Business Green

MARCH 12, 2024

The government’s proposed package of energy market reforms are wide-ranging and broadly sensible, if worryingly incomplete - so why all the focus on controversial new gas power plants? That appears to be the main message the government wants taken from today's unveiling of the biggest set of energy market reforms in over a decade.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Research and consultancy organisation Delta-EE anticipates 2022 as the tipping point year that policy support will create a viable business case for green hydrogen. Thus the majority are dependent upon positive legislative indications and incentives from respective governments. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. Choices that lock in emissions or climate risks are unacceptable.”

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Updated rules to decarbonise the EU’s gas market and create a hydrogen market have been provisionally agreed between the European Parliament and Council. The key focuses of the new rules are to enable the uptake of renewable and low-carbon gases and to establish a market design for hydrogen in Europe. Have you read?

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. It also reported Number 10 is keen to see gas play a critical role in the new package of measures. "It

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

The UK government has today (Tuesday 17 August) unveiled its long-awaited strategy for developing a hydrogen energy economy. It comes at a time when there is high scrutiny of the country’s climate policies in the countdown to COP26 in Glasgow in November. Major hydrogen initiatives underway at US Department of Energy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The sweeping plan features a raft of new policies and spending commitments designed to mobilise multibillion pound investment in new carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen, renewables, nuclear, and energy efficiency projects, among other areas.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Business lobby group chief Tony Danker ramps up rhetoric demanding government deliver raft of missing net zero policy on heating, hydrogen and transport. But it's not enough to release these strategies into the ether and hope that's enough. "But

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed a ten-point plan to set the country on its way toward its 2050 net-zero plan, with an accelerated EV rollout and a new hydrogen target the standout pledges. The government is expected to choose which two clusters to support first before the end of the year. GW of blue hydrogen capacity by 2030.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Professor Peter Taylor and Alice Garvey from the University of Leeds set out the challenges and policy requirements for decarbonising heavy industry which they included in a recent report commissioned by the CCC.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week 'A question of ambition': Wind and solar could meet Britain's energy demand in 2050, study finds Britain's wind and solar resources are more than sufficient to meet all its energy needs, accroding to policy briefing prepared by researchers at the University of Oxford - Cecilia (..)

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The EPS allows users to model numerous policies that affect energy use and emissions including a renewable portfolio standard, fuel economy standards for vehicles, industry methane standards, incentives for clean energy technologies like we see in the Inflation Reduction Act, and accelerated R&D advancement of various technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hydrogen has shot up the European legislative agenda in recent years, with politicians of all stripes touting its potential to help countries meet their climate goals. The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Most significant piece of energy legislation in a decade' set to be overshadowed by latest wave of resignations from Johnson government. Announcing the Bill, Kwarteng hailed the sweeping package of new policy measures as "the biggest reform of our energy system in a decade". "To

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The government can adapt what has worked well from its swift and immediate response and apply such learning to the economic recovery by putting climate-friendly policies at its core. Economic stimulus packages provide a perfect opportunity to reflect this. First, we must follow the science.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

Conservative in-fighting may be once again reaching one of its periodic crescendos, but there is another perennial occurrence evident in Westminster today: pleas for the government to do more to tackle the UK's appalling levels of energy waste. The government's Energy Security Strategy commits to fresh targets on the supply side.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen : The Act sets a clear economic licensing framework for CCUS and hydrogen transportation and storage, providing financial support through industrial carbon capture (ICC) and hydrogen business models.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Two separate reports this morning have set out the case for Ministers to press ahead with a raft of policies that can drive a shift away from the blast furnace method of steel production.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Site near Pymouth could produce fuel at scale within three years, if effective policy framework introduced, developer claims. Carlton Power said it expected fuel to be produced at scale from the hub with the next two to three years, provided the project received support from the government's multi-million-pound Hydrogen Investment Package.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

With supportive investment and policy signals H2-powered flight could emerge as a major player for short-medium journeys within 10-15 years, study estimates. Hydrogen propulsion has significant, so far underestimated potential to reduce the climate impact of aviation and contribute to decarbonisation objectives," the report states.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2020

Environmental Audit Committee voices fears the UK risks missing out on fast-emerging green hydrogen opportunity. The EAC's concern stems from evidence gathered by the body in its recent inquiry, Technological Innovation and Climate Change : Hydrogen.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2020

MPs from across the political divide have called on the government to harness its Covid-19 recovery plans to accelerate the transition to net zero, today setting out a 10-point programme of policy recommendations "the government needs to urgently adopt to get the UK on track".

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

British Gas owner says UK should target one million heat pumps by 2025 as it fears hydrogen domestic heating may be a decade away. As such it called for a raft of new green policy interventions that could help accelerate decarbonisation efforts and boost the economy as it seeks to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

The government has today confirmed it is to introduce green number plates from this autumn, in a bid to help drive demand for electric vehicles (EVs) as part of the UK's economic recovery plan. Meanwhile, speculation is mounting over the extent to which the government's imminent stimulus package will support the green transport sector.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

Government says latest cash boost for carbon capture and hydrogen projects should help support up to 60,000 jobs. The government has today announced a new £166.5m The new investment includes £60m to support the development of low carbon hydrogen projects in the UK, £37.5m

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2021

The government is badly off course ahead of COP26 and showing less commitment to a 'green recovery' than some other countries, writes Rosa Hodgkin from the Institute for Government. With most remaining restrictions having lifted on July 19, government attention is focused on the post-pandemic economic recovery.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2022

Company argues expanded hydrogen economy is required to pave the way for zero emission commercial aircraft by 2035. Airbus has announced it has teamed up with a specialist renewable hydrogen infrastructure investment fund that claims to be the largest of its type in the world.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Prime Minister announces £9.7bn of inward infrastructure investment, as government launches new £400m public-private clean tech innovation fund. The world's top investors have seen the massive potential in the UK for growth and innovation in the industries of the future," Johnson said.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

New government and industry body designed to help deliver transatlantic net zero flight 'within a generation'. Shapps used his appearance at the daily coronavirus press conference to announce the moves, which he said would support the government's vision of a "greener transport future".

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Tata Group has threatened to shut down operations at the Port Talbot plant, one of the UK's two large steelwork facilities, if the government does not provide it with up to £1.5bn of financial support to help future-proof the plant by switching to lower carbon production techniques.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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