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Foreword
In June 2019, the International Energy Agency
(IEA) published a report analysing the current and future situation for
hydrogen as a fuel commodity globally. The report found that hydrogen is
benefiting from unprecedented political and industrial support, which should
now be accompanied by technological scale-up and a
reduction in associated costs to allow hydrogen to be more widely available
globally. In its efforts to decarbonise its industry by 2050, the UK has begun
to invest money and develop infrastructure for renewable hydrogen.
The UK government is now subsidising the use of
hydrogen as power fuel at two major oil refineries in the UK, namely Essar Oil UK and Killingholme. The full investment
totals £7.5 million and is destined to cover part of the cost of a new
hydrogen-fuelled furnace for Essar Oil UK...
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- UK’s record on bioenergy offers world a
pathway to net zero
Markets
- Biffa acquires Viridor’s Collections
business
- Altri’s green energy arm, Greenvolt to buy 70% of Profit Energy
- Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries sign
deal to deliver the world’s largest carbon capture power project
Research & Development
- New research and innovation centre for
industrial decarbonisation
- ADM successfully completes one million tonne
carbon capture and storage project
- More...
Biomass Heat and Power
- UK oil refineries supported to use Hydrogen
as a fuel
- Proposal for Immingham to lead the world as
a green-fuelled port unveiled by stellar industry consortium
Biogas
- Aemetis begins construction of centralized biogas
cleanup unit to produce renewable natural gas
- Northern Irish Weltec customer uses
biomethane as a truck fuel for Lidl
- More...
Energy from Waste
- Peel in £20m plans to create second waste
plastic to hydrogen plant
- EQTEC targets efw plants in Italy for
repurposing to biomass
Events
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