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IEA: global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from coal

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JULY 15, 2021

Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector to record levels next year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

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MAY 31, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year—from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency—the International Energy Agency said in a new report.

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Global Energy Coal 2020

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Converting a significant portion of the fleet to hydrogen would require more DRI plants and more electric furnaces. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Industrial

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. Low-carbon gas.

Gas

Gas Global Industrial Industry

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

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JUNE 15, 2019

In a major new report on hydrogen, the International Energy Agency says that the time is right to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil. —Dr Birol.

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Clean Cleaning Affordable Future

DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. General Electric. Organization. Description. Babcock & Wilcox Company. University of Illinois.

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IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

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MARCH 26, 2019

last year, its fastest pace this decade, an exceptional performance driven by a robust global economy and stronger heating and cooling needs in some regions, according to the IEA. Natural gas emerged as the fuel of choice, posting the biggest gains and accounting for 45% of the rise in energy consumption. to 33 Gigatonnes (Gt) in 2018.

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2018 Global Emissions Energy

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

Photo: Tesla Without EVs, solar, wind, and nuclear, the global rise in emissions in the last five years would have been three times larger, new International Energy Agency (IEA) analysis shows. Their emissions dropped to a 50-year low while coal demand fell back to levels not seen since the early 1900s.

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IEA: global oil demand to decline in 2020 as coronavirus weighs on markets

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MARCH 10, 2020

Global oil demand is expected to decline in 2020 as the impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, constricting travel and broader economic activity, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest oil market forecast. The IEA now sees global oil demand at 99.9 —Dr Fatih Birol.

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Oil 2020 Global Market

Electra raises $85M to advance Low-Temperature Iron process; electrochemical refining at 60?C

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra has raised $85 million to produce Low-Temperature Iron (LTI) from commercial and low-grade ores using zero-carbon intermittent electricity. By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced.

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Coal Boston Carbon Green

SK E&S, SK Plug Hyverse partner with Korea South-East Power for green hydrogen & green ammonia production

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AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Plug Hyverse and KOEN regarding cooperation for carbon neutrality and the production of green hydrogen and green ammonia which will be consumed for co-firing at KOEN’s natural gas and coal based thermal power plants, by using electrolyzers to be produced in Korea by SK Plug Hyverse.

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Green Hydrogen Plug Power

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C clean-tech legislation. clean-tech legislation.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Hydrogen Economy Outlook , a new and independent global study from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF), finds that clean hydrogen could be deployed in the decades to come to cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry at a manageable cost. kg in most parts of the world before 2050.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price

Canada’s First Ministers release Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

Canada’s First Ministers (The Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers) issued a joint communiqué and released the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change following the First Ministers’ Meeting. We will position Canada to contribute to global solutions that can be exported to the world.

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Climate Change Clean Cleaning Climate

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Indeed, much of Big Oil's reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leans on the so-called natural gas bridge. 2 Total SA.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric

Feasibility study concludes Arckaringa coal-to-methanol project could be viable addition to CTL

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

A Technical Feasibility Study (TFS) for a coal-to-methanol (CTM) plant based on the Arckaringa coal resources in Australia has concluded that CTM could be a viable project capable of augmenting the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for Altona Energy’s Arckaringa Clean Energy CTL (coal-to-liquids) and Power Project in South Australia.

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Coal Australia Conversion Asia

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. and Chubu Electric Power Company Inc.

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Hydrogen Carbon Corporation Japan

Peabody Energy Grants $2M to Develop Coal Energy Technology Lab at the University of Wyoming

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

The University of Wyoming (UW) has received a $2 million grant from coal giant Peabody Energy to create the Peabody Energy Clean Coal Technology Laboratory in the UW Energy Resources Center in Laramie. Peabody Energy is the world’s largest private-sector coal company.

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DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. Gas Technology Institute. Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group.

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Coal Carbon Gas-Electric Gas

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015)

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Coal Pollution China Gas

Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. Wind beats coal by any environmental measure, but that doesn’t mean that its impacts are negligible. Source: Miller and Keith (2018a).

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Wind Power Powered Climate

IEA: carbon intensity of global energy supply has barely changed in last 20 years; “window of opportunity in transport”

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

In a fairly bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concluded that, despite a few bright spots such as the rapid expansion of renewable technologies and the growth of hybrid and EV sales, the progress is far below that required to achieve a 2 °C pathway—i.e., Source: IEA.

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Carbon Supplies Global Transportation

Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Winter O 3 increases due to reduced loss via traffic NO x. Winter while PM 2.5

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BloombergNEF forecasts green hydrogen should be cheaper than natural gas by 2050 in some markets; falling costs of solar PV key

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APRIL 7, 2021

In a new piece of research, BloombergNEF (BNEF) finds that the levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH 2 ) made from renewable electricity is set to fall faster than it previously estimated. These countries accounted for one-third of global GDP in 2019. This is how it goes with clean energy. MMBtu) by 2050 in most modeled markets.

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Cost Of Hydrogen Solar Green

Researchers Say Mix of Policies and Current or Near-Term Technologies Could Phase Out US CO2 Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2030

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MAY 2, 2010

Life-cycle GHG emissions from fossil and alternative sources of electricity. This global climate change problem becomes manageable only if society deals quickly with emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal in electric power plants, they state. Credit: ACS, Kharecha et al. Click to enlarge. Kharecha et al.

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Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

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JUNE 23, 2022

The partnership centers on driving forward the production of carbon-neutral steel, with a plan to replace coal with wind power and green hydrogen as the main source of energy in steel production at ArcelorMittal’s steelmaking sites in Germany. RWE wants to be climate-neutral by 2040.

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Wind Hydrogen Emissions Building

IEA: governments must act to ensure sufficient supply of critical minerals to meet net-zero goals

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MAY 6, 2021

The special report, The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions , is the most comprehensive global study to date on the central importance of minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements in a secure and rapid transformation of the global energy sector. Source: IEA. Source: IEA.

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EVs to increase almost tenfold by 2030 under current policies: IEA

Teslarati

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The report is lengthy and includes a handful of insights, notably including that the agency expects there to be almost ten times as many electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2030 with the current path of global policies. going toward renewable energy, depicting the continued investment increases in clean energy.

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Renewable Energy Global Climate

UCSD study: under current policies, home energy storage would often increase carbon emissions

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Conventional wisdom may suggest that these storage systems—essentially household batteries such as the Tesla Powerwall—could be instrumental in weaning ourselves off greenhouse gas-emitting energy sources. Would greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power system go down, and at what economic cost?

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Energy Storage Carbon Emissions Energy

Chevy Dealership Adds Solar Trackers

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cutting pollution and global heating emissions in the United States is dependent more than anything else on 1) shifting from fossil fuel powered vehicles to electric vehicles and human-powered transit, and 2) switching from coal and natural gas to solar and wind energy.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT.

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DOE to Award Up to $5M in Grants for RD on Hydrogen Production from Coal

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JUNE 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has issued up to a $5-million Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000103) to solicit laboratory-level R&D projects to develop novel technologies for producing hydrogen from coal. Electricity and hydrogen together represent one of the most promising ways to achieve these objectives. —DE-FOA-0000103.

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Coal Hydrogen Grant Production

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

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MAY 21, 2020

SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The end result is high purity hydrogen and a small amount of biogenic carbon dioxide, which is not additive to greenhouse gas emissions. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California

UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

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JULY 5, 2011

Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies; sustainable farming and forestry techniques; climate-proofing of infrastructure; and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to the report. portfolio globally while adapting more mature.

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Global Energy Green Coal

EPA releases final Clean Power Plan; 32% reduction in CO2 from power plants by 2030

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AUGUST 3, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the final Clean Power Plan (CPP). Under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of national capacity, up from 22% in the proposed rule. Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Steam Generating Units. Earlier post.). up to 1,700 heart attacks. Subcategory.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas

US and China Presidents Announce US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, Six Other Measures to Strengthen Cooperation Between the Countries on Energy Issues

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative builds on the first-ever US-China Electric Vehicle Forum in September 2009. The two leaders emphasized their countries’ strong shared interest in accelerating the deployment of electric vehicles in order to reduce oil dependence, cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote economic growth.

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China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

That estimate lags the expected growth in sales of energy storage products, which will rise 35% year-on-year globally, according to the white paper. Grid-connected battery farms back up renewables when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing and are considered important to help integrate clean energy into power grids.

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable

US and China jointly announce GHG reduction targets; US to cut net GHG 26-28% by 2025, China to peak CO2 by ~2030

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. Together, the US and China account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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China Climate Change CO2 United States

Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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Gas Mercury Climate Change Fuel

China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

That estimate lags the expected growth in sales of energy storage products, which will rise 35% year-on-year globally, according to the white paper. Grid-connected battery farms back up renewables when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing and are considered important to help integrate clean energy into power grids.

Auto

Auto Energy Storage Batteries Battery

Global Shipping Less Of CO2e Problem Today Than Aviation, More By End Of Century

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 1, 2022

With just the readily available solutions of electrification where viable and increased efficiencies across the board, in addition to the loss of demand from fossil fuels and raw iron ore, global shipping will see about 50% of the emissions in 2100 as it did at peak before COVID-19.

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Global Carbon Emissions Fuel

Secretary Moniz dedicates new supercomputer at NETL to support fossil energy research

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

It provides the new computer with one of the lowest power utilization efficiency (PUE) infrastructures available, at times using only 1% of total electrical consumption to cool the equipment. The increase in efficiency translates to electrical energy cost savings of approximately $450,000 annually. —Secretary Moniz.

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Energy Coal Clean Cleaning

IEA: global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from coal

IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

IEA: global oil demand to decline in 2020 as coronavirus weighs on markets

Electra raises $85M to advance Low-Temperature Iron process; electrochemical refining at 60?C

SK E&S, SK Plug Hyverse partner with Korea South-East Power for green hydrogen & green ammonia production

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Canada’s First Ministers release Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Feasibility study concludes Arckaringa coal-to-methanol project could be viable addition to CTL

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Peabody Energy Grants $2M to Develop Coal Energy Technology Lab at the University of Wyoming

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

IEA: carbon intensity of global energy supply has barely changed in last 20 years; “window of opportunity in transport”

Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

BloombergNEF forecasts green hydrogen should be cheaper than natural gas by 2050 in some markets; falling costs of solar PV key

Researchers Say Mix of Policies and Current or Near-Term Technologies Could Phase Out US CO2 Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2030

RWE and ArcelorMittal intend to build and operate offshore wind farms and hydrogen facilities for low-emissions steelmaking

IEA: governments must act to ensure sufficient supply of critical minerals to meet net-zero goals

EVs to increase almost tenfold by 2030 under current policies: IEA

UCSD study: under current policies, home energy storage would often increase carbon emissions

Chevy Dealership Adds Solar Trackers

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

DOE to Award Up to $5M in Grants for RD on Hydrogen Production from Coal

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

UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

EPA releases final Clean Power Plan; 32% reduction in CO2 from power plants by 2030

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

US and China Presidents Announce US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, Six Other Measures to Strengthen Cooperation Between the Countries on Energy Issues

China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

US and China jointly announce GHG reduction targets; US to cut net GHG 26-28% by 2025, China to peak CO2 by ~2030

Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

Global Shipping Less Of CO2e Problem Today Than Aviation, More By End Of Century

Secretary Moniz dedicates new supercomputer at NETL to support fossil energy research

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