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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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EEA: small increase in EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2017, with transport emissions up for the fourth consecutive year

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Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU) increased by 0.7% According to the EEA’s Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990-2017 and inventory report 2019 , total greenhouse gas emissions (including international aviation) rose by 0.7% Source: EEA. in 2017 compared with 2016.

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Vulcan Energy signs binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with Umicore

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Lithium developer Vulcan Energy Resources has signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with Umicore, a leader in cathode materials production used in lithium-ion batteries for electrified transportation, as part of Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium Project. In Nysa, Poland, Umicore has built the first cathode materials plant in Europe.

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Umicore to build cathode active material plant in Canada

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Currently, Umicore serves its battery materials customers in Europe through its cathode precursor and cobalt refining plant in Kokkola, Finland, and its battery materials plant in Nysa, Poland, which is the continent’s first industrial-scale cathode materials plant.

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UK MPs greenlight shale gas in new report

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Shale gas drilling in the UK has been given the go-ahead by MPs in a new report looking at the impact it could have on water supplies, energy security and greenhouse gas emissions. years of total UK gas consumption (or 15 years of the UK’s current LNG imports) and worth approximately £28 billion (US$45 billion) at current prices.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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EC approves up to €5.2B of public support for second IPCEI in the hydrogen value chain

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The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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