Energy Central

MARCH 25, 2024

METHANE PYROLYSIS – DEVELOPMENT HISTORY Renewable electricity can be used to superheat natural gas inside a pyrolysis oven in a combustion-free and CO2-free process that produces hydrogen and carbon black, a powder-like form of pure carbon used in the production of tyres, plastics and inks.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In a bid to “boost the amount of hydrogen in the UK’s gas supply”, National Grid has signed up to trial a new kind of decarbonisation device developed by graphene technology firm Levidian (formerly Cambridge Nanosystems).

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Duke Energy has upped its net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, pledging to eliminate methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 through a combination of better pipeline leak detection, more efficient operations, and investing in renewable natural gas to reduce the carbon intensity of its supplies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As the world grapples with the unfolding climate crisis, the quest for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy solutions takes center stage. Leading the charge in this green revolution is Hazer Group, an innovative company poised to redefine the dynamics of hydrogen production.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Hazer Group produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen from methane, with high-quality graphite as a by-product rather than CO2. Green hydrogen – and how the water sector can engage with this ‘green, clean fuel source’ – was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by water technology firm Isle on 20 May. Capturing carbon.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Many governments and companies are looking into the possibility of using hydrogen fuel to replace natural gas in a spectrum of applications. Hydrogen fuel is being researched for a range of purposes as a blend with natural gas or to replace it altogether. Hydrogen is H2, while natural gas, also known as methane, is CH4. 

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

LOOP cracks methane into hydrogen and carbon, using the latter to produce graphene, a material valued for being stronger than steel and thinner than paper. This trial follows a successful feasibility study and will serve as the first demonstration of a LOOP100. This comes at a crucial time for the UK on its journey to net zero.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In recent years, hydrogen has emerged as a popular, alternative zero-emissions fuel. As the world seeks to reduce its carbon footprint, hydrogen is being explored as a possible option for long-haul trucking. No matter which format of hydrogen use is selected, the important thing is to take the jump into the hydrogen pool.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Scientists in France found a deposit of natural H2 earlier this year, but will it solve zero-carbon challenges? Early this summer, scientists in northern France discovered what has the potential to be a huge white hydrogen deposit , that is, naturally occurring H2. What is white hydrogen?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Collin Hamilton, COO and Chief Engineer at Verano Energy, one of the largest renewables independent power producers (IPP) in Latin America, shares his vision of the key role that ammonia is going to play in “the green hydrogen revolution” The US-born engineer’s firm is developing over 30GW of hydrogen projects in Chile and Peru.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

The phase one feasibility study will allow the consortium to assess the performance of various biogas samples in a small-scale LOOP system located at the Levidian Technology Centre in Cambridge and carry out detailed analysis to optimise the hydrogen output.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Resource management firm says it is advancing its programme to create a hydrogen gas supply infrastructure, a potentially important step towards decarbonising the UK energy supply. Future use of the hydrogen could include both replacing the use of fossil fuel on the gas grid and alternative zero carbon fuel for commercial vehicles.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores / Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration will funnel $7 billion into seven different “hubs” for hydrogen production across the US. Hydrogen combustion creates water vapor, unlike fossil fuels that release greenhouse gas emissions when burned.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

  The adoption of hydrogen as a fuel is a key aspect of the net zero initiative. According to 2022 statistics, global hydrogen use touched 95 million tonnes, a year-on-year increase of nearly 3%. As a fuel, hydrogen supports applications like heavy industries , seasonal energy storage, and long-haul transport.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The promise of a hydrogen economy to replace fossil fuels is commonly centered on the potential for ‘green hydrogen,’ generated via electrolysis of water with carbon-free electricity. But natural gas can also be converted to hydrogen without the carbon emissions, via another spectrum of the hydrogen palette.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Oil major Shell has started feasibility work on what would be the largest green hydrogen project in the world. The plans would see 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity established in the North Sea by 2030 purely for the manufacture of green hydrogen. They hope to develop a “European Hydrogen Valley” cluster.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 20, 2022

Hydrogen and carbon capture are both critical technologies in the fight against climate change and the road to economy-wide decarbonization. Osmoses , a Greentown Labs startup and a participant in the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative , has a solution: a remarkable molecular filtration membrane that’s highly effective at gas separation.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

In fall of 2020, hydrogen was big news—and it still is. In advance of the Government of Canada’s launch of a national hydrogen strategy , we released a report titled A New Hope , exploring Canada’s hydrogen opportunity and the potential it holds as a climate solution and for our economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

If there was a common theme at the second annual Canadian Hydrogen Convention, held in Edmonton Alberta this spring, it was the hydrogen industry’s effort to move away from “blue hydrogen” and other color-coded descriptions. Vera-Perez did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment. Howarth, the David R.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 24, 2023

When people talk about hydrogen these days, they almost always mention transportation. But from a practical perspective, transportation is not a great use for hydrogen. Hydrogen is really terrible to store and to transport,” said Chad Mason, founder and CEO of Advanced Ionics. But they’re not perfect.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The hydrogen economy is at the start of a period of growth, with the size of the global market predicted to be as much as US$12 trillion by 2050, according to recent research findings. As part of global decarbonisation efforts, hydrogen is expected to emerge as an alternative fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Few energy-related topics are getting as much attention at the moment as green hydrogen. Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. A hydrogen economy in the U.S. A hydrogen economy in the U.S. Replacing existing hydrogen feedstocks.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Sicily hydrogen innovation lab. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Now with funding of $4.3

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. But as we are putting the immediate dependency on Russia behind us, we must completely phase out gas and ramp up renewables,” explains William Gillett, EASAC’s Energy Programme Director. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It exhibits bioaffinity for the relevant methanogens during the anaerobic digestion and methanation of corn stover (which comprises the leaves, stalks, and cobs of corn). The study was published in Energy. The energy balance analysis also showed that the anaerobic fermentation process in the experimental group was 43.68%, which was 13.20

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

By Abbe Ramanan, Clean Energy Group. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) punched a hole in the fossil fuel industry’s hydrogen hype bubble when they denied a Title V Air Permit to NRG Energy’s Astoria Gas Turbine Power Plant last Wednesday. 95% of global hydrogen is grey hydrogen.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The next stage of the ‘Project Union’ hydrogen network project has kicked off with the award of the pre-Front End Engineering Design (pre-FEED) activities. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

When it comes to decarbonising the UK economy, many suggest the use of hydrogen for hard-to-electrify transport applications as indispensable. It also looked at the implications of using biomethane in place of fossil gas and hydrogen derived entirely from biogenic waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Government policy should increase its focus on the well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and overall energy efficiency performance of new fuels for transport, according to a new study by Zemo Partnership (formerly LowCVP).

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Far more unusual was the step taken last month by 10 major European energy companies and two of the continent's top renewable industry bodies, which joined up to launch a campaign touting a product that none of them actually sell. That product is renewable or "green" hydrogen. And renewable hydrogen is the best gas.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

New York-based National Grid US envisions a “hydrogen hub” on Long Island that it says will help the state and city meet net-zero carbon goals in the coming decades. National Grid US had developed a vision highlighting Long Island as an ideal location to cluster hydrogen production, storage, and demand.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 14, 2020

Hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe. When hydrogen is combusted, it forms water. Therefore, hydrogen can be used as a low-carbon fuel source. Hydrogen can be combusted directly, or it can be used in a fuel cell to produce electricity. Hydrogen Production. President George W.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. .

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EDF + Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Some worry that mega mergers are a bet against the energy transition. Consolidation might even be better for the environment Something else we know is that industry urgently needs to eliminate methane emissions. If you’re going to do a merger then climate, environment and energy transition must be central to deal making.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Utility Global, a Utah-based startup focused on solid oxide electrolyzer technology, claims to have received investment offers from oil majors after coming up with what it calls a hydrogen breakthrough. Blue hydrogen is one of several methods aiming to cut the carbon emissions associated with the industrial production of the gas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 11, 2021

Global offshore wind developer Ørsted has become the latest major player to pursue off-grid green hydrogen, a technology that could expand capacity for converting offshore wind power to zero-carbon energy. The Danish firm is collaborating with ITM Power, Siemens Gamesa and Element Energy on the Oyster project.

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