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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

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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Wind Power Giant Vestas Launches Venture Capital Fund

GreenTechMedia

Vestas Ventures will focus on four areas: long-duration storage and other grid flexibility technology; "power-to-X" technologies to use renewable electricity to produce carbon-neutral fuels; wind energy technologies; and sustainability and advanced materials.

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Vestas Promises to Be Completely Carbon-Free by 2030

GreenTechMedia

Vestas, the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines, announced plans to become carbon-neutral by 2030 without the use of any offsets, also stating it will lean heavily on its suppliers to shrink their own emissions. “We’re talking to all our main suppliers today,” Ekstrand said.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power. In 2020, the UK went without coal power for 180 of the 366 days.

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WoodMac: Energy Sector Faces ‘Darwinian Challenge’ to Tame Climate Change

GreenTechMedia

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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Global Briefing: Spain celebrates record low cost for onshore wind power

Business Green

The government is to auction 1,500MW annually between 2021 and 2025 under a wind-only pot and given this week's auction was delayed from 2020 a second auction is expected later this year. kg from low cost renewable power, already within 2025. Tesla reports first annual profit. Canadian firms sign up to new Plastics Pact.

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Elemental Recycling Offers Abundant, CO2e-neutral Graphite, Graphene, and Hydrogen

Greentown Labs

When Ian Bishop and Ron Presswood first brought their idea for a recycling process that would create carbon and hydrogen to a professor at a Tier One University, they were told it was scientifically impossible. We’re CO 2 e-neutral, because we use electric heat generated through solar and wind power.”.

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