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GlobalData: hydrogen to become game changer as large-scale source of cleaner power

Green Car Congress

Hydrogen has the ability to assist in variable power output from renewable energy sources such as solar PV and wind. Currently, in the power industry, hydrogen accounts for less than 0.2% The availability of these sources is not always commensurate with demand for power. However, this could change in the near future.

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Debunking the ‘Electric car is a coal car’ argument!

Plug In India

Team PluginIndia Even in 2023, we keep getting comments like these - ' ‘Electric cars use electricity which is generated by burning coal. There are lots of auto 'journalists' and random YouTubers who still talk about electric cars and coal power. KW AC type 2 chargers powered by Solar. [4] They are worse than petrol cars."

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How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

Cars That Think

Greenhouse gas emissions will certainly grow too, because India’s energy generation is dominated by fossil fuels—coal-fired power plants for electricity, coal- and gas-fired furnaces for industrial heating, liquid petroleum gas for cooking, and gasoline and diesel for transportation. percent from solar and wind power.

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IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

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The World Energy Investment 2020 report’s assessment of trends so far this year is based on the latest available investment data and announcements by governments and companies as of mid-May, tracking of progress on individual projects, interviews with leading industry figures and investors, and the most recent analysis from across the IEA.

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India inaugurates first solar-powered H2 fueling station; power-to-gas

Green Car Congress

India’s first solar-powered hydrogen fueling station, supplied by Air Products was inaugurated recently at an event with chief guest Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, in conjunction with Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, Minister of New and Renewable Energy.

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IEA: global energy investment stabilized above $1.8T in 2018; security and sustainability concerns growing

Green Car Congress

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review. Global energy investment totalled more than US$1.8

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1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Baua Electric

Photo: Tesla Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows. Their emissions dropped to a 50-year low while coal demand fell back to levels not seen since the early 1900s.

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