Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Two vessels - a newbuild from Lenten Scheepvaart which is yet to be named and ‘the Maas’ - both claim to become ‘the first hydrogen inland vessel’ in Rotterdam. High costs and high gains, these insights might help you on your hydrogen journey. The race is on for the first hydrogen-powered inland vessel in Rotterdam!

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. EVs, green hydrogen and energy storage. Xcel Energy is asking Minnesota regulators to approve $1.4

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

In response to the federal government’s new plan to prepare workers for the energy transition , Premier Danielle Smith replied , “We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry. The problem is that, while such words may pay lip service to Albertan oil and gas workers, they don’t serve them in reality.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Munoz, UNFCCC High Level Champions for Global Climate Action, and Kieran Coleman also of the COP26 HLC, explain why a green hydrogen 'moonshot' could accelerate net zero. Green hydrogen is one such solution ready for global collective action. It takes focus to deliver this kind of positive disruption.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Heather Clancy reveals how her biggest 'geek out' moment at COP26 came courtesy of a hydrogen train. The total capacity of the system is 800 kilowatts, split between the fuel cells and the batteries, which can be recharged in a matter of 15 minutes. The technology, HydroFlex , was developed by a U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Aurora Energy Research contends thermal power generation equipped with hydrogen and CCS offers most cost-effective pathway to a net zero power system. Looking out to 2050, gas-fired assets still look to remain the only feasible option we will have to keep the lights on.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. Using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas. The potential demand for batteries would grow from the current 46 GWh to 600 GWh per year. trillion through 2035. The current U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. This includes nuclear hydrogen production from power plants in Arizona, Ohio, Minnesota and New York. It requires only recycled aluminum and water as its inputs.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. The company says solid hydrogen is the key to bringing the solution to the market in as little as a couple of years. The company locked up the H2 molecules to make solid hydrogen. Capturing heat to heat houses.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

It includes a whole range of jobs, from the worker assembling battery packs for new electric buses to the insulator retrofitting homes so they waste less energy. billion clean hydrogen facility in Edmonton is just one recent example of the energy transition becoming our new energy reality. The recent announcement of a $1.3-billion

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Breakthrough Energy’s Catalyst program is a thematically similar initiative involving corporates (as well as other philanthropy and governments) that is focused on reducing the costs of sustainable aviation fuel, long-duration storage, green hydrogen, and direct air carbon capture.

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Michael Grossman

MAY 4, 2022

Biofuels may be biofuels, and batteries may be batteries. Likewise, lithium batteries, zinc batteries, sodium-ion batteries, redox flow batteries, hydrogen storage, and sub-categories dot the energy storage landscape. Lithium battery companies are Example A in this World War I style combat.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

Plus nuclear fusion, French outdoor heating ban, Spanish green hydrogen plant and all the top green business news from around the world this week. The process, which relies on sea water and lithium as fuel, is carbon free and its only biproduct is helium, an inert, non-toxic gas.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. And each relies on as-yet-uneconomical technologies such as long-duration energy storage, net-carbon neutral fuels to replace fossil natural gas, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), to reach the final goal.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Scotland is planning to have its first hydrogen-powered train ready to go by November of this year. It’s a huge undertaking involving many partners, including the Hydrogen Accelerator at the University of Saint Andrews and engineering firm Arcola Energy. Some even worry hydrogen production will accelerate it.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. transmission grid.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

Battery swapping in India raises $33M and Icelandic green fuels production draws $30M. ♻️ NEU Battery Materials , a Singapore, Singapore-based lithium-ion battery recycling platform, raised $4M in Seed funding from SGInnovate, ComfortDelGro, Paragon Capital Management Singapore, and other investors.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year. The agreement forbids both parties from introducing bilateral export restrictions on minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese.

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Grist

AUGUST 6, 2020

Once upon a time, hydrogen was supposed to be the future of energy. The possibilities for hydrogen power seemed endless: It could fuel our cars, heat our homes, and even power our airplanes. But today, 175 years after the creation of that first “gas battery,” the technology has yet to reach its full potential.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. The company is an Ellen MacArthur Foundation partner, including in a collaboration with Veolia to close the loop on lithium-ion EV batteries.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

In other news, Hertz shifts gears on its EV strategy, Kerry steps down from his climate envoy post, and AI helps discover promising new battery materials.  Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year.   Want more deals?

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

Link Form Energy announced a pilot with Great River Energy in Minnesota to deploy their unique long duration storage technology, which they project to be able to discharge for up to 150 hours (industry standard lithium ion batteries are best suited for shorter discharge periods such as 4 hours).

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

  In deals, $91M for a vertically-integrated European heat pump platform, $50M for direct lithium extraction, and Volta Trucks goes bankrupt.  Earlier this morning, Li-Cycle announced its pausing construction on its major Rochester Hub battery recycling project which received a $375M conditional loan from the LPO.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

GW of natural gas, 1.2 Coal and natural gas remain for decades. Its IRP identifies lithium-ion battery batteries as a “major supply-side candidate,” but it is also examining the potential for vanadium redox flow batteries and has identified a potential site for a new 600 MW pumped hydro plant.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Solar and wind power are already cheaper than electricity generated by coal and natural gas-fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency. It would also depend on shifting 130 million homes from natural gas or oil heating to electric heat pumps. In the U.S.,

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries have all followed this trajectory over the past two decades. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. million tonnes, says Corr, equivalent to replacing one million new cars with battery-operated ones. They consume approximately 14.5%

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 18, 2022

“Hydrogen”, on the other hand, appears 65 times in the bill, and “clean vehicle” appears 31 times. manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and critical minerals processing. $10 A Methane Emissions Reduction Program to reduce the leaks from the production and distribution of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Most of its IRP scenarios call for building new natural-gas plants, which critics say will lock in carbon emissions from resources that may end up as stranded assets as renewables backed by energy storage become more cost-effective solutions.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Now, they say, fossil fuel use in the power sector has likely peaked, wind and solar are adding more capacity to the grid annually than natural gas has in any previous year, renewables as a source of energy will pass coal by 2025 , and total fossil fuel use across the economy will peak in the 2030s.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Hydrogen is not fit for purpose. Moving into the sexy but impractical quadrant, the top row shows a clear trend, and indeed the trend extends across most of the versions of these quadrant charts.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 11, 2021

Herbert Diess, chairman of Volkswagen Group, says hydrogen fuel cells have no place in cars and trucks. Others disagree.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By Alex Grant, Principal, Jade Cove Partners, San Francisco, USA, & Paul Martin, Chemical Process Development Expert, Toronto, Canada Exxon first correctly identified combustion of their hydrocarbon products as the cause of future catastrophic climate change as early as 1977.¹

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