Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

DOE announces 52M for 31 hydrogen projects; issues RFI for projects to which Avangrid responds. million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and support DOE’s recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative. million from the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM).

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. EVs, green hydrogen and energy storage. In Minnesota, Gov.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , carbon dioxide emissions , petroleum supply and demand, and global natural gas trends. Fossil fuels are primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen. When hydrocarbons are combusted, the carbon forms carbon dioxide and the hydrogen forms water vapor.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Hydrogen has made headlines globally as a vital component of future energy systems. The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. What is hydrogen? This is known as blue hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of October 1, 2023, the EU’s CBAM has entered into its transitional phase The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a groundbreaking strategy devised by the European Union (EU). It’s designed to equalize the price of carbon between domestic products and imports, thereby ensuring fair competition in terms of carbon costs.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, a look at oil supply and demand trends, and an examination of natural gas trends. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It will focus on the feasibility of using nuclear power as an energy source to power steam assisted gravity drainage process , also known as SAGD. So you would be eliminating the emissions because you’re eliminating the burning of natural gas to oil, the water to create the steam.”

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Adding further uncertainty to B.C.’s

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind. Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles. France built nuclear power. Iceland tapped geothermal. The US ultimately found fracking.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen. When hydrocarbons are combusted, the carbon forms carbon dioxide and the hydrogen forms water. Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. There may be on-going debates about how best to use hydrogen - should it be deployed to heat buildings, provide energy storage, decarbonise heavy industry, or fuel trains and planes?

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The major decarbonization pathways modeled by Afry (formerly AF Pöyry), an international engineering, design and advisory firm, envision big contributions from either new nuclear or carbon capture and storage (CCS) — neither of which is an energy system front-runner at present. Potential criticisms of the study.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

He also suggested that the UK and UAE could collaborate more closely on the development of nuclear small modular reactors, and hydrogen – which critics say is being heavily pushed by the fossil fuel industry. Rees-Mogg suggested that the development of nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) could be an outlet for quick investment.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. National Grid ESO itself has a goal of being able to support a carbon-free grid by 2025, which it is on track to achieving. The results of consultations on the funding of new nuclear power are also expected soon.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

property designed to capture, remove, use or sequester carbon dioxide emissions; e. equipment designed to refine, electrolyze or blend any fuel, chemical or product that is renewable or low-carbon and low-emission; f. other advanced energy property designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as may be determined by the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Aurora Energy Research contends thermal power generation equipped with hydrogen and CCS offers most cost-effective pathway to a net zero power system. Power sector decarbonisation is frequently characterised as the low hanging fruit of the UK's net zero transition.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

New technology is making carbon emission-free pink H2 possible at a very large scale. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. Those are: hydrogen, aluminum oxide (alumina), and exothermic heat.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Clearly a lot of new carbon-free generation will be required. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Green hydrogen is generated from low-carbon power or renewable energy. Clean and Sustainable Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus as possible on energy security issues.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. That is how over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is currently produced. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

billion tonnes of CO2 - was driven in large part by energy systems reducing their reliance on gas in response to soaring wholesale prices and increasing their use of coal. Carbon emissions from coal grew by 1.6 per cent thanks to a wave of gas-to-coal switching in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free. Now the Biden administration and some members of Congress are proposing to decarbonize the power sector by 2035. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. Additionally, President Biden's FY 2022 budget request includes $400 million for hydrogen activities, compared to $285 million in FY 2021.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Overall it paints a hugely complex, but largely holistic picture for how the UK generates, manages, and uses heat and power, as it strives to deliver on its net zero emissions goals. The UK is to deliver the 'world's first' net zero emissions trading scheme.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. In this scenario, a zero-carbon electricity system would drive wholesale power costs of about $90 per megawatt-hour on average. trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Provisional data shows greenhouse gas emissions have fallen more than 45 per cent since 1990, as low carbon power again reached record levels in 2019. The UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2 per cent lower than in 1990, following a 3.6

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

He (conveniently) argued the government is "committed to give more power to councils to make their own decisions on planning issues". It is an argument I am sure will be noted by Suffolk County Council, which has refused planning permission for EDF's proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station. tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

The pricing system means that soaring international gas prices have sent electricity bills skyrocketing in recent months, despite over half the electricity in the UK each year being generated by alternative low carbon sources such as renewables and nuclear.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It also has set and met ambitious clean energy and has the potential to produce an enormous amount of clean electricity, heat, and hydrogen with offshore wind and nuclear power. This will result in the UK seeing the second largest reduction in consumer gas demand in Europe and the third largest drop in consumer oil demand.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.    Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. ” Five pathways to zero carbon. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity.

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