GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Energy Central

MAY 20, 2023

Last December, Dominion Energy produced a remarkable document: a climate report predicting that by 2040 its electricity supply will be dominated by renewable energy. Coal will be gone by 2030, and methane gas will hang around in ever-smaller amounts, just to fill in the energy gaps.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion’s natural gas utilities are also investing in emissions reductions work expected to reduce methane leakage from their operations by 65 percent by 2030 and 85 percent by 2040, Fanning said.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Scientists have known for a while now that hydropower facilities release greenhouse gases — mostly methane, but also CO2 and nitrous oxide. But the way they’ve historically calculated a facility’s climate impact has obscured methane’s heat-trapping potency.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

Our focus will be to use scanfeld® for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions monitoring and quantification to understand what our baseline emissions are for nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide at our WwTW but also to identify where on our WWTWs are we emitting our GHGs and therefore mitigate these emissions faster.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

On June 23, Amazon commenced its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund to further endeavors to become net-zero by 2040. In contrast, Bluesource has seen their own advantages by conducting additional carbon project types, such as Ag Methane, Acid Gas Injection, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Carbon Capture. Wilder Person.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Xcel will now accelerate plans to reduce methane emissions by, in part, purchasing natural gas only from suppliers with "certified low emissions" and continuing to improve its gas delivery system. The company will also expand customer programs for the adoption of electric appliances and low-carbon gas alternatives. Jared Polis.

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Charged

MAY 30, 2023

Major cities are also regulating stinkpots out of existence—the ICCT reports that over half our Europe’s capital cities plan to have only zero-emission buses on their roads by 2040. The transition is taking place more slowly than many would wish.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Methane: 105 world leaders signed onto the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU joint initiative to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

The 2030 target would see the farms supplying Morrisons deliver net zero emissions 10 years ahead of the NFU's industry wide goal of 2040 and five years ahead of targets announced by a number of other supermarkets. I applaud Morrisons on its commitment and look forward to continuing our good working relationship.".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

” The analyst firm predicts the cost of green hydrogen will fall by up to 64 percent by 2040, on a level with traditional forms of production from fossil fuel feedstocks.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Most of that is produced via steam methane reformation (SMR) of natural gas, a carbon intensive process ( source ). Burning hydrogen can lead to nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions up to six times that of methane ( source 1 , source 2 ). This methane does not diffuse out of the metal and cracks the steel.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 12, 2024

This biogas, which consists mainly of methane, is harnessed as a feedstock. Use of Directed Biogas : By utilizing biogas from landfills, the Tri-gen platform not only produces clean energy but also helps manage methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, turning waste into a valuable resource.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The findings, published ahead of the Brazilian company’s annual general meeting on Friday, prompted renewed calls from climate campaigners for asset managers to divest from JBS – despite its pledge to hit net zero carbon emissions by 2040. In 2021 alone, JBS processed 26.8 million cattle, 46.7 million pigs and 4.9 billion chickens. .

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As DeSmog explains, “there are several ways to produce hydrogen, but almost all of it currently in production uses methane (natural gas) as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.” A study from the consultancy Wood MacKenzie predicts that gray hydrogen will remain the cheapest type in the US through 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

According to the nomenclature used by market research firm Wood Mackenzie , most of the gas that is already widely used as an industrial chemical is either brown, if it's made through the gasification of coal or lignite; or gray, if it is made through steam methane reformation, which typically uses natural gas as the feedstock.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 17, 2021

C by 2040 – a decade earlier than previously predicted – the private sector must work quickly and ambitiously to prevent climate calamity and protect its bottom line. Address methane. No climate action plan for financial institutions exposed to the oil and gas sector is complete without explicit methane targets. Gabe Malek.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The assertions also lack detail, face technical problems, ignore leaking methane emissions, and depend on government subsidies for funding. To complicate matters further, new research suggests that fugitive methane emissions from fracking operations are far higher than official data indicates.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

” Among other priorities, Looney went on to cite carbon capture, a long-term plan for hydrogen and a desire to end methane leaks from its own operations. Even German utility RWE, which spent the past 120 years burning coal, is performing a U-turn and targeting carbon neutrality by 2040. billion ($1.67

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Chicagoans could see their average annual charges spike from $1,206 today to $2,424 or more by 2040, it finds, and customers could keep paying off those upgrades until the year 2100. Plus, those new plastic pipes would represent a massive investment in an energy future that may never materialize, the report adds. It’s really difficult.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Planet-warming gases are emitted across the supply chain, from the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by clearing forests for pastures and feed crops, and burning petrol and diesel to transport animals and meat, to the methane emitted from animals and their manure. . Second, it would only reduce methane emissions from the cattle.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The International Energy Agency was clear in its landmark report earlier this year: phasing out coal power by 2040 is a key milestone on the path to net zero. An existing pledge to phase out fossil-fuel-powered trucks and buses by 2040 now includes an interim target of 30% by 2030. The end of coal is closer (but still too far).

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

Proponents argue shifting the UK's methane gas grid to run on hydrogen can help the UK hit net zero targets by using existing infrastructure. And, alongside electric heat pumps, hydrogen is also being touted by the gas industry and the UK government as a key solution for decarbonising the UK's homes.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. It plans to develop a “European Hydrogen Valley” — a take on the Silicon Valley trope — with as much as 10 GW of dedicated offshore wind capacity in place by 2040, after an initial ramp of 3 to 4 gigawatts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Canadian pipeline company TC Energy is aiming to expand the volume of methane gas that it ships through a long distance pipeline in the Pacific Northwest, potentially locking in higher gas use despite laws in western states that chart a path away from fossil fuels in the years ahead. million tons of CO2 equivalent per year.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

He added that “hydrogen is really the only net zero game in town” for HGVs, since introducing electric models is “not going to happen at any scale or size” by 2040 or even 2050. Using methane – [to make] blue hydrogen – always results in some residual emissions. The companies include Shell, Cadent and Equinor.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Developing blue hydrogen doesn’t make sense, unless you are in the business of producing and selling methane, like the oil and gas industry is. Everyone should be asking themselves: ‘if this is an asset … in the middle of 2040, [is it] still going to make sense to be running?’ ’” Jackson recently explained to TIME magazine.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As such, CAT - an influential independent group of scientists and experts led by several non-profit organisations - warned that while welcome the various commitments on coal power, methane, finance, and net zero announced so far at the UN Summit in Glasgow risk bringing "false hope of the reality of the warming resulting from government inaction".

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

The strategy outlines plans to drive up recycling rates and cut down waste by improving recycling infrastructure, as well as increasing the capture of potent methane emissions from landfill sites by 85 per cent by 2030.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Guardian reported this week that a shareholder activist group is taking Australian oil company Santos to court over its claims that it produces "clean fuel" and plans to reach "net zero" emissions by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Though ENGIE has ambitious renewable development objectives , it plans to expand its LNG terminals in Europe, is one of the top European developers of gas power plants globally, and has agreed to import American shale gas beyond 2040. Between 2016 and 2022, the firm sold 16 of its coal plants – a 60 percent reduction in its coal capacity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Other corporate efforts, such as Amazon's Climate Pledge, which calls on signatories to aim for net zero emissions by 2040, have helped to galvanise action but as yet offer little guidance on reaching the goal, according to the report. or 2C boundaries.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Methane faces a reckoning. Campaigners and energy experts have long dubbed methane emissions as the 'low hanging fruit' of climate action. COP26 marked a turning point on methane, with the final text "inviting" nations to "consider further actions to reduce by 2030 non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions, including methane".

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VS: Traditionally, hydrogen has been industrially produced from the methane contained in natural gas, releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the process. They currently have 25GW constructed and a target of another 27+GW by 2040. Courtesy: Equinor). GT: How might green H2 fit into the energy system?

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

They also claim any boiler primed to run on low carbon hydrogen but installed initially to run off methane would require "no more than one hour's labour" to convert it to run on hydrogen, should higher volumes of H2 get blended into the gas grid or even replace methane altogether in future.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Earlier this year, JBS became the first major global meat and poultry company to commit to net zero emissions by 2040, the most ambitious commitment of its kind in our sector. In Australia, significant progress has already been made, and data from the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Green House Gases on methane from livestock.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

The NFU has announced a target for the industry to deliver net zero emissions by 2040 and the sector is widely regarded as critical to the UK's wider net zero emissions by 2050 target given its position as both a major source of direct emissions and a manager of land that is likely to be required to expand natural carbon sinks.

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