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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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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. A record 33.6

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Major hydrogen initiatives underway at US Department of Energy

Renewable Energy World

Hydrogen can be produced from a variety of resources, such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. Hydrogen is a clean fuel that—when combined with oxygen in a fuel cell—produces electricity with water and heat as by-products. s domestic energy leadership.

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

GreenTechMedia

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. GW of blue hydrogen capacity by 2030. The hydrogen plans described above.

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UK’s Power Sector in Negative Emissions by 2033, Grid Operator Says

GreenTechMedia

Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. CCUS paired with bioenergy power generation, as is planned at the Net Zero Humberside cluster, could lead to negative emissions of 62 metric megatons of CO2 (equivalent) by 2050, the report says. ’s aviation sector puffs out in an average year.

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

38 North Solutions

Electric Vehicles: Manufacturing of power electronics (including semiconductors, modules, and circuits for EV motor traction drives, on-board EV chargers, DC/DC converters, and EV charging stations), permanent magnets, and battery components for use in electric vehicle motors. low- or zero-carbon process heat systems; b.

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'Green Day': Key announcements at a glance

Business Green

Great British Nuclear (GBN): As expected, today sees the launch of a new agency based in Greater Manchester tasked with overseeing the rollout of a new fleet of nuclear power capacity through both large scale and small modular reactors (SMR).