DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2021

The powerful climate pollutant methane is leaking out of dozens of oil and gas wells, pipelines, and storage tanks in Romania, adding to a growing body of evidence that methane leaks are widespread and pervasive in Europe. It also has one of the largest refining capacities in Eastern Europe. We’re used to it.”

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EDF + Business

JUNE 9, 2020

Methane: Europe’s missing link for effective energy decarbonization. About half of all internationally traded gas is consumed by Europe. and Algeria, countries with sizeable methane emissions. The post EU methane policy recommendations appeared first on EDF+Business. ” Download the policy recommendations.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . The pledge needs to be matched with bold solutions.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Methane is now a central part of the oil & gas industry’s climate challenge. New regulations in the US and Europe, growing concern in Asia, and mounting interest from investors and global gas markets mean increasing pressure to improve emissions performance. Most producers recognize the problem.

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FuelCellsWorks

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Italian energy giant, Saipem, has secured a pivotal FEED (Front End Engineering Design) contract, marking its foray into developing a large-scale Power-to-X

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 3, 2022

is eyeing the import of up to 5Mt per annum of green renewable hydrogen from Australia to Europe by 2030. is decisively driving forward the green energy transition in Europe and is fully committed to sustainability and climate protection. Renewable hydrogen is a key element to achieving this task,” said Leo Birnbaum, CEO of E.ON.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New IEA analysis reveals methane emissions from the energy sector are 70 per cent higher than official reports, but could high gas prices finally prompt operators to tackle the problem. It is one of the biggest and most worrying mysteries in the field of climate science: where are all the methane emissions coming from?

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EDF + Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Moreover, by breaking out prominent agricultural GHGs—methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide—for six primary commodities as examples, our guide helps sustainability teams deliver a new approach to drive emissions reductions efficiently and in highest service to their climate strategy. Our Recommendations Cattle: Methane.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2021

Brussels is gearing up to use its satellites to spot and track global methane emission hotspots, writes Andrew Warren. Importers, consumers will want to know: 'Is my gas free of methane leaks?'". Beyond methane. Methane is only the beginning. Big Brother is watching you.' Greater transparency.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

French green gas start-up Energo has demonstrated the injection of synthetic methane into GRDF’s gas distribution network. The demonstration, a first in France, was undertaken as a regulatory sandbox initiative to confirm the feasibility of synthetic methane injection in the network.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

Report argues promised 30 per cent cut in methane emissions will be extremely difficult to achieve without tackling livestock numbers. A new report has today warned the EU "cannot deliver" on the commitments it has made under the Global Methane Pledge without cutting livestock numbers. per cent by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

A new advance opening the way for Mg-ion batteries, protections for birds around networks, Enel Green Power’s Sicily hydrogen lab and a plan to power Bitcoin mining with methane from landfills are in the technology radar. Landfill methane for Bitcoin mining. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. Now with funding of $4.3

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. To replace Russian pipeline gas, European Member States have turned to liquid natural gas (LNG) from outside Europe. “We We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Excessive heat and severe flooding has claimed thousands of lives across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It’s a strain on our power grid, agriculture and – most of all – people. It’s not just Texas of course.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

Methane produced from food waste and other sources is a greenhouse gas (GHG) which is 28-34 times more powerful than CO2, according to United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). WRAP also states inedible food waste from UK households and businesses is around 2.85m tonnes and is associated with more than 7.5m

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

ADBA said dry AD is a well-established technology and is being used in Europe and other parts of the world, and that interest in the UK is growing. In contrast with traditional wet AD, where feedstock is liquidized and pumped through a digester, in dry AD the feedstocks are loaded or stacked in a digester, covered and sealed.

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Energy Central

MARCH 4, 2024

By EDF Blogs By Andrew Baxter Methane is now a central part of the oil & gas industry’s climate challenge. and Europe, growing concern in Asia and mounting interest from investors and global gas markets mean increasing pressure to improve emissions performance. New regulations in the U.S

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Lower greenhouse gas emissions from cattle, after CRISPR is used to alter the genetic activity of the methane-producing microbes that live in the animals’ stomachs. Reductions to the hundreds of millions of tons of methane emitted annually from rice production, thanks to new gene-edited rice strains.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The multibillion-dollar Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines transporting gas under the Baltic Sea were ruptured by a series of blasts in the Swedish and Danish economic zones in September 2022, releasing vast amounts of methane into the air. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

Her family harvests the vegetables grown with the help of the liquid fertiliser, and they cook most of their stove-top meals with the methane produced. Kathy has led several online programmes with participants from Haiti, Belize, India, Africa, Europe, the U.S., and Puerto Rico, over 65% of them being women.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2024

EU’s gas and hydrogen market reforms move step closer Achieving energy security through an integrated European gas market The Nimbus smart meter, which was conceived and developed within Italgas RETI, was launched in November 2023 in Paris at Enlit Europe 2023.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

The targets will increase to 33-65% in 2026, so diesel’s days in Europe are clearly numbered. Hybrid vehicles are playing a strong role in Europe’s largest countries, and an unfortunate amount of investment is going to methane gas engines, especially in France, Spain and Italy. Data sourced from Chatrou CME Solutions.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 26, 2024

So-called natural gas is primarily methane, an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide that routinely escapes from gas infrastructure. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US has ramped up LNG exports to Europe as much of the Western world tried to wean itself off Russian gas reserves.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But the vast majority of today’s industrial hydrogen production is ‘grey,’ made from natural gas via steam methane reforming — a process that emits carbon dioxide, but at a low cost that electrolysis will struggle to beat over the coming decades. On Tuesday the Santa Barbara, Calif.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

A Dutch carbon tax, that would cover emissions from producing hydrogen using methane, is expected to reach €125 ($137) per ton of CO2 equivalent emissions by 2030. Dutch research organization TNO estimates that one ton of hydrogen produced from methane leads to 10 tons of CO2 equivalent.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

EVM’s gas allocation is equivalent to a daily amount of 6,240,000 cubic feet of methane gas. Battery producers such as Verkor are locating new battery plants near sources of renewable energy, and what policy-makers in North America and Europe really want is to establish mineral supply and processing capacity within their regions.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

in backing for its plan to fund farmers' use of methane-reducing cattle feed through CO2 offsets. Companies and individuals may soon be able to pay cows to burp less in return for carbon offset credits, under plans being developed by Swiss-British agritech firm Mootral to fund the use of methane-cutting cattle feed on farms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy study warns the 'climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants'. The climate footprint of Europe's big meat and dairy companies rival the fossil fuel giants yet they continue to operate with impunity," she said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

The researchers have developed a pilot plant to remove CO2 from the emissions of the incinerator at the Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant, which is one of the largest combined heat and power (CHP) plants in northern Europe, with the capacity to treat 560,000 tonnes of waste annually.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Leaking methane from oil and gas infrastructure is widespread across the European continent, reveals an investigation of more than 150 sites in seven countries. More than 60 percent of the sites analyzed by researchers using state-of-the-art technology were releasing large volumes of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 12, 2022

Italian gas distribution operator Italgas has introduced Picarro for methane emission detection and reduction in its networks. With carbon dioxide emissions effectively under management, the focus is shifting to other greenhouse gases, notably methane, which also contains carbon and is even more potent. Proactive network maintenance.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. Across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, more countries and companies are embracing this high-quality fuel.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

IEA executive director Faith Birol has been outspoken about the role Russia has had in driving up international gas prices, warning earlier this year that record high energy prices in Europe and parts of Asia were largely due to the country purposefully holding back supplies of the fossil fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. If this trial with Scottish Water goes well, the applications for this solution across the wastewater industry not just in the UK but across Europe could be immense.”.

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