Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Many countries are looking to cooperate with Saudi Arabia on hydrogen production, energy transformation and emissions reduction projects. The kingdom, the world’s largest oil exporter, plans to take a leading role in trading low-emission future fuels, with a number of ambitious plans announced, including the development of a multibillion-dollar hydrogen plant in NEOM. In this context, a delegation from the Belgian-Luxembourgish mission visited the General Corporation for salt water desalination in Riyadh to discuss aspects of joint cooperation and ways to strengthen relations in the field of energy and the environment, especially hydrogen production. Green projects The Belgian delegation, currently…

Technip Energies and Greenko ZeroC Private have inked an agreement to explore Green Hydrogen project development potential in India’s refining, petrochemicals, fertilizer, chemical, and power plant sectors in order to accelerate the country’s energy transition. The MoU aims to facilitate active engagement between the Technip Energies India and Greenko teams in order to accelerate collaborative opportunities on a “Build-Own-Operate (BOO)” model – in which Greenko will serve as the BOO operator and owner of the asset, while Technip Energies will provide engineering services, integration, and EP/EPC – for pilot and commercial scale Green Hydrogen and related projects in India, in…

As an energy carrier and store of green energy, hydrogen will play a critical role in the future energy system. It will also be used as a feedstock for climate-friendly industrial operations.

APSYS, a subsidiary of the Airbus group that specializes in risk management, has put its expertise to work in the hydrogen industry in order to address issues about the security and dependability of systems that create, store, transport, and utilize this new energy vector.

Two researchers at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) have built hydrogen hybrid vehicles that run on hydrogen fuel cells and produce no carbon dioxide. Professor Ir. Dr. Siti Kartom Kamarudin and Associate Professor Dr Mohd Shahbudin Mastar @ Masdar from the UKM Fuel Cell Institute supervised the research and development of the UKM FCH2HC, a miniature hybrid SUV, and the UKM-FCH2B, a buggy. Through the modification of electric vehicles, the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles were developed in partnership with industrial partners. The UKM-FCH2B, according to Siti Kartom, is unusual in that the battery has been replaced with a fuel cell system…

Honda announced plans to build a stationary fuel cell power plant on its Torrance, Calif., corporate site by early 2023. The station will serve as a proof of concept for the eventual commercialization of a zero-emission backup power source for facilities such as data centers that require reliable and clean auxiliary power generation to continue operations in the event of an emergency. This new effort will capitalize on Honda’s experience in fuel cell technology in support of the company’s global objective of carbon neutrality for all products and operations by 2050. Honda’s proof-of-concept fuel cell power station will incorporate fuel…

Growing Mid Wales, a regional collaboration and engagement initiative, has commissioned Radical Innovations Group (RIG) to conduct a feasibility study on hydrogen’s potential as a decarbonisation driver in Wales. The feasibility study examines future industrial-scale investment opportunities in green hydrogen production to aid in decarbonisation. The study comes at a time when area stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in green hydrogen as a zero-emission alternative. It is coordinated by RIG, a private SME focused on technology development and consulting on feasibility studies, policy and regulatory modeling, and strategy execution. Hydrogen is frequently cited as a critical component in national and…

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney has been awarded funding to conduct a real-time trial of artificial intelligence (AI) software for optimizing hydrogen production and storage. The HyAI 2.0 project seeks to demonstrate the usage of an artificial intelligence platform called HyAI by integrating it into EMEC’s hydrogen plant on the Orkney island of Eday. The Energy Entrepreneur Fund of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy funded the initiative with £494k. HyAI is an artificial intelligence-powered hydrogen management platform developed by project lead H2GO Power, a pioneer in hydrogen-based renewable energy storage technologies. The cloud-based software…

Green hydrogen is projected to be in high demand as governments race to meet their net zero carbon targets due to its capacity to decarbonize difficult-to-abate sectors such as chemicals and steelmaking. However, the current green hydrogen market is in its infancy, and additional work, particularly on the part of policymakers, is needed to maximize green hydrogen’s impact on decarbonizing the industrial sector and end-use sectors in general. To accelerate the adoption of green hydrogen in industry and establish a credible market, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the IRENA Coalition for Action each released a new publication, Green…

Come March 16, and Toyota, the Japanese automaker, will debut a green hydrogen-based project in India, the first step toward introducing the alternative fuel vehicle that the Centre is aggressively pursuing. “On March 16, a pilot project in New Delhi will see the launch of a Toyoto automobile produced in Japan. Nitin Gadkari, minister for national highways and road transport, stated during a CII Webinar that the car will run on green hydrogen. While Gadkari has always emphasized the importance of flexi engine-powered vehicles in terms of mitigating environmental concerns, he stated on Saturday that such vehicles would be seen…