Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

  The adoption of hydrogen as a fuel is a key aspect of the net zero initiative. According to 2022 statistics, global hydrogen use touched 95 million tonnes, a year-on-year increase of nearly 3%. As a fuel, hydrogen supports applications like heavy industries , seasonal energy storage, and long-haul transport.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. Blue vs. green.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. ’s final energy demand by 2050. Support, not subsidies.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. However, the costs of green hydrogen are significant and unviable from a commercial perspective, at this point in time.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 17, 2021

“In June, we said goodbye to coal by dismantling FPL’s last coal plant in Florida just as we surpassed 40% of the way toward completing our ’30-by-30’ plan to install 30 million solar panels by 2030. Registration is free and sessions on demand. The original construction to build the solar center started in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Microsoft has a new weapon for killing off diesel at its expanding global fleet of data centers: green hydrogen. “We see hydrogen creating the same sort of opportunity,” Janous said. Hydrogen tanks outside the Utah lab where Microsoft ran its test. Credit: Power Innovations). Hydrogen vs. batteries?

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries are slowly diversifying their energy portfolio by including hydrogen in their future roadmap towards a low carbon economy. Today, several global trends and activities distinguish the renewed focus on hydrogen from what has been observed in the past. International certification scheme for hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), RenewableUK and Solar Energy UK team up to demand clearer, ambitious clean energy goals. Moreover, the government has set its sights on rolling out at least 600,000 heat pumps a year from 2028, in addition to ramping up production of hydrogen for energy storage, transport, and potentially heating.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Renewable energy firms plan to build and operate suite of hydrogen production facilities in 2020s powered by wind and solar. Octopus Energy and renewables developer RES are teaming up to invest £3bn in green hydrogen plants across the UK by 2030, in a bid to capitalise on growing pressure on heavy industry to decarbonise.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2021

Additionally, several companies including Saudi Aramco and ADNOC, are exploring possibilities to develop low-carbon hydrogen production, as well as investments in CCUS. FPL makes progress on battery installations at solar-powered facility. The Oil and Gas Industry’s Eye for Hydrogen.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week LinkedIn calls for green upskilling, as demand for sustainability roles grows New data reveals demand in the green labour market is accelerating faster than supply, fuelling fears of a sustainability skills bottleneck. -

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

When fully operational, the Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH) could produce up to 50 gigawatts of hybrid wind and solar power over 15,000-square-kilometres in South-East Western Australia, across the Shires of Dundas and the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Some predictions say that the green hydrogen sector could become a US$2.5

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2021

Major new Scottish facility to harness wind and solar power to produce green hydrogen. The UK's fast-expanding hydrogen sector took another step forward today, with the unveiling of plans to build what would be the country's largest electrolyser at a site near the Whitelee onshore wind farm in Scotland.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The influential consultancy giant today published a new report detailing how it expects global oil demand to peak in 2029, with gas demand peaking in 2037.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

My previous article — How Blue Hydrogen Can Help Decarbonize The Econom y — generated a lot of feedback and discussion on social media. Today I had intended to provide specific examples of how some companies are using hydrogen to improve Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) metrics.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In its second five-year review, the Commission highlights the need for urgent action in the energy sector including the phasing out of fossil fuels and electrification of the system to meet net zero and the need to improve asset and resource management in the water sector to ensure that the demand does not outstrip supply.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 27, 2024

Photo by Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A new study finds that Bitcoin mining paired with green hydrogen could help speed up a transition to clean energy — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering strong evidence that the cryptocurrency is a big polluter. The authors call hydrogen and Bitcoin “energy carriers.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

billion) Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm and has started early work on a series of major hydrogen projects. As the coronavirus pandemic crushed oil demand immediately after the price per barrel had already slumped, the industry looked to slash costs. Green hydrogen went from possibility to inevitability. billion ($1.71

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Whether wind energy, solar power or green hydrogen – energy from sustainable and climate-neutral production is becoming increasingly important. To meet these high demands, state-of-the-art power racks are essential. The increasing electrification of the world inevitably affects our critical infrastructure.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Renewable energy farm in British Columbia could be the country’s largest off-grid solar project A First Nation indigenous group in Canada has launched a solar power project for what that country’s federal government is referring to as likely the largest off-grid renewable energy project of its kind in Canada.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The idea of having an energy strategy—presented as a plan to connect the dots between economic opportunity, our efforts to combat climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, and meeting future electricity demand—sees extremely strong support at 83%, with nearly half of all respondents (47%) saying such a strategy is “very important.”

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Surging gas prices in the wake of Russia's invasion have made hydrogen and ammonia produced using renewables increasingly competitive, study finds. This has opened the door for green hydrogen and ammonia produced from renewable electricity to compete with unabated natural gas-based processes," the report states.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The European Union is planning a 15-gigawatt renewable energy tender and auctions for green hydrogen projects as part of a trillion-dollar Green Deal package, according to draft proposals leaked this week. Scaling up support for green hydrogen. The scale and breadth of support for green hydrogen are particularly striking.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Boris Johnson has signalled he is keen for the UK to make a "big bet" on wind power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) as part of the government's strategy for building a net zero economy by 2050, as he urged global government to step up their climate efforts ahead of COP26. We have no time to waste," he said.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. Green hydrogen? “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

million) from the UK government to demonstrate hydrogen, compressed air and next-gen battery storage. The four technologies, all still in the innovation stage, offer the potential for the longer duration energy storage that is required to support balancing of the intermittency of wind and solar energies. Hydrogen storage.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 26, 2020

Summary - Europe and China double-down on renewables, investing hundreds of billions into electric vehicles, solar, wind and hydrogen. In fact, the Merkel government last year removed a cap on solar power subsidies to boost capacity faster. Big time investments in Hydrogen Europe is also betting big on hydrogen.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thanks to myriad technologies - hydrogen hydride batteries, EV batteries, home solar power, and other renewables - the UK energy grid could look very different in 2030, writes Plextek's Laurence Weir. Solar power can dominate our energy production on a warm sunny day, even in the UK. Supply and demand.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

“This means no fossil fuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, bioenergy, blue hydrogen or nuclear power.”. The scenarios modeled a massive scale-up of offshore wind turbines and rooftop solar panels—none of which take up new land—as well as onshore wind turbines, utility-scale solar farms and concentrated solar power plants.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 12, 2024

As the world decarbonizes and focuses on options such as clean H2, locating hydrogen storage options has become an important goal to ensure sustainable and reliable energy to meet global demands. Storing H2 is particularly important when it comes to green hydrogen made using renewable energy such as wind and solar power. 

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Later in the call, CEO Bernard Looney reiterated that “material” revenues from green hydrogen were further out to 2030. The company is working on several early-stage hydrogen projects including a 1.5 GW wind- and solar-powered site in Australia that would export ammonia to Asia. 2020 takes its toll.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

You say old coal plant, I say new green hydrogen facility Lincoln Bleveans Tue, 11/24/2020 – 01:30 Relics. Good or bad, no one views America’s old coal-fired power plants with indifference. ” Like natural gas, that hydrogen contains heat that can be released with combustion to drive a generator. I disagree.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. They want to see more investment in wind and solar technology across the UK, and interestingly, there is also a call for investment in hydrogen too.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The new wind and solar plans announced Thursday are additions to a $22.6

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. By late Spring, we were receiving reports that the UK’s coal-powered energy had fallen to ‘ pre-industrial revolution levels ’, and by the summer, that pollution levels had dropped by half. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019.

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