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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. Blastr’s project—the green steel plant together with the integrated hydrogen facility—will be among the largest industrial investments in Finland.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

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According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU) in 2018 increased for the second consecutive year, reaching 120.4 g CO 2 /km in 2018. Vans registered in the EU and Iceland in 2018 emitted on average 158.1

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Valmet Automotive sees battery systems as the main growth driver

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Since the founding of Jyrki Nurmimanaged EV Systems in 2018, the division was consistently developed and now employs around 300 people in Finland and currently around 50 people in Germany. Series production of the first battery system developed by Valmet Automotive began in 2018 at the battery plant in Uusikaupunki.

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EIA: US exported more LNG than any other country in the first half of 2023

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Data source: International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (2018–2021) and CEDIGAZ (2022–1H23) Note:1H23=first half of 2023. Includes annual liquefied natural gas exports by country for 2018–2022 and 1H23 average exports for 2023. Australia exported the world’s second-largest volume of LNG in 1H23, averaging 10.6 Chart: EIA.

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Wärtsilä Power-to-X project gets €1M in government support

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The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology.

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Neste celebrates opening of €1.6B Singapore expansion; SAF supply chain to Changi Airport

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Neste announced its final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore in December 2018. Amsterdam (AMS) in the Netherlands, and Helsinki Airport (HEL) in Finland. The Singapore refinery expansion doubles Neste’s production capacity in Singapore and brings the refinery’s total capacity to 2.6

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SOLETAIR project produces first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar power and atmospheric CO2

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Project partners include INERATEC, a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). The “Direct Air Capture” Unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) captures carbon dioxide from air.

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