DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The UK government’s move to award £22 billion in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. Meanwhile, lobby group the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) — which represents dozens of fossil fuel companies — attended 20 meetings, and Equinor 16.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Three-quarters of prizes at the UK’s top sustainable advertising awards went to agencies who work for the fossil fuel industry, a DeSmog analysis has revealed. ” The concept was adopted by the UN’s corporate decarbonisation campaign Race to Zero in 2022, but is not recognised by Ad Net Zero. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

While non-stop flights around the world have been achieved before using fossil fuels, the Climate Impulse plane stands out by attempting this feat with clean, renewable energy. One of the biggest hurdles is producing enough green hydrogen to meet demand. Right now, most hydrogen production globally relies on fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2022

This was due mainly to a tightening of European gas markets, with rising demand from Asia combined with increased willingness to pay and the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Jean-Paul Harreman, director of EnAppSys BV, said: “The proportion of the fuel mix occupied by fossil fuels nudged upwards from 33.1%

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company Equinor, the North Sea’s largest fossil fuel producer, is positioning itself to play a key role in plans to turn Britain into a world leader in capturing carbon. Currently, this policy would lock the UK into using fossil fuel-based energy generation to well past 2050.”

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 7, 2024

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief reports on an investment update from the International Energy Agency (IEA) which has found that of the total $3 trillion expected to be invested in energy, the lion’s share will go into renewables and the power grid, surpassing fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

UK fossil fuel imports from authoritarian petrostates surged to £19.3 Petrostates are countries that are economically heavily dependent on fossil fuel production. billion in 2022. billion on fossil fuel imports from the year beginning February 2022. billion in fossil fuels from Qatar, £3.4

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Mosaic

AUGUST 28, 2024

According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand is expected to rise at a faster rate over the next three years, an average of 3.4% Outside the home, powering developing technologies will put pressure on electric demands. Already in 2022, these technologies had reached the electricity consumption of Japan.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. However, it is important to note that coal is the only fossil fuel projected to decline over the next decade under the IEA’s Stated Policies Scenario. The full report may be found here.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. Such investments will soon be stranded assets, a blot on the landscape, and a blight on investment portfolios.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to become the most in-demand option for drivers across Europe within the next three years, with a rapid shift to electric mobility on roads now inevitable over the coming decade and beyond, a major new study of seven national auto markets has concluded.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

By the end of this year, says Grolsch, more than two-thirds of its heat demand will be met by sustainable heat from waste management company Twence , delivered through a new underground pipeline. With this heat supply, not all of Grolsch’s biogas can be used directly for its own heat demand anymore. Regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

In its latest forecast today, BNEF said fossil fuel car sales likely already peaked in 2017. Now, with the global pandemic leading a hige drop in demand, the report predicts sales for conventional cars are set to drop 23 per cent worldwide in 2020, with major implications for the global oil market. million barrels a day by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Between 2020 and 2022, the Italian group will invest €11.5 Between 2020 and 2022, the Italian group will invest €11.5 The replacement of fossil fuel generation in Spain, Italy and Chile will account for 5.4 billion in 2022. billion ($12.6 billion ($12.6 gigawatts will be developed in Brazil and the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Annual wind energy installations are expected to double from 78 GW in 2022 to 155 GW in 2027, bringing the total wind capacity worldwide to more than 1,500 GW in just five years. This in turn highlights the wind sector’s role in supporting a just and equitable energy transition away from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Professor Duncan Gregory, chair in Inorganic Materials at the University of Glasgow’s School of Chemistry, said: “Battery technology is going to play a hugely important role in our transition away from fossil fuels. million per year by 2040, using a combination of both wild and cultivated seaweed.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

To meet demand, the company "reverse engineered" the product using petroleum-based chemicals, according to a Zymergen spokesperson. A bio-based version of Hyaline, a roughly 50/50 blend of biomolecules and petroleum-based chemical, is expected by the middle of 2022. Sponsored Article. Courtesy of. Close Authorship.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

To understand the size of the industrial heat market, the Figure below shows the data for heat and cooling demand for the US.? For heat use in the moderate temperature range (125 250 F / 52 – 121 C), there is a market demand of 350+ trillion BTUs per year. Commercial (a) heating and (b) cooling demand by U.S. McLennan, J.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow. Oil Majors Show up in Disguise.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2022

Critics point out that replacing flaring with mining crypto could become a way for fossil fuel producers to spin money directly from energy, polluting the climate without heating people’s homes or transporting people from place to place in the process. “In Credit: Marko Ahtisaari ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

The apparent milestone was reached with the installation of an electricity smart meter at 11:57am on the 4th May 2022 by Utilita Energy Ltd at a location in Brighton. Breaking reliance on fossil fuels? Shifting consumption demand is expected to reduce household carbon emissions massively.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 26, 2022

Demand response and energy management are a crucial part of the solution to make Australia’s fast-changing electricity sector work reliably, writes Diogo Cabral, Senior Business Development at GridBeyond. From 2022, Victoria and South Australia will start to experience higher prices in June and July. Demand management.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Imported fossil resources contribute to all three of the challenges of the energy transition. This raises several questions which must be discussed together including: How can we prepare the electricity grid for such a structural change in both supply and demand of electricity? Demand side measures. Image: GridBeyond.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. First, and perhaps most crucially, it plans to price its vehicles at the same or lower prices as comparable fossil-fuel vehicles. The vans are expected to start rolling out for delivery in 2022. delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By the end of 2022, electrolyser capacity for hydrogen production reached almost 700 MW. If all announced projects are realised, a total of 420GW could be achieved by 2030, an increase of 75% compared to the IEA’s 2022 review. “We of total hydrogen demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

The number of battery electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the UK is likely to double in 2022, potentially taking a 15 per cent share of the total new car market by the end of the year, analysts have predicted. The number of electric cars on the road and the number sold will likely double next year.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

million for demand reduction from ERCOT in July. Riot reports curtailing 11,717MWh in July for ERCOT as demand reached record highs in July, enough to power 13,121 average homes for one month. Previously for Q2 of 2022, Riot has reported receiving approximately $5.7 However, based on a Bitcoin price of $21,634, the $9.5

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As policymakers and leaders around the world prepare for pivotal climate discussions at COP28, the sector must seize the momentum to create more renewable energy, enabling other sectors to decarbonise, and shifting demand away from fossil fuels. There are small indications of change.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

IRENA’s new World Energy Transition Outlook 2022 sets out 2030 priorities to meet its 1.5 The Outlook 2022, the second edition, reports that despite progress the energy transition is far from being on track to 1.5 Eighty per cent of the global population lives in countries that are net importers of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. by cities, counties, and states, and one fishermen’s trade association, over the past six years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

National grid operator ESO announced on 11 June that it will expand its existing Demand Flexibility Service (DFS), and pay UK households who turn down their electricity at any time of the year, not just winter. Renewable energy firm Octopus Energy described it as “a revolutionary change for the UK energy system.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The UK government’s weakening of its windfall tax on energy profits matched the demands of a high-level lobbying campaign by the oil and gas industry, new research reveals. million from fossil fuel and polluting interests in 2022. As DeSmog reported in March, the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

The DCC has also published its 5-year look into the future, with the release of its 2022 Business and Development Plan. That’s a great thing for Britain, which needs this data for the insights we require to transition away from fossil fuels. We’ve now surpassed 1 billion messages sent across our network in a month.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge. million in 2022.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The world should not develop any new sources of fossil fuels if it is stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C in line with international climate goals, as there are already enough supplies of gas required to meet global demand, a major new study today has concluded. aligned gas phase-out pathway," the study notes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

More than half of the UK's electricity came from zero carbon sources across five months last year, as Britain celebrated a flurry of fresh green grid records in 2022, according to National Grid ESO. per cent of the country's electricity in 2022, while solar accounted for 4.4 Nuclear power plants, meanwhile, provided 15.5

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