Australia proposes to be a big green hydrogen exporter to Asia

In its latest budget, the federal government has promised hundreds of millions of dollars to expand Australia’s green hydrogen capabilities. Green hydrogen is made by electrolysis of water, powered by solar and wind electricity, and it’s key to the government’s “technology not taxes” approach to meeting its climate target of net-zero emissions by 2050. The

Impact of RFS on biofuels production

Capturing the interactions between biofuels and agricultural industries, and their connections with other economic activities, were keys to a first-of-its kind study at Purdue University. “This is the first comprehensive examination of market factors and policies on the expansion of biofuels production in the U.S. to examine the economic impact of these individual drivers separately,”

Kerala to become carbon-neutral state by 2050

Kerala State government has been formulating a plan to make it a zero-emission state by the year 2050. While inaugurating a seminar on Carbon Neutral Kerala organised as part of the Nava Keralam Mission, Kerala state minister for Local Self Government MV Govindan said. The modern consumer culture was among the many factors contributing to

EC to invest €1.1 bn on technologies to reduce emissions

The Commission signed €1.1 billion of grant agreements, allocated for seven low-carbon technologies which will substantially reduce emissions – within the first ten years. The seven large-scale projects, funded via the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), are expected to reduce carbon emissions by over 76 Mt of CO2eq in the first ten years. The projects

UN IPCC talks hung up on finance

Negotiations to finalise a key UN report on how to stave off climate catastrophe wrapped up on April 3, more than two days late following a tussle over how to describe financial needs. The two-week virtual talks have been contentious from the start, as nearly 200 nations grapple with hard choices about how to rapidly

GREET model adoption for biofuels in the US

The American Coalition for Ethanol submitted feedback to the Environmental Protection Agency’s request for comment on the current scientific understanding of greenhouse gas modeling of land-based crop biofuels. ACE CEO Brian Jennings and ACE Board Director Ron Alverson contributed to the feedback after attending EPA’s workshop on biofuel GHG modeling. The comments cover subject areas

Research focuses on developing cleaner fuels from CO2

Using the planet’s air to create new chemicals for fuel, and other essential chemical products is the bold ambition of a new research project from the University of Surrey. The project aims to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air and use dynamic catalysis to create methanol – a valuable chemical that, made this

OMC policies hindering ethanol production in India, says ISMA

The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) director-general Abinash Verma said that the policies of oil marketing companies (OMCs) and other factors are restricting the output of ethanol in the country. While addressing the members of the Parliament (MPs) at the Lok Sabha Secretariat, he said that the country has achieved 9.6% ethanol blending with petrol

Egypt signs an MoU with Norway for green hydrogen

Egypt signed a five-billion-U.S. dollar deal with Scatec, a Norwegian renewable energy company, to establish and operate a green hydrogen production facility with a capacity of 100 megawatts in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, Egypt’s cabinet said in a statement. Egypt also signed an agreement on the purchase of the produced green hydrogen with Scatec,

Optimization of several factors necessary for lowering the cost of clean hydrogen in US

Lowering the cost of clean hydrogen to jumpstart the US hydrogen economy will require alignment of a range of key factors, from project design and location to policy frameworks, panelists said during the S&P Global Hydrogen Markets Americas Conference. A hydrogen project must be strategically located to reduce transportation costs, it must involve the right