Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The additional €100bn the IEA said is required to bolster Europe's clean, efficiency energy sources in 2023 amounts to less than a third of that mobilised by EU member states so far this year.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal. And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At In Brazil, some steel mills are mixing in biochar, which is made from agricultural waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. It was a strong call to action in response to the multiple threats and opportunities faced by Europe. The country previously provided over 40% of all natural gas consumed in the EU.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

This will help keep jobs in Europe, curb pollution and boost the competitiveness of our car industry.". ButReuters reported that the NorthConnect project is controversial as some Norwegian politicians fear rising grid costs and power prices could result as generation from wind turbines and hydropower dams is exported.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The companies analyzed were selected to represent a range of scale and location across Europe. However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. The company also had the largest share of promos focussing on hydrogen, which made up 11 percent of its total output.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2021

The goal is to electrify processes like heating homes and powering cars, and then generate the increased electrical power needs using low or zero carbon sources like wind, solar and hydropower. Currently energy use in buildings generates over 40 per cent of San Francisco's greenhouse gas emissions.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

The tech firm now uses more recycled aluminum in its devices and prioritizes suppliers who run their facilities with hydropower, not coal. If adopted by Iceland’s three aluminum smelters — which use geothermal and hydropower — the technology would eliminate about one-third of the country’s total emissions, he said.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. Coal, natural gas and petroleum are the culprits here: the burning of these fuels tend to lead to inefficiency. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas. I am assuming the U.S. The same principles apply however.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Ursula Woodburn, director of the business network CLG Europe, said: "Continued degradation of nature threatens the sustainability of European businesses through unforeseen and often unmanageable disruptions from operations to supply chains.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Every kilowatt-hour of electricity Europe generates from solar, wind, hydropower or biomass reduces our dependency on Russian gas and other energy sources," she said.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

None of Cascadia’s jurisdictions has proven policies to rein in growing consumption of natural gas, which is backed by a powerful oil and gas industry and associated unions. Josh Jacobs expresses similar confidence for Seattle-based Puget Sound Energy, which distributes both natural gas and electricity.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

German's RWE completed its high profile asset swap deal with E.ON, finalising one of the largest deals in German industrial history, as both companies seek to strengthen their position in Europe's accelerating clean energy transition. Poland hails 'birth of offshore wind' industry. Today marks the birth of offshore wind in Poland.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040. “I have heard it said that an offshore wind hub of the type that exists in Europe could not be built in the U.S.,”

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Sydney. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

One example of a company already leading the charge is Chemport Europe. They plan to combine green energy provided by wind turbines, biomass, solar panels and hydropower, with agricultural waste and grasses from the Northern provinces in the Netherlands as feedstock for the chemical cluster. US doubling down on fossil fuels?

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