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. They claim carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and the expansion of the so-called blue hydrogen industry are climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. They want to keep saying blue hydrogen, because hydrogen gets this rap for being a clean burning fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2023

For the last several months, one of the nation’s largest pipeline operators has gone from one local government meeting on the Navajo Nation to another, outlining plans for what could end up being the country’s longest hydrogen pipeline. On the Navajo Nation, climate change and fossil fuel development aren’t mental exercises.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Senior Canadian officials are working with an Alberta company to open up new markets for natural gas in Germany, according to documents seen by DeSmog, contradicting a federal minister who says the Ukraine crisis can’t be solved by exporting more fossil fuels. Pieridae didn’t respond to queries from DeSmog.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Note: the above values are documented as possible but may not be implemented in typical installations (source: IDTechEx). Can MCS put the nail in the coffin for hydrogen? The fact that businesses who have supported MCS, like Daimler Trucks, are now also investing in hydrogen fuelling is perplexing to many.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Natural gas is not cleaner than other fossil fuels and using it instead of coal or oil risks achieving little or no reduction in greenhouse gas effects, says science advisory group the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) in a new report “Future of Gas”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

An apocalyptic “meh” seemed to greet the government’s bumper package of energy- and climate-related policy announcements and documents released on 30 March, which appeared short on new ideas and sources of funding. Hydrogen: Not a time to get blue?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The government has unveiled further details of its hotly-anticipated vision for the UK's net zero transition, signalling a major overhaul of Britain's energy market to scale up renewables, clean heating, nuclear, energy efficiency, carbon capture, and hydrogen technologies over the coming decade and beyond.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Proposal reportedly mooted for inclusion in Hydrogen Strategy, but campaigners warn low carbon hydrogen should be earmarked for decarbonising heavy industry rather than domestic heating. Proponents argue shifting the UK's methane gas grid to run on hydrogen can help the UK hit net zero targets by using existing infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. Blue vs. green.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

Gateshead test site debuts the first homes to make use of hydrogen for heating and cooking. The homes have become the first in the UK to have gas appliances fuelled entirely by hydrogen, as part of a demonstration project that this week has opened to the public for the first time.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction from politicians, green business figures, NGOs, investors and think tanks to the government's long-awaited Hydrogen Strategy. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: "Today marks the start of the UK's hydrogen revolution. It has finally arrived.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In an 11-week consultation launched today , the government reiterated its commitment to setting up a certification scheme for low carbon hydrogen - including that produced from renewable energy, fossil gas with carbon capture, and other sources - by 2025.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Plans for new facility in Hertfordshire come as Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng sets out further details of government's vision to drive £9bn of investment in UK's burgeoning hydrogen sector. BEIS said the Hydrogen Champion would play a "vital" role in helping to connect the government with the wider hydrogen industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Delivering net zero is the industrial revolution of our time,” said the document, which claims the UK “would see 2% additional growth in GDP through the benefits from new jobs, increased economic activity, reduced fossil fuel imports and cost savings (for example cheaper household bills).”

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The document specified the support applies to hydronic heat pumps (air-to-water or ground-to-water), because these are able to supply hot water, and therefore can be used to completely decarbonize a property. Worcester Bosch says the safety and performance of hydrogen-ready boilers has been established. The heat is on? side panel ].

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

The UK's first ever Hydrogen Strategy finally arrived this week - what does it reveal about the government's net zero agenda? Hydrogen has been described as the "monkey wrench" of the net zero transition, owing to its versatility as a potential tool for decarbonising a raft of different 'hard to reach' areas of the economy.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

John Taylor from the Greater South East Net Zero Hub pointed out on Twitter that retail electricity prices had dropped as fossil fuels' hold on the electricity grid had weakened. "At At the time our national grid reached 80 per cent zero carbon, retail electricity prices dropped to 23.7p/kWh," kWh," he wrote on Saturday evening.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Vatican calls on Catholics to quit fossil fuel and arms investments. The Vatican yesterday urged all Catholics to disinvest from armament and fossil fuel industries, marking a major victory for the global divestment movement. EU preps green hydrogen plan. Campaign group 350.org

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

But the groups have unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” risk the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels could pose to the climate. Methane is the clean energy of the future,” ran a 1986 promotion in Eni’s company magazine Ecos.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

Before the stimulus was signed off, a leaked document by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG Energy) ran through a serious of policy plans to marry the European Green Deal and the COVID-19 recovery effort. Support for green hydrogen was also suggested. trillion ($2.08 trillion) recovery package.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

“China’s upcoming 14th five-year plan has the potential to be the most important document in global energy market history,” said Gavin Thompson, Asia-Pacific vice chair at Wood Mackenzie. CCS and green hydrogen will both be “vital," despite neither having yet been deployed commercially at scale.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The new vision document, which builds on the organisation’s ongoing network development plans and innovation roadmaps, states that three elements are key for the power system of the future. Europe’s electricity markets in 2030 – design options How DSOs can play a vital role in Europe’s hydrogen economy. in its vision document. “To

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 29, 2022

These include heat pumps, thermal storage, district heating, combined heat and power, solar thermal, waste heat recovery and hydrogen. Are hydrogen heating solutions an option for decarbonising residential heating in Ireland? Have you read? 2022 low carbon commitments.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has told MPs there are "no silver bullets" for decarbonising heat, but he remains confident the costs of clean technologies such as heat pumps and hydrogen will fall rapidly in the 2020s as consumer uptake accelerates in support of the government's climate goals.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating. The people who are pushing for hydrogen heating aren’t genuinely interested in tackling climate breakdown – they’re looking for a lifeline for the gas industry,” says Sarah Becker of Global Witness.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The reported rift is the latest development in a growing row between Number 10 and Number 11 over the energy security plan, with briefings indicating that the significant delays to the document are largely due to Sunak's reluctance to sign off on any increased spending. Conserving energy should not be a dilemma for a Conservative.

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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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Charged

JANUARY 16, 2023

Michael Barnard, writing in CleanTechnica , finds “a lot to like” in the document, which he calls “a good, solid blueprint with some misses.” Barnard and others (including your favorite EV journalist) were pleasantly surprised to find that hydrogen has been assigned a supporting role.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Questioned as to why the UK was apparently abstaining from the coalition, a government spokesperson said the UK's reliance on fossil fuels would fall over the coming years but there would be an "ongoing but diminishing need for oil and gas over the coming years" as the country's renewable energy capacity expanded to meet demand.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Gas companies set out their priorities for the coming year, as ScottishPower launches plan for green hydrogen hub in Scottish Highlands. Another key focus set out in the blueprint is for gas networks to start establishing the right licensing agreements to build the infrastructure needed for hydrogen use in industrial regions of the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The GHNF will only fund heat network projects that feature low-carbon technologies, such as heat pumps, waste heat recovery systems, and geothermal energy projects, so as to help drive the transition away from fossil fuel boilers over the next 15 years.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. The draft document, which has been widely welcomed by environmental campaigners, forms part of a review of ADB's lending policies, with the multilateral bank's energy policy having last been updated in 2009.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

A similar CfD approach is also being touted by the government for developing low carbon hydrogen production , including through CCUS or via electrolysis using renewable electricity. One of these reports also highlights the potential to transform the UK's existing oil and gas infrastructure to develop CCUS, including CO2 transport and storage.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? 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. Green hydrogen? “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

It is well documented that the UK has a poor reputation when it comes to air quality regulation. C to turn hydrogen and oxygen into H2 and CO. This method reveals whether they have come from industrial processes, fossil fuel burning, vehicular exhaust or another source, making it much easier to take effective preventative measures.

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