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DECEMBER 20, 2020

Leading fertilizer company Yara plans to electrify fully its ammonia plant in Porsgrunn, Norway with the potential to cut 800,000 tonnes of CO 2 per year, equivalent to the emissions from 300,000 passenger cars. Ammonia (NH 3 ) is therefore the most promising hydrogen carrier and zero-carbon shipping fuel. kWh/liter vs. 2.0

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Elkem, a company developing silicones, silicon products and carbon solutions, officially inaugurated the world’s first carbon capture pilot for smelters. The Mobile Test Unit (MTU), delivered by Aker Carbon Capture, is now connected to Elkem’s plant in Rana, Norway, which produces high-purity ferrosilicon and microsilica.

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JUNE 14, 2014

billion (US$259 million) in investment backing for Hydro’s full scale next-generation electrolysis pilot project at Karmøy, on the west coast of Norway. This makes it crucial for production to be based on the lowest possible energy consumption and the lowest possible greenhouse gas emissions. —Enova CEO Nils Kristian Nakstad.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

a developer of energy-dense ammonia power solutions, opened its Norway operations with the hiring of Christian W. Berg, Managing Director, Amogy Norway. Norway is already developing ammonia refueling stations (bunkering locations) for ships. Amogy Inc.,

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JUNE 16, 2022

Alcoa Corporation announced a $51-million project to increase the production capacity at its Mosjøen smelter in Norway by 14,000 metric tons per year (mtpy). metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (scope 1 and 2) from bauxite mining, alumina refining, and aluminum smelting and casting.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Current battery technology means all-electric propulsion will enable eVTOL and fixed wing commuter aircraft for short flights in and between cities and island-hopping in locations such as Norway and the Scottish Isles. This means extending routes that electric flight can support through our turbogenerator technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Analysts at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) have reviewed recent research into the greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. They note that the the impacts of battery production on electric vehicles’ overall emissions is “an especially complex topic”.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Carbon emissions associated with increased exports from China (left), as part of a more systematic view of increased national emissions (right), 2002 to 2005. Chinese export production is responsible for one-half of the emission increase. Chinese export production is responsible for one-half of the emission increase.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Norway-based energy company Equinor Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a low-carbon technology collaboration. The non-exclusive cooperation agreement will see both companies develop and use technology to reduce the carbon footprint of oil & gas operations.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Elkem, a global leader in silicon-based advanced materials, will test the world’s first carbon capture pilot for silicon smelters at its plant in Rana, Norway. In addition, emissions from SMA Mineral will also gradually enter the treatment plant. Electrodes made from a carbonaceous material are lowered into this mixture.

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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MAY 7, 2012

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg conducted the official inauguration of Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM)—the world’s largest facility for testing and developing carbon capture technologies. TCM initially selected two processes, a chilled ammonia process from Alstom and an amine process from Aker Clean Carbon (ACC).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2017

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Note the different scaling used in the graphs. McCollum et al.

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JULY 15, 2021

Hydrogen and ammonia contain no carbon; hence, combustion releases no CO 2 emissions. In addition, Wärtsilä will begin testing ammonia in a marine four-stroke combustion engine together with customers Knutsen OAS, Repsol Norway and Equinor at the Sustainable Energy Catapult Centre in Stord, Norway, as part of the Demo2000 project.

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JUNE 19, 2012

GE has concluded a commercial alliance agreement with Norway-based Sargas AS to provide a gas turbine for one of the world’s first gas-fired plants with integrated carbon capture for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Traditionally, carbon capture for gas-fired turbine plants relied on government subsidies and advanced technology research.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 3, 2021

The governments of Denmark, Norway, and the United States, along with the Global Maritime Forum and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, today announced that they will lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission as part of Mission Innovation.

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MAY 3, 2022

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University, SINTEF in Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has developed a polymer membrane technology that removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases with both high permeability and high selectivity. This is a vital part of the green transition in Norway.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The results from the Maritime CCS (carbon capture and storage) research and development project show that the concept is technically feasible and capable of reducing ship CO 2 emissions by up to 65%. —Prof. Costas Pantelides, Managing Director of PSE.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Norway’s Nordic Power Systems (NPS) and California-based SAFCell Inc., The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway under its RENERGI program. Due to the unit’s high efficiency, CO 2 emissions are substantially lower than in conventional combustion engines, and no other demonstrable exhaust is discharged—i.e.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 22, 2024

One thing that some people have pointed out, though, is that growing EV sales is one thing, actually reducing use of petrol (gasoline and diesel) and cutting carbon emissions. continued] The post Petrol Sales In Norway Drop 8% Year Over Year appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2017

Norway has achieved yet another milestone in electric-car sales. The Scandinavian country may be the friendliest for electric cars in the world, thanks to a combination of aggressive incentives, well-developed charging infrastructure, and a citizenry committed to lowering carbon emissions.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

gigatons of CO 2 : three times Germany’s carbon-dioxide emissions in 2016. If the climate targets set by the Paris conference are to be achieved, CO 2 emissions from traffic worldwide will have to be reduced 50% over the next four decades, and by at least 85% in the advanced economies, Bosch notes. Bottom: Fuel pathways.

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JULY 18, 2022

Tests in Bristol, UK, and Trondheim, Norway, recently concluded and have now confirmed the system delivered more than 1.5 In the nearer term, there are options to transfer technologies from the UltraFan development program to current Trent engines to deliver even greater fuel efficiency and reductions in emissions.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2018

Norway was one of the earliest nations to set a coherent and broad-based national plan to cut its carbon emissions, and then stick to it.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2023

After successful completion, TECO 2030 plans to industrialize this heavy-duty fuel cell system and manufacture them at the Innovation Center and gigafactory in Narvik, Norway. The project, which started 1 February, is planned to last for 3 years, with the ultimate goal of eliminating emissions during voyage and in port.

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JUNE 8, 2021

AqualisBraemar LOC’s scope of work is to design a double-ended sea-going passenger and car ferry capable of utilizing the hydrogen-powered drive-train and thereby running completely emission-free.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Shell has announced that its planned low-carbon blue hydrogen plant on Norway’s west coast is being put on hold. Once operational, expectations were high that the planned hydrogen facility would avoid 4 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

The study also confirms that emissions of other local pollutants, such as sulfur oxides (SO x ), nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and particulate matter (PM), are close to zero when using LNG compared with current conventional oil-based marine fuels. The Life Cycle GHG Emission Study is a long-awaited piece of the “LNG as a marine fuel“ puzzle.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

The two companies will jointly develop equipment and automation solutions for FREYR’s Customer Qualification Plant (“CQP”) in Mo i Rana, Norway, as well as for FREYR’s planned Gigafactories. FREYR Battery has awarded a strategic alliance frame agreement to South Korea-based Hana Technology.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

stake in Biojet AS , a Norwegian biofuels company that plans to convert forestry and wood-based construction waste into lower-emissions biofuels and biofuel components. The company anticipates commercial production to begin in 2025 at a manufacturing plant to be built in Follum, Norway. ExxonMobil is acquiring a 49.9%

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in the production of liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and HeidelbergCement, a German multinational building material company, are partnering to explore application of Joule’s technology to mitigate carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. This process accounts for ~50% of all emissions from cement production.

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JULY 7, 2019

At the recent Nor-Shipping exhibition held in Norway, the project partners announced a next-generation 62,000 dwt Ultramax Bulk Carrier design that is optimized according to actual operating profiles, and that will meet coming emissions legislation. —Trond Hodne, Director of Sales & Marketing at DNV GL.

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DECEMBER 25, 2020

FREYR AS and 24M Technologies signed a definitive License and Services Agreement to use 24M’s SemiSolid lithium-ion battery platform technology ( earlier post ) in FREYR’s planned facilities in Mo i Rana, Norway.

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MAY 10, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released proposed regulations to link its cap-and-trade program to Québec’s to form a joint carbon market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Québec has roughly one-sixth the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and other sources as does California. Earlier post.).

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The Driven EV News

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Even in Norway there's a long road to leaving fuel use behind. The post Norway EV sales high but long road to leave fossil fuels behind appeared first on The Driven. What about in Australia?

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JANUARY 23, 2011

Compared to using a conventional diesel engine, Keolis reduces carbon-dioxide emissions by 70% by using ethanol; for RME, the corresponding figure is 64%. Deliveries of the buses will take place from April until July, and the buses will start operating between June and August.

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