Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Iberdrola, Ørsted, ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Yara and Snam lead UN-backed drive to halve cost of hydrogen by 2026. The bold vision and leadership of businesses can propel green hydrogen along an exponential growth trajectory to support economic recovery and deep decarbonisation sooner than anticipated.".

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 22, 2021

This awareness has led to both governments as well as normal human beings trying to take steps to make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. Few would have imagined that normal homes in small neighborhoods would be getting powered by solar energy a few years back. It can also help in effective storage solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. The project is being developed to be ready to support “carbon capture and hydrogen."

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to the startup, with the popularity and commissioning of renewable energy rising globally, the role of energy storage and flexible demand will be crucial, necessitating the balance of consumption and production of electricity to ensure grid stability. subsidiary, Essent, also based in the Netherlands. A subsidiary of E.ON

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Renewable energy sources are often cheaper than traditional fossil fuels, and we can use them to generate jobs and economic growth.    Solar Power:  The process of making electricity from sunlight is called solar energy. The turbines are connected to the power grid and can generate electricity when the wind blows.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Thus the future power system will be a ‘system of systems’, which will need strong cooperation between transmission and distribution. Europe’s electricity markets in 2030 – design options How DSOs can play a vital role in Europe’s hydrogen economy. Have you read? The vision is based on four ‘building blocks’ that ENTSO.E

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The UK's leading nuclear, wind, and solar industry trade bodies have joined together to urge the government to set ambitious clean energy deployment goals for the end of the decade, backed by a binding 2035 target for the delivery of a net zero emissions power grid.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A 6GW pipeline of green hydrogen projects is being primed in the UK and Europe over the next two years, but experts fear key pieces of the policy puzzle still need putting in place. Could 2022 be the year in which green hydrogen produced using renewable power moves from 'nice idea' towards a mainstream, bankable investment proposition?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

WPR’s campaign also explicitly promotes hydrogen as a viable fuel for domestic heating. The people who are pushing for hydrogen heating aren’t genuinely interested in tackling climate breakdown – they’re looking for a lifeline for the gas industry,” says Sarah Becker of Global Witness.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2022

Power network reformation. On the matter of power network reformation, the report draws attention to the inherent risks that accompany renewable sources of energy being integrated into the power grid. Increasing electrification. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Karine Kleinhaus and Andrew Howell, CFA Oil and gas companies, federal agencies, and ambitious start-ups are coming together around innovation in geothermal energy that could give it a foundational role in the emerging clean power grid. The FORGE initiative field site in Milford, Utah. Photo credit: FORGE. Recent U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The sad reality is that over a decade of austerity economics, external shocks, and entirely self-imposed financial calamities has left the UK in such straitened circumstances it now struggles to make the investments that are so urgently needed in the industries and infrastructure that will dominate the 21st century.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2022

German-Dutch grid operator TenneT has commissioned Siemens Energy to supply three grid stabilisation systems for the German power grid. One of the three is touted by the energy company as the world’s first reactive power compensation system with supercapacitors used for short-term storage.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

According to Detwiler, the grid 1.0 started with fossil fuels, then it evolved to 2.0 long-duration storage, likely hydrogen). “If Speaking of hydrogen, that’s a horse Detwiler would bet on at least for the last mile in the power grid and as the best tool for decarbonizing much of heavy industry, starting with steel.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Yet a return to business as usual marked by continued large-scale investments in fossil fuel infrastructure would only result in further volatility and economic disruption, while failing to deliver on the medium and long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development agenda, it argued.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The expansion of electricity networks to support the shift towards EVs and heat pumps, as well as enhance energy access, also requires a huge increase in copper and cobalt supplies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The government is aiming to get the prototype nuclear fusion plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the UK's power grid up and running by 2040, and has committed to spending £222m on the early-stage design phase of the project.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Investors eye major role for hydrogen in decarbonising UK's gas and energy system after deal valuing business at £9.6bn. National Grid's 7,660-kilometre transmission system plays a critical role in the UK energy landscape, transporting the gas needed to heat homes and power industry and electricity generation.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. ” Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The UK's growing sources of wind, solar and hydro power served to significantly curb millions of households' reliance on expensive, carbon-intensive fossil fuels last month, further underscoring the benefits of expanding clean, renewable electricity sources to tackle the ongoing energy crisis.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared that 2022 could mark a "vital turning point" in the drive to use energy more efficiently, after record investment was directed to measures that reduce consumption of energy, from building renovations to public transport upgrades and electric car infrastructure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, the European Union's plan to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels through its REPowerEU plan is expected to significantly boost investment in large-scale energy storage capacity on grids across in Europe. — Lion Hirth (@LionHirth) January 6, 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, and estimates that 80 to 120 gigawatts of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That’s a fresh headache for Europe’s grid operators. That makes it the largest green hydrogen proposal on the drawing board thus far.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The overall message is clear: the government needs to get a move on, or risk missing out on much needed global green investment, as well as a more energy secure grid system. We need to see rapid progress across both renewables and hydrogen deployment to make the 2035 target achievable."

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

Whilst the UK now has clear legislation and a host of forward-looking strategies in place, many of them need to be underpinned by far more policy detail - and in some cases targeted public funding - if they are to drive the necessary private investment across the economy to meet the UK's climate and environmental targets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. Urgent action now will improve energy security, help tackle the cost of living crisis, and create green jobs and investment across the country.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. Using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas. power grid by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

The auditing body found the government has scaled back its work on coordinating long-term power sector decarbonisation as a result of the energy crisis, which it said risked not only deterring critical green business investment, but could result in higher costs for energy consumers in the long term.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

As an example of how this could work in practice, Starmer reiterated Labour's plan to set up a new publicly-owned clean energy generation business that would deliver jobs and help the country to transition to a 100 per cent clean power grid by the end of this decade.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

On the one hand, the Christmas holidays marked a particularly green period for Britain's power grid, with electricity from fossil fuels falling to an all-time low, taking a mere six per cent share of overall generation on 29 December, according to analysis commissioned by energy company Drax.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

A gas company has been accused of “greenwashing” in a North Yorkshire community ahead of a crunch decision on the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’. Northern Gas Networks (NGN) is bidding to host a two-year government-funded trial in Redcar, Teesside, to replace gas with ‘green’ hydrogen in around 2,000 homes.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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