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JUNE 19, 2017

Neste began production of renewable diesel 10 years ago at the Neste Porvoo refinery in Finland. Neste has since become the leading circular economy company in biofuels and reduced GHG emissions from traffic by more than 33 million tons, based on production of the renewable bio-hydrocarbon fuel. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 7, 2015

Greenhouse gasses (GHG) emission savings due to final renewable energy consumption in electricity; cooling/heating; and transport sectors rose at a compound annual growth rate of 8.8% Nearly two thirds of the total savings came from renewable energy development in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy and Spain. in 2009 to 5.9%

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JULY 3, 2021

Plans are under way to expand capacity of the electrolyzer from 10 megawatts to 100 megawatts at the Rheinland site, near Cologne, where Shell also intends to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using renewable power and biomass in the future. A plant for liquefied renewable natural gas (bio-LNG) is also in development.

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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MARCH 30, 2016

Toyota will launch the Mirai fuel cell vehicle in Sweden and Norway this summer, following other European countries that have introduced the Toyota Mirai in 2015 (UK, Germany and Denmark) or early 2016 (Belgium). In Sweden, hydrogen is locally produced 100% based on renewable energy, just as in Denmark.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

Scania has received an order for 158 buses from public transport company Keolis Sverige in Sweden. Scania has previously delivered ethanol- and biogas-fuelled vehicles to Keolis, and the new buses will be equipped with engines for the renewable fuels ethanol and rapeseed methyl ester (RME).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, has joined the eFuel Alliance , an interest group dedicated to the industrial production of synthetic fuels based on hydrogen and CO 2 from renewable sources. Throughout the world, more than 1.3

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Liquid Wind AB plans to establish a series of facilities across Sweden to decarbonize the maritime sector, of which FlagshipONE will be the first. Ørsted’s entry into the FlagshipONE project is a marker of the company’s strategic ambition of building a global leadership position within green fuels and renewable hydrogen.

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MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. It was one of the Swedish Transport Agency’s first projects in which a complete climate calculation was made. An open-access paper on the study is published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. —Karlsson et al.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company LTD (CRIUK), a global catalyst technology company wholly owned by Royal Dutch Shell, has 2 *-Technology-Licensed-Biozin-Holding">awarded an FEL-2 license agreement for the IH 2 technology which converts biomass to liquid transportation fuels ( earlier post ), to Norway-based Biozin Holding AS (BZH).

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MARCH 3, 2012

Scania is putting 8 ethanol-fueled trucks in operation for its own goods transport services at its production facilities in Södertälje, Sweden. The switch from diesel will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its internal goods transport by about 70%, the company said. Earlier post.).

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Increased use of gas is a bridge towards climate-neutral transports. We’re currently in a transition period, moving from decades of dependence on oil to a society built on renewable fuels. The field test vehicles are being operated by transport companies DHL, Götene Kyltransporter and Renova.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. in 2015 to 7.1%

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JUNE 8, 2023

TECO 2030 and Skeleton Technologies have entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate the use of renewable hydrogen in the maritime sector and demonstrate zero-emissions voyage and port operations. Shipping is considered a hard-to-decarbonize sector and its CO 2 emissions account for 2.89 % of the world’s emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Alliance is to scale-up, by 2030, the production and deployment of hydrogen as a fuel produced by means of low-emission technologies and renewable energy sources. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia.

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MAY 1, 2020

Liquid Wind is developing its first commercial-scale eMethanol facility in Sweden and plans to establish 6 facilities by 2030 before expanding internationally. Liquid Wind, in partnership with its consortium of experts, Consortium, will convert waste CO 2 and renewable electricity into eMethanol, a carbon-neutral fuel.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Only the biocrude is transported to a centralized refinery, which reduces transportation costs as a result of the increase of the volumetric energy of the oil compared to the original biomass. The renewable carbon efficiency measured for the 10 wt % bio-oil feeding has been close to 30 wt %.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

according to a 2023 study citing recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , gasoline-powered, internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars were involved in about 1,530 fires per every 100,000 sold. Cars catch fire. Electric vehicles are no exception. In the U.S.,

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JULY 18, 2019

AstraZeneca’s EV fleet will soon be fully powered by renewable power, with 61% (EOY 2018) of their total electricity use sourced or generated from renewable sources. million employees in total are now committed to electrifying transport through the initiative. Companies representing US$900 billion in annual turnover and 2.8

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MARCH 28, 2017

Preem, the largest fuel company in Sweden, and Vattenfall have concluded an agreement to investigate the potential Vattenfall’s providing of hydrogen gas in the large scale production of biofuel for the Swedish market. Vattenfall can provide hydrogen gas required for the production of drop-in biofuels.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

As the world transitions to sustainable transportation through electric vehicles (EVs), some are considering ways to reduce EV battery waste. Additionally, the press release notes that Volvo began using Connected Energy’s E-STOR system at its Gothenburg, Sweden facility , which is used to analyze response rates to the electrical grid.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. That is in line with our research too.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Promoting renewable energy and circular economy—including the shared use of vehicles and product design that supports reuse and recycling—will help maximize the benefits of shifting to electric vehicles, according to the report. The EEA has also published a new briefing on the environmental and climate impacts of transport.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

At the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP22), eight nations—Canada, China, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the US— signed a Government Fleet Declaration , pledging to increase the share of electric vehicles in their government fleets and calling for other governments to join them.

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AUGUST 7, 2010

million), two-year project aimed at developing technology for producing and fractionating bio-oil components as a basis for a biorefinery producing green chemicals, transportation fuels and energy. Aston University’s (UK) Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) is involved in a £1.4-million million (US$2.2

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JULY 17, 2019

Automated control of cars may enable drivers to achieve more fuel savings than if they were completely in charge, according to a new study conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Volvo Cars. The study findings are detailed in a paper in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In 2010, public transportation administration company AtB in Trondheim was among the first in Europe to order hybrid buses from Volvo. The buses will run on renewable energy so they will be entirely emission-free. Energy consumption for Volvo’s electric buses is about 80% lower than for corresponding diesel buses.

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DECEMBER 15, 2018

The ambitions of both projects are to realize zero-emission propulsion via fuel cells using cost-efficient hydrogen produced from electrolysis based on renewable energy. HYON is a joint venture established in 2017, owned wholly by Nel ASA, Hexagon Composites ASA and PowerCell Sweden AB.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

million) grant from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the JIVE 2 project will deploy 152 fuel cell electric buses across 14 European cities throughout France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK. Coordinated by Element Energy , and supported by a €25-million (US$31.2-million)

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Having CO 2 -neutral transport on the road by 2050 is our ultimate goal. This can only be achieved if competitive conditions for CO 2 -neutral transport are created for our customers in terms of costs and infrastructure. Truly CO 2 -neutral transport only works with battery-electric or hydrogen-based drive.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

As the number of electric vehicles on the world’s roads explodes, electric utilities are grappling with increasing demand while simultaneously having to stabilize their grids where more intermittent renewable-energy sources like wind and solar are coming online. Will V2G degrade such batteries and reduce their value in transportation?

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JUNE 1, 2016

Researchers in Sweden and Spain have devised a three-step process for the conversion of precipitated kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel. Since black liquor is derived from wood, it is the most important renewable bio-fuel, particularly in Sweden and Finland. Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem.

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JUNE 26, 2015

million) research project, selected for funding under the Horizon 2020 Programme, to advance the biocatalytic production of drop-in liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels, requiring only sunlight, CO 2 and water. In addition to the Volkswagen Group, participants in Photofuel include: Uppsala Universitets, Sweden. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 26, 2009

The SEK 500 million ($64 million, €45 million) grant application is for an industrial scale production plant for renewable automotive fuel from biomass through gasification of black liquor. Planned location for the plant is the Domsjö biorefinery complex in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Estimated project completion is late 2012.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Neste Oil is beginning the commercial use of tall oil pitch as a feedstock for refining into transportation fuel. Neste Oil is capable of producing premium-quality renewable diesel on an industrial scale from more than 10 different types of feedstocks.

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