GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2021

Of the six “pathways” Duke lays out for halving carbon emissions by 2030 and reaching net-zero carbon by 2050 , only one would avoid building new natural gas plants. gigawatts of new natural gas capacity. The rest propose between 6.1 gigawatts and 9.6

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is whats mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. Handling natural gas off the coast of Suriname and Guyana poses major challenges and involves significant environmental risk, however. In May, the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the project is centred on Worthing Crematorium in West Sussex and is part of Adur & Worthing Council’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. Unlike natural gas, hydrogen doesn’t give off CO2 emissions when burnt. “The

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative Pipeline Technology: A Closer Look GASCADE’s transformation of existing natural gas pipelines into hydrogen-ready infrastructure is a testament to their engineering and technological expertise.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. could generate an estimated $140 billion per year in revenue and support 700,000 jobs by 2030, according to a recent McKinsey study published by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association. A hydrogen economy in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It will be increasingly important for us that this industry is a whole part of the energy mix as we phase out natural gas. At the conference, ADBA launched its latest report, The Role of Green Gas In Net Zero; Cutting the Cost of Keeping the Lights On , developed in association with Business Modelling Applications (BMA).

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Meanwhile, Colorado Springs Utilities said it would close its remaining coal plants by 2030. Colorado wants to get half of its power from renewable by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050. Alongside a big boost in its energy efficiency efforts, TEP says the plan would allow it to avoid building any new natural gas plants.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Carbon capture has never been deployed on gas-fired power stations at such a scale before — and a senior Equinor executive has made frank admissions around the technical challenges such projects face. This clean-burning fuel is made from natural gas, with carbon capture technology used to trap emissions released during the process.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion Energy is replacing its CEO as part of an executive shakeup accompanying the Virginia utility’s major shift away from natural gas and toward a renewable energy future, and its hefty financial penalty for its cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

It's aiming to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a cargo ship for ocean operation that runs entirely on fuel cells powered by natural gas. But by 2030, zero-emissions vessels will need to start being introduced. Currently, an estimated 80 percent of the vessels in the world's shipping fleet operate using bunker fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The report projects a rapid shift in the global energy mix, with the share of renewables in global power generation expected to double in the next 15 years while total fossil fuel demand is projected to peak before 2030, depending on the scenario. C by 2100, and reaching a 1.5°C C pathway is increasingly challenging. To keep the 1.5°C

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The EU will increase its 2030 emission reduction target to “at least 55 percent” up from 40 percent, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission confirmed Wednesday. Reuters reported that an additional €350 billion of energy investment would be required from 2021-2030. billion of support.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

It will also mean that Britain’s fleet of gas-fired power plants will be able to use blended hydrogen to generate cleaner electricity. The legal changes that must be made by Government and regulatory bodies across five key ‘Market Pillars’ to ensure gas network companies can start blending hydrogen into the gas grid from 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 15, 2020

Bloom’s core product is its Energy Server, which converts natural gas into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion, reducing carbon emissions compared to conventional gas-fired power generation and doing away with other forms of air pollution entirely.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The International Energy Agency (IEA) at India Energy Week 2025 today released its comprehensive India Gas Market Report, revealing that India's natural gas sector has reached an inflection point.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The report, commissioned by MCS Charitable Foundation, projects that hydrogen would cost 70-90% more than gas on average. The authors of the report conclude that hydrogen will be a much more expensive heating fuel than natural gas and thus it would be better to prioritise other technologies to decarbonise domestic heating, like heat pumps.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By 2030 BP hopes to have 10 percent of the clean hydrogen market in “core hydrogen markets” as it chases carbon neutrality by 2050. That term incorporates hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture technology in place, or so-called blue hydrogen. BP uses the terminology clean, rather than green hydrogen.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

IBM said it would reach that milestone in 2030. Such commitments often are coupled with an interim goal of cutting emissions in half by, say, 2030. Electrification — transforming cars, buildings, factories and other things to operate on electricity rather than, say, oil or natural gas — is a fast-emerging field.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The social networking corporation expects to eliminate or offset all of its own emissions this year, while completely decarbonizing its supply chain by 2030. “There will be some amount of carbon that we weren't able to reduce or eliminate by the time we hit 2030,” said Palmieri.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

National targets for solar and wind power will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing electricity price volatility across Europe, with major beneficiaries including the UK and Ireland, the Nordics, and the Netherlands.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The hydrogen is delivered in tanks and, currently, most of it originates from natural gas using processes like steam methane reforming. Companies like Google aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030, while Microsoft has pledged to become carbon negative. Hydrogen offers a clear advantage for its flexibility.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP will cut its oil and gas output by 40 percent by 2030 and increase its low-carbon investment tenfold by then, the company announced Tuesday as it begins to detail its 2050 net-zero strategy. BP is now targeting 50 gigawatts of renewables capacity by 2030, an ambition that puts it on a level with French utility giant EDF.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. and globally by 2040. Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder, Stripe; San Francisco.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

GE Renewable Energy announced a plan Tuesday to produce zero waste wind turbine blades by 2030. Follow @EngelsAngle. The plan will be carried out by LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy subsidiary, which will aim to deliver no excess manufacturing materials and packaging to landfills and incineration without energy recovery.

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Financial Times: Energy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Global demand for oil, natural gas and coal expected to peak before end of 2030

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POWER Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

Officials in the UK said the country will need to build new natural gas-fired power plants beyond 2030 in order to ensure a reliable supply of energy and avoid blackouts. […] The post UK Leaders Say New Gas-Fired Plants Needed for Energy Security appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 20, 2025

These moves suggest Bulgaria is thinking beyond its borders, looking to solidify itself as a key player in the European green hydrogen market while reducing its reliance on Russian gas imports. Such cooperation is critical to ensuring the delivery of practical, scalable, and innovative hydrogen technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Because those centers require enormous amounts of electricity, with a ChatGPT query using almost ten times more power than a regular Google search, top executives at TC Energy now argue that AI is helping push gas demand to “record highs.” That $11 billion pipeline connects vast gas reserves in northeastern B.C.

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Energy Central

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Offshore pipeline re-use Two main scenarios which can be realized before 2030. In both scenarios, one of the pipelines becomes fully available for hydrogen; the other pipeline continues to facilitate the transport of existing and future natural gas production.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Immediate applications include replacing diesel generators in backup power systems with hydrogen fuel cells, advancing industrial heat through hydrogen-natural gas blends, and leveraging hydrogen as a feedstock for low-carbon chemicals like ammonia and methanol.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

GW to 50 GW by 2030 – a 265 percent increase – a further 24 wind farms with an average 1.5 percent) of the UK’s total electricity generation, having outpaced gas for the first time ever during the first quarter of this year [iv]. To meet UK government targets to grow offshore wind power capacity from 13.7 2016-2021).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 9, 2025

The countrys emissions, now at a historic low of 656 million tonnes, are down by 48 percent from 1990 levels, nearing the EUs 55 percent reduction target for 2030. The strategy combines constructing new pipelines with retrofitting existing natural gas pipelines, helping to optimize costs and accelerate implementation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 9, 2023

Originally proposed by the US and EU in September 2021, the Global Methane Pledge will see countries acting to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. While there are many sources of methane emissions, including natural sources such as wetlands, one of the biggest contributors is natural gas production and distribution.

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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. ” Short-term goals: Lots of new renewables, no new natural gas.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

The UK have pledged £240 million for government co-investment in production capacity through the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF), but by 2030 hope to attract at least £4bn of investment to the hydrogen economy largely through private investment2. 2] HM Government (2020), ‘The Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution’.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By 2030, as much as 30% of all data center sites may operate with some form of on-site power, up from todays modest fraction. Unlike conventional gas turbines, which require combustion to produce electricity, Bloom’s fuel cells convert natural gas through an electrochemical process. With the U.S.

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