R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

This transition is being aided by policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as rapidly declining costs for renewables like wind and solar power. Thus, ironically a fossil fuel has already helped drive the transition to a low-carbon future. The world is transitioning to a low-carbon future.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While there is some question about how dirty blue hydrogen is and will be — due to its reliance on gas, a fossil fuel, and carbon capture technology to reduce emissions from its production — no one is arguing that it will ever be cleaner than green hydrogen. Credit: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

Johnson rebuffs criticism of UK's net zero agenda in opinion piece that argues that renewables are the 'quickest and cheapest route to greater energy independence'. The UK should therefore "take back control" by rapidly ramping up renewable energy generation of all forms, Johnson argued. They are invulnerable to Putin's manipulations.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That means Southern Company intends to keep building new natural gas power plants to meet its supply needs, even as it grows its renewable energy portfolio from 9 gigawatts today to about 14 GW by 2024. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Hydrogen was thrust into the spotlight as a promising clean energy source by President George W. The vast majority of the world’s commercial hydrogen — over 95% by most estimates — is produced using the steam methane reforming process (SMR). Grey hydrogen denotes hydrogen produced from fossil fuels, such as via the SMR process.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Increasingly, the compelling economics of clean energy alternatives play a major role in these decisions. Utilities in Florida and California recently made similar decisions to move away from gas in favor of renewable energy. cannot afford to lock in future carbon emissions by investing in gas or other fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

New IEA report reveals encouraging recent trends have been thrown into reverse by the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but clean energy investment could swiftly reignite development. The report emphasises how Africa has huge untapped renewables potential.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

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. The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to myriad technologies - hydrogen hydride batteries, EV batteries, home solar power, and other renewables - the UK energy grid could look very different in 2030, writes Plextek's Laurence Weir. Energy generation in the UK will have to look dramatically different if we are to meet our promised carbon targets by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries are slowly diversifying their energy portfolio by including hydrogen in their future roadmap towards a low carbon economy. The main focus – How do we get ‘GREEN HYDROGEN’ to compete with energy sources in the sectors like electricity generation, industrial feedstock, export, and the fuel used in the transportation sector.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

While global gas prices had already surged over the past year, the conflict in Ukraine has seen an even greater spike, which has in turn driven up the cost of products made from fossil gas, such as ammonia and hydrogen, according to BloombergNEF.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He is extremely active in the areas of cleantech and climate change, and widely-respected in the energy sector. But by using the carbon to produce more fossil fuels, critics argue that this can’t reasonably be considered CCS. They could supplement them, but coal provides large-scale firm power.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

You’ll also learn about key technology areas that are driving momentum to equitably tackle the climate crisis, and explore the plentiful opportunities for everyone to be a part of the energy transition that’s already unfolding. Northeast Clean Energy Council President Peter Rothstein. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? 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 can do that.”

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

The direct way is by reducing fossil fuel production, the main source at 73% of global GHG. In Europe, companies and countries are diversifying into renewables as illustrated by the following: Denmark, leading the world in wind power, recently stopped exploration for oil and gas, and plans to close its oil production by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Driving this sea change in long-term planning is a combination of public pressure and energy economics. The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI guest author Marta Darby, an attorney whose practice focuses on accelerating an equitable transition to clean energy. Ortiz et al.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

For decades, it has been a grail to use solar power to generate the key reaction for producing hydrogen as a clean energy source – splitting water molecules to form hydrogen and oxygen. As early as the 1970s, researchers were investigating the possibility of using solar energy to generate hydrogen.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2024

Department of Energy has finalized a rule banning fossil fuels from new and renovated federal buildings. The law requires federal buildings and major renovations to phase out fossil fuel-generated energy consumption by 2030. This provision had been pending due to regulatory delays until now.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

The group ranked silvopasture , a method that incorporates trees and livestock together, as the ninth most impactful climate change solution in the world, above rooftop solar power, electric vehicles and geothermal energy. If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from 1.36 billion acres to 1.9

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. Renewable power has grown rapidly in the past decade.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm. If we want to create synthetic fuel for the marine industry and use hydrogen as a feedstock, we could end up needing in excess of 50GW. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? >

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Summary - Over 20% of all Dutch emissions are coming from the Port of Rotterdam, of which the production of grey hydrogen from fossil feedstock is one of the main culprits. It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

The group ranked silvopasture , a method that incorporates trees and livestock together, as the ninth most impactful climate change solution in the world, above rooftop solar power, electric vehicles and geothermal energy. If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from 1.36 billion acres to 1.9

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Major bank Citi said it won’t rule out $100/mcf for cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) this winter, a tab for the supercooled form of the fossil fuel that’s used to ship it between continents which dwarfs even today’s record-setting heights. and politicians promised an era of American “ energy dominance. ” In the U.S.,

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A medley of milestones for climate tech startups Conversations on Twitter and in climate chatrooms continue to have a doomerism-meets-pessimism tone, but over the last two weeks some cold, hard progress from climate tech startups working on geothermal energy, SAFs, and decarbonized cement is cutting through the gloom.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” But figures like Morano may be gaining ground in a larger mission: twisting public opinion against renewable energy in other would-be host communities. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s dominant utility, is racing to get ahead of the expanding clean-energy ambitions of state Democratic legislators. On Tuesday Dominion announced a 100 percent net-zero emissions plan on the eve of a key vote for even more aggressive renewable energy bills, while promoting its planned 2.6-gigawatt

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. With just a few days to go until COP26 kicks off, her pessimism is widely shared.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

carbon emissions to zero by midcentury will require trillions of dollars of investment and disrupt entire sectors of the economy reliant on fossil fuels. But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil fuel extraction or industries powered by them must lose out in the transition. Cutting U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  SPAC valuation ).

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