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. America’s natural gas industry is no different.

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Charged

JUNE 28, 2022

However, many may be surprised to learn that a substantial amount of this grant money has been used to subsidize fossil fuel-burning vehicles, in preference to EVs, and to promote the consumption of natural gas. One of the agency’s biggest grant programs spent more than 90% of funds on diesel and natural gas incentives.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins One of the first tests of New York’s ambitious climate plan didn't go well, as the New York Public Service Commission voted on January 16 to raise electricity rates on customers by $1.2 billion over the next three years to help Consolidated Edison, or Con Ed, pay for new natural gas pipelines and infrastructure.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An electric and gas utility in Pennsylvania and Maryland has signed a deal to bring renewable natural gas from a landfill into its distribution system. The RNG supply will be injected into UGI Utilities’ high-pressure natural gas pipeline serving its distribution system located in Lackawanna County, PA.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

The report, A Sustainable Flame: The Role of Gas in Net Zero , states that gas has a significant part in both the near-term and long-term energy decarbonization targets owing to the ability of existing infrastructure to be converted to carry low-carbon fuels including ammonia, hydrogen, synthetic methane, and renewable natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cities and utilities across the United States are starting to reject natural gas — and not just for environmental reasons. San Jose, the tenth largest city in the country, recently joined a string of cities banning gas utility connections for new homes and buildings. Nonetheless, the rush to gas continues.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

They found that they were able to convert more than 85% of the organic material to biogas, which can be used to produce electricity or upgraded to renewable natural gas (RNG) for the natural gas grid or for local use. They are often the largest user of electricity in a small community. “If

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hydrogen economy: Status vs ambition Currently, over 98% of global hydrogen originates from fossil fuel-based grey and black hydrogen, produced using steam methane reforming and coal gasification. The most prevalent is steam methane reforming (SMR). These methods significantly contribute to CO2 emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Utilities taking sides.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A regional cooperation for a greener beer brewing process and a greener regional gas network. This sustainable alternative for fossil natural gas will supply gas which is equivalent to the gas needs of approximately 700 households. A sustainable gas with the same properties as natural gas.

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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. It is very promising," said Rachel Fakhry, an energy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council. This summer, a large U.S.

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Energy Central

MAY 15, 2023

Meanwhile, solid oxide fuel cells can use hydrocarbon fuels such as natural gas, methane and propane to produce electricity Next Level Solid Oxide Electrolysis Upscaling potential and techno-economical evaluation for 3 industrial use cases Hydrogen Innovation PEM fuel cells use pure hydrogen (H2) as fuel.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 3, 2023

By Sean Hackett Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager Energy Transition EPA’s recent comment period for proposed regulations to address methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas industry resulted in historic industry support to reduce this extremely potent greenhouse gas. What did operators and investors tell EPA?

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Expansion would also come at a cost to the province’s electricity system. If all six LNG facilities were to be built, they would require around 43 TWh of electricity per year —equivalent to the electricity from more than eight Site C dams. What’s more, importing just one Site C’s worth of electricity would cost B.C.

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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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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 LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. In the past, the province would look to its neighbours to import power, but they are also experiencing electricity shortfalls.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 16, 2021

Dominion Energy has announced a new target to convert its vehicle fleet of more than 8,600 units to electric models. The launch of the utility’s ‘Green Fleet’ initiative follows President Joe Biden’s executive order to make 50% of all vehicle sales in the US electric by 2030.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2023

A new study adds to the literature by comparing the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of electric, hydrogen, natural gas and diesel trucks and buses in Europe. It shows that only battery-electric and some fuel cell electric trucks can meet the climate targets in the sector.”

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Methane emissions reduction could significantly reduce rates of global warming at a relatively low cost, major research warns. As such, the report emphasises that methane mitigation is "one of the best ways of limiting warming in this and subsequent decades".

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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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion Energy is replacing its CEO as part of an executive shakeup accompanying the Virginia utility’s major shift away from natural gas and toward a renewable energy future, and its hefty financial penalty for its cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This process efficiently reduces waste volume, while the heat generated can be harnessed to produce steam, driving turbines for electricity generation. Gasification : This technology takes a sophisticated approach by converting waste into synthetic gas or syngas through high-temperature treatment in a low-oxygen environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2 This led to investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, which the world critically needs to cut methane emissions from organic wastes and generate green gas, biofertilisers and bioCO2, but this will no longer be possible under the proposed new guidance. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. Decarbonizing residential and commercial heating systems is a major challenge in countries that currently rely on natural gas to do the job. A hydrogen economy in the U.S. And there are limits to how far you can go.

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Charged

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One way to reduce methane emissions from agriculture is to turn organic waste into renewable natural gas (RNG). That’s what EnTech Solutions is doing in Dane County, Wisconsin, where a biogas facility uses anaerobic digestion to turn animal waste from local dairy farms into RNG that can be used as fuel.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Iberdrola’s Avangrid subsidiaries New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E) have the go ahead for their joint ‘Reliable Energy New York’ plan.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Source: CHFCA The comic doesn’t mention that the majority of hydrogen produced in North America comes from natural gas , which is not only non-renewable, but creates more emissions than simply burning fossil fuels directly. Greenwashing efforts deliberately aimed at children is nothing new for the fossil fuel sector.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay. The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As grids get saturated with wind and solar electricity, there’s increasing pressure to find new ways to store that energy across daily, monthly or seasonal variations. The system relies on an ancient microorganism that ferments hydrogen and carbon dioxide and turns it into methane.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2022

A speedy transition to electric heat pumps in homes and businesses in Oregon could translate into lower utility bills and faster reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. Switching to all-electric appliances by 2025 would result in $1.7 billion in system-wide savings by 2050, compared to $1.1

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sempra Infrastructure signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Entergy Louisiana to develop renewable energy to power Sempra Infrastructure’s facilities in the state, including the Cameron LNG liquefied natural gas export facility. . Sempra Infrastructure owns a 50.2%

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 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. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As global efforts to ramp up the hydrogen industry gain support with big government subsidies, new research casts increasing doubt on the climate credentials of the main recipient of that support, so-called “blue” hydrogen, which is extracted from natural gas and paired with carbon capture technology. It’s fracked methane.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lem is now one of the applicants in a recent false advertising complaint against the Canadian Gas Association, which has been running ads in the Globe & Mail and on Facebook describing natural gas as “clean-burning” and a “smart choice” for people’s homes. Read more about the campaign in this DeSmog story ). Source: CAPE.

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