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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The production of green hydrogen generated by solar-driven electrolysis from the Iberian Peninsula will begin in 2022. million tonnes of green hydrogen per year to users in the energy, industry and mobility sectors via the gas transmission and storage network, the energy equivalent of 1.5 kg before 2030.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Plug Power and Lhyfe, a producer and supplier of renewable hydrogen, announced an partnership to pursue and develop jointly green hydrogen generation plants throughout Europe. The initiative seeks to generate a total hydrogen capacity of 300MW by 2025, and to start the development of a 1GW production site. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 7, 2016

Turboden , a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), leader in Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbogenerators for distributed power generation employing renewable sources and waste heat, has signed an order with Acciaieria Arvedi for a 10 MW waste heat recovery ORC unit to be installed at the Arvedi Steel plant in Cremona, Italy.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Italy-based energy infrastructure operator Snam and national multi-utility company Hera Group signed a Letter of Intent for a technological collaboration aimed at developing hydrogen, for their own areas of activity respectively. The accord involves several areas of action, starting from the collaboration on power-to-gas technology.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

McPhy Energy, a France-based developer and manufacturer of solid state hydrogen storage, presented the first system coupling an industrial-scale hydrogen generator with a 100 kg solid state hydrogen storage unit. The system inaugurates the first commercial product line for onsite industrial hydrogen users worldwide.

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JULY 14, 2022

Furthermore, the recently announced plan to restart production of buses in Italy will provide another opportunity to manufacture new buses powered by HTWO’s hydrogen fuel cells. This initiative aims to leverage the exceptional technology and competencies of both entities in the urgently needed renewal of Italy’s public transport.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

The global geothermal industry surpassed 12,000 MW of geothermal power operational, with about 600 MW of new geothermal power coming online globally, according to a year-end update by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Genomatica and Novamont have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture that is expected to lead to the first industrial plants in Europe producing butanediol (BDO) from renewable feedstocks. The first plant is expected to have a production capacity of approximately 40 million pounds per year and will be located in Italy.

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AUGUST 7, 2021

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to define an integrated solution for the production, supply, management and use of green hydrogen for port areas and long-range maritime transport.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The European Commission approved , under EU State aid rules, a second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation, first industrial deployment and construction of relevant infrastructure in the hydrogen value chain.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Snam, the main Italian operator for the transport and dispatching of natural gas in Italy, launched HyAccelerator , a corporate global-scale startup acceleration program focused on hydrogen. The partnership will also be strengthened by Snam’s role and contribution to the Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative.

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JANUARY 29, 2023

Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). It reduces the overall carbon footprint and increases the share of renewable materials in our tires. Continental is a key partner in this.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

This trend was already underway before the pandemic, due to cost-competitive gas in key sectors including power, industry and transport, and major regions including Europe, North America and Asia. The hydrogen market is on the verge of a revolution.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Thanks to the expertise of several project partners, HyFlexFuel proved that HTL biocrudes can be successfully upgraded to drop-in fuels in an industrially-relevant environment, achieving hundreds of hours of continuous operations. The production of HTL fuels from three different feedstock classes shows the flexibility of the process.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Alliance is to scale-up, by 2030, the production and deployment of hydrogen as a fuel produced by means of low-emission technologies and renewable energy sources. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes, and Beta Renewables have agreed to market, to demonstrate and to guarantee jointly cellulosic biofuel solutions. Beta Renewables will embed Novozymes’ enzymes in the PROESA technology and guarantee biofuel production costs upon start-up of customers’ cellulosic facilities.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Airbus and Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on the development of hydrogen infrastructure at airports worldwide. To date, agreements have been signed with partners and airports in France, Italy, South Korea, Japan and Singapore.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Italy-based Snam, a leading energy infrastructure operator, and Saipem, an Italian multinational oilfield services company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start working together to define and to develop initiatives for green hydrogen production and transport, and for carbon dioxide capture, transport and reuse or storage (CCS and CCU).

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Li-Cycle’s Germany Spoke leverages existing infrastructure with access to clean renewable energy and key transportation outlets. Li-Cycle’s Spokes produce an intermediate product called black mass, which includes a variety of valuable battery materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Lamborghini unveiled the Lanzador electric concept at Monterey Car Week—a vision of a future purely-electric fourth series production Lamborghini. The Lanzador is a preview of the production vehicle that Lamborghini will present in 2028. The interior is made almost entirely of sustainable materials, all made in Italy.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

After seven years of studies and a €150-million (US$206 million) investment, Biochemtex developed the Proesa process, an exclusive technology platform commercialised by Beta Renewables. Proesa is used to produce bio-fuels and chemical intermediates and it has been demonstrated on an industrial scale at the Crescentino plant.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

In 2024, the company will invest in 247 new motion plastics products and digital services. More favourable and better solutions for lubrication-free movements, low-cost automation and CO2-reducing products are the focal points. igus now supplies a wide range of products for this purpose, all tested in specially built dry labs.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

226,000 new jobs are foreseen in EV powertrain production (assuming an EU battery chain), with a net loss of 275,000 jobs (-43% jobs) projected from now until 2040. Western European countries will likely be best placed as strongholds in EV production (+56.2 €bn bn value-add until 2040).

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

The automotive industry is undergoing a period of profound change and one of the major trends is closely linked to electrification. A journey passing through the recent partnerships on recharging infrastructure, Vehicle-to-Grid and services to support customers of hybrid and full electric cars, from Italy to the rest of the world.

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JULY 29, 2011

and Chemtex, a global technology and engineering company wholly-owned by Italy’s Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi, are collaborating to develop and produce sustainable detergent alcohols for use in the household products market. They are widely used in laundry detergents, shampoos and other consumer products. Codexis, Inc.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Researchers from Istituto Motori - CNR in Italy and Eni report in a paper in the journal Fuel that blends of hydrocracked fossil oil (HCK) and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as diesel fuels deliver fuel consumption (FC) and CO 2 savings based on the NEDC cycle.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. Global emissions of CO 2 have increased by 45% between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tonnes in 2010 despite emission reductions in industrialized countries during the same period. Global CO 2. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge. Indexed global CO 2.

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JUNE 1, 2012

Novozymes inaugurated its $200-million enzyme plant in Blair, Nebraska ( earlier post ), which will supply enzymes to some of the first advanced cellulosic biorefineries, as well as to the existing industry.

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MAY 4, 2017

The columns installed at the IIT will, for the moment, work uni-directionally for recharging and will be the subject of a pilot development project with IIT, pending the definition of the regulatory framework for V2G in Italy.

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JANUARY 22, 2012

Genomatica and Novamont have signed a definitive agreement establishing a joint venture (JV) for the first industrial plant in Europe producing butanediol (BDO) directly from renewable feedstocks. Under the agreement, Novamont is converting an existing facility in Adria, Italy to use Genomatica’s BDO process. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 16, 2021

In Europe alone, six gigafactories with a total production capacity of 240 GWh are to be established by the end of the decade. With this in mind, cooperations have been agreed in Europe with the energy companies BP (Great Britain), Iberdrola (Spain) and Enel (Italy). E-mobility has become core business for us.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Eni plans to convert its Venice (Italy) Refinery into a biorefinery producing innovative and high quality biofuels. The Ecofining process uses catalytic hydroprocessing technology to convert vegetable oils to a renewable diesel fuel. The new biorefinery is based on Ecofining technology developed and patented by Eni. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 26, 2015

million) research project, selected for funding under the Horizon 2020 Programme, to advance the biocatalytic production of drop-in liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels, requiring only sunlight, CO 2 and water. Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy. Centro Ricerche Fiat SCPA, Italy. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

One industry that is set for dramatic change with the switch from gas to electric vehicles is the gas station industry. Total has also sold its gas stations in Italy, Switzerland, and the U.K. TotalEnergies is still an oil-based company and is a significant producer of petroleum products in Europe.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

This acquisition further substantiates the implementation of Enel’s strategy to deliver, innovative customer-focused products and services to the market, such as smart charging, integration between electric vehicles and distributed generation resources, as well as grid balancing and V2G services.

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JULY 1, 2017

Among the specific aims of the project is the production of a hull made out of fiber-reinforced composites and roughly 70 meters in length, which they will then test under real-life conditions on the high seas. Centro per gli Studi di Tecnica Navale in Italy. Up to now, freighters have been made exclusively from steel. million (US$12.3

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JULY 11, 2010

McPhy Energy , a French company founded in January 2008 with the mission to industrialize and commercialize a new magnesium hydride solid state storage system for hydrogen, recently closed its second round of funding worth €13.7 McPhy’s technology addresses the merchant hydrogen and renewable energy markets. million (US$17.3

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