Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

The focus for the Horizon Europe climate, energy and mobility ‘cluster’ for its forthcoming three years is on the green and digital transitions and EU resilience. Moreover, many challenges in the energy and transport sectors are closely interlinked and must be addressed in a holistic, inclusive and mission-driven approach.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. Envirotec writes. The same document said that CCS was “not on a trajectory” to meet the 2ºC target of over 400 MtCO2 being stored per year in 2025.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

Efforts to develop innovative carbon reduction and removal technology on UK shores received a boost this week, as geotechnology pioneer Storegga announced fresh investment from Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and Japanese investment giant Mitsui, alongside further backing from cornerstone investor Macquarie.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As well as being lighter, the modular nature means transporting the towers to the construction sites is far easier. If successfully commercialized, Modvion’s solution would solve the transport problem, while also replacing carbon intensive-steel with what could be a carbon-negative alternative.

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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. Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Energy company says carbon capture technology partnership is first of its kind in the UK. Drax Group has announced it is to work with Japanese engineering giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on the development of its proposed bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility at its Yorkshire power plant.

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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.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Co-located beside an existing sawmill in Leola, Grant County, so as to reduce transport and infrastructure costs, the plant is expected to produce around 40,000 metric tonnes of biomass pellets each year, in part by using sawdust and other residual by-products from the sawmill, Drax said.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

” This tale underscores a vexing problem for the energy transition in Europe. That’s despite the fact that renewable generation is increasingly contributing to low or even negative pricing on spot markets. First, renewables still account for a relatively small proportion of overall electricity generation across Europe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Chinese government has provided the first evidence that its recent unveiling of a net zero emissions target will trigger a new wave of low carbon infrastructure deployment. A new report from trade body WindEurope has calculated that the wind energy is delivering 300,000 jobs across Europe, contributing €37bn to EU GDP every year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

The UK is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this year's edition of National Grid ESO's 'Future Energy Scenarios' shows that a 2035 clean power sector driven by a massive expansion of renewables is now the benchmark for the UK if it is to reach this goal. Zero carbon power by 2035. Credit: Ember.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

An energy-intensive process largely reliant on fossil fuels, concrete production is estimated to account for around eight per cent of global carbon emissions - more than both shipping and air travel combined. Concrete and steel emit as much as all road transport globally, and demand is going up.

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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 ". Biofuels are inherently controversial. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Some of the strongest opposition is coming from European transportation companies and their trade groups. InfluenceMap said two of the most egregious examples are the Airlines for Europe, an aviation trade group, and the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), a lobby for the maritime shipping industry. CC BY-ND 2.0.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The myth of the “long tailpipe”—the notion that EVs generate just as much carbon emissions as ICE vehicles do—has been debunked by dozens of scientific studies (see below for a partial list). These results are based on today’s electricity generation mix in Europe. “If

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

International Airlines Group (IAG) has become the first major aviation firm in Europe to commit to powering 10 per cent of its flights with bio-based jet fuels by the end of the decade, in a move that will see the British Airways owner purchase one million tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Company unveils raft of new sustainability commitments as it announces plan to collaborate on low carbon transport and air pollution advocacy and awareness programmes with WWF. It also said it plans to phase out its fossil fuelled operations fleet in Europe in early 2021 and worldwide by "2023 at the latest".

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Flying in an airplane is arguably one of the most technologically marvelous engineering feats that we regularly benefit from.   But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. Kerosene is a “long-chain hydrocarbon”, which means it is made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms (specifically C 12 H 26 C 15 H 32 ).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

The adverts regularly highlight the companies’ preferred solutions to climate change — from carbon capture and storage, to experimental algae biofuels, and investment in renewable energy sources — without being open about the small percentage of overall investment allocated to these technologies, nor their various limitations.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In part two of a series looking at Icelandic clean energy innovation, BusinessGreen explores mooted plans to turn emissions produced by plants across Europe into Iceland's bedrock. These factors have resulted in one of the world's most low carbon economies, substantial inward investment, and a fast growing community of clean tech start-ups.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Energy expert Professor Martin Freer puts the UK’s ‘glacial’ uptake of heat pumps – the lowest in Europe – in part down to a lack of clarity for consumers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

After years of R&D there is growing evidence that carbon capture and utilisation technologies are edging towards the crucial commercialisation phase. This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. What's on my mind?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe.

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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. per cent of electricity generation in May.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

The two new stations - one in Warrington, which it claims is the largest in Europe, and another in Northampton - are together capable of refuelling over 1,000 trucks a day, more than doubling the firm's existing renewable biomethane refuelling capacity in the UK.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

YouGov survey across seven European countries suggests restrictions on flights during Covid-19 crisis has had little negative impact on businesses' operations and has proved beneficial for many executives' working lives. Flying for business meetings burns up time and money, as well as our climate," she said.

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

We are currently embarking on a series of RESTORE READY events across Europe – Paris, Madrid, Belgrade, Malmo and Sabden are still open for registration. We may have the technologies but now need the mindsets. No matter where you are in the world, you can make an impact and join for the Hour to speak up for nature!

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

southwest, extreme rainfall and flash floods causing widespread damage to towns in Western Europe , and wildfires burning in typically cold places like Alaska and Siberia , there can be no doubt that a hotter planet can have devasting effects on people and communities. With scorching temperatures hitting the U.S. What can Businesses Do?

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An interview with CEO Peter Carlsson, who urges Europe to quickly build on its own battery knowledge. From open-plan offices to cleanrooms, nearly 400 people are involved in battery technology for electric cars. Hardly anyone in Sweden wears a mask, not even in public transport. That makes the European car industry, with 2.7

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 28, 2021

April 28, 2021 — The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative), a multi-year collaboration among The Urban Future Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Greentown Labs , and Fraunhofer USA , has selected 10 startups for the first year of this exciting accelerator. is a platform for negative emissions. New York City, N.Y.,

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

They are generally water soluble and hence very mobile, meaning they can be transported with groundwater or in surface waters well beyond the original location where they were lost to ground, termed a source area. Treatment technologies. Treatment and clean-up solutions are likely to comprise multiple technologies working in tandem.

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