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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.”

A recent joint report by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) summarized innovation and patent trends in the hydrogen economy.

The Valle H2V Navarra joint project by ACCIONA Energa and Plug Power to construct a large-scale, environmentally friendly hydrogen production facility in Rocaforte, Sangüesa, has been presented to the Navarra government.

In order to create a 50kW hydrogen auxiliary engine demonstration with zero emissions, Carisbrooke Shipping has teamed with Carnot, whose consortium was awarded £2.3M.

A new technology production facility for the creation of green hydrogen will receive a 30 million euro investment from the Government of Navarra and Nordex. This project will create more than 150 direct jobs and deploy an overall investment of more than 70 million euros over the course of the next eight years.

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told Reuters that we require hydrogen in all shades in response to a dispute taking place in Brussels over hydrogen produced by nuclear vs renewable energy.