Author: Anela Dokso

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) will soon begin testing a new train developed at its Zaragoza plant that will run on green hydrogen supplied by Iberdrola from its Barcelona plant. The FCH2RAIL project, led by CAF, is already in the advanced stages of designing and manufacturing a hydrogen train prototype that will replace the transmission system in a Renfe Civia series commuter unit. One of the first railway demonstrators of a bimode vehicle with a hydrogen cell, it generates electricity by combining energy from hydrogen cells and batteries, then integrating it with the vehicle’s existing traction system. According to…

Ekona Power, a Vancouver-based company developing a novel hydrogen production technology, has closed a CAD $79 million equity investment. Ekona’s novel methane pyrolysis technology platform, which produces clean and low-cost hydrogen, will benefit from the investment, which will help it reach commercial readiness. Baker Hughes led the funding round, which included Mitsui, Severstal, ConocoPhillips, TransAlta, Continental Resources, NGIF Cleantech Ventures, and BDC Capital as well as other notable partners. Hydrogen is a promising way to cut greenhouse gas emissions in transportation, heat and power, and a variety of other hard-to-decarbonize industries. Hydrogen production, on the other hand, must be both…

Amber Grid, the Lithuanian gas transmission system operator, has joined the European Hydrogen Backbone, Europe’s largest hydrogen initiative, to strengthen its position in the field of hydrogen research and development. The initiative brings together 29 gas and energy infrastructure operators from 27 European countries who share the same vision of a climate-neutral Europe. The goal of the initiative is to make a significant contribution to the growth of a market for renewable resources and low-carbon hydrogen. “By participating in the European Hydrogen Backbone initiative, we are building the necessary links between the company and the state with the European green…

Highland Engineering of Michigan has awarded Current Water Technologies a contract worth approximately CAD $250,000 for the development of its patent-pending novel AmmEL–H2 technology. Highland Engineering is a preferred small business ground support equipment supplier to all US Department of Defense agencies, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Bureau of Reclamation, and a number of industrial firms. It has a lot of experience integrating new technologies, like water treatment, into pilot scale, industrial, and military systems that its customers can use. AmmEL–H2 technology developed by CWTI has the potential to be one of the most environmentally and…

IREC, UPC, and the energy engineering firm AESA formed a consortium to develop a reversible electrolyzer for implementing hydrogen technologies in Barcelona. The electrolysis system was completed as part of the HyBCN project, which was funded by the City of Barcelona as part of Pla Barcelona Ciència 2020-2023. The goal of the project, which began in 2020 and is led by Marc Torrell of IREC, is to build a 1kW reversible electrolysis system based on solid oxide cells that can convert water into green hydrogen, store it, and produce renewable energy on demand in Barcelona. According to the project’s researchers,…

Snam4Mobility, an Italian energy infrastructure company, and OG, a Dutch company that owns and operates sustainable fuels service stations in the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden, have agreed to build a new Bio-LCNG refueling station in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This agreement is part of a larger sustainable mobility collaboration project between the two companies. The station, which will be built by Snam4Mobility by the end of the year and operated by OG as part of its network of service stations, will provide both liquefied and compressed biomethane to power sustainable mobility in Germany for both light and heavy-duty vehicles. Snam4Mobility…

HyCC and bp have agreed to collaborate on the development of H2-Fifty, a 250-megawatt green hydrogen plant in Rotterdam’s port area. The joint development agreement comes after a feasibility study revealed that the project can help the region’s industries decarbonize. The green hydrogen produced by H2-Fifty will be used to replace fossil-based feedstocks at BP’s Rotterdam refinery and other port-related industries. The project could help reduce CO2 emissions by up to 350,000 tonnes per year, which is about 40,000 Dutch citizens’ average emissions. H2-Fifty can help the Netherlands and Europe achieve their goals of making industry more sustainable and developing…

Oil & Gas UK, or OGUK for short, is changing its name and broadening its scope. It will now champion not only oil and gas, but also the low-carbon technologies that its members are developing. As of February 14, Offshore Energies UK will promote offshore wind generation, hydrogen production (where natural gas is converted into clean hydrogen), and CO2 capture and storage systems. The oil and gas sector will continue to be championed by Offshore Energies UK (OEUK). One exciting idea is to use renewable electricity from wind farms to power oil and gas installations, thereby reducing emissions associated with…

Xebec Adsorption has signed a contract with Belgium-based Desmet Ballestra to deliver the company’s first Hy.GEN-e on-site electrolyser unit for a food application. One of Desmet Bellestra’s major customers in North Africa will use the electrolyser system, which produces 100 Nm3/h of hydrogen, for a hydrogenation process. The company is leveraging its industrial expertise and supply to enable local production of sufficient amounts of hydrogen in order to meet the anticipated demand from fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Excess hydrogen quantities of high purity hydrogen can be used to fill emerging demand from FCEVs, so the installation will not only…

Nicholas Wrigley has been named Chairman and Director of First Hydrogen UK. Wrigley founded Winch Energy Group in 2008 and served as its CEO until recently, after which he became non-executive Chairman. Wrigley was also a founding partner of UPC Renewables, which has built over 4 gigawatts of wind power over the last 15 years. Wrigley will be in charge of First Hydrogen’s global development of hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered light and medium commercial vehicle business, as well as the company’s two MAN hydrogen fuel cell road legal demonstrators, which will be built in collaboration with AVL Powertrain UK and Ballard Power Systems.Wrigley…