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IMO Environment Committee approves draft mandatory regulations to cut ship carbon intensity; technical and operational

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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has approved draft new mandatory regulations to cut the carbon intensity of existing ships. This builds on current mandatory energy efficiency requirements to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

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TECO 2030 aims to build hydrogen fuel cell gigafactory in Norway

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Our ambition is to build an advanced innovation center combined with a giga factory, meaning that we will produce fuel cells with a capacity of 1200 megawatts, or 1.2 IMO, the International Maritime Organization, targets carbon emission cuts of 40% by 2030 and 70% by 2050, compared to 2008 values. gigawatt, per year.

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Höegh Autoliners signs Letter of Intent with China Merchants Heavy Industry to build ammonia-ready Aurora class vessels

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CMHI) to build a series of its multi-fuel and ammonia-ready Aurora class vessels. The Aurora class has DNV’s new “ammonia-ready” notation, which makes it the first in the segment to be ready for operation on carbon-neutral ammonia. Höegh Autoliners entered into a Letter of Intent (LoI) with China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co.,

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Biden orders 100% ZEV acquisition for Federal fleet by 2035, ZEV LDVs by 2027

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a climate- and sustainability-focused Federal workforce. a climate- and sustainability-focused Federal workforce.

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Nippon Steel to invest in Canadian coal company; steelmaking coal offtake agreement

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Nippon Steel is striving to achieve carbon neutrality by multi-track technological developments, including hydrogen injection in blast furnaces, high-grade steel production in large size electric arc furnace, and DRI production by hydrogen (shaft furnace etc.).

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JetBlue to go carbon neutral on all domestic flights by offsetting emissions starting in 2020; flying with SAF from SFO

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JetBlue will offset carbon dioxide emissions from jet fuel for all domestic JetBlue flights beginning in July 2020, making it the first major US airline to take this measurable step toward reducing its contribution to global warming. Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6 When projects that reduce CO?

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Doosan to develop Ceres-based SOFC system for ships

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In October, Doosan and Ceres announced a strategic collaboration which includes the building of an initial 50MW manufacturing facility for the manufacture under licence of Ceres’ fuel cell stacks in South Korea. This system will be based on Ceres Power Holdings’ proprietary SteelCell SOFC stack technology ( earlier post ). Earlier post.).