Tag: hydrogen

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions could address about 42% of the world’s total dirty footprint, Norwegian intelligence firm Rystad Energy said in its monthly Energy Transition Report. The release came as the adaptation of renewable energy technologies is accelerating, even during the pandemic, and three contenders – carbon capture and storage (CCS), battery storage and hydrogen – have begun a competitive race to reduce emissions. After analyzing the full scope of global CO2 emissions, Rystad has concluded that CCS solutions could address about 42% of the world’s total dirty footprint, but will likely not reach its full potential, as competing hydrogen and battery societies will also target their fair share of the global pie. The core applications for CCS are within natural gas processing, power generation, hydrogen production (steam methane reforming or SMR), and industrial processes. Today, the vast majority is related to natural gas processing and hydrogen production for use in refining and fertilizer production. Not surprisingly, we find the largest CCS potential in China, India and the US, where power and combustion outweigh process emissions. The power sector, although significant, is less likely to utilize CCS than industry, as renewable energy – given the fast decline in ...

In Germany, a feasibility study has started under the name HySupply into the possibilities and conditions to develop the value chain for renewable hydrogen, in order to establish a global hydrogen market.

Norwegian state-owned organization Enova has awarded 219 million Norwegian kroner (=USD 25 million) to a Wilhelmsen-led project aiming to construct the world’s first zero emission hydrogen vessels.

Copenhagen-based A.P. Møller Holding, the parent company of shipping giant Maersk, revealed intentions to fund Green Hydrogen Systems, supplier of modular electrolyzers producing green hydrogen from renewable energy, in line with ambitious EU hydrogen goals. 

Seven announced a global coalition that will accelerate the scale and production of green hydrogen 50-fold in the next six years, helping to transform the world’s most carbon intensive industries, including shipping.

A group of individual Japanese companies launched the Japan Hydrogen Association(JH2A), aiming to promote global cooperation in hydrogen-oriented activities as well as to establish a hydrogen supply-chain.

In order to align with the EU Green Deal objectives, the forthcoming review of the Trans European Network for Energy (TEN-E) Guidelines must recognize the central role of ports in Europe’s new energy systems, ESPO said. 

The Finnish project development company Flexens Oy Ab will finish a feasibility study of the Power2AX project in November 2020. The project aims to implement green hydrogen production and use in fuel ferries in the Åland archipelago.

DFDS along with its collaborators applied for a EU Innovation Fund, in order to jointly explore an electricity-powered ferry from a hydrogen fuel cell system, which only emits water.

In line with an increased industry interest in hydrogen technologies for reducing the environmental footprint of maritime operations, a group of Japanese entities has joined forces on a new project aiming to promote commercial operation of hydrogen fuel cell ships.