Author: Anela Dokso

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has secured Victorian government funding that will enable it to partner with Swinburne University of Technology to establish the Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2). VH2 is designed to bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test, trial and demonstrate new and emerging hydrogen technologies. Under the partnership, CSIRO will receive more than $1 million towards the development of a refuelling station to fuel and test hydrogen vehicles. The refuelling station, to be located at CSIRO’s Clayton campus in Victoria, is a key milestone in the development of CSIRO’s national Hydrogen Industry Mission, which aims to…

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Advent Technologies, a company in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology space, and AMCI Acquisition Corp. have completed their business combination. The combined company, Advent Technologies Holdings will begin trading on Nasdaq on February 5, 2021. The Business Combination, which was approved at a special meeting of AMCI’s stockholders creates a leading fuel cell technology company and builds on a number of important achievements, including: over 50 international patents; 15 years of research leading to the development of intellectual property including the materials for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cell technology from Advent’s selection in the L’Innovator program that…

Silvia Piana, Enel Green Power’s head of Regulatory Affairs Africa, Asia and Australia, has been elected one of the seven members of the Steering Group of the Coalition for Action created by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). “I am happy to take on this role because the purpose and vision of IRENA is 100% in line with the activities of Enel Green Power, decisively aimed towards the energy transition. There is a total alignment of interests, for example concerning hydrogen. On this front IRENA’s position is exactly the same as our group’s, promoting only Green Hydrogen produced through electrolysis…

A European consortium consisting of 25 organisations in the hydrogen sector are joining forces to define, develop and test the first European standard for fuel cell modules for heavy duty applications. This standard for fuel cell modules may be the game changer that the fuel cell industry requires to enhance market competitiveness by enabling competition, cost reduction and mass production. The consortium operating together as “StasHH” comprises 11 fuel cell module suppliers, 9 original equipment manufacturers and 5 research, test, engineering and/or knowledge institutes and will standardize physical dimensions, flow and digital interfaces, test protocols and safety requirements of the…

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden has developed POWERPASTE which provides a safe way of storing hydrogen in a chemical form that is easy to transport and replenish without the need for an expensive network of filling stations. Researchers have come up with a hydrogen-based fuel that is ideal for small vehicles, POWERPASTE, which is based on solid magnesium hydride. “POWERPASTE stores hydrogen in a chemical form at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to be then released on demand and given that POWERPASTE only begins to decompose at temperatures of around 250 °C, it remains…

Westport Fuel Systems has agreed to start a research project with Scania to apply its HPDI 2.0TM fuel system with hydrogen to the latest Scania commercial vehicle engine. Preliminary test results are expected in the second half of 2021. “Our specialty is working with gaseous fuels. Hydrogen use in an internal combustion engine with our HPDI fuel system could offer another cost-competitive pathway to reduce CO2 emissions from transportation. This exciting evolution of our patented technology could provide an economic, competitive alternative to fuel cells while providing a similar greenhouse gas emission reduction profile.”David M. Johnson, chief executive officer of…

Ballard Power Systems has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Global Energy Ventures, a provider of integrated compressed shipping solutions for the transportation of energy to regional markets, for the development of a new fuel cell-powered ship, called C-H2 Ship, designed to transport compressed green hydrogen. The power required for a small-scale demonstration of the C-H2 Ship is expected to be under 10 megawatts (MW). At full scale, the C-H2 Ship will have a propulsion power requirement of approximately 26MW, and a containment system for storage of 2,000 tons of compressed green hydrogen. GEV will be responsible for…

Corvus Energy is set to start development and production of sustainable, large scale maritime-certified hydrogen fuel cell systems. Production will be located in Bergen, Norway with Toyota onboard as key partner and supplier of mass-produced fuel cell technology. Corvus is spearheading a collaboration with Norwegian partners Equinor, shipowners Norled and Wilhelmsen, ship design company LMG Marin, the NCE Maritime CleanTech cluster and R&D institution the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) to develop and produce modularized and cost-effective PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cell systems for the international marine market. The project has received €5.2 million in funding from state agency…

Ballard Power Systems has received orders from Solaris Bus & Coach for 10 Ballard FCmove fuel cell modules to power 10 Fuel Cell Electric Buses (FCEBs) in the Netherlands. Ballard plans to ship the modules in 2021. Ballard fuel cell modules will power 10 Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses planned for deployment with Arriva Nederland in the Province of Gelderland, the Netherlands later in 2021. These will replace diesel buses currently in service and are expected to cumulatively travel over 1 million kilometres per year. Each of the single decker Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses is 12 meters long, has…