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Berlin: Accelerate international cooperation on hydrogen + + + Ireland: ESB wants to investigate hydrogen storage offshore + + + Norway: Thyssenkrupp supplies equipment for Teco's fuel cell factory + + + France: Lhyfe orders electrolysers with a total of 50 megawatts of output from Plug Power + + + USA: Linde increases production of green hydrogen + + + Saalfeld: Thuringia is putting rail operations out to tender again + + + Münster: IWR expects 10 GW of additional wind and solar power plants in Germany + + + USA: TEL and Buhler order hydrogen combustion engines from Cummins + + + Hanover: Cabinet wants to spend another 240 million euros on hydrogen + + + DISCOUNT promotion: Your ADVERTISING on the PtX portal
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The war in Ukraine underlines “the urgency to intensify and accelerate international cooperation on hydrogen with a view to the global market ramp-up and future supply chains.” The federal government writes this in 
their answer (printed matter 20/3155) to a small question from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag entitled “Strengthening infrastructure, expanding networks and promoting innovation – prerequisites for the market ramp-up of the hydrogen economy in Germany”. In addition, the update of the national hydrogen strategy announced in the coalition agreement should be decided in the cabinet at the end of the year and completed this year. The work on this has already begun. The first key points were approved in July by a committee of state secretaries from the departments involved. The federal states are integrated via the federal-state hydrogen working group. When asked what quantities of climate-neutral hydrogen the government expects to be produced in Germany, the aim is to build production capacities of at least ten gigawatts of green hydrogen in Germany by 2030. (The answer to the complex, which includes more than 20 questions, is published at “https://www.bundestag.de”; enter the printed matter number in the search field there; photo © Deutscher Bundestag)
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The Irish state electricity provider ESB and the British DCarbonX Ltd. want to jointly advance energy storage projects off the Irish coast. According to their own statements, both companies have been working on the evaluation and development of underground offshore storage for green hydrogen since the second quarter of 2021. The joint venture will focus on three regions: east of Dublin's Poolbeg, west of ESB's Green Atlantic project and south of Aghada in Cork (Kestrel project). The Kestrel project involves redeveloping the disused gas reservoirs for green hydrogen storage in the Kinsale Head field. The Italian gas transmission system operator and gas storage provider Snam SpA currently holds a 28,89 percent equity stake in DCarbonX and wants to increase its shares to a majority stake.
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The Norwegian company Teco 2030 wants to order a PEM fuel cell line from Bremen-based Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering GmbH AS for the new production facility in Narvik. They have that for that 
Both companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU). It is the first of several lines Teco plans. As reported, in the middle of last year, Teco 2030 took over a building in northern Norway that is being expanded into a giga factory for fuel cells. The property previously housed solar cell production for the Renewable Energy Corporation (REC), which closed the factory as part of a restructuring. Teco wants to make Narvik “Norway’s new hydrogen capital”. The location decision was made in March 2021. (Photo from left: Teco 2030 EVP Operations Tor-Erik Hoftun, CEO Sigurd Lange, Managing Director Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering Michael Menneking, Head of Business Line Powertrain Stefan Brandt and Head of Fuel Cell Thomas Kuschel. © Teco 2030)
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The French hydrogen producer Lhyfe has signed up with the US hydrogen solutions provider Plug Power Inc. Ten PEM electrolyzer systems (Proton Exchange Membrane) with an output of five megawatts each were commissioned for the production of green hydrogen in several plants in Europe. The electrolyzers, with a total capacity of 20 tons per day, will be assembled in Europe. Lhyfe wants to operate the sites itself and is also responsible for procuring electricity from renewable energies as well as marketing and delivering green hydrogen. The company will use the proceeds to serve "various mobility applications in Europe," including forklifts and light commercial vehicles such as the Master Van from Hyvia, Plug's joint venture with Renault, which is scheduled for delivery in 2023. Lhyfe and Plug, which entered into a strategic partnership in October 2021, also want to jointly develop hydrogen production facilities with an output of 2025 megawatts across Europe by 300.
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The British manufacturer of industrial gases Linde plc is building a PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolyzer in Niagara Falls, New York, USA, for the production of green hydrogen. The output of the new system is given as 35 megawatts. According to the information, this will “more than double” the company’s green liquid hydrogen production capacity in the United States. Linde will build, own and operate the electrolyser on an industrial scale. Commissioning is scheduled for 2025. This is “the first of several electrolyzers” from Linde in the USA to meet the need for green liquid hydrogen. Linde's conventional liquid hydrogen customers include aerospace, electronics and manufacturing customers, said Todd Lawson, Vice President East Region: “We will continue to invest in green hydrogen projects to meet growing demand and to contribute to a more sustainable energy economy.”
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The Thuringian state government wants to re-tender the operation of the 21-kilometer-long railway line between Rottenbach and Katzhütte, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, in September. According to information from the “MDR“fall by mid-2023. Hydrogen trains should actually be running there. As reported, however, the Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure stopped a procurement process for the operation of hydrogen trains at the end of last year. At 90 million euros, this should have cost almost twice as much as estimated. The only applicant at the time was the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary Thüringer Bergbahn. In addition, the delivery times for hydrogen trains have continued to shift. A “technology-open type of drive” is now being advertised, according to the “MDR”.
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The US manufacturer of diesel and gas engines Cummins Inc. concludes two preliminary contracts for the sale of hydrogen combustion engines. For one thing, I want to Transportation Enterprise Leasing, LLC (TEL) machines 
will integrate the “X15H” type with a displacement of 15 liters into its fleet of heavy trucks as soon as they are available. TEL markets and rents commercial trucks and trailers. Also the tractor manufacturer Buhler Industries Inc. has signed a letter of intent and plans to install Cummins' 15-liter hydrogen engines in its Versatile brand vehicles. According to its own information, the company has used only Cummins engines in all four-wheel drive tractors since 1967. Cummins is currently developing a platform for hydrogen engines with 15 and 6,7 liter displacements. “Hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines provide customers with a financially viable and familiar option,” said Jim Nebergall, general manager, Cummins Hydrogen Engine Business. Extensive reuse of parts and components from Cummins' existing platforms results in cost benefits and is expected to provide diesel-comparable reliability and durability. (Photo: © Buhler Industries)
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The Lower Saxony state government has introduced a bill to increase the economic development fund. This 
This step is particularly important for the progress of large-scale industrial hydrogen projects. These are part of the European IPCEI program (Important Projects of Common European Interest). Federal funding is available for such projects if the state ensures co-financing. Lower Saxony benefits “far above average from the funding program,” according to the State Chancellery. “The location on the coast with the seaports, a well-developed gas network, large cavern storage facilities and the enormous potential for renewable energies predestine Lower Saxony as a production center, import hub and hub for the German and European hydrogen economy.” The Lower Saxony state parliament had already announced on June 29th 459,5 million euros were allocated to the economic development fund for this purpose. The funds are now to be increased by a further 240 million euros. If the state parliament follows the cabinet decision, over 2,3 billion euros in state funding would ultimately be mobilized for Lower Saxony investments in hydrogen projects. The federal government is offering over 1,6 billion euros if the state contributes another 700 million euros. The next weeks of sessions of the state parliament begin on September 21st. (Photo © Lower Saxony State Parliament)
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