Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

UK energy-from-waste (Efw) operator enfinium has launched the UK’s first carbon capture pilot at an EfW site, the group announced on 16 September. The launch is described as a milestone for the sector and for the group’s plans to deploy Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology across its UK facilities to generate carbon removals at scale.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air. A forest of quiver trees in Namibias biodiverse southern region.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) operator enfinium signed an agreement – on 19 March – with green technology company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) to install the UK’s first carbon capture pilot plant at an EfW facility. The trial will run for at least 12 months and will apparently be operational from July 2024.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status. Work could begin on the facility as early as 2024.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Construction was originally scheduled for late 2023, with completion targeted for late 2024. Doosan cited “negative market conditions and external pressures as critical reasons for abandoning the spinoff. However, spiraling production costs and an overhauled policy landscape eroded its feasibility.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Leading corporations award six climate technology innovators working to reduce emissions from concrete, steel and other essential construction materials Honolulu, HI, San Francisco, CA – Today Elemental Impact , a leading non-profit climate technology investor, announced the 2024 Build Better Innovation Challenge winners.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With the logistical challenges, work on the project is expected to resume by 2024. ” Dolma also argued that geothermal has the least negative environmental impact of all energy sources. It has no carbon emissions, does not require a lot of land, and does not generate e-waste.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

CalWave Power Technologies , which is working to harness carbon-free power from ocean waves, was chosen by the U.S. TerraFixing , a Carbon to Value Initiative Year 3 alum that’s developing a direct air capture process for capturing CO2 in cold climates, signed a $7.3M to develop two carbon capture units. Department of Energy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Toyota’s Vision for Carbon Neutrality: A Showcase of Innovation Also at the upcoming show, Toyota will highlight its pioneering efforts towards carbon neutrality with two other groundbreaking projects: the Liquid Hydrogen-Powered GR Corolla and the Sweep Energy Storage System.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 15, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a speech during an event called Microsoft Build: AI Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 2nd, 2024. In many ways the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020” Back in 2020, Microsoft set a target of becoming carbon negative by the end of the decade.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2021

Deploying carbon capture technologies at Drax's biomass power plant in North Yorkshire could save the UK energy system more than £4.5bn in decarbonisation costs over the coming decade, a new report commissioned by the energy firm today claims.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

Project is one of a number of key investments at the site that aim to push down low carbon energy costs, as it looks to advance deployment of 'carbon negative' technologies. As a result the site has cut carbon emissions by more than 90 per cent since 2012, making it one of the lowest carbon energy generators in Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Despite a growing global consensus that carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technology is too expensive and too inefficient to be a viable climate change mitigation strategy, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith promoted CCUS over renewables during a public address Tuesday. And look at where we are today.” This is false.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Far from uncovering windfall profits, the disclosures reveal razor-thin and often negative margins for refiners in the state. The average net profit margin from June 2023 to April 2024 was just $0.09 cents per gallon (as of July 2024) Federal Excise Tax: 18.4 per gallon hardly the excessive profits that critics claim.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 25, 2024

Funding M2X Energy , which develops a modular, transportable gas-to-liquids system to economically produce low-carbon methanol, raised a $40M Series B to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of its system. Climative and ACCEL Year 2 participant EcoForge were chosen for the Cleantech Open Northeast 2024 Cohort.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. per cent as more plants shuttered last year in preparation for the government's proposed 2024 coal power phase-out deadline. per cent.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2024

Twenty startups joined our community in Q2 2024, working on innovations ranging from refrigerant-free heat and AC, to solar-panel recycling, to electrochemical seawater desalination. Greentown Boston) The post Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2024 appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2024

TfL reported that of the 16,207 approved applications to scrap a petrol or diesel van between January 2023 to May 2024, only 372 were replaced with an electric vehicle. Carbon emissions from private cars and taxis have decreased by 19 percent over the same period.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“No other partnered event will get you as close to the biggest names and most important conversations in Labour politics,” the New Statesman says about its 2024 agenda. Drax says that its electricity is “carbon neutral” given that trees can be planted to reabsorb emissions – a claim that has been disputed by climate experts.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Carbon Negative Solutions (Rock Hill, N.Y.) is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. and Houston, Texas, Feb. Its founder is Andre Gafford. Cellsense (New York, N.Y.)

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly half (63) were with producers of high carbon energy. Drax Access.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2025

Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative) alum Capture6 , which removes carbon from the atmosphere while producing clean water and other industrial products from saltwater, raised $27.5M Neuralix was named a winner of ELEVATE 2024. pre-seed round. between a Series A and project financing.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

The gap is growing between the transmission network’s capacity and the need to link wind farms in the Great Plains and Intermountain West , solar farms in the Southwest, and hydropower resources in eastern Canada, to other regions hungry for carbon-free energy. billion project this year and finish by 2024.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Drax is aiming to source 80 per cent of the construction materials and services for its novel bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology from the UK, in a move it claims could create thousands of jobs and unlock millions of pounds of contracts for UK businesses.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The panel, moderated by Bill Whitelaw, managing director, Strategy and Sustainability at geoLOGIC Systems and JWN Energy, was part of the Carbon Capture Canada conference in Edmonton last week. C-59 took effect on June 20, 2024. Baiton then said point blank that C-59 would be bad for carbon capture projects.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Smiling into the camera, she tells viewers that “the world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.” Speakers from diverse backgrounds then reassure viewers that, luckily, they’re working on solutions to that very problem, “like carbon capture , and clean energy from hydrogen.”

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. Long-range tradeoffs: Carbon reduction vs. costs.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. Renewable carbon gases is a euphemism for biomass and hydrogen, among others.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Study by Vivid Economics estimates scaling up carbon capture, hydrogen, and BECCS could deliver £3bn economic boost to the region. The very first jobs could be available as soon as 2024, peaking at 49,000 in 2027, the consultancy explained, including 25,000 jobs in construction, and a further 24,000 across the supply chain and wider economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2024

Highly Commended: Carbon Limiting Technologies Highly Commended: Greengage Hospitality Firm of the Year Compass Group UK & Ireland In an all-new category for this year, Compass Group emerged victorious with the judges praising the scale and ambition of its industry-leading transition plan.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Half a century of coal-fired power generation will come to an end next year at the UK's largest power station, years ahead of the UK government's national deadline to stop using the high-carbon fuel. He added that the UK has slashed its coal-fired power form a 70 per cent share of electricity supply in 1990 to just three per cent today.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Energy company says carbon capture technology partnership is first of its kind in the UK. Drax Group has announced it is to work with Japanese engineering giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on the development of its proposed bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility at its Yorkshire power plant.

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