DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2024

and the failed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to Texas, sees a major new growth opportunity for fossil fuels: artificial intelligence. Big Tech should be held just as responsible as the fossil fuel industry,” he told DeSmog. That $11 billion pipeline connects vast gas reserves in northeastern B.C.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy. The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. Sommers natural-gas power plants. It’s also planning to retire the aging Braunig and O.W.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

As it stands, blue and gray hydrogen derived from fossil fuels are cheaper than using renewable-energy-powered electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen from water. And Wood Mackenzie's research indicates that the cost of green hydrogen will fall by 64 percent by 2040 as the market scales up.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

The study, published in the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) journal The Geographical Journal , highlights that global demand for sulphuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tonnes’ by 2040 – a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“Flexible gas power allows you to absorb more renewables from hour to hour and day to day , and [it] allows.very rapid ramping. This enables minimization of use of fossil fuels and maximized reduction of emissions.” Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. First, and perhaps most crucially, it plans to price its vehicles at the same or lower prices as comparable fossil-fuel vehicles.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. The current overcapacity in the oil markets will ensure a lasting shift in fossil markets. causing major disruptions for the oil and gas majors. People have yet to catch up on this fact. Part I - What is up with the world?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) punched a hole in the fossil fuel industry’s hydrogen hype bubble when they denied a Title V Air Permit to NRG Energy’s Astoria Gas Turbine Power Plant last Wednesday. Steel makes up more than a quarter-million miles natural gas transmission systems in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. liquefied natural gas (LNG). ING headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Take the Intermountain Power Project , the coal-fired power plant in Utah converting to turbines that will use natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. does have a few projects taking steps toward proving out the concept. green hydrogen market landscape.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

” The Green Hydrogen Catapult said it aims to align the production and use of green hydrogen with a trajectory that displaces fossil fuels at a rate consistent with achieving net-zero global emissions by 2050, and limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 “Membership will grow from both demand and supply sides.”

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

.” Below are some of its key findings: FOSSIL FUELS. Under a net zero 2050 scenario, the report indicates the following would occur: No new oil and gas exploration and development after 2021. Fossil fuels fall from around 80% of total energy supply to around 20% by 2050. RENEWABLES AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGY.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Across the entire production lifecycle, the biogas reduces carbon dioxide (CO2e) by over 95% and other harmful particulates and greenhouse gas emissions by up to 99% when compared to diesel and other fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Or will government backing for these technologies instead serve to preserve the fossil fuel business models that caused it? Given the scale of that challenge, and in line with lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, policy-makers have assumed a major role for carbon capture projects in cleaning up industry.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One major source is the fossil fuel industry. The Hydrogen Council, a lobbying group whose members include major oil companies and automakers, works to encourage investment in hydrogen and fuel cells, and produces reports forecasting a bright future for hydrogen tech. What’s behind the recent resurgence of hydrogen hype?

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In June, international onshore and offshore wind energy developer Ørsted committed to achieving a carbon-neutral footprint by 2040. Coal-fired power plants fare even more poorly in comparison to wind, with estimates ranging from 675 to 1,689 grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour, depending on the exact technology in question.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Utilities operating fossil-fueled power plants, and the low-income and disadvantaged communities that face the brunt of their pollution, may have a new model for resolving their differences. “There’s going to be a need for breakthrough technologies in a couple of areas,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. He also said: “It is important that we see those costs in 2030 as still being more expensive than the low-carbon fossil options.” A Fossil Fuel Narrative.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The ongoing energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy requires that governments and the corporate sector collaborate in new ways. However, the challenge will be to make fast progress during the energy transition, particularly given the region’s entrenched processes and corporate cultures that relate to fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. The Hydrogen APPG received more than £70,000 in February from Connect, a PR firm that is funded by oil and gas companies to run the parliamentary group.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

The analysis models out to 2040 the costs and economic and carbon impacts of creating an interstate grid operator for the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. But there are some fairly obvious reasons why an integrated market would yield a more efficient system, he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nine global corporates back new ambition statement that sees them commit to transitioning their freight vessels to zero carbon fuels by 2040. In the statement, zero carbon fuels are defined as fuels that release no or very little greenhouse gases over their lifecycle, including no emissions at production stage.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The companies claim the project, dubbed Zero Carbon Humber, could reduce the UK's annual carbon emissions by 15 per cent, while also helping to secure 55,000 jobs in the region currently attached to fossil fuel industries, in addition to creating thousands more.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Both technologies could mitigate climate change by removing emissions from existing fossil fuel generation or even pulling carbon out of the atmosphere. CCUS could go a step further by using sequestered carbon as a feedstock for industrial processes or synthetic fuels. For comparison, fossil fuels emitted 36.7

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Alongside the significant expenditure over the next two and more decades, the report finds that federal and household spending on energy in both countries will experience a substantial decline as the countries move away from fossil fuels. by 2050, driven by the inherent efficiency of renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Looney is a big believer in the future role of natural gas. One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". In two speeches delivered last month, Looney went into more detail about how BP may do that. billion ($1.67

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Almost 670 homes, a school, and a handful of small businesses in a village near Gateshead have been receiving a proportion of hydrogen as part of their gas supplies for heating and cooking over the past fortnight, as part of pioneering trial which kicked off at the beginning of the month.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

The Dutch horticultural sector aims to be climate-neutral by 2040. Globally, many greenhouse operators burn natural gas to generate CO2, but this also generates heat that may not be needed in the summer months, so the utilisation of an industrial byproduct is significantly preferable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

Late last week, Britain's biggest boiler manufacturers joined together to announce a promise to homeowners who make the switch to hydrogen-ready appliances that doing so will cost them no more than purchasing pure-fossil fuel gas equivalents.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

EV adoption is accelerating and new all-electric homes are less expensive than mixed-fuel homes , but Americans won’t replace our several hundred million existing gasoline vehicles and fossil-fueled appliances for decades. Existing policies are already helping fleets convert from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The online retail and tech giant said the power purchase agreement (PPA) would bring it closer towards meeting its commitment to become a net zero carbon business by 2040, putting it on track to power its operations with 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of its original 2030 target.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2022

fossil fuel companies to stop deliberately spewing the gas into the atmosphere, will have a muted impact on rapidly rising methane emissions given that 60 percent of the oil and gas industry is exempt from the penalty. 05 percent of total gas sales are subject to the fee.”

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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