Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

A cohesive value chain is essential for realizing hydrogen’s potential, encompassing low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure, which align with end-user demand. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR). Each segment poses unique technical and socio-economic challenges. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

By Ben Ratner At the behest of the American Petroleum Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to eliminate nationwide limits on methane pollution, sending America’s natural gas industry backwards to the days of uncontrolled emissions. In a climate conscious world, there is less demand for dirty gas.

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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. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Now with funding of $4.3

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Asset owners will demand no less of asset managers. For example, in the oil and gas sector, investors can assess progress and pace toward net-zero by monitoring companies’ methane emissions, flaring intensity, capital expenditures, lobbying and governance. degrees Celsius scenario. Contributors. Gabe Malek. Finance & Investing.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Kenney wrote that “PG&E supports state and local government policies that promote all-electric new construction when it is feasible and cost-effective.” “As far as we know, they’re the first investor-owned combined gas and electric utility that supports an all-electric building code.”

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s a bet on a particularly draining use of our electricity system over other priorities in need of power. s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. Many of B.C.’s

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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

MAY 29, 2024

Lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Energy back emissions improvements claims. This includes in the form of “grid emissions” when electricity is used to power some of the H2 production methods, pointed out the lawmakers in their letter.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 With agriculture estimated to have been the source of 48% of the UK’s methane emissions in 2020 – an increase of 1.3% This biogas can then be used to produce heat and electrical power via a CHP engine or upgraded to biomethane and injected into the gas grid or used to power vehicles, including tractors.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” Decarbonizing Long-haul Trucking: The Emerging Role of Hydrogen Insights From Industry Expert Electric batteries have proven to be one of the best alternatives for decarbonizing light-duty vehicles while ammonia and green methanol are becoming increasingly popular options for marine applications.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 24, 2024

Deposit of natural hydrogen could be the largest ever found and enough to meet global demand for two years Hydrogen has long been seen as a wonder fuel that does not give off greenhouse gases when used, and which could help replace fossil fuels. Lots of power is required and it is expensive.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Globally, coal meets the majority of thermal fuel demands for both steel and cement. Green hydrogen. Biomethane.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. Significantly increasing renewables in the energy mix, while meeting growing demand for power, requires greater innovation.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. percent a year on average through 2050.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

But Equinor is developing offshore wind systems, even partnering with the UK’s bp to supply electricity to New York City. Norway also leads the world in uptake of electric vehicles (EVs), now at 60% of new sales, due to national policy incentives like reducing VAT and carbon tax reductions for EVs. The appetite of legacy U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Global demand for gas has soared in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine, sparking a scramble by U.S. The industry realizes they have a problem with methane emissions,” Tim Donaghy, a senior research specialist for Greenpeace USA and a coauthor of the report, told DeSmog. Data Problems Obscure Methane Emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. Foremost, the quantity of supply developed will be predicated on where demand may be secured. The push and pull of supply and demand.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Green hydrogen - made by splitting water's hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources - is a small fish in the "energies pond." Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

At its full potential, AD could meet 25% of the UK domestic gas demand and insulate customers from rocketing energy prices, which in turn send the costs to farmers and the food industry spiralling. The UK is a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions by 30% against 2020 levels. C”, he adds. “The

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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. While fracking raises concerns over water contamination, methane emissions, and induced seismicity, extracting geological hydrogen holds the promise of mitigating many of these issues.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The setup uses a set of resistive gas sensors of divergent selectivity and sensitivity to detect VOCs such as methane, ethanol, toluene, methylene, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde and ammonia in air samples, according to researcher Andrzej Kwiatkowski. Potential applications include air quality analysis and patient health screening.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Since these standards were developed, the demand for carbon offsets has increased over the years. It’s estimated that it will be ~51 years for oil, ~114 years for coal, and ~53 years for gas reserves to diminish, based on current demand estimates and reserves. To facilitate this rise, other certification programs have come into effect.

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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. 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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

National Grid US had developed a vision highlighting Long Island as an ideal location to cluster hydrogen production, storage, and demand. The National Grid vision proposes that Long Island hydrogen production could be powered by nearby offshore wind electricity generation. Hydrogen has no carbon atom.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Below you’ll learn what subsidies and incentives are available to help your business transition to clean energy and cut fossil-fuel energy demand and the costs associated. Fossil fuel operations generate over one-third of all methane emissions from human activity. These incentives are set to launch on 31st May 2023.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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. But CO2 is emitted in manufacturing hydrogen from methane and so it’s not climate friendly; hydrogen manufactured this way is known as gray hydrogen.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

EVM says its planned Battery Chemicals Complex will position Saudi Arabia as “a global midstream hub for the production of high-purity chemicals required by electric vehicle and battery cell manufacturers.” EVM’s gas allocation is equivalent to a daily amount of 6,240,000 cubic feet of methane gas.

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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. That’s a different challenge than that faced by summer-peaking systems that can expect solar power and energy storage to help meet air conditioning demand.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Electricity generation was an early focus. Farm-to-fork emissions are on a par with transport and electricity, said the wonk, yet progress has been lamentably slow in comparison. And, rIght now, many Democrats are demanding radical climate action. More recently, the transport sector began to move away from fossil fuels.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

Instead of locking in fossil fuels for decades to come — and reducing the incentive for people to electrify their homes — why not make it easier to switch to electric heating instead? In Michigan, natural gas is the primary heat source for more than three-quarters of households and the leading source of electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

F), according to the 2021 Global Electricity Review by think tank Ember. . While headlines tout the death of coal, the reality is that coal remains the world’s single largest power source, generating over a third of global electricity in 2020. Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And as the world moves towards a more renewables-based system, the key is security of electricity supply. This will be enabled by higher investment in robust and digitalised grid systems, accompanied by a role for batteries and demand response measures for short-term flexibility.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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