A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week + + + Norway: Nel receives orders from the USA + + + Krummhörn: Lower Saxony promotes electrolyzer plus storage + + + Australia: FRV and Hexagon build hydrogen center in Darwin + + + Finland: P2X Solutions is building Finland's first green hydrogen production plant + + + USA: Hyperion moves headquarters back to Ohio + + + Berlin: DWV announces steel study + + + Sweden: Everfuel receives 4,3 million euros for hydrogen filling stations + + + India: Green hydrogen strategy announced + + + Events
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Nel Hydrogen US, a subsidiary of Norway's Nel ASA, has received orders worth millions in the US. According to a statement, the company is supplying one PEM container electrolyzer and a hydrogen filling station to an unnamed electricity and gas supplier. Green hydrogen will also contribute to cooling turbines in a power plant, and some will also be fed into the natural gas network. The electricity comes, among other things, from an on-site photovoltaic system. The contract value is five million dollars (4,4 million euros), delivery will take place at the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023.
Had a few days before In announced that the company was to deliver several PEM electrolysers to a client in the food industry, which was also not named. Here too, the contract value is around five million dollars. The deliveries of the systems will be staggered over the rest of 2022 and into 2023.
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The state of Lower Saxony is funding the “KRUH2” project of the natural gas transmission system operator Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE) with 2,81 million euros. The Project includes the production, storage and use of green hydrogen on the OGE premises in the Frisian municipality of Krummhörn, northwest of Emden. The PEM electrolyser with an output of one megawatt is powered by electricity from surrounding wind farms. The gas goes into a 2.400 cubic meter intermediate storage facility and can operate a fuel cell-based combined heat and power system. In addition, a hydrogen filling station will supply three vehicles in the OGE fleet. Commissioning is scheduled for summer 2023.
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Hexagon Energy Materials Ltd. and FRV Services Australia Pty Ltd. want to build a hydrogen center together. The location is the “Middle Arm” area in the harbor of the northern Australian city of Darwin, a 1.500 hectare area development project the Northern Territory State Government, led by the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, where companies from the energy and infrastructure sectors will be located. Hexagon is currently preparing a feasibility study that is scheduled to be completed by February 28, 2022. The project aims to produce up to 1,6 million tons of ammonia, or 300.000 tons blue hydrogen per year. The collaboration with FRV is intended to give Hexagon access to renewable energy to reduce the need for carbon capture and storage (CCS).
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The Finnish company P2X Solutions Oy is investing 70 million euros to, according to its own statements, “build Finland’s first large-scale plant for the production of green hydrogen” in the Harjavalta industrial park. The construction work for the 20 megawatt Project in southwest Finland will begin in autumn 2022. Completion is scheduled for the first half of 2024. The decision was preceded by a round of financing with several “national and international investors”. In addition, the Ministry of Labor and Economic Affairs provides “a significant subsidy”. The German asset management company Prime Capital AG is investing five million euros and a shareholder loan of 20 million euros. Some of the green hydrogen will be processed into renewable synthetic fuels, and the heat and oxygen generated as a byproduct could be used in industrial processes.
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The Hyperion Companies, Inc., a green hydrogen technology company, is moving its headquarters from Southern California to a 26-acre site west of Columbus, Ohio. A research and development center will also be set up there. Hyperion is investing more than $297 million (€263 million) in the new facility to produce “next generation” fuel cells that will power its new line of stationary and mobile energy storage, including the Hypercar XP-1 vehicle. The investments will create more than 680 new full-time jobs over the next six years, according to a statement. It is not stated whether workers from the previous California location can also find a new job in Columbus. Hyperion was founded in Columbus in 2011 and is now returning to the city after other hydrogen technology manufacturers also set up shop there. The company decided to revitalize a historic building that once housed the printing press for the Columbus Dispatch newspaper. Production is scheduled to start in 2023.
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The HySteel expert commission of the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (DWV) wants to publish a meta-study in March on the technical and economic parameters for the conversion of the German steel industry to low-emission steel production based on green hydrogen. In addition, this year they want to develop a key points paper with “recommendations for action and the regulatory framework for the rapid development of a hydrogen market economy and for the promotion of future-proof and sustainable investment decisions in the steel and hydrogen industry”. In addition, an analysis of the “opportunities for existing and new jobs in the steel industry through the use of renewable hydrogen” is also on the agenda. The cross-industry one DWV HySteel expert commission with 23 members from companies and organizations from business and science has been funded by the Federal Environment Ministry since the end of 2020.
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Everfuel Sweden AB, a subsidiary of the Danish hydrogen supply solutions provider Everfuel A/S, will receive two grants totaling 45 million crowns (4,3 million euros) from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Climate Leap investment program (Klimatklivet). The money is for that Partial financing for two hydrogen filling stations in the Värmland region, a transport hub between Stockholm, Gothenburg and Karlstad, as well as Oslo in Norway and Stockholm in Denmark. The stations are being built in collaboration with the Scandinavian gas station operator OKQ8. Everfuel wants to build up to 2023 strategically located hydrogen filling stations by the end of 15. The first Everfuel filling station in Sweden is scheduled to open in Trelleborg later this year.
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The Indian government wants to publish a strategy for green hydrogen. According to the Minister for Electricity and New and Renewable Energy, RK Singh, it should, among other things, state that electricity from renewable energy sources can be transmitted free of charge for a period of 25 years, writes the Indian daily newspaper “Times of India“. This means that the green electricity can be produced in the state of Rajasthan and transported to Guwahati in Assam, more than 2.000 kilometers away, in order to produce green hydrogen there. Publication is scheduled for early February.
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