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

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 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development. Catalysing the hydrogen economy.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A range of innovative new policies and financial products are to be debuted over the next year in a bid to make it easier for households and businesses to deploy zero emission heating systems. They're also backed by recommendations for the fiscal and policy incentives required to support their roll-out.".

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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

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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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

And you won't need to wait for the golden era of hydrogen to emerge either to take up a green-collar job today in our decarbonising industrial clusters. The ADE is delighted that we have the policy leadership to make it happen. This is not just good news for the domestic economy. For now though I'm off to get a bit more 'friluftsliv'.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Net Zero Carbon Commission estimates the revenues from the proposed carbon tax would reach £75bn by 2030 - funds that could go towards supporting the Covid-19 recovery, driving innovation and investment in clean technologies, such as carbon capture, electrification, and hydrogen, and cushioning rises in household energy bills, they said.

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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. Innovation will also have its place with promises of a great future for hydrogen and carbon capture technologies. It is a plan.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. For its “Hydrogen 2023” event, Reuters Events produced a companion whitepaper on the top 100 hydrogen innovators, designed to look very much like a product of the newsroom.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The report also assesses the use of zero carbon hydrogen gas as a possible replacement for fossil fuels on the gas grid to feed home boilers, which has been gaining increasing interest in recent years, particularly among gas network operators.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

One of the key innovations is Mainspring’s use of “air springs” and an “air-bearing system” as cushions of air that hold the magnet-equipped oscillators in place within the structure that captures their back-and-forth motion to generate electricity. Low-emissions, fuel-flexible, dispatchable on-site power.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

As he eased back into his rhetorical comfort zone Boris Johnson promised to ditch austerity in pursuit of "levelling up" the country, harness innovation to deliver on the UK's net zero goal, and spread educational opportunity right across the nation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is not every day that you find that the UK's biggest business group, most influential trade union bosses, seasoned policy experts, and protestors blocking motorway junctions are in broad agreement. It made for damning reading.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. So it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic.".

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Worldwide there is growing recognition of the moral imperative to ramp-up efforts to tackle the climate crisis," said Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director. Third, the report reiterates previous calls for the government to deliver a series of key policy decisions that have been stuck in the pipeline for months.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We wrote a white paper (low carbon transition plan) announced de facto coal phase out, ramped up solar and offshore wind, led ambition for the UNFCCC at [the Copenhagen Climate Summit], secured boiler scrappage and CESP roll out (low cost/free energy efficiency kit to fight high energy bills). And we did quite a lot.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roughly 160MW of solar is expected to be installed on public sector buildings alone in 2021 through the government's Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, and the industry is now keenly anticipating details of other grants and incentives designed to catalyse the decarbonisation of the UK's homes expected in new policy documents this autumn.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The government's commitment to a green recovery is a big step forward, but impatience is growing as green businesses continue to wait for key policies and spending decisions that have been in the pipeline for months. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Delivering a programme of concerted economic change will require better coordination, an accelerated timeframe between policy and implementation, and a set of more strategic and complex decisions that translate policy ambition into action. This won't be possible without a set of targeted changes to how we govern the energy system.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome higher 2030 emissions reduction goal, but call for ambitious policy and funding to put the UK on a net zero pathway as soon as possible. We now need the policies in place to achieve this target, if we're going to lead and inspire the whole world to meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the main green policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the Spending Review: An infrastructure bank 2.0. A boost in funding for innovation. per cent of the total - will go towards "net zero R&D", of which £81m will be channeled into multi-year commitment for hydrogen heating trials.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I hope the long-awaited, and frequently delayed, Energy White Paper soon sees the light of day and that, through the plethora of reviews and plans that are due over the coming year, the Government will begin to set a path to delivering on their green ambitions.". John Alker, Director of Policy and Places at UKGBC, said. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The oil and gas industry has warned that a windfall tax could jeopardise its ability to fund new offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture projects, which is a legitimate concern. Consequently, the whitepaper features a raft of policy recommendations and proposals that should serve to support the net zero transition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And will the much-trumpeted new strategy have the desired catalysing impact on the UK's covid-stricken economy and faltering net zero transition, or will it amount to yet more Johnsonian spin over substance, big on planet-saving rhetorical flourishes but low on bankable policy detail? innovation funding for net-zero. offshore wind.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

The UK's domestic ambition can be the basis for strong international climate leadership, but the delivery of effective new policies must accelerate dramatically if we're to seize this chance.". Now we know that this token policy is not ambitious enough. We can and must do more.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

There are also game-changing policy commitments: bringing forward the ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars, targeting 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production, and 600,000 heat pump installations per year - all within a decade. It aims to deliver 250,000 jobs and prosperity up and down the country.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

It cements the UK's position as a global leader in decarbonisation, it will unleash waves of new climate policy and low carbon investment, and it means that before a child starting school this year has graduated the country will be more than three quarters of the way towards building what could be the world's first net zero emission economy.

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