GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. Decarbonizing residential and commercial heating systems is a major challenge in countries that currently rely on natural gas to do the job. A hydrogen economy in the U.S. And there are limits to how far you can go.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The patented Hazer Process, a pioneering technology developed by Hazer Group , marks a significant departure from conventional methods by transforming natural gas into hydrogen and graphite, with the ingenious use of iron ore as a catalyst.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

In the comic, several giant robots — led by Battery Bot — are defending the city of Neo Toronto from an attack by Exhaust-o-Saurus. Battery Bot is low on power and his comrades Solar Bot and Wind Bot are unable to help him recharge — owing to cloud cover and a lack of breeze, respectively.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hydrogen combustion creates water vapor, unlike fossil fuels that release greenhouse gas emissions when burned. 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.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

EU’s gas and hydrogen market reforms move step closer Achieving energy security through an integrated European gas market The Nimbus smart meter, which was conceived and developed within Italgas RETI, was launched in November 2023 in Paris at Enlit Europe 2023.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” Decarbonizing Long-haul Trucking: The Emerging Role of Hydrogen Insights From Industry Expert Electric batteries have proven to be one of the best alternatives for decarbonizing light-duty vehicles while ammonia and green methanol are becoming increasingly popular options for marine applications.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 16, 2021

Convert 50% of work vehicles – from full-size pickups and bucket trucks to forklifts and ATVs – with plug-ins, battery electric vehicles, or vehicles fueled by cleaner-burning alternatives, such as hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and compressed natural gas, by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It can be produced by electrolysis, separating the H2 from oxygen in water, and by the more carbon-intensive method of steam reforming of natural gas. New York has ambitious carbon reduction goals, but two-thirds of its energy currently comes from fuels like oil and natural gas, the utility noted.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. .

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

Hybrid vehicles are playing a strong role in Europe’s largest countries, and an unfortunate amount of investment is going to methane gas engines, especially in France, Spain and Italy. Good news: Hydrogen fuel cell buses made up only a tiny percentage of the buses bought in the quarter.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

SDG&E assesses vanadium redox flow battery in zero-emissions microgrid pilot US smart meter penetration continues to increase. Among proposals for the gas infrastructure is an acceleration of the replacement of ageing plastic natural gas pipelines to improve safety and reliability and reduce methane emissions.

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Charged

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One way to reduce methane emissions from agriculture is to turn organic waste into renewable natural gas (RNG). The biodigester facility converts agricultural waste from four regional dairy farms into RNG, eliminating greenhouse gas emissions normally released by the dairy manure. MW of energy per year.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 19, 2021

The increasing population density in the world , migration and urbanization movements, rising living standards, increasingly increasing and excessive consumption of fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas for the last 150 years, and changes in land cover as a result of the increase in intensive industrial production.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

Leaks from generation and distribution facilities have provided one of the embarrassing backstories to the story of natural gas, something that – it has become clear – is far more widespread than was always claimed. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and battery-powered electric vehicles are similar in that they both power an electric motor.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

According to the nomenclature used by market research firm Wood Mackenzie , most of the gas that is already widely used as an industrial chemical is either brown, if it's made through the gasification of coal or lignite; or gray, if it is made through steam methane reformation, which typically uses natural gas as the feedstock.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

The growth of this fuel alternative in all major consuming regions witnessed robust growth with the sharp rise in natural gas prices. Steam-methane reforming and electrolysis are the two most common methods used. These include EV batteries, EV charging infrastructure, and hydrogen, biodiesel, and fuel cell vehicle technologies. 

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Hydrogen opponents cite its inefficiency relative to batteries, and question the wisdom of building a complex and costly new infrastructure. Hydrogen fuel cells are controversial—several automakers, including Daimler , Honda , GM and Volkswagen , have abandoned the technology, while Toyota continues to pursue it.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. Other emerging technologies include using biomass to produce syngas and methane cracking. Gas prices currently remain high compared to some overseas markets.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Labour Party’s climate and energy policy proposals, released this week, feature expansion of hydrogen as a replacement for methane gas, alongside nuclear and tidal energy. British Gas owner Centrica has a display in the zone, which also includes a “hydrogen ready boiler” manufactured by Worcester Bosch.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

This is in conjunction with the industry’s shift towards battery-powered vessels such as the Yara Birkeland and China’s Zhongtiandianyun 001. There are a handful of potential alternatives, such as ammonia, methane, and methanol, but current technology is still incapable of making them viable for larger-scale use.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It’s also easy to store on board and, unlike batteries or tanks of hydrogen, it doesn’t take away too much space from the cargo hold. But those vessels use conventional methanol, which is made from coal or natural gas. OH, is primarily used to make chemicals for plastics, paints, and cosmetics.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Nimbus, which was conceived and designed within Italgas and is being manufactured by the Italian companies Bitron and MeteRSit, uses thermo-mass-based technology for measurement of natural gas and methane-hydrogen blends up to 23%.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The gas can be produced either through the electrolysis of water using renewable power to create green hydrogen or through its extraction from methane, a process that produces carbon dioxide as a by product that can then be captured and stored resulting in so-called blue hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available in two models (pump or diffusion) and battery powered with onboard datalogging, the YESAIR instruments have been designed for intermittent or continuous indoor air quality monitoring of temperature, RH, particulates and up to 5 gases. All of these pose a potential risk, so an appropriate detection and alarm system is necessary.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. This currently is mostly achieved through rooftop solar and is increasingly augmented with big batteries.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” “In 2021, Washington consumed less natural gas than about half of the states, and in 2020, the state used less per capita than all but four other states and the District of Columbia. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Now a report today from a diverse group of built environment professionals in London - including developers, engineers, planners, academics, sustainability professionals, architects and facilities managers - has waded into the debate, arguing that for the majority of homes, swapping out methane for hydrogen remains largely a pipe dream.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What’s more, ever-cheaper wind, solar, and batteries enable us to reach 90 clean electricity while reducing wholesale electricity costs 10 percent from today’s levels. Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Capturing and sequestering CO 2 from existing gas plants.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

What’s more, ever-cheaper wind, solar, and batteries enable us to reach 90 clean electricity while reducing wholesale electricity costs 10 percent from today’s levels. Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Capturing and sequestering CO 2 from existing gas plants.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

NW Natural, the largest gas utility in Oregon, and Kokkola, Finland-based Hycamite TCD Technologies, signed a letter of intent to explore the production and distribution of clean hydrogen production using Hycamite’s novel methane pyrolysis technology. Hycamite’s technology helps to decarbonize industrial.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

CO 2 comes from burning gas, oil, coal, and solid waste. Then, there are also methane, nitrous oxide, and other industrial gasses, about which we seldom hear. Methane and nitrous oxide do not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO 2. Methane is a component of natural gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Aliso Canyon disaster is a dramatic example of what can happen when they fail at storage sites: After a corroded well lining led to a leak at the Californian natural gas underground repository in 2015, over 97,000 metric tons of stored methane escaped into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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