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'Economic injury': How the UK's electricity and transport networks could be racking up £264bn in hidden societal costs

Business Green

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. Co-author of today's study Benjamin K. It's yet even more sobering evidence that the UK needs to move away from fossil fuels and ambitiously pursue rapid decarbonisation," he added.

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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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Moving Mountains: Drax moves forward with plans to create giant Scottish hydropower station

Business Green

The project would use reversible turbines to pump water from Loch Awe to the upper reservoir on the mountainside to store excess power from wind farms and other low carbon technologies when supply outstrips demand with the water then used to drive turbines and generate power when needed.

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Horizon Europe’s future energy R&I to focus on European Green Deal

Smart Energy International

This entails the transition to low, zero and negative emissions technologies and systems in the energy and mobility sectors by 2050 at the latest while boosting their competitiveness and benefit for users and civil society and reducing their environmental footprint.

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Trial demonstrates restarting electricity network entirely from renewables

Envirotec Magazine

It can also save hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions by negating the need for coal and gas power stations, therefore pushing us forward on decarbonisation plans as we strive to reach net zero emissions. “We

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

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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Global Covid stimulus packages 'doing more harm than good' to planet, researchers warn

Business Green

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