Author: Anela Dokso

ACME Group has signed a land deal to establish a green ammonia project at the Special Economic Zone at the Port of Duqm in Oman. According to an official announcement, the deal was struck with The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones, a government authority in Oman. The Oman Company for the Development of the Special Economic Zone in Duqm (Tatweer) and ACME Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in March 2021 to establish a large-scale facility to manufacture green hydrogen and green ammonia. The plant will be an integrated facility that will use 3 GWp…

As Europe’s leading designer, developer and manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cells and electric hybrid systems, Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH has been an expert in mobile and stationary applications based on renewable resources for over 20 years. For the new collaboration with Aumann AG, the international manufacturer of innovative special machines and automated production lines, agreements have now been reached that essentially define the expansion of series production of hydrogen fuel cells. Decisive here are the whereabouts and use of the fuel cell stack production plant at Proton Motor. Since 2017, its high-tech has been projected together with Aumann as…

Brussels will get its first hydrogen-powered public transportation starting in September, when the first STIB hydrogen bus hits the streets of the Belgian capital. The bus, which was unveiled on Monday, has already through many tests in recent weeks and is ready to go into service as part of the regional transport operator’s larger push for renewables. The hydrogen bus was loaned to the company by the Belgian firm Van Hool in early July, following which it was put through tests while employees were trained on the new vehicle. The bus will be subjected to numerous testing over the following…

National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) has launched Australia’s first hydrogen capability finder. The free online platform, dubbed HyCapability, intends to connect Australian hydrogen enterprises with both domestic and worldwide markets as the country strives to be a hydrogen leader. The Hydrogen Technology Cluster Australia (H2TCA) and EconomX also contributed to the tool’s debut. HyCapability has defined four key aims to achieve its goals: to encourage the expansion of hydrogen induct, to promote Australia hydrogen business, to create a baseline understanding of the Australian hydrogen sector, and to increase momentum for the H2TCA network. The tool is expected to be the…

Metacon AB signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement in Japan with the company Notes, Nagano for its Combined Heat and Power (CHP) product H2PS-5. The agreement is made through Metacon’s subsidiaries Metacon KK in Japan and Helbio SA in Greece. Notes is a company active in the electronics and energy sector in Japan. Notes brings valuable experience from relevant high-technology areas such as electronics equipment and manufacturing of small-scale solar power generation systems in Japan. Notes will take on a key role for Metacon in both selling and supporting the H2PS-5 products after sales in Japan. The agreement follows a longer…

A new partnership has been established to assist federal and provincial hydrogen policies to promote the clean and green fuel, as well as Canada’s decarbonization targets and aspirations to establish a hydrogen economy. The Canada Hydrogen Alliance (CH2A), led by Hybrixcel and seeded by GERB Scientific, will do just that by promoting supply chain innovation, production, and the commercialization of hydrogen-focused technology and hydrogen-powered projects. Furthermore, the alliance will seek to identify concrete measures that Canada can take to grow the whole supply chain for clean hydrogen production, transportation, storage, and usage, as well as the technology development and infrastructure…

The Xiong’an New Area building project in Hebei Province, China, has received a fleet of 100 hydrogen-powered trucks. FTXT Energy Technology, a subsidiary of Great Wall Motor (GWM), and partners Dayun, Dongfeng, and Foton handed over the fleet to assist establish a green hydrogen transportation network countrywide. Each of the trucks is outfitted with 111kW hydrogen fuel cell engines, hydrogen stacks, and hydrogen storage, as announced at the Great Wall Technology Centre. Once operational, the vehicles will be refueled at 10 pre-existing service stations equipped with hydrogen stations. Not only are the vehicles environmentally friendly, but they are also believed…

Verdagy, a Khosla Ventures backed green hydrogen technology company based in Moss Landing, California, has appointed Dr. Saroj K. Sahu as chief technology officer. Dr. Sahu’s key focus areas will be leading the commercial scale-up of the Verdagy Water Electrolysis (VWE) technology. Verdagy’s technology combines industry-leading very large active area cells, operating at high current densities nearly ten times higher than those of traditional alkaline water electrolysis. The cell architecture and selected membranes allow a large dynamic operating range enabling both load shedding and load gaining capabilities reducing overall system energy costs. Taken together, this allows Verdagy to achieve both…

Monash University in Australia completed a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a potential large-scale solar-electrolysis facility for green hydrogen production. The study’s open-access publication has been published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. They computed hydrogen generation by dividing annual solar farm power output (without transmission losses and balance-of-plant loads) by electrolyzer efficiency. The average global horizontal irradiance (GHI) for Learmonth, Western Australia was 2,200 kWh m-2 yr-1, which was used to calculate solar farm energy generation. They assumed an electrolyzer efficiency of 55 kWh kg-1 H2, as well as sensitivity values of 50 and…

Hyundai has added five zero-emissions NEXO hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles to the Queensland government fleet, marking the company’s continued commitment to hydrogen as an environmentally beneficial transportation solution. The NEXO fleet was unveiled on Saturday at the GABBA in Brisbane, with Minister for Energy, Renewables, and Hydrogen, Mick de Brenni, and the Hyundai-sponsored Brisbane Lions in attendance to promote the QLD hydrogen revolution before of the final-round AFL match. The NEXO fleet is intended to raise awareness and is decked out in an eye-catching Indigenous-inspired livery depicting a hydrogen nucleus and the Brisbane River (Maiwar), developed by Brisbane-based Indigenous-owned creative…