Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. However, the costs of green hydrogen are significant and unviable from a commercial perspective, at this point in time.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

  The adoption of hydrogen as a fuel is a key aspect of the net zero initiative. According to 2022 statistics, global hydrogen use touched 95 million tonnes, a year-on-year increase of nearly 3%. The growth of this fuel alternative in all major consuming regions witnessed robust growth with the sharp rise in natural gas prices.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

When it comes to decarbonising the UK economy, many suggest the use of hydrogen for hard-to-electrify transport applications as indispensable. It also looked at the implications of using biomethane in place of fossil gas and hydrogen derived entirely from biogenic waste.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

The UK government has been accused of appointing a “cheerleader for climate-wrecking blue hydrogen” as its hydrogen champion while claiming to support clean energy. However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Technip Energies held its first external Innovation Challenge on net-zero maritime shipping solutions, with the support of Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor focused on scaling climate technologies with deep community impact. Eight contestants pitched their innovations during a three-hour hybrid event on November 14, 2023.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 26, 2022

For Germany to be able to store sufficient amounts of energy to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality, additional hydrogen storage facilities with a capacity of up to 41TWh must be built, a new study finds. Storing Hydrogen – that’s for certain examined the potential of storing hydrogen in gas storage tanks in Germany.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Utility Global, a Utah-based startup focused on solid oxide electrolyzer technology, claims to have received investment offers from oil majors after coming up with what it calls a hydrogen breakthrough. Blue hydrogen is one of several methods aiming to cut the carbon emissions associated with the industrial production of the gas.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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Greentown Labs

JULY 20, 2022

Hydrogen and carbon capture are both critical technologies in the fight against climate change and the road to economy-wide decarbonization. The post Osmoses Enables Hydrogen Separation, Carbon Capture, and More with Molecular Filtration appeared first on Greentown Labs. Osmoses closed $3M in pre-seed funding in November 2021.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 17, 2021

In fall of 2020, hydrogen was big news—and it still is. In advance of the Government of Canada’s launch of a national hydrogen strategy , we released a report titled A New Hope , exploring Canada’s hydrogen opportunity and the potential it holds as a climate solution and for our economy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonization pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk of Europe’s future hydrogen supply. Pipelines or pipe dreams?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

As humanity stands at the crossroads of technological innovation and environmental imperatives, new solutions for sustainable mobility are paramount. Among the most promising frontiers is the advent of cryo-compressed hydrogen, a powerful energy carrier poised to revolutionize the aviation industry.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

UK government urged to avoid backing blue hydrogen after US study finds its production could be worse for climate than natural gas. It concludes that "there really is no role for blue hydrogen in a carbon-free future". It concludes that "there really is no role for blue hydrogen in a carbon-free future".

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Levidian says its LOOP devices can cut emissions from gas by 40 per cent instantly by using plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms: carbon, which is locked into graphene, and hydrogen, which can either be used immediately or stored for future use. We can't wait to get started.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Carbon Tracker analysis warns soaring gas process could leave projects that produce hydrogen from fossil gas stranded. Hydrogen is widely regarded as a critical fuel for the net zero transition, as it provides a means of decarbonising a raft of industrial processes.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Overall, industrial thermal energy accounts for about a tenth of global emissions, according to a December study by Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF, a Japan-backed multinational expert group). The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The PM must fulfill his pledge to 'invest massively in hydrogen' backed by a comprehensive H2 strategy, writes Energy Networks Association chief executive David Smith. This is the hydrogen moment. Currently the UK is leading the global hydrogen race. The UK needs to move fast to maintain its world-leading position.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. Several Aim4C “innovation sprints” are based on regenerative agriculture, including one on “sustainable beef”.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Chris Train of the Gas Goes Green campaign argues the time is right to scale up the UK's green hydrogen industry. As we've seen from the range of hydrogen-related announcements across Europe in the last two weeks, it's clear that the international race to develop hydrogen economies has now well and truly begun.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2020

has moved one step closer towards its net-zero carbon target by unveiling a plan to test 100% green hydrogen for cooking and heating in 300 Scottish homes, making Scotland the first country to do so. According to Ofgem, Scottish gas company SGN will be responsible for fitting houses with hydrogen heating systems. Ofgem, the U.K.’s

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The roadmap contains commitments in line with federal government policies, including a plan to meet or exceed the federal carbon pricing benchmark starting in 2023 and methane reduction targets aligned with federal commitments. Op-ed | Innovation can help ensure hydrogen becomes B.C.’s Release | B.C.’s Release | B.C.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Using hydrogen produced by green electricity in in fuel cells. Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Capturing and sequestering CO 2 from existing gas plants. Meanwhile, Europe’s latest hydrogen strategy is calling for 6 gigawatts (GW) of electrolyzers by 2024 , scaling to 40 GW by 2030.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 18, 2024

Bill Gates recently visited a climate tech startup in the Seattle area called Modern Hydrogen, which is focused on the production of hydrogen fuel and solid carbon.  Those products each have applications for lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The first is NW Natural in Portland, Oregon’s largest natural gas utility.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2020

Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Burning synthetic methane or biogas in existing gas plants. Capturing and sequestering CO 2 from existing gas plants. Meanwhile, Europe’s latest hydrogen strategy is calling for 6 gigawatts (GW) of electrolyzers by 2024 , scaling to 40 GW by 2030.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The C2V Initiative received more than 130 applications from 26 countries, representing a wide variety of carbontech innovations, with carbon utilization product and process innovations and carbon capture and carbon sequestration solutions as the most prominent topic areas. Cemvita Factory (Houston, U.S.)

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

All three are in urgent need of innovations and deployments, but the last of those three — combustion — has, until now, received the least attention. Today, most process heating in the United States is fueled by natural gas, which can be plugged into many technologies and which already enjoys a robust infrastructure. Biomethane.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Canadian Hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel gained significant traction as a climate solution in 2022, with governments and industry pledging billions of dollars towards new development projects. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

Overall, industrial thermal energy accounts for about a tenth of global emissions, according to a December study by Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF, a Japan-backed multinational expert group). The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Sachs’ view was backed in a July 2021 study from the San Francisco-based think tank Energy Innovation, which pulled together eight research efforts by universities and other experts. Combined with other innovative devices such as electric induction cooktops, heat pumps mean we can completely stop feeding so-called “natural” gas to buildings.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a remarkable testament to the power of innovation, collaboration, and strategic investment, the United States has made a monumental leap from 10th to 2nd place in the Hydrogen Progress Index in just two years, positioning itself as a global leader in the hydrogen industry.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

degree pathway over the next decade include the electrification of road transport and housing; the reformation of the food and forestry industries; and the decarbonisation of power and fuel, primarily through the acceleration of the renewable energy and the expansion of the hydrogen fuel and bioenergy markets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

The innovation saw the new tyres produced using 13 different ingredients that all boast significant sustainability benefits compared to conventional tyres, such as carbon black captured from industrial processes and silica produced from rice husk ash, a byproduct of rice processing that is often discarded and put into landfills.

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