The nation’s transition to a sustainable and clean-energy future heavily focuses on the use of hydrogen as an energy source. To expedite a hydrogen-fueled future, the Biden administration recently announced more than $7 billion in federal funding to expand hydrogen infrastructure on a nationwide scale.Rohit Pandey, assistant professor of mining and minerals engineering at Virginia Tech, has received...

President of Chile Gabriel Boric speaking in front of a photo of HIF Global's Haru Oni green hydrogen/e-fuels project in the Magallanes region during a visit by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Santiago last June.Photo: Agencia Makro/Getty Source link...

Ursula von der Leyen delivering a video message to last week's European Hydrogen Week conference in Brussels.Photo: Leigh Collins/Hydrogen Insight Source link...

Genevos, a French specialist in hydrogen and fuel cell power systems integration for the maritime sector, has joined the H2-SEAS consortium that aims to develop and build a hydrogen-electric fishing vessel prototype.Courtesy of Genevos The consortium includes the project leader Riga Technical University, fellow Latvian shipyard A2Z Gannet SIA, the Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre...

The Australian Government will spend AU$566m (US$378m) in new offshore mapping programmes that will also help identify new carbon capture and storage (CCS) locations and possible sites for clean hydrogen projects.Announced a day before last Thursday’s (16th May) announcement by Resources Minister Madeleine King of Australia’s new Future Gas Strategy, the investment aligns with King’s plan to...

Air Products wants other companies to commit to building large-scale renewable and low-carbon hydrogen projects to ensure that a reliable, competitive market forms, a company executive has told H2 View.Ivo Bols, President, Europe and Africa at Air Products, said there was “no glory” in being a first mover if there are not “fast followers.”“Even the best first mover cannot create a reliable,...

At the end of April the winners were announced of the first pilot auction to allocate subsidies for EU hydrogen production via the Hydrogen Bank. The winning bids were between €0.37 and €0.48 per kg, much lower than the €4 – €6 per kg “green premium” cost gap between renewable hydrogen and fossil hydrogen in Europe. The low bids mean companies applied for fewer subsidies than needed to...

A CURIOUS LETTER sent on November 6th recently surfaced in Washington, DC. On that day, nearly a dozen American senators sent a stern note to Janet Yellen, America’s treasury secretary, Jennifer Granholm, its energy secretary, and John Podesta, the senior adviser to the White House on clean energy. It was about the legal guidance they expected from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on tax rules...

Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission's executive vice-president, who oversees the European Green Deal, in discussion with EC President Ursula von der Leyen at a commissioners' meeting in Brussels.Photo: Shutterstock Source link...

The world continues to search for an energy source that many have called “miraculous” (and we are not referring to the grave mistake of nuclear power, nor to Iceland’s geothermal energy). In the midst of this race, the United States has “invented” a new color of hydrogen, although it does not seem to have been a good idea. The reason is simple: it could cause a catastrophe, and experts are...