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DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also expects Spain to become a net exporter of renewable hydrogen. Of these, 1,000 will be direct employment opportunities.

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JULY 20, 2020

Solid-oxide-fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing hydrogen-powered fuel cells and electrolyzers that produce renewable hydrogen. The Bloom Energy Servers are a proven market leader in clean, reliable, and resilient on-site power.

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round. Trafigura, TechEnergy Ventures and Doral Energy-Tech Ventures also participated in the financing.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. This is the vision of a truly cyclic bioeconomy where CO 2 is constantly produced, captured and returned to the market. We wanted to try this in the lab.”. 00299-21.

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Cornell’s Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 CABES was one of 42 centers awarded funding in 2018; this year, more than $540 million was given out to 65 universities and national labs. million grant from the DOE Office of Science.

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MARCH 4, 2021

The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Lab, under the leadership of Dr. Jian Liu, is the project’s research lead during the initial stages. The project includes two mining leases, with a combined area of 300 hectares, valid until June of 2032 and renewable thereafter.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Maintaining grid reliability amid increasing renewable energy penetration involves fundamental changes to power system operation and the resources leveraged to provide grid services. In addition to EPRI, NREL, and the University of Washington, the UNIFI consortium currently includes: Three DOE national laboratories.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

The Wendell location also works with local educational institutions including North Carolina State University and Wake Tech Community College for training and workforce development. In 2019, Siemens expanded the 272,000-square-foot Wendell facility to manufacture DC fleet EV chargers, adding more than 50 jobs.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The work was funded by Co-Optima, an R&D collaboration between DOE, nine national laboratories, several universities and industry organizations. High-performance renewable fuels (HPFs) are an alternative to conventional petroleum fuels that could greatly reduce the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines. Background.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Decarbonizing hydrogen supply is critical to initiate uptake in these new sectors, and an industry-standard emissions measurement and verification process is key to providing the market transparency that facilitates new supply agreements.

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MAY 20, 2022

Huge and immediate need for renewable-based fuels in shipping represents opportunity for investors, according to ‘Fuelling the Fourth Propulsion Revolution’ report released today. This is the equivalent of the entire world’s current renewable energy production. MWh to €156.40/MWh MWh in 2050). billion in 2017 to $1.6 billion in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I recently wrote about Stanford University’s commitment to go 100% renewable when it comes to electricity. The university claimed to be the “first research university to use 100% renewable electricity.” ” Being a research university, I assumed that Stanford had done its research.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have designed a novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces that could reduce CO 2 emissions from the steelmaking industry by nearly 90%. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), it must achieve a 90% reduction in emissions by 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

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JUNE 10, 2021

BNEF’s Economic Transition Scenario (ETS) —which assumes no additional policy measures—would see global sales of zero-emission cars rising from 4% of the market in 2020 to 70% by 2040. For the electric vehicles themselves, the total market opportunity reaches $80 trillion cumulatively by 2050.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

However, there is a growing need to control energy flows intelligently in order to make optimum use of electricity from renewable sources. In this way, electricity from renewable sources can be tapped and stored as it becomes available.

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APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). RPS programs, which require that a certain percentage of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources, currently cover 64 percent of the electricity sold in the United States.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their colleagues have devised a novel catalytic method to produce renewable acrylonitrile (ACN) using 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP), which can be biologically produced from sugars. Conceptual process diagram for renewable ACN production from biomass sugars.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Ansell presented his findings at AIAA Aviation 2023 in June.

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MAY 11, 2021

The Coordinating Research Council will work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop an isotope ratio mass spectrometry method as a cost-effective means to identify renewable content in co-processed biomass- and fossil-derived fuels.

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JULY 14, 2022

—Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The finalists are: George Washington University – Team Ellexco: “Chemical-Free Extraction of Lithium from Brines”. Rice University – Team LiSED: “Lithium Selective ElectroDialysis”.

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APRIL 16, 2023

Technology group Wärtsilä, along with Norway-based Höegh LNG and other partners, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), University of South-East Norway, Sustainable Energy and BASF SE have received funding of approximately @5.9 million from the Norwegian Government for the development of ammonia as a hydrogen carrier for the energy market.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

New hydrogen production technology developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will be tested in a $7-million project between UBC, the government of Alberta and Alberta utility company ATCO. Amir Sharafian, prototype development co-lead, says the Alberta project may end up serving new markets for carbon black.

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MARCH 21, 2022

In an open access paper published in Nature Communications , researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia report that their capillary-fed electrolysis cell demonstrates water electrolysis performance exceeding commercial electrolysis cells, with a cell voltage at 0.5 2 and 85 °C of only 1.51 kWh/kg hydrogen (vs. Hodges et al.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In July 2011, the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT began a long-term collaboration with The University of Western Ontario (Western) in London, Ontario. The main focus of research at the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research @ Western will be fibre composites for lightweight construction in various markets.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The resource-circulating hydrogen production technology is gaining attention for generating renewable energy sources from waste materials, embodying the ‘waste-to-energy’ concept of hydrogen production. High purity hydrogen production is possible through refinement and reforming processes. The SL Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The market for biodiesel in India continues to expand as OMCs increase the number of blending locations and the percentage of biofuel blended into diesel. We see our focus on reducing the carbon intensity of our renewable fuels as an expanding competitive advantage compared to petroleum fuels.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The US Department of Transportation has awarded a $15-million grant to renew the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), based in Ann Arbor and led by the University of Michigan. million over its first six years, CCAT is one of 10 regional USDOT University Transportation Centers nationwide.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Lignocellulose, or lignin, is ubiquitous in biomass, and yet it is highly-resistant to the chemical, biological, and other processes historically used for the conversion and refining of biomass into renewable products.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to a team of researchers led by a UMass Lowell mechanical engineering professor that is working to develop renewable fuel additives from sawdust and other wood byproducts.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Aemetis announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary in India, owner and operator of a biodiesel plant located near the Port of Kakinada on India’s east coast, was selected by the three government-controlled oil marketing companies (OMCs) and a major oil refiner to supply approximately 8,000,000 gallons of biodiesel over the next two months.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

will bring to market a 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. The strategy focuses on new powertrains including advanced diesel, natural gas, hydrogen engines, hybrids, battery electric, and fuel cells along with an increased use of low carbon fuels and renewable electricity and related infrastructure. Cummins Inc.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Award amount: $1,200,000) National Renewable Energy Laboratory will develop an intermodal freight modeling framework for infrastructure planning and logistics operations that would provide insights to decision-makers redesigning the national freight system to meet net-zero targets by 2050.

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