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Hong Kong’s Climate & Hydrogen Plans Were Captured By Its TownGas Utility

September 27, 2024 admin air quality, buildings, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Energy, Fossil Fuels, government policy, green economy, Hong Kong, hydrogen, investment, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, waste reduction, waste to energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:15:41 +0000

Recently John Haffner, responsible for sustainability at Hong Kong’s US$1.4 billion annual revenue Hang Lung Property Group, reached out to me. ReThink HK, which bills itself as Hong Kong’s best-attended and most ambitious business event for sustainable development, was hosting a debate he would be part of in front of … [continued]

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Environmental Groups Urge Microsoft to Skip Gas in Favor of Solar & Wind to Power Data Center

September 24, 2024 admin clean power, Fossil Fuels, green economy, microsoft, natural gas, Oil, Solar energy, we energies, wind energy, wisconsin

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:34:19 +0000

A coalition of environmental and health groups has called on Microsoft to rely on clean energy generation instead of a proposed expansion of methane-fueled power for its planned Racine County data center — projected to become Wisconsin Electric’s “largest electric load.” In an open letter to Microsoft, the groups charge … [continued]

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Utah Wants To Take Over Public Lands, Give The Fossil Fuel Industry A Gift

September 23, 2024 admin BLM, bureau of land management (blm), Fossil Fuels, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Utah

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:48:22 +0000

A recent article at Outside tells us the story of a really beef-headed lawsuit the State of Utah recently filed against the federal government. In the lawsuit, the state claims that the feds (specifically the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM—not to be confused with the other BLM) are unlawfully … [continued]

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Spanish Group Injecting Hydrogen Into Natural Gas Network

September 22, 2024 admin blending, Gas, green hydrogen, hydrogen, International, natural gas, news, power, redexis, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, Spain, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:37:25 +0000

A Spanish infrastructure company said it has achieved a “historic milestone” for Spain’s energy industry. Madrid-headquartered Redexis announced has begun injecting hydrogen produced with renewable energy into the country’s natural […]

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Equinor Ends Plan to Export Hydrogen to Germany

September 22, 2024 admin blue hydrogen, Carbon Capture, carbon capture and storage, export, Gas, GERMANY, hydrogen, import, International, Markets, natural gas, news, Norway, Pipeline, Research and Development, rwe

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:10:51 +0000

Energy giant Equinor said it will not export blue hydrogen from Norway to Germany due to economics and a lack of demand. Equinor on September 20 said it would discontinue […]

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Ship Owners Confused About Decarbonization

September 21, 2024 admin batteries, biofuel, boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean power, clean shipping, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, Logistics, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:30:13 +0000

For three years, the International Chamber of Shipping has been running a survey of ship owners, covering multiple domains, including biggest risks to shipping, changes in shipping patterns with initiatives like friendshoring and most relevantly for this discussion, decarbonization. Recently they dropped their 2023-2024 survey, and the results indicate ongoing … [continued]

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Carbon Capture Is Mostly An Oil & Gas Industry Shell Game — Masala Flavored

September 19, 2024 admin air quality, Carbon Capture, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, India, investment, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Solar energy, waste reduction, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:45:36 +0000

The latest installment of the ongoing seminar series on global decarbonization that I’m leading for India’s utility professionals under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum was on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). It’s an overly hyped, overly hoped for solution that isn’t and won’t scale remotely economically. When … [continued]

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Hurricane Francine Knocks Energy Infrastructure Offline — Not Clean Energy Infrastructure

September 16, 2024 admin clean power, energy resilience, energy security, Extreme weather, Fossil Fuels, hurricanes, natural gas, Oil, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:56:09 +0000

Hurricanes can massively disrupt energy infrastructure, and can leave people without power for hours or days. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced today a vast array of energy infrastructure that has been knocked offline by Hurricane Francine. But one thing stood out to me: none of this was clean … [continued]

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Germany Responds to Donald Trump’s Lies About German Electricity Grid

September 14, 2024 admin clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, natural gas, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:54:11 +0000

Germany may not have liked being pulled into Donald Trump’s closing arguments at the debate last night, or maybe it did, but in either case, the country has responded. In particular, the German Foreign Office took to X to correct the record. As I wrote earlier today, in his closing … [continued]

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