Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor. This provides significant safety benefits.

Hydrogen

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 24, 2025

As ports around the world push forward on their decarbonization journeys, the final and perhaps most challenging frontier is decarbonizing the vessels themselvesnot only within the harbor but throughout their voyages.

Water

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 7, 2025

Canada stands at a crossroads in its energy future, and the path it chooses will define its economic resilience, environmental integrity, and quality of life for generations. As a Canadian who is involved in shaping Ireland’s 2050 energy roadmap through my work with Trifecta Ireland, I see an immense opportunity.

Canada

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. The findings suggest that developing nations are moving toward cleaner power but not nearly fast enough to limit global CO 2 emissions. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4

Coal

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. from coal. Energy source.

Coal

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An Ohio State University team has demonstrated the successful operation of Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL)—which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere. Hot iron and coal ash are left behind. 2 millimeters across.

Coal

Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg Technologies announced a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plants with Seaborg Technologies’ compact molten salt reactor (CMSR) technology. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.,

Molten Salt

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Air pollution, global warming, and energy security are three of the biggest problems facing the world today. Each year, at least seven million people die from air pollution and hundreds of millions more become ill. About 90% of this pollution is from energy.

Pollution

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When co-fired with coal in an existing Coal Fired Power Plant (CFPP), blue ammonia emits no additional CO 2 , and total emissions from power generation is reduced by the amount of blue ammonia co-fired. Co-firing is a combustion technology that uses two or more fuel sources for power generation.

South Korea

Green Car Congress

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. Echogen Power Systems. Description. Babcock & Wilcox Company.

Coal

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

EPA that the EPA lacks the authority to set emission standards for power plants so strict as to force a shift of power generation from fossil fuels. The opinion holds that Congress did not grant EPA in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on generation shifting—i.e.,

EPA

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020. Inkoo was selected as our location due to its high-quality infrastructure and access to clean power. Inkoo power plant. Fortum’s 1,000-megawatt Inkoo power plant was commissioned during 1974–1978.

Finland

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.

Kentucky

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Awardees will receive approximately $16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon-based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels. Advanced Gasifier and Water-Gas Shift Technologies for Low-Cost Coal Conversion to High-Hydrogen Syngas.

Coal

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Significant cost reductions can be achieved by front-loading the deployment of renewables, mainly wind and solar photovoltaic, and by utilizing the technologies needed to balance their inherent intermittency, such as energy storage and thermal balancing power plants. As utilities do this, the mindset of energy leaders will change.

Renewable

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. In the journal Joule , Harvard researchers report the most accurate modelling yet of how increasing wind power would affect climate.

Wind

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed Clean Air Act standards to reduce CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants (electric utility generating units, EGUs). The proposed rulemaking establishes separate standards for natural gas and coal plants. Background. In the decision in Massachusetts v.

EPA

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The composite blocks can be made from low-cost and locally sourced materials, including the excavated soil at the construction site, but can also utilize waste materials such as mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and fiberglass from decommissioned wind turbine blades.

Energy Storage

Green Car Congress

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.

Coal

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to having access to Québec’s vast water resources to generate green, renewable power at competitive prices, Hydro-Québec has everything it needs to support the development of green hydrogen. Hydro-Québec’s Strategic Plan 2020–2024 outlines five applications for clean hydrogen: Ammonia and methanol production.

Hydrogen

Green Car Reports

MAY 18, 2022

Federally funded hydrogen hubs have the potential to reduce emissions, but could also be as dirty as coal without proper oversight, a group of experts warned.

Coal

Green Car Congress

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.

Cleaning

Electrek

JUNE 15, 2023

Coal-fired Boxberg power station in Eastern Germany will host the first phase of building the largest clean energy hub in Europe. more… The post Coal-dependent Eastern Germany is expected to become Europe’s largest clean energy hub appeared first on Electrek.

Coal

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

billion coal-to-syngas joint venture (JV) with Lu’An Clean Energy Company, which will significantly expand Air Products’ scope of supply serving Lu’An Mining (Group) Co., Lu’An will contribute the gasification and syngas clean-up system, will receive $500 million of cash and will have a 40% ownership in the new JV.

Coal

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.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification. As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects.

Coal

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

The unparalleled decline is staggering in both its scale and swiftness, with serious potential implications for energy security and clean energy transitions. The slowdown in spending on key clean energy technologies also risks undermining the much-needed transition to more resilient and sustainable energy systems. —Dr Birol.

Global

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

West Virginia

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S and SK Plug Hyverse—a joint venture (JV) formed in January of this year by SK E&S and Plug Power—will work with Korea Southeast Power Generation (KOEN) to cooperate with green hydrogen and green ammonia projects based on renewable energy resources in Korea and abroad. million tons in 2030 and 27.9

Green

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2022

(MHI) and Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) have agreed to conduct joint research and development of ammonia-fired power generation by gas turbine. MHI and ITB have already been undertaking joint research on a variety of clean energy solutions to help Indonesia achieve decarbonization. MHI H-25 gas turbine.

Mitsubishi

Electrek

AUGUST 3, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US installed a record 26 gigawatts of new clean energy in 2020, according to a new report. In 2020, the number of producing US coal mines fell to the lowest number since 2008. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

2020

Electrek

JANUARY 18, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecast in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook that rising electricity generation from clean energy such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years.

Coal

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2014

will test both pre- and post-combustion carbon-capture technologies, as well as materials and processes that support advanced fossil-fuel conversion systems, primarily coal gasification. The agreement supports national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through more efficient, lower-cost coal conversion and carbon capture and storage.

Carbon

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will work together with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)—the BWRX-300—at the Darlington new nuclear site, the only site in Canada currently licensed for a new nuclear build. A single SMR of about 300 megawatts in size can prevent between 0.3

Canada

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2023

These facilities typically use approximately one ton of coal to produce one BBL of hydrocarbons, with a life cycle CO 2 emissions calculation that is slightly worse than equivalent fuels derived from conventional oil refining. DGF replaces the coal gasification used by others with biomass gasification and natural gas reforming.

Companies

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

NuScale Power announced that through further value engineering efforts, using advanced testing and modeling tools, NuScale analyzed and concluded that the NuScale Power Module (NPM) can generate an additional 25% more power per module for a total of 77 MWe per module (gross), resulting in about 924 MWe for the flagship 12-module power plant.

DC

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2015

The EMS (Earth and Mineral Science) Energy Institute at Penn State has developed a conceptual novel process configuration for producing clean middle-distillate fuels from coal with some algal input with minimal emissions. Principal inputs are coal, water, non-carbon electricity, and make-up solvent. Background.

Coal