Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The developments will serve as a test bed for large-scale, cost-efficient hydrogen production and will prove the feasibility of reliable, effective implementation of wind turbines in systems for producing hydrogen from renewable energy. Just 1% of that hydrogen is currently generated from green energy sources.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

IG Metall, Germany’s largest union as well as Europe’s largest industrial union, warns that at Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM), the switch to climate-neutral steel production is may fail due to the lack of financing. million tons, HKM is Germany’s second largest metallurgical plant. With a current production volume of 4.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The global geothermal industry surpassed 12,000 MW of geothermal power operational, with about 600 MW of new geothermal power coming online globally, according to a year-end update by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Propane-rich off-gas is produced during Neste’s NExBTL renewable diesel process; the gas is usually recovered during the Stabilization and Recycle stages of the process. BioLPG is Calor’s first renewable product offering that sees the company commit to reducing its carbon footprint and to become fully renewable by 2040.

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JUNE 30, 2023

BASF has opened Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new plant is not only the first production facility for high-performance cathode active materials in Germany, but also the first fully automated large-scale cathode active materials production facility in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Siemens suggests abandoning a fixed target for renewable energies and concentrating on the CO 2 reduction goal. Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Euro cents/kWh.

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JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Geely is committed to achieving the long-term goal of zero emissions mobility through a diverse suite of new energy solutions, including renewable methanol vehicle technology. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rio Tinto has shown the effectiveness of a low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and is now planning the development of a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonize the steel value chain. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Hydrogen Economy Outlook , a new and independent global study from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF), finds that clean hydrogen could be deployed in the decades to come to cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry at a manageable cost. The clean hydrogen industry is currently tiny and costs are high.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

We’re facing a lack of renewable fuels and the technology to deliver cleaner power generation. We’re seeing a rise in battery-powered passenger vehicles, but the high power demands of the aviation, locomotive, shipping, and long-haul trucking industries will continue to require energy-dense hydrocarbons for the foreseeable future.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

In its 2011 year-end report, Road Map to Renewal , the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (Jobs Council) made a number of recommendations to create jobs in the short run and improve US competitiveness over the long term. will also require cooperation among industry participants, regulators and environmental advocates.

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MARCH 31, 2019

This year, the Group intends to launch a new project in the ArcelorMittal plant in Hamburg to use hydrogen on an industrial scale for the direct reduction of iron ore (H-DR) in the steel production process for the first time. —Frank Schulz, CEO of ArcelorMittal Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

So far, the policy focus has been on empowering the early winners of an unfolding renewable-energy race. For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. —Goldthau et al.

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APRIL 5, 2011

On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. In France, renewable energy consumption will be 20 percent by 2020. EIA projections of renewables penetration. Source: EIA.

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MAY 29, 2018

The study is based on a set of scenarios for 2050 of electrification in five European countries: Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), France (FR), Germany (DE) and the Netherlands (NL). The gradual introduction of renewable gases has not been fully taken into account.

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MAY 20, 2014

GM also increased renewable energy use in 2013 from 62.3 One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015. GM increased the number of facilities around the world that meet the US EPA’s ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry from 54 to 63 in 2013. Renewable energy.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Switch to renewable energy sources for power supply. Volkswagen’s goal is to enable an industrial level of production with this technology together with its partner QuantumScape. The conversion of the power station in Wolfsburg from coal to gas will reduce CO 2 emissions by 1.5 100 of these will be located in Germany.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. —Daryl Wilson, CEO of Hydrogenics. The project has a budget of €11 million (US$12.4

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The bio-pellets will be produced using wood based biomass, targeted from US-sourced sustainably managed forest resources or by-products and sold to utilities and industrial users for energy production. Bio-pellets are a renewable and carbon-neutral fuel made from biomass, which can include by-products from forest management.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

tonnes per capita—within the range of 6 to 19 tonnes per capita emissions of the major industrialized countries. However the European Union saw the largest decline on record, with -11%, mainly due to warm weather, a weak economy, high gas prices and continued growth in renewable electricity production. tonnes per capita.

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MAY 17, 2023

Presently, the vast majority of hydrogen is produced using coal or natural gas as feedstocks. Still, we’ve seen how renewable energy sources (similarly championed as green) have had trouble creating enough electricity. That makes it incredibly energy inefficient and results in a lot of extra pollution.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

percent, the share of energy met by renewables. Over the past three decades, China pushed traditional HVDC technology, based on current source converters and thyristors, to massive scale to send hydro, coal, and wind power thousands of kilometers to its coastal industries and megacities. grid research and advocacy consortium.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. produced fuels was further reduced by an accelerated shift away from coal, which in 2020 was down to 11 percent of primary supply, from 18 percent in 2000. Certification of the €9.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

The process was developed in 1926 by Rheinbraun AG in Germany for lignite coal; in the 1970s, Rheinbraun (now RWE) improved the process by operating the gasifier at a higher temperature to increase the carbon conversion and to improve of the quality of the syngas produced.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Rentech MOU contemplates the production and purchase of approximately 250 million gallons per year of synthetic jet fuel derived principally from coal or petroleum coke, with the resultant carbon dioxide sequestered and the carbon footprint potentially further reduced by integrating biomass as a feedstock. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

To arrest the accelerating pace of a changing climate, the world needs a lot more clean energy to electrify heating, transportation, and industry and to displace fossil-fuel generation. What the industry really needs to drive down costs, they say, is economies of scale. “In The trio of industrial Ph.D.s We have the technology.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

Hydrogen produced from renewable energy or nuclear power, with minimal greenhouse-gas emissions, could be piped or transported pretty much anywhere, using mostly existing infrastructure. billion to fund 41 projects to develop technologies ranging from basic R&D to industrial deployment. This is industry-led.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Humanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid “ a major planetary catastrophe ,” according to a new United Nations report. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Everybody knew then that renewables were unreliable: that wind power fully works less than one-third of the time, and that solar power is unavailable at night (of course) and less efficient on cloudy winter days. So, ironically, renewables have in some ways hastened the decline of nuclear power. Gas is the only answer.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

One of the most vexing social challenges confronting the transition to EVs at scale is dealing with the effects that governmental EV transition policies will have on millions of jobs across a wide swath of industries. President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21 st century. We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. Well I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders—and I know you don’t either.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

By contrast, the UK, France and Germany achieved record levels of annual carbon emissions intensity reductions, but were helped on by milder winters. The challenge now is to implement gigatonne scale reductions across the economy, in power generation, energy efficiency, transport and industry, as well as REDD+ in forested nations.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Based on the work of the multidisciplinary team, with advice from a board of 18 leaders from industry, government and environmental groups, the report examined the future of natural gas through 2050 from the perspectives of technology, economics, politics, national security and the environment. It is clean and flexible.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

And the Norwegian company H2Carrier recently received approval in principle for its concept for an industrial-scale floating production unit to make green ammonia at sea. At Siemens Energy, we are working with a consortium of 32 partners from industry and academia on a wind-and-hydrogen project called H2Mare.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

industry, agriculture, domestic use), the thermoelectric power sector is one of the largest water users in the US (at 40%) and in Europe (43% of total surface water withdrawals). 58%) could also reduce the vulnerability because of smaller water demands when compared with coal- and nuclear-fueled stations (with mean efficiencies of ?46%

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