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Report details China’s complex energy landscape and its enormous green energy shift

Envirotec Magazine

Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% of the total electricity supply in 2023. The seeming enormity of the green energy shift taking place in China is given shape by what’s described as the most comprehensive English-language report on China’s energy transition.

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. This summer, a large U.S. This summer, a large U.S.

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$7 Billion Pledged for Clean Hydrogen Hubs by Biden-Harris Administration

Hydrogen Fuel News

billion Gulf Coast Hydrogen Hub (HyVelocity) State Involved: Texas Key Features: Large-scale hydrogen production from natural gas with carbon capture and renewables-powered electrolysis Job Creation: Approximately 45,000 direct jobs (35,000 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs) Funding: Up to $1.2

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Cheap Wind and Solar Should Prompt ‘Rethink’ on Role of CCS, Paper Argues

DeSmogBlog

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Cheap, abundant renewable energy reduces the value of CCS in all areas.”. by the end of the century. Renewables. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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10 notable battery storage projects that went live in 2021

Renewable Energy World

Concept drawing of an energy storage system. Battery storage is having its moment in the sun. In its most recent Electricity Monthly Update , the U.S. Energy Information Administration said that when it totals up the numbers for 2021, it expects they will show that battery storage capacity grew by 4.5

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The government’s new ‘Earthshot’ — making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere

Grist

On Friday, at the United Nations’ climate conference, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced her agency’s new “Earthshot Initiative” to bring the cost of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it securely below $100 per metric ton. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”.

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Will low-carbon hydrogen will be the silver bullet in APAC?

Renewable Energy World

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? The controversy around blue hydrogen. China’s entry into Blue H2.

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