Browsing: Europe

In an effort to boost the continent’s ability for research into renewable energy and green hydrogen, Germany is “further extending” its relationship with Africa in the fields of energy and climate.

A review study written by a group of scientists with funding from the Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) has been published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, a scholarly journal distributed by the Dutch academic publisher Elsevier.

Deutsche Bahn, a German public transportation company, and a Portuguese manufacturer have agreed to buy 60 hydrogen buses by 2026.

Europe hopes to boost green hydrogen production or imports in the next years to reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

Peers have cautioned that expecting to heat millions of households with hydrogen instead of natural gas is unrealistic and advised ministers to concentrate on boosting heat pumps.

The taxpayer has given support to developers competing to create the first robot ship powered by liquid hydrogen as part of the effort to reduce carbon emissions.

In order to build a hydrogen storage facility in Epe, Gronau, RWE Gas Storage West amended the current general operating plan and submitted the planning approval paperwork to the Arnsberg District Government.

Together with its ambitious aspirations to transport the hydrogen from North Africa to Europe, Morocco has a great opportunity to join the Mediterranean hydrogen project via its neighbor, Spain.

The two federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland will be national leaders in hydrogen, according to fuel cell and electrolysis expert Gregor Hoogers. According to Professor of the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld of the Trier University of Applied Sciences, “The Saarland is an important transit nation for hydrogen from France.” Both the Saarland and the Palatinate had natural gas pipes that might one day be used to transport hydrogen.

“Spain is the sun, the air, the water, and the capital of renewable energy in the world.” A three-day international conference on renewable energy and how Europe can produce it independently began on Monday in Madrid. The nation is on track to surpass Russia as the continent’s top producer of green hydrogen. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez boasts, “Even from the world.”