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Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

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This award marks the first Advanced Class Gas Turbines in the industry specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Dynamic Fuels and Mansfield to supply Norfolk Southern with renewable diesel; first fleet user of renewable diesel in US

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Dynamic Fuels, LLC and Mansfield Oil Company have signed an agreement to supply renewable diesel to Norfolk Southern Corporation, one of the US’ largest transporters of coal and industrial products. Dynamic Fuels produces next-generation renewable and synthetic fuels from animal fats and greases. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Americans Using Less Energy Overall and Using More Renewable Energy Resources

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The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. Most of that energy is tied directly to electricity generation and thus helps decrease the use of coal for electricity production. The increase in renewables is a really good story, especially in the wind arena.

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EIA: projected US CO2 emissions vary up or down depending on coal and nuclear power plant retirements

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EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014) features several accelerated retirements cases that represent conditions leading to additional coal and nuclear plant retirements in order to examine the potential energy market and emissions effects of the loss of this capacity. Nuclear power and renewables do not emit CO 2. Source: EIA.

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Mercedes-Benz takes stake in H2 Green Steel; to begin use of green steel in 2025

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In the new process, the supplier uses hydrogen and electricity from 100% renewable energy sources instead of coking coal in steel production. Unlike the use of coking coal, this does not produce CO 2 , but water. The hydrogen serves as a reduction gas, which releases and binds the oxygen from the iron ore.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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While the number of new clean power-generating plants completed stayed flat year-to-year, the volume of power derived from coal surged to a new high, according to Climatescope , an annual survey of 104 emerging markets conducted by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4 thousand in 2017.

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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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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. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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