Trucks Venture Capital, Collaborative Fund, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund, Newlab and other strategic investors back Verne’s cryo-compressed hydrogen storage technology

Trucks Venture Capital, Collaborative Fund, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, United Airlines Ventures Sustainable Flight Fund, Newlab and other strategic investors back Verne’s cryo-compressed hydrogen storage technology. Verne, a leading developer of high-density hydrogen storage systems, today announced a strategic fundraise led by Trucks Venture Capital, with participation from...

Green Hydrogen: A Multibillion-Dollar Energy Boondoggle

Introduction This past October, the Biden administration announced $7 billion in subsidies to create seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs. In addition, under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), green hydrogen—hydrogen manufactured with no carbon emissions—will be eligible for a production tax credit of up to $3 per kilogram (kg) produced. These subsidies are part of the administration’s...

European Hydrogen Bank Auctions-as-a-Service scheme gains first Member State participant

Germany is becoming the first Member State to participate in the EU’s Auctions-as-a-Service scheme under the European Hydrogen Bank. Through participating in the European Hydrogen Bank, Germany is set to make €350m available from its national budget for hydrogen production in the country. This investment is on top of the €800m already foreseen for European projects from the EU Innovation...

Fortescue slams Biden administration’s green Inflation Reduction Act hydrogen tax credit rules

The “hourly matching” rule will force hydrogen producers to either cease production when renewables are not available – an option that would undermine productivity and viability – or sign up for excess renewable power from diverse sources to improve the chances of having clean energy available from at least one source at all times.Fortescue has urged the government to instead consider “annual...

GAWDA SMC: Exclusive green hydrogen legislation could stifle industry growth | Events

The hydrogen industry will be at risk if only legislation that focuses on 100% green hydrogen is signed into law and rolled out globally.That was a strong message from Linde and TOMCO at the GAWDA Spring Management Conference this morning in San Antonio, Texas.According to the educational session hosts, Scott Rummans and Jeff Holyoak, there was over $220bn federal spending on clean energy initiatives...

Chart: The US clean energy backlog is getting bigger…

To be clear, the vast majority of these power plants will never get built; the project completion rate between 2000 and 2018 was just 19 percent. But even at that rate, we’re talking about hundreds of gigawatts’ worth of solar, wind, and grid battery projects that are plodding through the interconnection queue when the country needs the exact opposite — a rapid expansion of clean energy — to...

US awards about $335m of investment tax credits for new hydrogen-equipment manufacturing facilities

About $335m of investment tax credits have been awarded to eight companies for the construction of new hydrogen-equipment factories in the US, according to the US Department of Energy. Five of the awards of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit, also known as 48C, will go towards the construction of new electrolyser manufacturing facilities, with two allocated for fuel-cell production, and...

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