Browsing: Europe

Duro Felguera’s renewable energy branch, DF Green Tech, has been chosen by pHYnix to complete the turnkey contract (EPC) for the building of the Vitale production plant in Alcázar de San Juan (City Real).

In order to fuel the Bad Lauchstädt TerraWatt project in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which will use wind energy to manufacture green hydrogen, Energiepark Bad Lauchstädt GmbH has placed a 50 MW order with Vestas.

The department director of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Christian Storost, and Consul Petra Schaeber attended a meeting with representatives from the secretariats for the environment (Sema) and economic development (SDE).

An infinite supply of this crucial fuel, green hydrogen may be produced directly from seawater by a number of research teams, decreasing the need for fresh water in the plants where it is produced.

After five years, Spain adopted the first Maritime Space Management Plans (POEM). They regulate marine use and reserve roughly 5,000 square km for floating wind turbines.

In industrial areas where it is more challenging to cut emissions, the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) intends to choose projects that implement the substitution of fossil fuels with low-carbon hydrogen.

The European Commission (EC) announced that the European Hydrogen Bank will be operational by the end of the year and based on four pillars.

HY2DEC, short for “Research of innovative technologies for the production and use of green hydrogen for the decarbonization of the Spanish intensive industry,” is the name of the research project being managed by Tubacex.

To increase the production of sustainable technology in the EU and ensure that the Union is prepared for the switch to renewable energy, the Commission proposed the Net-Zero Industry Act. President von der Leyen announced this program as a component of the Green Deal Industrial Plan.

According to a draft document, the European Commission will explain ideas for a hydrogen subsidy program that would make clean versions of the fuel more competitive with hydrogen derived from fossil fuels.