Author: Arnes Biogradlija

CO2CRC has established a wholly-owned subsidiary company, CO2Tech. CO2Tech will have access to the Otway International Test Centre (OITC) and CO2CRC’s expertise via commercial agreements. “We have established CO2Tech to meet the growing customer need for multi-disciplinary technical consultation, advisory and project management services across the whole CCUS value chain.”David Byers chief executive CO2CRC. “CO2Tech will allow CO2CRC to offer our industry partners and customers, tailored solutions while preserving commercial confidentiality.“CO2Tech will be pleased to work with industry customers to help them achieve their emissions reductions goals by applying individualized technologies and techniques that result in lower costs for capturing,…

WEC Energy Group (WEC) and Invenergy have purchased the Jayhawk Wind project, including a renewable power purchase agreement with Facebook. The more than 190 MW project, located in Crawford and Bourbon Counties, Kansas, will help support the tech company’s operations in the region. “Establishing and growing strong relationships with the nation’s pre-eminent clean energy investors and power purchasers is fundamental to Apex’s core mission and to our ability to bring best-in-class renewable energy assets like Jayhawk Wind to life. Because of these agreements with Facebook—a valued Apex customer—and new partners WEC Energy Group and Invenergy, Jayhawk Wind will advance the…

Eco Wave Power has began work on the planning of the construction of floaters on the sea wall of the Port of Jaffa, Israel. Work will include the clearing of the top cement layer of the appropriate portions of the sea wall, followed by the insertion of steel reinforcing bars and, eventually, the formation of a new cement layer, which will include the necessary support for the construction of the floaters. Around the same time, the company started the construction of ten floaters, which are scheduled to arrive at the site in accordance with the completion of the works on…

Evolugen, part of Brookfield Renewable, and Gazifère, an Enbridge company, have started green hydrogen project in Quebec. The companies, as part of a collaboration formed to advance the development and use of green hydrogen, plan to build and operate an approximately 20 MW water electrolysis hydrogen production plant in the Outaouais region. The facility will result in significant reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and generate considerable benefits regionally, provincially, and nationally. The plant will be built in the Masson sector of the City of Gatineau, adjacent to Evolugen’s hydroelectric facilities, which will power the electrolyzer. An estimated capacity of approximately…

Triton Knoll has started the export of power to the UK National Grid. First generation is being followed by a period of rigorous testing and commissioning, while the project continues to install the remainder of its 90 Vestas V164-9.5 MW turbines. All turbines are being handled at Able Seaton Port in Teesside where RWE, through Triton Knoll, has invested in establishing new turbine handling capabilities at the port for the first time in its history. Further investments in the region also include the creation of a new, multi-million pound operations base in Grimsby, which will generate up to 70 new,…

NewHydrogen is expanding the existing sponsored research agreement with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop technology to reduce the cost of green hydrogen production. The new agreement is 10 times the previous budget and significantly expands the scope of the research program. The initial sponsored research program at UCLA was focused on replacing the oxygen catalyst, iridium, a precious metal found only in asteroids, with low cost materials that meet or exceed the performance characteristics of iridium. The expanded research will focus on significantly reducing or replacing the hydrogen catalyst, platinum. Platinum is so rare that…

Hyzon Motors (Hyzon) plans to build the largest fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production line for commercial vehicles in the United States at its new Hyzon Innovation Center located in Bolingbrook, Illinois. Hyzon plans to go public through a merger with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation (DCRB, DCRBW, DCRBU), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The combination is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. The MEA is the critical component of a fuel cell and accounts for about 70% of the cost of a fuel cell stack. MEAs are currently produced in Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea…

Mitsubishi Power has started development of a 40-megawatt (MW) class gas turbine that is fueled by 100% ammonia (NH3). The project was started in response to the increasing global focus on decarbonization. As firing of ammonia produces no carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon-free power generation is achieved. Going forward, after combustion and other testing, Mitsubishi Power is targeting commercialization in or around 2025. When achieved, it will mark the world’s first commercialized gas turbine to make exclusive use of ammonia as fuel in a system of this scale, and will aid in the promotion of decarbonization of small to medium-scale power…

The committee calls for a “great transformation” of the entire finance sector that includes public and private actors and lays the financial groundwork for achieving a climate-neutral economy.

Battery storage, green hydrogen and flexible coal-fired power plants can help India integrate renewable energy into the grid