Chemical industry

• Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. (“Montrose”) (NYSE: MEG), a leading environmental services company, today announced a global collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (“Thermo Fisher”), the world leader in serving science, to provide a comprehensive real-time ethylene oxide (EtO) monitoring solution that meets recently released U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations.
• Working together, Montrose and Thermo Fisher offer medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, chemical companies, and commercial sterilization service providers, a comprehensive solution to achieve compliance with the EPA’s new ethylene oxide regulations.
• Steve Davis, Senior Vice President of Environmental Data Solutions at Montrose, commented: “This powerful collaboration between Montrose and Thermo Fisher creates a turnkey solution, meeting the needs of industry to monitor ethylene oxide.
• Exposure to toxic vapors from ethylene oxide emissions poses a serious health risk to workers and neighboring communities.

• The initiative envisages a circular process in which, together with green hydrogen, biogenic CO2 would be used to produce the hydrocarbons.
• The CEO of Greenalia, Manuel García, states "this project approaches the process from a circular, global, sustainable and innovative perspective.
• Through project Breogán, P2X and GRN will strengthen their commitment to the region of Galicia.
• Already being a leader in renewable energy production, Galicia now has the potential to also become a leader in the production of green molecules such as green hydrogen and synthetic fuels from renewable sources.

• Stockmeier Chemie GmbH & Co. KG
  The increasing demand for specialized chemicals in various industry verticals, rapid globalization of the chemical industry, and increasing complexity and specialization of the chemical industry represent some of the key factors driving the market.
• Third-party chemical distribution refers to a business model under which a company acts as an intermediary between chemical manufacturers and end-users.
• One of the primary factors driving the market is the increasing demand for specialty chemicals in various industry verticals, such as electronics, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture.
• Additionally, the globalization of the chemical industry and the increasing complexity and specialization of the chemical industry are positively influencing the market growth.

• Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history.
• The rise and rise of cheap solar is our best hope for rapidly mitigating climate change.
• Total solar capacity tipped over 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) for the first time last year.

Australia is finding the path

• All the leading countries for per capita solar and wind generation are in Europe – except Australia.
• In Australia, 99% of new generation capacity is now solar and wind because it is cheap.
• But unlike European countries, Australia cannot share electricity across national boundaries.
• And South Australia will soon become the world’s first gigawatt-scale grid to run on renewables.

Where will the era of ubiquitous solar take us?

Solar capacity has been growing at 20% a year for decades. Elimination of fossil fuels from the global economy is straightforward: electrify everything using clean electricity from solar and wind. This includes:
• To run our homes, industries and vehicles with electricity, we’ll need to double electricity production.
• If these trends continue, by mid-century we will be in a very different – and better –  energy world.
• Given electricity consumption is strongly correlated with affluence, access to cheap electricity will be a major boon for many nations.

But is it possible?

• To supply everyone with enough electricity to live a good life, we’ll need about 200 billion megawatt-hours per year (equal to 200,000 terawatt-hours per year).
• That would see global electricity consumption reach 20 megawatt-hours per person per year – double Australia’s current consumption per person.
• The main short-term bottlenecks are likely to be building enough transmission lines – and ensuring we have enough engineers and installers.

We have the space and the raw materials

• Raw materials for solar panels are abundant – silicon from sand and common metals like steel.
• There are no toxic metals or no critical materials like cobalt in them, and they are highly recyclable.
• This, in turn, will boost their resilience in the face of war, pandemics and the changing climate.
• The required area of solar panel is about five square metres per kilowatt (40 square metres total for 8 kilowatts).