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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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

Hydrogen is considered key in the energy transition and could lead to significant geoeconomic and geopolitical shifts, according to IRENA. IRENA estimates that hydrogen could cover up to 12% of global energy use by 2050 with almost one-third traded across borders – a higher share than natural gas today. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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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

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. Clean Energy and Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan toasted BP's plans and underscored that hydrogen would play a major role in decarbonising many parts of the UK's economy.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, recent analysis by the Labour party of data from the Climate Change Committee has pinned the cost of insulating homes and installing low carbon heating systems - such as heat pumps or hydrogen-ready boilers - to make them net zero-compliant at more than £20,000 per household.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. The white paper estimates that demand for low-carbon power will double, leaving the country with “overwhelmingly decarbonized power in the 2030s."

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

It could also be accompanied by action on skilling up, with the government's Green Jobs Taskforce set to report soon, and building on the recent Skills for Jobs White Paper to tool up a generation of engineers, assessors and technicians. Hydrogen's role in the future of buildings is currently uncertain.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

A new Clean Energy Canada white paper explores ways to cut emissions from this overlooked industry. Since 2000, demand has outstripped that of other heavy industries. As a result, the International Energy Agency forecasts substantial growth in demand for products from the chemicals sector in its Net-Zero by 2050 scenario.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

As global net-zero commitments mount, demand for cleaner products is increasing. As our G7 counterparts charge ahead on industrial decarbonization, Canada must also act ambitiously or risk falling to the back of the pack, according to a new Clean Energy Canada white paper. First , in contrast to France, the U.K.,

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios analysis paints a compelling picture of the potential for an energy system replete with hydrogen, CCS and millions of EVs. While both CCS and hydrogen technologies are in their relative infancy today, they are critical to the UK meeting its legally-binding net zero target, it stresses.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The Ten Point Plan looked to phase-out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 and I know that the electric vehicle charging infrastructure sector stands ready to meet demand should a supportive regulatory regime be put in place. And finally to the Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

The sector has seen a 45 per cent reduction in current demand and signs of a protracted downturn and slow recovery. The impact was swift and extensive and we most likely have not seen the full extent of it as customers will have built up their stock during the lockdown, which will depress future demand.

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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. As COP26 chair and holder of the G7 presidency next year, the UK has a unique opportunity to prove itself a global climate leader post-Brexit," Fairbairn will say.

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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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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. But the investor was undeterred.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

As such, Labour's warning that the various proposals urgently need to be firmed up if the strategy is to mobilise the investment in hydrogen production, carbon capture and storge (CCS), and green fuels that is needed, was broadly echoed by industry commentators.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

National Grid has estimated that electrifying all road transport - excluding heavy goods vehicles - would require less than a third more power than Great Britain's current demand of around 3000 terawatt hours, "which the grid could easily cope with," Cooper told the Guardian.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Reforming power pricing to take better account of regional patterns of supply and demand could hold the key to accelerating the development of a net zero emission electricity system, collectively saving British consumers £2.1bn a year on their bills in the process, a report by Policy Exchange and Aurora Energy Research today claims.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The UK's oil and gas industry watchdog has the first time set an obligation for the sector to contribute to the nation's 2050 net zero emissions target, in a revised strategy submitted to Parliament yesterday aimed at driving as clean and efficient production as possible "as long as this demand exists".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the UK, for example, the government is under growing pressure from industry to introduce supportive policies, with a long-awaited Energy White Paper expected to provide investment signals for decarbonising heating, improving the energy efficiency of buildings, and supporting carbon capture technologies for industry still yet to emerge.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

However, with the Energy White Paper released late last year having set an aim to capture 10Mt of emissions by 2030, it remains unclear precisely how the remaining 7Mt will be delivered. And, in a scenario where widespread access to hydrogen is developed across the UK, hydrogen consumption could be as high as 86TWh by 2050, it adds.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

Without a strong carbon price, older renewable and nuclear plant will close earlier than they should and investment in new low carbon infrastructure like Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS), hydrogen and negative emissions technologies will stall. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

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AutoGrid

MAY 16, 2023

While microgrids are designed to provide resiliency when the larger grid goes down, VPPs aggregate decentralized renewable energy resources, energy storage, and demand response to balance the larger grid. Demand Response (DR) is the most fundamental of grid services a VPP can provide. Some noteworthy projects in the U.S.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Salim: We started WattEV with the intent of becoming the main provider of public charging for electric trucks, but we quickly realized that it wasn’t enough for us to just build the infrastructure and expect the demand to pick up naturally. But we hear a lot of talk about hydrogen, and a lot of elected officials sound pretty keen on it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The scheme offers grants worth up to £5,000 - rising to £10,000 for low income households - against the cost of approved energy efficiency measures such as insulation, heat pumps, and hydrogen-ready boilers.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Indeed, a combination of biofuels and hydrogen will be important in the decarbonisation of maritime and aviation, another welcome point in the plan, and something I also see a focus for in my role as a member of the Jet Zero Council. This announcement, though, is just the start.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This will bring us closer to achieving the overarching ambitions set out in the government's Energy White Paper published last autumn, as well the publication of the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan in the summer. Consumers can participate by charging up electric vehicles and feeding power into the grid when needed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It also wants to see the first UK town heated by hydrogen by the end of the decade, and plans to publish a Buildings and Heat Strategy next year. The extension to the £2bn scheme was backed by another £1bn of funding as part of the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan last month.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Since Covid struck, EVs and plug-in hybrids have emerged as the runaway success story for a market that has otherwise seen demand for new vehicles collapse across the board. It is a lesson that is repeated throughout a wide-ranging report that was somewhat overshadowed by the release of yesterday's Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The initial findings of the review are to be published in the government's long-awaited Energy White Paper, although a publication date for the much-anticipated document has not yet been announced.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The report also assesses the use of zero carbon hydrogen gas as a possible replacement for fossil fuels on the gas grid to feed home boilers, which has been gaining increasing interest in recent years, particularly among gas network operators.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand. The UK leads the world "in the long term solutions to climate change, in wind, solar, hydrogen, CCS nuclear", Johnson said, and is now committed to leading the world in zero emission aviation through its new 'Jet Zero Council'.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

The Energy White Paper hinted for the first time that policymakers have awakened to this need and as thinking on the agenda accelerates, we wanted to share our very brief thoughts on how government could address the governance challenge in a way that sets us up for success but critically drives impactful climate action in the near-term.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The oil and gas industry has warned that a windfall tax could jeopardise its ability to fund new offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture projects, which is a legitimate concern. This needs to be at the heart of UK government policies, yet it has been sidelined in the white paper.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Efforts to tackle unemployment should be complemented by a "radical retraining and reskilling" programme for high demand areas, such as the fast-expanding low-carbon heat and battery technology sectors. The crisis has also made us think differently about the way we live and the world we want to live in," she said.

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