Tata Motors aims to achieve netzero emissions by 2045

Tata Motors has pledged to transform its facilities into net-zero greenhouse gas emissions sites by 2045, and it is actively pursuing various technologies, such as electric and hydrogen fuel, to accomplish this goal, as stated by Executive Director Girish Wagh. The organization, valued at $37 billion and holding a prominent position in the commercial vehicle

Odisha’s first green hydrogen plant to come up at Gopalpur

Renewable energy company ACME Cleantech Solutions Pvt. Ltd has signed MoU with the Tata Steel SEZ to set up a green hydrogen and green ammonia plant at Gopalpur in Ganjam. As per reports, the plant with a 1.3 million tonne capacity will be set up at a cost of Rs 58,000 crore. ACME Cleantech Solutions

Ampol to work with OneH2 to build hydrogen service stations

Australia is expected to get more hydrogen service stations after the country’s largest petrol retailer teamed with a US firm specialising in the alternative fuel. Ampol announced its partnership with OneH2, revealing the companies would work together to speed up the use of hydrogen in the Australian market and help to cut emissions from heavy

India’s city gas firms bet on CNG expansion

India’s decarbonisation drive has prompted its government to push for more compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, which are expected to take over from gasoline and gasoil cars in the long run along with electric vehicles. City gas distribution companies are at the forefront of this initiative as they build CNG charging stations across the country,

 BP eyes Europe, Japan markets

Gobal energy giant BP is optimistic it can export green hydrogen to Europe and Japan by the end of the decade from a repurposed, 70-year-old oil refinery south of Perth. Having completed a study into the feasibility of developing a large-scale energy hub in Kwinana, the company is now eyeing the production of green hydrogen

Shipping industry needs to adopt blue ammonia to achieve fast decarbonisation

The shipping sector needs to adopt blue ammonia as part of the bunker fuel mix to achieve timely decarbonisation, and substantial growth of CO2 storage infrastructure could support this in the coming years, according to a study by Denmark’s Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. Some shipowners are expecting methanol to play a

Indian Oil to invest $30 bn to achieve net-zero target

Indian Oil Corp plans to spend $30 billion to achieve its net-zero operational emissions target by 2046, the oil refiner’ chairman said. The company also announced an investment of Rs1 lakh crore ($12bn) to increase its refining capacity, already India’s largest, by a third. Under this plan, Indian Oil will have a refining capacity of

‘Worthless’ forest carbon offsets risk worsening climate change

More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. These credits are essentially a promise to protect forests and can be bought as a way to “offset” emissions elsewhere. But experts say the claims were “absolutely incorrect”. It shows unequivocally that many projects which have sold what are known as REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation

COSCO and Sinopec venture readies LNG carrier orders

China Energy Shipping Investment (CESI), a joint venture between COSCO Shipping and Sinopec, is set to order three 175,000 cu m LNG carriers worth around $761m. In a regulatory filing, Sinopec said the Hong Kong-incorporated investment holding company, 51% owned by Shanghai Cosco Shipping LNG, a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation and 49% owned

Green hydrogen mandates likely for hard-to-decarbonize sectors

A proposal to mandate hard-to-abate sectors such as refineries and fertiliser conmpanies to use green hydrogen as feedstock is soon going to be tabled before the Union cabinet, India’s minister for power and new and renewable energy RK Singh said. He, however, did not specify the proposed percentage of green hydrogen consumption mandate that are