Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first order, comprising three units, was placed by ZES (Zero Emission Services) BV, a Netherlands-based company founded in 2020 by ING Bank, energy and technical service provider Engie, the Port of Rotterdam, and Wärtsilä. When discharged, the containers can be exchanged and charged onshore using energy from renewable sources.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. As electricity increasingly comes from renewables, total electric vehicle GHG emissions will continue downward, but that will take at least a decade or more to happen everywhere across the U.S. If Birol were from Maine, he might have simply observed , “You can’t get there from here.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. It results in higher efficiencies: about 46 percent.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Neste announced its final investment decision on additional renewable products production capacity in Singapore in December 2018. Amsterdam (AMS) in the Netherlands, and Helsinki Airport (HEL) in Finland. The Singapore refinery expansion doubles Neste’s production capacity in Singapore and brings the refinery’s total capacity to 2.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, has joined the eFuel Alliance , an interest group dedicated to the industrial production of synthetic fuels based on hydrogen and CO 2 from renewable sources. All solutions are needed in the fight against the climate crisis.

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Driivz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As the world continues to face climate change challenges, it is becoming increasingly critical that we transition to more sustainable energy sources. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, is a more environmentally friendly and cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

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. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

Within the Netherlands transport sector, inland navigation accounts for 5% of carbon dioxide emissions. By switching from diesel-fueled propulsion to fully electrically powered transport, an important step can be taken towards realizing the Paris Climate Agreement goals. These will be charged using energy from renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2019

BP, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), and the Port of Rotterdam will collaborate to explore the opportunity of making green hydrogen via water electrolysis for BP’s refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which has the potential for significant reductions in CO 2 emissions. —Ruben Beens, CEO of BP Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

At the center of the largest chemical industry cluster in Europe and close to the North Sea, it provides transportation connections to Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, and France. Port of Antwerp-Bruges, set to become a major hydrogen hub for Europe, has plans to be a lighthouse port for climate-neutral infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2023

The local production is in line with the “Make in India” initiative and will make an important contribution to a climate-friendly positioning of the Indian economy. India has formulated its own targets for the expansion of renewable energies and the development of green hydrogen production by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Alliance is to scale-up, by 2030, the production and deployment of hydrogen as a fuel produced by means of low-emission technologies and renewable energy sources. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

To fight against climate change, the transport sector needs true decarbonization. By investing not only in sustainable fuel but also in fleet renewal, engine retrofitting, and efficiency projects, we tackle the impact of the logistics supply chain. The Bio-LNG used by Shell in the test is produced from agricultural waste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

TECO 2030 and Skeleton Technologies have entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate the use of renewable hydrogen in the maritime sector and demonstrate zero-emissions voyage and port operations. Shipping is considered a hard-to-decarbonize sector and its CO 2 emissions account for 2.89 % of the world’s emissions.

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

Eneco, an energy producer in the Netherlands, is relying on Tesla to power its biggest battery project to date, which will be used to “more efficiently balance Belgium’s electricity grid” and is expected to be operational in 2024. This project is an important step for us towards a CO2-neutral energy system in 2035.”

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Azerbaijan next week will garner much of the attention of the climate tech world, and not just because it will host COP29 , the United Nation’s giant annual climate change conference. Masdar , the renewable-energy developer of the United Arab Emirates government, has been investing heavily in wind power in the country.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The use of green hydrogen produced from renewable energies could thus enable CO 2 -free long-distance logistics in the future. Hydrogen is a good energy-storage solution for climate-friendly transportation that can supplement battery-electric mobility. Hydrogen technology offers us the chance to rethink mobility.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2018

Now, a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, with colleagues at Leiden University (Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have used Monte Carlo and global sensitivity analysis to quantify parametric uncertainty of the impacts. Credit: ACS, Cox et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

It will be a self-standing legal entity, operating under its own corporate identity and based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The JV intends to take a catalyzing role as a charge point operator (CPO) in the value-chain by installing and managing charging stations for heavy-duty trucks and coaches.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2024

To build it, Taipei-based Hongde Renewable Energy bought 57.6 Taiwan is striving to massively expand renewable generation to sustain its semiconductor fabs, and solar is expected to play a large role. Critics of Taiwan’s renewed aquavoltaic plans thus see the government’s goal as unrealistic. What is aquavoltaics?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2020

The new Strategic Work Plan (2020-2025) sets very ambitious goals to make the most of current international hydrogen momentum, focusing on hydrogen as a facilitator for a smart, sustainable and decarbonized energy system based on renewables and low-carbon technologies for transport, industry, building, power and energy network applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Electric vehicles, charged with electricity from renewable sources, are indeed a powerful step towards more sustainable city distribution. However, there will not be one singular energy source that addresses climate change and all other environmental issues. Different types of transport require different types of driveline solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

Intended for Delfzijl in the Netherlands, the installation would use a 20 megawatt water electrolysis unit, the largest in Europe, to convert sustainably produced electricity into 3,000 tons of green hydrogen a year—enough to fuel 300 hydrogen buses. A final decision on the project is expected in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

ExxonMobil and Porsche are testing advanced biofuels and renewable, lower-carbon eFuels as part of a new agreement to find pathways toward potential future consumer adoption. As early as 2022, the companies plan to test the second iteration of Esso Renewable Racing Fuel, which will contain eFuel components.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e., nuclear and fossil-fueled generating units) in Europe and the United States are vulnerable to climate change due to the combined impacts of lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures. Source: van Vliet et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

billion) funding to 23 highly renewable energy demonstration projects—including five advanced biofuels projects with maximum combined funding of €516.8 This year Christmas has come early—today’s decision is a major milestone in EU climate policy. —Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard. billion (US$1.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Preem’s objective is to produce three million cubic meters (793 million gallons US) of renewable fuel yearly by 2030, which would account for the bulk of the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in the Swedish transport sector. Vattenfall can provide hydrogen gas required for the production of drop-in biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

The research team included members from the National University of Singapore; Stichting Deltares, The Netherlands; International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, DC; and the University of Leicester, UK. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.). Everywhere we looked, the drainage of peat to plant palm oil is increasing.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. We need to be talking about trillions per year if we are to meet climate goals. Renewable energy investment. billion and 221% in the Netherlands to $14.3

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro-electric projects) was $270.2 Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro-electric projects) was $270.2 A key feature of the 2014 result was the rapid expansion of renewables into new markets in developing countries. billion.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2019

Sustainable aviation fuel is a necessary short-term option the commercial aviation industry has to reduce CO 2 emissions in the short term, in addition to fleet renewal and operational efficiency gains. SHV Energy, global leader in LPG distribution, will also invest in the facility and will purchase the bioLPG produced.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

Ideally, the electricity for this purpose is generated from renewable sources such as wind or photovoltaic power, in which case the result is known as “green hydrogen”. These include Bamberg and Feuerbach (Germany), Tilburg (Netherlands), Linz (Austria), and ?eské Bosch is to develop the stack. jovice (Czech Republic).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

In addition to high oil prices and the financial crisis, the increased use of new renewable energy sources, such as biofuels for road transport and wind energy for electricity generation, had a noticeable and mitigating impact on CO 2 emissions. Biofuels and other renewable energy sources start impacting CO 2 trends. and from 19.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

megawatts (MW), it is Vattenfall’s first large storage project in the Netherlands. It is meant to maintain the security of supply with a feed-in of 100% renewable energy. Energy storage solutions are an important part of Vattenfall’s strive to power climate smarter living. With a capacity of 3.2

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