Author: Anela Dokso

ITM Power has informed that the Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and the Environment launched the UK Government’s Hydrogen Strategy at an event to officially open ITM Power’s new factory in Sheffield’s Bessemer Park. The ITM Power Gigafactory, which has a capacity of 1,000MW (1GW) of electrolysis equipment per year, began operations in January of this year. The plant presently employs approximately 320 people, with additional staffing planned as the facility ramps up to capacity. The company makes electrolyzers, which use renewable energy to separate water into its constituent molecules of hydrogen and oxygen. The…

SSAB has now manufactured the first fossil-free steel in the world and delivered it to a customer. The test delivery is an important step toward a fully fossil-free iron and steel production value chain and a milestone for the HYBRIT partnership between SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall.

With the signing of an agreement to develop this technology, hydrogen forklifts could become a prominent product from Hyundai Construction Equipment in the near future. This ambition was formalized with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with S Fuel Cell to build a one to three tonne hydrogen forklift. This is projected to be commercialized by 2023, once the necessary infrastructure in South Korea has been built. By agreeing to collaborate on the development of this new hydrogen forklift, both companies are not only aiding the energy transition but also giving a solution to warehouse logistics. As part…

Powerhouse Energy Group announce that Peel NRE, part of Peel L&P, has submitted a planning application to develop its second waste plastic to hydrogen facility at Rothesay Dock on the north bank of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire, using Powerhouse technology. The 13,500-tonne plant will be the second in the UK to utilize Powerhouse’s pioneering DMG® technology, after the approval of plans for a similar facility at Peel NRE’s Protos site in Cheshire in 2019. Peel NRE has submitted a planning application to West Dunbartonshire Council after talking with the local community and stakeholders around the North Clyde site.…

Turkey is on the list of Germany’s green hydrogen supplier countries, in keeping with the country’s new hydrogen policy, according to Markus C. Slevogt, the chairman of the German-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK Turkey). Green hydrogen is created by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with an electrolyzer fueled by renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2020, the German government issued a national hydrogen strategy with the slogan “We are making Germany a hydrogen country.” Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Transport said in mid-May that it will invest €8 billion in the development of…

Western Australia’s government has granted a $1.97 million grant to ATCO, which manages the majority of the state’s gas network, to assist capital works for injecting renewable hydrogen into the gas grid. The $2.6 million initiative will see green hydrogen from ATCO’s Clean Energy Innovation Hub (CEIH) in Jandakot “mixed into isolated parts” of the gas network. The goal is to increase this to up to 10% of total gas delivered. According to the WA government, this will be Australia’s largest such project, with “approximately 2,500 connections.” The award is made possible through the state’s Renewable Hydrogen Fund. The Australian…

Tens of thousands of employment, billions of pounds in investment, and new export prospects will be unleashed by government plans to establish a thriving low carbon hydrogen sector in the UK over the next decade and beyond, according to Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. The UK’s first-ever Hydrogen Strategy advances the Prime Minister’s ambitious 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution by laying the groundwork for how the UK government will collaborate with industry to meet its ambition of 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 – the equivalent of replacing natural gas in powering approximately…

Advent Technologies Holdings announced that an article co-authored by a group including Dr. Emory De Castro, Advent Technologies’ Chief Technology Officer, has been published in Joule. The article presents the group’s perspective on near-, mid-, and long-term targets for proton conductors of heavy-duty fuel cells. In addition to De Castro, the article was led by Craig S. Gittleman, Global Fuel Cell Business at General Motors, and included Hongfei Jia, Material Research Department at Toyota Research Institute of North America, Calum Chisholm, SAFCell, and Yu Seung Kim, Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Fuel cells utilize the chemical energy of…

Sentient Labs and MACS-Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) have created a system that directly creates hydrogen from agricultural waste for use in fuel cell-powered vehicles. Sentient Labs’ vision is to provide technological solutions for the electrification of transportation. It has found constraints in battery technology, fuel cell technology, and hydrogen generating technologies. Several initiatives are underway to develop the building blocks required for sustainable mobility. This hydrogen generating system makes use of cellulose and hemicellulose-rich agricultural residue, such as rice, wheat, or maize residue. For the direct creation of hydrogen from agricultural leftovers, the technique employs microbial culture. It also produces…

Hydrogen-powered heavy-duty truck company Hyzon Motors is ramping up operations in the wake of its merger with blank-check firm Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp., including shipping its first trucks to European customers. The company is also preparing to start its first customer trials in the United States. Like other transportation companies that have gone public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition fund, Hyzon doesn’t yet have any revenue to speak of. Instead, Hyzon is banking on the huge injection of capital from the transaction — more than $500 million — and growing customer orders to take it to positive…