This week in buildings, land and industrial decarbonization, NetZero Insider’s James Downing covered a report on how industry could replace thermal energy sources with green power. Industrial heat is a major source of emissions and current technology can replace natural gas for lower-temperature applications of up to 500 degrees Celsius, which is the source of 75% of emissions from the sector.
NetZero Insider also had three stories on the contentious issue of generation siting. John Cropley fills us in on two new reports that quantify the local opposition renewable energy developers are facing and offer insight on how to address it, while Jon Lamson has a dispatch on environmental justice groups in Massachusetts calling for consulting with host communities at the beginning of planning processes for new clean energy projects, saying it would expedite development and prevent unnecessary impacts on vulnerable communities. Finally, Michigan correspondent John Lindstrom reported on efforts to repeal legislation giving the state Public Service Commission the authority to site renewable projects. Some of the local governments that would lose siting authority are working to gather signatures for a referendum
this fall.
Our curation of news elsewhere includes another funding announcement by the Department of Energy, this time $254 million to decarbonize the industrial sector. The money includes $171 million for 49 projects across 21 states to cut industrial greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate decarbonization technologies. The other $83 million is open for applications for firms working to decarbonize difficult industries such as chemicals, steel, building and infrastructure.
Canary Media has a story on a new firm, Budderfly, seeking to spread energy efficiency by agreeing to pay its customers’ utility bills, meaning it only makes money if it achieves major savings.
Spectrum News from Ohio has a story on a Dominion Energy’s test site, called “Hydrogen
Heights,” where it is fueling appliances using a mix of 95% methane and 5% hydrogen. The firm is testing various ages and brands of appliances using the new fuel mix.
New Food Magazine has a story on efforts by the beverage industry to reduce its 4% of global emissions. More than 90% of the sector’s emissions come from its supply chain.
Read that and more in this week’s Buildings, Land and Industry Intelligence Report:
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