Emissions abatement, CCS - Page 1

Next-gen heat pump ‘could cut energy bills and CO2 emissions’
Tuesday, August 02, 2022 by Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a new type of heat pump, a flexible heat pump technology, which could help households save on their energy bills and...

Supreme Court limits EPA's authority to regulate GHG emissions
Tuesday, July 05, 2022 by On June 30 the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in ‘West Virginia v EPA’. In a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Roberts, the Court held that Congress did not give the...

Compact CO2 capture system goes into operation at Hiroshima
Tuesday, July 05, 2022 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, MHIENG, has launched full-scale operation of its compact CO2 capture system ordered in November 2021 by Taihei Dengyo Kaisha. It is the...

‘Sweeping measures’ needed if Canada is to attain 2030 targets
Tuesday, July 05, 2022 by Prominent project management company SNC-Lavalin has released ‘Engineering Net Zero – is Canada on track to meet its 2030 targets’, an analysis of Canada’s ability to meet its...

G7 to play crucial role in reducing emissions from heavy industry
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 by After a two-day meeting in Berlin under Germany’s 2022 presidency of the G7 group of advanced economies, Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers issued on 27 May a communiqué...

Wärtsilä to test hydrogen blended fuel in the USA
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 by Wärtsilä, in collaboration with WEC Energy Group, the Electric Power Research Institute and Burns & McDonnell, has been contracted to carry out hydrogen fuel testing at the A.J....

Carbon sequestration project for Louisiana
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 by Mitsubishi Corporation has signed a participation agreement with Sempra Infrastructure, TotalEnergies and Mitsui for the development of the proposed Hackberry Carbon Sequestration...

Drax to trial pioneering new carbon capture technology
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 by Drax is collaborating with the University of Nottingham and Promethean Particles at its North Yorkshire power station in trials of an innovative new carbon capture technology. The...

‘Power consumption to triple by 2050’ – McKinsey report
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 by McKinsey & Co has launched its 2022 ‘Global Energy Perspective’ report, an annual in-depth examination of the trends and issues facing the global energy industry, and offers a...

Shell and Uniper to work on blue H2 production in the UK
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 by Uniper has signed an agreement with Shell to progress plans to produce blue hydrogen at Uniper’s Killingholme power station site in the East of England. The hydrogen produced could...

‘We can halve emissions by 2030’ – guarded optimism from the IPCC
Tuesday, April 05, 2022 by We can halve emissions, but the time for action is now, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The evidence is clear: in 2010-2019 average annual global greenhouse...

“Time is fast running out for climate change solutions” – new IPCC report
Tuesday, March 01, 2022 by The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly...

US DoE awards $5.7 m for GE-led CCUS project
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 by GE Gas Power has announced that the company’s front-end engineering design (FEED) study ‘Retrofittable Advanced Combined Cycle Integration for Flexible Decarbonised Generation’ is...

‘Carbon reduction goals will have little impact on US CO2 emissions’ – EIA
Tuesday, February 08, 2022 by Executing several plans announced by US power utilities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions would have a minor effect on US energy-related reductions, according to the analysis...

‘Time to act’ as momentum builds for CCUS and H2
Wednesday, February 02, 2022 by This year companies and governments will need to make good on the pledges they made on energy transition technologies, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)...

Project Greensand to receive DKK 197 m funding
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 by The Danish Energy Agency is to award 197 million DKK (€26 million) to the INEOS led consortium backing Project Greensand for carbon capture and storage. The project is expected to...

New initiative to explore carbon storage off Norway‘s coast
Wednesday, December 01, 2021 by Storegga, a UK company specialising in carbon reduction and removal, has entered into an agreement with Sval Energi to explore joint business opportunities for carbon storage on...

Carbon Gap calls for meaningful support for carbon removal
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 by Carbon Gap, a not-for-profit independent research and advocacy launched at COP26 in Glasgow, has called on UK and European governments to lead on supporting and scaling up techniques...

Mitsubishi and Shell to co-operate on H2 development
Monday, September 13, 2021 by Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Shell Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding relating to the production of low-carbon hydrogen through the use of carbon capture and...