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Norway: NEL supplies hydrogen tank systems to Poland and Canada + + + Friesland: District gets five hydrogen buses for public transport + + + India: Joint venture founded to develop hydrogen projects + + + Bremen: Faun wants to bring new commercial vehicles onto the market + + + Denmark: Everfuel is building a hydrogen filling station in Germany + + + Norway: Teco 2030 and Narvik Hydrogen want to work more closely together + + + Freudenstadt: Hydrogen from wood scraps + + + Chemnitz: Federal funding for TU + + + Spain: Cepsa is investing several billion euros in hydrogen and renewables + + + Essen: OGE and RWE are planning a north/south pipeline network for hydrogen + + + ADVERTISING with PtX: DISCOUNT promotion + + +
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The Norwegian Nel ASA has received a contract to build a hydrogen filling station from Biproraf, which belongs to Grupa Technologiczna ASE. The system is used to refuel light and heavy commercial vehicles and forklifts in Poland. The "H2 station“ consists of a gas station module and two gas pumps. Light commercial vehicles can be refueled in less than five minutes and heavy commercial vehicles in less than twenty minutes. A schedule for delivery or commissioning was not given.
Another order for an “H2 station” comes from the Canadian company Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation (HTEC). The location is the province of British Columbia, and light and heavy commercial vehicles should also be able to refuel here. HTEC reportedly already has 17 hydrogen filling stations in operation or in development in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and California. The total value of this contract is around $1,5 million and the plant is scheduled to go into operation in 2023.
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The Friesland district, Weser-Ems-Bus, the energy service provider EWE and Gödens Castle are starting a project called “HyFri” to initially use five hydrogen buses for local public transport. Weser-Ems Busverkehr GmbH, EWE AG and the Gödens group of companies are also building a hydrogen filling station in Schortens near Jever, which will be operated by a newly founded company. Weser-Ems-Bus belongs to the North Region of DB Regio Bus and takes care of the purchase, commissioning and maintenance of the new vehicles. The procurement is subject to the funding commitment from the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport.
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Indian Oil Corp., which is majority controlled by the Indian government. (IOC), the mechanical engineering company Larsen & Toubro Ltd. and the renewable energy project developer Renew Power Global Plc want to jointly develop green hydrogen projects. According to the news agency “ReutersThis also includes the establishment of a joint venture to produce electrolyzers. Initially, the partnership will focus on green hydrogen projects at IOC's Mathura and Panipat refineries in northern India and will explore building additional green hydrogen projects in the country.
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The Lower Saxony manufacturer of garbage trucks and sweepers, Faun Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG, has announced “a new brand” for hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles. The presentation is scheduled for May 16th. The company had already presented the prototype of a battery-electric vehicle with a fuel cell called “Bluepower” in 2018. The first H2019 garbage trucks have been in test operation since 2.
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Everfuel is building a hydrogen filling station for heavy-duty buses in Wuppertal. The client is the Wuppertal municipal local transport company WSW mobil GmbH. For the Everfuel GmbH, subsidiary of the Danish Everfuel A/S, this is the second order of this kind in Germany. The planned system has a daily capacity for refueling at least 20 fuel cell buses and is modularly expandable. As part of the “H2-W – Hydrogen Mobility for Wuppertal” project, WSW mobil GmbH already operates 20 fuel cell buses in regular service. By 2030 there should be 150 vehicles.
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Norwegian fuel cell manufacturer Teco 2030 ASA and Norwegian energy company Narvik Hydrogen are working to develop a hydrogen value chain. One delivers for joint projects Memorandum of Understanding According to Narvik Hydrogen, green hydrogen for the Teco fuel cells. Details about the specific project were not given.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biochemical Engineering (IGB) are developing a biotechnological process to produce hydrogen from wood waste. At the project partner Campus Schwarzwald in Freudenstadt, the process is being demonstrated in a facility specially designed for this purpose. First, the chemical components, such as adhesives such as resins and phenols or even paints, would be removed. The wood is then broken down into its building blocks and the cellulose obtained is split into individual sugar molecules. Hydrogen-producing bacteria are then supposed to metabolize the wood sugar. The project "H2Wood – Black Forest“ is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with twelve million euros until July 31, 2024.
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The federal government is funding research projects at Chemnitz University of Technology with a total of around ten million euros. The funds come from the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) and the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWK) and are intended for two research and development projects (R&D) for the further development of fuel cells, called “HZwo: SuSyMobil“ and “Open Source Stack”. The university is also involved in the “BZ_Turbolader” project with the aim of developing a turbo compressor for fuel cell vehicles.
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The Spanish oil company Compañía Española de Petróleos (Cepsa) wants to invest between seven and eight billion euros in the energy transition on the Iberian Peninsula. In 2023, more than 60 percent of this will be sustainable Projects. Cepsa plans to build a green hydrogen production capacity of two gigawatts, plus 2,5 million tons of biofuels by 2030 and production of 0,8 million tons of sustainable aviation fuels per year. In addition, the installed capacity of solar and wind turbines for personal use is to be expanded from 1,5 gigawatts to seven gigawatts. According to Cepsa, an energy park in Andalusia will be aimed at exporting hydrogen.
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The Essen-based transmission system operator for natural gas Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE) and the energy group RWE want to build a pipeline-based hydrogen infrastructure under the name “H2ercules”. This is intended to connect electrolyzers as well as storage and import options for green hydrogen in the north with industrial end users in the west and south of Germany. Further import routes from the south and east that are being developed are to be connected by 2030. According to the information, this project could “become the backbone of a hydrogen infrastructure from the North Sea coast to southern Germany”. Large companies have already expressed interest in connecting to such a network. The implementation of the project is expected to require investments in the order of 3,5 billion euros. Because existing natural gas pipelines are primarily used, this can be implemented more cost-effectively and much more quickly than completely building new hydrogen pipelines.
RWE wants to install around one gigawatt of new electrolysis plants for green hydrogen by 2030 and import large quantities of hydrogen. RWE also intends to build hydrogen-capable gas power plants with an output of at least two gigawatts close to the planned “H2ercules“-route and have their gas storage facilities connected to the hydrogen pipeline near the Dutch border. OGE wants to build the distribution network with customer connections by converting existing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transport and building new pipelines. This could create a pipeline network of around 1.500 kilometers.
However, the implementation of the project still requires “suitable framework conditions, which RWE and OGE want to discuss with politicians shortly”.
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