Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Google will offer each partner city its expertise based on the company’s experience in pursuing a 24/7 CFE goal, including data and critical policy and market reforms. Piloting CFE.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

As such, Labour's warning that the various proposals urgently need to be firmed up if the strategy is to mobilise the investment in hydrogen production, carbon capture and storge (CCS), and green fuels that is needed, was broadly echoed by industry commentators.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

However, with the Energy White Paper released late last year having set an aim to capture 10Mt of emissions by 2030, it remains unclear precisely how the remaining 7Mt will be delivered. And, in a scenario where widespread access to hydrogen is developed across the UK, hydrogen consumption could be as high as 86TWh by 2050, it adds.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

A new Clean Energy Canada white paper explores ways to cut emissions from this overlooked industry. Chemicals also present a pathway for oil and gas products that are not combusted (for example, for the production of blue hydrogen to manufacture ammonia for fertilizers).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It follows Johnson's claim last week that he wanted the UK to be the "Saudi Arabia of wind power", as he promised to make a "big bet" on CCS, hydrogen, and wind power in a bid to "build back greener" from the Covid-19 crisis. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy signals.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It follows Johnson's claim last week that he wanted the UK to be the "Saudi Arabia of wind power", as he promised to make a "big bet" on CCS, hydrogen and wind power in a bid to "build back greener" from the Covid-19 crisis. Nevertheless, environmental groups broadly welcomed the latest green policy support.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The 10-Point Plan unveiled by the Prime Minister late on Tuesday provided funding announcements and policy signals across a range of areas, including hydrogen, CCS, nuclear, offshore wind, and electric vehicles. goal and the UK's target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The revised strategy "reflects the ongoing global energy transition", with obligations for operators to limit reliance on imports, boost efficiency of production, and harness their skills and infrastructure to support hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage projects, the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero. However, action from policy makers will be needed if these changes are to happen.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

Over the past decade, Mainspring Energy has been at work on a novel "linear generator" that it says can provide on-site electricity with lower emissions than fossil-fueled engines and microturbines, and greater flexibility than fuel cells. On Tuesday, Mainspring's vision landed a vote of confidence from U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The current high gas prices have highlighted the need to invest in technologies which can store power as part of building a more resilient, renewables-based system which can wean us off fossil fuels. Much of the system flexibility in the past has been provided by fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. It is not the first time the government has faced calls to set out a clearer policy path for decarbonising the UK gas grid, which is widely seen as one of the country's toughest net zero challenges.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But to find out how many of them will actually turn into decisions, we will have to wait until the even longer-heralded Energy White Paper appears - hopefully - later this month. A nice example of the circular economy on a grand scale, as London financed the initial development of fossil fuel economy. It is a plan.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Studies have shown the UK has among the draughtiest homes in Europe, and ramping up energy efficiency while shifting away from fossil fuel gas for home heating is widely seen as one of the biggest challenges for the net zero agenda for the next decade and beyond.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

Without a strong carbon price, older renewable and nuclear plant will close earlier than they should and investment in new low carbon infrastructure like Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS), hydrogen and negative emissions technologies will stall. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The friends, all engineers by training, had designed a machine that could turn agricultural waste, like almond shells, into renewable hydrogen fuel. They’d even found a partner, the owner of a fueling station for hydrogen-powered cars, who wanted them to build a pilot plant at his facility.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The government has announced a major review to explore how to align North Sea oil and gas exploration with its net zero ambitions, potentially opening the door to a critical shift in policy as the UK begins laying the foundations for decarbonising the economy over the next three decades.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

The only thing Rooseveltian about this plan is that it belongs in the fossil fuel age," he said. Government sources countered that Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to deliver a wider economic update to Parliament next week, while plans are also proceeding to deliver a wide-range of new green programmes throughout the course of the year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Homeowners are left to face the costs of insulation on their own, industries like steel and hydrogen are left hobbled in the global race without the support they need, and the government cannot even confirm they will meet their climate target for 2035. But there are still some pieces of puzzle missing.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios analysis paints a compelling picture of the potential for an energy system replete with hydrogen, CCS and millions of EVs. While both CCS and hydrogen technologies are in their relative infancy today, they are critical to the UK meeting its legally-binding net zero target, it stresses.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed. A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. in Ontario.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. This won't be possible without a set of targeted changes to how we govern the energy system. Governance fit for the future.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed. A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. in Ontario.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As an analysis from Greenpeace today highlights, the UK's current North Sea oil and gas tax regime sees companies pay around 40 per cent tax on the profits arising from extraction of fossil fuels, which represents the lowest government tax take in the world for an offshore oil and gas regime.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The government should launch a broad consultation into the right date for the decarbonisation of power in the next four months and confirm the chosen date in the Net Zero Strategy, a policy document the government has promised to publish before the high-profile climate summit, the companies added.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today Greta Thunberg offered a characteristically unvarnished assessment of what now is required to get the world on track to averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis, blasting politicians globally for failing to match their recent green rhetoric with meaningful policy action. million new jobs, the report said.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, recent analysis by the Labour party of data from the Climate Change Committee has pinned the cost of insulating homes and installing low carbon heating systems - such as heat pumps or hydrogen-ready boilers - to make them net zero-compliant at more than £20,000 per household.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Plenty of Prime Ministers have sketched out their grand 'white heat', 'no alternative', 'third way' economic visions for the country. Countless Ministers have scratched around for a couple more policies to turn an eight strategy into a satisfying 10 point plan. The amount of funding provided is not the only measures of success.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In February he also brought forward the coal power plant phase out to 2024, and signalled that he would move the fossil fuel car sales ban from 2040 to 2035. It might also support better joined-up policy making, by ensuring in particular that low carbon policies can also be of benefit to society and the economy.".

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