by Fridah Chomba and Victor Muchiri (Kenya News Agency) Kiambu is an agriculture-based County that has adopted Biogas as a renewable source of energy. Biogas is affordable, reliable and environmentally friendly. As one of the top five leading counties in dairy
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Back TO HOMENew Catalyst Offers a More Affordable Way to Produce Hydrogen from Seawater
by Jeannie Kever (University of Houston) Researchers Discover a Single Catalyst Capable of Splitting Both Freshwater and Seawater at Low Voltage -- Hydrogen has drawn attention in recent years as a potential source of clean energy because it burns without producing
September 28, 2022 Read Full Article
GE Partners on Hydrogen Flight Demonstrator
(GE Aerospace/Flight Global) Earlier this year, CFM International, a 50-50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, joined Airbus to announce plans to flight test a hydrogen combustion engine. Learn more in this video with Mohamed Ali, GE Aerospace’s
September 28, 2022 Read Full Article
New Hydrogen Projects Achieve Record Numbers Globally with Even Greater Urgency for Final Investment Decisions to Attain Net-Zero
(Hydrogen Council) • Hydrogen Council releases its state of the industry report, Hydrogen Insights 2022, on the hydrogen imperative for the global energy transition 680 large-scale projects announced globally reflecting investments of US$ 240 billion until 2030, an increase of 50%
September 27, 2022 Read Full Article
DOE National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap -- Comments Invited on Draft DEADLINE December 1, 2022
(American Economic Association) Executive Summary: This is an unprecedented time in history for hydrogen with interest being amplified worldwide due to its potential to address the climate crisis as well as energy security and resiliency. Though there are significant challenges,
September 27, 2022 Read Full Article
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Historic $7 Billion Funding Opportunity to Jump-Start America's Clean Hydrogen Economy DEADLINE November 7, 2022
(U.S. Department of Energy) DOE Opens Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Opportunity for Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs and Releases Draft of DOE National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap -- The U.S. Department of Energy today opened applications for the $7 billion program
September 27, 2022 Read Full Article
Amazon Makes Inroads into Electrofuel-Powered Trucks. Why It’s Better than Ethanol.
by Al Root (Barrons/Market Watch) ... The start-up, Sacramento, Calif.–based Infinium, was founded in 2020 and got funding from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. Infinium calls electrofuels an “ultralow carbon alternative to traditional petroleum-based fuels.” The company makes green hydrogen by passing electricity
September 26, 2022 Read Full Article
Hydrogen Production from Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
(Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative) As governments and private sector leaders consider solutions to decarbonize the global energy matrix in order to address climate change, hydrogen has increasingly emerged as one promising pathway to net-zero emissions. The world’s most abundant element is an
September 20, 2022 Read Full Article
Research: TotalEnergies and the Technical University of Denmark Create a Center of Excellence in Decarbonized Energies
(TotalEnergies/Business Wire) During his trip to Denmark, Patrick Pouyanné signed an agreement with the President of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) concerning the creation of the DTU-TotalEnergies Excellence Center of Clean Energy. This advanced research center will focus on developing
September 19, 2022 Read Full Article
GEVO Breaks Ground on Its First Commercial-Scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel Facility, Net-Zero 1, in Lake Preston, South Dakota
(Gevo) Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce the groundbreaking of its first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility, Net-Zero 1 (NZ1). Gevo’s management team was joined today by government officials, representatives from partner companies and customers, business leaders, local
September 19, 2022 Read Full Article
Paving the Way for Solar Fuels: Synhelion Produces Solar Syngas on an Industrial Scale for the First Time
(Synhelion) Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The Swiss solar fuel pioneer successfully demonstrated this on the multifocus solar tower of
September 14, 2022 Read Full Article
The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Formate Utilization for Value-Added Products
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) How do we utilize CO2 with cheaper renewable energy? What products can we make? Those are the questions explored in this project funded by the US Department of Energy’s BETO office and led by Jonathan
September 13, 2022 Read Full Article
Nel ASA: Receives Purchase Order for a Containerized Electrolyser for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production
(Nel Hydrogen US) Nel Hydrogen US, a subsidiary of Nel ASA (Nel, OSE:NEL), has received a contract for a containerized PEM electrolyser from LanzaJet, a leading developer of biofuel technology in the United States. Nel Hydrogen US has received a contract for
September 13, 2022 Read Full Article
Scientists Find a Simple Way to Produce Hydrogen from Water at Room Temperature
by David Nield (Science Alert) ... In the new research, scientists describe a relatively simple method involving aluminum nanoparticles that are able to strip the oxygen from water molecules and leave hydrogen gas. The process yields large amounts of hydrogen, and it
September 12, 2022 Read Full Article
Linde to Increase Green Hydrogen Production in the United States
(Linde) Linde (NYSE:LIN; FWB:LIN) announced today that it will build a 35-megawatt PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen in Niagara Falls, New York. The new plant will be the largest electrolyzer installed by Linde globally and will more
September 09, 2022 Read Full Article
Louisiana Marks Clean Energy ‘Milestone’ as Hydrogen Project Wins $50 Million Federal Grant
(Louisiana Economic Development) H2theFuture, which will create a wind-powered hydrogen industry cluster in south Louisiana, wins EDA Build Back Better Challenge award -- A groundbreaking plan to create an offshore wind-powered hydrogen energy industry cluster in south Louisiana has been awarded
September 02, 2022 Read Full Article
Floating ‘Artificial Leaves’ Ride the Wave of Clean Fuel Production
by Sarah Collins (University of Cambridge) Researchers have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water, and could eventually operate on a large scale at sea. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, designed ultra-thin, flexible devices, which
August 31, 2022 Read Full Article
Delta, DG Fuels Partner in Pivotal Expansion of Sustainable Fuel Market
(Delta News Hub) Under a new agreement, DG Fuels, LLC plans to establish a new SAF supply stream that could provide Delta with 385 million gallons of unblended sustainable aviation fuel, while helping to expand availability of SAF in the
August 31, 2022 Read Full Article
EverWind Secures Offtake from Key German Partner Uniper for Canada’s First Green Hydrogen Hub in Nova Scotia
(Uniper) EverWind Fuels Company ("EverWind"), a private developer of green hydrogen and ammonia production in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Uniper today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) for Uniper to purchase green ammonia from EverWind’s initial production facility
August 26, 2022 Read Full Article
Issue Brief | The Growth in Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Commercial Aviation (2019, revised 2022)
by Jeff Overton (Environmental and Energy Study Institute) This issue brief examines the impact the growth of air travel and freight will have on greenhouse gas emissions. Subsequent briefs will feature the aviation industry’s emission mitigation efforts and commitments to reduce
August 24, 2022 Read Full Article
Mumbai to Roll out Its First Green Hydrogen Buses
by Somit Sen (Times of India/Net4News) BEST has proposed to convert 220 diesel buses of Mumbai to ones running on "green hydrogen" with a pilot project planned with the Union transport ministry, announced BEST general manager Lokesh Chandra. It is a
August 24, 2022 Read Full Article
Birth of the Post Fossil Industry: World Energy Grabs the Reins in SAF, Renewable Diesel and Hydrogen
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) What in the World is up with World Energy? News has arrived of two massive storylines in the same week from World Energy, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pay a congratulatory visit and inspiring the
August 24, 2022 Read Full Article
Nearly $15 Million ‘Low or No-Emissions’ Award Will Allow Montgomery to Create the First Hydrogen Electric Bus Project on the East Coast
(Montgomery County Update) The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) has won a competitive grant award of nearly $15 million from the United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for the purchase of 13 new hydrogen fuel cell
August 24, 2022 Read Full Article
Heliogen and Dimensional Energy Announce First-of-its-Kind Collaboration to Produce Carbon-Free Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Concentrated Sunlight and Green Hydrogen
(Heliogen) Initiative to demonstrate technology and produce jet fuel reserves for commercially viable carbon neutral flight -- Heliogen, Inc. (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy technology, today announced it has entered into a letter of intent (“LOI”)
August 23, 2022 Read Full Article
California Lawmakers Are Ready to Decarbonize the Shipping Industry. The Technology Isn’t There Yet.
by Joseph Winters (Grist) ... Many companies have plans to launch or have already launched ships powered by biofuels — fuels produced from plant crops, algae, or animal fats — but experts expect them to play a limited role in the future of decarbonized shipping due to
August 16, 2022 Read Full Article
ScotishPower Vision for Green Hydrogen Fuels Hub at Port of Felixstowe
(ScotishPower) - ScottishPower explores green hydrogen at Port of Felixstowe to help decarbonise the UK’s busiest port. - The project could help kick-start the low carbon transformation of the UK’s heavy transport sector. - 100MW facility could deliver up to
August 10, 2022 Read Full Article
Eco Clarity Works with UK Biodiesel Producer to Harvest FOG from Wastewater
(Argent Energy/Biobased Diesel Daily) The latest Eco Clarity Waste Conversion Hub has been set up in the U.K., at Argent Energy’s site in Stanlow, Ellesmere Port. Eco Clarity is focused on revolutionizing the way wastewater is handled by turning the process from
August 09, 2022 Read Full Article
SUN-to-LIQUID Project Publishes Successful Thermochemical Kerosene Production Using Solar Energy, Water and CO2 in an Integrated Solar Experimental Facility in the Scientific Journal Joule
(IMDEA Energy Institute) Developing solar technologies for producing carbon-neutral aviation fuels has become a global energy challenge, but their readiness level has largely been limited to laboratory-scale studies. Here we report on the experimental demonstration of a fully-integrated thermochemical production
August 08, 2022 Read Full Article
Infinium and Electrofuels: They Might Be Giants
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... “Major players in the fuels and chemicals industries have begun serious development of [new] processes that produce intermediates and finished products from carbon dioxide. One of the most interesting areas is in the many developments
July 29, 2022 Read Full Article
Chung-Ang University Researchers Develop Novel Heterostructure Catalyst for Effective Hydrogen Generation from Water Splitting
(Chung-Ang University) The new catalyst improves the efficiency of hydrogen production from water splitting without incurring high costs -- Hydrogen, a clean fuel, can be produced sustainably by electrocatalytic water splitting, a process where the water molecule is split into oxygen and
July 28, 2022 Read Full Article
Significant Next Step in Developing Sustainable Methanol for Chemical Industry
(Fortum) Project Air, a cooperation project with Perstorp, Fortum and Uniper in Sweden, is taking significant next steps in developing sustainable methanol for the chemical industry. The project has been selected for funding by the EU innovation fund. Project Air aims to
July 27, 2022 Read Full Article
Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe Close on Joint Venture to Create European Network of Hydrogen Refueling Stations
(Phillips 66) JET H2 Energy combines companies’ retail and hydrogen expertise to form a leading player in hydrogen mobility -- Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and H2 Energy Europe (“H2 Energy”) today (July 19, 2022) announced they have closed on a 50-50
July 26, 2022 Read Full Article
Virtuous Cycles: Breakthroughs in the Use of Bacteria Are Helping Us to Build a New Green Economy.
by Peter Forbes (New Humanist) ... Humans are finally learning from the original carbon cycle, which has governed Earth for 4 billion years. This natural cycle is regulated largely by bacteria and other microbes. Today, using what we know about the
July 26, 2022 Read Full Article
Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Solar Energy: Not a Dream Any More
by Tina Casey (Clean Technica) This “solar tower” deploys solar energy to convert water and carbon dioxide to produce non-fossil kerosene for sustainable jet fuel. ... (T)he Swiss institution ETH Zurich has just unveiled a new pilot-scale, all-in-one, solar powered process for
July 25, 2022 Read Full Article
Airbus to Take up the Hydrogen Contrail Characterisation Challenge
(Airbus) Airbus UpNext to perform hydrogen-powered flight with new flying testbed; Record-holding Perlan 2 pilots to fly glider with hydrogen combustion engine; Test campaign will study composition of hydrogen engine contrails Airbus UpNext, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus, has revealed a
July 25, 2022 Read Full Article
Solar-Powered Chemistry Uses Carbon Dioxide and Water to Make Feedstock for Fuels, Chemicals
(Michigan News) Producing synthesis gas, a precursor of a variety of fuels and chemicals, no longer requires natural gas, coal or biomass -- Solar-powered synthesis gas could recycle carbon dioxide into fuels and useful chemicals, an international team of researchers has
July 22, 2022 Read Full Article
Paraguay Wants to Build South America’s Largest Biofuels Plant
by Karina Godoy (Diálogo Chino) US$1 billion Omega Green plant is expected to be completed in 2025. Communities and environmental organisations have raised concerns -- In Paraguay, the announcement of a biofuels plant set to be the largest in South
July 20, 2022 Read Full Article
Big Oil Bets that Green Hydrogen Is the Future of Energy
by Will Mathis, Laura Hurst and Francois De Beaupuy (Bloomberg News) ... BP Plc is taking the lead in the $36 billion Asian Renewable Energy Hub, a project that aims to install 26 gigawatts of solar and wind farms over a vast
July 20, 2022 Read Full Article
Two Cheers for the EU’s New Fit for 55 Transport Fuels Policy -- Um, Why Not 3 Cheers?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... The EU policy includes a blending obligation for fuel suppliers. Starting in 2025, the aviation fuel made available to EU airports should contain 2% SAF, increasing to 5% by 2030, 32% by 2040 and 63%
July 19, 2022 Read Full Article
Estonian Alliance Unveils Hydrogen Valley, Includes Transport Refueling
(NGV Journal) ... In the coming six years, green hydrogen production will be developed in at least six regions in the country. Parallel to that, transport and storage infrastructure is developed, including import and export terminal infrastructure, fueling stations and storage
July 12, 2022 Read Full Article
Opinion: Inconvenient Truths behind Sustainable Aviation Fuel
by Jim Harris (Bain & Co./Aviation Week) Governments are making commitments to incentivize sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—Europe, through February’s “Toulouse Declaration,” and the U.S., with the Biden administration’s aim to have enough SAF to meet 5-10% of jet fuel demand by
July 12, 2022 Read Full Article
The Green Ammonia Boom Is Coming
by Felicity Bradstock (OilPrice.com) • Green ammonia is emerging as a major contender to become a vital emissions-free fuel for the world. • The renewable fuel is also gaining major attention from energy giants such as Exxon. • Greater investment
July 11, 2022 Read Full Article
Green Infrastructure Critical to Hydrogen Propulsion’s Success
by Chris Kjelgaard (AIN Online) Aerospace manufacturers agree that the ability to produce hydrogen in vast quantities using only renewable forms of energy such as solar and wind power will prove the most critical factor in the aviation industry’s effort to
July 11, 2022 Read Full Article
Powering Progress Towards Net-Zero Emissions: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Shell Aviation
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Shell’s focus on low carbon fuels for aviation is apparent and progress is being made towards more sustainable skies as Shell reaches key milestones and has plans for even bigger ones by 2030. Find out
July 11, 2022 Read Full Article
Fit for 55: Parliament Pushes for Greener Aviation Fuels
(European Parliament) Suppliers to start delivering sustainable fuel from 2025, reaching 85% of all aviation fuel in EU airports by 2050; Electricity and hydrogen should be part of new fuel mix; Create a Sustainable Aviation Fund to encourage investment in
July 08, 2022 Read Full Article
Crossbridge Energy A/S and Everfuel Finalize Phase 2a Green Hydrogen Agreement
(Crossbridge Energy) Crossbridge Energy A/S (“Crossbridge”) announces that it has reached a final agreement with Everfuel for the offtake of green hydrogen from Everfuel’s anticipated 300MW electrolyser plant. The next phase of the project will be completed in three equal phases
June 30, 2022 Read Full Article
Regional Sustainable Aviation Fuel/Renewable Diesel: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to NextChem
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) NextChem and Saola are working together to provide a sustainable aviation fuel/renewable diesel plant sized to regional feedstock supplies. Check out this illuminating slide guide on how their renewable diesel tech is tuned to
June 27, 2022 Read Full Article
VTT and Neste Agreed on Building an Integrated Power-to-Liquids Demonstration for CO2 Capture, Green Hydrogen and E-Fuels Production
(VTT) Power-to-liquids technologies are on their way to commercialisation in scale and production of synthetic e-fuels is no longer science fiction. E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels
June 23, 2022 Read Full Article
Finland’s Bioeconomy Strategy: The Fab Finns Set Their Course
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Finland’s new bioeconomy strategy is out — and you can read the 55 pager here. When a country sets a strategy and puts the bioeconomy at a central place in the national plans, that’s a laudable thing, so
June 21, 2022 Read Full Article
Synthetic Fuels for Contested Environments (SynCE) DEADLINE: June 21, 2022
(Defense Innovation Unit) The Department of Defense (DoD) spends significant time and resources managing worldwide aircraft fuel logistics, which often involves a combination of tanker planes, ships, and convoys.. To reduce this logistical burden, DoD seeks a commercial solution to develop
June 17, 2022 Read Full Article
More Incentives Needed to Scale up Production of e-Kerosene
by Tom Otley (Business Traveler) Sustainable fuel manufacturers in Europe could produce 1.83 million tonnes of e-kerosene in 2030, saving about 5 Mt of CO2, according to a new forecast by NGO Transport and Environment (T&E). E-kerosene, generated by combining green hydrogen
June 17, 2022 Read Full Article
Transforming Yesterday's Emissions into Tomorrow's Sustainable Aviation Fuel: United Announces Agreement with CO2 Utilization Company Dimensional Energy
(United Airlines/PR Newswire) Dimensional Energy combines revolutionary carbon utilization technology with a century-old process, repurposing it to make sustainable aviation fuel; United has invested more in sustainable aviation fuel production than any other airline in the world United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV)
June 16, 2022 Read Full Article
Lhyfe and Chantiers de l’Atlantique Sign a MoU to Develop Offshore Renewable Green Hydrogen Production
(Lhyfe) Lhyfe (EURONEXT: LHYFE), a world pioneer and pure player in renewable green hydrogen and Chantiers de l’Atlantique, one of the world’s leaders on the shipbuilding market for highly complex ships and in offshore engineering, announce today at the Seanergy forum
June 16, 2022 Read Full Article
Hydrogen at Risk of Being the Great Missed Opportunity of the Energy Transition: Hydrogen Forecast to 2050
(DNV) Hydrogen has a crucial role in decarbonizing the world’s energy system, but uptake will be too slow. Governments need to make urgent, significant policy interventions, according to a new report by DNV. In Hydrogen Forecast to 2050, DNV predicts the amount of
June 15, 2022 Read Full Article
Adani and TotalEnergies to Create the World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Ecosystem
(Adani) Adani New Industries Ltd to invest USD 50 Bn in green hydrogen; This is India’s largest commitment to green hydrogen by a company -- Adani, India’s fastest-growing diversified business portfolio, and energy supermajor TotalEnergies of France, have entered into a
June 15, 2022 Read Full Article
A Third Way for Green Ammonia?: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to NexantECA
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Who knew ammonia is used so much in the chemicals industry, supplying virtually all nitrogen, and that ammonia is so essential to maintaining world food output via fertilizers. But the chemical industry can’t become carbon
June 15, 2022 Read Full Article
Increasing Methane Yield from Biogas Plants
(Bioenergy Insight) Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have now found a way to convert waste methane from biogas plants into additional methane, thus drastically increasing the methane yield from biogas plants. The process is up
June 08, 2022 Read Full Article
Santiago de Chile Airport Will Be the First in Latin America to Use Green H2
(VINCI Airports/Nuevo Pudahuel/NGV Journal) Following VINCI Airports and Groupe ADP’s environmental plans, Nuevo Pudahuel has made the first step to assure Santiago Airport, Arturo Merino Benítez, becomes the first in Latin America to incorporate the use of hydrogen. Along with a
June 08, 2022 Read Full Article
Airbus Establishes UK Hydrogen Technology Centre to Support ZEROe Aircraft Plan
by Tony Harrington (GreenAir Online) Airbus has taken another significant step towards the introduction of its proposed ZEROe passenger aircraft by 2035 by establishing a Zero Emission Development Centre (ZEDC) for hydrogen technologies at its Filton, UK, facility. A priority
June 07, 2022 Read Full Article
Study Finds Future-Fuel Demand for Shipping Industry Equal to Entire Current Global Production of Renewables
(Green Car Congress) Huge and immediate need for renewable-based fuels in shipping represents opportunity for investors, according to ‘Fuelling the Fourth Propulsion Revolution’ report released today (My 20, 2022). Investment in green infrastructure key, as shipping will carry more than
June 07, 2022 Read Full Article
Lhyfe Receives Approval from Schwäbisch Gmünd Municipal Council (Germany) to Develop Local Hydrogen ecosystem
(Lhyfe) Lhyfe, a world pioneer and independant pure player in renewable green hydrogen (Euronext: LHYFE), has received approval from the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd (Baden-Württemberg) to start construction of its plant on an industrial site of about 10,000 m2. A production
June 06, 2022 Read Full Article
Hydrothermal Platform for Recycling Carbon: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Licella
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Licella’s Cat-HTR decarbonization platform could help customers meet their net-zero carbon commitments, said Dr. Alan Del Paggio, Licella’s SVP Americas, at the recent ABLC. How do they use water as the agent of change and
June 03, 2022 Read Full Article
Johnson Matthey Expands Presence in Green Hydrogen with Stake in AEM Electrolyser Pioneer Enapter
(Johnson Matthey) Today, Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies, enters into a strategic partnership with Enapter, a pioneer and commercial leader in AEM electrolysis. AEM is a next generation electrolyser technology that promises to drive down the cost of green hydrogen
June 02, 2022 Read Full Article
Vantaa Energy and St1 to Cooperate in the Distribution of Electric Fuel
(St1) The Power-to-Gas plant (P2G), planned for completion by Vantaa Energy in 2025 in Finland, produces carbon-neutral synthetic gas, the production process of which utilises water and carbon dioxide recovered from the waste treatment process in a new and innovative
June 01, 2022 Read Full Article
Qantas Says Synthetic Fuel Could Power Long Flights by Mid-2030s
by James Fernyhough (The Financial Times/Inside Climate News) ‘Power-to-liquid’ technology may prove the ‘nirvana’ for sustainable aviation, the Australian airline predicts. Synthetic fuel could start replacing traditional petroleum and plant-based biofuels by as early as the mid-2030s, helping to decarbonize long-distance
May 28, 2022 Read Full Article
CIP Plans Large-Scale Hydrogen Island in Denmark Backed by 10 GW of Offshore Wind
(S&P Global) Hydrogen production of 1 mil mt/year by 2030; Artificial island planned on Dogger Bank -- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is planning to build an artificial island for renewable hydrogen production in the North Sea, backed by 10 GW of offshore
May 28, 2022 Read Full Article
Patents for Green Hydrogen Technology on the Rise
(International Renewable Energy Agency) A joint study published today (May 12) by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the European Patent Office (EPO) uses patent statistics to reveal the trends and dynamism in the field of hydrogen that can be
May 17, 2022 Read Full Article
The Myth of Hydrogen for Export
(Spitfire Research) There is a popular myth in the marketplace of ideas at the moment: the notion that hydrogen will become a way to export renewable electricity in a decarbonized future, from places with an excess of renewable electricity, to
May 13, 2022 Read Full Article
HydrogenOne Capital Growth plc £20 Million Investment in Leading Global Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Stack Specialist Elcogen
(HydrogenOne Capital Growth) HydrogenOne Capital Growth plc (“HydrogenOne” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce that it has signed definitive agreements for an investment of £20m (EUR 24m) in Elcogen Plc (“Elcogen”). Elcogen’s shareholders include Biofuel OÜ, and VNTM Powerfund II,
May 10, 2022 Read Full Article
News Release: NREL Scientists Advance Renewable Hydrogen Production Method
(National Renewable Energy Laboratory) Perovskite materials may hold the potential to play an important role in a process to produce hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to an analysis from scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Hydrogen has emerged as
May 09, 2022 Read Full Article
Spain: First Large Green Hydrogen Plant in Galicia Starts Its Processing
(Reganosa/NGVJournal) After two and a half years of preliminary work, the first large green hydrogen plant in Galicia begins its administrative and environmental processing this month. It is an electrolysis production facility that uses water from the lake of As Pontes
May 09, 2022 Read Full Article
Plug Supplies Walmart with Green Hydrogen to Power Lift Fleet
by David Worford (Environment + Energy Leader) Walmart will get up to 20 tons of liquid green hydrogen a day as part of an agreement with Plug Power to help power the retailer’s lift trucks at its distribution centers across the
May 04, 2022 Read Full Article
New ATRI Research Quantifies the Environmental Impacts of Zero-Emission Trucks
(American Transport Research Institute) The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released a new report that analyzes the environmental impacts of zero-emission trucks (ZET). This analysis, a 2021 top priority of ATRI’s Research Advisory Committee, utilized federal and industry-sourced data to
May 04, 2022 Read Full Article
Plug Power and Olin Corporation Partner to Produce Green Hydrogen in 15 Ton per Cay Plant to Serve North America
(Plug Powwer) Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, and Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN), a leading vertically integrated chlor alkali producer and marketer, announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
May 04, 2022 Read Full Article
E-fuels: Water and CO2 to Power the Transport of the Future
(Generandi) ... Also known as e-fuels, synthetic fuels are made from hydrogen and CO2 removed from the atmosphere. Their added value is that they are zero net emissions. When they are used, the CO2 emitted by the combustion engine is equivalent to
May 03, 2022 Read Full Article
Can ‘Green Corridors’ Tackle Shipping’s Giant Carbon Footprint?
by Isabelle Gerretsen (China Dialogue) At last year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, 22 countries, including the UK, US, Germany and Japan, signed up to the Clydebank Declaration, announcing their intention to establish various zero-emissions shipping routes known as “green corridors”. By
May 03, 2022 Read Full Article
Nitin Gadkari Urges Auto Manufacturers to Diversify Towards Green Hydrogen, Other Biofuel
(News 18) Nitin Gadkari on Friday said his dream as Transport Minister is diversification of the automobile industry towards ethanol, methanol, green hydrogen and others. -- Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday said his dream
May 02, 2022 Read Full Article
21 Sites at 10K Barrels per Day Each: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) It’s Friday and you’re ready for the weekend so here’s a short and sweet slide guide from DG Fuels on their second-generation cellulosic biofuel whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a
April 29, 2022 Read Full Article
Hungary's Mol to Produce Green H2 at Danube Refinery
(Renewables Now) Hungarian oil-and-gas group Mol Plc (BPSE:MOL) has teamed up with US hydrogen solutions specialist Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) to build a EUR-22-million (USD 23.2m) green hydrogen production facility at its Danube refinery in Szazhalombatta, Hungary. In a joint statement today,
April 27, 2022 Read Full Article
DOE Unveils $500M Loan for Massive ‘Clean Hydrogen’ Project
by David Iaconangelo (E&E News) The Energy Department’s loan office announced yesterday that it intends to issue a half-billion-dollar guarantee to what it called a “first-of-its-kind” hydrogen project. The $504 million for a Utah project is the third loan guarantee from the
April 27, 2022 Read Full Article
EnTech Solutions, Northern Biogas, Dane County Support Sustainable Communities with Agricultural Biodigester
(EnTech Solutions) Organizations Unveil Completed Facility Powered by Clean Energy as Part of Earth Day Commemoration -- With the support of leadership from Dane County, Wisconsin, EnTech Solutions, a full-service clean energy solutions provider, has partnered with Northern Biogas, a fully-funded renewable natural
April 25, 2022 Read Full Article
Spain: EIB and ICO sign first joint financing for green hydrogen development with Iberdrola
(Electric Energy Online/European Investment Bank) -The green financing from the EIB and ICO will help Iberdrola to build a large-scale green hydrogen production plant, one of the largest for industrial use in Europe. -The Puertollano, Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) plant has a
April 12, 2022 Read Full Article
New GordonBush Project Steps Up SSE's Green Hydrogen Push
(SSE) Leading low-carbon energy company SSE has taken the next step in its green hydrogen push with SSE Renewables and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy today unveiling plans to produce and deliver green hydrogen through electrolysis, using renewable energy from SSE’s 100MW-plus Gordonbush
April 11, 2022 Read Full Article
Porsche Invests $75 Million Into Synthetic Fuel Start-Up
by Erin Marquis (Jalopnik) Gas made from carbon captured out of the atmosphere possibly coming to a fuel pump near you -- ... Porsche already put up $22 million into the Chilean startup HIF Global. The Haru Oni is in the
April 08, 2022 Read Full Article
5 Steps to Low Carbon Profitability: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) This is one ABLC slide guide you don’t want to miss! ABB’s John Oyen shares what ABB Energy Industries is all about, highlights 5 ways developers/producers can improve profitability, how Ballard and ABB work on
April 08, 2022 Read Full Article
The Race to Upcycle CO2 into Fuels, Concrete and More
by Mark Peplow (Nature) Companies are scrambling to turn the greenhouse gas into useful products — but will that slow climate change? -- Tongyezhen is a town with coal in its bones. ... But later this year, a chemical plant
April 06, 2022 Read Full Article
Luxembourg Airport Invests in SAF Production in Norway
by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) Luxembourg airport has invested in and become a shareholder of Norsk e-Fuel AS, an industry consortium located in northern Norway planning to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made from CO2 and water using 100 percent
April 05, 2022 Read Full Article
Hydrogen Heats up with Green Hydrogen Ships, Grocery Stores, Power Plants and More
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) Hot hydrogen news hit the past few days with grocery store chain Lidl opening the first logistics platform in Europe to use renewable green hydrogen, thanks to its partners Lhyfe and Plug Power. Plus news
April 04, 2022 Read Full Article
Lidl Opens Europe’s First Logistics Platform to Use Renewable Hydrogen
(Lidl/Lhyfe/Plug Power/NGV Journal) As part of its energy transition, the grocery store chain Lidl has opened its new logistics platform in Carquefou (Loire-Atlantique, France). Working in association with expert firms such as Lhyfe and Plug Power, Lidl has introduced a fleet
March 31, 2022 Read Full Article
Possibility to Produce Ethanol on a Financially Competitive and Technically Efficient Basis: Fuel from Waste Wood
(Technical University of Munich) ... Producing fuel from renewable sources such as waste wood and straw or renewable electricity would be one way to reduce carbon emissions from the area of transportation. This is an area which is being addressed
March 31, 2022 Read Full Article
How Biomass Can Enable a Hydrogen Economy
(Drax) Building a collaborative net zero future through negative emissions and zero-carbon fuel -- -Hydrogen as a fuel offers a carbon-free alternative for hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy road transport, domestic heating, and industries like steel and cement. -There are several
March 30, 2022 Read Full Article
A New, Sustainable Way to Make Hydrogen for Fuel Cells and Fertilizers
(RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science) A new sustainable and practical method for producing hydrogen from water has been discovered by a team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan led by Ryuhei Nakamura. Unlike
March 30, 2022 Read Full Article
Next Hydrogen, 40 Partners Sign on to Support Proposed Northeast Hydrogen Hub
by Michael Bates (NGT News) Hydrogen electrolyzer designer and manufacturer Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc.’s fully owned subsidiary, Next Hydrogen Corp., has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), along with an initial total
March 29, 2022 Read Full Article
Six Carbon Capture and Utilisation Technologies for a Sustainable Chemical and Fuel Production Nominated for the Innovation Award “Best CO2 Utilisation 2022”
(nova-Institute) Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) Innovations of the Year 2022: A lot of technologies are in place and in development to face the challenges of a sustainable chemicals and fuels production based on the utilisation of captured CO2 from industrial off-gases
March 25, 2022 Read Full Article
Researchers Find Easy Aluminum Nanoparticles for Efficient Hydrogen Generation from Water
by Daniela Castim (Bio Market Insights) A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has found an efficient and cost-effective way to use aluminum’s reactivity to generate clean hydrogen. The study shows that an easily produced composite of gallium and aluminum
March 21, 2022 Read Full Article
Duque Unveils First Car Fueled by Green Hydrogen Produced in Colombia
(Colombian Presidency/NGV Journal) Six months after the announcement of the Hydrogen Roadmap, Colombia launched the first electrolyzer in the country, located in Ecopetrol’s Cartagena Refinery, and which strengthens the energy transition developed by the national government. There, President Iván Duque refuel
March 21, 2022 Read Full Article
Clean Energy Superstar or Smokescreen for Fossil Fuel Use? Here’s What You Need to Know about Hydrogen.
by Tik Root (Washington Post) ... But some urge caution, noting that almost all the hydrogen currently produced is derived from fossil fuels, especially natural gas. And a study published last year found that, if those embodied emissions are considered, purportedly
March 17, 2022 Read Full Article
Anaergia Signs Project Development Agreement with Kent County, Michigan
(Anaergia/Business Wire) Anaergia Inc. (“Anaergia” or the “Company”) (TSX: ANRG) and partner, Continuus Materials, signed a contract Project Development Agreement (“PDA”) with the Board of the Kent County Department of Public Works. Under the terms of the PDA, the parties agreed to
March 16, 2022 Read Full Article
Spain’s First Industrial Renewable Hydrogen Plant Opens in Mallorca
(Enagás/NGV Journal) The Third Vice President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge Teresa Ribera has opened in Lloseta (Mallorca) the first industrial renewable hydrogen plant in Spain, as part of the Power to Green
March 15, 2022 Read Full Article
What Is eSAF, Why the Buzz and What’s Stopping It from Being Produced at Scale Today?
by Andreea Moyes and Peter Nowobilski (AIR bp and bp/Biofuels Digest) With the aviation industry committed to curtailing lifecycle carbon emissions, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has an important role to play. Air bp is already working alongside airlines and airports around
March 15, 2022 Read Full Article
Air Products to Produce Green Hydrogen in Arizona for Mobility Market
(Renewables Now) US industrial gases company Air Products Inc (NYSE:APD) will build a green hydrogen plant in Casa Grande, Arizona to produce 10 tonnes of fuel per day for the mobility market in California and other areas. The company will own and
March 13, 2022 Read Full Article
Turning CO2 into Shampoo and Lawn Furniture? U of T Startup Doing What ‘No One Has Done Before’
by Tina Adamopoulos (University of Toronto Engineering News) ... With a lab currently under construction on U of T’s downtown campus, CERT will soon be able to continue their work where their journey first began. The pilot unit will allow
March 10, 2022 Read Full Article
World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Project Unveiled in Texas, with Plan to Produce Clean Rocket Fuel for Elon Musk
by Leigh Collins (ReCharge) The 60GW Hydrogen City project, announced by local start-up Green Hydrogen International, will be powered by wind and solar, with an on-site salt cavern for H2 storage -- US start-up Green Hydrogen International (GHI) has announced a 60GW
March 04, 2022 Read Full Article
Beyond Fossil Carbon? Green Electricity Is Opening Doors to Low-Emission Alternatives for Making Fuels and Chemicals
by Erik F. Ringle (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) With Extensive Data, Broad Analyses, and Detailed Models, NREL Scientists and Collaborators Stake the Boundaries of Producing Chemicals and Fuels From Carbon Dioxide, Biomass, and Renewable Electricity -- ... In fact, growing supplies of
February 28, 2022 Read Full Article
Infinium™ Enters into Strategic Alliance with Denbury for Ultra-Low Carbon Fuels Projects in Texas, Continuing Development Momentum
(Infinium) Innovative electrofuels technology is aimed at decarbonizing the transportation sector -- Infinium, a clean fuels innovator, announced today that the company has entered into a strategic alliance with US energy leader Denbury (NYSE: DEN) to collaborate on developing ultra-low carbon
February 28, 2022 Read Full Article
Fusion Fuel Signs Cooperation Agreement with KEME Energy to Develop Solar-to-Green Hydrogen Farm in Sines, Portugal
(Fusion Fuel Green/Electric Energy Online) Fusion Fuel Green plc (NASDAQ: HTOO), an emerging leader in the green hydrogen sector, announced today (Feb 22) that it has entered into an agreement with KEME Energy to install a green hydrogen production facility
February 24, 2022 Read Full Article
Worley, ABB, and IBM to Collaborate to Create an End-to-End Green Hydrogen Solution
(IBM) Worley (ASX: WOR), ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on helping energy companies build and operate green hydrogen facilities more efficiently and at scale. The planned three-party collaboration aims to develop
February 24, 2022 Read Full Article
Apex, Ares, EPIC Sign MoU for Green Fuels Hub Supported by Renewable Energy
by Ariana Fine (North American Wind Power) Apex Clean Energy LLC; funds managed by the Infrastructure and Power strategy of Ares Management Corp.; EPIC Midstream Holdings LP; and the Port of Corpus Christi Authority (PCCA) have entered into a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MOU) to
February 23, 2022 Read Full Article
SoCalGas Shares Plans for Largest Green Hydrogen System in US
(Renewables Now) Gas distribution utility Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas) plans to build for the Los Angeles region what it says would be the nation’s largest green hydrogen energy infrastructure system. The project named Angeles Link is currently in its initial stage
February 17, 2022 Read Full Article
Hydrogen Fuel Bridges Bipartisan Divide during Senate Hearing
by Jorja Siemons (Medill News Service/Planet Forward) Clean hydrogen fuel’s versatility and flexibility makes it foundational to a clean energy transition, experts told lawmakers, including clean hydrogen enthusiast Joe Manchin, at a Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources hearing
February 15, 2022 Read Full Article
An Introduction to Sustainable Aviation Fuels -- Part 1 of a Series, "Sustainable Aviation Fuels: A Critical Emissions Mitigation Strategy Gaining Momentum"
by Jeff Overton (Environmental and Energy Study Institute) ... Aviation is a difficult sector to decarbonize. The enormous energy required to fly a heavy aircraft long distances takes an energy dense power source that liquid hydrocarbon fuel provides. Battery technology for
February 14, 2022 Read Full Article
Heliogen Awarded Exclusive Right to Lease Brenda Solar Energy Zone for Green Hydrogen Production
(Heliogen) Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy, today announced that the United States Bureau of Land Management has awarded the Company the exclusive right to lease land in the Brenda Solar
February 09, 2022 Read Full Article
Electrofuels Innovator Infinium™ Announces Strategic Partnership with Industry Leader ENGIE for One of the Largest Announced Commercial Scale E-fuels Facilities in Europe
(Infinium™/PR Newswire) New 'Reuze' project will convert more than 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide waste annually into e-fuels for shipping and aviation in Europe; French utilities provider ENGIE reinforces commitment to ultra-low carbon electrofuels technology from Infinium -- Infinium, a
February 08, 2022 Read Full Article
From Fertilizer to Fuel: Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix?
by Nicola Jones (Yale Environment 360) Ammonia has been widely used as a fertilizer for the last century. Now, using renewable energy and a new method for making ammonia, researchers and entrepreneurs believe “green” ammonia can become a significant clean
February 07, 2022 Read Full Article
United Arab Emirates: TotalEnergies Joins Masdar and Siemens Energy in Initiative to Drive Green Hydrogen Development and Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel
(TotalEnergies) TotalEnergies, Masdar and Siemens Energy sign collaboration agreement at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2022 to act as co-developers on green hydrogen project; Project aims to establish demonstrator plant at Masdar City for green hydrogen production to convert carbon dioxide
January 24, 2022 Read Full Article
thyssenkrupp to Install 200 MW Green Hydrogen Facility for Shell in Port of Rotterdam
(thyssenkrupp) thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate a 200 MW
January 18, 2022 Read Full Article
CSIC Builds Spain’s First Public Green Hydrogen Station Using Solar Energy
(CSIC/NGV Journal) A team of researchers from the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) develops the first public hydrogen station in Spain that will use green hydrogen generated in situ with solar energy. Hydrogen will be obtained by electrolyzers powered by
January 17, 2022 Read Full Article
Plug Power and Lhyfe Announce Commercial Arrangement to Develop Green Hydrogen Plants throughout Europe
(Lhyfe) Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ : PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, and Lhyfe, a pioneer producer and supplier of renewable and ecological hydrogen, today announced an partnership to jointly pursue and
January 14, 2022 Read Full Article
Liquid Wind Partners with Ørsted to Produce Green Electro-Fuel in Large-Scale eMethanol Project in Sweden
(Liquid Wind) Ørsted and Liquid Wind AB have reached an agreement, under which Ørsted will acquire a 45 % ownership share of Liquid Wind AB’s FlagshipONE eMethanol project. FlagshipONE is a late-stage development project and could become the world’s first
January 13, 2022 Read Full Article
Johnson Matthey Launches HyCOgen, an Enabling Technology to Efficiently Convert CO2 and Green Hydrogen into Sustainable Aviation Fuel
(Johnson Matthey/PR Newswire) - Launch of HyCOgen will play a key role in enabling captured CO2 and green hydrogen to be converted into sustainable aviation fuel; - In combination with FT CANSTM technology, Johnson Matthey delivers an integrated, scalable solution Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies, has launched
January 06, 2022 Read Full Article
Cummins, Sinopec, Oberon Fuels and More – The Latest Green Hydrogen Initiatives from Power-to-Hydrogen, Methane, DME
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) ... What about the different routes to get that lovely green hydrogen? From splitting water via excess green power (power-to-hydrogen), to stripping hydrogen out of renewable methane or out of DME, here’s a look at
January 05, 2022 Read Full Article
Preem Accelerates Climate Neutrality Target
(Biofuels International) Preem has shared plans to become climate neutral by 2035 - 10 years earlier than its previous target. The Swedish fuel company announced that by 2035, it will have a climate-neutral business with net-zero emissions throughout its value
December 31, 2021 Read Full Article
Hungry for Value: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to The Wolfpack on Green Hydrogen
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) If you missed the ABLC Wolfpack’s take on 5 key Green Hydrogen companies, then check out this slide guide that covers FuelCell Energy, Ballard Power Systems, Plug Power, Bloom Energy and Air Products & Chemicals
December 30, 2021 Read Full Article
The Airline Industry Is Catching Hydrogen Fuel Cell Fever
by Tina Casey (CleanTechnica) United Airlines and ZeroAvia are teaming up to bring the dream of zero emission hydrogen fuel cell flight down to Earth. -- The dream of all-electric flight just got bumped up in scale last week, when
December 23, 2021 Read Full Article
ESG Clean Energy Signs Letter of Intent with Ethatec GmbH to Use Carbon-Free Power Generation for Ethanol Production
(ESG Clean Energy) ESG Clean Energy, LLC, developers of net zero, distributed power generation and clean energy manufacturing solutions, announced today it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Ethatec GmbH for the use of ESG’s patented CO2-free power generation
December 14, 2021 Read Full Article
Green Hydrogen Could Compete with Traditional Hydrogen by 2030, Natural Gas by 2050: Report
by Emma Penrod (Utility Dive) • Green hydrogen remains too expensive to compete against conventional sources of hydrogen and other fuels, but the number of hydrogen projects underway has grown seven-fold in the past year as investors bank on the
December 14, 2021 Read Full Article
Let’s Call It Renewable Synthetic LNG
(SEA-LNG) SEA-LNG exists to support the ongoing development of the LNG decarbonisation pathway and is dedicated to helping shipping thrive through the energy transition. The end goal of this pathway, to deliver net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requires the production of
December 09, 2021 Read Full Article
4.25 Barrels of SAF per Biomass Ton: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Converting 850,000 tons of dry cellulosic biomass to 3,613,000 barrels of zero CO2 life cycle emissions fuel is what DG Fuels is all about and their proposed 21 sites at 10,000 barrels per day each
December 03, 2021 Read Full Article
Competitive Edge: Nzyme2HC’s Hydrogen Tech
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... There was no existing way to produce Hydrogen that was simultaneously renewable (no CO2 emissions) and price-competitive with fossil (Steam Methane Reforming of Nat Gas). If one wants demand for FCVs (Fuel Cell Vehicles)
December 03, 2021 Read Full Article
Monash University Exclusively Licence Green Ammonia Technology to New Start-up, Jupiter Ionics
(Monash University) Inspired by a vision for a future economy powered by carbon neutral ammonia, new start-up Jupiter Ionics Pty Ltd is the latest company to emerge from a growing stream of enterprises aligned with Monash University’s Technology Precinct. For over a century,
December 01, 2021 Read Full Article
State of Advanced Biofuels & Biorefining
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) Check out remarks from Jim Lane, Editor & Publisher of The Digest on rationale, forecast, the top news and storylines, feedstocks, genetics, crops, supply chain and more on the state of advanced biofuels and
November 30, 2021 Read Full Article
ARENA to Lead Australia-Germany’s HyGATE Initiative
(Australian Renewable Energy Agency) The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today (November 23, 2021) announced that it will play a key role in the development and delivery of the German-Australian Hydrogen Innovation and Technology Incubator known as HyGATE. ARENA will team
November 30, 2021 Read Full Article
Innovative Cities Funding New Clean Fuel Stations
(ACT News/Trillium) ... The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) in Illinois, recently unveiled two hydrogen fuel cell buses and fueling stations. ... Champaign-Urbana Buses are ‘Riding on Sunshine’ -- MTD is the first transit agency in the nation with a hydrogen
November 24, 2021 Read Full Article
First Wave of Ships Explore Green Hydrogen as Route to Net Zero
by Jonathan Saul, Nina Chestney (Reuters) Developers across the world are for the first time testing the use of hydrogen to power ships as the maritime industry races to find technologies to cut emissions and confidence grows the fuel is
November 24, 2021 Read Full Article
Neste Proceeds into Execution Phase with Partners in the MultiPLHY Project, Aiming to Demonstrate Production of Green Hydrogen at its Rotterdam Refinery
(Neste) Neste is entering into execution phase with its partners in the MultiPLHY consortium. The MultiPLHY project aims at installing, integrating and operating the world's first high-temperature electrolyzer system in multi-megawatt-scale (~2.4 MW) at Neste’s renewable products refinery in Rotterdam to
November 23, 2021 Read Full Article
It’s Hailed as the Clean Energy of the Future. But Hydrogen Produces ‘Substantial’ Emissions, Study Shows.
by Rachel Pannett (Washington Post) New research casts doubt on the environmental credentials of ‘blue’ hydrogen produced using fossils fuels -- ... But a new study published in the journal Applied Energy found making hydrogen from fossil fuels produces “substantial” greenhouse gas emissions
November 18, 2021 Read Full Article
Can Ireland Warm Homes and Cook Dinners with Hydrogen?
(Gas Networks Ireland) Whether we will be able to warm our homes and cook our dinners with hydrogen in the future is a question that researchers from University College Dublin’s Energy Institute (UCDEI) are hoping to answer as part of a
November 18, 2021 Read Full Article
IRENA and World Economic Forum Launch Green Hydrogen Toolbox at COP26
(International Renewable Energy Agency) New roadmaps on green hydrogen support policy makers to enable net zero commitments. -- The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the World Economic Forum launched today a jointly developed series of “Enabling Measures Roadmaps for Green Hydrogen”
November 18, 2021 Read Full Article
Unlocking Wastewater Value Is a Hidden Resource in Both Agricultural and Fermentation Processing
by Joel Stone and Thalia Aok (ConVergInce Advisers and ZwitterCo, Inc./Biofuels Digest) “Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.” This idiomatic expression characterizes the idea of tossing out the good along with the bad. Bioprocessing of agricultural or fermentation product
November 17, 2021 Read Full Article
SEA-LNG Supports Global Methane Pledge
(SEA-LNG) ... Looking to the future, bioLNG then renewable synthetic LNG will drive decarbonization. Hydrogen, manufactured through the electrolysis of water using renewable electricity, when available at scale, will deliver a net-zero fuel for LNG powered vessels through the use of
November 10, 2021 Read Full Article
High-Purity Hydrogen Produced from Biogas in Austria
(Bioenergy Insight) Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria and start-up Rouge H2 Engineering have produced high-purity hydrogen from biogas directly at a biogas plant. Green hydrogen is seen as a ‘beacon of hope’ in the energy and mobility revolution,
November 09, 2021 Read Full Article
U.S. DOE Announces $199 Million to Reduce Emissions from Cars & Trucks
(U.S. Department of Energy/Clean Technica) 25 Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects Will Advance Electrification of Freight Trucks, Reduce Vehicle Emissions and Improve Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure -- Vice President Kamala Harris joined U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm in New
November 04, 2021 Read Full Article
SAS, Vattenfall, Shell and LanzaTech to Explore Synthetic Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production
(Vattenfall/CISION) Vattenfall, SAS, Shell and LanzaTech will together investigate the production of the world's first synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the LanzaJetTM "Alcohol to Jet" technology on a large scale in Sweden. Instead of using virgin fossil material in the production process, the synthetic SAF will be
November 03, 2021 Read Full Article
NREL, Electric Hydrogen Partner on Renewable Hydrogen Technology
by Ariana Fine (NGT News) The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and clean hydrogen company Electric Hydrogen have signed an agreement to develop high-performance electrolyzer components, helping to scale clean hydrogen and invent new opportunities for decarbonization. The three-year, $3.6 million collaboration will diagnose
October 29, 2021 Read Full Article
Energy Vault Announces Energy Storage Agreement with DG Fuels to Provide 1.6 GWh of Energy Storage Capacity In Support of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Projects
(North American Clean Energy) Energy Vault, Inc. (“Energy Vault”), the company developing sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions with its proprietary technology, announced that it has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels LLC (“DG Fuels”), an emerging leader in renewable hydrogen
October 29, 2021 Read Full Article
Geospatial Analytical Framework for Biofuels’ Water Sustainability: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy Water Management
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) How can we produce bioenergy in a manner that increases water use efficiency, lowers regional water stress, and mitigates nutrient and sediment loss? That’s the question Argonne National Lab researchers are working on with their
October 28, 2021 Read Full Article
Making Martian Rocket Biofuel on Mars
(Georgia Institute of Technology/Phys.Org) Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a concept that would make Martian rocket fuel, on Mars, that could be used to launch future astronauts back to Earth. The bioproduction process would use three resources native
October 27, 2021 Read Full Article
Hy Stor Energy Develops Zero-Carbon Green Hydrogen Storage Hub in the U.S.
by Ariana Fine (NGT News) Hy Stor Energy LP, together with its strategic partner Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure (CC&L Infrastructure), will develop, commercialize and operate large-scale, long-duration hydrogen hubs. The first major project, the Mississippi Clean Hydrogen Hub, is under active development
October 26, 2021 Read Full Article
The Dutch Government Is Gambling Billions on Green Hydrogen
(Oilprice.com/Yahoo!) ... Realism and economics, however, seem to be lacking when it comes to planning new green hydrogen projects in NW Europe, the USA, and Australia. At the same time, blue hydrogen, potentially an important bridge fuel, is being largely overlooked. The
October 25, 2021 Read Full Article
Plug Power Breaks Ground on USD-290m Green Hydrogen Project in New York
(Renewables Now) Plug Power Inc (NASDAQ:PLUG) is initiating building works on a USD-290-million (EUR 249m) project in New York that includes the construction of a green hydrogen plant and a 450-MW electricity substation. The project will be realised at the Western
October 22, 2021 Read Full Article
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