DISCOUNT promotion: Your ADVERTISING on the PtX portal + + + Berlin: Till Mansmann new innovation officer “Green Hydrogen” + + + UK: Oracle Power raises £500.000 for hydrogen projects + + + Stuttgart: ZSW electrolyser goes into operation + + + Bad Lauchstädt: Uniper orders 30 MW electrolyser from Sunfire + + + Berlin: Small inquiry about the hydrogen ramp-up in Germany + + + Hamburg: Gasunie joins H2 Global + + + USA: Nikola plans to build three hydrogen filling stations in California + + + Slovakia: Bratislava will get up to 40 hydrogen buses + + + Egypt: Renew Power is building a hydrogen power plant in India for eight billion dollars + + + Hamburg: HySky receives 26 million euros in federal funding + + + USA: New Fortress Energy and Plug Power plan 120 MW hydrogen production in Texas + + + DISCOUNT promotion: Your ADVERTISING on the PtX portal
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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appointed as the new “Green Hydrogen” innovation officer in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The qualified physicist
has been a member of the FDP since 2005 and has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017. He worked as a journalist and specialist editor on tax topics for several years. Mansmann succeeds Stefan Kaufmann, who – as it is said – is “devoting himself to new professional challenges outside of politics”. (Photo: Bettina Stark-Watzinger with Till Mansmann. © BMBF/Hans-Joachim Rickel)+ + + + +
The British project developer Oracle Power plc raised proceeds of £500.000 (€592.000) through a placement of new ordinary shares. The money will “primarily” be used to support Oracle Energy Ltd.’s green hydrogen project. used, a joint venture between Oracle (30 percent) and Kaheel Energy Ltd. (70 percent), which belongs to the Saudi royal family member and billionaire Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum. Oracle Energy is set to develop a 1.200-megawatt hybrid solar, wind, green hydrogen and electricity project in Pakistan.
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The Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) has put what is called an “electrolyser made in Baden-Württemberg” into operation after two years of development. In the 
Around 40 companies contributed components, technologies and know-how to the plant. The aim is to initiate the development and industrial series production of electrolysis products - from components to complete systems - at the state level. The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs is funding the project with five million euros. The system is an alkaline pressure electrolysis technology (30 bar) developed by ZSW with an electrical connected load of one megawatt and a production capacity of around 20 kilograms of hydrogen per hour. This is enough to refuel around 80 fuel cell cars, 20 buses or trucks every day and means an annual production capacity of up to around 170 tonnes of hydrogen. The system is designed to be modular, so that the technology can also be scaled into larger performance classes and flexibly adapted to different customer requirements or location conditions. In addition to the industrialization of the system technology, work was particularly carried out on the further development of the ZSW-patented electrolysis stack technology in order to further increase the efficiency of the electrolysis process and reduce the production costs for green hydrogen, the scientists explain. Ecoclean GmbH from Filderstadt, part of the Chinese Shenyang Blue Silver Group (SBS) since 2017, wants to industrialize the system technology and is planning series production of up to around 80 electrolysis systems annually in the coming years. (Photo: Frithjof Staiß, Baden-Württemberg's Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut and Marc-Simon Löffler at the commissioning of the ZSW electrolyzer. © ZSW / David Arzt)
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The electricity supplier Uniper SE has the Dresden company Sunfire GmbH commissioned to build a 30 megawatt electrolysis plant for the Bad Lauchstädt energy park. The delivery is for 
Scheduled for 2024. In the project in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, the production, transport, storage and economic use of green hydrogen are to be implemented on an industrial scale in order to “show new solutions for the future energy infrastructure,” it says. Sunfire's electrolysis is currently “one of the largest planned plants of its kind”. In the Bad Lauchstädt energy park, green hydrogen is produced using electricity from a nearby wind farm. In a second phase of the project, this should then be temporarily stored in a specially equipped salt cavern and fed into the hydrogen network of the local chemical industry via a converted gas pipeline. (Photo: Sunfire pressure alkaline electrolyser at the Austrian grocer MPreis. © Sunfire)
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The CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag wants to... Small request (Bundestag printed paper 20/2916) know what quantities of climate-neutral hydrogen the federal government expects to be produced in Germany. It also asks, among other things, what specific measures the federal government is planning and by when “in order to secure or create the construction and planning capacities required for the creation of the hydrogen infrastructure in a timely and needs-based manner”. In addition, due to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, MPs are asking about the need to give greater priority to the hydrogen ramp-up, about the effects on the hydrogen economy in Germany and international activities and cooperation in hydrogen. Further sets of questions in the catalog of more than 20 points concern the update of the national hydrogen strategy agreed between the government parties and the “LNG and Hydrogen Working Group” announced in May for the development of bilateral trade relations with Qatar. (Editor's note: The answer will be published at “https://www.bundestag.de” as soon as it is available; enter the printed matter number in the search field there)
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The Dutch gas infrastructure company gas union has joined the German foundation H2Global. Gasunie is already developing a hydrogen network called “HyPerLink” that connects Denmark and the Netherlands via northern Germany. In addition, Gasunie is working with other companies on the “Aqua Ductus” pipeline project, which is intended to transport up to one million tons of green hydrogen per year directly from the production site in the North Sea to the mainland. In addition to German companies such as Siemens Energy Global, Thyssenkrupp and Deutsche Bank, there are already companies like the port Antwerp-Bruges or Total Eren joined the foundation. H2Global wants to boost the green hydrogen market and has developed a double auction mechanism. With the support of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, the foundation acts as an intermediary to regulate supply and demand.
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The American truck manufacturer Nicholas Corporation has announced three new locations for hydrogen filling stations. According to the information, arise 
the stations in the Californian cities of Colton and Ontario as well as at a location in the port of Long Beach. Ontario is part of Nikola's previously announced collaboration with Travel Centers of America. There are already a number of distribution centers in Colton, making the city “an ideal location for future Nikola FCEV customers.” The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are “important global transportation hubs,” and the gas station serves port customers. “To further increase demand for trucks, plans for additional stations are in the works,” the company said. (Photo: Hydrogen refueling of a truck. © Nikola Corporation)
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The Polish vehicle manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach sp. z oo is delivering four Urbino 12 Hydrogen hydrogen buses to the Slovak transport company Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB). The handover 
successes in July next year. This is the first call from a framework agreement, according to which 40 vehicles will be delivered to the Slovakian capital in the long term. The delivery is the first to Slovakia. The Urbino 12 Hydrogen has a fuel cell module with an output of 70 kilowatts on board. The hydrogen is stored in gaseous form in the tanks on the roof of the buses. Solaris has already delivered 2006 vehicles with diesel and CNG drives to Bratislava since 50. (Photo © Solaris)
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Egypt has with the Renew power Pvt. Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding under which the Indian company will build a factory to produce 20.000 tons of green hydrogen per year. According to the Indian daily newspaper “Business Standard”, the location is the Suez Canal Economic Zone, with investments amounting to eight billion dollars (7,8 billion euros). Renew is backed by investors including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Reliance Industries and the Adani Group had also announced billions in investments in green hydrogen in recent months.
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The consortium’s project “H2Sky“ is funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) with 26,5 million euros as part of the National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP). The goal is to create fuel cell stacks with an output of 100 to 200 
Kilowatts for use in the main engine of an aircraft. The company's own share of the total volume of the project is around 18 million euros. Project partners are Aerostack GmbH, a joint venture between Airbus and Elring Klinger, EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies GmbH, Hahn Schickard, Fraunhofer ISE, the Technical University of Munich, the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research and the IMTEK University of Freiburg. Airbus wants to present a passenger aircraft with a fuel cell drive that is ready for series production by 2035 at the latest. The H2Sky project includes the development of a fuel cell stack that can be integrated into the application, from basic development to long-term testing. Novel concepts are being researched specifically for the membrane electrode assembly (MEA), the bipolar plate and other stacking materials, checked to ensure they meet aviation requirements and different technologies and manufacturing paths are being evaluated, according to a statement. (Photo: Handover of the funding notice by the Parliamentary State Secretary of the BMDV Daniela Kluckert, center right, at Airbus in Finkenwerder. © Airbus)
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The US gas network operator New Fortress Energy Inc. has with the Plug Power Inc. reached an agreement to build a 120 megawatt green hydrogen plant. Plug's proton exchange membrane electrolysis technology (PEM) is used. This is expected to produce more than 50 tons of green hydrogen per day. The system is “scalable to almost 500 megawatts”. The location is named Beaumont, Texas. It is strategically located on the banks of the Neches River in Jefferson County and offers proximity to industrial end users as well as access to energy and logistics, including rail, shipping and existing pipelines that span the US Gulf Coast region. The Port of Beaumont and the broader Sabine-Neches Navigation District are home to a number of large industrial facilities in the refining, petrochemical and other sectors that use hydrogen for desulfurization and raw materials processing.
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