Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Many climate activists and clean energy enthusiasts warn against the continued use of, and investment in, natural gas infrastructure, insisting it isn’t a substitute for clean energy. should not plan to maintain its current fossil-based natural gas systems indefinitely. What Is Renewable Natural Gas?

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

While the oil and gas industries face the greatest risks, EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook also predicts steep declines in commercial and industrial electricity demand, and a significant decline in new generation capacity as a result. These drop-offs in demand will drive down total U.S. Similar views on a coming U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology scooping up the resulting CO2. Blue hydrogen locks in dependence on natural gas, with all the price volatility and geopolitics that comes with it, and it also relies on the development of cheap and effective CCS.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Initially announced as part of South Korea’s renewable energy push, the project in the Daebul National Industrial Complex aimed to harness energy through hydrogen produced from liquefied natural gas (LNG). Additionally, KOMIPO projected a staggering 67% decline in LNG demand due to the prioritization of nuclear energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. In the United States, buildings account for roughly 40 percent of the country’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly half of homes rely on natural gas as their primary heating fuel.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. Today I delve into the data on natural gas production and consumption. Natural gas production had been in decline in the U.S. Natural Gas Consumption.

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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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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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. million-customer utility, said in a Tuesday interview.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. ’s final energy demand by 2050. The steps that the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2020

Put simply, the term ‘cleantech’ describes a product that aims to reduce or mitigate negative environmental impact. Accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, the current process for making cement is far from eco-friendly. At the same time, carbon dioxide is released and captured, alongside oxygen and hydrogen.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.?

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. s natural gas industry?

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2021 predicts there are a number of ways that power generation in Britain could become emissions net negative by 2034 helping to put the UK on track to become a net zero emission economy by mid-century. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Electricity grid smashed several records over the bank holiday weekend, with low demand and high renewables output cutting both CO2 and flexible tariff prices. And in the early afternoon on Sunday, the grid hit another environmental milestone when it dipped to its lowest carbon intensity ever, dropping to 18g CO2/kWh for more than an hour.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent panel discussion in Glasgow brought together representives from some of the firms helping to build a carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry in the UK. An important piece of the puzzle is storage: ensuring that captured carbon can be safely and sustainably sequestered over the long term. Europe’s storehouse?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They found that in order to have a 50 percent chance of achieving this target, 58 percent of known oil reserves, 59 percent of natural gas reserves, and 89 percent of coal reserves cannot be extracted. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I degrees Celsius (2.7

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

A new study and Well-to-Tank (WTT) model by low carbon technology consultancy Element Energy, commissioned by Zemo Partnership (formerly LowCVP), appears to identify a range of optimal pathways for the production, distribution and dispensing of low carbon hydrogen to transport end-users.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Independent research published on 20 May by the charitable group greenspace scotland appears to reveal how the rivers flowing through the country’s towns and cities and the greenspaces between buildings can act as vital low carbon heat sources to help it achieve its climate targets. That is the carbon saving equivalent of taking 1.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Previously, the terms blue and green hydrogen were used to describe hydrogen derived from natural gas and electrolysis, respectively. Hydrogen derived from natural gas has been widely criticized as an ineffective greenwash that leaks planet-warming methane into the atmosphere.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist planning nationwide network of renewable biomethane refuelling stations for trucks and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) as firms seek alternatives to diesel for their fleets. per cent of UK carbon emissions, with road transport as a whole now the UK's highest emitting sector of the economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”. Blue hydrogen has been marketed as a climate-friendly fuel since the production process aims to capture most of the associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

During the drilling and fracking processes, methane, a potent greenhouse gas, can escape into the atmosphere. This contributes to climate change and negates some of the benefits of using natural gas, which has lower carbon emissions than coal or oil. Induced seismicity, or human-caused earthquakes, presents another risk.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

The centre allows for the configuration, integration and testing of power system technologies, including battery storage systems , diesel and natural gas generator sets, photovoltaic (PV) solar panels , fuel cells, transfer switches, switchgear and system-level controls. Microgrid lab layout.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

The primary culprits behind coal’s decline are competition from cheap natural gas brought on by the shale gas boom in the U.S., as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. But the natural gas and subsequent oil boom were victims of their own success.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The government confirmed £77m of new funding is to be made available to support the development of next generation nuclear reactors, alongside £25m for projects to produce hydrogen using sustainable biomass and waste that could deliver negative carbon emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly being viewed as an important tool for reducing carbon emissions, because the use of hydrogen for energy generates no direct carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If we are to benefit from the opportunities of cheap renewable power, we need a smart, flexible system that can respond dynamically to localised supply and demand dynamics and network constraints," she wrote on Twitter. This is now the main obstacle holding back the UK's green industrial revolution.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. In the near-term, the additional demand for clean electricity is met predominantly by solar PV, which provides over half of additional renewable generation in 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. target because it was already at its limit, given our projections of fossil fuel demand in the near future.

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