Green steel announcement wave keeps rolling... Next from 🇫🇷: ArcelorMittal and Air Liquide signed MoU to build commercial-scale DRI with submerged arc furnace in Dunkerque. By 2030, this will allow to cut this site's CO2 emissions by ~3 Mt CO2. corporate.arcelormittal.com/media/news-art…

Australia's rain will become India's #coal pain, as floods shut Newcastle port, the world's largest coal-export harbour. #India has been buying increasing volumes of #Australia coal, and this means higher prices, tighter supplies. #ausbiz #energy reuters.com/article/idUSL4…

Two more EU ⁦ArcelorMittal⁩ blue then green hydrogen DRI steel plant announcements👇⁦Hilton Trollip⁩ ⁦Bryce McCall⁩ ⁦@MTorresGunfaus⁩ h2-view.com/story/arcelorm…

Saudi Arabia's second PV tender draws world record low bid of US $0.0104/kWh (approx R0.15 per kWh) pv-magazine.com/2021/04/08/sau…

Hadn't seen a chart like this before: Here are CCS projects completed since 2000 (in blue) vs CCS projects proposed but never finished (in gray). Lots of failures, obviously. This paper asks what explains the successes to see if they can be replicated: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

The UK is falling behind Europe in the race to clean #steel. Great new ECIU report building on excellent analysis by Bellona Europa tracking growing numbers of H2-based steel pilots in Europe vs. 0 in the UK.

Honestly, I wonder how much more productive and less stressed people would be if the MS Outlook search function wasn't so terrible.

Breaking ground on 9 June 2021 as construction starts at the vanadium electrolyte plant located at the East London IDZ in Eastern Cape, South Africa. A partnership between Bushveld Energy and the IDC South Africa #Energystorage #VRFBs #Vanadium

SA 🇿🇦 Steel Master Plan includes carbon neutrality and green steel by 2050 Read the full Master Plan here: thedtic.gov.za/wp-content/upl… Technical Information Center Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) #steel #greensteel #ClimateAction #industrialpolicy engineeringnews.co.za/article/infras…

From 49.6C in Canada to 53.2C in Kuwait, we map the hottest temperatures around the world 👉 aje.io/3zukte

There’s a lovely upward spiral in steel decarbonization ambition happening. 2025 is the earliest anyone has declared they would be selling H2 DRI EAF steel 👏😄. I suspect Teresa Ribera has something to do with this. Hilton Trollip Bryce McCall Marta Torres IDDRI

We can delay the decision on nuclear, while we should in the meantime make use of our renewable resources to expand capacity much faster until a time like small modular nuclear reactors might be commercially viable that could compliment our power system businesslive.co.za/bd/national/20…

“Unbundling Eskom: A necessary step or prelude to disaster” Join Alternative Information and Development Centre and Daily Maverick on the 1st of September for this exciting webinar with Sasha Planting, Chris Yelland and Bruce Baigrie buff.ly/2V3KCcE

In the run up to COP 26, The Economist's "To a Lesser Degree" podcast highlights key issues, including the financial challenges faced by developing countries who need support from rich countries to scale up their transition.

$8.5bn Just Energy Transition Partnership with South Africa: a first of its kind agreement between a coal-intensive developing country and a group of donor governments to work together and fund a just transition away from coal. This is a big deal.

Please join us on Thursday 3pm for a webinar on Just Transition in Mpumalanga: presentations will cover socio-economic research, skills and age profiles of coal miners, employment pathway scenarios & opportunities in mining rehab & remediation. Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Developing economies hit hardest by EU’s carbon border tax #CBAM 🇨🇦 🇿🇦 🇧🇷 🇹🇷 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇪🇬 🇬🇧 🇰🇷 🇺🇸

SA is one of the best locations in the world to build a #greensteel value chain. Great engagement today with the iron & steel value chain and stakeholders hosted by Technical Information Center with LeadIT and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) to unpack the pathway(s) to seize the opportunity for the benefit of all in SA

South Africa needs a modernised electricity system that fosters inclusive economic growth, meets minimum emissions standards and aims for the bottom end of the NDC, enabling cheaper cost of capital and access to trade. We need bold ambition. #JustEnergyTransition

Another headline would be electricity market regulators globally have *a couple of years* to rejig their energy & capacity valuation mechanisms to send the right signals for more demand response as well as short through long term storage & transmission, or there_will_be_chaos_🤣