Coal, Economy, Gas and Supplies

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

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JANUARY 6, 2023

The partners aim to replace coal-fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported through pipeline to Germany. Building production facilities in Norway to produce low carbon hydrogen from natural gas with CCS.

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Norway Germany Hydrogen Power

IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

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MARCH 9, 2022

billion tonnes, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 crisis and relied heavily on coal to power that growth, according to new IEA analysis. China was the only major economy to experience economic growth in both 2020 and 2021. billion tonnes. billion tonnes.

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Emissions Global Coal China

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

The process generates H 2 from natural gas or coal through steam reforming and combines it with N 2 , which has been separated from air by a cryogenic process, to form NH 3. of global greenhouse gas emissions (or about 1.4% 2020) “A Roadmap to the Ammonia Economy”, Joule doi: 10.1016/ j.joule.2020.04.004. 2020.04.004.

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Renewable Economy Hydrogen Water

$1.1B Huineng SNG plant goes on-stream transforming coal into natural gas in China

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Haldor Topsoe A/S announced that Huineng, a large-scale SNG (Substitute Natural Gas) plant, went successfully on-stream near the city of Ordos, located in Inner Mongolia in the northern part of China. The Huineng SNG plant is owned and operated by the private Chinese company Huineng Coal Electricity Group and represents an investment of US$1.1

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Coal Gas China Mongolia

IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. gigatonnes last year, the same as the previous two years, while the global economy grew 3.1%, according to estimates from the IEA.

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Economy 2016 Global Emissions

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.

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Gas Global Industrial Industry

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

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APRIL 17, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 28 th annual Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHG Inventory), which presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2019. CO 2 emissions decreased 2.2% from 2018 to 2019. Total GHG emissions in 2019 were up 1.8% Source: EPA.

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2005 2019 EPA Climate Change

Rhodium Group estimates US GHG emissions rose 1.3% in 2022

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Despite efforts to continue stimulating the US economy in the wake of the pandemic, high inflation put a damper on economic growth, which was exacerbated by a spike in oil prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Consequently, the US economy grew 1.9% in 2022, down from a 5.7% GDP increase in 2021. and 1.5%, respectively.

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Emissions Oil Prices 2005 Coal

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

Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey collaborate on sustainable methanol

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) and Johnson Matthey (JM) have agreed on a long-term exclusive catalyst supply agreement for the use of JM’s KATALCO methanol catalysts in CRI’s Emissions-To-Liquids (ETL) CO 2 -to-methanol plants. Conventional methanol production involves fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal.

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Carbon International Waste Water

Wood Mackenzie: China thermal coal demand to double to nearly 7btpa by 2030

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JUNE 4, 2013

In a new report, energy, mining and minerals consultancy Wood Mackenzie projects that despite efforts to limit coal consumption and seek alternative fuel options, China’s strong appetite for thermal coal will lead to a doubling of demand by 2030. It is very unlikely that demand for thermal coal in China will peak before 2030.

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Coal China Gas-Electric Gas

IEF, IHS Markit: deepening underinvestment in hydrocarbons raises specter of continued price shocks and volatility

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

Underinvestment in oil and gas development extended into a second year in 2021 even as global energy demand rebounded, raising the prospect of price shocks, scarcity and growing energy poverty, according to a new report by the International Energy Forum (IEF) and IHS Markit. —Joseph McMonigle, secretary general, IEF.

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Price Oil Asia Gas

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

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JUNE 13, 2012

Emerging economies accounted for all of the net growth, with OECD demand falling for the third time in the last four years, led by a sharp decline in Japan. in the emerging economies. The report also highlighted supply disruptions as one of the major energy events of the year. Global energy consumption grew by 2.5%

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Coal Oil Renewable Saudi Arabia

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

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MAY 31, 2020

But after the COVID-19 crisis brought large swathes of the world economy to a standstill in a matter of months, global investment is now expected to plummet by 20%, or almost $400 billion, compared with last year, according to the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2020 report.

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Global Energy Coal 2020

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. —MITEI Director Ernest J.

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions

EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions down 1.7% in 2016; carbon intensity of economy down 3.1%; transportation emissions up

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

These contributing factors included a decline in the carbon intensity of the energy supply (CO 2 /British thermal units [Btu]) of 1.7% decline in energy intensity of the economy (Btu/GDP). Combining these two factors, the overall carbon intensity of the economy (CO 2 /GDP) declined by 3.1%. along with a 1.4%

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2016 CO2 Emissions Transportation

Study Concludes Peak Coal Will Occur Close to 2011

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AUGUST 2, 2010

A multi-Hubbert analysis of coal production by Tadeusz Patzek at The University of Texas at Austin and Gregory Croft at the University of California, Berkeley concludes that the global peak of coal production from existing coalfields will occur close to the year 2011. The CO 2 emissions from burning this coal will also decline by 50%.

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Coal 2011 Global Emissions

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

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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) Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Pollution China Gas

Trestle Energy and Larksen partner to reduce CO2 from ethanol and coal power

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JUNE 2, 2016

Trestle and Larksen’s integrated approach furthers ethanol producers’ ability to scale up production of low carbon biofuels and allows existing power plants to generate electricity with the cost and reliability of coal and with carbon emissions similar to wind.

Coal

Coal Energy Power Powered

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. Thus, the Duisburg steelworks is continuing to boil steel as in the past—but with hydrogen and green power instead of coal. —Martina Merz, CEO of thyssenkrupp AG. With its capacity of 2.5

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Low CO2 Hydrogen CO2 Power

EIA expects US motor fuel consumption to increase this summer, but remain below 2019 levels

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APRIL 7, 2021

The increase in fuel consumption we are forecasting for the summer driving season is a reflection of optimism about the US economy as COVID-19 vaccinations and fiscal stimulus support continued recovery. EIA expects US coal production to total 585 MMst in 2021, 46 MMst (9%) more than in 2020. gal on 22 March. gal on 22 March.

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2019 Fuel Coal 2020

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

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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.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price

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

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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. The next ten years could see a massive expansion of steel capacity to meet demand in growing economies, such as India. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Industrial

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

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APRIL 18, 2013

The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s. In 1990 the underlying carbon intensity of supply was 57.1 The world must slow the growth of energy demand as well as make its energy supply cleaner, the IEA said. tCO 2 /TJ (2.39 tCO 2 /toe); in 2010 it was 56.7 tCO 2 /toe).

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Carbon Supplies Global Transportation

EIA expects record global petroleum consumption in 2024, with lower crude oil prices

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Despite relatively low investment, EIA expects increases in drilling productivity and associated natural gas takeaway capacity from the Permian region will result in record annual US crude oil production in 2023 and 2024. Areas of uncertainty include Russian oil supply and OPEC production. —EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis.

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Oil Prices Oil Global Price

Australian Government establishes A$300M fund to support hydrogen projects

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MAY 4, 2020

Hydrogen has the potential to make a substantial contribution to our clean energy transition, reducing emissions across the economy while underpinning the development of an important domestic and export industry. Together, these sectors are responsible for driving approximately 30% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Source: CEFC.

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Hydrogen Financing Australia Renewable

UK MPs greenlight shale gas in new report

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MAY 24, 2011

Shale gas drilling in the UK has been given the go-ahead by MPs in a new report looking at the impact it could have on water supplies, energy security and greenhouse gas emissions. We conclude that shale gas resources in the UK could be considerable. —Shale Gas Report.

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Gas Poland Gas-Electric Coal

Lawrence Livermore publishes state-by-state energy/water Sankey diagrams

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APRIL 20, 2018

Some water resources also flow up to energy resources (petroleum, biomass, natural gas, and coal). There are a number of major interactions between energy and water supplies, infrastructures and disposition across the economy. coal, natural gas, geothermal and nuclear) into electricity.

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Water Energy Coal Gas-Electric

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

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JUNE 9, 2011

A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) found that without climate policy, CTL has the potential to account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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Coal MIT Climate Global

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy

Study projects emission impacts of inexpensive, efficient EVs: 36% further reduction in LDV GHG by 2050, or 9% economy-wide

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JUNE 7, 2017

Compared to the reference case, in which gasoline vehicles (ICEVs) remain dominant through 2050 (BAU), OPT results in 16% and 36% reductions in LDV greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2030 and 2050, respectively, corresponding to 5% and 9% reductions in economy-wide emissions. Credit: ACS, Keshavarzmohammadian et al. Click to enlarge.

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Emissions Economy Gasoline-Electric Coal

Opinion: Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic [and energy] Disaster

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Ukraine’s next crisis will be a devastatingly economic one, as violent conflict destroys critical infrastructure in the east and brings key industry to a halt, furthering weakening the energy sector by crippling coal-based electricity production. Key industry sources say they will potentially run out of coal in less than three weeks.

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Ukraine Energy Coal Belarus

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

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JANUARY 19, 2011

World energy growth over the next twenty years is expected to be dominated by emerging economies such as China, India, Russia and Brazil while improvements in energy efficiency measures are set to accelerate, according to BP’s latest projection of energy trends, the BP Energy Outlook 2030. Coal will increase by 1.2% Click to enlarge.

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Energy Economy Global Oil-Sands

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

The in-depth study, which analyzes hydrogen’s current state of play and offers guidance on its future development, was launched by Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA’s Executive Director, alongside Mr Hiroshige Seko, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, on the occasion of the meeting of G20 energy and environment ministers in Karuizawa, Japan.

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Clean Cleaning Affordable Future

CSIRO roadmap finds hydrogen industry set for scale-up in Australia

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AUGUST 23, 2018

The National Hydrogen Roadmap sets out a path to develop the action and investment plans required to realise the full benefits of a hydrogen economy. In or around 2025, clean hydrogen could be cost-competitive with existing industrial feedstocks such as natural gas, and energy carriers such as batteries in many applications.

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Australia Hydrogen Industrial Industry

Chinese company to convert coke oven waste gas into power for region with three GE aeroderivative gas turbines

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Ltd is building a high-efficiency gas turbine power plant to utilize coke oven gas (COG) into power and steam to meet increasing energy needs in its region. The power plant will be equipped with three GE aeroderivative gas turbines, which are the first LM2500+G4 units sold in China. Jiangsu Tianue Energy and Chemical Group Co.

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Gas Chinese Waste Power

BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency

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JANUARY 25, 2017

While non-fossil fuels are expected to account for half of the growth in energy supplies over the next 20 years, the Outlook projects that oil and gas, together with coal, will remain the main source of energy powering the world economy, accounting for more than 75% of total energy supply in 2035, compared with 86% in 2015.

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Global Fuel Energy Oil

BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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JULY 1, 2022

New-build onshore wind and solar projects are now around 40% lower than BNEF’s global benchmarks for new coal- and gas-fired power. While demand for low-carbon technologies in the energy sector bounced back strongly in the second half of 2021, supply has struggled to keep up. The latter cost at $74 and $81 per MWh, respectively.

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Cost Of Renewable Wind Egypt

Obama blueprint for a US economy “built to last” includes “all-of-the-above” energy strategy; call for 80% of US electricity from clean sources by 2035

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JANUARY 25, 2012

President Obama used his last State-of-the-Union (SOTU) address of his term to outline four main elements of a blueprint for an “ economy that’s built to last: an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. ”. nuclear, and 10% renewable.

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Obama Clean Cleaning All-Electric

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

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MARCH 10, 2020

The coronavirus crisis is affecting a wide range of energy markets—including coal, gas and renewables—but its impact on oil markets is particularly severe because it is stopping people and goods from moving around, dealing a heavy blow to demand for transport fuels. —Dr Fatih Birol.

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Oil 2020 Global Market

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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JUNE 10, 2011

World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Source: IEA.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric

EIA Energy Outlook 2011 more than doubles estimates of US shale gas resources; higher production at lower prices

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Shale gas offsets declines in other US supply to meet. The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Source: EIA. Source: EIA.

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Gas 2011 Price Energy

Tesla Megapack batteries tapped for new 50 MW/100 MWh project in Australia

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Last Friday, Genex Power announced a supply agreement contract with Tesla for its Bouldercome Battery project (BPP) near Rockhampton in central Queensland, Australia. . Tesla will supply 40 Megapacks under the Genex supply agreement with a capacity of 50MW/100MWh for the Bouldercome battery energy storage system (BESS).

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Australia Energy Storage Batteries Battery

India inaugurates first solar-powered H2 fueling station; power-to-gas

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JUNE 11, 2015

India’s first solar-powered hydrogen fueling station, supplied by Air Products was inaugurated recently at an event with chief guest Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, in conjunction with Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, Minister of New and Renewable Energy.

India

India Solar Power Powered

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

$1.1B Huineng SNG plant goes on-stream transforming coal into natural gas in China

IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

Rhodium Group estimates US GHG emissions rose 1.3% in 2022

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

Carbon Recycling International and Johnson Matthey collaborate on sustainable methanol

Wood Mackenzie: China thermal coal demand to double to nearly 7btpa by 2030

IEF, IHS Markit: deepening underinvestment in hydrocarbons raises specter of continued price shocks and volatility

BP Statistical Review finds global oil share down for 12th year in a row, coal share up to highest level since 1969; renewables at 2%

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

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

EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions down 1.7% in 2016; carbon intensity of economy down 3.1%; transportation emissions up

Study Concludes Peak Coal Will Occur Close to 2011

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

Trestle Energy and Larksen partner to reduce CO2 from ethanol and coal power

thyssenkrupp greenlights construction of €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant for low-CO2 steel

EIA expects US motor fuel consumption to increase this summer, but remain below 2019 levels

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

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

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

EIA expects record global petroleum consumption in 2024, with lower crude oil prices

Australian Government establishes A$300M fund to support hydrogen projects

UK MPs greenlight shale gas in new report

Lawrence Livermore publishes state-by-state energy/water Sankey diagrams

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

Study projects emission impacts of inexpensive, efficient EVs: 36% further reduction in LDV GHG by 2050, or 9% economy-wide

Opinion: Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic [and energy] Disaster

BP Energy Outlook 2030 sees emerging economies leading energy growth to 2030; global CO2 emissions from energy well above IEA 450 scenario

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

CSIRO roadmap finds hydrogen industry set for scale-up in Australia

Chinese company to convert coke oven waste gas into power for region with three GE aeroderivative gas turbines

BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency

BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

Obama blueprint for a US economy “built to last” includes “all-of-the-above” energy strategy; call for 80% of US electricity from clean sources by 2035

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

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

EIA Energy Outlook 2011 more than doubles estimates of US shale gas resources; higher production at lower prices

Tesla Megapack batteries tapped for new 50 MW/100 MWh project in Australia

India inaugurates first solar-powered H2 fueling station; power-to-gas

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