Author: Arnes Biogradlija

The California Energy Commission voted to award approximately $4,000,000 to Sierra Northern Railway and GTI for the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive at the Port of West Sacramento. The locomotive will demonstrate the potential of hydrogen fuel-cell technology to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation. The funding will be utilized to retire a Tier 0 diesel locomotive and replace it with a zero-emission, hydrogen-powered switching locomotive. The project comprises the combination of modern hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen storage, advanced battery, and systems control technologies in order to give an alternative…

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Saxony will pay around six million euros in subsidies to Leipzig-based Ontras Gastransport GmbH so that the Free State can be connected to the European Hydrogen Backbone. Pipelines to H2 import ports on Baltic Sea and in Netherlands The cabinet and the budget committee of the state parliament have already approved the special grants for this “Important Project of Common European Interest” (Ipcei) in the hydrogen economy, according to the announcement. Minister of Economics Martin Dulig (SPD) now wants to sign administrative agreements with the Federal Ministry of Economics for two Ontras Ipcei projects. On the one hand, this involves…

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