A $6 billion project to manufacture green hydrogen in Nova Scotia gained environmental permission from provincial regulators, which helped Canada’s agreement to provide Germany with the fuel gain momentum.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given Universal Hydrogen a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category, allowing them to move on with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft.
In order to launch and expand prospects for hydrogen to be incorporated into Ontario’s clean electricity grid, including hydrogen power storage, the provincial government of Ontario is creating a Hydrogen Innovation Fund, which will invest $15 million over the following three years.
Germany, a leader in the green hydrogen economy, views Brazil as a vital fuel supplier and a significant gamble to replace coal, oil, and gas while still meeting climate goals.
OCI N.V. and Linde have partnered, and as part of the long-term arrangement, Linde will provide clean hydrogen and nitrogen to OCI’s new blue ammonia facility being built in Beaumont, Texas.
Amazon wants to use natural gas fuel cells to power at least three and possibly as many as seven of its data centers in Oregon, which according to authorities would have an even greater impact on climate change than the grid electricity Amazon has been using.
In its review of a hotly contested proposal to switch the Scattergood Generating Station, a power plant in Playa del Rey, to be powered by green hydrogen instead of natural gas, the City Council’s Energy and Environment Committee expressed caution and added a number of specific recommendations.
The belief was that we had advanced in our own technology, that the intellectual property belonged to us, and that we could complete the task at a large scale, he said.
