Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

Total started up production at the La Mède biorefinery—converted from a former oil refinery—in 2019. Biofuels, bioplastics and plastic waste recycling form the backbone of this project, which is part of the strategy to get to net-zero emissions by 2050. An 8-megawatt solar farm that can supply 13,000 people. Granpuits.

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France Fuel Oil Waste 431

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Borealis, a leading provider of innovative polyolefin solutions; and Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable chemical solutions, are entering into strategic co-operation for the production of renewable polypropylene (PP).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

ITOCHU is one of several strategic investors in privately held Raven SR, and the two companies maintain a strong partnership, including plans for commercial production and sales of renewable fuels worldwide. Starting in 2024, Japanese airlines must reduce or offset 15% of emissions from 2019 levels.

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Supplies Fuel Waste Hydrogen 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Oberon Fuels, a producer of ultra-low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel, and SHV Energy, the world’s largest distributor of propane fuel, are partnering to accelerate the use of renewable DME to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation fuel. DME is approved as a renewable fuel under the US.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

New biofuel targets that came into force in the UK over the weekend (15 April 2018) will double the use of renewable fuels in the UK transport sector within 15 years, cutting the sector’s reliance on imported diesel. Increasing our use of renewable fuels is a key part of this. in 2019 and rising to 2.8% biofuel by 2032.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

In particular, the EDF and Rosatom agreement aims to develop initiatives in the sectors of mobility and industrial complex decarbonization, and anticipates research and development cooperation on new CO 2 -neutral hydrogen technologies. Hydrogen energy is one of Rosatom’s R&D priorities. million customers, 28.1 million of which are in France.

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Russia Hydrogen Europe Green 338

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

MISC Berhad, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), Lloyd’s Register and MAN Energy Solutions will work together on a joint development project (JDP) for an ammonia-fueled tanker to support shipping’s drive towards a decarbonized future. A 2019 study by A.P. Ammonia is a carbon-free fuel and can be produced from renewable electricity.

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Fuel 2019 Singapore Emissions 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) and software company Bioledger released a case study on the potential of a blockchain database to support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified in securing the supply of sustainable renewables. Bioledger Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2020

Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced from waste and residue raw materials and Air bp, the international aviation fuel products and services supplier, have signed an agreement to offer an increased volume of sustainable aviation fuel to airport customers in 2020 and 2021.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2021

The prize was launched during NextGen Geo, a live virtual event uniting geothermal industry professionals, geosciences students, and clean energy entrepreneurs for a series of panel discussions on hot topics related to geothermal and renewable energy. Advancements that minimize and/or monetize waste products.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 Start of production is scheduled for 2019, with an annual production capacity of up to 150,000 units. The use of renewable energy sources will ensure that the plant is supplied with 100% CO 2 -free electricity.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

a leading producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US. Acquiring Archaea will expand bp’s presence in the US biogas industry, enhancing its ability to support customers’ decarbonization goals and also progressing its aim to reduce the average carbon intensity of the energy products it sells. Renewable natural gas.

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Gas Waste Renewable Houston 259

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

In March 2019, Fortum announced that it had boosted the Li-ion battery recycling rate to more than 80%. Additional CO 2 reduction can be achieved by using electricity from renewable sources in Finland for the recycling process. —Tero Holländer, Head of Business Development, Fortum Recycling and Waste. Earlier post.).

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Li-ion Finland Batteries Battery 383

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The airline has an existing partnership with sustainable fuels technology company Velocys, with the goal of building a facility to convert household and commercial waste into renewable sustainable jet fuel in the UK. Fuel could be produced by 2025. Background.

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Georgia Carbon Fuel Emissions 415

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2023

Development of methods to extract critical minerals from the macroalgae at high output purities that can dovetail with existing and nascent macroalgal valorization streams developed for the other components of macroalgae such as carbon compounds, macroand micro-nutrients, utilizing existing waste streams from seaweed biorefineries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

BASF CAM plant in Schwarzheide BASF says that the carbon footprint of its innovative cathode active materials is significantly lower than the industry benchmark due to BASF’s proprietary efficient production technologies, which include minimized energy consumption and a high proportion of renewable energy.

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Batteries Battery Europe Germany 195

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

Due to environmental concerns and national as well as international regulations associated with fossil based HFOs, there is a considerable need for cleaner, renewable and economic alternatives for the maritime industry. This is cost competitive with Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (ULSFO) which current, 2019, price level is €450-550/tonne.

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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Europe Green 2020 Hydrogen 382

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

It is the common goal of the signatories to prepare these promising technologies for later production on an industrial scale. Climeworks direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste. Lufthansa had signed a Letter of Intent with the Heide refinery in 2019 in this regard.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This will make it possible to replace expensive industrial PCs, reducing IT efforts such as software rollouts and operating system changes. Audi has been pursuing its Mission:Zero environmental program to reduce its ecological footprint related to production and logistics since 2019. Earlier post.)

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All-Electric Audi Manufacturer Electric Vehicles 307

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

gigatonnes per annum; Confirms that its total oil production peaked in 2019; Will seek to have access to an additional 25 million tonnes a year of carbon, capture and storage (CCS) capacity by 2035. Shell serves more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and 30 million customers at 46,000 retail service stations daily.

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Production Fuel Oil Carbon 191

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

This enabled Bosch to start initial low-volume production of pilot fuel-cell systems in autumn 2019 in Germany. Solid oxide electrolysis (SOEC) is essentially the process of reversing fuel cells to produce hydrogen and e-fuels from renewable energy.

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Power Powered Hydrogen Fuel 300

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2019

It will also generate renewable electricity—fueled by waste biomass from the sugar cane—through its cogeneration facilities to power all its sites and sell surplus electricity to the Brazilian power grid. Together the two businesses currently employ more than 10,000 people in Brazil.

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Brazil Carbon 2018 Grid 339

Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

The materials are also effective for separating butanol, a promising high-octane renewable fuel component. When a car burns gas while sitting at a stop light or idling at the curb, it’s wasting the valuable high-octane fuel better used for acceleration. Based on early industry feedback, the team is focusing on the SAMMS approach.

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel Gasoline 397

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s an improvement over traditional processes, which require facilities with a large footprint, high capital and operating costs and a large amount of waste generated. Extracting desirable elements without co-extracting undesirable ones means less waste is created that will need downstream treatment and disposal. —Ramesh Bhave.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower. The plant will start operating in 2019.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

In addition, Shockwave’s proprietary particle size reduction technology has been commercially deployed in several other applications including value-added products for the agricultural, post-consumer waste and mining industries. The Shockwave Process is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2019.

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Carbon Oil Renewable Commercial 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The flexibility of the technology to utilize a variety of local waste feedstocks attracted the attention of All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest 5-Star airline for seven consecutive years, resulting in an offtake agreement with LanzaTech signed earlier this year, allowing ANA to purchase sustainable aviation fuel from LanzaTech’s process.

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Japan Fuel United States Pollution 207

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Convening industry leaders and other stakeholders by spring 2017 as part of a shared vision for a competitive and clean North American automotive sector. Collaborating on cross-border transmission projects, including for renewable energy. In addition, the SmartWay freight transportation program will be extended to Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Applied Energy , they report devising a methodology to estimate the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of meeting the seasonal nature of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources with either a hydrogen-fired gas turbine (HFGT) or lithium-ion battery system (LI).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In the context of a wider use of renewable energy sources such as wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal power chemical energy carriers are needed for electricity storage due to the intermittent availability of renewable energy sources to maintain the high stability of the electricity infrastructure. —Schiller et al.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

But these ships have been in short supply in recent years, with older vessels being retired and new ship orders down due to both the 2008 financial crisis and the industry upgrade to less-polluting fuels, reports MIT Technology Review. That’s more than seven times higher than the price in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020. California’s ultra-low NO x emissions standard is 0.02 grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp/hr).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Long-term copper fundamentals remain strong—with supply challenged and demand driven by the adoption of electric vehicles, the electrification of industry and a growing share of renewables in the energy mix. A tailings storage facility would house the waste material left over after processing.

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Arizona Water United States Waste 305

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

With the reduction in on-road black carbon, regulators are turning to focus on off-road mobile, fuel combustion in the industrial and power sectors, and woodstoves and fireplaces. More than three-quarters of HFC emissions in California come from the use of refrigerants in the commercial, industrial, residential, and transportation sectors.

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