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A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The Egyptian government has granted permission to several major energy companies to produce green hydrogen and its derivatives in Egypt. Companies are expected to invest around ten billion dollars (2030 billion euros) in the Suez Canal economic zone by 9,5, according to a post on the portal “Afrik21”. Among the companies currently positioning themselves in the Egyptian market is the Norwegian company Scatec, which has joined forces with Orascom Construction and Fertiglobe. For its part, the Emirati energy company Amea Power wants to develop a green hydrogen project in two phases. The first phase reportedly includes a capacity of 240.000 tons of green hydrogen per year until 2026 and 390.000 tons per year in the second phase. Investors also include EDF Renouvelables, a subsidiary of the French EDF Group, which plans to produce 350.000 tons of hydrogen and green ammonia per year in the coming years. Total Eren, a subsidiary of France's Total Energies group, has also received approval for a hydrogen and green ammonia project in the Gulf of Suez, the post said.
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In the future, Ludwigshafener Pfalzwerke AG will supply KST Motorenexperiment GmbH and Co. KG in Bad Dürkheim with hydrogen. In the first phase are 
Trailer provided for this purpose. The next step would be to set up storage tanks. The supply contract lays the foundation for the decentralized hydrogen cluster that is currently being planned in Bad Dürkheim. For this purpose, among other things, a 4-megawatt electrolyser should be built for the production of green hydrogen. KST tests and optimizes novel mobility solutions in the automotive industry such as fuel cells and hydrogen combustion engines before they go into production. Other interested parties in hydrogen include operators of bus fleets in the Bad Dürkheim district as well as Pfalzgas GmbH, a holding of Pfalzwerke and Encevo Deutschland GmbH. Hydrogen should be added to the natural gas network. If the need for hydrogen increases, Pfalzwerke says it could produce over a million kilograms of hydrogen per year by expanding the electrolyzer to ten megawatts. (Photo: Paul Beginning, Pfalzwerke board member [front left]; Gerhard Reiff, Chairman of the KST Management Board [front right]; Christoph Raquet, Head of Technology and Innovations, Pfalzwerk [back left]; Gunther Wolf KST Managing Director [back right]. © Pfalzwerke AG, Christian Dammert)
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The Leipzig Stadtwerke, Siemens Energy and EDF Deutschland have signed a cooperation agreement according to which green hydrogen is to be produced at the site of the new Leipzig Süd thermal power plant (HKW). The project will be implemented directly next to the new power plant in the historic building of the old coal-fired power plant. The first funding has been promised and more has been applied for. The system is planned in combination with regional wind and photovoltaic systems. The HKW will therefore go online “H2-ready” this year. It will initially start with the combustion of natural gas, but will be operated with hydrogen in the future, according to the municipal utilities.
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The Research Center Jülich has advertised a student position: “The role of hydrogen in a secure and sustainable German energy system”. The task is to investigate how the transformation to a greenhouse-neutral energy system with a high proportion of fluctuating renewable energies should be designed and what role hydrogen could play in this. The Position is limited to three years.
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The Chinese company Longi Hydrogen has been awarded the contract for the “Sinopec Green Hydrogen Demonstration Project”. The total investments 
The cost for the construction of a 300 megawatt solar park and a hydrogen production plant is three billion yuan (0,42 billion euros), according to a statement. Solar yield is forecast at 618 million kilowatt hours annually. This is expected to produce 20.000 tons of green hydrogen per year. The project is expected to be completed and commissioned in June 2023. The company is a subsidiary of the Chinese solar company Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (Photo: Longi)
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Thyssenkrupp Nucera has opened an office in Perth, Australia. The group wants to participate in the growth of the emerging green hydrogen industry there. The region offers “an ideal infrastructure for the export of 
“green hydrogen and green chemicals into key global and Asian markets as well as local workforces,” explained Das Corporate . The demand for green hydrogen is “expected to increase significantly.” By 2030, Australia has the potential to export up to 500.000 tonnes of hydrogen to meet forecast demand of 2.489.000 tonnes in Japan and South Korea alone, equivalent to five gigawatts of electrolysis capacity for export alone. “Having worked with our Australian customers for many years, focusing on Australia’s hydrogen sphere with a location in Perth was a logical business decision,” says Johann Rinnhofer, Managing Director of Thyssenkrupp Nucera Australia, explaining this step. According to studies, less than five percent of Australia's renewable energy potential converted into hydrogen would be enough to cover Germany's primary energy consumption. (Photo: (Photo: Johann Rinnhofer, Managing Director of Thyssenkrupp Nucera Australia © Thyssenkrupp Nucera)
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The technical gases manufacturer Air Liquide SA (France), the bus manufacturer CaetanoBus (Portugal) and the automobile manufacturer Toyota Motor Europe want to jointly develop infrastructure for vehicle fleets in order to accelerate the expansion of hydrogen mobility for both light and heavy commercial vehicles. Companies want the entire value chain 
from production to distribution and refueling infrastructure to the use of various vehicle segments. The Focus will initially focus on buses, light commercial vehicles and cars, with the further aim of promoting the heavy truck segment. (Photo: Air Liquide)
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The Australian government has announced further details of the Murchison Hydrogen Renewables Project, which is to be built approximately 20 kilometers north of Kalbarri in the mid-west of Western Australia. According to the state research institution CISRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) plans to install 700 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 3,7 gigawatts and solar farms with an installed capacity of 1,5 gigawatts. The electricity and water from a seawater desalination plant will be used to produce hydrogen, which in turn will be used to produce around two million tons of ammonia per year. There are also plans to build an underwater pipeline to transport ammonia to a platform with a jetty and export infrastructure to be built about 1,4 kilometers off the coast. The construction phase of the project is estimated to take approximately 5,5 years.
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