Author: Anela Dokso

The developer of the world’s first liquid hydrogen bunkering facility for zero-emission ships has been awarded a UK Government grant to develop a unit ready for rapid deployment to ports around the world. The £30,000 Transport Research and Innovation Grant (TRIG) awarded by the Department for Transport in partnership with Connected Places Catapult will be used to help further develop the commercial version of the small-scale portable facility, which can help reduce emissions from one of the most polluting modes of transport, according to Steven Lua, CEO of Unitrove Innovation, part of the Unitrove Group. Last November, the Leicestershire-based clean-tech…

Bloom Energy, a leading distributed electricity generation company that manufactures solid oxide fuel cells, has launched an operating lease facility with Macquarie. The funds were used to build a 1.4 megawatt (MW) fuel cell microgrid that is supplying power to a California-based semiconductor component manufacturer. Macquarie structured a sale and leaseback to Bloom Energy as part of the deal, covering the majority of the system costs for the customer and allowing Bloom Energy to provide the customer with reliable, resilient, sustainable, and cost-competitive onsite electricity. The Bloom Energy microgrid allows this customer to dispatch independently from the grid, removing the…

P2X Solutions, a leader in green hydrogen and P2X technology, has received EUR 75,000 from the Bank of Land’s Baltic Sea Project for the SH2ORE study, which will support significant emission reductions in Baltic Sea maritime transport. The study looks at carbon-neutral maritime propulsion options, as well as domestic production and business opportunities, as well as safety. “The Baltic Sea needs new innovations and especially solutions with positive environmental impact potential. Therefore, it is important for us to support interesting initiatives like this,” says Anne-Maria Salonius, Director, Finnish Mainland Business Area, Bank of Åland and the Chair of the Baltic…

A research team from the University of Alberta is collaborating with a Calgary energy company to extract hydrogen and high-demand carbon products from natural gas while emitting less CO2. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Mitacs Accelerate Grants Program awarded Innova Hydrogen and researchers in the Faculty of Engineering $1.2 million to develop the technology. Natural gas is heated to about 1,000 degrees Celsius in a reactor, where it is thermally decomposed into hydrogen and “carbon black,” a substance used in plastics, ink, and rubber products. However, the heat used in that process, which is typically generated…

The agreement signed by Enel Green Power and Sapio focuses on activating a supply of green hydrogen produced using renewable energy from the Carlentini wind farm in eastern Sicily. The agreement calls for the sale to Sapio of green hydrogen produced, stored, and made available at Enel Green Power’s futuristic NextHy initiative’s Carlentini and Sortino production sites beginning in 2023. Sapio will be in charge of expanding the market and handling renewable hydrogen distribution to end users. The annual supply foreseen in the agreement is for the estimated 200+ tons of production capacity of the Sicilian hub. Green hydrogen will…

Tevva Motors has chosen Loop Energy to supply its T505 (50 kW) Series fuel cell system for Tevva’s 7.5 tonne electric truck platform. The Tevva tender process began in Q4 2021 with a single unit order to evaluate and test the fuel cell system. Tevva chose Loop Energy as its supplier after testing and placed initial orders for multiple units. Both companies are currently working on a larger supply agreement. “By combining Loop Energy’s hydrogen fuel cell with our 7.5t battery electric truck platform, Tevva is taking an exciting step towards delivering our zero-emission range-extended trucks,” said Tevva Founder &…

Clean Vision Corporation has taken advantage of its previously announced option to license Kingsberry Fuel Cell Power’s hydrogen fuel cell technology. Kingsberry spent twelve years developing and patenting its hydrogen fuel cell power systems technology, which was largely funded by $10 million in federal and state research/infrastructure grants. The company has hired Kingsberry to design and build a five-kilowatt fuel cell prototype that will generate clean energy from hydrogen stored in the company’s wholly owned Clean-Seas (C-S) subsidiary’s pilot waste plastic-to-energy pyrolysis plant in Hyderabad, India. There, it will be demonstrated to potential clients such as India’s Ministry of Defense,…

Three players from completely different backgrounds have joined forces in the “Concrete Chemicals” project to make air travel possible even in a CO2-neutral world. CEMEX, a global cement company, ecoFT, a subsidiary of Sasol’s integrated chemical company, and ENERTRAG, a renewable energy company, are planning to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which will help the cement industry decarbonize. Cement and aviation are widely regarded as the most difficult industries in which to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By converting CO2 into SAF with the help of hydrogen, the international consortium paves the way for CO2-neutral cement production, allowing for CO2 reduction…

Hydrogene de France (HDF Energy) has taken a 70% stake in the NewGen project in Trinidad, which is being led by local firm Kenesjay Green (KGL). KGL, the project developer, will keep the remaining 30% of NewGen’s share capital, which will be jointly owned by KGL and an investment vehicle that will allow additional local investors to be onboarded. The more than $200 million NewGen facility, when completed, will be the world’s largest clean hydrogen-producing facility of its kind, utilizing a smart combination of solar power and energy-efficiently produced electricity. It will produce carbon-free hydrogen at a competitive price to…

Mainzer Stadtwerke and Wirschaftsbetriebe Mainz want to work more closely together in the hydrogen production field. To accomplish this, the two companies have formed a joint venture. ‘Innovative Infrastruktur Mainz’ was recently given the green light by the Mainz City Council (I2M). By the end of this year, the company’s two partners announced that it would begin operations. I2future M’s will be handled by two managing directors in the future. Wirtschaftsbetriebe will build an electrolysis plant, which will be operated by the company. Mainz sewage treatment plant will receive oxygen from the electrolyser in the future, and it will also…