Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Europe’s electricity markets in 2030 – design options How DSOs can play a vital role in Europe’s hydrogen economy. This will need to be timed with the future system needs and the gradual phase-out of fossil fuel generation. Have you read? The vision is based on four ‘building blocks’ that ENTSO.E

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Europe's biggest gas pipeline company unveils multi-billion Euro investment plan to transition to hydrogen and biomethane. The plan designates €6.7bn of investment towards regulated energy infrastructure, focused on hydrogen-ready replacements for gas, as well as digitisation and decarbonisation programmes.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

BP and Ørsted will partner on a 50-megawatt electrolyzer in Germany in the first stage of a green hydrogen partnership. The initial 50 MW phase will produce 9,000 tons of green hydrogen per year, enough to displace 20 percent of the refinery’s existing fossil-fuel derived hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We began our sustainability journey over 25 years ago, and since then have made good progress, particularly in cutting carbon emissions. By 2030, Dow will reduce its net annual carbon emissions by five million metric tons versus its 2020 baseline. And by 2050, Dow intends to be carbon neutral. Our commitments.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most H2 is produced using fossil fuels like natural gas, but can the right methods make that green? The term “clean hydrogen” doesn’t have a specific official definition, but on the whole, it tends to refer to H2 that is produced in a way that doesn’t generate carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Transforming Mining Vehicles and The Impact of Hydrogen Fuel Cells on Heavy-Duty Mobility In an exciting development, General Motors (GM) and Komatsu, an industry leader in mining and construction equipment, have joined forces. These fuel cells are not only lightweight but also quick to refuel.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

Volvo Trucks has announced that its heavy electric trucks are to soon include parts made of "fossil-free" steel, as part of the automakers' plan to slash the carbon footprint of its zero-emission vehicle range.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

Industry Heatrix GmbH, Germany, [link] Heatrix’s wants to competitively replace fossil fuels in energy-intensive industries by converting renewable electricity into storable, high-temperature process heat. No carbon-neutral, cost-competitive and easy-to-integrate solution currently exists.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Steel produced using hydrogen at HYBRIT plant in Sweden delivered to Volvo which is set to produce its first vehicles using the material by the end of 2021. In April, Volvo committed to producing its first vehicles using fossil-free steel by the end of 2021 with small scale production starting next year.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Shell is chasing carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner and the project in the Netherlands offers a glimpse of how it hopes to get there. CrossWind plans to have the 759-megawatt offshore wind farm up and running in 2023 with solar, storage and hydrogen elements thrown into the mix. Shell’s green hydrogen cluster.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

Protium CEO Chris Jackson claims blue hydrogen risks locking UK into reliance on fossil fuels as he quits the trade body. Several governments around the world have announced they intend to subsidise production of the low carbon fuel over the coming years as they seek to wean hard-to-abate industries off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Military alliance announces target to cut emissions 45 per cent by 2030, Australia explores carbon pricing plans, and all the big green stories from around the world this week. However, military emissions are often exempted from countries' official carbon targets. NATO confirms plan to deliver net zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. 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.

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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? The controversy around blue hydrogen. The controversy around blue hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. Most of the early-stage work on hydrogen’s grid storage potential is happening in Europe and Asia, but the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Collaboration will investigate uses for hydrogen at Uniper's retiring coal plants as it takes aim at becoming carbon neutral by 2035. Moreover, the firms are looking to explore opportunities to produce 'green' hydrogen at wind turbines, according to Reuters.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A port and fabrication yard in Scotland is planning to convert to green hydrogen as it looks to serve the carbon-conscious offshore wind sector. Now GEG is partnering with Iberdrola-owned Scottish Power to convert Nigg Energy Park to green hydrogen. Green hydrogen on the ground. Less carbon, more local content.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

German car giant aiming to ensure all its passenger vehicles are 'carbon neutral' across value chain by 2039 at the latest. The carmaker plans to use the fossil-free steel "as quickly as possible" to make prototype parts for car body shells, which it said were already being planned for next year.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

L-Charge’s “rapidly scalable off-grid ultra-fast chargers” use energy from locally-stored fossil fuels rather than the electrical grid. Using hydrogen or an LNG/H 2 mixture instead of connecting to the power grid connection is the most efficient way to provide power on-site,” says L-Charge CEO Dmitry Lashin.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a system capable of converting waste from sewage, food crops, algae and other renewable carbon sources into hydrogen fuel. It then removes carbon from wastewater, allowing the clean water to be reused.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Hanson UK teams up with Swansea University for research into replacing fossil fuels in cement production. With demand for cement and cement replacement products predicted to increase by a quarter by 2030, researchers and industry are working hard to reduce the level of carbon emissions associated with production.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Drax Access.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

Cynics made some mileage from the almost The Thick Of It -style title juggling, with the event undergoing a hasty re-christening from “green day” to “energy security day” (as Carbon Brief noted ), as it became clear that future oil and gas exploration remained a key component of the government’s plans. Hydrogen: Not a time to get blue?

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Progressive Energy says pilot project will provide evidence base to support switch from fossil fuel to hydrogen, as industry advances plans for UK's first hydrogen fuelled town. HyNet's 'industrial fuel switching' programme, which was awarded £5.3m

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2020

Within the span of a week, major utilities Iberdrola, Uniper and NextEra all made moves into the hydrogen market, in a reminder that the miracle molecule is not the sole domain of the oil and gas sector. Questions about the utility hydrogen model. In the U.S., gigawatt Okeechobee gas plant.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from politicians, green business figures, NGOs, investors and think tanks to the government's long-awaited Hydrogen Strategy. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "Today marks the start of the UK's hydrogen revolution. It has finally arrived.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Oil major announces intention to build major hydrogen plant just days after government grants funding for carbon transportation and storage network in region. Roughly two million tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted during the production process will be captured and sent for storage from the project annually by 2030, it added.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other examples — the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a massive dose of uncertainty. “We need more policy support than is available today.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

All of the zero-carbon fuel it produces will be shipped to international buyers in the form of ammonia. Helios should be fully operational by 2025 and produce 650 tons of hydrogen a day by means of electrolysis – enough for conversion to 1.2 Price of the hydrogen is expected to be in the range of $1.50

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Canadian Hydrogen. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

The aim of this emission classification system was to help organizations measure and manage their carbon footprint. These are fossil fuels burnt on site. Stationary combustion : These are the emissions released from the direct burning of fossil fuels to power heat sources (e.g. Fossil fuels (e.g.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

Train to be developed by retrofitting an old passenger car with hydrogen fuel cell technology over the coming months, in the hope the model can feature at the COP26 climate conference set to be held in the autumn in Glasgow, according to project lead Arcola.

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