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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g., Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

To generate the renewable electricity needed to feed production of green hydrogen, Cepsa will develop a 3GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects with an additional €2-billion investment. It also has one of the highest wind and solar photovoltaic power generation and production capacity in Europe, and at the lowest cost.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) renewed funding for PowerAmerica , DOE’s first Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Raleigh-based PowerAmerica commercialized more than 10 WBG technologies over five years.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Heliogen’s AI-enabled concentrated solar energy system is designed to create carbon-free steam, electricity, and heat from abundant and renewable sunlight. Electricity accounts for nearly 80% of the cost of hydrogen from electrolysis. By using less electricity, hydrogen production is more economical and accelerates adoption.

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JUNE 7, 2022

The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and Bloom Energy will jointly develop an optimized and large-scale high-temperature integrated electrolysis solution for the nuclear industry. —Rick Beuttel, vice president, hydrogen business, Bloom Energy.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

The Hydrogen Council has published a new report, Path to Hydrogen Competitiveness: A Cost Perspective , demonstrating that the cost of hydrogen solutions will fall sharply within the next decade, sooner than previously expected. Significant cost reductions are expected across different hydrogen applications.

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JULY 29, 2022

The MoU is preliminary agreement to establish an industrial complex project with total targeted investments estimated at $8 billion, said Yehia Zaki, chairman of the Suez Canal economic zone. million tons of green ammonia, said Zaki.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. The current estimated construction cost is $1.45

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JUNE 25, 2021

DME is a hydrogen-rich molecule that can be produced from waste and/or renewable resources using Oberon’s modular production technology. Because DME handles like propane/liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), it requires minimal modifications to the existing global LPG distribution network and leverages the expertise of its existing workforce.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize. The company’s renewable energy strategy is rooted in four pillars: Increasing Energy Efficiency: GM’s energy goals begin with reducing energy consumption by improving energy efficiency. GM supports policies that enable a carbon-free, resilient power system.

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JUNE 11, 2021

Oberon Fuels, producer of clean-burning dimethyl ether (DME) transportation fuel, has begun production of the first renewable DME (rDME) in the United States, and the only current commercial production of this in the world. Once delivered, rDME can be converted to renewable hydrogen at the point of use.

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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.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

In its International Energy Outlook 2021 (IEO2021), EIA projects that strong economic growth, particularly with developing economies in Asia, will drive global increases in energy consumption despite pandemic-related declines and long-term improvements in energy efficiency. —EIA Acting Administrator Stephen Nalley.

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APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). RPS programs, which require that a certain percentage of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources, currently cover 64 percent of the electricity sold in the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The findings of this joint research on ammonia cracking will help support industry-wide efforts to decarbonize transport and heavy industrial processes and lower carbon emissions to meet global climate goals.

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JULY 16, 2020

Costs for producing green hydrogen have fallen 50% since 2015 and could be reduced by an additional 30% by 2025 due to the benefits of increased scale and more standardized manufacturing, among other factors. —Simon Blakey, IHS Markit Senior Advisor, Global Gas.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Global Bioenergies has reached a new milestone in scaling up its C3 process converting renewable resources into isopropanol and acetone. They can also be converted into polypropylene, a key component in the plastics industry, with market value exceeding 70 billion dollars. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

An estimated 387GW/1,143GWh of new energy storage capacity will be added globally from 2022 to 2030, according to the forecast—more than Japan’s entire power generation capacity in 2020. The US and China are set to remain the two largest markets, representing more than half of global storage installations by the end of the decade.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

outlined a technology roadmap to support its vision to reinvent the aluminum industry for a sustainable future. The roadmap includes three key programs: The Refinery of the Future , which aims both to reduce the capital cost of developing a refinery and to enable decarbonization of the alumina refining process. Alcoa Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The Paris Agreement calls for global warming to be limited to 2 ?C C above pre-industrial levels, and preferably 1.5 °C. One path to achieving this is with renewable synthetic fuels (e-fuels). Bosch outlines seven reasons why renewable synthetic fuels should be part of tomorrow’s mobility mix: Time. The fossil CO?

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Snam, the main Italian operator for the transport and dispatching of natural gas in Italy, launched HyAccelerator , a corporate global-scale startup acceleration program focused on hydrogen.

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JUNE 15, 2022

TotalEnergies has entered into an agreement with Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) to acquire a 25% interest in Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL). The partners’ complementary strengths will help ANIL deliver the largest green hydrogen ecosystem in the world, which will enable the lowest green hydrogen cost to the consumer.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In the project, Ontario-based Valent Low Carbon Technologies will work with a pan-Canadian team to produce Canada’s first renewable diesel from abundantly available agricultural and forestry by-products. million with the balance coming from the project’s industry and government partners.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have designed a novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces that could reduce CO 2 emissions from the steelmaking industry by nearly 90%. If implemented in the UK alone, the system could deliver cost savings of £1.28 billion in 5 years while reducing overall UK emissions by 2.9%.

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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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Earlier post.) Why not combine the two? We’re working on that.

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MAY 21, 2021

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is awarding Alcoa of Australia $8.8 million) toward testing the potential use of renewable energy in a Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) process for alumina refining. Total project cost is US$21.9 million (A$11.3 million (A$28.2 Alcoa's Wagerup refinery. Image: Alcoa.

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JULY 4, 2023

In the report, Deloitte uses clean hydrogen to encompass both green hydrogen— produced from renewable electricity via electrolysis—and blue hydrogen—produced via natural gas coupled with carbon capture and storage. trillion per year by 2050. trillion in developing economies.

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MAY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies, a developer of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefins, and Cristal Union, the 4 th largest European beet producer, have formed IBN-One, a joint venture to build and operate the first plant in France converting renewable resources into isobutene.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Following successful field trial results, Cemvita has created a wholly owned subsidiary for the Gold Hydrogen business, Gold H2 LLC (GH2), and subsequently raised and closed funding into the entity, led by founding investors Chart Industries and 8090 Industries. —Zach Broussard, Director of Gold H2 at Cemvita. billion in 2020.

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MARCH 17, 2016

Doubling the share of renewables in the global energy mix by 2030 can save up to US$4.2 trillion annually by 2030—15 times more than the costs— according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). If a doubling is achieved, this share would grow to more than 50%.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Global Bioenergies will construct its second industrial pilot on the site of the Leuna refinery, close to Leipzig in Germany. The company’s German subsidiary, Global Bioenergies GmbH, located in the Bio-City building in Leipzig, was awarded the €5.7-million —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies SA.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Denmark has been a global leader in sustainability, and has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 70% by 2030. While the country is one of the world’s largest producers of wind and solar renewable energy, it faces the issue of renewable energy being weather-dependent and prone to fluctuation.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra’s process emits zero carbon dioxide emissions and carries zero green premium, meaning it will cost the same or less than existing production methods powered by fossil fuels. gigatons of direct and indirect carbon dioxide emissions annually, or 10% of the global total. billion metric tons of crude steel and causes 3.7

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JANUARY 6, 2021

BayoTech is committed to addressing the global need for consistent, cost-effective, low-carbon supply of hydrogen. Hydrogen possesses many attributes that will drive long-term demand as a fuel source, including its role in global decarbonization efforts. Source: BayoTech.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Global Bioenergies has achieved a yield exceeding 87% of the final target during the complete production phase, at laboratory scale, of its bio-isobutene process. The higher the performance, the lower the production costs, and thus the broader the range of applications that can be exploited profitably.

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JUNE 27, 2023

The results suggest a transformative opportunity to unlock the Gulf’s potential as a cost-effective source of low-carbon hydrogen for Europe. With abundant renewable energy sources (RES) and natural gas reserves, the Gulf region is set to become a leading global producer of green and blue hydrogen, ammonia and other synthesis products.

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