Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels. She never met a fossil fuel lobbyist she didn’t love.” ”She We have no excuse not to transition – it’s a greed thing,” said Power. 100 percent WWS,” he said.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  100B of deals went down in the Permian basin and Shell abandoned a $100M per year carbon credit pipeline.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

Improving the thermal performance of UK homes could deliver climate and energy security at a fraction of the cost of nuclear power, argues Kingspan's Rita Singh. However, the negative impacts of continued North Sea exploration could be felt for decades or even centuries. The answer is good, old-fashioned energy efficiency.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. Net negative emissions are achieved when gross negative emissions match or exceed gross positive emissions. Why negative emissions?

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. For nearly two decades nuclear power had been officially excluded from the multilateral UN climate negotiations process.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. Versatile Fuel.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Drax CEO Will Gardiner said: "The government's Net Zero Strategy, published today, is a key step forward as the UK looks towards a zero-carbon future.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. On a mass basis, it is 9.3 Hydrogen from Electrolysis.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

An electricity grid almost entirely powered by zero carbon energy sources is not only technically feasible based on existing technologies; it is also more secure and cost-effective that that which is in operation today. Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Recent weeks have seen a new 2030 emissions target, the National Infrastructure Strategy, the Treasury's Spending Review, the confirmation of an end to overseas financing of fossil fuel infrastructure, and, of course, Boris Johnson's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir , and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money , the documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Ad Net Zero is calling for immediate, collective industry action to help achieve real net zero carbon emissions from the development, production and media placement of advertising by the end of 2030. On the same basis, the industry as a whole could have a carbon footprint of close to one million tonnes.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Critics argued that the agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels was weak and riddled with loopholes, lacking concrete steps and allowing continued reliance on fossil fuels. COP president Sultan Al-Jaber, head of the UAE’s state oil company, faced accusations of using his position to promote fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia's war in Ukraine - which itself was completely unexpected by pretty much everyone this time last year, bar a handful of vindicated intelligence agents - could yet result in a stunning victory for Ukraine, a stinging defeat for tyrannical authoritarianism, and a step change in the pace of the West's transition away from fossil fuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. This may prove to be terminal. Money is gone.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

work toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in all areas of the nation’s economy by midcentury, reaching net negative emissions beyond that. Notably, the House committee also included the potential for carbon-free nuclear power in its plan but called for a thorough assessment of the technology’s costs and potential risks.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. This dynamic is actually what started the FERC-PJM situation in the first place.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Clean power producers would be eligible to receive 1.5 The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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