Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Analysis published by Aurora Research notes that UK could become hydrogen leader but warns regulatory issues must be tackled in forthcoming hydrogen strategy.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

National Grid's Antony Green sets out the company's wish list for the government's hotly-anticipated Hydrogen Strategy which is expected to emerge summer 2021. With expectations for 2021 as a milestone year for climate change as COP26 fast approaches, hydrogen is one of a few key areas government is exploring that could help achieve net zero.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

It could also be accompanied by action on skilling up, with the government's Green Jobs Taskforce set to report soon, and building on the recent Skills for Jobs White Paper to tool up a generation of engineers, assessors and technicians. Hydrogen's role in the future of buildings is currently uncertain.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

In response, many of our G7 peers are pouring billions into cutting carbon from their heavy industries. As global net-zero commitments mount, demand for cleaner products is increasing. Budget 2023 included investment tax credits for carbon capture and clean hydrogen.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That's even before you include the PM's pledge to set a new 2030 carbon reduction target of 68 per cent below 1990 levels, and last week's Climate Ambition Summit, which saw the UK government outline its plans to end financial support for fossil fuels overseas. And finally to the Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

The sector has seen a 45 per cent reduction in current demand and signs of a protracted downturn and slow recovery. The impact was swift and extensive and we most likely have not seen the full extent of it as customers will have built up their stock during the lockdown, which will depress future demand.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Ministers have vowed to establish the "world's first net zero industry" and confirmed plans to cut carbon emissions generated from these carbon intensive sector by two-thirds by 2035 and 90 per cent by mid-century against a 2018 baseline. These are transformational goals and delivering on them would be an historic achievement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The UK's oil and gas industry watchdog has the first time set an obligation for the sector to contribute to the nation's 2050 net zero emissions target, in a revised strategy submitted to Parliament yesterday aimed at driving as clean and efficient production as possible "as long as this demand exists".

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Every car, van, replacement boiler, and the entire electricity grid must be zero carbon by the early 2030s, it said, and the economy as a whole must prepare to deliver deep decarbonisation at a pace that until recently had been expected to take an additional 15 years. He added such an approach was "really essential to meet the Paris goal".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Britain's biggest business group urges government to fast track rollout of host of green technologies, including new CCUS, hydrogen, EV, and renewables projects. As COP26 chair and holder of the G7 presidency next year, the UK has a unique opportunity to prove itself a global climate leader post-Brexit," Fairbairn will say.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Electrifying transport, buildings, and carbon-intensive industrial sectors in order to run them on clean energy sources could slash greenhouse gas emissions in the UK by as much as 60 per cent between now and 2050, according to new analysis today from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The analysis also highlights how a new generation of nuclear projects could underpin other green industries by enabling the production of low carbon hydrogen and other fuels while also supporting district heating projects through the deployment of local small modular reactors (SMRs).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This will bring us closer to achieving the overarching ambitions set out in the government's Energy White Paper published last autumn, as well the publication of the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan in the summer. Much of the system flexibility in the past has been provided by fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Since Covid struck, EVs and plug-in hybrids have emerged as the runaway success story for a market that has otherwise seen demand for new vehicles collapse across the board. A surge in new SUVs during the 2020s would result in high carbon vehicles being on the roads deep into the late 2030s and beyond, UKERC warns.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. But she voiced her disappointment that the research did not consider the role of biomethane, biomass or geothermal energy in delivering low carbon gas and heating in the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The initial findings of the review are to be published in the government's long-awaited Energy White Paper, although a publication date for the much-anticipated document has not yet been announced.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Indeed, a combination of biofuels and hydrogen will be important in the decarbonisation of maritime and aviation, another welcome point in the plan, and something I also see a focus for in my role as a member of the Jet Zero Council. This is a critical year for our planet, and for the UK companies seeking to deliver a sustainable future.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand. The UK leads the world "in the long term solutions to climate change, in wind, solar, hydrogen, CCS nuclear", Johnson said, and is now committed to leading the world in zero emission aviation through its new 'Jet Zero Council'.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The government today confirmed that a new 10 point green recovery plan is imminent, but for now at least long-awaited net zero policy measures, including the energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy, remain stuck in the pipeline. As things currently stand, the UK is on track to miss all its targets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Think tank Green Alliance today provided a broad overview of the current state of UK climate policy, with the publication of its latest report on progress against the country's short term carbon budgets and long term net zero goals. The world is moving very clearly in one direction - away from carbon and toward net zero.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year. The plan was to unleash renewable and low carbon heating, meet renewable energy goals and develop a low carbon heat market ready for mass deployment in the 2020s.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios analysis paints a compelling picture of the potential for an energy system replete with hydrogen, CCS and millions of EVs. While both CCS and hydrogen technologies are in their relative infancy today, they are critical to the UK meeting its legally-binding net zero target, it stresses.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Reforming power pricing to take better account of regional patterns of supply and demand could hold the key to accelerating the development of a net zero emission electricity system, collectively saving British consumers £2.1bn a year on their bills in the process, a report by Policy Exchange and Aurora Energy Research today claims.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The scheme offers grants worth up to £5,000 - rising to £10,000 for low income households - against the cost of approved energy efficiency measures such as insulation, heat pumps, and hydrogen-ready boilers. This will give the reassurance needed to the building industry to invest in the scheme," he said.

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AutoGrid

MAY 16, 2023

While microgrids are designed to provide resiliency when the larger grid goes down, VPPs aggregate decentralized renewable energy resources, energy storage, and demand response to balance the larger grid. Demand Response (DR) is the most fundamental of grid services a VPP can provide. Department of Energy (DOE).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "Tackling climate change is the one of the most urgent shared endeavours of our lifetimes, demanding bold action from every nation to prevent catastrophic global warming. We must remember too that the climate will not respond to targets, it will respond to carbon cuts.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Supply and demand will have equal value and flexibility at all levels will keep costs low.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The oil and gas industry has warned that a windfall tax could jeopardise its ability to fund new offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture projects, which is a legitimate concern. This needs to be at the heart of UK government policies, yet it has been sidelined in the white paper.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

But experts fear the opportunity to engineer a green recovery could be waning, as more and more governments move to shore up carbon intensive industries in response to a looming global recession. All in all, a large scale green recovery investment programme could both put the UK on track to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 and create 1.6

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