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Neste providing companies in Finland a service for monitoring transport fuel emissions

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Neste is the first company in Finland to provide a service for companies and other organizations to monitor their climate emissions caused by the use of transport fuels. Road transport accounts for more than 90% of the total transport emissions in Finland. —Heidi Peltonen.

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Amsterdam adding 84 VDL Citea electric buses; option for 130 more

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GVB, the public transport company of Amsterdam, is further expanding its electric fleet with 84 new generation VDL Citeas. These vehicles, based entirely on an electric powertrain, will be deployed from 2023 onwards. In 2021, VDL Bus & Coach presented the new generation of electric Citeas.

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Johnson Matthey nickel-rich battery material eLNO to debut at COP26 in two-seater electric race car

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Believed to be the world’s first two-seater electric racer, the car will be revealed at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland on 31 October. A customizable family of nickel-rich cathode materials, eLNO will meet specific battery performance requirements for individual electric vehicle platforms.

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HYBRIT produces hydrogen-reduced sponge iron on pilot scale

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The pilot plant has a direct reduction shaft, where the reduction takes place, and a number of electrolyzers for the production of hydrogen using fossil-free electricity. This marks the first time that iron ore has been directly reduced with hydrogen produced with fossil-free electricity on a pilot scale.

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IEA: steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy security and climate goals

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Nuclear is the second-largest low-carbon power source in the world today, accounting for 10% of global electricity generation. For advanced economies—including the United States, Canada, the European Union and Japan—nuclear has been the biggest low-carbon source of electricity for more than 30 years and remains so today.

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Wärtsilä Power-to-X project gets €1M in government support

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The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology.

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Finnish electrofuels research project gets €3.3M funding boost; VTT, Neste and partners

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million in funding from Business Finland in January. The development work is also augmented by a group of companies of which some have their own parallel Business-Finland-funded projects. Altogether, €6 million is invested in the development of the production of e-fuels in Finland.

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