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+ + + China: 200.000 tons of green hydrogen per year by 2025 + + + Essen: SPIN project “Power-to-X platform” receives 5,3 million euros in state funding + + + Salzgitter: Salzgitter AG will supply low-CO2025 steel to Volkswagen from the end of 2 + + + Berlin: 30 GW electrolysis capacity possible by 2030 + + + France: HysetCo orders hydrogen filling station modules by NEL + + + Finland: P2X Solutions buys 20 megawatt electrolyser from Sunfire + + + Great Britain: CAeS acquires twelve million euros to develop fuel cell engines for aircraft + + + Dresden: CIP and Blue Earth invest in Sunfire + + + Berlin: Vinci Energies wants to use Enapter's AEM multicore + + + Bavaria: Siemens and BRB sign contract for hydrogen train + + + Australia: Aviation H2 wants to complete the turbine for a hydrogen aircraft in 2023 + + +
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China wants to produce 2025 tons of green hydrogen annually by 200.000 and have 50.000 hydrogen-powered vehicles on the roads by then. According to the news agency “ReutersThe country currently produces 33 million tons of hydrogen per year, around 80 percent of which comes from coal and natural gas. The rest is mainly produced as a by-product in industry. Data from industry association China Hydrogen Alliance showed that the country produced around 2019 tons of hydrogen via electrolysis in 500.000, the post said. The potential of green hydrogen is huge "as the country has the world's largest renewable energy capacity," said Wang Xiang of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The China Hydrogen Alliance estimates that China's hydrogen demand will increase from the current 20 million tons to 2030 million tons per year by 35 and to 2050 million tons by 60.
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The North Rhine-Westphalia state government is funding the development of a test platform for the development of Power-to-X technologies with 5,3 million euros. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is in charge of this project of the “Leading Cluster for Industrial Innovations” (SPIN). Other project partners are Fraunhofer UMSICHT, the Chair of Environmental Process Engineering and Plant Engineering (LUAT) at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Evonik Industries. The construction of the platform will start shortly at LUAT. The aim is to develop marketable Power-to-X technologies and test material conversions using continuous reactors with gas diffusion electrodes, according to a statement. The platform will provide all the necessary energy and material flows for various sub-projects such as the CO2 separation system, catalytic CO electrolysis and plasma reactor. The total project volume is around seven million euros.
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Volkswagen AG is one of the first customers for low-CO2 steel, which Salzgitter AG plans to produce in Lower Saxony from the end of 2025. Based on hydrogen and renewable energies, loud Salzgitter AG save over 95 percent of CO2 emissions in steel production in the future. The Volkswagen Group plans to use the low-CO2 steel from the end of 2025 in projects such as the E-model Trinity, which will be produced in Wolfsburg from 2026. For the project "SALCOS – Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking”, Salzgitter AG will build hydrogen electrolyzers, direct reduction plants and electric furnaces.
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By 2030, an annual supply capacity for electrolyzers for the production of green hydrogen in the order of 30 gigawatts (GW) can be built up in Germany. This is the result German Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association eV (DWV) after a survey among its members. Accordingly, a delivery capacity of 2025 GW per year is possible in 16,25 and 2030 GW by 27,8. The federal government wants to achieve an electrolysis capacity of at least ten gigawatts by 2030. The results of the survey show “that this can still be exceeded”. According to DWV calculations, this will result in annual sales of 2030 billion euros in 13,1. Around 65.800 jobs could be created. The calculated maximum hydrogen production could be 2030 terawatt hours in 72,3. Elogen GmbH, ITM Power GmbH/Linde AG, MAN Energy Solutions SE/H-TEC Systems GmbH, McPhy Energy Deutschland GmbH, Siemens Energy AG, Sunfire GmbH and Thyssenkrupp Nucera AG & Co. KgaA took part in the survey.
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The Norwegian company Nel Hydrogen Fueling, a subsidiary of Nel ASA, has received an order from the French hydrogen taxi operator HysetCo to supply several modules for hydrogen filling stations. These will be used to operate light fuel cell electric vehicles in Paris. The installation at the future HysetCostation in Le Bourget, north of the French capital, is partly financed with support from the public-private partnership FCH JU (Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking). The gas station is scheduled to be operational in 2022.
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The Finnish company P2X Solutions Oy has ordered a 20 megawatt electrolyser from Sunfire. Delivery period is 2023. P2X Solutions is building Finland's first large-scale production plant for green hydrogen and synthetic methane in Harjavalta. The heat and oxygen produced as byproducts could be used in industrial processes, the company said. Construction work will begin this fall and is scheduled to be completed in summer 2024. “Our goal is to build an electrolysis capacity of 1.000 megawatts in the next ten years; planning for the subsequent plants has already begun,” says Herkko Plit, CEO of P2X Solutions.
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Investors Hydrogen One Capital Growth plc (London) and Safran Corporate Ventures (Paris) have committed more than ten million pounds (twelve million euros) to Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Ltd (CAeS) in a financing round. CAeS is active in the aerospace sector and wants to develop a commercial hydrogen-electric drive for aircraft. In the initial phase, CAeS wants to concentrate on the certification of the Britten-Norman Islander passenger aircraft, a twin-engine aircraft with up to ten seats that will be powered by fuel cells.
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The Dresden electrolysis company Sunfire GmbH gains two new investors: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Blue Earth Capital. According to the company, this increases the capital raised in Series D to a total of 195 million euros. CIP is active in the areas of offshore wind power, energy storage and Power-to-X, among others. In a framework agreement, the project developer also secures access to electrolysis capacities Sunfire. “In the coming years, CIP plans to purchase pressurized alkaline electrolysers with a total output of up to 640 megawatts and use them across Europe in its multi-gigawatt projects,” it said in a statement. The investment company Blue Earth from the Swiss Partners Group is contributing capital and expertise. Existing investors have also pledged fresh capital.
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Vinci Energies Deutschland Industry & Infrastructure GmbH, part of the French construction group Vinci, wants to both use and sell the AEM-Multicore large-scale hydrogen systems from Enapter GmbH itself. The cooperation has a minimum term of five years. According to the company, no exclusivity or acceptance guarantee was agreed. AEM-Multicore (Anion Exchange Membrane) devices can produce around 450 kilograms of green hydrogen per day. Combined with this enapter 420 core modules (AEM stacks) to form a complete system that can operate in the megawatt range.
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Siemens Mobility GmbH and Bayerische Regiobahn GmbH (BRB) have signed a leasing contract for the prototype of a hydrogen train. The two-part vehicle According to the information, it will be presented to the public in spring 2022 and will go into test operation on the Augsburg-Füssen route from mid-2023. The tests are initially scheduled to last 30 months. The vehicle will begin official passenger service from January 2024. As reported, in July 2021, Siemens commissioned the Canadian fuel cell manufacturer Ballard Power Systems to supply two 200-kilowatt fuel cell modules for a Mireo Plus H passenger train.
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The Australian company Aviation H2 plans to soon begin building a prototype of Australia's first hydrogen-powered aircraft, which is expected to take off in mid-2023. In the past few months I have Aviation H2 investigated various options for propelling the aircraft, including the use of ammonia instead of jet fuel, pure hydrogen, co-firing and the use of electric motors. The results of the analyzes are positive, according to the company. One of the most important elements of the strategy is the conversion of existing aircraft into ones with hydrogen-powered engines. It is “critically important that we use existing technologies wherever possible.” They will start with an operational aircraft and maintain basic certification as much as possible. Customers could then modify their existing aircraft instead of purchasing an entirely new fleet.
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