Author: Arnes Biogradlija

C-Zero has raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Eni Next, with participation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and AP Ventures. The funding will accelerate the first commercial-scale deployment of C-Zero’s drop-in decarbonization technology, which will allow industrial natural gas consumers to avoid producing CO2 in applications like electrical generation, process heating and the production of commodity chemicals like hydrogen and ammonia. “We are excited to enter the next stage of the company’s growth with support from investors who share our desire to scale up a technology with the potential to decarbonize…

Vestas has launched the V236-15.0 MW turbine. The new technology establishes a strong foundation for Vestas’ offshore leadership journey by elevating the industry benchmark for performance and continued cost reduction in offshore technology. “Introducing our new offshore platform is a huge achievement for everyone at Vestas, as it marks a big leap forward in a very important journey. As a global renewables leader, every decision Vestas takes today must be in service of building scale for renewables in the future – only by doing this can we ensure a more sustainable future energy system. Offshore wind will play an integral…

Howden has been selected to deliver a hydrogen compression solution for Everfuel’s green hydrogen production facility under development adjacent to the Fredericia refinery in Denmark. Hydrogen compression is the second-most critical component of the 20 MW hydrogen HySynergy facility under development at Fredericia after the alkaline electrolyser, which is supplied by NEL. The compression solution is scheduled to be delivered in early 2022 and the contract value is just below €2 million. “This is the second major contract we have awarded to develop our own green hydrogen production at the HySynergy electrolyser. We have worked closely with Howden and Nelto…

According to GlobalData, the German onshore wind market has seen a significant annual rise in installations of 46 percent with the addition of 1.431 MW or 420 turbines in 2020. By 2030 the country wants to obtain 65 percent of its electricity from wind, solar energy and other renewable energies, and then subsequently emerge as carbon neutral by 2050. However, the nation requires an average of 5GW+ of new onshore wind energy licenses annually from now until 2050 in order to meet its climate goal. The German onshore wind industry has suffered with stringent distance legislation of the federals and…

Uniper and Port of Rotterdam Authority have started feasibility study for green hydrogen plant at Maasvlakte. The parties have the ambition to realise a hydrogen plant on the site of Uniper by 2025 with a capacity of 100MW and to expand this capacity to 500MW. The feasibility study will be completed this summer. “Our location at Maasvlakte is the perfect place for large-scale production of green hydrogen. This is where everything comes together: large amounts of renewable energy, the required infrastructure, and industrial customers. A better place for green hydrogen production is hardly imaginable.”Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of Uniper. “The production…

Siemens Energy and Air Liquide have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective to combine their expertise in PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolysis technology. They intend to focus their activities on these key areas: co-creation of large industrial-scale hydrogen projects in collaboration with customers, laying the ground for mass manufacturing of electrolyzers in Europe, especially in Germany and France, and R&D activities to co-develop next generation electrolyzer technologies. Hydrogen will play an essential role to achieve the European Union’s objectives for CO2 and greenhouse gas emission reduction. In order to meet rapidly growing demand, and to lower costs, it…

Total has bought a development pipeline of 2.2 GW of solar projects, and 600 MW of battery storage assets in Texas. The projects are bought from SunChase Power, a renewable energy company focused on developing utility-scale energy projects, and MAP RE/ES, a private energy investment firm. This inform comes after recent news of a joint venture with 174 Power Global to develop 1.6 GW in the United States. The pipeline consists of four large-scale solar projects, each with co-located battery energy storage systems (BESS), in industrial areas close to Houston that have high demand for electricity. Construction of the first…

EnBW and bp plan to jointly develop offshore wind farms off the coast of Great Britain in a 50:50 partnership. An important first milestone has now been reached: In the auction for the award of seabed rights by The Crown Estate in the UK, the two partners secured two large areas in the Irish Sea that are estimated to be the highest-value areas in the first auction of offshore wind rights in England and Wales for ten years. EnBW and bp plan to build two offshore wind farms there with a combined capacity of three gigawatts, that is enough to…

Vestas has secured a 29 MW order for the Mazara Messer Andrea wind park, to be located in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy. The contract includes the supply and installation of eight V136-3.45 MW delivered in 3.6 MW Power Optimised Mode. Vestas will also provide O&M services to the wind park for at least 10 years through an Active Output Management 4000 (AOM 4000) service agreement. The order has been placed by the Italian wind power operator E2i Energie Speciali, a company owned by F2i (Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture) and Edison. “We are pleased to enter into this new…

Linde has partnered with Hyosung Corporation, one of Korea’s largest industrial conglomerates, to develop, own and run a large-scale new liquid hydrogen system in South Korea. This robust hydrogen network will help the country’s ambitious decarbonization plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Linde will build and run the largest liquid hydrogen facility in Asia. With a capacity of more than 30 tons per day, this plant can process enough hydrogen to fuel 100,000 vehicles and save up to 130,000 tons of carbon dioxide tailpipe emissions per year. Based in Ulsan, Linde’s proprietary hydrogen liquefaction technology is used to…