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APRIL 28, 2014

DICE involves converting coal or biomass into a water-based slurry (called micronised refined carbon, MRC) that is directly injected into a large, specially adapted diesel engine. CSIRO is excited about the potential for DICE to lower power costs, halve carbon dioxide intensity and create a new export market for both brown and black coal.

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MARCH 3, 2016

The Oregon Legislative Assembly approved a landmark bill that will commit the state to eliminate its use of coal power by 2035 and double the amount of renewable energy serving Oregonians to 50% by 2040.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Groupe Renault is launching its “Advanced Battery Storage” program, which aims to build the biggest energy stationary storage system using EV batteries yet designed in Europe by 2020 (power: 70 MW / energy: 60MWh). —Nicolas Schottey, Director of the Groupe Renault New Business Energy program. —Nicolas Schottey.

Europe

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The BMW Group is expanding sourcing of low-carbon steel to two suppliers, meeting up to 40% of steel demand at European plants by 2030. In October 2001, the group announced an agreement with Swedish startup H2 Green Steel. earlier post ) The BMW Group has now signed an agreement with Salzgitter AG for delivery of low-carbon steel.

Carbon

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Based on preliminary economic activity and energy data, Rhodium Group estimates that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the US slightly increased in 2022, rising 1.3% This reversal in 2022 was largely due to the substitution of coal with natural gas—a less carbon-intensive fuel—and a rise in renewable energy generation.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2015

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Group) will invest a total of US$45.5 Geely Group will become a major shareholder of CRI and will gain representation on the company’s Board of Directors. Geely Group will become a major shareholder of CRI and will gain representation on the company’s Board of Directors. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 21, 2019

As a former coal and chemical region, the Lausitz region has an abundance of expertise available that can be used to set up a power-to-x competence center. Synthetic fuels are a decisive factor in energy transition and the use of renewable energies. —Andreas Schell, CEO of Rolls-Royce Power Systems.

Powered

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Located in Henan Province, China, the $250-million coal-to-methanol facility uses SES’ patented and proprietary gasification technologies. When it reaches full capacity later this year, the plant is expected to convert some 2,400 tonnes per day of high ash Yima coal into 300,000 tonnes per year of refined methanol.

Coal

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Shell Coal Gasification Process. Shell (China) Limited and Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Shenhua) have agreed to seek opportunities for conducting joint research and development in advanced coal technology. Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. is a subsidiary company to Shenhua Group Corporation Limited.

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MAY 26, 2021

—Markus Schäfer, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG; responsible for Daimler Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars COO. In the new process, the supplier uses hydrogen and electricity from 100% renewable energy sources instead of coking coal in steel production. A Mercedes?Benz

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Duke Energy, one of America's largest electric utilities, will explore a variety of renewable and other clean-energy technologies with China Huaneng Group , China’s biggest electric utility, as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Beijing. which is scheduled to go online in 2012.

Clean

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. Third, the President’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group (BIWG) released its first report: Growing America’s Fuel.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A joint industry partnership to commercialize clean, gold hydrogen, the program’s founding members include synthetic biology company Cemvita Factory (innovator in low-carbon microbial solutions for energy and mining resource extraction, production, and renewal); and Chart Industries, Inc. (a a leader in clean energy solutions).

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JUNE 17, 2021

In April 2021, the Volvo Group—the heavy-duty vehicle, construction equipment and power solutions provider, distinct from Volvo Cars— and SSAB signed a collaboration agreement on research, development, serial production and commercialization of vehicles to be made of fossil-free steel ( earlier post.)). (In

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

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Initial research priorities will be building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles. Renewable Energy Partnership. Under the Partnership, the two countries will develop roadmaps for wide-spread renewable energy deployment in both countries. 21 st Century Coal.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced. We also have a historic opportunity to decentralize the global iron and steel supply chain and re-shore manufacturing and mining jobs.

Coal

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

Coal

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If I didn’t serve my country right now in her greatest time of need by giving my all to fight climate change, stop the burning of fossil fuels and switch to 100% renewable energy then I’d consider myself a gutless unAmerican coward who had turned his back on the generations who come after me. That’s not the way I roll.

Al Gore

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Shandong Energy Group, are exploring collaboration on integrated refining and petrochemical opportunities in China. Shandong Energy Group is the third-largest coal mining group in China in terms of production volume.

Saudi Arabia

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MARCH 12, 2019

The Volkswagen Group is now planning to launch almost 70 new electric models in the next ten years instead of the 50 previously planned. As a result, the projected number of vehicles to be built on the Group’s electric platforms in the next decade will increase from 15 million to 22 million. Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen AG.

CO2

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. Alcohols, biodiesel and biokerosene offer no benefit for aviation.

MIT

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JULY 29, 2021

The Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) and majority state-owned energy group ?EZ Coal-fired power plants represented 37% of capacity and 36% of generation volume in 2020; their revenues are 16% of total. EZ signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the construction of a gigafactory for battery cells for electric vehicles.

Czech Republic

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. AltAir Fuels LLC was formed in 2008 to develop projects for the production of jet fuel from renewable and sustainable oils.

Purchase

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Li says the facility will combine all major areas of energy research, including cleaner fossil fuels, solar power, and fuel cell technologies.Mindful that China relies on coal for more than two-thirds of its electricity, Li expects the DNL to focus much of its resources on clean fossil-fuel technologies, at least initially.

Clean

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JUNE 12, 2019

As I have said before, this is not a race to renewables, but a race to reduce carbon emissions across many fronts. —Bob Dudley, group chief executive. Renewables grew by 14.5%, nearing their record-breaking increase in 2017, but this still accounted for only around a third of the increase in total power generation.

Climate Change

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

These are the people who in the face of science that says we must transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy or destroy the futures of our children and all who come after them, still want to drill for oil that should never be burned. There are no bigger cowards then the people who work for the oil, coal and gas industries.

Climate Change

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, signed a definitive joint development agreement (JDA) with SGC Energia, SGPS, S.A. SGCE) for the demonstration and commercialization of the Group’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, primarily for Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) and Waste-to-Liquids (WTL) applications. Earlier post.).

Waste

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JULY 5, 2011

The necessary set of new technologies must enable today’s poor to attain decent living standards, while reducing emissions and waste and ending the unrestrained drawdown of the Earth’s non-renewable resources. Energy policies also tend to have strong distributive effects, benefiting some industries and household groups more than others.

Global

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Shenhua S&T and NICE are both subsidiaries of the Shenhua Group, which is the world’s largest producer of coal, and the largest integrated energy company in China. Under the terms of the MoU, the parties have formed a joint working group, which will define the scope of the pilot project.

Energy Storage

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JANUARY 22, 2011

The listing, which includes 85 organizations as of 22 January, is grouped into 13 categories, with the largest categories being energy storage (29 applicants); biofuels (17); and renewable power (13): Biofuels (17). Renewable Power (13). Building Efficiency (9). Carbon Capture (7). Conventional Energy (0). Energy Storage (29).

Energy Storage

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The China Energy Group of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently released the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook —the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China’s energy and environmental statistics. Click to enlarge.

Environment

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MAY 23, 2010

I’m not the least bit intimated or scared by any of the people now arguing against saving ourselves – whether they’re with the oil, coal or gas industries or in the highest reaches of the Republican Party or atop the US Chamber of Commerce. And I’m just the guy to tell that truth whether you want to hear it or not.

Climate Change

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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. (DRI The group runs four large production sites in the country. Valentin Vogl, Max Åhman, Lars J.

Hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It will require China to deploy an additional 800-1,000 gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other zero emission generation capacity by 2030—more than all the coal-fired power plants that exist in China today and close to total current electricity generation capacity in the United States.

China

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AUGUST 31, 2015

The cost of producing electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar has been falling for several years. This data set contains a marked shift in favor of renewables compared to the prior reports, indicating an increased interest in low-carbon technologies on the part of the participating governments.

Cost Of