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Plans confirmed for Britain’s first ‘hydrogen town’
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by 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
Tuesday, February 09, 2021 by 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
Tuesday, February 09, 2021 by 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
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by 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
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 by 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
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 by 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
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 by 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
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 by 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
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 by 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
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 by 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
Wednesday, December 09, 2020 by 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’
Tuesday, December 08, 2020 by 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 –...

Fusion power plant seeks home in the UK
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 by The UK government has invited UK regions and communities to put forward proposals to become the home of STEP ­– the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production – the UK’s ambitious...

Andritz to supply FGD plant to Tata Power in India
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 by Technology group Andritz has received an order from Tata Projects Ltd, India, to supply the technology and critical components for a seawater flue gas desulphurisation plant with...

UK’s ‘ambitious’ ten point Green Plan
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 by On 18 November UK prime minister Boris Johnson set out the government’s ambitious ten point plan for a green industrial revolution.

A European strategy for offshore renewables
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 by The European Commission has unveiled the EU’s ‘Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy’ as it steps up efforts to make the Union climate neutral by 2050. The Strategy proposes to...

Renewables are ‘defying the Covid crisis’ – IEA report
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 by Renewables will account for almost 90% of the increase in total power capacity worldwide in 2020 and will accelerate in 2021 to their fastest growth in the last six years, according to...

Global security of supply – more effort needed
Wednesday, November 04, 2020 by A new IEA report from the International Energy Agency ‘Power Systems in Transition’ offers recommendations about how to respond to evolving challenges for electricity systems from...

Germany’s climate targets ‘depend on investment in grids’
Wednesday, November 04, 2020 by A study by RWTH Aachen University and Frontier Economics has quantified the economic value of Germany’s energy networks. This is the first time such an exercise has been carried out....