Author: Arnes Biogradlija
Arnes Biogradlija
Arnes Biogradlija is the founder and Editor in Chief of EnergyNews.biz, which he launched in 2021 to separate energy transition realities from fairy tales. He writes data driven analysis on hydrogen, energy storage, small modular reactors, grids and industrial policy, and leads the Energy Talks interview series. EnergyNews.biz reporting has been cited more than 100 times by the International Energy Agency.
Under the patronage of the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MoEI), Brooge Energy, a Cayman Islands-based infrastructure provider, announced a partnership with Siemens Energy, one of the world’s largest energy technology suppliers, to develop a plant in Abu Dhabi that will use solar PV to produce green hydrogen and ammonia. Brooge Energy is currently involved in clean petroleum products, biofuels, and crude oil storage.
When a $12.5 million plant in Adelaide’s north comes up later this year, South Australia will start exporting hydrogen to Indonesia.
Lhyfe has secured the construction authorization for its second green and renewable hydrogen production site in the Morbihan region of Brittany, France, and is set to commence preparatory construction work.
Prasanta Sarkar made the decision to stay behind and work on a problem while on a lengthy backpacking trip through India. He joined Entrepreneur First and immediately clicked with Rochan Sinha. They jointly established Newtrace in 2020 to create a new category of “membrane-less” electrolyzers and to make a dent in the market for “green hydrogen,” which at the moment only accounts for a tiny fraction of the 6 to 7 million tonnes of hydrogen produced in the nation each year, all from fossil fuels.
The broad alliance attempting to quicken the port of Rotterdam-based importation of hydrogen from Australia has grown stronger.
The Belgian-German Energy Summit, where Belgium and Germany collaborated to increase their energy independence, was held in Zeebrugge on Valentine’s Day.
A grant of 25 million euros has been given to the North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley project, which was jointly created in Slovenia, Croatia, and the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Green hydrogen will be produced in a factory in Delfzijl by the Amsterdam-based Torrgas using discarded wood and grass from the side of the road. Torrgas anticipates spending between 80 and 100 million euros on the new facility.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego has ordered a hydrogen-powered research vessel that will be constructed to ABS Class standards.
The Greenko firm, which is constructing the largest pumped hydro storage facility in the world—1,680 MW—near Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, for “upwards of a billion dollars,” aims to construct three other such facilities over the course of the following three years.
