Author: Arnes Biogradlija

PTT Group, Thailand’s state-owned oil and gas company, has pledged to invest $7 billion in green hydrogen production in partnership with Saudi Arabia’s leading renewable energy company, ACWA Power.

KBR Inc. has secured the primary integrated project management contract across BP’s global hydrogen project portfolio, according to an announcement made by the Houston-based company.

Hazer Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chubu Electric and Chiyoda Corporation to establish a commercial-scale Hazer facility in Japan’s Chubu region.

Japan’s ambitious Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, a $500m, decade-long plan to extract hydrogen from brown coal in Victoria, Australia, is at risk of failure due to demands for extra subsidies and a lack of long-term commitments from Japanese customers.

In the EnergyNews.Biz hydrail interviews series, we talked with Dr Holger Busche, scientific advisor for energy and traffic at the provincial parliament in Northern Germany and the federal Bundestag.

The heads of the Advanced Institute of Technology and Innovation (IATI), Brazil’s only centre specialized in scientific research on green hydrogen, claimed that this renewable energy source will drive an “energy revolution” in the world and that the future of the transition is in Brazil.

The Association of Swiss Electricity Companies (AES) recently conducted a study on hydrogen, examining a scenario in which Switzerland develops renewable energies while staying integrated into the European energy market.

The Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom have agreed to expand their cooperation and exchanges in the fields of clean energy, including offshore wind and hydrogen, as well as nuclear power generation.

The Wyhlen hydropower plant, run by EnBW subsidiary Energiedienst, is currently being constructed and will have the biggest production capacity for green hydrogen in southern Germany.

Statkraft has submitted an Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report for a green hydrogen project, to Planning and Environment Wales.