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MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1 IEA will explore US and natural gas prospects in details in the next World Energy Outlook 2017.

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MAY 30, 2019

Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU) increased by 0.7% Less coal was used to produce heat and electricity but this was offset by higher industrial and transport emissions, the latter increasing for the fourth consecutive year. in 2017 compared with 2016. Source: EEA.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Panda Power Funds has entered into a joint venture with Sunbury Generation LP to develop, finance, construct and operate a 1,000 megawatt natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power project near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

In 2016, about 57% of India’s steel was produced using electric-based methods—the second-highest proportion of electric-based steel production among major steel producers, behind only the United States, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). of 2016 production. million tonnes); and.

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JULY 29, 2021

The joint venture will secure fast delivery to local customers, who demand high-performance catalysts for energy-efficient methanol production. Methanol as a fuel serves to transfer coal energy into clean energy so that the environmental problems can be significantly improved while safeguarding national energy security.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Energy demand worldwide grew by 2.3% Natural gas emerged as the fuel of choice, posting the biggest gains and accounting for 45% of the rise in energy consumption. Gas demand growth was especially strong in the United States and China. As a result, global energy-related CO 2 emissions rose by 1.7%

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to 1.9%) in 2022 as the COVID recovery continues amidst turmoil in energy markets. Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. Turmoil in energy markets. The turmoil in the global energy markets is affecting the different fossil fuels in different ways. increase in 2021.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain ( HESC ) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine into hydrogen at an adjacent site and then transport the gas by road in high pressure tube trailers to a liquefaction terminal at the Port of Hastings. The liquefaction process will cool the hydrogen gas to ?253°C

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APRIL 20, 2016

In a cost-shared program supported by the US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) of the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA), a team at Battelle is demonstrating a new, hybrid, direct coal-to-liquids process for producing jet fuel using biomass-derived coal solvents.

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

US electric power sector CO 2 emissions have declined 28% since 2005 because of slower electricity demand growth and changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Source: US EIA, US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions , 2017.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Energy efficiency has tremendous potential to boost economic growth and avoid greenhouse gas emissions, but the global rate of progress is slowing, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Global primary energy demand rose by 2.3% This was slower than the 1.7%

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. 2 Total SA.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses.

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JULY 4, 2012

million tonnes per annum (MTPA) production train for its Australia Pacific LNG coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Queensland, Australia. LNG exports from the second train are scheduled to commence in early 2016 under binding sales agreements to Sinopec Corp. —Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO.

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JUNE 19, 2018

The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. Coal emerges as the biggest loser in the long run. —Elena Giannakopoulou, head of energy economics at BNEF. However, coal consumption was also up, growing for the first time since 2013. NEO 2018 sees $11.5

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Wind Solar Global Coal 220

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Now, a study commissioned by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) from eia.gov (a global provider of analysis on energy and commodities), finds that since the early 2000s, China’s consumption of methanol in fuel products has risen sharply. Source: EIA and Argus Media group, China Methanol to Energy Study , January 2017.

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JULY 29, 2016

Steel production is energy-intensive; in 2015, the steel industry accounted for 1.5% of industrial delivered energy consumption. The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2016 (AEO2016) Reference case projects that energy use in the steel industry will further increase by 11% over 2015–2040.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Here is the UK were are heading for an energy crisis with consumer’s bill about to jump by 75% as the price cap is reset closer to reality in April. The UK and the European energy crisis is poised to go from very bad to unimaginably worse. Households are set to pay an average of 54% more for energy than they did two years ago.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The test production was carried out in HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå and shows that it is possible to reduce iron ore with fossil-free hydrogen, instead of removing the oxygen with coal and coke. The HYBRIT initiative was started in 2016 by the three owners SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall. So far, about 100 tons have been produced.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Shale gas offsets declines in other US supply to meet. The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Source: EIA.

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Gas 2011 Price Energy 199

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the European Union rose slightly in 2017, mostly because of the transport sector. emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. Greenhouse gas emission trends, projections and targets in the EU. in 2017 from 2016. The rise is mostly due to the increase of oil consumption from road transport.

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Emissions Transportation 2017 2016 257

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). LDV energy consumption declines in AEO2014 Reference case from 16.0 Delivered energy demand for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) in AEO2014 increases from 5.3 HDV energy demand is tempered somewhat by an average 0.5%

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Oil Light Energy Vehicles 290

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APRIL 15, 2019

Year-over-year, US greenhouse gas emissions were 0.5% lower in 2017 than the prior year (after accounting for sequestration from the land sector), and power sector emissions fell 4.2%, according to the 2019 edition of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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2017 EPA Transportation 2005 199

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JULY 1, 2015

TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. The project should be running in late-2016. Home and business energy storage is just starting to gain momentum in the U.S,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project. Decreased use of coal in China is the main reason behind the 3-year slowdown.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Assuming no new policies, growth in energy-related CO 2 is driven by electricity and transportation fuel use. However, assuming no new policies, however, fossil fuels would still provide about 78% of all the energy used in 2035 and CO 2 emissions from energy will grow at 0.3% Total domestic natural gas production grows from 20.6

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The diverse projects will advance knowledge in critical areas ranging from sustainable energy technologies to next-generation materials. The OLCF’s Titan supercomputer is a 27-petaflop Cray XK7 hybrid system employing both CPUs and energy-efficient, high-performance GPUs in its 18,688 compute nodes. The projects will share 5.8

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7%

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

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MARCH 9, 2016

In a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , they compared the water consumed per unit energy and per km traveled in light-duty vehicles. They found that many alternative fuels consume larger quantities of water on a per km basis than traditional petroleum and natural gas pathways.

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Alternative Fuels Water Fuel Gas 150

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JANUARY 25, 2016

Global energy demand will increase 25% between 2014 and 2040, driven by population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil forecasts in the 2016 edition of its annual The Outlook for Energy. Natural gas remains challenged as a fuel for most personal vehicles. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 28, 2014

The strategy summarizes the sources of methane emissions, commits to new steps to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, and outlines the Administration’s efforts to improve the measurement of these emissions. If EPA decides to develop additional regulations, it will complete those regulations by the end of 2016.

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Obama Emissions EPA 2014 246

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

ExxonMobil’s newly released Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 anticipates that global energy needs will rise about 25% over the period to 2040, led by non-OECD countries. While the mix shifts toward lower-carbon-intensive fuels, the world will need to pursue all economic energy sources, the report says. Source: ExxonMobil.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms that CO 2 emissions have stalled for the third year in a row. CH 4 is mainly generated by agricultural activities, the production of coal and gas, as well as waste treatment and disposal.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Promoting renewable energy and circular economy—including the shared use of vehicles and product design that supports reuse and recycling—will help maximize the benefits of shifting to electric vehicles, according to the report. —“Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives”.

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