USA gives eight million dollars in funding to reduce the costs of green hydrogen + + + Hy2gen is investing 460 million euros in sustainable aviation fuel + + + Uniper engineering restructured + + + Hydrogen production in NRW declining in 2020 + + + Teco 2030 gets AiP + + + 1.000 pre-orders for Hopium Māchina + + + Tesvolt delivers 40 MWh of battery storage to Schaper + + + EBRD / IRESEN develop projects for green hydrogen in Morocco + + + IRENA / Snam cooperate + + + MT.MI / Greenfield Nitrogen plans ammonia plant in Iowa + + + Federal Council votes on HydrogenNEV + + + Color theory: Only green is green
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is funding nine projects with around eight million dollars (6,9 million euros) as part of the “H2@Scale"project will help reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80 percent within a decade. Hydrogen technologies should be integrated into future energy systems.
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The people of Wiesbaden Hy2gen AG is investing 460 million euros in a HYNOVERA project and wants to work with the French power plant operator GazelEnergy (until July 2019 Uniper France) one Plant for the production of CO2-neutral fuels build on an industrial scale. The aim is to produce green hydrogen, green ammonia, aircraft fuel (Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and e-methanol. SAF production is set up in Meyreuil in southern France.
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The Engineering division of the provider Uniper SE will focus on the operation of its own facilities as well as “decarbonization” and “green customer solutions”. The customer business will be completely focused on hydrogen, renewable energies, industrial customer solutions and “Net Zero” solutions. The service business for third parties in the conventional sector will be discontinued and limited to engineering services for operators of nuclear facilities as a new strategic business area. According to the company, the engineering business “has not yet been able to make an independent financial contribution to the consolidated result”. In its current configuration, it is not able to meet Uniper's strategic and commercial expectations. The business area consists of several companies with a total of around 1.100 employees, primarily in Germany and Great Britain. With the organizational changes there will be a “significant reduction in personnel”. Uniper's main shareholder is Finland Fortum Oy.
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In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), 2020 billion cubic meters of hydrogen were produced in twelve companies in 1,6 with a sales value of 51,1 million euros. This means that both sales (minus 14,4 percent) and the quantity produced (minus 12,0 percent) were lower than the year before. Nationwide, 4,3 billion cubic meters of hydrogen were produced last year (down 4,0 percent compared to 2019) with a sales value of 175 million euros (down 16,1 percent). A total of 2020 tons (1.087 million cubic meters) of hydrogen were imported to NRW from abroad in 12,9 (minus 14,2 percent). This is based on the latest figures State Office for Information and Technology NRW (IT.NRW).
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The Norwegian manufacturer of fuel cells Teco 2030 ASA has from the Norwegian certification company DNV one "Approval in principle(AiP) for its hydrogen fuel cell system and three versions of its FCM400 fuel cell module. This means that the products comply with applicable rules, regulations and standards and therefore Teco 2030 fuel cell systems are generally suitable for marine applications. The Teco system was designed specifically for use on ships in collaboration with the Austrian technology company AVL. Teco 2030 has now initiated the type approval process.
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The French car manufacturer hopium reports 1.000 pre-orders for the hydrogen-powered high-end sedan “Machinaand expects sales of 2025 million euros by 120. The price for the vehicle is 120.000 euros. The company, founded in 2019 by racing driver Olivier Lombard, aims to achieve sales of one billion euros by 2030.
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Tesvolt, manufacturer of battery storage systems for industry and commerce, has received from the Schaper Group an Order for delivery of batteries with a capacity of 40 MWh. The batteries, which are intended to store electricity from solar and wind turbines, are being manufactured by Schaper for the Rostock company Apex Group installed to supply electrolyzers. Apex supplies industrial companies worldwide with heat and electricity, both of which are produced from hydrogen with zero emissions. The order is to be completed by 2023 and the sales volume is 40 million euros.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD) and the Moroccan Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN) have agreed to work particularly in the areas of green hydrogen, renewable energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, energy storage and e-mobility work together more closely want.
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The Italian gas transmission system operator Snam SpA and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) want to work together Projects based on green hydrogen build and develop business models for generation, transport and distribution. The agreement was sealed at the conference “The H2 Road to net zero”, organized by Bloomberg in collaboration with IRENA and Snam in Milan.
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The Italian plant manufacturer Maire Tecnimont SpA (MT.MI) has worked with the US project developer Greenfield Nitrogen LLC a message Vereinbarung to develop a green ammonia plant in the Midwestern United States. The Maire subsidiaries MET Development, Stamicarbon and NextChem are involved. After a feasibility study for a capacity of 240 tons per day, Stamicarbon is to introduce its new technology “STAMI Green Ammonia”. The production of approximately 83.000 tons of ammonia per year is expected to reduce this Iowa Corn Belt's dependence on ammonia currently imported from abroad.
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The federal cabinet has it Hydrogen Network Fee Ordinance (“Ordinance on costs and fees for access to hydrogen networks and amending the incentive regulation regulation”, HydrogenNEV). According to the Federal Ministry of Economics, the regulation creates “a reliable basis for calculating network costs, which are financed by operators of hydrogen networks through network fees. It makes statements about determining the so-called allowable network costs. The HydrogenNEV only applies to those operators of hydrogen networks who actively and irrevocably decide to participate in the regulation of hydrogen network operations. The group of other hydrogen network operators remains fundamentally free in the way they determine the costs of network operation and network fees. The draft was sent to the Federal Council. The processing status and the process can be viewed on the Federal Council website.
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