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MARCH 6, 2019

Although Germany, the UK, US, Canada and Ukraine are phasing out domestic coal production capacity, expansion of production capacity in countries such as India and Indonesia is predicted to generate modest annual growth of 1.3% in coal production over the next four years, with output reaching 7.6 to 7,188.8 to 7,194.1 Mt in 2018.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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Finland Green Coal Hydrogen 437

Teslarati

JANUARY 15, 2024

While more effort is needed to reach that goal, one energy organization has predicted that renewables will overtake coal generation as the world’s largest electricity source in early 2025. In the U.S., Solar PV and wind account for 95 percent of the predicted 7,300 GW renewable expansion between 2023 and 2028.

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Coal Renewable Global Wind 135

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

SK seeks to import blue ammonia produced from ExxonMobil to South Korea in support of reducing industrial emissions. When co-fired with coal in an existing Coal Fired Power Plant (CFPP), blue ammonia emits no additional CO 2 , and total emissions from power generation is reduced by the amount of blue ammonia co-fired.

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South Korea Coal Hydrogen Carbon 459

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

thyssenkrupp will build a €2B hydrogen-powered direct reduction plant at its Duisberg site. As part of its tkH2Steel transformation project, coal-based blast furnaces will be replaced by hydrogen-powered direct reduction plants. The plant, with a capacity of 2.5 million metric tons, will avoid the emission of 3.5

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Low CO2 Hydrogen CO2 Power 448

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

A new report from RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) finds that it is technically and economically feasible for China’s steel industry to decarbonize by 2050 through demand reduction, steel recycling and switching to green routes. This makes the steel industry the country’s second-largest carbon emitting sector behind power generation.

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JUNE 17, 2022

Wholesale prices are especially tied to natural gas prices because natural gas-fired units are often the most expensive (marginal) generators dispatched to supply power. In past years, the electric power sector has substituted natural gas-fired generation with coal-fired generation when natural gas prices have risen.

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Green Car Congress

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. Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Industrial 221

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Two unique features of the steel industry in India are the large-scale use of electric induction furnaces for electric-based steelmaking rather than electric arc furnaces and the reliance on coal, rather than natural gas, to produce DRI. coal-based rotary kiln furnaces (mainly in India), accounting for 17.5% of 2016 production.

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Coal Industrial Industry India 150

Green Car Reports

MAY 18, 2022

Federally funded hydrogen hubs have the potential to reduce emissions, but could also be as dirty as coal without proper oversight, a group of experts warned.

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Coal Hydrogen Clean Cleaning 177

Green Car Congress

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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Oregon Coal Renewable Power 150

Electrek

APRIL 1, 2023

A looming crisis is brewing in China, as hundreds of thousands of unsold, polluting gas-powered vehicles may be rendered unsellable due to incoming emissions rules. It’s another sign that the global auto industry isn’t ready for the shift to EVs and will be caught unawares if it doesn’t ramp EV production fast enough.

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Coal China Auto Industry Pollution 145

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2018

Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification. As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects.

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Coal Saudi Arabia China Production 170

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. MHI) and Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) have agreed to conduct joint research and development of ammonia-fired power generation by gas turbine. The H-25 Series gas turbines were developed for utility customers and industrial customers in both 50 Hz and 60 Hz regions.

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Mitsubishi Indonesia Power Powered 243

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The first China-developed hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive—from core power to main components—has started trial runs on a 627 km railway line for coal transport in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It can run with 700 kW of continuous power for 24.5 Source: Xinhua. and the Hydrogen Energy Co.,

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Mongolia Hydrogen China Fuel 540

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Russian State Corporation Rostec, one of the largest Russian industrial conglomerates, and Chinese State Corporation Shenhua, the world’s leading producer and distributor of coal, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. High calorific value coal concentrate will be exported to Asia-Pacific countries, mainly to China.

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Coal Power Powered Asia 210

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

US electric power sector CO 2 emissions have declined 28% since 2005 because of slower electricity demand growth and changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In the United States, most of the changes in energy-related CO 2 emissions have been in the power sector.

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2005 Emissions Power Powered 414

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

HERO uses a proprietary catalyst to turn hydrogen into continuous industrial heat without combustion. Star Scientific has been named an Emerging Technology of the Year category finalist in the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Awards, an annual program recognizing innovation, leadership and exceptional performance in the energy sector.

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Global 2020 Industrial Industry 305

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Power Systems business unit signs letter of intent for the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of synthetic fuels Schell: “We will be electrifying the entire system, including the fuel” Important step towards sector coupling and decarbonising propulsion systems and power generation.

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Power Powered Renewable Fuel 281

Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

A Tesla Megapack battery system has officially turned on to replace Hawaii’s very last coal power plant. In early 2022, we reported that Tesla is deploying Megapacks at a new energy storage project that will replace Hawaii’s last remaining coal plant. It will enable better use of the state’s increasing renewable energy.

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Coal Hawaii Energy Storage Batteries 52

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An Ohio State University team has demonstrated the successful operation of Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL)—which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere. Hot iron and coal ash are left behind. 2 millimeters across.

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Coal Carbon Ohio Columbus 305

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NOVEMBER 12, 2017

billion coal-to-syngas production facility to be built in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. SFEC would supply coal, steam and power and receive syngas under a long-term, onsite contract. The mining business commenced development in 1966, and Yanzhou Coal Mining Bureau was established in 1976. Yankuang Group Co.,

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Coal China Production Supplies 150

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

From 2025 on, the company plans to source steel produced with up to 95% less CO 2 emissions and without requiring fossil resources such as coal. The BMW Group has now reached an agreement to this effect with the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel (H2GS), which uses hydrogen and only green power from renewable energies for steel production.

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Sweden BMW Green Hydrogen 341

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

The Nikkei reports that Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. As part of Japan’s WE-NET (World Energy Network) research program of the New Sunshine Project begun in 1993, Kawasaki and its other industrial colleagues in Japan have been considering the large-scale marine transportation of liquid hydrogen for some time (e.g., Source: KHI.

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Japan Hydrogen 2017 Transportation 351

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Photo: Hornsea Project Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. That collapse resulted in an impressive 19% reduction in the EU’s power sector emissions. Wind and solar power are now taking center stage. compared to 2022. The takeaway?

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Coal Wind Solar Gas 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2018

An economically-sustainable hydrogen industry in Australia could soon be on the cards according to a blueprint released by CSIRO, the national science agency, which found that cost-competitiveness is firmly on the horizon. Source: CSIRO. —CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.

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Australia Hydrogen Industrial Industry 271

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JULY 13, 2023

million from the federal government of Germany and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saarland for its project for the initial industrialization of stationary solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems:“Bosch Power Units”. When generating power the SOFC efficiency is approximately 60% at beginning of life.

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Fuel Production Germany Hydrogen 360

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JULY 12, 2022

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition. The steel and energy industries have of course long been closely linked.

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Hydrogen Carbon Renewable Power 170

Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 6, 2021

India directs Coal India to invest in EVs & charging pods. In its many initiatives, the latest initiative the government’s Coal Ministry has asked state-run Coal India to diversify its interests to areas such as electric vehicles and charging stations. Read the complete article about India directs Coal India. .

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India Coal Charging South Africa 77

Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2018

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain ( HESC ) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine into hydrogen at an adjacent site and then transport the gas by road in high pressure tube trailers to a liquefaction terminal at the Port of Hastings. J-Power will use its gasification technology for gasification of brown coal.

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Japan Coal Transportation Australia 170

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MAY 11, 2022

EIA also published its annual Summer Electricity Industry Outlook , which forecasts that continued US economic growth will increase electricity use by 0.4% EIA forecasts that retail sales of electricity to the industrial sector will grow by 2.8% —EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis. and by 1.5% in the commercial sector.

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Oil Price Production Oil Prices 344

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JUNE 2, 2016

Trestle Energy LLC, a low carbon fuel company working with ethanol producers across the Midwest, and Larksen LLC, a biomass company providing sustainably sourced agricultural residues to Midwestern power plants, will collaborate to commercialize a new Fuel Pathway Management Platform.

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Coal Energy Power Powered 150

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. The prototype will use ammonia to deliver 200kg of hydrogen a day—enough to power around 5-10 hydrogen fuel cell-electric buses. GeoPura plans to use this hydrogen to supply Hydrogen Power Units (HPUs). million (US$4.24

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Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland 488

Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

.’ With the beginning of Punjab assembly ’s budget session, optimism has surged in the Mandi Gobindgarh and Fatehgarh Sahib’s iron and steel industry , which has been anticipating positive announcements and relief measures. One of the pressing issues highlighted by industrialists is the escalating power tariff.

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Industrial Industry Auto Coal 52

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AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. per year to 2040, while BNEF’s economics-led New Energy Outlook 2019 foresaw 22% growth in power sector gas demand to 2050. MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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Gas Global Industrial Industry 243

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Suiso Frontier , the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, has left Japan to pick up its first hydrogen cargo in Australia. J-POWER) to form the CO 2 -free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA). A return to Japan is expected around late February.

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Hydrogen Japan Australia Gas-Electric 532

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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. The fuel burns to produce intense temperature and pressure in the engine, which provides highly efficient power to turn electrical generators.

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Coal Carbon Engine Emissions 257