At this point, some news of the last few weeks will be addressed which, from GES’ point of view, are reason for hope because they contain building blocks of a possible global solution and \/ or could help to develop a realistic view of the challenges ahead of us.<\/p>\n\n
The expansion of electrolysis projects in Germany is lagging behind the government’s targets. That is the result of a study<\/a> by the German Academy of Science and Engineering and Dechema. If the electrolysis projects planned so far were to continue, a coverage gap for green hydrogen of 5.7 gigawatts would open up in 2030. The traffic light coalition (German government) has set itself a target of 10 gigawatts.<\/p>\n\n According to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re<\/a>, Norway wants to store all the CO2<\/sub> produced in Europe. Norway has great experience in injecting the climate gas at a depth of 3000 metres under the North Sea. Later, Norway wants to use the CO2<\/sub> again as a raw material.<\/p>\n\n In future, CO2<\/sub> is to be transported by pipeline from Germany to Norway. Wintershall Dea and Equinor<\/a> are working on a technical and commercial solution for transporting and storing the climate gas.<\/p>\n\n Saudi Aramco<\/a> also wants to inject CO2<\/sub> into former oil and gas fields from 2026 onwards. The climate gas is produced, for example, during the production of (blue) hydrogen from natural gas.<\/p>\n\n A Japanese consortium of the oil company Inpex, the heavy industry company IHI<\/a> and the shipping company MitsuiO.S.K. Lines has developed a low-CO2<\/sub> supply chain for ammonia. The ammonia is produced from natural gas in the United Arab Emirates. CO2<\/sub> is split off and injected into oil fields. The (blue) ammonia then goes by ship to Japan, where it is burnt.<\/p>\n\n If more houses were built with wood instead of concrete, large amounts of CO2<\/sub> could be saved. How big would the wood plantations have to be for that? And how do you protect the forests as a whole? Answers can be found in a study<\/a> by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Humboldt University Berlin.<\/p>\n\n Why is electricity so expensive in Germany? According to an article by Spektrum.de<\/a> the reason is a “completely derailed pricing mechanism”. Because the price is based on the most expensive provider \u2013 and not the cheapest (Merit Order). A study<\/a> by the DIW on the same topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At this point, some news of the last few weeks will be addressed which, from GES’ point of view, are reason for hope because they contain building blocks of a possible global solution and \/ or could help to develop a realistic view of the challenges ahead of us. The expansion of electrolysis projects in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}