ADVERTISING with PtX: DISCOUNT promotion + + + Sweden: H2X signs order for hydrogen buses with Trelleborg + + + USA: Plug Power supplies hydrogen to Walmart + + + Australia: Prime Minister promises funding for hydrogen projects + + + Cologne: Hylane rents out hydrogen trucks + + + Italy: Enel supplies hydrogen to Sapio + + + France: EDF announces billions in investments + + + USA: Ohmium acquires $45 million for expansion + + + Krummhörn: Uniper is testing natural gas storage + + + Berlin: Second call for funding for buses + + + ADVERTISING with PtX: DISCOUNT promotion + + +
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The Australian H2X Global Ltd. wants to deliver a fuel cell-equipped bus and a garbage truck to the Trelleborg municipality in Sweden. 
According to company information Trelleborg Energy Over the next few years, a total of ten vehicles will be used as school buses in the city and the surrounding area. Manufacturing takes place in Sweden. According to Magnus Sahlin, CEO of Trelleborg Energi, the first hydrogen filling station in Trelleborg is also scheduled to go into operation in January 2023. H2X Global has offices in Australia, Malaysia, India and Europe. (Photo: H2X Global Ltd.)
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US-based Plug Power Inc. has reached an agreement with US retailer Walmart Inc. to supply up to 20 tons of green liquid hydrogen per day. This is intended to bring industrial trucks into the Walmart sales area. 
and logistics centers are operated in the USA. According to the company, this is one of the first green hydrogen supply contracts for Plug power. A fleet of liquid gas tankers, which Plug has from its recent acquisition of Applied Cryo Technologies, will be entrusted with the transport. (Photo: Walmart)
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced funding for two hydrogen centers in Western Australia with a total of 140 million Australian dollars (95,7 million euros). According to the portal “Perth NowThe funds will flow to the Pilbara in the north of the state and to Kwinana in Perth. There are also six million dollars for two new development projects. With these and other announced funding to support the industry, the central government expects to create more than 3.600 jobs and trigger new private and public investment worth A$410 million, the article says. A new parliament will be elected in Australia on May 21st. The 53-year-old Conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been in office since 2018 and is hoping for re-election.
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Hylane GmbH, a subsidiary of DEVK-Versicherung based in Cologne, now also rents out hydrogen trucks with different bodies and installations. Vans and buses will follow at a later date, so that Company. 
With usage-based rental (“Pay-Per-Use”), customers only pay for the kilometers actually driven. This includes all services (except driver and fuel). The risk of technical failures does not lie with the users, but with Hylane. Initially, fuel cell vehicles from Hyzon Motors, Hyundai, Daimler Truck and MAN Truck & Bus will be available. The logistics service provider DB Schenker has already been won as a customer. (Photo: Hylane GmbH)
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Italian energy supplier Enel Green Power SpA and technical gases producer Gruppo Sapio (Società Anonima Produzione Idrogeno e Ossigeno) have signed an agreement to supply green hydrogen. 
The energy source is generated using electricity from the Carlentini wind farm in eastern Sicily at Enel's location.NextHy" manufactured. As soon as the electrolysis is fully ramped up with an output of four megawatts, 2023 tons of hydrogen will be delivered annually from 200. Sapio takes over sales and market development. (Photo: Enel Green Power SpA)
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The French energy group EDF wants to develop hydrogen projects worldwide with an output of three gigawatts by 2030. The company estimates the investments to be between two and three billion euros. The projects would be “developed and co-financed within the framework of industrial partnerships and using national and European funding mechanisms,” said EDF with, but remains with vague announcements. The company did not provide any specific details.
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The US manufacturer of PEM electrolyzers Ohmium International, Inc. has acquired fresh capital worth $45 million (€41,7 million). Existing investor Fenice Investment Group led the financing round, which was also joined by current lead investors and new investor Energy Transition Ventures. The Medium are to be used to quadruple production capacity from the current 500 megawatts per year to two gigawatts.
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The Düsseldorf energy company Uniper SE wants to test the storage of hydrogen in the salt cavern storage facilities in Krummhörn, northern Germany, which have no longer been used commercially since 2017. The commissioning of the Demonstration facility with a storage volume of up to 250.000 cubic meters is planned until 2024. The storage facilities are designed for natural gas and must be converted to use hydrogen. Uniper wants to invest around ten million euros in the project. The proximity to Wilhelmshaven enables the connection to the Uniper “Green Wilhelmshaven” project. The company is planning an import terminal for ammonia there, as well as a large-scale electrolysis facility for the production of green hydrogen with an output of up to 1.000 megawatts.
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The federal government wants to publish another call for funding for climate-neutral buses in the second quarter. The Federal Ministry has been supporting since 2021 
Digital and Transport (BMDV) the conversion of bus fleets to climate-friendly drives as part of the “Guideline for the promotion of alternative drives in passenger transport”. Funds of around 2024 billion euros will be available for this purpose by 1,25, with additional funds planned for 2025. In April, Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) Funding notices amounting to 600 million euros for the procurement of 1.700 new buses, including 150 vehicles with fuel cell drives. (Photo: Transport Minister Wissing, center, handing over the first funding notices. © Now GmbH)
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