Author: Arnes Biogradlija

An important step in making the energy system more sustainable. That’s how Ad van Wijk, professor of Future Energy Systems at TU Delft, calls the conversion of the Maxima power plant to process hydrogen. Engie is converting one of the power plant’s two turbines in Lelystad. The power plant now makes electricity from natural gas, but a lot of Co2 is released in the process. According to Van Wijk, that’s where the big difference with hydrogen lies. “Now you burn natural gas and when you produce one kilowatt hour of electricity you emit about half a kilo of CO2. If…

In the past decade, the challenge of climate change and the understanding of the urgent need to take measures to preserve the environment have dominated governmental, organization, and business discourse. In our sphere of action, technology, sustainability, and conservation go hand-in-hand. With this in mind, we seek to support and develop projects that challenge our culture of natural resource depletion, as well as the way we live, eat, and tackle our everyday challenges. In addition to a number of other initiatives, we have lately begun studying hydrogen in order to facilitate the energy transition. Global warming compels us to reevaluate…

Let’s start with the basics – the hydrogen economy is based on hydrogen as the most versatile and environmentally friendly energy carrier, linking the power, heat, and transportation sectors. The special properties of hydrogen as a fuel were noticed back in the middle of the last century – its combustion heat is several times greater than that of natural gas, gasoline or diesel fuel of the same mass, and it does not produce any emissions except water vapor. However, at that time there was no large-scale transition to hydrogen – the reason was the high cost of electrolysis (splitting water…

The gleaming white hall in Chicago where the team from the start-up Hyzon is working on the future of mobility has something of a laboratory about it. The heart of the development work is as big as a cupboard and gray-blue with orange power cables: the company’s own fuel cell. It is being developed for use in trucks. Hyzon’s work on climate-friendly freight transport has ensured that the company is now valued at just under a billion dollars. The first tractor-trailers equipped with the company’s technology are scheduled for delivery in 2023 The journey began in 2003 with students at…

Experts in lightweight construction from Saxony collaborate on an eastern German hydrogen-powered aircraft. Specifically, a Dresden collaboration is building a lightweight hydrogen tank for the experimental Apus i-5 “H” aircraft, which the Strausberg-based company Apus and Rolls-Royce have been designing together since 2019. This was disclosed by the Institute of Lightweight Construction and Plastics Technology (ILK) at TU Dresden, one of the project’s research partners. Concentrate on high energy density and compact installation Thus, Saxony is working on a major issue pertaining to alternative energy sources for aircraft: neither batteries nor hydrogen have yet attained the energy density of kerosene.…

Aurora Hydrogen, a business researching emission-free hydrogen production technology based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, raised $10 million USD in Series A funding. Energy Innovation Capital led the financing, while Williams, Shell Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation also participated. The researchers had secured extra money from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) earlier this year. The company wants to use the funding to construct and run a 200 kg-H2/day demonstration facility in Edmonton, Canada, for field experiments. Aurora Hydrogen, led by CEO Andrew Gillis, is creating a clean hydrogen manufacturing method that…

Toshiba EES, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, has activated a hydrogen car filling station in Niigata, the capital of Niigata Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan. The H2One ST Unit, which the business has already placed in various locations in Japan, is intended to power fuel cell buses and is powered by a 20 kW photovoltaic array located nearby. According to the business, the system can refuel about eight hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in three minutes each vehicle. It may also provide both hydrogen fuel and electricity to fuel cell automobiles by utilizing hydrogen produced with renewable…

The Chinese group CTG opened in Brazil a center for the study of green hydrogen, in a project that aims to consolidate a “hub” (exchanger) of this fuel in the port of Suape. The so-called “Tech-Hub” of CTG Brazil and the National Service of Learning in Industry (Senai) will have an initial investment of 45 million reais (about 9 million dollars) and in its initial phase will be focused on “promoting the development of innovative solutions” for the so-called “fuel of the future”. Green or renewable hydrogen (H2V) is generated through the process of “electrolysis of water”, which is the…

During the month of July, the Province, through the Investment Agency, participated in a seminar organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection of Germany (BMWK), within the framework of the H2Global Project, where it worked together with other countries in the design of financing tools to promote productive poles of Green Hydrogen and derivatives. The German H2Global Program aims to finance, develop and promote scale production points of green hydrogen and derivatives such as green ammonia and methanol, as well as a supply market, thus responding to the energy crisis from green technologies. Currently, the German government’s…

Modena is increasingly focusing on hydrogen. A production, storage and distribution chain of green hydrogen – made, that is, from renewable sources – and a skills and training center. This is the “H2 move” project undertaken by Modena’s Cedem consortium (formed by a number of small companies that are members of Modena’s Cna) on the Via Emilia axis between the Bologna and Parma areas. “The hydrogen in question,” explains consortium president Marco Malagoli, “would be produced by plants powered by renewable energies (hydroelectric power plants, photovoltaic fields, biomass), giving priority to the former, particularly from those already present in the…