Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

It said reforms were also needed to create incentives for energy suppliers to pursue digitisation and grid flexibility technologies, which many experts view as critical for building net zero power grids that are reliant on large amounts of intermittent renewable energy capacity. billion tonnes of CO2 this year to 7.6

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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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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The overall message is clear: the government needs to get a move on, or risk missing out on much needed global green investment, as well as a more energy secure grid system. "The We need to see rapid progress across both renewables and hydrogen deployment to make the 2035 target achievable."

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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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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 17, 2019

EVs are among the most promising technologies for cutting pollution in one of Canada’s highest-emitting sectors. What’s more, we have a secret weapon that many Canadians aren’t aware of: our power grid is over 80 per cent non-polluting and getting cleaner every year. And Ballard Power , hailing from Burnaby, B.C.,

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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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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration proposed new tax guidelines today aimed at making it cheaper to produce hydrogen as a less-polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Hydrogen combustion releases water vapor, rather than planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Dozens of organisations will be running stalls at the Tory conference, including a number of fossil fuel firms and major polluters. In another CapX piece, Clark said it would be “impossible” for Britain to electrify its power grid by 2030. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This requires accelerating the roll out of low cost renewable technologies such as offshore wind, investing in the UK's power grid infrastructure and overseeing a much-needed mass insulation programme to upgrade UK's leaky housing stock. Truss has the solutions to address both the energy and climate crises at her fingertips.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, most of that EV adoption worldwide is expected to take place in industrialised and emerging economies, meaning the rest of the developing world is currently expected to remain reliant on polluting vehicles through to 2040 and beyond.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As one example, we are working on developing green hydrogen or green ammonia using geothermal-powered electrolyzers. Another idea: in the same way that solar PV is helping geothermal plants, onshore wind plants could be supported by geothermal power from deep sedimentary basins—for example, in the wind belt of west Texas.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

The rescue package, which builds on an earlier loan agreement with Air France, centres on plans to establish France's aviation industry as the "cleanest in the world" with a significant chunk of the funding earmarked for the development of electric, hydrogen, hybrid, and more efficient aircraft. "We

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Boosting shared solar installations through the 10-year extension of the 30% Investment Tax Credit, which is now technology neutral and covers energy storage, clean hydrogen, and more. Allume Energy , Transcend ). Treating forests as climate solutions that scrub carbon from the air. Vibrant Planet ). What We Love: Building Community Capacity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. On green and blue hydrogen. BusinessGreen was there to listen in on what the self-styled 'good guys' of the global energy transition are currently thinking.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Proponents of carbon capture, usage, and sequestration (CCUS) often highlight ways that it could be used for sectors like steel and cement whose carbon pollution is generally considered “hard to abate.” The pipeline network would be twice the size of the current U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Memorandum of Understanding signed between Reliance Industries and the Gujarat administration set outs plans for the conglomerate to spend $68bn on developing 100GW of renewable power and a green hydrogen network over the next 10 to 15 years. The partners claim the deal will create a million direct and indirect jobs in the region.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

Link Research indicates gas stoves are a significant contributor to indoor air pollution. It is hard to go wrong by electrifying everything (including home cooking and heating/cooling) since it’ll be using electricity from an increasingly renewables-powered grid. Well, it turns out they don’t have to?—?we

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Biden, whose is touting a plan for 'a 100 per cent clean energy economy and net zero emissions no later than 2050' as part of his presidential bid, last night promised to transition the US away from oil towards renewable energy by cutting subsidies "because the oil industry pollutes significantly".

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Conference New Green Revolution: How to Cut Pollution without Sacrificing Yields (Panel Discussion): Increasing yields often means using more fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. But more chemicals generally means more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution. Because you never forget your first. How will this market unfold?

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Power Grid Failures Credit: Ron Jenkins / Getty Images People had a bad time in Texas when extreme weather created demand and supply shocks which led to rolling blackouts. Hydrogen fuel cell hybrid airplane developer Zero Avia raised money from Breakthrough Energy Ventures , among others.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We now know that Cascadia’s greenhouse gas pollution went on increasing in 2019, according to state and provincial data assembled and analyzed by InvestigateWest for this report. However, leaders on both sides of the border said much the same in the run-up to 2010, when Cascadia set pathbreaking goals to slash climate-altering pollution.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has spent $4 billion to fix this with a system of deep tunnels, stopping more than 145 billion gallons of pollution from spilling into Lake Michigan since the early 1990s. Kate Yoder Northeast The Northeast is poised to become a ‘hydrogen hub’: But nobody knows quite what that means yet.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

However, it also includes multi-billion dollar support for a range of clean infrastructure projects, including power grid, carbon capture, hydrogen, battery manufacturing, direct air carbon capture, electric vehicle (EV), and climate resilience initiatives.

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