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27 February 2024
Storing and using carbon – why it matters for the transition
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage sounds almost too good to be true. What role will it have in ... to a fossil-free future? What are its advantages, and what are its drawbacks?
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27 February 2024
Five better things do with carbon dioxide
Instead of regarding carbon dioxide as a threat, we should realise it’s an essential element for almost ... all products used by mankind. To be able to reach the necessary climate targets, carbon diox...
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26 February 2024
Norway’s Sleipner: Where CO2 has been buried in the rock since 1996
As the debate about carbon capture and storage (CCS) rages on elsewhere, carbon dioxide from the Sleipner ... Sleipner gas field has been successfully stored deep below the North Sea outside the coast...
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24 June 2024
Restoring peatland: From carbon leak to biodiverse carbon sink
planned the largest onshore wind farm in England and Wales, Pen y Cymoedd, it also took on the restoration ... restoration of up to around 1,500 hectares of blanket bog and other peatland habitat whic...
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27 February 2024
Vattenfall takes major step towards negative emissions in Jordbro
In Jordbro ... place by 2028 that will be able to capture up to 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the biomass fuelled ... of negative emissions through bio energy carbon capture and storage (BECCS...
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25 June 2024
Dancing foam rods guide fish to safety
Persuading fish to find their way past hydro power plants successfully has presented a challenge ... Vattenfall and Cellufy are now working together to trial a solution that involves using dancing ro...
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27 May 2024
The future of flight: How to make aviation fossil-free
The human urge to explore the far corners of the globe is as old as time itself, but our wanderlust ... cost. From electric planes to biofuels, hydrogen, and electrofuels, the aviation industry is now...
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9 February 2024
Vattenfall reviews HySkies project scope
Vattenfall and Shell are reviewing the scope for the HySkies electrofuel project with the ambition to
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NEWS
23 April 2024
Pumped hydro storage: the Swiss Army knife of the energy industry
Pumped hydroelectric power ... stations offer the ability to store electrical energy easily, efficiently, and in large quantities. The technique
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NEWS
23 January 2024
Finding the solutions will absolutely not be easy
Fossil fuels have contributed to an extraordinary level of economic transformation during ... know that the environmental cost has been enormous, and the essential decarbonisation might seem to presen...
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24 June 2024
Vattenfall and BASF partner with Vestas for low-emission steel wind turbines in Germany
Vattenfall and BASF have signed supply and service contracts with Vestas for 15 MW offshore wind turbines
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23 April 2018
Vattenfall aims for carbon-free gas power
News Carbon emissions to be replaced by water vapour if natural gas is switched for hydrogen. Cooperation ... Cooperation with Statoil and Gasunie started. technology, climatesmarter Vattenfall and it...
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25 March 2024
Offshore turbines get reusable covers
temporary solution used to cap the huge tube. In the past, covers tended to be written off and destroyed after ... after use. However, those used in the construction of the Hollandse Kust Zuid Offshor...
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26 January 2024
The challenge is on to make clean energy clean all the way
raise awareness and mobilise action for a just and inclusive transition to clean energy. And not just clean ... clean because it's low carbon, but because it’s built in environmentally and sociall...
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28 May 2024
Innovative energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines
sustainable energy and fossil freedom. News light-blue Innovative energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines ... energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines Innovative energy: Space solar an...
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30 May 2023
Five ways to reduce carbon emissions with hydrogen
everywhere and could replace fossil fuels in a variety of industrial processes, materials and products ... products and thereby reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, it is only now that hydrogen p...
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25 June 2024
Match making: how energy transition and biodiversity can coexist
The energy sector needs to transition to fossil-free production to mitigate the impact of climate change. One ... challenge is to achieve this while also preserving and protecting biodiversity.
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23 January 2024
From blades to buildings
News This parking building is made using decommissioned wind turbines From blades to buildings In a new ... Wind turbine blades are made to deliver electricity and withstand tough weather for decades....
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10 May 2024
The web of deceit: How false narratives threaten climate action
rising temperatures and extreme weather, but also the spread of disinformation and misinformation. False ... power. This is made worse by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media algor...
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23 October 2019
Hydrogen, an important step towards independence from fossil fuels
significant part of today’s carbon emissions from industry, transportation and heating could be avoided ... avoided. Vattenfall is exploring different options to use hydrogen to decarbonize our societ...
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27 May 2024
Digital twins – a road to more profitable offshore wind
Digital twins can help Vattenfall and the wind industry get maximum value of its offshore wind farms ... farms. Real-time measurements of structures and operations ensure that all decisions on the ope...
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NEWS
28 November 2023
Watching eye encourages plastics recycling
Plastic in waste streams ... in waste streams used for energy recovery is an unnecessary source of fossil carbon dioxide emissions ... of making it profitable to improve waste sorting and increase rec...
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NEWS
5 September 2019
Smart land use: solar power and farming combined
Combined solar power and agriculture could significantly increase the yield from farm land Vattenfall's
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NEWS
21 February 2020
Electricity and hydrogen reduce industry CO2
Industry needs help in order to ... reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. Vattenfall is making it happen through cooperation and partnerships
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NEWS
25 June 2024
Are bats and wind turbines a viable cocktail at sea?
Understanding the big picture when it comes to the movement of bats over the sea is important ... the risk of collisions between wind turbine blades and bats while also ensuring the generation of offs...
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14 June 2024
Eco-anxiety – and how to make it go away
Eco-anxiety, a condition many experience in ... response to a barrage of bad news about climate change and the environment, seems to impact young people the
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NEWS
22 September 2022
HYBRIT: Milestone reached – pilot facility for hydrogen storage up and running
SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall's HYBRIT pilot facility for the storage of fossil-free hydrogen gas is now ... the world for storing fossil-free hydrogen gas. The two-year test period will now start and...
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NEWS
28 November 2023
How using sewage for your shower helps the climate
We literally flush a huge part of produced energy right down the ... drain. But the hot sewage from you and your neighbours can be used to heat your shower water again - whilst
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28 February 2023
Unique study: birds avoid wind turbine blades
Seabirds deliberately avoid wind turbine rotor blades offshore – that is the main finding ... importantly, during two years of monitoring using cameras and radar, not a single bird was recorded collid...
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NEWS
4 December 2019
Vattenfall helps eels migrate safely
Vattenfall is using a unique method to ensure eels can safely pass through hydro power plants in the ... eels shortly before they start to migrate en masse and keeps the adverse environmental impact o...