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bp and thyssenkrupp Steel to advance the decarbonization of steel production; low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power

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By replacing the coal-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants in which iron ore is reduced with low-carbon hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Steel intends to make steel production climate-neutral in the long term. The steel and energy industries have of course long been closely linked.

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7 companies launch Green Hydrogen Catapult to increase green H2 production 50-fold over next 6 years

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Green hydrogen is produced by using renewable energy (wind and solar) to power electrolysis that splits water into its constituent parts. Scaling up green hydrogen using existing infrastructure will be crucial to reaching climate goals. degrees Celsius.

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Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

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MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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Spain plans to start phasing out in 2027. says Darragh Conway , a climate policy expert at Climate Focus in Amsterdam. The obvious answer might be solar and wind. It’s entirely possible that the picture might change as solar and wind costs continue to fall and as renewables expand.

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Tomorrow's Hydropower Begins With Retrofitting Today's Dams

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With wind and solar prices dropping, it can be easy to forget that two-thirds of the globe’s renewable energy comes from hydropower. Bakken’s group and one of his graduate students, Nora Rydland Fjøsne , modeled theoretically doing just that for numerous dams in a part of southern Spain. Righting the course of old hydro.

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JRC: Increased use of renewables results in growing GHG emission savings in the EU; transport contribution only 5%

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from 2009 to 2012, confirming renewables’ potential in climate change mitigation, according to a new report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s in-house science service. Nearly two thirds of the total savings came from renewable energy development in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy and Spain. Mt CO 2 eq.

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Our Energy crisis is self made in europe

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We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. Current production – 40Gw at the time of writing 6PM Feb 1st a dark & stormy night – shows: Coal 2%, Gas 29% Solar 0%, Wind 35%, Nuclear 12%.

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