Author: Anela Dokso

Western Australia’s government has granted a $1.97 million grant to ATCO, which manages the majority of the state’s gas network, to assist capital works for injecting renewable hydrogen into the gas grid. The $2.6 million initiative will see green hydrogen from ATCO’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub (CEIH) in Jandakot “mixed into isolated parts” of the gas network. The goal is to increase this to up to 10% of total gas delivered. According to the WA government, this will be Australia’s largest such project, with “approximately 2,500 connections.” The award is made possible through the state’s Renewable Hydrogen Fund. The Australian…

Tens of thousands of employment, billions of pounds in investment, and new export prospects will be unleashed by government plans to establish a thriving low carbon hydrogen sector in the UK over the next decade and beyond, according to Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. The UK’s first-ever Hydrogen Strategy advances the Prime Minister’s ambitious 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution by laying the groundwork for how the UK government will collaborate with industry to meet its ambition of 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 – the equivalent of replacing natural gas in powering approximately…

Advent Technologies Holdings announced that an article co-authored by a group including Dr. Emory De Castro, Advent Technologies’ Chief Technology Officer, has been published in Joule. The article presents the group’s perspective on near-, mid-, and long-term targets for proton conductors of heavy-duty fuel cells. In addition to De Castro, the article was led by Craig S. Gittleman, Global Fuel Cell Business at General Motors, and included Hongfei Jia, Material Research Department at Toyota Research Institute of North America, Calum Chisholm, SAFCell, and Yu Seung Kim, Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Fuel cells utilize the chemical energy of…

Sentient Labs and MACS-Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) have created a system that directly creates hydrogen from agricultural waste for use in fuel cell-powered vehicles. Sentient Labs’ vision is to provide technological solutions for the electrification of transportation. It has found constraints in battery technology, fuel cell technology, and hydrogen generating technologies. Several initiatives are underway to develop the building blocks required for sustainable mobility. This hydrogen generating system makes use of cellulose and hemicellulose-rich agricultural residue, such as rice, wheat, or maize residue. For the direct creation of hydrogen from agricultural leftovers, the technique employs microbial culture. It also produces…

Hydrogen-powered heavy-duty truck company Hyzon Motors is ramping up operations in the wake of its merger with blank-check firm Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp., including shipping its first trucks to European customers. The company is also preparing to start its first customer trials in the United States. Like other transportation companies that have gone public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition fund, Hyzon doesn’t yet have any revenue to speak of. Instead, Hyzon is banking on the huge injection of capital from the transaction — more than $500 million — and growing customer orders to take it to positive…

PowerTap Hydrogen Capital Corp has shared an update on its technology for creating low carbon intensity blue hydrogen and how it is consistent with the draft US Infrastructure Bill’s definition of clean hydrogen. The company intends to use renewable natural gas (RNG) blended with fossil fuel natural gas as a feedstock in its modular on-site hydrogen production and dispensing system to produce blue hydrogen. The team at PowerTap Hydrogen Fueling believes that by deploying its technology to manufacture hydrogen from current pathways utilizing California Air Resources Board (CARB) methods, a carbon intensity (CI) of zero (0) grams (g) CO2 per…

HV Systems (HVS) has received a £5 million financial injection from Beehive Equity Limited, a subsidiary of EG Group (EG), for the production of an innovative hydrogen vehicle. HVS, which has received numerous awards, will now move its revolutionary hydrogen vehicle concepts through prototyping and demonstration, allowing manufacture to begin. With the EG investment, HVS intends to take an important step toward a net-zero future for all, creating a safer living environment with cleaner air and calmer roads. The number of vehicles HVS wants to create by 2030 will avoid the same amount of carbon emissions that Heathrow airport emits…

DNV has created a gas distribution test grid as part of the Northern Gas Networks-led H21 project to acquire a better understanding of 100% hydrogen transport. The test’microgrid’ at DNV’s test and research center at Spadeadam, Cumbria, northern England, consists of about 1km of piping with varied pressure levels and sizes, which is linked to three demonstration houses with hydrogen boilers. In 2022, the test grid will also connect to the FutureGrid gas transmission test network, which is being built at Spadeadam by National Grid in collaboration with partners such as Northern Gas Networks. At this point, the network is…

As it seeks to accelerate efforts to reduce carbon emissions, the European Union is betting big on hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels like oil, and for good reason: hydrogen emits no CO2, so if produced using clean energy sources, the fuel could have a big impact in the global fight against climate change. Last year, the European Commission issued a dedicated Hydrogen Strategy as a first step in that direction. According to the Commission, “the strategy’s goal is to decarbonize hydrogen production – made possible by the significant reduction in the cost of renewable energy and the acceleration…

Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport has launched a study for 16 non-electrified routes in Baden-Württemberg to answer which strategy is the best for which railway line in the future. It is possible that electrifying lines via an overhead contact line is not always the best option and is prohibitively expensive. Alternative forms of drive, such as hydrogen hybrid trains (H2MU) or catenary / battery hybrid trains (BEMU), can be put on the track faster and more economically on specific railway lines. The investigation will focus on 16 non-electrified routes. In the electrification idea, these are the routes assigned to category 3…