The lesson from a summer of searing heat and ferocious wildfires is that California must maintain its commitment to renewable energy, and it must target its incentives and investments to ensure clean-energy storage that will balance its electrical grid. The Public Utilities Commission and the Energy Commission must pursue an aggressive strategy to fully incorporate clean hydrogen into California’s renewable portfolio.
Opinion: Hydrogen gas key to California avoiding rolling blackouts; It’s a fuel that produces zero carbon emissions and can be stored for use during surges in electricity demand
Publish Date: 10/21/2020
Toyota Tsusho to Conduct Feasibility Study into Local Production for Local Consumption of Hydrogen
Publish Date: 10/15/2020
Toyota Tsusho has thus far taken part in a variety of projects aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of hydrogen production and use. Leveraging the expertise it has gained thereby, the company will carry out two feasibility studies at the Port of Los Angeles and in its vicinity in conjunction with TAI: 1. A feasibility study into the use of hydrogen to power large-scale port machinery with FC and it hydrogen supply scheme; and 2. A feasibility study into the production of hydrogen from biogases derived from livestock manure.
Japan aims to set up commercial hydrogen fuel supply chain by 2030
Publish Date: 10/15/2020
Scotland to trial world's first hydrogen-powered ferry in Orkney; The world’s first hydrogen-fuelled ferry is set to undergo testing as Scotland powers forward in the green energy race
Publish Date: 10/14/2020
Chart Industries Acquires Worthington Industries’ Cryogenic Trailer and Hydrogen Trailer Business
Publish Date: 10/14/2020
This acquisition includes ownership of the Theodore, Alabama manufacturing site, all trailer-related intellectual property, manufacturing capabilities, equipment and repair backlog.
CEC Approves $384 Million Plan to Accelerate Zero-Emission Transportation
Publish Date: 10/14/2020
The plan approved today includes:
$132.9 million for light-duty EV charging infrastructure.
$129.8 million for medium- and heavy-duty ZEVs and infrastructure.
$70 million for hydrogen refueling infrastructure.
$25 million for zero-and near-zero-carbon fuel production and supply.
$10 million for recovery and reinvestment.
$9 million for ZEV manufacturing.
$7.5 million for workforce development.
Liebreich: Separating Hype from Hydrogen – Part One: The Supply Side
Publish Date: 10/13/2020
Michael Liebreich is founder and senior contributor to BloombergNEF. He is on the international advisory board of Equinor.
BayoTech, NM Gas partner on potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions
Publish Date: 10/13/2020
The partners are now reviewing joint projects to integrate hydrogen into the gas company’s operations, beginning with blending some hydrogen into the utility’s natural gas streams, said utility Vice President of Strategy and Business Development Gerald Weseen.
Heavy-Duty Fuel Cell Electric Truck Verification Tests to Start in Spring 2022
Publish Date: 10/13/2020
Tests will verify feasibility of using fuel cells to reduce CO2 emissions in logistics.
Canada risks missing out on fast-moving hydrogen opportunity: report
Publish Date: 10/12/2020
Canada is among the top-10 global hydrogen producers, but most of this hydrogen is created using fossil fuels, making it part of the climate problem. Clean hydrogen—whether made with non-emitting electricity, in combination with carbon removal, or via other innovative technologies—remains a largely unrealized opportunity.
And yet Canada is among a small group of countries with the highest potential for exporting clean hydrogen, thanks to one of the least polluting electricity grids in the world and plenty of access to water.
Hydrogen, the most efficient solution to meet our zero-emissions goals
Publish Date: 10/2/2020
Let me emphasize that hydrogen is still not considered by most jurisdictions throughout the United States. That is primarily because they have been preoccupied with getting from 10% renewable to 50% renewable. If you only care about getting to 50% renewable, then hydrogen isn’t required, so they haven’t even thought about it as part of the solution. I don’t want to be too negative, but the fact is that when you just think about a 50% emissions reduction, you don’t need hydrogen. You can do a lot with solar and batteries. But if you want to get to zero emissions, you need solutions that only a zero-emissions renewable fuel can provide. And I think the best one is hydrogen.
Launch Horizon 2020 project “ROBINSON”; ROBINSON will focus on developing integrated energy solutions to decarbonise islands
Publish Date: 10/9/2020
Technological innovation is deeply rooted into the ROBINSON concept. Through the development of the optimised energy management system, ROBINSON will integrate newly developed and/or adapted technologies, such as a small gas turbine based combined heat and power; anaerobic digester assisted by bioelectrochemical systems to enable the conversion of liquid waste into biomethane; a mobile innovative wind turbine; a gasifier to covert bio-waste; as well as hydrogen-related technologies (electrolyser and storage system).
Could wireless, battery-powered streetcars be coming to Riverside?
Publish Date: 10/9/2020
Now the city is considering a streetcar that wouldn’t have overhead wires and would be propelled by batteries that are charged overnight, Guzman said. And, he said, the cars would have hydrogen fuel for backup power.
FuelCell Energy Announces U.S. Department of Energy Project Award
Publish Date: 10/9/2020
Fuel Cell Energy...announces selection by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, in collaboration with the Office of Nuclear Energy, for an $8.0 million funding award to support the design and manufacture of a SureSource electrolysis platform capable of producing of hydrogen.
FuelCell Energy has previously demonstrated multi-stack solid oxide power generation systems at both the 50kW and 200kW output levels. This project will be the first multi-stack electrolysis system produced with the Company’s solid oxide technology. The system will be equipped with an option to receive thermal energy, thus increasing the electrolysis electrical efficiency to over 90%.
Let’s make every day Hydrogen Day
Publish Date: 10/8/2020
Three years ago, California was the lead investor, paying for 70% of capital costs to seed the market. Today, that equation has flipped: the private sector is paying for 70%.
Think about that for a moment: just three years ago, California had to pull the market. Today, industry is leveraging government funding and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard to push the market ahead. What’s more, industry partners have driven down costs while increasing scale. That means these stations are bigger, cheaper, and more robust — like the gasoline stations drivers are used to, but with none of the mess. Addressing climate change isn’t just good for the environment, it’s good for business.
Heating homes with hydrogen: proving the safety case
Publish Date: 10/8/2020
The time is right to start scaling the hydrogen economy, finds new DNV GL research
The public, including millions of potential end users, need reassuring that hydrogen will be safe to deliver and use for home heating and cooking
DNV GL’s HyStreet infrastructure is proving vital to the necessary safety tests, as part of the H21 project led by Northern Gas Networks and the UK Government’s Hy4Heat programme
HyStreet could later host training and a hydrogen appliances showhome
Meet the Other Kind of Electric Car: Hydrogen Fuel Cell EVs
Publish Date: 10/8/2020
"Ultimately, hydrogen is a very democratic solution," said Tyson Eckerle, deputy director of zero emissions vehicles market development in Newsom's Office of Business and Economic Development. "You put one station into a neighborhood, and everyone can use it 24/7, so it really opens the market for multi-family housing, for larger vehicles that need to go longer range, and for people road-tripping."
EFI, AFL-CIO Release a Clean-Energy Policy Plan for an Economic Recovery
Publish Date: 9/25/2020
The framework identifies 10 key areas necessary for creating new jobs and advancing social equity in a deeply decarbonized economy: (6) An exploration of the economic challenges and costs and benefits of developing hydrogen as an alternative fuel for the transportation, power, and industrial sectors;
“2020 is a Turning Point for Hydrogen”
Publish Date: 8/20/2020
India: Govt to set hydrogen energy development targets, costs to fall: Secretary Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/govt-to-set-hydrogen-energy-development-targets-costs-to-fall-secretary/articleshow/78236773.cms?ut
Publish Date: 9/21/2020
Green, Blue or Grey? Colour-coded hydrogen holds keys to Canada's energy transition
Publish Date: 10/7/2020
Australia signs deal with Germany for potential future hydrogen exports
Publish Date: 9/10/2020
On Thursday, the Federal Government agreed to begin a joint feasibility study with Germany into the development of a hydrogen supply chain between it and Australia.
Beijing aims to put over 10,000 hydrogen FCVs on roads by 2025
Publish Date: 9/8/2020
Hyundai Motor Shares Fuel Cell Commercial Vehicle Roadmap, Launches XCIENT Fuel Cell Truck at Digital Event
Publish Date: 10/5/2020
Countries Look to Advance Green Hydrogen Production for a Deep Energy Transformation
Publish Date: 10/1/2020
Costa Rica too believes the clean fuel presents a viable and attractive opportunity. Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, H.E. Rolando Castro Costa said his country’s near 100 per cent renewable power system and the availability of water offer the prospect for Costa Rica to become an active participant in the green hydrogen economy.