Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The New York Power Authority is exploring the ability of transitioning a natural gas-fired turbine to run on green hydrogen with a demonstration project at Brentwood Power Station. In addition, the state will join the Center for Hydrogen Safety and the HyBlend Collaborative Research Partnership.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JULY 9, 2021

Cuomo this week announced that New York plans to explore the potential role of green hydrogen as part of the state’s comprehensive decarbonization strategy. million in funding available for long duration energy storage technologies and demonstration projects that may include green hydrogen.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

The race is on to develop the technology to exploit hydrogen fuel, widely regarded as offering the most promising pathway to a zero-carbon economy. On numerous levels, the planned roadmap to hydrogen seems to involve a hopeful crossing of fingers, that many of the blunders that accompanied past technology rollouts won’t happen this time.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonization pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk of Europe’s future hydrogen supply. Pipelines or pipe dreams?

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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. A semi-detached on the outskirts of Gateshead is an unlikely setting to spark revolution but two new homes, built at Northern Gas Networks' innovation site in Low Thornley, may stake a claim for achieving just that.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2023

In a recent article for CleanTechnica , he discusses the latest edition of the US National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap , a policy document that the DOE produces and updates periodically. As Barnard sees it, the wrong federal department is in charge of US hydrogen policy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

A new project exploring how hydrogen gas could be used to heat homes and deliver green energy will start performing tests from 2022, National Grid announced today. But as the UK works towards becoming a net zero economy by 2050, the gas sector is having to search out a viable pathway to decarbonisation.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: In a letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Siemens Energy, Engie, National Grid, and Ryse Hydrogen call for the government to emulate its successful approach to offshore wind development and set an official cost reduction target for green hydrogen.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A second RFP is planned for a later date seeking proposals for about 800 MW of solar, 60 MW of battery storage and 1,000 MW from natural gas peaking units to meet system needs by 2028. However, the utility requested the document be kept confidential, according to docket information accessed on the commission’s website.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

UN backs green hydrogen as it publishes seven principles designed to guide policymakers and business leaders approach to scaling the low carbon fuel. Fossil-based hydrogen must turn to credible, independent lifecycle emissions monitoring and regulation to meet a "high burden of proof" for inclusion in 1.5C energy sector pathway".

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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. The Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub (WISHH) proposal is designed to land $1.25

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

The sum brought NGP investments since launching in 2018 to 50, spread across a wide range of sectors, from AI-powered software and hardware solutions to EV charging systems and clean hydrogen technology.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

EU preps green hydrogen plan. Euractiv this week reported on a leaked EU policy document, which suggests the bloc is preparing to prioritise the development of 'green' hydrogen produced using renewable power over 'grey' hydrogen made using natural gas steam reforming. link] pic.twitter.com/tqbjGdfyT2.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A leaked document, circulated on Wednesday, showed that the share of renewables in the electricity mix would have to rise from around 32 percent to at least 65 percent by 2030. ” Natural gas didn’t make the cut. Those subsidies need a “rethink and reset,” Simson said. billion of support.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. Welcome friend methane!”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Furthermore, nearly 70% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Congo, under conditions that have long been documented as inhumane. This is a role for renewable fuels like hydrogen and ammonia. Hydrogen and ammonia contain more energy per pound than batteries, so they work where batteries don’t.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating. With targets now set for the phase-out of gas boilers in countries across Europe, in recent years, gas companies in the UK and the EU have lobbied hard for hydrogen over heat pumps – the model which offers the least disruption to their business model.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Gastech is listed as one of the firm’s biggest events – an annual trade show that claims to be the world’s largest “energy exhibition and conference for natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, climate technologies, and low-carbon solutions.” This year’s COP summit has already been marred by controversy. Al Jaber has denies these claims.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas, more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. While methane may typically leak from small holes or improper seals, Turitto documented some decrepit infrastructure with gaping holes in storage tanks. A natural gas flare in Romania.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Council members proposed several amendments to the draft plan that highlighted the need for the Council to clarify its stance with regard to the future in New York of natural gas and alternative fuels. Lastly, Scenario 4 reflects accelerated electrification and the use of targeted low-carbon fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The firm said it expected to increase investment in "important emerging transition opportunities" such as zero emissions transport, hydrogen, carbon sequestration, nature-based solutions, and climate resilient infrastructure, and that it expects its coal-related lending exposures to "run off" by 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In. My personal take? Lipstick on a pig.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

.” Heerden was hired by three Louisiana-based environmental groups — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf — that are suing the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing a coastal use permit to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In 2020, leaked internal documents from BP showed how the firm sought to “reach influencers” in order to become “more relatable, passionate, and authentic” and “win the trust of the younger generation” – admitting that the company is “seen as one of the bad guys”. percent of total energy consumption in 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. But the use of natural gas in homes needs to be nearly completely phased out in order to reach the country's statutory 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

In an action plan document published earlier this week, EN+ Group - which is the majority owner of aluminium company Rusal - proposed the EU establish a separate custom code for low-carbon raw aluminium. The second will see ArcelorMittal Europe invest in direct reduced iron (DRI) technologies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Released today, the new report studied 13 flagship large-scale CCS and CCUS projects from around the world in the natural gas, industrial, and power sectors to assess their history, economics, and performance to date. This is mostly due to the country's unique regulatory environment for oil and gas companies," Robertson explained.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A proposed new facility in the town of McFarland in Kern County plans to convert agricultural waste biomass into “renewable natural gas,” according to San Joaquin Renewables, the project developer, through a gasification process, using carbon capture technology to mitigate the carbon pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The documents leaked in the Corporate Europe Observatory investigation were “part of lobbying work that is done in all stakeholder groups. The documents supported our talks with our EU member organisations,” a spokesperson for COPA-COGECA told DeSmog. The main ingredient in fertilizers is ammonia, which is produced from natural gas.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million heat pumps would have been sold by 2030, ahead of natural gas boilers being removed from sale entirely by 2033 at the latest. The long-awaited Energy White Paper is expected before the end of 2020, with new policy papers on building standards, hydrogen infrastructure, and transport among a host of measures in the pipeline.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

Danielle Smith often provided contradictory messaging or phrases, such as “sustainable export of fossil fuel resources,” “clean natural gas,” and expressed her belief that Alberta could increase fossil fuel production while simultaneously cutting emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

ICAO's Technical Advisory Board (TAB) is reportedly recommending six programs for CORSIA's pilot phase, but would exclude projects that carbon credits issued before 2016 and would only recognise emission reductions through to the end of 2020, according to a document seen by Reuters. Santos' Moomba CCS project is an important first step.".

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