Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. LNG imports reached 482 billion cubic meters in 2019, up 13% from 2018, and while this figure is expected to fall by around 4.2%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Canada Minister of Natural Resources Seamus O’Regan, released a national SMR Action Plan, which responds to the 53 recommendations identified in Canada’s SMR Roadmap that was launched in November 2018. Small modular reactors are the great enabler of other, clean energy sources.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Other efforts will include: Natural Gas. Energy Efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

And because utilities don’t structure how much they charge with the goal of lowering emissions, the cheapest power more often comes from power sources that emit carbon, such as coal. But this year saw a substantial increase in installations, with sales tripling from January to September of 2018. 8b03834.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

The fueling station is expected to be one of the largest in China in terms of fueling capacity when it becomes operational in mid-2018. With assets exceeding US$270 billion, China Energy has set a number of world records including being the largest producer of coal, thermal power, renewable energy, and coal-to-oil and coal chemical products.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the final Clean Power Plan (CPP). Under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of national capacity, up from 22% in the proposed rule. Final complete state plans must be submitted no later than 6 September 2018. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. Of the $18B that the supermajors plan to invest in clean energy over the next five years, more than half will come from Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company, Equinor ASA ‘s (NYSE:EQNR) coffers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

—and clean liquid synthetic transportation fuels from natural and associated gas, as well as from biomass and other fossil fuels (XTL). GIE has been working with Audubon Engineering for several years and named the company its EPC firm in 2018.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. And green hydrogen is the centerpiece of its clean-economy growth plan. Ark Energy’s project is part of a clean-energy blitz in Australia by its parent company, Seoul-based metal-refining giant Korea Zinc. Why a hydrogen truck?

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CleanTechnica EVs

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

361,000 children under 5 years die due to diarrhea, as a result of poor access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. The generation of electronic and electrical waste is forecasted to increase by 19% between 2014 and 2018, to 50 million metric tonnes by 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Around 3 billion people—more than 40% of the world’s population—still do not have access to clean cooking fuels and technologies in their homes, the main source of household air pollution. Mexico City has committed to cleaner vehicle standards, including a move to soot-free buses and a ban on private diesel cars by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry. Producers of so-called blue, gray and brown hydrogen use either fossil fuels (natural gas or coal) or low-temperature gasification (.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2021

This figure represents a 46 peercent increase compared to sales made in 2018. The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. Road Test: BMW Takes the Middle Path to Electrification The post Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

The catch here is, that being able to produce enough clean hydrogen (hydrogen is highly reactive and is not available in pure form in the natural state) to be used as a fuel in a sustainable manner is not impossible but hard and expensive. Hydrogen as Clean Energy. The oxygen comes from the air, while the hydrogen comes from a tank.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And pumping oil is not clean, crores of litres are spilled into the ocean every year creating havoc for fish and other wildlife! Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. In India 39.1%

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . 2018) Where Are We Heading With Electric Vehicles?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2016

The idea is to replace the blast furnaces with an alternative process, using hydrogen produced from “clean” electricity. The specific investment and operating costs of direct reduction plants are low compared to integrated steel plants and are more suitable for many developing countries where supplies of coking coal are limited.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

But if one persistent cadre of nuclear optimists are right, then Linglong One could be a model for fission’s future in an age of clean energy. Still, a steadfast consensus remains that nuclear power isn’t just desirable for a clean-energy transition— it’s necessary.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. In 2018, BED began the nation’s first 100 percent renewable-powered water heater program, which has now expanded to include EV chargers. Mads Almassalkhi et al., 6, November 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The program then reduces the cap by 2.5 Overview of RGGI. Gases: CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Across all models, they found that the core carbon price scenarios lead to significant reductions in CO 2 emissions, with the vast majority of the reductions occurring in the electricity sector and disproportionately through reductions in coal. Weyant (2018) Climate Change Economics. 2018) “Overview Of The EMF 32 Study On U.S.

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