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Norway: Nel increases production capacity + + + Austria: Postbus orders more buses from Solaris + + + Austria: Green hydrogen from the Emirates + + + Nuremberg: Faurecia is equipping MAN trucks with hydrogen tanks + + + Egypt: Scatec develops ammonia production plant + + + Denmark: European Energy builds methanol production plant for Maersk + + + Augsburg: MAN Solutions is investing 500 million euros in electrolyzer production from H2-Tec Systems + + + Norway: Gen2 Energy receives a financial injection of three million pounds + + +
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A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The Norwegian company Nel ASA wants to increase its production capacity for electrolysers. The plant on Herøya is already working in three shifts, says Managing Director Jon André Løkke. “We are reaching new production records every week and will start a site selection process for additional capacity in Europe,” says Løkke. Nel's electrolyser plant on Herøya has a capacity of 500 megawatts and can be expanded to two gigawatts.
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Solaris Bus & Coach sp. z oo has concluded another framework agreement with Österreichische Postbus AG. This means that up to 106 electric and hybrid buses can be called up: 24 “Urbino 9 LE electric” and 82 “Urbino 12 hydrogen”. Deliveries are planned for the period 2022 to 2025, an extension is possible. It is a Follow-up contract, the first agreement from February 2021 included the delivery of up to 40 “Urbino 12 hydrogen” equipped with 70 kilowatt fuel cells. The five tanks with a total capacity of 1.560 liters are mounted on the roofs of the vehicles.
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Austria wants to import green hydrogen from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Minister responsible for raw materials, Elisabeth Köstinger (ÖVP), signed a declaration of intent with the UAE Industry Minister, Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, in Qatar on March 6th. The agreement was concluded as part of a joint visit with Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and Energy Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens). The implementation of the plans still seems vague. It would be possible, for example, to transport hydrogen via the natural gas network, according to the Austrian version Federal Chancellery. The talks in Qatar focused primarily on the supply of LNG (liquefied natural gas). In the short term, however, neither hydrogen nor LNG will flow to Austria because the pipeline structures also have to be rethought, said the Chancellor. “We have a lot of north-south or east-west connections, but very few south-north connections.” Around 80 percent of Austria’s gas imports currently come from Russia.
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The French automotive supplier Faurecia, part of the technology group Forvia, will equip heavy trucks from MAN Truck&Bus with hydrogen storage systems as part of the hydrogen research project “Bavarian Fleet”. For this project, which is funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs with around seven million euros, Faurecia is developing a new tank size that meets the requirements of heavy-duty vehicles and “other applications with intensive use”. Such an extra-large system enables greater autonomy. The prototype will be developed in the company's research and development center in Augsburg. From mid-2024, five selected companies will test the hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks for a year in the region between Nuremberg and Munich.
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The Norwegian project developer Scatec ASA is to develop a green ammonia production plant in Egypt with a capacity of one million tons per year. A Memorandum of Understanding The company says it has now signed with the General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE), the Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE), the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) and the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA). The plant can be expanded to three million tons per year. Hydrogen production will be located in the SCZONE in the industrial area of Ain Sokhna, southeast of Cairo, and will be powered by renewable energies. The green ammonia is mainly exported to the European and Asian markets, it said in a statement.
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Danish renewable energy project developer European Energy A/S and Danish group AP Moller-Maersk have signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of e-methanol projects. The production capacity is 300.000 tons annually. According to the information, European Energy to set up large-scale e-methanol projects in North and South America for the logistics and transport company, which are scheduled to go into operation in 2025/26. Maersk is the only buyer of the e-methanol under a multi-year contract. To produce the fuel, new plants would be developed and built to generate electricity from renewable energies. Maersk, one of the world's largest container shipping companies, has already ordered twelve large container ships that can run on green methanol and will be ready for use from 2024.
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The Augsburg-based MAN Energy Solutions SE wants to invest up to 500 million euros in its subsidiary H-Tec Systems “in the coming years” in order to set up large-scale production of PEM electrolysers. The aim is to develop H-Tec Systems “into one of the world’s leading players in the field of PEM electrolysis,” says Uwe Lauber, managing director of MAN Energy Solutions. The technology is mature and placed on the market. “The next step is about scaling and setting up series production with a high level of automation.”
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The British fund Hydrogenone Capital Growth plc is investing 3,3 million pounds (3,9 million euros) in the Norwegian Gen2 Energy AS as part of a financing round. With the acquisition of a minority stake Hydrogenones the right to a seat on the board. Gen2 was founded in 2019 to produce green hydrogen on a large scale, particularly using hydropower, the most important part of Norway's electricity mix. Gen2 has a number of projects in the pipeline with an estimated total capacity of 700 megawatts in Norway that could be commissioned between 2024 and 2026. Hydrogenone was founded in 2020 to invest in global hydrogen projects and hydrogen companies.
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