get rid of carbon emissions, it has mostly promised to make up for its damage elsewhere — through offsets that might involve planting trees, restoring wetlands, or paying people to preserve ecosystems that otherwise would have been razed. Others warm it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap. Capital needs for smaller landfill projects run from $5m to $25m.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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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. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 15, 2023

5:00-7:00pm Procurement and Pinot with SABA (Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance) and ZEMBA (Zero Emission Maritime Business Alliance) Monterey Brasserie This event is a panel discussion on sustainable fuels in air and sea transport, followed by drinks.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

RNG can also be produced via methanation, in which either synthesis gas from biomass gasification or carbon dioxide emissions from a variety of sources are converted into methane in combination with green hydrogen. . All these present ideal opportunities for the use of RNG.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

However, today's study estimates that emissions from the production - rather than the use - of blue hydrogen "are quite high", and that resulting greenhouse gas emissions, including both CO2 and methane, are "more than 20 per cent greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat, and some 60 per cent greater than burning diesel oil for heat".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Its priority areas include slashing methane emissions; ending deforestation; phasing out coal; electrifying road transport; decarbonising hard-to-abate industry; and improving energy efficiency. Altogether, that would make for a 40 per cent cut in overall methane emissions by 2030. pathway by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There have been growing calls for low carbon hydrogen supplies to be ringfenced to support the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel, glass, chemicals, shipping, rail, and aviation, which are not amenable to electrification or other decarbonisation solutions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

BP today said it had signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with CF Fertilisers, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Sembcorp Energy UK, and sustainable aviation fuel developer Alfanar that see them become potential purchasers of hydrogen produced at the H2Teesside project, the plans for which were first unveiled in March.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

ExxonMobil has unveiled several short term targets to tackle its carbon intensity, methane emissions, and flaring activity in a new climate plan it claims is "projected to be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement", despite the oil and gas giant's continuing refusal to set a long-term net zero emissions goal.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

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. "We try to understand bioresource demand and to prioritize its use, using it as a resource where there are no other low-carbon options.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

” Renewable natural gas — methane captured from landfills, dairy farms and other sources — could replace a small portion of the fossil natural gas now filling pipelines. But both replacements are highly unlikely to be able to grow to the scale needed to replace the volume of fossil natural gas now used in the U.S.,

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

With global population of 270 million dairy cows, the global dairy sector's climate impact is thought to be on a similar scale to that of aviation and shipping combined, and tackling emissions from the sector is therefore key to hitting climate targets. per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

BP today said it had signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with CF Fertilisers, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Sembcorp Energy UK and sustainable aviation fuel developer Alfanar to the potential purchase of hydrogen produced at the H2Teesside project, the plans for which were first unveiled in March.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

The plan would see £904m invested in projects across Britain between 2021 and 2026 to prepare the gas grid for a switchover from using methane natural gas - a fossil fuel - to instead use zero carbon hydrogen and biomethane in support of the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions. The captured CO2 is then converted into methane (CO) and blended with the hydrogen, most commonly using a technology called Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS), to produce syngas.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Hydrogen, which has long been used in industrial processes but is currently derived largely from fossil fuels, is expected to play a major role in decarbonising a number of hard-to-electrify sectors such as heavy industry, long-haul aviation and shipping by displacing fossil fuels.

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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.” To understand why Big Oil is so keen on hydrogen, you need to understand the color code.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

If Covid-19 has taught us one thing, it is that we do not really need travel as much as we thought: transport was the largest emitting sector in the UK in 2019, responsible for over a quarter of all emissions and that excludes emissions from UK-based international aviation bunkers that have more than doubled since 1990.

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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

MAY 24, 2021

Planting trees without proper planning could have disastrous consequences, such as when tree-planting occurs on peatland which can result in releasing into the atmosphere vast quantities of carbon and methane that such areas naturally store," Bateman said.

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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

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.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. Hydrogen offers both aviation and marine transport a route to lower carbon, with examples this year ranging from ammonia for shipping fuel to fuel cells for propeller aircraft, as developed by ZeroAvia. It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

The company supplied a sampling of those projects: Alaska Airlines ALK : At a corporate level, we’re working to reduce carbon emissions with flights powered by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) provided by industry leader SkyNRG.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

A lot of [cargo] carriers and technology providers are trying to figure out what the alternative to bunker fuel is,” said Dan Rutherford, who directs the marine and aviation programs at the International Council on Clean Transportation , or ICCT, in California. Methanol, or CH?OH,

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Conventional ammonia is produced by combining hydrogen with nitrogen from the air, with the hydrogen mostly produced from splitting fossil gas in a steam methane reformer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. And that's where the seaweed comes in. That's because its potential is huge.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

HiiROC claims its hydrogen production process is cheaper and less carbon intensive than steam methane reforming used to produce ‘blue hydrogen', and less energy intensive and expensive than water electrolysis needed for ‘green hydrogen' production.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

methane - CH4). Hydrogen gas can be extracted via several methods, the most common of which is steam methane reformation. In the longer term, hydrogen - or hydrogen-derived fuels - are likely to play a key role decarbonising aviation and shipping. On earth, hydrogen is found in huge volumes in water (H2O) and hydrocarbons (e.g.

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