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Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners advance climate-neutral eFuels development; Haru Oni pilot in Chile

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Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners are developing and implementing a pilot project—the “Haru Oni” project—in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen.

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Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia to explore use of green hydrogen in ports and long-range maritime transport

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Enel Green Power is committed to the creation and development of projects for the production and use of green or renewable hydrogen, derived from the electrolysis of water powered exclusively by renewable electricity.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock.

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Wärtsilä report finds accelerated adoption of renewables can reduce electricity production costs by up to 50%

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The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. Utilities should keep repeating steps 1 - 3 until their systems run on 80 – 90% renewables.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro-electric projects) was $270.2 Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro-electric projects) was $270.2 billion of final investment decisions on offshore wind projects in Europe. billion set in 2011. billion, up 39% from 2013.

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Adani Group’s USD 1.2-bn copper plant to boost India’s metal production – ET Auto

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Technologies critical to the energy transition like electric vehicles (EVs), charging infrastructure, solar photovoltaics (PV), wind and batteries, all require copper. Adani group, which is rapidly growing its renewable portfolio, will be a significant consumer of the red metal. For Phase-1, capacity of 0.5

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles actually good for the environment?

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New Zealand is committed to generating electricity from renewable sources, making producing electricity for our growing number of electric vehicles increasingly more efficient than most other countries. New Zealand has the third highest rate of renewable energy as a portion of primary supply in the OECD (after Norway and Iceland).