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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They include the Spectator magazine and groups based in and around Westminster’s Tufton Street , home to a network of opaquely funded, free market think tanks with a history of criticising climate action and pushing for more fossil fuel exploration. French gas giant EDF and German-owned energy firm E.ON

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels. Crucially, by 2035, no cars powered purely by fossil fuels should be sold anywhere in the world, which would effectively remove a huge market for the oil industry.

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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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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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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. million new energy efficient homes.”.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A worker drives a Powered Industrial Truck at the Amazon fullfillment center May 3, 2018 in Aurora, Colorado. Wilking/Getty Images Amazon is making plans to produce hydrogen fuel at its fulfillment centers. This is the first time Amazon has tried to make its own hydrogen on site, and it’s not likely to be the last. “On-site

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Just today the Energy Networks Association (ENA), which represents UK's gas and electricity distribution operators, unleashed its updated innovation strategy aimed at helping set a pathway to a net zero energy system.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

From 2025, all new boilers sold should be 'hydrogen-ready', before natural gas boilers are removed from sale altogether for homes and businesses by 2033 at the latest. Energy, renewables and fossil fuels. The first commercial scale engineered greenhouse gas removal plans should be operational in the UK by 2030.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As a society, we routinely burn fossil fuels at about 1000°C to heat our homes at about 22°C. As one example, we are working on developing green hydrogen or green ammonia using geothermal-powered electrolyzers. What can SLB or GeothermEx contribute to attaining this goal of scaling up?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

The principal source of this variation is based on how big of a role one assumes green hydrogen will play in the future. If the assumption is that green hydrogen costs can be brought down dramatically so that it becomes a cheap and plentiful material, less long duration storage would be needed. Policy plays a crucial role.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

grid: business as usual; decarbonization, meaning a massive shift to low-carbon and carbon-free energy sources; and decarbonization with economy-wide electrification of activities that are powered now by fossil fuels. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

” Similarly, a study from the University of California, Berkeley and GridLab released in June 2020 indicates that achieving a 90 percent clean-powered grid by 2035 could deliver wholesale electricity costs 13 percent lower than today, boosted by about $100 billion in transmission expansion investment. transmission grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In March, over 300 climate and environmental justice advocacy groups sent a letter to Congress, arguing that subsidizing carbon capture “could entrench the fossil economy for decades to come.”. Instead, the proposed CO2 pipeline network would be used to offer a lifeline to existing fossil fuel power plants.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2022

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including 2021 emissions bounce-backs, Germany's new clean power targets, and fresh pressure on European companies to boost their decarbonisation plans. Fossil fuel tycoon pledges $76bn for green infrastructure in India. per cent respectively.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The election is seen as critical in the battle against climate change, with Trump an avowed climate sceptic who has sought to support fossil fuel industries, while commentators have described Biden's climate policies as the most ambitious in US history. Australia to fast track record-breaking wind, solar, and hydrogen project.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. The State of Vehicle-Grid Integration (Panel Discussion): The vehicle-to-grid market is finally about to kick off in earnest.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments. What was missing were government policies capable of shoving economic growth onto a track that required less energy from fossil fuels. Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.

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