Green North Energy, a green energy project development company launched in 2021, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Finnish cities Pori and Kemi to conduct a feasibility study for establishing green hydrogen and ammonia plants as part of BalticSeaH2 project, a large-scale cross-border hydrogen valley gathering 40 partners from nine Baltic Sea region countries.Green North Energy Green North...

French cruise ship operator PONANT and compatriot startup FARWIND Energy are collaborating on innovative ship refuelling solutions with renewable hydrogen. Courtesy of FARWIND Energy Specifically, the companies have defined a road map to develop the production and use of renewable marine hydrogen, FARWIND said, noting that the plan is to share progress on the management of hydrogen on board and...

Electrolyser manufacturers have invested too quickly into new factories, with “severe overcapacity” compared to actual demand from green hydrogen project developers in the coming year, warns research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). In their analysis, entitled Electrolyser Manufacturing 2024: Too Many Fish in a Tiny Pond, BNEF noted that factories around the world could produce up to 31.7GW...

Volklingen Ironworks in Saar, Germany Volklingen Ironworks in Saar, Germany Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) has officially launched a tender to procure up to 50,000 tonnes of green hydrogen to power its companies’ green steel projects.The holding and management company for the Saarland steel industry – with Saarstahl, Dillinger and ROGESA in its portfolio – needs the hydrogen to implement its...

The state aid covers investments in green hydrogen, biogas and biomethane The state aid covers investments in green hydrogen, biogas and biomethane The European Commission (EC) has approved a €900 million French scheme to support companies investing in the use of biomass and renewable hydrogen in energy and fuel production.The scheme was approved under the State aid Temporary Crisis and Transition...

3M invests in hydrogen electrolyzer manufacturer EVOLOH. 3M (NYSE: MMM) has invested in EVOLOH, a cleantech company that’s working to scale up manufacturing of its electrolyzers to make green hydrogen affordable and efficient. Electrolyzers work by using electricity to separate the atoms in water. The result is hydrogen that can be used as clean fuel or chemical reactant...

Bloom Energy congratulates Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California for securing up to $1.2 billion in awards by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build and expand on clean hydrogen projects across the Golden State. “It is a historic milestone for the hydrogen industry in the United States that the DOE has selected centerpiece hydrogen hubs for development,” said...

Harald Beschid, Region Manager, Hydrogen (Europe & Middle East) – March 21, 2024 Insights from the 2nd European Green Steel Summit 2024. Recently, my colleague Johannes Aurich and I had the privilege of attending the EU Green Steel Summit 2024 , where industry leaders convened to tackle the monumental task of transforming the European steel industry into a greener, more sustainable sector....

Hydrogen Power Generators – World first: Genpower parallelizes three EODev GEH2® generators. Undertaken in the Netherlands for the first time ever, three 110kVA GEH2® hydrogen power generators were set up in parallel by EODev’s distributor Genpower to supply up to 265 kVA of zero-emission electricity continuously and recharge all the electric equipment installed on an...

Some companies planning to use new U.S. tax credits to deploy hydrogen projects urged the Treasury Department this week to ease proposed environmental requirements, warning that they could hinder the nascent industry’s takeoff.Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service hosted hearings this week on the guidance they released in December governing implementation of the Clean Hydrogen Production, or...