Author: Arnes Biogradlija

The introduction of a joint New South Wales and Victoria grant funding round has set off plans to build Australia’s first “renewable hydrogen highway” and green up one of the country’s busiest freight corridors along the east coast. Grant applications opened on Monday, with $20 million set aside to assist the design and construction of at least four sustainable hydrogen refueling stations along the route, as well as around 25 hydrogen-powered trucks. Successful candidates must enter into a cooperative funding agreement with both governments, who have each contributed $10 million to the Hume Hydrogen Highway. The Hume Hydrogen Highway is…

First Hydrogen Corp. is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, First Hydrogen Limited, has appointed Afkenel Schipstra as Chief Operational Officer to expand its energy business. Ms. Schipstra joins First Hydrogen from multinational utility ENGIE, where she served as Senior Vice President of Hydrogen Business Development. She was responsible for major hydrogen projects in the Netherlands, including HyNetherlands, a 1.85 GW green hydrogen value chain that includes the production, transport and use of green hydrogen. She is also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of HydrogenOne Capital Growth plc, the first hydrogen fund listed on…

The supervisory board (SB) of German steelmaker Salzgitter has approved a €723 million investment in making steel production more sustainable. Salzgitter is working on hydrogen-based steel production. The SB’s approval is not yet an investment decision for the sustainability effort. Salzgitter is still waiting for the allocation of requested subsidies, the size of which I will have to withhold from you. In the Salcos project, Salzgitter has been working for years on a Direct Reduction Iron Ore Plant (DRI) on hydrogen and an electric arc furnace to convert a traditional blast furnace on (metallurgical) coal. The group now single-handedly accounts…

Green hydrogen is soon to be produced in Lusatia. Half a billion euros is planned for the project. Construction is scheduled to start in 2024. Jänschwalde in southern Brandenburg is to become a site for the production of green hydrogen and sustainable jet fuel. A total of 500 million euros is planned for the project, the Wiesbaden-based company Hy2gen AG announced Thursday. The plant is to be built by 2027 at the so-called Green Areal Lausitz on a former airfield. Construction is reportedly scheduled to begin in 2024.Hy2gen specializes in the planning, construction and operation of plants for the production…

Repsol and Navantia Seanergies, Navantia’s green energy division, have signed a collaboration agreement for the production of renewable hydrogen. The signing took place at Navantia’s Turbine Factory in Ferrol, a center that will play a key role in this agreement. The two companies have agreed to combine knowledge and efforts for the industrial development of renewable hydrogen. This agreement is in addition to other collaborations between Navantia and Repsol in the field of decarbonization and green energies. On the one hand, Navantia Seanergies has announced the start-up of a production line of electrolyzers within this Ferrol factory. On the other…

Galp Gás Natural Distribuição (GGND), which is the largest gas distributor in Portugal, already has 70 requests to inject renewable gases into the networks, essentially green hydrogen. Three are more advanced and should start injecting within a year. “We have received more than 70 requests from hydrogen and biomethane producers to inject into our networks. Within these 70, we have three to four that are biomethane, but the vast majority are hydrogen projects,” indicated the CEO of GGND, Gabriel Sousa, in a meeting with journalists. Among the dozens of hydrogen projects, “we have three projects that are already at cruising…

The Chinese business Higer, which is about to sign a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of an electric bus plant in Ceará, has more ambitious intentions for the state. In addition to electric-powered vehicles, the company wants to break ground with the production of buses and trucks powered by green hydrogen. What may seem like a distant thing, here is an indication that it is not: in China, the company has 400 buses operating with this type of energy matrix, in addition to 250 trucks. “We have the technical solution. We still don’t have the production (in Ceará),” Marcello…

By 2028, the first medium-sized passenger plane should be able to fly on green hydrogen from Amsterdam to London. In doing so, some 17 companies, including Fokker and TU Delft, are converting an existing propeller plane into a hydrogen-electric aircraft. Michel van Ierland of Unified International is bringing those parties together as an entrepreneur. Flying causes a lot of CO2 emissions. That’s why companies are working hard to develop sustainable alternatives, such as electric or hydrogen-powered planes. But why do it on your own? Unified International brought parties in the aircraft industry in the Netherlands together to build the first…

The Hyundai Nexo and the Toyota Mirai have a fuel cell on board that turns hydrogen into electricity. The technology works, but doesn’t really take off. Why is that? It’s not the cars’ fault. The Toyota Mirai is economical, comfortable and dynamic, and for families with children there is the spacious and practical Hyundai Nexo. Driving on hydrogen is actually remarkably unobtrusive, because the drive is electric so the driving feel is familiar fare. With the pleasant side effect that you never have to unroll or plug in a charging cord. On the other hand, the Mirai and the Nexo…

The Asociación Galega do Hidróxeno (AGH2) has signed this morning a collaboration agreement with the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) to promote hydrogen as an energy vector. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the Galician government who highlighted the commitment of the Xunta for the promotion of renewable energy sources. During the meeting, the president of the association, José Ramón Ferreiro, explained the roadmap of the entity to the academics and stressed the need to “develop sustainable technologies that allow achieving energy independence from external sources, while avoiding emissions and decarbonizing the industry”. Likewise, the rector of…