Energy Transition

Over the past few years, the North Sea supported efforts in Europe to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it underground. It has gathered momentum as governments and industry work to cut emissions in order to achieve their climate targets. With the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, CO2 emissions …

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Due to favorable weather, renewables made up 46.9% of German power consumption in 2022. This is an increase of 4.9 percentage points from the previous year, according to an industry group’s announcement this month. According to a joint statement from utility industry organization BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW), the …

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India is developing a $2 billion incentive scheme for the green hydrogen industry in an effort to reduce emissions and establish itself as a major exporter in the sector, according to three sources cited by Reuters. Senior government official and an industry manager involved in renewable energy said the $2.2 billion incentive intends to cut …

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On Thursday, German utility Uniper announced that it was collaborating with Masdar, a sustainable energy company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on a project to produce green hydrogen. This was a confirmation of a Bloomberg article. The Berlin government this week completed a 34.5-billion-euro ($36.55 billion) bailout of Uniper with approval from the European …

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The green hydrogen is moving forward, but leaks could be an issue. Some scientists claim that the paucity of information on leaks and the possible harm they could bring is a blind spot for the developing sector as governments and energy businesses place large bets on the much-touted fuel of the future. At least four …

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Australia opened its first offshore wind farm development zone on Monday in an area off its southern coast in an effort to kick-start a new sector and help the country reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. As anticipated, the government chose the Gippsland coast off the state of Victoria as the location for the …

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A group of investors urged four of the major oil and gas corporations in the world to establish broad climate goals for 2030, putting pressure on the industry after a year in which governments turned their attention to energy security. Before the annual general meetings of BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Shell next year, activist …

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As time goes by, the world seems that forget Syria and the sufferings of the people who stayed there. They are deprived of everything including electricity. Syrians desperately need electricity because life must go on. And in great part, everyday life depends on power. Solar power might be a solution. For 11 years Syria is …

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The year in which we may have faced the biggest energy crisis since the Second World War is slowly coming to an end. The countries of the world, and mostly the countries of the European Union, which were the most affected, managed to manage the new situation at least until now. The plans to overcome …

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