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US DoE awards $5.7 m for GE-led CCUS project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Rolls-Royce sets out net-zero road map
The Rolls-Royce Power Systems business unit aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% by 2030 compared to its 2019 level through the use of new net zero and zero carbon...
Cormetech to demonstrate improved DAC technology
Cormetech has been selected for an award from the US Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory, to advance...
Wärtsilä launches major test programme on H2 and NH4 as fuels
Wartsila has launched a major test programme to advance the adoption of hydrogen and ammonia as viable engine fuels for power and marine applications through advanced testing on...
GE signs agreement for green H2-fuelled power plant
GE and Cricket Valley Energy Centre have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to develop a green hydrogen technology roadmap and advance a demonstration project...
Orca DAC has achieved DNV validation
Climeworks’ new large-scale direct air capture plant ‘Orca’ has successfully achieved independent third-party validation from DNV. Permanent carbon dioxide removal is considered to be...
Drax and MHI to create world’s largest negative emissions project
Drax Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd., part of the MHI Group, have agreed a long-term contract for Drax to use its carbon capture technology, the Advanced KM...
ESB and dCarbonX to partner on green H2 storage
ESB and dCarbonX have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint assessment and development of offshore green hydrogen subsurface storage in Ireland. This partnership is seen...
‘Pathway to net-zero emissions by 2050 is narrow’ – IEA special report
The world has a viable pathway to building a global energy sector with net-zero emissions in 2050, but it is narrow and requires an unprecedented transformation of how energy is...
Air-captured-CO2 project in Oman
Swiss company Climeworks and Omani company 44.01 have joined forces to explore the potential of geological storage of direct air-captured CO2 in the Middle East in a...
‘Groundbreaking’ analysis reveals potential net zero cost reductions
The Carbon Trust says that ‘Flexibility in Great Britain’, is its most in depth analysis to-date on the subject, underlines the vital role of flexibility in delivering an...
UK industry wide plan to cut emissions
An ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and over £1 billion to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals has been announced by the...
Three major firms commit to exploring carbon capture
Ørsted, Aker Carbon Capture, and Microsoft have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore ways to support the development of carbon capture and storage at biomass-fired heat...