Although December 2016 showed another record-high for electric vehicles in the Netherlands, also other low-carbon options are urgently needed to further reduce transport emissions. 31,6%, in December 2016, was the highest share for full electric (FEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) passengers vehicles in the monthly new car registrations in […]
for: IEA Bioenergy, VTT Finland [Mar – Dec 2016] In an international project team, the role of biomass energy for grid balancing was investigated. Given the expected increasing share of renewable sources for the production of renewable electricity, and in particular the share of variable sources (wind and solar energy), biomass
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For: VITO Flemish Institute for Technology [Dec 2015 – Aug 2016] studio Gear Up carried out for VITO project management and execution activities for the ‘BioSustain’ project’, commissioned by DG Energy of the European Commission. In the BioSustain project VITO collaborates with other European partners (PwC, TU Wien, Utrecht University, INFRO and
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For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment [Dec 2015 – Apr 2016] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, studio Gear Up took preparatory steps, together with involved stakeholders in the sustainable biofuels sector in the Netherlands to found a Platform Sustainable Biofuels (‘Platform Duurzame Biobrandstoffen). The aim of
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For: NOVE – Dutch association for independent fuel suppliers on land and water [Jul 2015 – Jan 2016] studio Gear Up supports NOVE and its members in understanding the biofuel market and policy developments in Europe and the Netherlands. By providing market, policy and regulation updates NOVE members are able
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At the COP21 in Paris, 195 countries adopted the Climate Agreement to limit the rise of global temperature “to well below 2 ºC above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5 ºC. The text of the Agreement can be found here. Now it is up to
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For: Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment/Netherlands Enterprise Agency [May – Nov 2015] For the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment studio Gear Up is operating as a ‘quartermaster’ to initiate concrete actions on biofuels in heavy duty road transport. These actions should help reaching a sustainable fuel mix that
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For: TKI Gas [Jul – Sep 2015] For TKI Gas, studio Gear Up analysed the technology developments of hydrogen and its application for transport and energy storage. The analysis addressed the necessity for innovation support by TKI Gas to establish synergies between the ongoing hydrogen developments and the existing gas
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The strong dominance of fossil resources (share-wise) in energy consumption can make it easy to overlook the disruptive changes that are taking place in today’s energy landscape: for more than a decade now, total energy consumption has been going down in the European Union – at the cost of fossil fuels.
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Over 2014 the world’s energy consumption has increased, as can be conluded on basis of the June-2015 numbers of the BP Energy Statistical Review. The majority of resources to fuel this growth are still fossil based.The share of renewables is rapidly growing in importance. However, decreasing world fossil fuel consumption and
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