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Green H2 production – electrolysers
- Bspkl, GNS Science’s first spin-out company, has raised $2.5m in seed funding to develop and scale up their Catalyst Coated Membrane (CCM) technology. CCM significantly reduces the amount of catalyst (eg Platinum) required for electrolysers to generate hydrogen, and Bspkl have plans to expand this tech to related systems such as fuel cells (NBR and GNS 3 April 2023)
- Fabrum has received an order from Obayashi Corporation for a 1 MW MFE220 electrolyser, Fabrum’s first order under their manufacturing agreement with CPH2, with delivery expected in a bit over a year (CPH2 27 Mar 2023)
- Fabrum have expanded their relationship with CPH2 to allow Fabrum to manufacture Membrane-Free Electrolysers (MFEs) in Christchurch, NZ (Fabrum 1 Feb 2023, CPH2 31 Jan 2023). Fabrum also announced they’ve raised $23M in funding to advance hydrogen technologies (Fabrum 8 Feb 2023)
- Air Liquide (25.1%) and Siemens Energy (74.9%) join forces to accelerate large scale production of electrolysers, HQ and factory in Berlin, starting production in 2nd half of 2023, and ramping up to 3 GW pa by 2025 (23 June 2022)
- USA $504.4 million in debt financing from the Energy Department for 220 MW of electrolysers using excess solar and wind, with H2 storage in cavern, in Utah (Bloomberg, 27Apr2022). Aim is to provide 300 GWh of clean energy to the region each year.
- HyDeal Espana massive 7.4GW green H2 from 9.5GW solar, with steel maker ArcelorMittal and fertiliser producer Fertiberia amongst the developers. Will supply 330,000 (200,000 by 2026) tonnes H2 pa to industrial hub in northern Spain (Asturias). 16Feb2022
- Plans for green hydrogen port, Geesthacht Hamburg
- Australia, in a world-first as part of the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project, is exporting a shipment of liquid H2 to Japan aboard the Suiso Frontier (Media Release, 21 January 2022). Note hydrogen is to be produced in the state of Victoria from local LaTrobe brown coal, with the associated CO2 emissions to be captured and stored in CarbonNet’s offshore reservoir in Gippsland.
- H2 generation on offshore wind turbine platforms, Strohm and Siemens Gamesa, Denmark (9Dec2021)
- Norway Hydrogen Pro (acquired Danish company Advanced Surface Plating in Dec 2020) has just built a factory near Aarhus in Denmark, that has the capacity to produce sufficient electrodes for 100 MW of green hydrogen production (Energy Watch 15 Sept 2021)
- UK – Oxford University researchers show its possible to turn plastic waste in H2, apparently with no CO2 emitted (March 2021).
- Norway: https://nelhydrogen.com/
- Austria: https://www.h2future-project.eu/news
- Fukushima (FH2R): https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/japan-opens-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-plant-near-fukushima-disaster-site/2-1-769361
- Germany (Wesseling; REFHYNE): https://www.in4climate.nrw/en/best-practice/projekte/2019/translate-to-englisch-refhyne/
- Germany (WestKuste): https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/offshore-wind-to-power-giant-green-hydrogen-carbon-neutral-aviation-fuel-plant/2-1-696907
- Germany (Hamburg)
- Germany (Siemens; Wunsiedel): https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-build-large-co2-free-hydrogen-production-plant-bavaria
- Australia (Adelaide) solar and wind energy used to power a 1.25 MW electrolyser, currently the biggest operating in Australia (May 2021). Australian government is also supporting 3 x 10MW electrolysers elsewhere.
- Australia-Japan plan to use brown coal to make H2, in Victoria, cool it to a liquid (1/800th original volume), then ship it to Japan on the first liquid H2 carrier, Suiso Frontier (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd). No comment on how ‘green’ the process might be…. (March 2021)
- HyDeal Ambition aims to use 95GW solar to do 67GW electrolysis delivering 3.6 million tonnes of green H2 pa by 2030. Team involves Spain, Italy, France and Germany (15Feb2021)
- Australia (Asian Renewable Energy Hub). Plan is to install 1,600 wind turbines and a 78 sq km array of solar panels (solar-wind hybrid = 26 GW) in the Pilbara near Port Hedland, to run 14 GW of electrolysers to make green H2 from desalinated seawater.
- Australia (LAVO/UNSW). Household electrolysers for storing renewable energy.
- Australia (Siemens): https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/siemens-has-hydrogen-hopes-for-powering-asia-20191008-p52yng
