Author: Anela Dokso

The research team of Professor My Ali El Khakani from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has joined forces with French researchers from the Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES),a CNRS-University of Strasbourg joint research lab, to pave the way towards the production of green hydrogen. This international team has developed new sunlight-photosensitive-nanostructured electrodes. Hydrogen is being considered by several countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a key player in the transition towards decarbonized industries and sectors. “Thanks to high-performance nanomaterials, we can improve the efficiency of water…

Ekona Power has entered into a Convertible Debenture with BDC Capital that will help the company develop its novel technology for low cost, clean hydrogen production. The Convertible Debenture is valued at $3.0 million, which provides Ekona with needed capital for its technology development program and supports its Series A-round, which will take place in 2021. Ekona’s pulsed-methane pyrolysis (PMP) solution converts natural gas feedstock into hydrogen and solid carbon, virtually eliminating CO2 emissions. Ekona’s patent-pending PMP reactor uses the principles of pulse-combustion and high-speed gas dynamics to dissociate feedstock methane. This unique reactor is low-cost, scalable and solves carbon…

Global Energy Ventures (GEV) and Pacific Hydro Australia Developments (Pacific Hydro) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities for the production, storage, loading, ground and marine transportation of green hydrogen produced by Pacific Hydro’s Ord Hydrogen Project. Both parties will work collaboratively on developing an export market and associated marine transport solution for green hydrogen utilizing GEV’s proprietary C-H2 ship and supply chain. Pacific Hydro operates the Ord Hydro Plant, located at Lake Argyle, Western Australia, which has the capacity to supply 30MW of renewable power to the local market. Pacific Hydro has completed a feasibility study…

Loop Energy, a mobile-power company providing hydrogen fuel cell-based solutions for the medium-to-heavy duty commercial vehicle market, has appointed George Rubin as chief commercial officer (CCO) and became a member of the executive management team. Rubin, who originally joined Loop in 2020 as Managing director, Commercial Strategy, will be responsible for Loop’s global commercial activities and driving business and revenue growth in existing and new markets, while building the requisite internal product commercialization infrastructure to support these efforts. As a member of the executive leadership team, reporting to president and CEO Ben Nyland, Rubin will work closely with Loop’s product…

Plug Power will establish a $125 million Innovation Center in New York State creating 377 new jobs, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo informed. The center, located in the Town of Henrietta, Monroe County, will be the first world’s first Gigafactory for Proton Exchange Membrane technology. The company will use this facility to manufacture hydrogen fuel cell stacks and electrolyzers. The fuel cell stacks are used in its ProGen hydrogen fuel cell engines, which are used to power a variety of electric vehicles including material handling equipment, on-road commercial fleet vehicles, and drones. The electrolyzers are utilized in the generation of green…

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has partnered with Youngstown State University and DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance workforce development for the battery manufacturing industry. The $1 million project will assist in the development of an Energy Storage Workforce Innovation Center, which will serve as a training center based in the Midwest. The training center would support the battery and EV manufacturing industry in the North-East region of Ohio – referred to as “Voltage Valley” due to the number of investments made in the area by the electric vehicle industry – by helping supply a capable workforce. “We are…

Mott MacDonald has been selected by the NortH2 Consortium as its technical integration and optimization contractor for the NortH2 project, a global flagship project for large scale green hydrogen production and the largest hydrogen project in Europe. The consultancy will develop conceptual designs that will be carried forward to a final investment decision. NortH2 wants to play a major role in achieving the European, Dutch and German climate goals and accelerating the development of an international hydrogen market. The project aims to achieve this through large-scale production, storage and transport of green hydrogen to industrial sectors that are difficult or…

BioSolar’s wholly owned subsidiary NewHydrogen, is exploring additional major cost reduction opportunities in hydrogen electrolyzers beyond the scope of its current sponsored research project at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). A mature technology that has existed for over 200 years, electrolyzers are systems typically installed behind a solar farm or wind farm that use renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, thereby producing Green Hydrogen. The main challenge and reason that humans do not utilize Green Hydrogen everywhere is their high cost. The catalysts that enable the critical water-splitting reactions are currently made from platinum and…

McDermott International’s CB&I Storage Solutions business has been awarded a study by a natural gas producer to research opportunities to expand current liquid hydrogen storage capacity limits. CB&I Storage Solutions specializes in field-erected spherical cryogenic hydrogen storage and is currently building the liquid hydrogen sphere for NASA. “Industry leaders across the energy spectrum recognize that effective, affordable storage solutions are imperative to achieve a sustainably powered future. Hydrogen, like wind and solar, plays a major role in decarbonization and this study aims to unlock even greater potential in this field.”Samik Mukherjee, McDermott’s senior vice president for Projects. “In 1960, we…

DACHSER has joined the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (DWV), a lobbying group that has been advocating the rapid deployment of hydrogen as an energy source and promoting fuel-cell technology. DACHSER will also participate in DWV’s HyLogistics cluster. Vehicle manufacturers, renewable energy producers, and logistics companies recently joined forces to establish this new working group. Their objective is to provide political support for the preparation and introduction of fuel-cell trucks to the market in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in freight transport—and to represent these interests before German and European policymakers and ministries. “Freight transport by road causes…