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Wärtsilä to provide FEED for liquefied synthetic methane plant

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The plant is to be built by Koppö Energia Oy, a joint venture company between Germany’s Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund and CPC Finland Oy, in Kristinestad, Finland. The FEED will be booked by Wärtsilä in Q3, 2023. It will have a capacity of 200 MW and will convert green electricity into hydrogen and sustainable LSM.

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Pozna? orders 25 Solaris hydrogen buses

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The investment has been subsidized as part of the “Green Public Transport” program, launched by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. already owns 58 electric Solaris buses, which account for nearly 20% of its fleet. The drive unit will be a central electric motor. without any additional steps.

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Blue World Technologies starting production of methanol fuel cells

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The high-temperature (HT) PEM technology operates at 160-180 °C and has a high resistance to impurities in reformat gas—making it suitable to combine with fuel reformers. Methanol reforming is a relatively simple process that converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas.

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ALBERO project seeks to enable safe transport for EVs and more on ro-ro ferries

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Electric vehicles are booming, with more than a million on German roads as of this year. These included numerous plug-in hybrids and purely electric-powered cars with built-in lithium-ion batteries, which complicated firefighting efforts. There were around 4,000 vehicles on board. This requires new safety procedures on board.

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More than half of transit buses in the US were powered by alternative fuels and advanced technologies in 2018

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Natural gas and diesel hybrid drivetrains have replaced the greatest share of diesel buses followed by biodiesel and “other” buses, which include hydrogen, electric, and propane. Source: American Public Transportation Association, 2019 Public Transportation Fact Book, Washington, DC, April 2019, Figure 14.

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Aker Solutions awarded subsea gas compression contract for Jansz-Io

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Aker Solutions has been awarded a major contract from Chevron Australia Pty Ltd to provide a subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia. The company has booked around NOK 7 billion (US$812 million) as order intake in the second quarter of 2021 related to this contract. Earlier post.)

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Former president of Shell Oil calls for aggressive action on alternative fuels to break oil monopoly on transportation

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Fuel Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to opening the fuel market to allow alternative fuels such as ethanol, methanol, natural gas and electricity fairly to compete with gasoline at the pump. Since writing the book, economic growth has been “ stunted ”, and China’s growth reduced. It’s inevitable.