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+ + + Italy: Loop and Rampini present fuel cell bus + + + Hamburg: Cooperation with Canada announced + + + Portugal: Fusion Fuel delivers electrolyser to Sines + + + Australia: Engie and Yara build green hydrogen plant + + + Kassel: Consortium researches the occurrence of white hydrogen in Africa + + + Frankfurt: Prime Capital initiates green hydrogen and methane plant + + + Mannheim: Juwi and Lanxess are examining hydrogen production + + + USA: Nuclear power plant to supply electricity for “clean” 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 Canadian manufacturer of fuel cells Loop Energy Inc. has presented a hydrogen-electric bus together with the Italian vehicle manufacturer Rampini Carlo SpA. 
The vehicle, called “Hydron,” is the first commercially available hydrogen-electric bus from Rampini. It complements the range of battery-electric buses, waste collection vehicles and power supply devices that are in use in Spain, France, Germany, Austria and Greece, the company said. According to the information, Rampini has “several Hydron buses with fuel cells from Loop Energy in production.” The model was developed based on a battery-electric bus model, with modifications made to incorporate a Loop Energy S300 motor. Its output is 30 kilowatts. With a length of eight meters, the bus offers space for up to 48 passengers and is equipped with a 10,8 kilogram hydrogen tank, which enables a range of 450 kilometers. Rampini, together with other Loop Energy customers Aluminum Revolutionary Chassis Company (Australia), NGVI (South Korea) and Mobility & Innovation (Slovakia), plans to introduce its own hydrogen-electric bus platform this year. All vehicles are tested by the fleet operators in their respective markets. (Photo: Rampini's Hydron fuel cell bus © Loop Energy)
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Hamburg wants to work more closely with the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the field of hydrogen technology. 
A corresponding Vereinbarung were signed by State Councilor Almut Möller, Hamburg's representative to the federal government, the European Union and for foreign affairs, and Steve Crocker, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts and Leisure of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This is intended to coordinate the exchange of specialist knowledge over the next five years, incorporating the “special competencies from business and science in the two regions”. In August, a German-Canadian association was founded in the town of Stephenville in western Newfoundland Hydrogen Alliance between the governments of Canada and Germany with the participation of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Photo: State Councilor Almut Möller and Steve Crocker sign the declaration of intent on cooperation in the field of hydrogen technology. © Senate Chancellery Hamburg)
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The Irish-based technology company Fusion Fuel Green Plc delivers its off-grid electrolyser called “Hevo Solar” with an output of 1,22 megawatts to the Portuguese energy company KEME Energy in Sines. 
The project, for which a grant of 2021 million euros was approved at the end of 2,4 from the Portuguese POSEUR program, is being developed in the Sines Industrial and Logistics Zone (ZILS) and consists of 62 solar-tracking, concentrating photovoltaics ( CPV) based solar systems, which are said to produce 77 tons of green hydrogen per year. Construction of the facility will begin early next year, with commercial operations expected to begin in the second half of the year. At the end of September, Fusion agreed with the Spanish developer Gedisol Energía SL to deliver 414 Hevo solar trackers with an output of 3,2 megawatts worth five million euros to Andalusia. The annual production capacity is 200 tons. Here too, construction will begin at the beginning of next year, with commercial operations scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2023. Fusion Fuel leads the Sines Green Hydrogen Valley Alliance consortium, which includes KEME Energy, Transition2Green and HyLAB Collaborative Laboratory. The centerpiece of the initiative is the 147 million euro “H2 Hevo-Sines” project, a 91 megawatt hydrogen plant with an annual production capacity of 9.163 tons. H2 Hevo-Sines, in turn, is part of a project portfolio that also includes Fusion Fuel's large-scale IPCEI project in Sines, which is expected to produce around 2026 tons of green hydrogen annually after its full commissioning in 62.000, which corresponds to an electrolyzer output of more than 600 megawatts , said the company. (Photo: CPV tracking system for Fusion Fuels “Hevo technology”. © Fusion Fuel)
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Norwegian fertilizer manufacturer Yara International ASA is building a renewable hydrogen plant near Karratha in Western Australia. 
Under the project name “Yuri”, Yara Clean Ammonia is working with the energy company Engie to develop the project and build it on the existing Yara Pilbara leasehold site. According to Yara Clean Ammonia president Magnus Krogh Ankarstrand, this is the first plant in Western Australia to use green hydrogen to produce ammonia. It includes a ten megawatt electrolyser, which is powered by an 18 megawatt photovoltaic system and a battery storage system. The annual production capacity is 640 tons. The engineering services (EPC) are handled by a consortium of Technip Energies and Monford Group. Yuri Operations Pty Ltd will operate the renewable hydrogen plant and supply the output to Yara Clean Ammonia. Construction is scheduled to begin in October/November 2022 and production is scheduled to begin in 2024. The project is being subsidized by the Australian government with 47,5 million Australian dollars (30,7 million euros). “Yuri” will receive an additional two million dollars (1,3 million euros) from the government of the state of Western Australia. Yara Clean Ammonia claims to operate the largest global ammonia network with twelve ships and has access to 18 ammonia terminals and numerous global ammonia production and consumption locations. (Photo: Engie wants to produce green ammonia with Yara Pilbara Fertilizers. © Yara)
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An international consortium wants to investigate the occurrence of natural hydrogen in several African countries as part of the “HyAfrica” project. 
The joint research and innovation partnership between the European Union and the African Union in the field of renewable energies (LEAP-RE) is funding the three-year project with almost one million euros. HyAfrica wants to find out how the “white” hydrogen found in certain geological formations in Africa can be used to generate electricity in autonomous and off-grid systems for rural and isolated communities. The project consortium, coordinated by the Portuguese SME Converge, a spin-off from the University of Évora, consists of the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology IEE, the Mohammed Premier University in Morocco, the University of Lomé in Togo, the Universities of Limpopo and Pretoria in South Africa, and the Eduardo Mondlane University and the National Directorate of Geology and Mines in Mozambique. White hydrogen is a primary energy source that is continuously generated through geochemical reactions. HyAfrica is reportedly focusing on the provinces of Jerada and Tendrara (Morocco), the Bilene / Macia district (Mozambique), the Nkangala district (South Africa) and the Lacs prefecture (Togo). Natural hydrogen has either already been discovered in the regions or the geological conditions are particularly favorable. (Photo: Kick-off meeting of the partner organizations for HyAfrica in Ben Slimane, Morocco. © Fraunhofer IEE / LIAG)
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The Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund (PGEIF), managed by Frankfurt-based Prime Capital AG, has concluded two contracts for the acquisition and construction of new renewable energy projects in Finland and Sweden. Accordingly, a joint venture was founded with CPC Finland to build a green hydrogen and e-methane plant with a capacity of up to 200 megawatts near Kristinestad, Finland. Construction will begin in 2024. CPC Finland will contribute projects with an installed capacity of 600 megawatts to the joint venture. In addition, three wind farms with a total output of 290 megawatts in the municipality of Lycksele, Sweden, would be acquired from the developer RES. Commissioning is planned for 2025. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year and the cumulative revenue is forecast to be one terawatt hour. Some of the green electricity is earmarked for an unspecified Power-to-X project in the region.
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The project developer Juwi AG and the chemical company Lanxess AG are currently conducting a feasibility study to examine how green hydrogen can be produced and used at the Mannheim site in the future to supply the Lanxess plants. The first results should be available by the end of 2022. Juwi is cooperating closely with its parent company MVV, which is already working on combining renewable energies and electrolysers for the production of green hydrogen in Staßfurt (Saxony-Anhalt).
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The US power plant operator Constellation Energy Corp. wants to build the “first system in the country” at its location in Nine Mile Point, New York, by the end of the year 
Production of clean hydrogen with nuclear power” will go into operation. The company reiterated this during a meeting with executives from the US Department of Energy (DOE), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC). The project was approved by the DOE last year and is receiving funding from the ministry totaling $5,8 million (5,97 million euros). The electrolyzer is supplied by the Norwegian company Nel Hydrogen ASA. Constellation Energy has nuclear, hydro, wind and solar power plants with an installed capacity of more than 32.400 megawatts. (Photo: At the Constellation Nine Mile Point power plant in New York State, an electrolyzer is supposed to produce hydrogen using nuclear power. © Constellation Energy)
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