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Volvo Cars? Chengdu car plant powered by 100% renewable electricity; 65% hydropower

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The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80%. Until recently, the Chengdu plant already sourced 70% of its electricity from renewable sources.

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Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

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The program runs from 2 March to 30 April 2021, while supplies last. Arcadia’s technology matches home energy consumption with renewable energy sources from a variety of US wind and solar projects using renewable energy certificates, all without any installation or disruptions to their utility service.

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UGI and Vertimass in 15-year agreement to produce renewable fuels in the US and Europe; $500M investment; propane and SAF

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UGI Corporation has entered into a 15-year agreement with California-based technology developer Vertimass to utilize their catalytic technology to produce renewable fuels from renewable ethanol in the US and Europe. The technology enables flexible production of the renewable fuels to align with regional market demand.

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Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

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Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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Volvo Trucks opens its first battery plant; cells and modules from Samsung SDI

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Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. The plant itself is powered by 100% renewable energy. Volvo Trucks is opening its first battery assembly plant. This investment shows our strong commitment to electrifying truck transportation.

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Daimler Truck and TotalEnergies partner to develop hydrogen ecosystem for transportation in Europe

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In particular, TotalEnergies has the ambition by 2030 to operate directly or indirectly up to 150 hydrogen refueling stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The truck manufacturer will support its customers to ensure easy operability and highly competitive uptime.

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Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

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The high-temperature SOEC unit’s high degree of automation and auto-response capability, across the entire hydrogen process, minimize oversight and training requirements—as well as associated risks—for efficient, convenient on-site hydrogen production and supply.

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