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RWE has announced plans to progress three new carbon capture projects in...
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Five carbon capture units for Ørsted bioenergy plants
Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded a large-scale carbon capture project by Ørsted for its Kalundborg Hub in Denmark. Aker will deliver five Just Catch units, additional equipment...
EPA ‘to propose strongest emission limits yet’
The Biden Administration is widely expected to propose stringent requirements on utilities to reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fired power plants, according to various...
Carbon intensity falls to all-time low
Ember’s fourth annual Global Electricity Review reports that the carbon intensity of global electricity generation fell to a record low of 436 gCO2/kWh in 2022, the lowest ever...
UK confirms commitment to large-scale Power BECCS
The UK government on 30 March confirmed its commitment to supporting the deployment of large-scale BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage) for power projects by 2030....
EIA projects reduction in US energy-related CO2 emissions
US energy-related CO2 emissions will by 2030 fall by 25% to 38% below what they were in 2005, according to projections from the US Energy Information Administration’s report...
Solid sorbent carbon capture for power generation
GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, and CCS specialist Svante have entered into a joint development agreement to develop and evaluate solid sorbent-based carbon capture technology...
Global CO2 emissions rising less than initially feared
Global CO2 emissions are increasing less than initially feared, as clean energy growth offsets much of the impact of greater coal and oil use. The International Energy Agency...
CO2 producers “must be forced to ‘take back’ carbon”
UK newspaper The Guardian reports that a group of leading scientists has published a paper insisting that fossil fuel companies should be forced to ‘take back’ the carbon dioxide...
$3.7 bn to kick-start the USA’s CO2 extraction industry
The Biden-Harris administration, through the US Department of Energy has announced the launch of four programmes intended to help build a ‘commercially viable, just, and...
German government proposes changes to CCS legal framework
Online agency Clean Energy Wire reports that in a bid to achieve its climate targets, the German government aims to bet more strongly and more quickly than previously thought on...
MHI and Indonesia Power to investigate H2 Co-firing
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and PLN Indonesia Power, a sub-holding of Indonesia's state-owned electricity provider PLN, have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to commence...
UN Panel on Climate Change issues stark warning
A new report released on 26 October by the UN’s principal climate change watchdog, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, shows that countries are ‘bending the curve...
Whitetail CCS project shortlisted
8 Rivers Capital’s UK-based project Whitetail Clean Energy has been selected by the UK government as one of three ‘Power CCS’ low carbon energy generation projects within the UK...
Next-gen heat pump ‘could cut energy bills and CO2 emissions’
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
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
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
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
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
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....