Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2020
This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption. Coal-fired power generation fell by a record 18% year-on-year to its lowest level since 1975. An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 31, 2020
The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Summary of the economics of a hydrogen economy.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 1, 2021
The report “Decarbonizing Steel: A Net-Zero Pathway” outlines the path to making profitable, low-emissions steel and describes how a combination of falling hydrogen costs, cheap clean power, and increased recycling could reduce emissions to net zero, even while total output increases. Today’s new plants are tomorrow’s retrofits.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
With uncertainty at the federal level, California must maintain its success and leadership in equitably growing the clean energy economy. The state has become the most energy-productive major economy in the world, moving up three spots from 2013 to 2014, while also reducing its carbon intensity by 4.5%. Transportation.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Coal – the cheapest option and the only energy source with low-cost storage in the shape of a big heap of the stuff – was ruled out as too carbon-rich, even though countries such as China are currently building scores of new coal-fired plants. Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2014
Recent news coming out of Russia, however, suggests that the era of US dollar dominance could be coming to an end, due to increasing competition from the world''s second largest economy and primary consumer of commodities, China. China and Russia have been furiously signing energy deals that indicate their mutual energy interests.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The passenger vehicle fleet doubles to almost 1.7 billion in 2035.
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