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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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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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. Alongside GWP*, the meat and dairy industry promotes other technologies as a route to less emissions.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Mike Scott investigates five nascent technologies that could yet prove critical to the net zero transition. Here are just five of the exciting, but still nascent technologies, with the potential to turbocharge the net zero transition: 1. And that's where the seaweed comes in. Low carbon cement.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Yet while those transport sectors are advancing towards low-carbon solutions - with promising technologies cultivated by multilateral accords - industrial heat lacks any consensus plan and has a long to-do list to develop low-carbon alternatives. Today, RNG is held back in part by a Catch-22 financial trap.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 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. Patch, an energy and technology consultant.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Given current investment and technological limitations, the transition to all renewable energy will need to be gradual and multi-phased. . For example, methane emissions from uncovered livestock manure lagoons can be anaerobically digested to produce biogas for RNG production rather than being directly emitted to the atmosphere.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Flying in an airplane is arguably one of the most technologically marvelous engineering feats that we regularly benefit from. In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions.   Advantages: FT is a mature technology, but newly applied to bio-SAF and e-SAF production.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Hydrogen fuel cells are controversial—several automakers, including Daimler , Honda , GM and Volkswagen , have abandoned the technology, while Toyota continues to pursue it. Hydrogen produced by this process is called gray hydrogen , or blue hydrogen if carbon-capture technology is used to capture the emissions released during production.

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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

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

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

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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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 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

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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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

To address historical emissions, they launched a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund that invests in global carbon reduction, capture and removal technologies. . The SAF, supplied by SkyNRG and produced from waste oil, is an important option for the aviation industry to reduce CO2 emissions on a life-cycle basis. Source: Microsoft.

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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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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. 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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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

The California Public Utilities Commission has a $200 million program to provide incentives for low-carbon space and water heating technologies in new and existing buildings, and recently approved another $45 million for heat pump water heater incentives through 2025. Other California regulators are joining the state electrification effort.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

The document is expected to set out how the government intends to incentivise and subsidise the UK's low carbon hydrogen market, covering both ‘blue' hydrogen produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage technology, and ‘green' hydrogen made using renewable energy to split water into its component elements.

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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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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. Hydrogen is an energy carrier rather than a renewable energy technology. We’ll need ongoing research into hydrogen technologies and hydrogen’s potential applications.

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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?

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

The role of trees combines the highest CO2 removal potential with lowest per tonne costs and greatest technology readiness level.".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. That leaves the door open to more traditional hydrogen production methods with carbon capture technology used to mitigate the majority of the emissions, or so-called 'blue hydrogen.' It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

They also claim any boiler primed to run on low carbon hydrogen but installed initially to run off methane would require "no more than one hour's labour" to convert it to run on hydrogen, should higher volumes of H2 get blended into the gas grid or even replace methane altogether in future.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

HiiROC, a technology company which has developed a way produce low-carbon hydrogen from biomethane, flare gas or fossil gas through thermal plasma electrolysis process, is collaborating with Centrica on the project. So, it's vital that we find ways to reduce the carbon intensity of gas plants like that at Brigg.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Local authority decision-makers are faced with a bewildering array of potential options to achieve decarbonisation, so it's important to understand which are the most effective and which could help to spark a wider adoption of low-carbon technologies across the region. methane - CH4).

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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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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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

   🔋 Ion Storage Systems , a Beltsville, Maryland-based solid state li-ion batteries developer, raised $15M from NOVA by Saint-Gobain ⚡ Quaise , a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based geothermal drilling technology developer, raised $13M.   Clear(er) skies for IRA SAF tax credit.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The UN has warned policymakers to beware "vested" fossil fuel interests when drawing up plans to deploy hydrogen fuel to help decarbonise various industries, arguing that it remains unclear whether 'blue' hydrogen produced using fossil gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology can be made compatible with global climate goals.

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