Author: Anela Dokso

The South Australian Government and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study the feasibility of exporting green hydrogen made in South Australia to Rotterdam. The partnership of South Australia and the Port of Rotterdam will build upon a $1.25 million hydrogen export modelling tool and prospectus, released in October 2020, looking at establishing green hydrogen supply chains from South Australia. South Australia is the first sub-national jurisdiction to enter into such an agreement with the Port of Rotterdam. The Port is doing similar feasibility studies regarding the production and shipping of hydrogen with…

ENEA is creating the first Italian Hydrogen Valley to develop a national supply chain for production, transport, storage and use of hydrogen, focusing on research, technologies, infrastructures and innovative services. The project, conceived by ENEA, kicks off with a 14 million euro investment to set up the first Italian technological incubator for the development of an hydrogen supply chain. “In this multifunctional, comprehensive hub all the potentials of hydrogen to accelerate research and innovation and make hi-tech infrastructures available to bridge the gap between the lab and industry will be explored.”Giorgio Graditi, head of the ENEA Department of Energy Technologies…

H24US has proved its advanced polymer membrane technology performance in selecting hydrogen from other gases with very high throughput. The H24US process, called H2PrimeEnergy, uses certain specialized materials and proprietary processing steps. Blending hydrogen into the existing natural gas infrastructure has national and regional benefits for energy storage, resiliency, and emissions reductions. Hydrogen produced from renewable, nuclear, or other resources can be injected into natural gas pipelines with the blend used by conventional natural gas customers to generate power and heat. H24US produces a low cost, high performance membrane for separating hydrogen from multicomponent gas streams. These inexpensive membranes can…

Emerson has become a member of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance (ECHA). Hydrogen’s share of the energy mix in Europe is currently less than 2%, but has the potential to rise to 10-23% by 2050, according the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. In joining the ECHA, Emerson will be at the forefront of hydrogen developments in Europe, thereby actively supporting the goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, as outlined in the European Union’s European Green Deal. The ECHA was established by the European Commission in March 2020 as part of its new industrial strategy for Europe. Its aim…

Chile and Port of Rotterdam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop green hydrogen. This is the first agreement on hydrogen as a fuel and feedstock signed by the Ministry of Energy with a European port. The agreement is considered to be of national importance in both the Netherlands and Chile. Minister Juan Carlos Jobet, of the Ministry of Energy of Chile, together with Allard Castelein, CEO of Europe’s largest port, signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on green hydrogen via video conference. The minister emphasized that the aim of the MoU is part of a plan to…

Italgas has co-signed the open letter sent to the executive vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, for the recognition of the strategic role of blending hydrogen into the existing gas networks, in order to achieve the decarbonization targets and the EU Hydrogen Strategy. The initiative was joined by around 70 European companies in the gas sector, including GD4S, the main association of continental DSOs, chaired by Italgas CEO Paolo Gallo. Among the addressees of the letter, in addition to vice-president Timmermans, are commissioners Kadri Simson (Energy), Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Virginijus Sinkevicius (Environment, Oceans and Fisheries). The letter…

Suncor and Svante have signed an equity financing agreement which provides Svante with the additional growth capital to accelerate the commercialization of its second generation CO2 capture technology in North America for the decarbonization of industrial emissions and hydrogen production. Combined, Suncor and a number of family office investors have invested $25 million of equity financing, bringing the total proceeds raised under Svante’s Series D financing to $100 million, up from $75 million announced in February, 2021, and completing the largest single private investment into point source carbon capture technology globally to date. This final closing of the Series D…

BOEM has issued the FEIS for Vineyard Wind 1.

Johnson Matthey and Sibanye-Stillwater have formed a partnership to drive decarbonization.

Haldor Topsoe and Aquamarine have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the purpose of building a green ammonia facility based on SOEC electrolysis. Aquamarine is developing a large-scale green ammonia facility to be constructed in multiple stages. In the first stage of the project, the proposed facility will use Topsoe’s proprietary solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) to produce green hydrogen from 100 megawatt of renewable electricity. The hydrogen will be further processed into 300 ton/day of green ammonia, also using Topsoe technology. The produced ammonia can be used as a green marine fuel or as fertilizer. Aquamarine will develop…