DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. ADNOC is a major supplier of oil and gas to Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

Repeated abuses in international waste shipments have highlighted the need for Europe to take care of its waste under EU environmental standards. In order to make waste shipments out of Europe a thing of the past, says the group, Europe needs to further support internal and sustainable waste treatment practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Staffordshire University is contributing forensic intelligence to an ambitious project which aims to protect endangered species like wolf, bear, lynx, and sturgeon in remote areas of Europe. We want to improve natural habitats where certain species are an incredibly important part of the ecosystem.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

This is naturally a welcome development for geothermal development, especially as policy support seeks for the establishment of research institutes, more streamlined permitting procedures, and funding bodies for geothermal projects. Increased funding for DOE initiatives In a letter published in February 2024, Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.),

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Energy Central

JUNE 19, 2023

The energy security paradigm shift in Europe, coupled with a constantly evolving economic, policy and technological environment, has created a turbulent outlook for Europe's ambition to be the world's first net zero continent by 2050.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 16, 2024

A study published by Rete Geotermica in collaboration with The European House – Ambrosetti highlights the untapped potential of binary geothermal power plant technology in Italy. All active geothermal power plants operated by Enel Green Power use dry steam or flash technology, harnessing energy from high-temperature geothermal fluids.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The group says timely rollout of policy support is needed to deliver on investments. Greater progress is needed on technology, regulation and demand creation to ensure low-emissions hydrogen can realise its full potential.” However, uptake of low emissions hydrogen remains very limited, accounting for only 0.6%

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This mechanism serves as a protective shield for the EU’s climate policies, preventing them from being undermined by production relocation to countries with less stringent environmental standards or by the substitution of EU products with more carbon-intensive imports.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In Europe, national electricity markets are right now being challenged by commodity price trends, weak electricity demand, nuclear and coal phase-outs and increasing contributions from wind and solar. Renewables are central to regional and national energy policies in Europe. Where does Europe stand?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) will now run as a virtual event from 9 to 11 December 2020. The European Commission’s Policy Officer for Packaging and Packaging Waste, Maja Desgrees du Lou, is the keynote speaker in the opening session on day two entitled Revisiting Plastics Recyclability. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius,

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most European countries are making progress in their digital transformation but the adoption of key digital technologies by businesses remains low. Digitalising Europe’s energy sector – ‘enabling trustful and digitally enabled interactions’ ‘Digitalisation is key’ – Manuel Galvez, European TSO policy lead, Elia Group.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

A new cluster of meta-operating systems research and innovation actions received 64 million euros of EU funding, in order to revolutionize edge computing in Europe. For Europe to maintain and, why not, augment its strength in the computing continuum, serious work needs to be done in the field. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

In a new study, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has aimed to address this issue, gathering data on the costs and performance of selected renewable technologies as well as on patents and standards with the goal to provide a quantitative measure of innovation progress. Renewables snapshot. Patents and standards.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 21, 2022

For hydrogen to contribute to net-zero goals, its production needs to expand to a much larger scale, become fully decarbonised and find a cost-effective place in the electricity system, the TSO association states in a set of policy recommendations it has formulated. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

At the World Energy Congress in Rotterdam last week, six players on the frontline of global grids came together to offer a reality check on the progress of making the grid fit for purpose… and they all called for greater collaboration of minds and integration of technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

Scotland’s hydrogen production and export potential could be significantly accelerated with the development of a purpose-built marine pipeline according to a report published on 31 August by the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC).

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

The world's biggest airlines continue to lobby behind-the-scenes in Europe for policies that undermine global climate goals, despite their public support of net zero goals, a new study has claimed.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2021

On our current policy trajectory, there is no peak in sight, according to EIA By 2050, we will likely see a 50% increase in energy consumption. That means emissions could rise through 2050, absent massive changes to policy. What are the applications, technologies and markets that will dominate this growth ? Learn more.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Notably, we are seeing a transformation in sustainable agriculture across Europe. This platform is helping European nations transform agricultural practices for greater sustainability and find solutions for the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). on April 12-13th.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

This piece was authored by Muhammad Abdullah, an 2023 summer Transportation Policy intern with Energy Innovation and Energy Innovation’s Chris Busch, Director Transportation and Senior Economist. 6] Fortunately, technological advances mean cleaner alternatives are increasingly available.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The US-based organisation – which has links to a network of fossil fuel funded think tanks and advocacy groups – has opposed climate-friendly measures in Europe, such as the phase-out of petrol cars and green farming reforms, despite being removed from the lobby register over a year ago.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On our current policy trajectory, there is no peak in sight, according to EIA By 2050, we will likely see a 50% increase in energy consumption. That means emissions could rise through 2050, absent massive changes to policy. What are the applications, technologies and markets that will dominate this growth ? Learn more.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 16, 2022

The analysis also is focussed on the system needs rather than the storage technology mix itself, which will depend on the evolving costs, technologies and innovation landscape. Listen also to: Energy Transitions Podcast: Bridging the UK’s energy supply and demand gap with storage.

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Energy Transition

APRIL 4, 2024

The global race to become a leader in the manufacturing of green technologies is well underway. Many developed countries are pumping huge amounts of money into their respective green economies. How could this influence green economic growth in the Global South? Rebecca Bertram reports.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The findings, published by energy think tank Ember, suggest Europe weathered a "triple crisis" in the energy sector last year, as the industry faced soaring costs, a scramble to wean the continent off Russian gas supplies, and the lowest levels of hydro and nuclear generation in two decades. Any fears of a coal rebound are now dead."

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The European Commission has recommended revisions to the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) plan to enable it to make a greater contribution to the European Green Deal, REPowerEU and Green Deal Industrial Plan goals.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 23, 2022

According to the report, the main regulatory challenges seem represented by the policy choices related to interoperability and standardisation, in particular the option for a mandated rather than a facilitated APIs adoption, and the concerns about privacy and cybersecurity. “In

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 18, 2022

Originally created in 1962, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a cornerstone of the European Union (EU) which consists of a system of subsidies designed to support the European agricultural sector. The policy looks to strengthen the EU agricultural economy and improve productivity across 174 million agricultural hectares.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Delivering the UK's heat pump installation target requires urgent policy action and a clear strategy, explains Laura Bishop of the Ground-Source Heat Pump Association. We now need to see urgent policy action by the UK government and a clear strategy adopted to help drive forward our low carbon heating future. So what needs to be done?

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

UK leads the way as Europe's onshore and offshore wind sector sees investment grow 70 per cent, despite Covid-19 disruption. Europe wants more wind energy to deliver its climate and energy goals," he said. The technology is available. So is the money. Otherwise there's no point having a higher renewables target.".

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One of the first synthetic eFuel production units in Europe could be implemented at an Energy Recovery Plant near Porto. Deploying a seemingly innovative technology configuration and design, the group behind it, LIPOR, suggests it is set to revolutionize the waste-to-energy industry while simultaneously decarbonizing the aviation sector.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

We.need a strong climate policy — such as the Green Deal — in order to guarantee steady progress," he added. SolarPower Europe tracked 18.2 Higher-efficiency solar modules and higher capacity factors for wind will take advantage of technology improvements. Doubling new generation may not be impossible.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Offshore wind will compete in its own carve-out of the auction to ensure some diversity in the winning technologies. “It’s not going to be more of the same; there have to be some changes,” said Lassen, referring not just to the technology used but also to the policy that underpins them. One day after the U.K.'s

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence is rapidly growing that fully decarbonising the power system across the UK and Europe can be achieved at no additional cost by 2035. It therefore argues such a vision should be at the core of government's policy plans as they strive to deliver on their goal of building a net zero emission continent by mid-century.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

As these bold commitments trickle down to the state and local level, specific policies and roadmaps will emerge to accelerate the deployment of wind, solar and energy storage technology. These policies and roadmaps will not be developed in a vacuum. GW of storage online by 2030.

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