Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the focus at COP26 in Glasgow shifts to greening the world’s transportation systems, electric vehicles (EVs) are in the spotlight. Not only would the nascent industry directly destroy ecosystems and species that are only just being discovered, but it could also negatively impact fisheries, which communities across the world depend on.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Any shortfall in that support should be covered by federal funding, including proceeds from the new carbon tax, Teyssen said Tuesday. Reduced demand during the coronavirus lockdown, coupled with ample wind and solar generation, has seen German power prices go negative, even more so than usual. billion ($9.9

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. This has led to a strong focus on two main sectors: energy and transportation. Pull Quote.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The government confirmed £77m of new funding is to be made available to support the development of next generation nuclear reactors, alongside £25m for projects to produce hydrogen using sustainable biomass and waste that could deliver negative carbon emissions.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our summer 2021 Decarbon8-US investment process is in full swing, with our panel of experts hearing pitches from companies in areas such as light duty EV charging and adoption, infrastructure, rail, and electric recreational boats, among others. billion towards EV charging among other major clean transportation investments.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The world's top climate scientists have updated their guidance on carbon removals technologies, arguing they are likely to prove essential to stablising global temperatures, but only if they are developed judiciously.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Many climate activists and clean energy enthusiasts warn against the continued use of, and investment in, natural gas infrastructure, insisting it isn’t a substitute for clean energy. Given current investment and technological limitations, the transition to all renewable energy will need to be gradual and multi-phased. .

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Energy giant Drax has formally submitted plans for its multi-billion-pound bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project at its North Yorkshire power station. BECCS plants combine biomass power plants with carbon capture and storage capabilities to capture emissions that result from burning biomass feedstocks, such as wood chips.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

The government must work with the banking sector to coordinate action to support a 'just transition' to a low-carbon economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report published today, which urges Ministers to establish a UK-wide national investment bank to support the shift. However, he added that "another 13.5

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. Nature has been particularly neglected, with fewer than ten of the countries we studied investing in nature-based solutions such as reforestation or wetland restoration.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

By aggregating user demand and supply, community solar projects can offer economic benefits that individuals can’t get with rooftop solar, like economies of scale and access to financing. Reduced Carbon Footprint Community solar allows homeowners and renters to save on electricity bills while supporting renewable energy generation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

British Airways is aiming to offset the lifecycle CO2 from flights between London, Edinburgh and Glasgow by "up to 80 per cent" over the course of the upcoming COP26 climate summit, after today announcing a new low carbon biofuels supply deal with BP. Watch this space," Doyle said. SAFs remains controversial in some circles, however.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Low oil price likely to stick around for some time prompting fundamental change to energy investment that could accelerate net zero, experts suggest. As a result, oil prices have plummeted and yesterday US future contracts went negative for the first time in history as global storage capacity for oil continued to fill up.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2020

Here’s one of ours: In this insightful interview, Al Gore discusses how the steadily declining cost of wind and solar energy will transform manufacturing, transportation and agriculture, offer a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear energy and create millions of new jobs. The rising generation is demanding a brighter future.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Low oil price likely to stick around for some time prompting fundamental change to energy investment that could accelerate net zero, experts suggest. That will fundamentally change your outlook if you're going to get six per cent perhaps on a standard renewables project.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our summer 2021 Decarbon8-US investment process is in full swing, with our panel of experts hearing pitches from companies in areas such as light duty EV charging and adoption, infrastructure, rail, and electric recreational boats, among others. billion towards EV charging among other major clean transportation investments.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. He added that energy demand is expected to continue growing, and thus there is a growing need to address the associated carbon emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. locations in 2021.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Influential Future Energy Scenarios report stresses how policy and investment choices could see net zero goal reached early - or missed entirely. The heat and road transport sectors would be largely decarbonised, and the power sector would achieve net negative emissions as early as 2033.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

In recent years, leading green groups have branded the 21st century drive to ramp up the use of biofuels in transport - set in motion by late 2000s-era EU and US renewable fuels targets - as a " fiasco ", a " scandal " and " Europe's dumbest climate policy ". Regulators and investors have taken note.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

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. In the near-term, the additional demand for clean electricity is met predominantly by solar PV, which provides over half of additional renewable generation in 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Zero Petroleum and the RAF launched Project MARTIN in June 2021, developing ZERO SynAvGas over five months with negative carbon technology company IGTL Technology. The company has received investment from Formula One World Champion Damon Hill and a grant from the UK's innovation agency Innovate UK.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The news comes as the global aviation sector continues to reel from the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic which has severely reduced demand for international travel.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. The public want to see the government take even bolder steps to move the UK towards net zero carbon. I n the energy transition, there is no one silver bullet.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

“I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I I’m investing in the team — I’m investing in the ability for you guys to figure it out,” Meehan said the venture capitalist told them. That’s where carbon removal comes in. But the investor was undeterred.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. “Whichever plant was required to meet the last megawatt of demand is the price-setting technology,” said Tom Edwards, senior modeler at Cornwall Insight, in an email. percent to 32.1

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Gasification Gasification involves subjecting biomass to high temperatures in an environment with controlled oxygen, which converts the material into a mixture of gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane, collectively known as syngas. Equally important is the consideration of air quality.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

The carbon credit system needs an overhaul to effectively help in reducing climate change, according to a UCL study. French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral.

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