Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

H2Hub Summit: Meet the Winners The H2Hub Summit: Meet the Winners , organized by HYSKY Society, stands as a landmark event in the evolving landscape of clean energy. Tickets are just $30 and are on sale now HERE This event uniquely positions itself at the intersection of policy, technology, and industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the expansion of the liquified natural gas export capacity along the Gulf Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Efforts by oil and gas companies to build massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on B.C.’s s west coast have faced prohibitively high costs, scathing critiques from climate activists, and fierce opposition from some Indigenous communities. Climate Science Denial and Government Funding.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

This includes an internal due diligence report on Shell’s dire human rights and environmental record that had been compiled but then dismissed, along with emails showing the museum director praising and helping to promote Shell’s widely criticised “climate plan”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2023

Executives from the world’s largest gas companies are meeting in British Columbia this week for a conference marketing Canada’s liquefied natural gas industry as providing “low-carbon” energy solutions to the world. Clean gas is a dirty lie,” said Alexandra Woodsworth, a campaigner with the B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

In December, a joint DeSmog-Drilled investigation and report detailed how brand studios at the Financial Times , Reuters, The New York Times , The Washington Post and other trusted media are creating a wide range of content for the oil and gas industry, ranging from videos and podcasts to sponsored newsletters, advertorials, and events.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Our grid isn't ready for climate change. million people into freezing darkness, some Californians on Twitter were gleefully dunking on those same Texas politicians for not keeping electricity flowing during their extreme weather events. . Energy resilience, like climate change, is not partisan. Sarah Golden.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Supporters of the natural gas industry continue to gaslight the public about the role it plays in climate change by labeling it as a clean energy source.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

is well down the path of implementing one of North America’s strongest climate plans. needs to scale up its efforts to address and communicate the very real costs of climate change for the province. The plan is working: B.C. Finally, B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The institute previously bragged that one of its biggest intellectual contributions over 35 years in Canada was bringing “to public attention the uncertainties of climate science.” . If and when this gas export terminal goes ahead it could produce carbon emissions equivalent to adding 800,000 gas-burning cars to roads in a year.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But after seeing how they made life more tolerable for Texans without power last week, she’s not so sure she’s ready to make the change. Making the electric grid more resilient to extreme weather is urgent, regardless of decisions about gas. Some sources of renewable natural gas are major polluters affecting nearby communities.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2022

NFTA has 330 buses in its fleet, which are powered by diesel engines, diesel-electric hybrids or compressed natural gas. At an unveiling event, NFTA executive director Kimberly Minkel thanked National Grid for its grant and project support.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected officials to send to federal regulators in support of the project. billion cubic feet of natural gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Over the last 30 years, the transition away from centralized energy infrastructure, global climate events like the devastating hurricanes of 2017, extreme volatility in the cost of fossil fuels, and a growing demand for renewable energy have shaped an unfamiliar theoretical term into not only a buzzword but a cornerstone of infrastructure planning.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Dear Colleagues, The Fifth National Climate Assessment was released this week, with the jaw-dropping finding that climate-related extreme weather events are costing the U.S. Talk to your Members of Congress and the new Speaker’s office about the risks that climate change poses to your business (see NCA5 examples by region ).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

False Solutions Experts have warned that exaggerating the potential of hydrogen could delay action on tackling climate change by obstructing the rollout of renewables and keeping the fossil fuel industry alive. As a result, ‘grey’ fossil-based hydrogen (made with natural gas or coal) makes up 96 percent of existing supplies globally.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Pathways is also interested in developing hydrogen, which it calls “clean hydrogen,” although the overwhelming majority of commercially viable hydrogen produced in Canada uses natural gas as both a feeder fuel and primary energy source. Public transit remains “an underfunded climate solution,” Rougeot said.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

based storage and inverter company, has launched a new home backup system that combines three technologies: solar, storage and natural-gas or diesel generators. OutBack Power, the U.S.-based More homeowners are turning to solar and storage systems as wildfires, heat waves and other disasters cause power outages in parts of the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A number of the agency’s clients are expected to use their stands in the zone to promote the controversial and widely discredited use of hydrogen for home heating, which is favoured by the industry as it can combine with natural gas, and its existing infrastructure.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Rather than thinking of these events as a one-off stroke of bad luck, consider that this soon might be the new normal. Climate change is driving more extreme weather events, including heat waves, everywhere, all while the grid faces increasing demand from electrification of cars, buses, businesses and homes.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Technip Energies held its first external Innovation Challenge on net-zero maritime shipping solutions, with the support of Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor focused on scaling climate technologies with deep community impact. Eight contestants pitched their innovations during a three-hour hybrid event on November 14, 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy has already threatened the credit ratings of some of the solar and wind farms, cogeneration plants, and other independent power generators that rely on the utility to buy their electricity through power purchase agreements.

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Sunrun

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The Ugly Facts of Climate Change It’s hard to speak about climate change without using frightening statistics. Just this month the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1 stated that our planet’s temperature is rising at an alarming rate, and faster than we initially thought.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

As the world grapples with the impacts of climate change and disruption of energy markets, the momentum gained by the clean energy transition in 2021 is a beacon of hope, pointing the way forward,” remarked Lisa Jacobson, BCSE President. “As electricity demand met by natural gas and renewable energy increased to 59%.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. billion to turn North Africa into a regional natural gas hub, and $830 million in oil projects over the next two years, the analysis found.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 2, 2022

National Grid Gas Transmission has been granted £1.1m ($1.5m) funding for 10 projects, advancing work investigating the use of hydrogen in the national gas system and further unlocking gas’s role as a key enabler in the transition to net zero. Data and Digitalisation]. Data and Digitalisation]. Data and Digitalisation].

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. The BBC regularly covers climate change and the dangers of climate misinformation. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2024

TotalEnergies is also present in northern Mozambique, where a $20 billion natural gas project has exacerbated the conflict in an already unstable region. Africa is already feeling the impacts of the climate crisis — a crisis that is caused by burning TotalEnergies’ fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. While California nominally has enough resources online (see figure), NERC says a combination of problems could lead to a shortfall during an extreme event.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are several ways to produce hydrogen , but almost all of it currently in production uses methane (natural gas) as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production. From an economic standpoint, then, it makes better sense to just burn natural gas. I mage: Slide from Zapantis presentation.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Climate change is directly caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity and heat production, buildings, transportation, land use and degradation, and most importantly, industry. Basic tenets of SDG 13 : Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Improve climate change education.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The stakes for wintertime grid reliability will increase as more homes and buildings transition to electric heat, but long-duration energy storage could also help utilities manage the grid during scorching hot weather that is also becoming more common in Minnesota due to climate change. Form Energy’s “iron air” battery.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Worried about the climate crisis? You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Global leaders belly-flopped well short of the pool at a pivotal climate-protection summit, even after the United Nations declared a “code-red” emergency. .

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2019

With four out of five judges ruling in favour of the federal government, in addition to a similar decision in the Saskatchewan court in May, it could not be clearer that fighting climate change is more important than fighting each other. to 6 times more likely because of climate change, while the 2017 record-breaking B.C.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. They need to not cause any more fires,” Maze-Rothstein said.

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