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Green ammonia could decarbonize 60% of global shipping when offered at just 10 regional fuel ports

Envirotec Magazine

The study shows that the greatest investment need is in Australia, to supply the Asian markets, with large production clusters also predicted in Chile (to supply South America), California (to supply the Western USA.), 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants.

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Carbon Mapper data from the Tanager-1 satellite reveals methane and carbon dioxide super-emitter activity around the world

Planet Pulse

These include waste emission plumes from landfills or dumps sites across North and South America, Northern Africa, the Middle East, Southern Europe and Asia — and fossil fuel emission plumes from major oil and gas basins and coal production across six continents.

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Northern Ireland waste firm invests £5m in facility to produce fossil fuel alternative for industry

Envirotec Magazine

Prepared waste in the form of solid recovered fuel (SRF), is exported to Waste to Energy (WtE) plants in Europe, where it is incinerated to generate electricity for home heating. There is also significant growth potential in Africa, South America and East Asia.

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Mining Giants Embrace Renewables, But Decarbonization Remains a Steep Climb

GreenTechMedia

The solar plant is expected to cover all of the mine’s electric power needs during peak solar generation hours, and 65 percent of its overall electricity consumption. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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SparkMeter Closes $12M Round to Expand From Metering Minigrids to Analyzing ‘Broken Grids’

GreenTechMedia

The idea, said CEO and co-founder Dan Schnitzer, is to expand from serving the estimated 1 billion people who live without grid access to the roughly billion more “who still suffer from low-level electricity access, despite having access to a grid — what you might call a weak or a broken grid.”

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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Today, those PECs are accounted for by state regulators through a process that relies on monthly meter data and engineering calculations to certify them with the Western Renewable Energy Generating Information System ( REGIS ) run by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), which coordinates transmission grids across the Western U.S.

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Bank of America becomes carbon neutral one year ahead of schedule

Business Green

The US investment giant has switched to 100 per cent renewable electricity, cut emissions and bought offsets. Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. Both goals were established in 2016 with a target date of 2021.