America’s big natural gas and petroleum pipeline projects are on shaky ground. A surge of protests by environmental and social activists, litigation and policy changes are adding up to budget-busting delays. Projects are being abandoned as costs increase.
Flaring, the controlled burning of unwanted natural gas during oil and gas recovery, is both wasteful and damaging to the environment. Moves are being made to curb the procedure, but how effective will they be?
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With President Biden bidding for a net zero economy by 2050, there is a growing awareness and demand for high-voltage transmission systems to be substantially expanded.
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Hydrogen fuel is expensive, but can a warming world afford to ignore the clean energy potential of the most abundant element in the universe?
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30 years after Europe’s first offshore wind farm, the US is building its first industrial-scale offshore wind farm, 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, which will be home to the world’s most powerful wind turbines
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Can you build the equivalent of 37,000 trees into a suitcase? A start-up founded by three Stanford graduates turns unwanted CO2 into new products
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President Biden wants the US to become a net zero pioneer. But to make it happen, he’ll need huge advances in technology, and the unlikely support of his political opponents
Watch videoWith President Biden bidding for a net zero economy by 2050, there is a growing awareness and demand for high-voltage transmission systems to be substantially expanded. Not only will this build resilience in the grid, but it will also allow regions without the natural resources to produce renewable energy on their doorstep to benefit, too. Avangrid’s New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) is a pioneering transborder project to build a 233km transmission line along land owned by Central Maine Power that will deliver 1,200MW of clean hydropower energy from Quebec, Canada, to a grid in Lewiston, Maine, in the US.
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