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UK pipeline for RE and storage projects grows to 86 GW
The most recent figures from analyst Cornwall Insight's Renewables Pipeline Tracker indicates that the pipeline of renewable energy and storage projects across mainland Britain...
SEEIT acquires district energy system in USA
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, reputedly the first UK-listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, is to acquire a 100%...
Masterplan for UK’s first hydrogen transport hub
Mott MacDonald has developed for the UK Department for Transport a ‘masterplan’ for the UK’s first ever multi-modal hydrogen transport hub. Development of the hub will be...
Electric cars global count rises to 10.9 million
Electric mobility is gaining momentum. The number of electric cars worldwide climbed to 10.9 million in 2020, up by more than three million from the previous year. China remains...
New legislation in the aftermath of the ERCOT crisis
The Texas House of Representatives is making it a priority to target ERCOT and better prepare for future storms. Its leading members have introduced a series of bills addressing...
Europe’s largest ‘Power-to-X’ facility to go ahead
In February Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners announced its plans to build Europe’s largest Power-to-X facility, which will convert power from...
Hitachi ABB launches new smart digital substation
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has announced the launch of its Smart Digital Substation offering which “brings together the latest in digital substation technology with the unique...
Plans confirmed for Britain’s first ‘hydrogen town’
Britain’s gas grid companies have set out plans to deliver the country’s first hydrogen town by 2030, and full transition by 2050. The location of the hydrogen town has not yet...
Direct air capture ‘is an efficient solution’ – new study
Climeworks reports that a life cycle assessment by an independent university confirms that direct air capture of CO2 can play a major role in stopping climate change and that...
Boost for Finnish e-fuel technology
Commercialisation of the electrofuel (e-fuel) production process using sustainable electricity and sequestered carbon dioxide received a boost in January from €3.3 million in funding...
Shell, MHI, Vattenfall and Wärme Hamburg in 100 MW H2 project
The four participants are planning how they can jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the Hamburg-Moorburg power plant site and utilise it locally. To this end, the...
Siemens to focus on offshore green H2 production
Because it believes that to reach Paris Agreement goals, the world will need vast amounts of green hydrogen, and that wind will provide a large portion of the power needed for...
Gas power projects and LNG import facilities at risk in Asia
Emerging markets such as Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh that are turning to liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a source of power are likely to be hit by higher and more volatile...
Waga and Ferrovial to deliver huge landfill gas-to-biomethane project in Spain
The Ferrovial Servicios group has contracted Waga Energy to produce biomethane at the Can Mata landfill, one of Spain’s largest, located near Barcelona. The Can Mata site will be...
UK’s first low carbon H2 production hub
Essar and Progressive Energy, the developer of HyNet North West, the UK’s leading industrial decarbonisation cluster, have joined forces to set up a venture to produce low carbon...
UK government to end support for overseas fossil fuel projects
The UK government has announced that it will end direct support for fossil fuel projects overseas ‘with very limited exceptions’. The announcement came at the virtual Climate...
Climate Ambition Summit – hugely encouraging signs for COP26
At the Climate Ambition Summit held simultaneously in New York, Paris and London on 12 December, global leaders took a major stride towards a resilient, net zero emissions future...
Siemens developing ‘wind to hydrogen’ project
Siemens is developing the Brande Hydrogen project, the first in the world to be capable of producing green hydrogen directly from wind in ‘island mode’ independent of the grid, that...
Investment in green hydrogen production ‘set to exceed $1billion USD by 2023’
The future for ‘green hydrogen’ is becoming clearer according to analysts IHS Markit. Annual global investments in green hydrogen – hydrogen production powered by renewable sources –...
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