Alternative Fuels

With so many lingering questions about batteries in electric vehicles, having a backup technology isn’t as crazy as it might sound. With so many lingering questions about batteries in electric vehicles, having a backup technology isn’t as crazy as it might sound. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…

U.S. production of renewable diesel hit 5 million gallons a day for the first time in January, according to recent U.S. Energy Information Administration data, continuing a two-year boom.The biofuel is a key part of federal and state government plans to mitigate climate change by cutting carbon emissions. Production has swelled since 2021. Incentives from the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California, combined with pandemic-depressed demand for conventional fuels, motivated many energy companies to start…

KINGSLAND, Georgia— Andy Marsh tried for 14 years to make a profit running Plug Power Inc. PLUG -1.79% Last summer he went to Washington and came away with a potential windfall.While senators battled over the climate, tax and spending bill, there was surprising agreement that hydrogen, Plug Power’s business, needed a big dose of support. “My biggest concern that I have right now is that we have not invested the money that we needed to…

THROOP, Pa.— The highest prices in years have made producing natural gas profitable just about anywhere. But with companies trimming their emissions and new tax breaks for waste-to-energy projects, some of the most lucrative places to extract gas are garbage dumps.  Down the western slope of Keystone Sanitary Landfill, a knot of pipes, membranes and compressors draws fumes from within the mountain of rotting trash, separates the methane from other gases, and pumps it into northeast Pennsylvania’s…

Shell SHEL -0.55% PLC has agreed to buy a European producer of biogas for nearly $2 billion, the latest move by a major oil and gas company to push into renewable fuels. The London-based company said Monday it would buy Denmark’s Nature Energy Biogas A/S, which produces a renewable fuel called biomethane that can replace conventional natural gas in heavy road and marine transport, industry and heating. Nature Energy is Europe’s…

Some of the world’s largest grain companies posted better-than-expected profits and raised their financial outlooks for the year, thriving off crop shortages and global volatility.Two of the largest farm giants that dominate global grain trading and processing, Archer Daniels Midland Co. ADM 2.60% and Bunge Ltd. BG 6.99% , said this week that despite fears about a recession, demand for their grain, biofuels and…

BP will operate the renewable natural gas company Archaea Energy as a subsidiary. Photo: KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS…

Unpredictable weather has long complicated wind and solar power generation. Now companies are turning to increasingly sophisticated computer models to cut costs and produce energy more efficiently despite fluctuations. Compared with a coal, gas or nuclear plant, wind and solar facilities produce a dizzying amount of data that utilities are struggling to put into use. Each solar panel and each wind turbine sends out its own data on electricity output, unlike with a traditional power plant. Utilities...…

Businesses and financiers are scrambling to tap billions of dollars in U.S. clean-energy incentives, spurring what executives and government officials say is a frenzy of deal making in the renewable-power and emissions-reduction sectors.At one of the first big clean-energy conferences since the U.S. passed legislation full of incentives for renewable power and other climate measures, corporate executives crammed into standing-room-only meetings on green steel and hydrogen fuel.  The event was a contrast to previous…

Tesla electric cars photographed in Germany on March 21, 2022. According to the International Energy Agency, electric vehicle sales are on course to hit an "all-time high" this year.Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesElectric vehicle sales are on course to hit an all-time high this year, but more work is needed in other sectors to put the planet on course for net-zero emissions by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency.In an announcement accompanying its Tracking Clean Energy Progress update, the…