Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has filed a $3 billion plan for the years 2024-2027 towards its ongoing clean energy drive. Among the major investments detailed is the implementation of the next generation of smart meters in order to give customers more control, access and insights into their energy usage.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s essential for the ammonia used to make fertilizers and for many petrochemical processes used to make everything from plastics to synthetic rubber and lubricants. Today, much of the world’s hydrogen supply comes from what’s called steam-reformed methane. If they’re powered by renewable energy, then the process can be carbon-free.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy. The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Fresh funding provides boost to UK firm's plans to build Europe’s first plastic to hydrogen plant. Waste-to-energy firm Hydrogen Utopia has raised £3m in an initial public offering (IPO) on the Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE) on Thursday, which valued the London-based business at approximately £28.8m. pence apiece in the IPO.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Going green starts at home, and while separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin is a great first start, there are more steps you can take to be less wasteful and reduce your carbon footprint. 1) Reduce plastic waste in your kitchen. 3) Get a home energy score. – Oregon Department of Energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The Caieiras landfill has a biogas-fueled thermal power plant, where methane (CH 4 ) from decomposing organic matter drives electricity generators. However, the rate of MSW reuse is still very low in Brazil (2.2%). “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2 São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. As per Sensoneo’s Global Waste Index 2022 , the high recycling rates for plastic waste could be misleading because the rate considers the volume of waste received by recycling plants, but not everything is recycled. Recycling Saves Energy.

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GreenTech Gazette

MARCH 1, 2023

Here are a few examples: Chemical recycling: Chemical recycling is a new technology that breaks down plastic waste into its basic building blocks, which can then be used to make new plastic products. This process is more efficient than traditional mechanical recycling, which can only process certain types of plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Leachate Solutions has introduced what it describes as a more up to date alternative process for the removal of dissolved methane and CO2 from water and leachate. Another advantage is greener engineering, including low energy requirements since the system has an efficient design and a small carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Not only does biogas have a key role to play in combating climate change, but it is also essential to our energy security in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”. Charlotte Morton, WBA Chief Executive, added: “Our industry can deliver 50% of the Global Methane Pledge targets signed up by over 100 countries after COP26.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. When fracking took off around 2010, Townsend-Small shifted her focus to a new and growing problem: methane leaks from oil and gas activity. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME. In addition, the multi-energy process will allow production of 45 GWh of renewable heat to meet urban and industrial needs.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

By diving into the science behind capturing carbon dioxide directly from the environment or emission sources, we unpack the foundation of a method that not only helps reduce greenhouse gases but also plays a key role in producing a cleaner form of energy – hydrogen.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Additionally, specifically for greenhouses, they can use an excessive amount of energy to heat outside of planting season which can contribute to pollution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Bacteria in the digesters consume the waste, creating methane and CO2 as byproducts. The gas can then be used for energy purposes. Just like you recycle cardboard, and you recycle glass or plastics. Collecting the methane gas created by anaerobic digesters prevents it from escaping into the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Collin Hamilton, COO and Chief Engineer at Verano Energy, one of the largest renewables independent power producers (IPP) in Latin America, shares his vision of the key role that ammonia is going to play in “the green hydrogen revolution” The US-born engineer’s firm is developing over 30GW of hydrogen projects in Chile and Peru.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We’ve all been guilty of buying an unsustainable beverage every once in a while, but when faced with the perplexing conundrum of whether to grab that plastic bottle or aluminum can, which do you believe to be more environmentally-friendly ? By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. . In fact, the wind example can help illustrate how early efforts to decarbonize industrial thermal energy are shaping up. Industrial heat is essential but largely invisible.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

FreeStar Power is bringing forth alternative power solutions for residential consumers of utility power, with the objective of addressing energy reliability, the climate crisis, and rising energy demands and costs. Electricity. Manufacturing. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The good news is that you can reuse most of the products you buy from the store like plastic containers and food packaging materials. Reusing items can also save energy as there will be less processing needed to turn products into other usable materials. How much energy saved usually depends on the materials being recycled.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2), and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Cleantech East

MAY 15, 2019

Above: Framingham Earl’s winning team who created their very own alternative to plastic – Milk Plastic! Springwood Highschool’s winning team created a solid pitch for the creation of a new methane-powered vehicle.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He considers future challenges and opportunities for the energy-from-waste (EfW) sector. The latest UK statistics show that the tonnage of waste being incinerated for energy has quadrupled in the last four years alone, a significant milestone being reached last year when more tonnage went to EfW than into landfill.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Additionally, specifically for greenhouses, they can use an excessive amount of energy to heat outside of planting season which can contribute to pollution.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a new accord between the US and China saw the two countries promise to work together to accelerate clean tech deployment and tackle methane emissions and deforestation. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m emissions reduction push. emissions reduction push.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The report, written by Venture Global, found CCS was “not economically feasible,” according to a 2019 environmental impact statement issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. CCS is also an energy-intensive process. Venture Global did not respond to questions about its CCS plans. billion, according to permitting documents.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. The report focuses on bisphenol A (BPA), which is an industrial chemical found in baby bottles and polycarbonate plastics. Green Seal.

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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. Costing £10m, the testing project will be delivered by DNV GL in partnership with Durham University and the University of Edinburgh. "If

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The technology to capture climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions from smokestacks, and even from the air around us, already exists; so too does the technology to use this carbon dioxide to make products like plastics, concrete , carbonated drinks and even fuel for aircraft and automobiles.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Water UK promises to deliver 2030 net zero strategy focused on energy efficiency, emissions reduction from water treatment processes, and ramping up clean energy sources. The trade body said it would also share its research to help other energy-intensive sectors deliver their own net zero plans.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Currently, there are two solutions - landfill and waste to energy. Landfill suffers from methane emissions as waste degrades. Waste-to-energy has a far lower climate impact than landfill but still generates greenhouse gas emissions from plastics in the waste stream. This combination could be immensely powerful.

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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. However, producing hydrogen from methane has a substantial advantage over capturing the carbon emitted from coal combustion. Criticism 4: Too Much Energy Required. Consider the production of plastics.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

Last fall, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) greenlit the Hackberry gas storage project , which involves converting underground domes constructed in the 1970s to mine for salt into storage space for up to 25.5 natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has today unveiled a demonstration tyre made using with 70 per cent sustainable-material content, including soy bean oil, rice husks, and plastic recycled from old bottles. But Goodyear's new tire features three different carbon blacks that are produced from methane, carbon dioxide, and plant-based oil.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the “energies pond.” Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

OH, is primarily used to make chemicals for plastics, paints, and cosmetics. It’s also considered a top candidate for cleaning up cargo ships in the near term, along with liquefied natural gas — a fuel that produces little air pollution but ultimately results in higher emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Methanol, or CH?OH,

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. The report focuses on bisphenol A (BPA), which is an industrial chemical found in baby bottles and polycarbonate plastics. Green Seal.

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