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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

Green Car Congress

Efforts to decarbonize steel production are central to the net-zero aspirations of China, Japan, Korea and the European Union. The global steel industry is poised to begin a titanic pivot from coal to hydrogen. This is a relatively modest figure, compared to the $172 trillion estimated by BNEF to decarbonize the global energy sector.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Renewables account for approximately 10-15% of the global energy infrastructure investment and according to New Energy Finance renewables have been hit hard by the global recession with a 47% in Q1 2009 vs. Q1 2008 ($13.3

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Further, as one of the most polluting sectors globally and the most polluting in rich countries , it is necessary that transportation clean up its act, and fast, in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Japan and the 1970s as parable We have, in fact, seen this story before.

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