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...
Whilst the UK’s hydrogen policy was established by the Ten Point Plan in November 2020, the 2021 Hydrogen Strategy was intended to stimulate the next steps for hydrogen energy development and delivery. The strategic goals include job creation, decarbonisation, and technological leadership. In advancing these goals, the government concluded its Hydrogen Allocation Round (“HAR1”) on 14 December...
The Austrian government has massively increased the amount of money it will make available for green hydrogen production subsidies, the country’s finance minister announced today. Only last week, a new draft law was unveiled that would provide €400m ($438.5m) of subsidies through the EU’s European Hydrogen Bank (EHB) for Austrian green H2 projects over the next ten years — €40m annually. But...
The EU should implement long-term subsidies or tax incentives to offset the higher cost of running hydrogen-powered vehicles compared to battery electric vehicles (BEVs), according to a new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). After pointing out that fuel-cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and buses (FCEBs) “face competition from battery electric alternatives, which benefit...
image © Plug Power Europe Plug Power calls on the European Union to take inspiration from the tremendous success of the first Hydrogen Bank Auction to take a bolder step in supporting the hydrogen sector Because Plug Power operates in the U.S. and Europe, people often ask us about the difference between the hydrogen support schemes in these regions. The recent draft regulations on the...