Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

New report from Green Finance Institute identifies barriers to investment in green heating systems and trails series of new demonstration projects. And a National District Heating Fund is planned, which would see a specialist investment fund focus on investing in district heating networks across the UK.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

British Gas owner says UK should target one million heat pumps by 2025 as it fears hydrogen domestic heating may be a decade away. As such it called for a raft of new green policy interventions that could help accelerate decarbonisation efforts and boost the economy as it seeks to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Carbon tax could generate £75bn by 2030 that could be investing into Covid-19 recovery efforts, emerging green technologies, and cushioning against any rise in household bills, campaign group argues.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development. Catalysing the hydrogen economy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Dual boost for emerging hydrogen economy as key trade bodies launch new initiative and Hyundai and Ineos ink agreement to advance fuel cell technology development. To fully decarbonise energy in Europe we need renewable hydrogen," said Giles Dickson, CEO of WindEurope.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cars and vans are on their way to carbon neutrality. As the batteries to make HGVs electric would be too big to stick on the side of a big truck, hydrogen has often been seen as a possible silver bullet for this huge contributor to emissions. This leads us on to another major system challenge: aviation.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Boris Johnson is set to cast a major vote of confidence in the UK's flourishing offshore wind sector tomorrow in a bid to help the country "build back greener", confirming a higher target for 40GW of capacity by 2030, backed by £160m investment towards state-of-the-art turbine manufacturing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development. Catalysing the hydrogen economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. Here BusinessGreen explores the eight key lessons from the the 170-page White Paper.

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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

Climate and energy were again high on the agenda at the recent G7 Summit following a record year of investment in clean energy. In response, many of our G7 peers are pouring billions into cutting carbon from their heavy industries. The investment isn’t simply an emissions imperative, it’s also an economic one.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Boris Johnson trails first stage in '10-point plan' for a green industrial revolution, as government confirms new £160m wind turbine manufacturing investment. So we are committing to new ambitious targets and investment into wind power to accelerate our progress towards net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

As part of our Gas Goes Green programme, we have just published Britain's Hydrogen Network Plan. The Plan sets out the work that all five of Britain's gas grid companies will deliver in the years ahead to replace natural gas with hydrogen and biomethane, to help us all slash our carbon emissions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Moreover, the NIC report notes that a wave of new strategy and policy documents are due to be published in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Hydrogen Strategy, a transport decarbonisation plan, the Integrated Rail Plan, and the English Devolution and Local Recovery white paper.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), RenewableUK, and Solar Energy UK have today jointly warned far more progress is needed in order to decarbonise the UK's power grid in line with climate goals and support the government's accompanying ambitions for electric vehicles, hydrogen production, and heat pumps.

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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 3, 2020

Prime Minister announces new target to cut emissions 68 per cent against 1990 levels by 2030, confirming a major tightening of carbon goals as part of UK's pre-COP26 submission to the Paris Agreement. net zero strategy that puts the UK in pole position for the green economy and on track for delivering our world leading targets.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

However, the authors warn the UK's seas are increasingly crowded and that an uncoordinated approach to the current offshore wind farm boom could hurt the potential for hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies in the region in the future. The North Sea is absolutely central to that whole mission.".

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng reflects on green progress made since the Energy White Paper was published by the government six months ago. Since then, we have all broken new ground and new records decarbonise our economy, create jobs and attract private investment.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. We're going to need to achieve a faster pace of emissions reduction over the next 30 years than we achieved in the last 30."

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

For the steel sector, this means major additional investment in decarbonising the power sector (including offshore wind and nuclear), delivery of a charging network for plug-in vehicles, development on carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen, and wider steps in industrial decarbonisation.

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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 29, 2021

Government touts High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs) to help decarbonise power and produce hydrogen. At present, over a third - 37 per cent - of the UK's carbon emissions are generated by heating, with industrial processes responsible for a significant portion, due in large part to the country's reliance on the fossil fuel gas for heating.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Major gaps in the UK's infrastructure plans compounded by a severe lack of public investment in key areas must be urgently addressed if the government is to avoid locking in environmentally damaging economic activity long into the future, Green Alliance has today warned.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The move is set to be welcomed by business and environmental groups, which have long argued that an over-arching net zero decarbonisation strategy would provide clear investment signals and help ensure all government departments prioritise climate action.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. and Europe. .”

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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Around £400bn of investment will be required in green infrastructure over the next decade if the UK is to meet its net zero target, according to a new report from PwC calling for a clear policy framework to help channel low cost capital into critical sectors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The government has been accused of coming up short with its much-vaunted green recovery plan, as further details on its £12bn low carbon investment package were released yesterday that suggested the new measures would only deliver around half of the CO2 cuts required to hit UK climate targets over the coming decade.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Prime Minister's much heralded action plan to reach Britain's goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 looks set to arrive on Wednesday. But to find out how many of them will actually turn into decisions, we will have to wait until the even longer-heralded Energy White Paper appears - hopefully - later this month.

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