Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” Germany, Europe’s largest economy, demanded that gas be part of the plan.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. Blue hydrogen locks in dependence on natural gas, with all the price volatility and geopolitics that comes with it, and it also relies on the development of cheap and effective CCS.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon footprint , compensating for all the carbon the company ever emitted. Google first became carbon-neutral in 2007. Microsoft plans to be carbon-negative by 2030. Via BBC Image via Pawe?

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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. Green hydrogen - made by splitting water's hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources - is a small fish in the "energies pond."

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Solar Industry

MARCH 14, 2024

Bright Green Corporation says it will install a 102 MW solar field to power the electricity and heating requirements for its forthcoming $250 million Dalsem expansion project and commits to switch the existing facility currently burning natural gas and heavy oil to solar. are carbon neutral.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the publicly-owned utility in California's capital city, has changed its energy efficiency metric from avoided electricity consumption to avoided CO 2 emissions. This makes building electrification central to SMUD’s energy efficiency efforts. A holistic vision.

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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. ” Hawaii already has plans to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2045. ” Storage is not enough.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. Spanish and Portuguese energy companies are beginning to shift into green hydrogen production. ExxonMobil Corp.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. Department of Energy blamed on falling productivity and export bottlenecks. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will stop backing fossil fuel energy projects in 2021, except those using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or offsets to cancel out their emissions. The EIB's new financing criteria will make lending to gas projects very difficult. New era for gas.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The companies said the project is designed to reduce “demand on local energy infrastructure,” a common concern as the U.S. Enel X, which grew out of energy giant Enel’s acquisition of EnerNOC, Demand Energy and eMotorWerks, will build the system along with an EPC developer and own it long-term.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Subsequently, Senate Bill 32 strengthened the state’s GHG emissions reductions target to at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and former Governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-55-18 established a second statewide goal to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and no later than 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. The Global CCS Institute, a carbon capture think tank based in London, called the EU's strategy ambitious, but warned against picking winners.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Such regulations are critical to reaching our energy-transition targets and paving the way to a net-zero future. Pragmatic changes will help These regulations are a key part of building a clean and affordable electricity grid at a time when demand is growing. This would undermine grid reliability.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Renovate buildings and redesign cars to run entirely on electricity, power them with renewable energy from the sun and wind, and bing, bam, boom, you’ve just knocked out a majority of the carbon entering the atmosphere. But last week, the energy crisis in Texas put the risks of electrifying everything in sharp relief.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The European Union’s newly proposed Green Deal raises “significant questions” for the oil and gas industry, analysts said, but the plan was broadly welcomed by companies across the energy sector. These would levy carbon taxes on imports to prevent the offshoring of emissions by firms that shift activities overseas.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

On Thursday the 19 th of August, the Climate Council in partnership with the law firm Shearman & Sterling, hosted an intriguing panel to discuss a major topic in the energy industry: Will low-carbon hydrogen be the silver bullet in APAC? But the question remained, “how low carbon is low-carbon hydrogen?”

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

General Assembly that the country is aiming to be carbon-neutral by 2060. It will likely include more details on the first stages of this path to net-zero carbon. GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. Building a grid and power market fit for net-zero carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” Rougeot called the scene “painfully ironic.”

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist planning nationwide network of renewable biomethane refuelling stations for trucks and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) as firms seek alternatives to diesel for their fleets. 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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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions against Russia have highlighted Europe’s vulnerability when it comes to energy security. At present, the EU receives around 40% of its gas, 46% of its coal, and 30% of its oil from Russia — and has no easy substitutes if supplies are disrupted. What does this entail? “The

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Shell this afternoon began operations of Europe's largest PEM hydrogen electrolyser at its Energy and Chemicals Park in south west Germany, pledging to deliver up to 1,300 tonnes of green hydrogen a year from the trail-blazing facility. Today, 30 per cent of German demand for hydrogen already comes from North Rhine-Westphalia's industry.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Together the three utilities are proposing to demonstrate hydrogen blending in three different situations, to improve understanding of the use of hydrogen in California’s existing natural gas infrastructure and how it may be delivered at scale across the state. With approval, they should be under way by 2024.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

"I look forward to tapping into that desire and building on the strong foundation that Bob has built as we meet society’s demand for cleaner, better energy," he added. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Looney is a big believer in the future role of natural gas. But comparing gas to coal isn’t good enough on its own.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 18, 2020

Important new modeling from the University of California at Berkeley and GridLab, led by Energy Innovation, reports the United States can reliably hit 90 percent clean energy by 2035, without increasing customer bills from today’s levels. Plummeting costs for wind, solar, and energy storage are the driving force behind this trend.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2020

To date, gigawatt-scale announcements in the hydrogen sector have been dominated by the likes of Shell, BP and Equinor, typically involving plans for meeting large sources of existing, gigawatt-scale demand in industrial clusters and in some cases their own oil refining operations. “Who's going to be buying this hydrogen?

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

Chris Jackson has stepped down from his role as chair of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UKHFCA), arguing that he is no longer able to advocate in good faith on behalf of 'blue' hydrogen made using fossil fuel gas coupled with carbon capture technology.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Hydrogen, liquified natural gas and technologies geared at improving the energy efficiency of ships are among Shell's proposed solutions to decarbonise its shipping business. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is also set to play a "critical role" in making Shell's shipping operations more sustainable, according to yesterday's update.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

In draft guidance published last December, the Treasury Department and the IRS proposed awarding the most valuable hydrogen tax credits only to projects that are generated using renewable energy, such as wind and solar, and that also meet other conditions designed to make sure that production actually lowers greenhouse gas emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. for the whole of the third quarter, the first time that has happened, according to research by the Carbon Brief. Fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix was 10 times larger than renewables’ a decade ago, Carbon Brief's data shows.

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