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India and Italy will jointly explore green hydrogen

The NuGen project at Anglo’s subsidiary Anglo American Platinum’s Mogalakwena mine will employ a 140MW solar plant to produce hydrogen electrolyzers to split water and generate hydrogen fuel for the trucks, which can carry 315 tons of ore apiece. Engie SA has aided Anglo in the setup of the system.

As a result, a significant clean hydrogen trade is expected to emerge in the next years. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) predicts that more than 30% of hydrogen would be exchanged across borders, far more than natural gas.

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The enormous opportunity for the UK to capitalize on green hydrogen’s industrial opportunities was highlighted today at RenewableUK’s first-ever green hydrogen event, Green Hydrogen 2022, held by ITM Power at their Gigafactory in Sheffield. The company manufactures state-of-the-art electrolyzers that generate green hydrogen from renewable energy sources. Green hydrogen can be used to decarbonize a wide range of industries, most notably industrial operations such as glass, steel, and chemical production, as well as heavy-duty transport, while also increasing the flexibility of our current energy system by ensuring that the grid is always balanced. It will be critical in assisting the…

Woodside LNG, a producer of liquefied natural gas in Australia, and Korea Gas Corporation have signed a non-binding agreement to jointly investigate the technical and commercial viability of a green hydrogen pilot project. The latest deal builds on the two companies’ mid-2018 memorandum of understanding. Since then, Woodside and KOGAS have collaborated on a series of collaborative workshops examining the future of hydrogen as a fuel. The partners now intend to investigate the viability of a green hydrogen project along the value chain, including production, storage, transportation, and distribution.

According to a study conducted by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, perovskite materials have the potential to play a significant role in a process for renewable hydrogen production. Hydrogen has emerged as a critical carrier for renewable energy storage, as an alternative for fossil fuels used in transportation, ammonia manufacturing, and other industrial applications. The ability to accomplish the Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Energy Earthshot—a recently stated target of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen by 80 percent to $1 per kilogram in a decade—is critical to the successful use of hydrogen as a fuel. The NREL scientists…

Expanding the use of “green hydrogen” would be critical for China to meet its dual carbon targets, analysts believe, as future increase in power generation will largely come from non-fossil sources. The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly released a 15-year plan to grow the hydrogen energy industry and increase the share of renewable energy in hydrogen energy. The country generated over 33 million tons of hydrogen last year, making it the top producer on a global scale, and production is predicted to reach 43 million tons by 2030. According to the China Hydrogen Alliance,…

Alberta’s government will invest $50 million in the establishment of a new Clean Hydrogen Center of Excellence. The centre’s mission is to assist industry and small businesses with hydrogen research and development with the hope of paving the way for a prosperous future. Alberta is already the country’s largest hydrogen producer. With hydrogen predicted to be a multi-trillion-dollar business by 2050, Alberta is aiming to establish itself as a market leader. “According to our experts, there will be 360,000 hydrogen-related jobs in Canada by 2050,” said Dale Nally, associate minister of natural gas and electricity. “We want to keep as…

The International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) new report warns that integrating hydrogen into existing natural gas networks is a sophisticated method of reducing household emissions that would likely cost more than $US500 per tone of emissions avoided. The findings indicate that using hydrogen in domestic appliances such as stovetops and water heaters would be prohibitively expensive, and that electrification would be a more cost-effective way to reduce emissions. While the precise cost of abatement would depend on both the cost of hydrogen production and the market price of fossil gas, even huge reductions in the cost of hydrogen would almost…