Energy Transition

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), or green fuel which reduces emissions from conventional gasoline by up to 80% using feedstocks like cooking oils, is a potential carbon savior for the aviation industry. People frequently portrayed this industry as the bad guy in the fight against global warming. Executives meeting in Dublin this week agreed that the …

Aviation praises green fuel but is not in the mood for paying its cost Read More »

Hydrogen as a fuel still receives a lot of interest. This is especially true now that the United States is introducing new federal incentives to encourage the use of greener H2-generating techniques. There are several reasons why the current influx of blue and green hydrogen project proposals is concerning. It is so, particularly for communities …

Hydrogen myths propagated by the fossil fuel industry and the facts Read More »

The United States and the United Arab Emirates announced on Sunday that the first $20 billion of their $100 billion clean energy cooperation would be used to finance 15 new gigawatts of renewable energy projects before 2035. The state news agency WAM announced this. According to WAM, Masdar of the United Arab Emirates and a …

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On the assumption that the mid-term LNG market will remain constrained, Inpex Corp, Japan’s largest oil and natural gas explorer, plans to quicken the expansion of its LNG production and sales. The company’s CEO announced this on Thursday. According to Inpex CEO Takayuki Ueda, the anticipation is that the tightness in the global LNG market …

Japan to increase the growth of LNG sales and production Read More »

The prime minister announced this week that Belgium and the French utility Engie had achieved an agreement to postpone the retirement of two nuclear reactors by ten years. It is reversing a previous energy strategy that called for nuclear power to be phased out by 2025. The newest of Belgium’s seven reactors, the Doel 4 …

Two nuclear reactors in Belgium will have a 10-year life extension Read More »

Today, firms, including GM, Ford, Google, and some solar energy producers, announced that they would cooperate in developing guidelines for expanding the use of virtual power plants (VPPs). They are technologies for reducing the load on electrical grids during times of shortage. The energy transition organization RMI will lead the venture, the Virtual Power Plant …

Promoting virtual power plants: New partnerships between GM, Ford, and Google Read More »

Spain has been a pioneer in the development of green hydrogen projects, with a number of initiatives underway to explore the potential of this clean and renewable energy source. The country’s first four of eleven green H2 projects, according to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, would be governed by a new regulation that his cabinet …

New green hydrogen projects regulation in Spain to be approved tomorrow Read More »

Germany missed emissions targets as carbon dioxide emissions remained stable last year. It endangers its climate goals as increased usage of coal and oil countered decreased energy consumption and record levels of renewable energy production. This is according to figures released on Wednesday by the climate think tank Agora Energiewende. Thanks to rising energy prices, …

The coal was not a goal: Germany missed emissions targets Read More »

The year 2022 may have put clean energy to test in more intense ways and circumstances than ever. Never has any other industry experienced the highest highs and lowest lows in a such short period of time. Because 2022 had it all, including war, a major legislative win, ongoing energy supply chain problems, and trade …

How a dirty war fueled clean energy solutions in 2022 Read More »

The European Union reached an agreement last week regarding a law that will effectively ban the sale of new fossil fuel – gasoline and diesel – cars beginning in 2035. It is an effort to hasten the transition to electric vehicles and battle climate change. Negotiators from the EU countries, the European Parliament, which must …

EU approved to phase out of fossil fuel cars, Italy’s PM thinks it is unreasonable Read More »