Rhineland-Palatinate creates a region for hydrogen-based commercial vehicle mobility + + + Plug Power acquires Cryo Technologies + + + Watershed in Jülich + + + Portugal at the Hannover Messe 2022 + + + H2 strategy Brandenburg + + + France wants to work with Saudi Arabia + + + Hydrogen power plant in South Korea + + + Events
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The Rhineland-Palatinate Economics Minister Daniela Schmitt has worked together with the Commercial Vehicle Cluster (CVC) and more than 30 companies from the industry “HyCoVe – The region of hydrogen-based commercial vehicle mobility” brought to life. According to the information, this is intended to network activities across sectors. Organizationally, the network is headed by a steering committee made up of representatives from various companies. The committee is scheduled to meet several times each year. The CVC takes on “a networking and coordinating role”.
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The New York Plug Power Inc. has announced the takeover of in October Applied Cryo Technologies, Inc. completed. The purchase expands Plug Power's expertise in liquid hydrogen delivery network, storage and refueling. This would reduce the costs of hydrogen infrastructure and logistics networks. Plug Power takes over the more than 200 Cryo employees in Houston, Texas.
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Peter Wasserscheid has been supporting the newly launched company since November 1st Institute for Sustainable Hydrogen Economy of the Research Center Jülich (INW) as founding director, according to a statement that has now been published. The INW is intended to bundle scientific activities with its H2 Innovation Center, “develop into the innovative core of the Helmholtz Cluster for a sustainable and infrastructure-compatible hydrogen economy” and expand the Rhenish Revier into a hydrogen model region with research and industrial partners. The Federal Ministry of Research is funding the project with 17 million euros for 860 years.
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Portugal is a partner country Hanover Fair 2022. The government wants to make the Sines port the country's green hydrogen hub with an electrolysis capacity of 265 MW in 2025 and 2,5 GW by 2030. In addition, 2030 to 50 filling stations for hydrogen are to be built by 100.
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The country’s “Kenya” cabinet Brandenburg has a Hydrogen strategy decided. It defines 63 measures and priorities for the years up to 2030 and 2040. In order to support and advance the development of a hydrogen economy, the strategy includes, among other things, the establishment of a work tool and a communication tool. Both are scheduled to start in early 2022. The work tool is a digital H2 marketplace that is currently being set up. This brings producers, transporters and consumers together in order to accelerate the growth of an H2 economy. The Brandenburg digital communication platform “KoopBB” is also being initiated to make networking and information exchange easier. The strategy is not only aimed at producing hydrogen using renewable energies, but also explicitly wants to use pyrolysis, i.e. the production of hydrogen from natural gas.
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The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stated that his country will work more closely with the United Arab Emirates on new projects in the energy sector, including renewable energy and hydrogen fuel. According to the news agency “Reuters” Le Maire was in November for a meeting with the heads of the state funds ADQ and Mubadala from Abu Dhabi and the state oil company ADNOC invited.
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Hyosung Heavy Industries is planning to build a hydrogen-powered power plant in Hyosung Chemical YongyeonPlant in Ulsan, South Korea. The hydrogen is a by-product of the chemical factory and has so far been sold to an industrial gas company. The power plant is scheduled to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2022, and pilot operation is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. According to the information, the pilot power plant uses the technology of Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG, a Tyrol-based manufacturer of gas engines and combined heat and power plants. According to Innio Jenbacher, it is already the second power plant in the megawatt class that can be operated with hydrogen. In 2020, Innio and Hansewerk Natur presented the world's first one-megawatt hydrogen engine, which can be operated with variable hydrogen-natural gas mixtures up to 100 percent hydrogen, according to the company.
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