💲 The #California #Energy Commission is funding a #hydrogen #truck project:
The California Energy Commission (CEC) selected #Symbio, #Michelin, #Faurecia along with GTI and other industry partners, to develop and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered Class 8 regional haul truck that will match the performance of a 15-litre diesel vehicle and provide an emissions-free solution for regional haul fleets. This is part of the “Symbio H2 Central Valley Express” project, funded with $2 million from the CEC.
Starting in the second half of 2023, the truck will operate for 12 months on a demanding 400-mile route between the Inland Empire and the northern San Joaquin Valley. The vehicle will utilise existing and future hydrogen refuelling infrastructure provided primarily by Air Liquide, Shell and Trillium. This project strives to support California’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the entire… https://bit.ly/3vsieiz

💲 #BEIS launches Net Zero Hydrogen Fund: The Department for #Business, #Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is launching a #Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF), with up to £240m available in funding.
The NZHF aims to provide capital expenditure (CAPEX) and development expenditure (DEVEX). This will support the commercial deployment of new low-carbon hydrogen production projects over the decade of… https://bit.ly/3jUaY9L

🔬 With #double-flux #nuclear #reactors it will be possible to produce #hydrogen massively and at half the cost of today: This #technology is very promising on paper, but has not yet proven its worth in the real world. Apparently, it is all advantages. This design combines two circuits in a nuclear fission core, on the one hand a fissile fuel circuit, and on the other hand a rare coolant, liquid lead. This material becomes liquid at 327.4°C, and the core can reach 1,000°C, higher than fission reactors, which… https://bit.ly/37m1mC9

🌐 #Enel Green Power, the green subsidiary of Italian electricity company Enel, has signed an agreement with #Sapio, a company dedicated to the production and supply of #industrial and medical gases, for the supply of #green hydrogen. The agreement foresees the sale to Sapio of the green hydrogen that Enel will produce, store and make available to its customers from 2023 at the #Carlentini and #Sortino (#Sicily) production sites, home to Enel Green Power’s futuristic NextHy initiative.The more than 200 tonnes of estimated production capacity of the Sicilian hub is the subject of the annual supply foreseen in the agreement. Once fully operational, the green hydrogen will be produced mainly by a four megawatt (4 MW) electrolyser, powered exclusively by renewable energy from the existing wind power plant, and to a lesser extent by electrolysis systems tested on the platform. For its part, Sapio will be responsible for developing the market and managing the distribution of renewable hydrogen to the end customer. The CEO of Enel Green Power, Salvatore Bernabei, explained that, in contexts where electrification is not an option,… https://bit.ly/36puKXs

🚗 the #company that transforms #vehicles to run on gas and #hydrogen:
Since 2015, before the price of #diesel went through the roof, engineering firm #Evarm has been adapting professional vehicles to run on gas. In these seven years, more than a thousand trucks, coaches and vans have said goodbye to diesel after being converted at the company’s facilities in Sant Boi de Llobregat. Its customers are companies with fleets of vehicles seeking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
“We are going to launch this new line of business in 2023, with a new 3,000 m² assembly plant and the creation of up to 50 jobs,” explains Xavier Ribas, co-owner and CEO of Evarm. In total, Ribas expects to invest a minimum of two million more to be able to start operations. With the leap to hydrogen, Evarm will double its workforce of around 20 people. The company was founded by Ribas, his wife and their… https://bit.ly/3KZ1DJL

🌐 #Walmart to operate #lift trucks with ‘green’ #hydrogen in electric power deal:

Plug Power Inc’s bid to become a major supplier of #carbon-free hydrogen just got the backing of one of the company’s longest-standing customers – Walmart Inc.

The retail giant agreed to purchase Plug’s so-called green hydrogen to power forklifts operating in its vast network of facilities and distribution centres. The deal, which will supply Walmart with up to 20 tonnes per day to power up to 9500 #forklifts, is a step toward the retailer’s goals of eliminating all greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. The financial details of the agreement… https://bit.ly/3KTiMEx

📰 The #CEEESEC plans to develop #hydrogen stations by #2026:
“The Confederation joins Global Mobility Call, the major project on #sustainable #mobility that will bring together the main international leaders in the field of mobility from 14 to 16 June 2022 at the IFEMA Trade Fair Centre MADRID.
The Spanish Confederation of #Service Station Entrepreneurs (CEEES) has signed up as a collaborating association for Global Mobility Call, the major project of IFEMA #MADRID and Smobhub that will serve as an international benchmark for the promotion of a sustainable mobility model and will be a meeting point for actors from all areas involved in #sustainable… https://bit.ly/3K39jJq

✈ #H2FLY sets a #world record for #hydrogen #flight:
German company H2FLY, which develops #hydrogen fuel cell technologies for aircraft, has said it has set a world record for a hydrogen-powered airliner, as its demonstration aircraft, the HY4, achieved a flight at an altitude of… https://bit.ly/3MiLI9h

📰 Salt #caves could be used for #storing #green #hydrogen: Underground storage, in salt caves and porous media, is the only way to manage large-scale storage of #renewable #energies, n energy vector that is becoming increasingly clear that it will be part of the energy mix we will use in the future.According to #IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, in its 2022 ‘Energy Transition Outlook’ report, hydrogen will account for 10% of the world’s energy mix…. https://bit.ly/3Mo138m

🚗 ZEFER and #H2ME introduce 100 #hydrogen #taxis in #Copenhagen and achieve a key milestone for #transport in #Europe: Two pan-European projects have collaborated to bring zero-emission hydrogen taxis and a new hydrogen refuelling station to the Danish capital.The Zero Emission Taxi Fleets for European Rollout (ZEFER) and Hydrogen Mobility Europe (H2ME2) projects, both funded by the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership1, have introduced 100 hydrogen taxis in Copenhagen in collaboration with… https://bit.ly/3OwjBVQ

🌐 A unique #methane-#hydrogen #turbine is being created by a design office in Samara: Hydrogen SM” is a design office in Samara, which is currently engaged in the development and creation of a gas turbine designed for #heat and #energy supply as part of a thermal power plant. The #fuel for the gas turbine plant will be methane-hydrogen.The design bureau “team” consists of representatives of Samara Research University. Academician S.P. Korolev and the Power Machines plant. The first stage in the creation of a gas turbine is to work on a technical project, which is expected to be completed in 2023. After that, Power Machines will start designing a prototype for a gas turbine… https://bit.ly/3LjaF48

🔬 #Spanish #Scientists create a system to produce ‘golden hydrogen’, which ‘cleans’ the #atmosphere.Researchers at the CSIC Institute of #Chemical Technology and the #Polytechnic University of Valencia (ITQ, CSIC-UPV) have developed a scalable and modular generator from protonated ceramic membranes that creates almost pure hydrogen from electricity and molecular carriers such as methane or ammonia, in a scalable way and with almost no energy loss. The results have just been published in ‘ Science’… https://bit.ly/3EzOqVi

🌐 The #High #temperature #electrolyser was developed and manufactured by the German company #Sunfire. It is based on innovative #SOEC technology. The device uses #renewable energy to split water into #hydrogen and oxygen. “Our electrolyser operates at 850°C and uses the heat from Salzgitter’s steel production,” explained Konstantin Schwarze, director of large systems at Sunfire. GrInHy2.0, we could finally demonstrate high efficiency on the scale of… https://bit.ly/3OrK07n

🌐 TurboGen’s TG40 micro #turbine powered by #hydrogen:
The next manifestation of #renewable #energy is currently in the crucible of Israeli research and development: TurboGen, a company specialising in the development of hybrid microturbines for self-generation of #electricity and #heat in microgrids, buildings and structures, is working to enable the systems it develops to use hydrogen to generate power.
In line with the global trend of transition to clean energy and the initiation of large-scale projects for hydrogen production, the company will work to develop a new hybrid microturbine system that can use hydrogen to generate energy…. https://bit.ly/3vatAs

🚌 The first #hydrogen #bus on the streets of #Taranto: The “#Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus”, a zero-emission vehicle powered by #hydrogen fuel cells, was presented.The “Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen bus”, a zero-emission vehicle powered by hydrogen cells from Solaris Bus & Coach, was presented on the seafront of Taranto.Speaking for Solaris Italia were General Manager Alberto Fiore and Commercial Director Francesco Elvidio Tusino, while for Wolftank DGM Project Manager Giuseppe De Gennaro and for Sapio Mario Mosca, Director of Large Customers and Sales, spoke of the… https://bit.ly/3EKFyMD

🛳 This is Chase Zero, the #hydrogen #catamaran that will be at the #AmericasCup in #Barcelona:The city of Barcelona, in #Spain, will host in 2024 the 37th edition of the America’s Cup Sailing, one of the most mediatic competitions in the world. A situation that will see Chase Zero, the world’s first fully hydrogen-powered catamaran belonging to Emirates Team New Zealand, the reigning winners of the America’s Cup, in action. https://bit.ly/39gab0M

🌐 Green #hydrogen producer #Lhyfe is considering an initial public offering in #Paris:
French green hydrogen producer Lhyfe said on Friday that the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) approved its universal registration document, paving the way for an IPO on the #Euronext market in Paris.
The company, present in ten countries and operating an industrial site in #France, currently has a commercial portfolio of 93 projects representing a total capacity exceeding… https://bit.ly/3k6ASXS

📰 A breakthrough! Ultra-lightweight #cryogenic #hydrogen #storage tank is expected to increase #aircraft range by 4 times:
A revolutionary #cryogenic #hydrogen #tank design promises to radically increase the range of #hydrogen-powered #aircraft, according to reports. And according to relevant research data, passenger planes using this clean fuel cell can fly four times farther than similar aircraft using jet fuel.
Weight has always been the enemy of all aerospace machinery. And hydrogen’s excellent energy storage capacity per unit weight makes it an attractive alternative to… https://bit.ly/3KeoEa7

🌐 Dutch #energy #provider #Essent produces #hydrogen from #photovoltaics:
The hydrogen plant will initially be powered by a photovoltaic plant, but Escent will also add wind power during times of low sunlight. The energy company also plans to deploy some battery storage capacity at the plant to temporarily store surplus solar energy that cannot be immediately converted into hydrogen or… https://bit.ly/3OvDixj

📰 Masdar signs landmark agreements to develop 4 #GW green #hydrogen plants in #Egypt:
Masdar, one of the world’s leading #renewable #energy companies, and Hassan Allam Utilities, the investment and development arm of Hassan Allam Holding Group, today announced that they have signed two Memoranda of Understanding with leading Egyptian state-backed organisations to cooperate in the development of green hydrogen production plants in the Suez Canal Economic Zone and in… https://bit.ly/3EP4B0Q

🔬 A #Spanish invention produces #hydrogen en masse and without polluting the atmosphere:
The #reactor created by #CSIC researchers uses #electric #energy to extract hydrogen from other materials, such as #ammonia, natural gas or biogas. It consists of 36 individual ceramic membranes that break down hydrogen into its subatomic particles (protons and electrons). The process is so efficient that hardly any waste is generated and almost no energy is lost. “When energy is transformed from one form to another, some of it is lost. With our ceramic proton membranes we can combine different steps of hydrogen production into one, resulting in hydrogen made with almost zero energy loss,” explains José Manuel Serra, CSIC research professor at the ITQ and co-lead author of the work, which has been published in the prestigious journal ‘Science’… https://bit.ly/3kaPRQr

🌐 #Hydrogen: #H2V launches a 400 #MW project in #Moselle. The site is located close to potential consumers. H2V announces the launch of a #renewable #hydrogen production #project in Thionville (Moselle). With an investment of 500 million #euros, it plans to install four 100 MW #electrolysis units there, the first one… https://bit.ly/3vtLuGY

🔥 They achieve #combustion with #hydrogen in a #ceramic #furnace in #Castellón: The Institute of Ceramic Technology (ITC-AICE) has achieved for the first time in its facilities combustion using hydrogen in a ceramic kiln.The study has been carried out in a combustion chamber adapted for this purpose, thanks to the support of the Instituto #Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial (IVACE) of the GVA through a Nominative Line. The research team is made up of Dr. Salvador Ferrer and Dr. Ana Mezquita, #investigators of the #Valencian Business Competitiveness Institute (IVACE). Ana Mezquita, #researchers of ITC-AICE, together with the professor of the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Eliseo Monfort, who also leads the GAIA Research Group of the UJI, who explains: “we are very aware of the intense push that the ceramic industry needs and we are putting all our efforts to contribute to its decarbonisation, therefore, achieving to use, on a pilot scale and with an adapted combustion chamber, mixtures of #natural gas with hydrogen has been a great success… https://bit.ly/3vrMzii

📰 The first #hospital in #Spain capable of producing #green #hydrogen will be in #Murcia: Viamed San José Hospital in the town of Alcantarilla (Murcia) will enable the production and storage of “medicinal oxygen, an essential medicine in the treatment of different lung diseases”. This is a facility for the generation and consumption of oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (#H2) by electrolysis of water using renewable energies, which will not only store energy in the form of H2 and O2 from surplus #photovoltaic generation, but also use it to… https://bit.ly/3klJGcv

🔬 #Pure #hydrogen from #sea #water: In the #SEA2H2 #project, a consortium has demonstrated that climate-neutral hydrogen can be obtained from seawater. It involves the automotive and #industrial supplier Schaeffler, the start-up Hydron Energy BV, which will be part of the Schaeffler Group from summer 2021, and the Wageningen Food & Biobased Research Institute, WFBR, which itself belongs to the University of… https://bit.ly/3rZgXyB