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European green steel makers are securing funding – and big customers – for production plants

November 28, 2022 by Soroush Basirat

European steel makers are leading the way in building the first green steel production plants. The big step forward is the securing of finance from a range of private and public banks and credit guarantors, says Soroush Basirat at IEEFA. Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel and industry leaders Thyssenkrupp and Salzgitter are now set to spend billions, while pre-sales to and commitments from BMW, Miele, Mercedes and Ford are helping to create the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Industry Tagged With: banks, BMW, credit, EU, Europe, finance, Ford, green, H2GreenSteel, hydrogen, industry, Mercedes, Miele, Saltzgitter, steel, Thyssenkrupp

Green Hydrogen is ready to scale this decade

October 27, 2022 by Tessa Weiss, Cato Koole and Nick Pesta

### Today’s article flags up a fascinating panel discussion on the book “Touching Hydrogen Future”, as part of the European Hydrogen Week taking place from 24-28 October 2022. This webinar, on Friday Oct 28 at 10:00 CEST, will be blue-sky thinking about the future of the hydrogen economy. Global in scope, it will dive into how a hydrogen-powered future might look in the Netherlands, Sweden, Ukraine, Romania and Morocco. REGISTER HERE ### Can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: ArcelorMital, BNEF, electrolysers, Europe, fertilisers, green, hydrogen, HydrogenHubs, ITM, Maersk, NEL, pipelines, REPowerEU, ShippingFuels, steel, Thyssenkrupp, Yara

Hydrogen imports: strict rules can deliver a win-win for Europe and developing nations

October 13, 2022 by Ines Bouacida

### Today’s article flags up a fascinating panel discussion on the book “Touching Hydrogen Future”, as part of the European Hydrogen Week taking place from 24-28 October 2022. This webinar, on Oct 28 at 10:00 CEST, will be blue-sky thinking about the future of the hydrogen economy. Global in scope, it will dive into how a hydrogen-powered future might look in the Netherlands, Greece, Ukraine and Morocco. REGISTER HERE ### The EU is moving … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: Algeria, emissions, EU, geopolitics, green, hydrogen, imports, industry, Libya, Morocco, pipelines, regulations, REPowerEU, transport, Tunisia

Modelling green Ammonia and Methanol in 2050. It will be expensive

September 9, 2022 by Schalk Cloete

Schalk Cloete starts by explaining that it is unrealistic to expect clean electrification to carry the main burden of energy supply. Even a fast roll out will be constrained by a range of infrastructure and cost limitations. Hence our continued dependence on fuels, with their high energy density and ease of transport. Those fuels will have to be made clean, so he summarises his co-authored papers that model the cost of green and blue ammonia and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative fuels, Energy Tagged With: ammonia, blue, carbon, CCS, CDR, costs, electrification, gas, green, GreenFuels, methanol, prices, VRE

Price volatility and greenwashing: do Gas and LNG make economic or climate sense?

April 7, 2022 by Christina Ng and Sam Reynolds

While governments urgently rethink their gas policies, Christina Ng and Sam Reynolds at IEEFA summarise the evidence against the claim that gas and LNG can be green and have a sound economic future. Firstly, most measurements of emissions do not include the full life-cycle of production. For LNG that includes extraction, transport, liquefaction, and re-gasification. They point at studies that say it can be almost as much as the emissions produced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: emissions, gas, green, greenwashing, LNG, methane, offsetting, pandemic, prices, Russia, solar, Taxonomy, Ukraine, wind

The Green Hydrogen disruption: what nations, firms and investors are doing to reshape global energy

February 4, 2022 by Tim Buckley

Everyone knows the new hydrogen economy has huge up front capital costs to make the green H2 (called GH2), the logistical challenges of delivering it where it’s needed, and creating the customer base to consume it. But Tim Buckley at IEEFA believes the policy support is already shaping up to make GH2 a successful disruptor of the global energy system. He runs through the nations, companies and investors at the beginning of the learning curve that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: AirLiquide, australia, Canada, China, costs, disruption, EU, FFI, GH2, green, hydrogen, investment, ITMPower, Japan, NelHydrogen, NewZealand, Plug, Shell, Thyssenkrupp, US

Hydrogen at COP26: committing to scale-up and creating demand

November 29, 2021 by Cato Koole and Thomas Koch Blank

At COP26 the voice of hydrogen staked its claim to meeting its targets and its contribution to making the 1.5°C scenario a realistic ambition. Cato Koole and Thomas Koch Blank at Rocky Mountain Institute explain that hydrogen supply should not be the problem. The combination of deployed and announced projects already places the world close to the green hydrogen production capacity needed as outlined in the IEA’s "Net Zero by 2050" roadmap. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: aviation, blue, COP26, costs, demand, green, grey, hydrogen, Iberdrola, shipping, steel, supply

Green Finance standards: the EU Taxonomy and China’s “Catalogue”

September 17, 2021 by Brian Yang

The EU Taxonomy was published in June 2020. It is the first official document to define and classify what is a truly sustainable economic activity in Europe. Six months later China’s regulators published their own version, a new edition of the China Green Bond Endorsed Project Catalogue (the Catalogue). Both documents will act as important standards for green finance institutions and investors in Europe and China. They are intended to improve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: Catalogue, China, disclosure, EU, finance, green, investment, standards, Taxonomy, transparency

Case study Italy: Optimising emissions cuts means we’ll need “grey” and “blue” Hydrogen too

June 1, 2021 by Carlo Stagnaro

Europe is committing to hydrogen. The ideal is “green” hydrogen, produced from renewable energy alone. Carlo Stagnaro at Istituto Bruno Leoni analyses emissions and costs in Italy to make the case for policy-makers to consider including “grey” and “blue” hydrogen in their strategies too. Because grids are far from green today, a new wind and solar plant will reduce more emissions by feeding the grid than by making hydrogen. “Grey” hydrogen, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: blue, CCS, EU, green, grey, grids, hydrogen, Italy, solar, turquoise, wind, yellow

The Netherlands: a Blue Hydrogen economy now will ease a transition to Green

April 26, 2021 by Barthold Schroot

Barthold Schroot at EBN makes the case for blue hydrogen for the Netherlands now, to minimise emissions and make life easier for green hydrogen later. The country is a big consumer of natural gas that, realistically, cannot be quickly replaced with renewables. So what’s the best alternative to burning that gas and can be introduced the soonest? Green hydrogen production (emissions-free) will take time to reach scale as it needs to piggy-back off … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: blue, emissions, gas, green, hydrogen, imports, infrastructure, Netherlands

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