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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

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The partners aim to replace coal-fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported through pipeline to Germany. Building production facilities in Norway to produce low carbon hydrogen from natural gas with CCS.

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HYBRIT JV planning to begin building demo plant for fossil-free steel in 2023

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We want to build the plant in Norrbotten. In Luleå, the pilot plant for fossil-free steel will be fully constructed during the summer, and preparations are also under way to initiate construction of a temporary hydrogen store in order to test the technology for storing hydrogen in caverns.

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Tesla Megapack behind first of 10+ big batteries as NSW prepares to retire coal plants

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Tesla Megapacks will store power for the 50MW/75MWh Wallgrove battery in New South Wales (NSW). Transgrid subsidiary Lumea will build the Wallgrove battery in western Sydney. The Wallgrove Battery can reduce the grid’s need for aging coal and gas plants with synthetic inertia.

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To Store or Not to Store: That is the Question

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However, when peak demand is not required the inefficiencies of idling coal, nuclear and gas powered power plants has become both very uneconomic and non-responsive to changes in demand for today’s market. Supplementing baseload coal-, nuclear- and gas-powered power pants in a grid strategy for tomorrow.

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Groupe Renault launching project to build biggest energy stationary storage system from EV batteries in Europe

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Groupe Renault is launching its “Advanced Battery Storage” program, which aims to build the biggest energy stationary storage system using EV batteries yet designed in Europe by 2020 (power: 70 MW / energy: 60MWh). It will have a storage capacity of at least 60 MWh, making it the biggest system of its kind ever built in Europe.

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Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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It can be used for storing large amounts of hydrogen in a liquid form that builds on existing global supply chain infrastructure. The traditional process of producing ammonia has used “grey” or “black” hydrogen from either natural gas or coal. The ammonia is stored, before being used for electricity generation.

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