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First China-developed hydrogen fuel cell locomotive starts trial runs

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The first China-developed hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive—from core power to main components—has started trial runs on a 627 km railway line for coal transport in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. said that the hydrogen fuel cell hybrid locomotive has a design speed of 80 km/h. Source: Xinhua.

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Mongolia Hydrogen China Fuel

Rhodium Group estimates US GHG fell 2.1% in 2019, driven by coal decline

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JANUARY 8, 2020

This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption. Coal-fired power generation fell by a record 18% year-on-year to its lowest level since 1975. An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%.

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Coal 2019 2018 Gas-Electric

OSU team demonstrates Coal-Direct Chemical Looping for more efficient and low carbon coal heat release

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An Ohio State University team has demonstrated the successful operation of Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL)—which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere. Hot iron and coal ash are left behind. 2 millimeters across.

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JERA and IHI to demo ammonia co-firing at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant

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MAY 30, 2021

This will be the world’s first demonstration project in which a large amount of ammonia will be co-fired in a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant. In addition to this role as an energy carrier, it can also be used directly as a fuel in thermal power generation.

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Coal Commercial Powered Power

Report: Plastics industry will release more GHGs than coal plants in the US by 2030

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. However, what the industry reports is less than half of what it actually releases, according to the analysis by Material Research.

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Coal Industrial Industry Climate Change

Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

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MARCH 11, 2020

This award marks the first Advanced Class Gas Turbines in the industry specifically designed and purchased as part of a comprehensive plan to sequentially transition from coal, to natural gas and finally to renewable hydrogen fuel, and creates a roadmap for the global industry to follow. Earlier post.). and Hitachi, Ltd.

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Los Angeles Hydrogen Renewable Gas

Air France KLM signs 210M gallon SAF offtake agreement with DG Fuels

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

DG Fuels (DGF), a provider of cellulosic drop-in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), signed a multi-year SAF offtake agreement with Air France KLM for up to 60,408 metric tons (21 million gallons) per year from DGF’s initial plant to be located in Louisiana. Schematic of DGFuels Sustainable Aviation Fuel Process.

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France Fuel Louisiana Water

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

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JANUARY 6, 2023

The partners aim to replace coal-fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported through pipeline to Germany. Germany has an ambition to phase out all coal fired power plants by 2030. Markus Krebber, CEO of RWE.

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HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuel combustion, a major source of air pollution, contributed to more than one million deaths globally in 2017, more than 27% of all deaths from outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), according to a new report published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). While fossil fuel combustion made up most of the PM 2.5

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Global St. Louis Fuel Pollution

New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

World energy consumption projections expect coal to stay one of the world’s main energy sources in the coming decades, and a growing share of it will be used in CT—the conversion of coal to liquid fuels (CTL). By 2020, CTL is expected to account for 15% of the coal use in China. —Wang et al.

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Coal CO2 Conversion Convert

EIA expects significant increases in US wholesale electricity prices this summer

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JUNE 17, 2022

Various factors determine wholesale electricity prices, but the cost of fuel for fossil-fuel generators is an important driver. In past years, the electric power sector has substituted natural gas-fired generation with coal-fired generation when natural gas prices have risen.

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Price Coal Gas-Electric United States

Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear power plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

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APRIL 9, 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor. This provides significant safety benefits.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Powered Power

CSIRO and partners to test Direct Injection Carbon Engine to reduce brown coal emissions by up to 50%

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APRIL 28, 2014

DICE involves converting coal or biomass into a water-based slurry (called micronised refined carbon, MRC) that is directly injected into a large, specially adapted diesel engine. The fuel burns to produce intense temperature and pressure in the engine, which provides highly efficient power to turn electrical generators.

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Coal Carbon Engine Emissions

SK Inc. Materials initiates blue ammonia business with offtake agreement with ExxonMobil

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

SK seeks to import blue ammonia produced from ExxonMobil to South Korea in support of reducing industrial emissions. When co-fired with coal in an existing Coal Fired Power Plant (CFPP), blue ammonia emits no additional CO 2 , and total emissions from power generation is reduced by the amount of blue ammonia co-fired.

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South Korea Coal Hydrogen Carbon

Kawasaki Heavy to build first ocean-going liquid hydrogen tanker with demo in 2017; H2 for transport, industry, power in Japan

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

The Nikkei reports that Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. As part of Japan’s WE-NET (World Energy Network) research program of the New Sunshine Project begun in 1993, Kawasaki and its other industrial colleagues in Japan have been considering the large-scale marine transportation of liquid hydrogen for some time (e.g., Source: KHI.

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Japan Hydrogen 2017 Transportation

Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020.

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Finland Green Coal Hydrogen

Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

The global geothermal industry surpassed 12,000 MW of geothermal power operational, with about 600 MW of new geothermal power coming online globally, according to a year-end update by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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Costa Rica Industrial Industry El Salvador

Worldwatch: Fossil fuel subsidies continue to outweigh those for renewable energy; international pledges on reform unfulfilled

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Estimated consumption subsidies, industrial and developing countries, fossil fuels and renewables. Fossil fuel subsidies continue to far outweigh support for renewable energy, according to new research conducted for the Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online service. GSI: Fuel Subsidies in India. Source: Worldwatch.

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Renewable International Fuel Energy

Air Products to acquire Shell’s coal gasification technology business and patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification; coal-to-fuels in China

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification. As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects.

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Bosch to receive €160.7M in funding to support scale-up of solid-oxide fuel cell system production

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JULY 13, 2023

million from the federal government of Germany and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saarland for its project for the initial industrialization of stationary solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems:“Bosch Power Units”. Bosch will receive a grant of €160.7

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Fuel Production Hydrogen Germany

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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EIA: world energy consumption to grow 56% 2010-2040, CO2 up 46%; use of liquid fuels in transportation up 38%

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JULY 25, 2013

World energy consumption by fuel type, 2010-2040. However, fossil fuels continue to supply nearly 80% of world energy use through 2040. Natural gas is the fastest-growing fossil fuel, as global supplies of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane increase. Liquid fuels. Source: IEO2013. Click to enlarge.

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2010 Transportation Fuel Energy

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

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JULY 21, 2021

The ICCT has conducted a comprehensive global and temporal life-cycle assessment of GHG emissions from a variety of alternative passenger car powertrains and fuels. This study considers the fuel and electricity consumption in average real-world usage instead of solely relying on official test values.

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Hydrogen Fuel Battery Batteries

CSIRO roadmap finds hydrogen industry set for scale-up in Australia

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AUGUST 23, 2018

An economically-sustainable hydrogen industry in Australia could soon be on the cards according to a blueprint released by CSIRO, the national science agency, which found that cost-competitiveness is firmly on the horizon. Source: CSIRO. —CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.

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Australia Hydrogen Industrial Industry

EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Liquid fuels production (OPEC crude and lease condensate, non-OPEC crude and lease condensate, and other) and consumption (by OECD and non-OECD regions) under three price cases in 2040. Those two regions combined will account for 85% of the total increase in liquid fuels used worldwide over that period, said EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski.

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Asia Transportation Oil-Sands Oil Prices

Kawasaki’s liquefied hydrogen carrier departs to pick up first cargo

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Suiso Frontier , the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, has left Japan to pick up its first hydrogen cargo in Australia. A return to Japan is expected around late February. IMO) standards, in early December. J-POWER) to form the CO 2 -free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA).

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Hydrogen Japan Australia Gas-Electric

RMI report maps out pathway for zero-carbon steel industry in China

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

A new report from RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) finds that it is technically and economically feasible for China’s steel industry to decarbonize by 2050 through demand reduction, steel recycling and switching to green routes. This makes the steel industry the country’s second-largest carbon emitting sector behind power generation.

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Carbon Industrial Industry China

KHNP, Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop compact molten salt reactor-based floating nuclear power plants

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APRIL 25, 2023

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg Technologies announced a consortium to develop floating nuclear power plants with Seaborg Technologies’ compact molten salt reactor (CMSR) technology. In the CMSR, the fuel is mixed into a molten fluoride salt which also acts as the coolant.

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Molten Salt United Arab Emirates Powered Power

SSAB, Oshkosh partner to be first in US to use fossil-free steel in commercial vehicles

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

SSAB works with iron ore producer LKAB and energy company Vattenfall in Sweden as part of the HYBRIT initiative ( earlier post ) to develop a value chain for fossil-free iron- and steel production, replacing coking coal traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen.

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Commercial Sweden Volvo Vehicles

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. The prototype will use ammonia to deliver 200kg of hydrogen a day—enough to power around 5-10 hydrogen fuel cell-electric buses. A Siemens Energy-led consortium has begun work in Newcastle, UK on a new £3.5 million (US$4.24 Source: CSIRO.

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Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland

Advent Technologies, BASF sign MoU to increase manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Advent Technologies Holdings and BASF New Business GmbH recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and increase the manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes designed for long-term operations under extreme conditions. The MEA is the heart of the fuel cell, determining the overall system performance.

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Manufacturer Fuel Hydrogen Polymer

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

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APRIL 17, 2021

This decrease was driven largely by a decrease in emissions from fossil fuel combustion resulting from a decrease in total energy use in 2019 compared to 2018 and a continued shift from coal to natural gas and renewables in the electric power sector. from 2018 to 2019, and CO 2 emissions just from fossil fuel combustion decreased 2.7%

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2005 2019 EPA Climate Change

Rolls-Royce supports power-to-x initiative in Brandenburg; synthetic fuels and chemicals from renewable power

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Power Systems business unit signs letter of intent for the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of synthetic fuels Schell: “We will be electrifying the entire system, including the fuel” Important step towards sector coupling and decarbonising propulsion systems and power generation.

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Powered Power Renewable Fuel

EIA: CO2 emissions from US power sector have declined 28% since 2005

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

US electric power sector CO 2 emissions have declined 28% since 2005 because of slower electricity demand growth and changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In 2016, natural gas generation surpassed coal as the largest source of electricity generation.

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2005 Emissions Powered Power

DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. Energy Fuels Resources (Lakewood, CO). The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy selected 13 projects to receive approximately $1.95

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Coal Design West Virginia North Dakota

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. None of them are innocent bystanders.

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Coal Oil Clean Cleaning

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Government and corporate net-zero commitments are pushing the steel industry to cancel out its emissions by 2050. This would be a major shift in the type of furnaces and fuels used to produce steel.

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Hydrogen Cleaning Clean Green

Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Hydrogen sulfide is emitted from manure piles and sewer pipes and is a key byproduct of industrial activities including refining oil and gas, producing paper and mining. The team first used chemical looping on coal and shale gas to convert fossil fuels into electricity without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Hydrogen Gas Ohio Gas-Electric

JEC updates well-to-wheels study on automotive fuels and powertrains; electro-mobility, natural gas and biofuels

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MARCH 27, 2014

WTW energy expended and GHG emissions for conventional fuels ICE and hybrid vehicles shows the potential for improvement of conventional fuels and ICE based vehicles. It adds an assessment of electrically chargeable vehicle configurations, such as plug-in hybrid, range extended, battery and fuel-cell electric vehicles.

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Gas Fuel Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen. Generation 1.

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Renewable Economy Hydrogen Water

IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

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MAY 31, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year—from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency—the International Energy Agency said in a new report.

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Global Energy Coal 2020

H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry

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APRIL 16, 2018

The partners from industry and power generation will use this facility to research into future breakthrough technologies which are needed to meet global climate goals over the long-term. The goal is to research real breakthrough technologies which will be applicable on an industrial scale in the next couple of decades. Earlier post.).

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Hydrogen Green Industrial Industry

Naval Research Lab applying pulsed electron beam technology to reduce NOx from coal power plants; fusion research spin-off

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is partnering with a power company to apply its pulsed electron beam technology to reduce NO x emissions from coal-fired power plants. Today, industry uses Selective Catalytic Reduction to reduce NO x , but the scrubbers are expensive to build and to operate. —John Sethian.

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Fusion Coal Powered Power

Air Products signs deal for $3.5B coal-to-syngas production facility in China

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NOVEMBER 12, 2017

billion coal-to-syngas production facility to be built in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China. SFEC would supply coal, steam and power and receive syngas under a long-term, onsite contract. The mining business commenced development in 1966, and Yanzhou Coal Mining Bureau was established in 1976. signed an agreement for a $3.5-billion

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Coal Production China Supplies

First China-developed hydrogen fuel cell locomotive starts trial runs

Rhodium Group estimates US GHG fell 2.1% in 2019, driven by coal decline

OSU team demonstrates Coal-Direct Chemical Looping for more efficient and low carbon coal heat release

JERA and IHI to demo ammonia co-firing at a large-scale commercial coal-fired power plant

Report: Plastics industry will release more GHGs than coal plants in the US by 2030

Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

Air France KLM signs 210M gallon SAF offtake agreement with DG Fuels

Equinor and RWE to develop hydrogen-fired power plants in Germany, Norway-to-Germany hydrogen pipeline

HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

New catalyst opens door to CO2 capture in coal-to-liquids process

EIA expects significant increases in US wholesale electricity prices this summer

Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear power plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

CSIRO and partners to test Direct Injection Carbon Engine to reduce brown coal emissions by up to 50%

SK Inc. Materials initiates blue ammonia business with offtake agreement with ExxonMobil

Kawasaki Heavy to build first ocean-going liquid hydrogen tanker with demo in 2017; H2 for transport, industry, power in Japan

Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

Worldwatch: Fossil fuel subsidies continue to outweigh those for renewable energy; international pledges on reform unfulfilled

Air Products to acquire Shell’s coal gasification technology business and patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification; coal-to-fuels in China

Bosch to receive €160.7M in funding to support scale-up of solid-oxide fuel cell system production

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

EIA: world energy consumption to grow 56% 2010-2040, CO2 up 46%; use of liquid fuels in transportation up 38%

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

CSIRO roadmap finds hydrogen industry set for scale-up in Australia

EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

Kawasaki’s liquefied hydrogen carrier departs to pick up first cargo

RMI report maps out pathway for zero-carbon steel industry in China

KHNP, Samsung Heavy and Seaborg to develop compact molten salt reactor-based floating nuclear power plants

SSAB, Oshkosh partner to be first in US to use fossil-free steel in commercial vehicles

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

Advent Technologies, BASF sign MoU to increase manufacturing scale of advanced fuel cell membranes

EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

Rolls-Royce supports power-to-x initiative in Brandenburg; synthetic fuels and chemicals from renewable power

EIA: CO2 emissions from US power sector have declined 28% since 2005

DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

There’s Only One Kind Of “Just” Transition I Want To See

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

Researchers use chemical looping process to produce hydrogen from hydrogen sulfide gas

JEC updates well-to-wheels study on automotive fuels and powertrains; electro-mobility, natural gas and biofuels

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

H2FUTURE building world’s largest green hydrogen pilot plant; targeting the steel industry

Naval Research Lab applying pulsed electron beam technology to reduce NOx from coal power plants; fusion research spin-off

Air Products signs deal for $3.5B coal-to-syngas production facility in China

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