Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

What we do know is that, while mass electrification will be key to achieving our net zero goals, having a gas network will remain an important part of the low carbon puzzle from both a practical and cost-effective perspective – especially when it comes to supporting the intermittency of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Underpinning the effort to comply with marine emissions regulations is the monitoring of these exhaust gases, and instrumentation seems an indispensable support for marine operators under pressure to make good decisions with respect to things like fuel selection and the specification of scrubber systems. Specifying measurement.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Following a 10-year analysis of the scale of methane leakage at almost 1,000 AD plants across the UK and Europe, Tim Elsome, General Manager of biogas specialists FM BioEnergy, outlines why now is the ideal time to tackle unidentified biogas leaks – and how to protect your plant, profits and the planet. The risks of doing nothing.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Despite drops in energy usage during the pandemic, coal power use only declined by four percent in 2020, according to a new report. While coal used for power generation dropped 20 percent in both the U.S. GW (gigawatt) increase in the global coal fleet in 2020.”. electricity consumption was 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2021

Only a handful of super emitters are responsible for an enormous amount of the methane pollution in the Permian basin, according to a new study. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. Credit: ©2020 Justin Hamel. Reeves County, Texas.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

Paul Francis, CEO of KIGT , shared his vision for making electric vehicles more accessible in more communities. “We make super small, super smart charging stations for electric cars. So, we built the Solshare: the world’s first behind-the-meter solar sharing technology.” Equity & Climate. ” ? .

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 11, 2022

Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization. Stationary combustion : These are the emissions released from the direct burning of fossil fuels to power heat sources (e.g. These include geothermal energy heat pumps, air-source heat pumps, and solar water heating systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? We have already exceeded our interim global business goal of cutting CO2 emissions by half by 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects. Subscribe in a reader

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tackling methane from oil and gas operations among 'best near-term opportunities’ for combatting climate change, IEA argues. Methane, which is largely released from abandoned coal mines, oil and gas operations, and farming, has a far greater global warming potential than CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, as the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis’ energy finance analyst Bruce Robertson told DeSmog, even they “haven’t been able to get it right”. . A project capturing emissions from coal production at the Petra Nova plant in Texas was shuttered in 2020 following numerous problems and missed targets. .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated. Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2021

Through friends at other Greentown companies, we met truly excellent mechanical and electrical engineering contractors, some of whom we’ve continued working with to this day.” Joined Greentown in 2018 + became an alumni member in 2020. Joined Greentown in 2013 + became an alumni member in 2020. Sean Grundy CEO of Bevi.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

This month, we’re spotlighting our annual DEMO Day event, which in 2020 evolved into the Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit. In 2020, we took DEMO Day to the next level. Curtatone , Massachusetts Clean Energy Center then-CEO Alicia Barton , EnerNOC CEO Tim Healy , and Greentown CEO Emily Reichert. in Somerville, MA!

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EDF + Business

JUNE 15, 2023

Sean Hackett EDF+Business Senior Manager, Energy Transition By Sean Hackett The past year has seen a slew of historic climate investments and a growing focus among businesses and the finance sector on opportunities in the energy transition. As clean energy grows, risks to the oil and gas industry are evolving at a rapid pace.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

This week, Aurora Hydrogen, a pyrolysis startup in Edmonton, Alberta, disclosed $10m in Series A funding led by Energy Innovation Capital and including some well-known fossil fuels funds including Shell Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures. Companies such as Electric Hydrogen have their work cut out.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions against Russia have highlighted Europe’s vulnerability when it comes to energy security. TES is a green hydrogen company that will accelerate the energy transition through its ambitious plans to develop a green hydrogen hub at Wilhelmshaven in Northern Germany.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Adopting net-zero by 2050 benchmarks will allow banks to minimize portfolio-wide climate risks and capitalize on the financial opportunities of the energy transition. Already, the EU and UK require banks to monitor their climate risk. In 2020 alone, companies from Microsoft to BP have committed to net-zero by 2050.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, the European Commission ran an extensive cross-sector sweep of websites to identify instances of greenwash.They found that in 42% of cases, green claims were exaggerated, false, or deceptive. Energy Star. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) and (commonly measured through what is known as carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e). We have observed a steady stream of record breaking warming and 2020 is expected to set another heat record. The impacts of GHGs are being felt here and now.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2024

This summer, just seven months after the fire ripped through Dark Horse, the EPA approved a key “monitoring, reporting, and verification” plan for the project — a key step in enabling the company to claim carbon capture tax credits that could be worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. So far, that’s not what’s happening.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

The resulting biogas - or biomethane - offers a lower carbon alternative to fossil fuel-based methane, and can be directly injected into the existing gas grid to help reduce the emissions intensity of heating homes and businesses. The green gas tariff scheme is expected to help save 21.6 a year for an average domestic consumers by 2028.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). For instance, in 2007 Australia introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) to set mandatory emission reporting. ppm in 2020.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Last month was the warmest November on record, and 2020 is expected to be one of the hottest years on record. These concerns are reiterated and amplified in the 2020 Emissions Gap Report. The 2020 forecast suggests we are on track to exceed these limits by a considerable margin. gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

And it sees countries back a "phase down" of unabated coal power, after a dramatic 11th hour intervention from India on the conference floor saw the initial "phase out" phrasing weakened. Polluters have been put on notice. temperature target stands tall.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The circumstances surrounding his termination are documented among thousands of pages of public records and internal company documents that provide a penetrating look into the multi-billion dollar stakes of negotiations between governments and state-sanctioned monopolies that are shaping the future of energy systems in Oregon and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I covered developments related to the rapidly expanding petrochemical and LNG export industries, like new facilities that came online this year and rely on fracking new wells to supply the growing demand for natural gas, which is mostly methane. For instance, Air Products claims that its proposed $4.5 Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

May 27, 2020. Justin Hamel ©2020. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2020. For example, a 2020 study from the University of California, Los Angeles found that living near flaring events, which burn off excess methane, or natural gas, is connected to an increased risk of preterm births.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. Credit: Justin Hamel. Credit: Justin Hamel.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 1, 2020

To minimize personal auto usage, use public transportation for your daily commute. Alternately, look into electric cars if you’re in the market for a new vehicle. When you notice something you like, such as a commitment to carbon offsetting or sustainable material sourcing, let them know with your buying power and your word.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. By Jean-Philippe Brisson , Joshua T. Background.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2022

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Philanthropist Bill Gates, the US special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry, CEO of energy firm Vattenfall Anna Borg, and Yasmine Fouad, Egypt’s Minister of Environment, discussed the key actions utilities, governments and the private sector are planning to accelerate climate action and innovation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The curbing of emissions to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the environment. In 2015, developed countries committed to coming up with $100 billion per year by 2020 to tackle climate change in developing countries. Energy transition. Anthropogenic. Resulting from human beings.

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