DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is much sooner than what the blue hydrogen industry is estimating when advocating for the natural gas-based fuel to be widely adopted — essentially eliminating the only viable argument to invest in blue hydrogen. . “ CCS is carbon capture and storage.). Zero-C Hydrogen in a Circular Carbon Economy. kgH2 by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2021

Hermes has ordered a further 70 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuelled delivery trucks from commercial vehicle manufacturer IVECO, each of which cuts emissions by 80 per cent compared to diesel-run equivalents. Delivery giant to switch more than half its core hub fleet to low emission models.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

The company said it would announce its final decision on whether to remain a member of the QRC in October, meanwhile, as it urged the association to explicitly stop advocating for new coal power, and outwardly support the Paris Agreement, carbon pricing, and policies to encourage fuel switching to lower carbon power generation.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

More than $500 million to support the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles, as the government looks to bring the number of electric vehicles on Québec roads to two million. megatonnes (MT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). million metric tons (MMT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). .”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They’ve got some of the biggest and brightest minds in the world developing those low carbon solutions. Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions. Green hydrogen, produced using electricity is the only zero carbon option.“ They’ve got big money.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. Worried about the climate crisis?

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? 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. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Using H2 in Natural gas pipelines can make for an easier transition to a hydrogen energy economy. However, is math the answer to safely and effectively blend hydrogen with natural gas in pipelines? Supply stations designed to inject gas into the network at defined pressure and hydrogen blends.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

SPACs that have invested in the electric vehicle sector are certainly an example of the concept. A few examples: The rapidly developing renewable natural gas market is putting in place a meaningful number of cash?generating generating RNG production facilities that could be the subject of a roll?

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Beyond improving health, getting to 100 percent zero carbon electricity would also be a boon for the climate, eliminating more than a quarter of America’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2035.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 18, 2024

Bill Gates recently visited a climate tech startup in the Seattle area called Modern Hydrogen, which is focused on the production of hydrogen fuel and solid carbon.  Those products each have applications for lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The first is NW Natural in Portland, Oregon’s largest natural gas utility.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Public health benefits of reaching 100% zero carbon energy. The avoided climate damages between 2020 and 2035 total $500 billion, using the social cost of carbon developed under the Obama administration.

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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. Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

The investment in AGEL adds to an existing relationship between Total and Adani Group, which have worked together in the liquified natural gas market in India since 2018, when the oil major bought a one-third stake in Adani Gas, the partners said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Available figures compiled from various public corporate reports suggest that on average 80 percent of the businesses’ operations remain in oil and gas and, in one case, coal. It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 4, 2024

This type of H2 is made using methane pyrolysis and is creating a stir in the industry Also known as methane pyrolysis H2, turquoise hydrogen is an emerging form of this fuel that can be used in fuel cells without producing greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, it can be captured and used for other purposes.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

and net carbon emissions must not exceed 570 gigatonnes by mid-century. At its current rate, the world risks exhausting its remaining carbon budget by 2031, the report calculates. In this scenario, internal combustion vehicles would account for less than half of global sales by the end of the decade and be extinct by mid-century.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

By Maruša Romih Atmosphere Filled with Greenhouse Gases Those who claim climate change is a hoax will probably also tell you that all the greenhouse gases are produced by Earth naturally and overheating was inevitable, regardless of human activity. It is the human share of carbon dioxide which is changing and damaging the environment.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

NW Natural, the largest gas utility in Oregon, and Kokkola, Finland-based Hycamite TCD Technologies, signed a letter of intent to explore the production and distribution of clean hydrogen production using Hycamite’s novel methane pyrolysis technology. Hycamite’s technology helps to decarbonize industrial.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

NASDAQ: CLNE), the largest provider of renewable natural gas for the US transportation market. These two independent devices have been designed to reduce climate change emissions and allow the use of natural gas to fast-track the transition to a clean hydrogen future. Each device serves an important function.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

Oregon’s new Climate Protection Program (CPP) mandates an emissions cap for covered natural gas and transportation fuels rather than specific policy actions. However, land use policies are included in the NDC Scenario showing additional carbon sequestration opportunities in the bottom striped wedges. 1] Robbie Orvis, “A 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

Another pressing issue is methane leakage. During the drilling and fracking processes, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, can escape into the atmosphere. This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But despite plummeting clean tech costs and the rapid roll out of low carbon infrastructure, the world is still well short of the pace of change required to keep temperatures 'well below' 2C. The WMO also warned the increase in carbon dioxide from 2020 to 2021 was larger than the average annual growth rate over the last decade.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That said, the H2 is not produced using emissions free methods, as it is grey hydrogen, which is made using natural gas without mitigating its carbon emissions. ” In the paper, the researchers compared steam methane reforming methods of H2 production with and without the use of carbon capture.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

” Methane pyrolysis. Thomson’s research focuses on methane pyrolysis, a process that utilizes heat to break down natural gas into hydrogen gas and solid carbon particles and does not produce carbon dioxide. Yes No Page 6 of 7 What are the many ways to store hydrogen?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So says a new report from Deloitte highlighting the known, yet often underappreciated, challenges faced by utilities across the country promising to zero out their carbon impact by midcentury. That’s not news to those who’ve been closely tracking plans to reach net-zero carbon from major U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 7, 2024

  Researchers reported the discovery in a newly published study, claiming that this H2 deposit could lay the foundation for cleaner ways of sourcing H2 that can then be used as a low-carbon or zero-carbon fuel source.   The gas also contained much smaller amounts of methane and nitrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

The gleaming white Nikola Tre FCEV (fuel cell electric vehicle) was the star of the inaugural Canadian Hydrogen Convention , a three day gathering that aimed “to demonstrate Canada’s leadership in hydrogen.” . It was clear that all levels of government in Canada are banking on blue hydrogen to meet their carbon reduction targets.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

New standards for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) released last month are intended to help investors assess the soundness of companies' claims about their contribution to climate goals. The framework and a partnership between two organizations focused on carbon offset integrity aim to combat credibility issues in the VCM.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The PEHPr center will explore using catalysts and plasma created with renewable electricity to generate hydrogen, with the aim to boost energy efficiency and lower costs while also capturing, converting and storing carbon. These current methods mostly depend on steam reforming of natural gas, which emits huge amounts of CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A group of natural gas companies and utilities in Colorado formed a front group to oppose the state’s push towards electrifying homes and businesses, spreading misinformation about the cost of electric heating while also promoting false solutions to lock in the ongoing use of natural gas. Citing the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Road travel makes up around 70 per cent of Europe's total greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Electric vehicles (EVs) are at the forefront of the drive to decarbonise Europe's road transport and several of the continent's carmakers are transforming themselves into EV leaders. That implies more than one million vehicles.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year. The new analysis from electric vehicle subscription service Elmo confirms that China remains the largest EV market by sales, with nearly 3.4

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

The service brings together low-carbon technologies with innovative techniques to cover the whole spectrum of facilities management activities, Mitie said. It forms part of Mitie's ambitious Plan Zero commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2025, which was launched in February this year.

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