Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has revealed that the hydrogen and biofuel hybrid passenger ship Hanaria started service in Kitakyushu.MOL The ship was built at the Hongawara Ship Yard for MOL’s company MOTENA-Sea, backed by investments from MOL Techno-Trade. According to MOL, this is the first passenger ship in Japan that can select propulsion energy from hydrogen fuel...
Cleantech CEO urges governments and industry to commit funding and resources to lower the cost of ‘turquoise hydrogen’. Governments and industry should do more to develop hydrogen as an affordable, sustainable and commercially viable fuel – especially so-called “turquoise hydrogen” derived from waste plastic, according to Chris Williams, founder and CEO of ISB Global,...
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...
President Joe Biden’s plan to build a “clean” hydrogen industry is raising concerns about a lack of regulations for transporting the fuel, a gap that could hinder the administration’s efforts to cut emissions. To deliver millions of metric tons of hydrogen from production facilities to buyers, the industry will need trucks, existing natural gas infrastructure and new pipelines. But trucks...
Sanjiv Lamba, CEO of industrial gas producer Linde, serves both environmentalists and investors. Neither group has cause to complain. By William Baldwin, Senior Contributor Linde PLC puts the heavy in heavy industry. It furnishes industrial gases to the world’s smokestacks: fertilizer plants, steel mills, glassworks, oil refineries. It spews 38 million tons a year of carbon dioxide into the...
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) announced it was preparing to make as much as a $1.66 billion loan guarantee to Latham, New York-based Plug Power, with the money earmarked for construction of as many as six clean hydrogen facilities across the U.S. The DOE on May 14 said the funds were part of a conditional commitment to Plug Power. The Biden administration has made support for hydrogen production...
World’s highest-efficiency hydrogen system scales up for mass production. Hysata promises the world’s cheapest hydrogen, thanks to a remarkable device that splits water into H2 and O2 at 95% efficiency – some 20% higher than the best conventional electrolyzers. The company has raised US$111 million to scale up production. You have to throw some energy away to make...
In the budget last week, the government was keen to talk about its efforts to turn Australia into a renewable superpower under the umbrella of the Future Made in Australia policies. Future Made is a framework that sets out how to target green subsidies to drive investment in everything from solar to critical minerals to green hydrogen. The policy lands at a time when the world is racing towards a...
South Australia has signed a historic agreement with the US state of California to collaborate on advancing renewable and hydrogen technology. SA Premier Peter Malinauskas signed the letter of cooperation with California’s Acting Governor Eleni Kounalakis in Sacramento on Wednesday. Both states have pledged to work together on developing world-leading renewable and hydrogen projects, integrating...
Countrywide Hydrogen has secured an $8 million funding deal in green hydrogen production and supply with the Tasmanian Government. The Tasmanian Government said in a statement that this deal makes Countrywide Hydrogen the first major green hydrogen producer in the state. The funding is part of the Tasmanian Government’s Green Hydrogen Price Reduction Scheme, aimed at stimulating the hydrogen...