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In the hot seat: Solar Energy UK's Chris Hewett on how solar can help deliver net zero buildings and businesses

Business Green

And in December, solar projects will return to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction scheme after a near seven-year hiatus, providing a new route to market for large scale projects. None of our installers were investing to use that mechanism because they didn't trust it was going to exist after its [initially planned 12 month run].

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Ending toxic fossil fuel subsidies

Business Green

In fact, the reverse is true, and often by a large margin: globally, government subsidies for fossil fuels are tagged at more than $440bn per year, according to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates. This means that for years we have been living with a harmful market distortion that favours the most polluting sources.

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

These refineries manufacture products such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene and heating oil. These include heat exchangers, large mixing columns, reactor vessels, mixing tanks, centrifugal machines, you know, the usual. Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5

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How to build a green hydrogen refinery for the maritime industry in Rotterdam

Mr. Sustainability

The oil refineries manufacture products such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene and heating oil. These include heat exchangers, large mixing columns, reactor vessels, mixing tanks, centrifugal machines, you know, the usual. Given a lifetime of 10 years for an electrolyzer, a price tag of €632 per kW and a production of 0.5

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'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan

Business Green

Cuts to stamp duty will get the housing market moving and support first-time buyers to put down roots. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. This could have been a win-win for house buyers, energy security and the climate.

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? Old nuclear, new-clear #161

Climate Tech VC

Since then, the price tag for the project has since more than doubled and the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office had to step in to provide additional financing. for their second clean energy fund focused on credit and hard-asset investments. It was initially expected to cost ~$14B and reach commercial operation in 2017.