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The BMBF has provided about 30 million euros for the large-scale hydrogen research project Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation (hyBit). The creation of so-called hydrogen hubs, or centres for hydrogen, in northern Germany is the main focus.
Nikola Corp. may earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year from incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act of the Biden administration if it can put its hydrogen fuel cell trucks and filling station network into service.
In Saxony-Anhalt, discussions between the federal states’ energy ministers took place. Their objective is to encourage the growth of the hydrogen economy. Willingmann, the conference’s chairman, predicts that we “won’t ever be able to totally dispense with energy imports.”
China’s fuel cell vehicle (FCV) market has had tremendous expansion in recent years, with sales of FCVs experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 32.3% from 2016 to 2022.
EDP moves more quickly with its green hydrogen aspirations in Spain. The environmental processes for the two significant projects that the company, led by Miguel Stilwell and Ana Paula Marques in Spain, is currently working on in our nation Los Barrios in Cádiz and the Hydrogen Valley of Asturias in Aboo have already been started.
The consultation process for Chile’s green hydrogen action plan has begun, and it will be in charge of the country’s short-term goal to expand the nascent industry.
In a reopened tungsten mine in Tasmania, Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has agreed to replace diesel with renewable energy and green hydrogen.
In order to simplify the integration of renewable and low-carbon gases into the EU gas market, the energy ministers of the EU came to an agreement on Tuesday to develop the market for “low-carbon” hydrogen, such as that produced by nuclear energy.
In the second part of this year, Portugal said it will hold a ground-breaking auction for the rights to sell hydrogen for injection into its natural gas infrastructure. The nation’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions include the first auction ever held in Europe.
The largest producer of hydrogen in the world and a pioneer in energy transition initiatives, Air Products (APD), recently announced that it had been awarded a number of supply contracts worth more than $130 million by NASA to provide liquid hydrogen for various NASA locations, including the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and other NASA facilities.
