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Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Heliogen and Bloom Energy have successfully demonstrated the production of green hydrogen by integrating the companies’ technologies: Heliogen’s concentrated solar energy system and the Bloom Electrolyzer. Electricity accounts for nearly 80% of the cost of hydrogen from electrolysis. Source: Heliogen. Source: Heliogen.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Solar Green

Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R) completed in Japan; aiming for low-cost green hydrogen production; P2G

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MARCH 8, 2020

and Iwatani Corporation announced that Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R), which had been under construction in Namie town, Fukushima Prefecture since 2018, has been constructed with a solar-energy-powered 10MW-class hydrogen production unit, the largest in the world, at the end of February.

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Low Cost Hydrogen Power Grid Japan

Japan team evaluates battery-assisted low-cost hydrogen production from solar energy

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Researchers from Japan’s NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science), the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have jointly conducted a techno-economic analysis for hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation (PV) utilizing a battery-assisted electrolyzer. Credit: NIMS. 2018.11.119 ).

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Low Cost Hydrogen Solar Japan

IRENA sees renewable hydrogen at least cost-possible within decade

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Hydrogen produced with renewable electricity could compete on costs with fossil fuel alternatives by 2030, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The report— Green Hydrogen Cost Reduction: scaling up electrolyzers to meet the 1.5 Source: IRENA.

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Gevo develops process for low-cost renewable isoprene; building block for rubber and rubber products

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

has developed a proprietary catalytic process that transforms low-cost commercially available, or even waste by-product, renewable alcohols into renewable isoprene that would be expected to compete head-to-head on price with natural and petroleum-based chemical equivalents while reducing CO 2 emissions.

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Low Cost Renewable Production Building

Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

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MAY 31, 2023

A multi-institutional team led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has developed a low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for the production of hydrogen in a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE). volts (Nafion 212 membrane) and low degradation in an accelerated stress test.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Methane derived from CO 2 and renewable H 2 sources is an attractive fuel, and it has great potential as a renewable hydrogen carrier as an environmentally responsible carbon capture and utilization approach. The authors’ assessment identified further cost savings, in that CO 2 captured by EEMPA can be converted to methane on site.

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Low Cost Convert CO2 Conversion

Hyzon Motors to collaborate with Transform Materials on renewable hydrogen production

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Hyzon Motors, a leading supplier of heavy-duty hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles, announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Transform Materials, a provider of renewable hydrogen through its proprietary microwave reactor technology ( earlier post ).

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Hydrogen Renewable Production Motor

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g., The UK has awarded £7.5

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Wind Hydrogen Renewable Low Cost

DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. A well-established downstream syngas-to-synfuel conversion process, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, converts the syngas to liquid synfuel for a total projected cost of less than $4/gallon.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Clean Cleaning

Tech: Renewable Diesel: A Sustainable Substitute

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JUNE 17, 2024

A Fuel Switch for Today Continues To Evolve In the past, renewable diesel was considered a niche product that failed to attract mainstream investor interest. Today, it is a cost-neutral way for fleet owners to achieve their goals by allowing them to convert an entire diesel-powered fleet to alternative fuel overnight.

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Renewable Diesel Oakland Fleet

EPFL team develops low-cost catalyst for splitting CO2

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JUNE 7, 2017

EPFL scientists have developed an Earth-abundant and low-cost catalytic system for splitting CO 2 into CO and oxygen—an important step towards achieving the conversion of renewable energy into hydrocarbon fuels. Using only Earth-abundant materials to catalyze both reactions, this design keeps the cost of the system low.

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Low Cost CO2 Solar Conversion

HyperSolar working with Suzhou GH New Energy to accelerate manufacturing of renewable solar hydrogen panels

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APRIL 14, 2020

the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water ( earlier post ), is working with Suzhou GH New Energy Co. a division of GCL Poly, in China to make the final modifications to the solar cells required to manufacture the Gen 1 hydrogen production panels to be used in demonstration pilot plants.

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Los Alamos and Oberon Fuels receive DOE funding to produce renewable hydrogen from renewable DME (rDME)

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JUNE 25, 2021

DME is a hydrogen-rich molecule that can be produced from waste and/or renewable resources using Oberon’s modular production technology. We are producing a hydrogen-rich molecule, moving it using existing, low-cost infrastructure, and converting it to hydrogen fuel on demand. —Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D.,

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Renewable Hydrogen Fuel Waste

ICL team assesses relative costs of carbon mitigation for 12 H2 production paths; trade-off between cost and level of decarbonization

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A team at Imperial College London has examined the relative costs of carbon mitigation from a lifecycle perspective for 12 different hydrogen production techniques using fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable sources. Proportional reduction in emissions against percentage cost increase relative to SMR.

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Cost Of Carbon Production Hydrogen

Amyris achieves record low cost farnesene production; sales growth in performance polymers and industrial solvents markets

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Amyris, Inc., , a company which converts plant-sourced sugars into renewable hydrocarbons, reports achieving a record low manufacturing cost of $1.75 Amyris’ farnesene is a renewable hydrocarbon molecule addressing growing demand in a broad range of applications, from diesel and jet fuel to high-performance materials.

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Polymer Low Cost Industrial Industry

HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. HyperSolar’s research is centered on developing a low-cost and submersible hydrogen production particle that can split water molecules using sunlight, emulating the core functions of photosynthesis. Hydrogen Hydrogen Production'

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Low Cost Water Hydrogen Solar

Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis

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JUNE 7, 2022

Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. Solid oxide technology is well suited for nuclear applications, efficiently harnessing steam to further improve the economics of hydrogen production.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Energy

DOE issues RFI on renewable fuel scale-up and demonstration

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DECEMBER 24, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new Request for Information (RFI) on the scale-up and demonstration of renewable fuels. The RFI also seeks information on how DOE can best assist biofuels production stakeholders in their research and development and scaling up of their technologies through demonstration scale.

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Researchers in Australia develop low-cost water-splitting catalyst that offers comparable performance to platinum

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

An additional benefit is that our nickel-iron electrode can catalyse both the hydrogen and oxygen generation, so not only could we slash the production costs by using Earth-abundant elements, but also the costs of manufacturing one catalyst instead of two. —Prof Zhao. Iron and nickel are currently priced at $0.13

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Water Low Cost Australia Hydrogen

KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a steam-carrier-adopted composite membrane reactor system to produce pure H 2 (>99.99%) from ammonia with high productivity (>0.35 Membrane reactor for production of H 2 from NH 3. mol-H 2 g cat ?1 Credit: KIST. Jo Young Suk from KIST. 2020.118483.

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DOE launches Clean Fuels & Products Shot

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MAY 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Fuels & Products Shot , a new initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products significantly. Biomass and waste conversion technologies designed to use green electricity and hydrogen to maximize carbon retention in products.

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Clean Cleaning Fuel Production

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

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MAY 24, 2022

Topsoe intends to construct the world’s largest and most advanced industrial-scale electrolyzer production plant. The Topsoe SOEC electrolyzer is a compact stack built primarily from abundant, low-cost ceramic materials enclosed within a metal housing.

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6K Energy to implement Forge Nano ALD equipment for commercial production of NMC 811 materials

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AUGUST 29, 2023

a provider of precision nano-coating technology, and 6K Energy, a developer of critical materials for lithium-ion batteries, signed an agreement to implement commercial-scale production of 6K Energy’s US-made battery materials with Forge Nano’s proprietary Atomic Armor surface technology platform (commercial-scale Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)).

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Commercial Li-ion Energy Production

Hyzon Motors and TC Energy to collaborate on modular hydrogen production hubs; 20 tonnes per hub per day

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hyzon Motors, a supplier of hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles,and TC Energy Corporation will collaborate on development, construction, operation, and ownership of hydrogen production facilities (hubs) across North America. This also complements TC Energy’s strong renewable natural gas interconnections and pipeline network.

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UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production. The project concerns the production of hydrogen at scale from offshore floating wind in deep water locations. HyNet – low carbon hydrogen plant. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly.

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Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

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JANUARY 19, 2015

In a study investigating the effect of the water and free fatty acid (FFA) content in waste chicken fat from poultry processing plants on the production of renewable diesel (not biodiesel), researchers in Thailand have found that both higher FFA and water content improved the biohydrogenated diesel (BHD) yield. —Kaewmeesri et al.

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Low Cost Waste Diesel Renewable

FREYR and 24M sign licensing and services agreement for mass production of Li-ion battery cells; Glencore for raw materials

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DECEMBER 25, 2020

FREYR is targeting the development of more than 40 GWh of scalable, modular battery cell production capacity via a phased development approach utilizing deep partnership-based strategies, including in-licensing of next generation technologies. —Tom Jensen, the CEO of FREYR. —Tom Jensen, the CEO of FREYR.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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JANUARY 11, 2014

In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries.

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Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery

Researchers demonstrate use of 3D printing to produce and operate light-weight, low-cost electrolyzers

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JULY 5, 2014

A team at the University of Glasgow has demonstrated the production and operation of a PEM electrolyzer constructed from silver-coated 3D-printed components fabricated from polypropylene. The use of 3D printing allows construction of light-weight, low-cost electrolyzers and the rapid prototyping of flow field design.

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Low Cost Light Water Hydrogen

Chinese researchers develop new alloy for on-board hydrogen production for fuel cells

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JANUARY 29, 2020

An open-access paper on their work appears in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy , from AIP Publishing. Hydrolysis of active metals is a widely known hydrogen production approach. Al is a favored hydrogen generation material because of its relatively low cost, low density, and abundant geological reserves.

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Hydrogen Chinese Production Fuel

SK E&S, SK Plug Hyverse partner with Korea South-East Power for green hydrogen & green ammonia production

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AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S and SK Plug Hyverse—a joint venture (JV) formed in January of this year by SK E&S and Plug Power—will work with Korea Southeast Power Generation (KOEN) to cooperate with green hydrogen and green ammonia projects based on renewable energy resources in Korea and abroad.

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Eneos opens demo plant in Australia to produce MCH liquid organic hydrogen carrier

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

ENEOS Corporation has constructed a demonstration plant in Brisbane, Australia, to produce methylcyclohexane (MCH), a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC), using its proprietary low-cost electrochemical synthesis of organic hydride method Direct MCH. Earlier post.) The plant will begin operation this month.

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Australia Hydrogen Solar Green

SunHydrogen extends research agreement with University of Iowa; development of Gen 2 multi-junction nanoparticles for hydrogen production

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JUNE 30, 2020

SunHydrogen , the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, has extended its sponsored research agreement with the University of Iowa through 31 August 2020. As we are set to begin the production phase of our GEN 1 hydrogen panels, our research efforts will become increasingly focused on GEN 2.

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Iowa Universal Hydrogen Production

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

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APRIL 28, 2021

Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc., into locally produced, renewable hydrogen for Hyzon’s fleet of zero-emission commercial vehicles. Careful temperature control prevents glass and metals from melting and becoming slag, and produces a biocarbon which is a salable product.

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Waste Hydrogen Building Motor

New long-duration, extended capacity Na-Al battery design for grid storage

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MARCH 2, 2023

The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. h is achieved with an estimated raw active materials cost of $7.02 mAh cm −2 , a discharge duration of 28.2 Weller et al.

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Carbon Clean and Liquid Wind partner on eMethanol production for marine fuel

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APRIL 29, 2021

Carbon Clean, a developer of low-cost carbon capture technology, has entered into an agreement with power-to-fuels developer Liquid Wind. Within the Liquid Wind facility, the CO 2 will then be combined with renewable hydrogen to form the carbon-neutral liquid fuel, eMethanol.

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Zeon Corporation invests in Mitra Chem; LFP cathode materials

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Mitra Chem is one of the select few companies in the United States aiming for the large-scale commercial production of LFP batteries, which it seeks to achieve using its proprietary machine learning platform to develop cathode materials for these batteries.

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SOFC-maker Bloom Energy announces initial strategy for hydrogen market entry; partnership with SK

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JULY 20, 2020

Solid-oxide-fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing hydrogen-powered fuel cells and electrolyzers that produce renewable hydrogen. This expansion of our product offering enables zero-carbon electricity and transportation solutions.

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DOE to award $59M to expand biofuels production and decarbonize transportation sector

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JUNE 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $59 million to accelerate the production of biofuels and bioproducts to reduce emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors. ( In September 2021, DOE awarded $64 million to 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. Topic Area 1: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries Algenesis Corporation, “Pre-Pilot Scale Production of Algae-based Jet Fuel and Polyurethane Monomers”, $4,987,974.

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner

Hydrogen Optimized to supply more than 40 MW of large-scale hydrogen production capacity

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JANUARY 11, 2022

has entered into a confidential Letter of Intent (LOI) with a large industrial company to provide more than 40 MW of RuggedCell water electrolyzer capacity for hydrogen production. Hydrogen Optimized seeks to be the first water electrolysis company to supply an aggregate of 10 GW of hydrogen production equipment. —Andrew T.

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DOE to award $33M to advance hydrogen and fuel cell R&D and the H2@Scale vision

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $33 million in funding to support innovative hydrogen and fuel cell research & development (R&D), infrastructure supply chain development and validation, and cost analysis activities. ( Efficient and innovative hydrogen production. This would be coordinated with the H2NEW consortium.

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Hydrogen Fuel Low Cost Idaho

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

in 2007, Fulcrum has developed a proprietary thermochemical process to convert the organic materials found in MSW to low-carbon drop-in fuels, which can be distributed in the same pipelines as traditional petroleum products. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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Waste Carbon Fuel Production

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R) completed in Japan; aiming for low-cost green hydrogen production; P2G

Japan team evaluates battery-assisted low-cost hydrogen production from solar energy

IRENA sees renewable hydrogen at least cost-possible within decade

Gevo develops process for low-cost renewable isoprene; building block for rubber and rubber products

Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Hyzon Motors to collaborate with Transform Materials on renewable hydrogen production

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

Tech: Renewable Diesel: A Sustainable Substitute

EPFL team develops low-cost catalyst for splitting CO2

HyperSolar working with Suzhou GH New Energy to accelerate manufacturing of renewable solar hydrogen panels

Los Alamos and Oberon Fuels receive DOE funding to produce renewable hydrogen from renewable DME (rDME)

ICL team assesses relative costs of carbon mitigation for 12 H2 production paths; trade-off between cost and level of decarbonization

Amyris achieves record low cost farnesene production; sales growth in performance polymers and industrial solvents markets

HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

Westinghouse, Bloom Energy to accelerate large-scale hydrogen production in nuclear industry; high-temperature integrated electrolysis

DOE issues RFI on renewable fuel scale-up and demonstration

Researchers in Australia develop low-cost water-splitting catalyst that offers comparable performance to platinum

KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

DOE launches Clean Fuels & Products Shot

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

6K Energy to implement Forge Nano ALD equipment for commercial production of NMC 811 materials

Hyzon Motors and TC Energy to collaborate on modular hydrogen production hubs; 20 tonnes per hub per day

UK awards £28M for 5 demonstration-phase low-carbon hydrogen production projects

Thai researchers find waste chicken fat a good low-cost feedstock for renewable diesel

FREYR and 24M sign licensing and services agreement for mass production of Li-ion battery cells; Glencore for raw materials

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Researchers demonstrate use of 3D printing to produce and operate light-weight, low-cost electrolyzers

Chinese researchers develop new alloy for on-board hydrogen production for fuel cells

SK E&S, SK Plug Hyverse partner with Korea South-East Power for green hydrogen & green ammonia production

Eneos opens demo plant in Australia to produce MCH liquid organic hydrogen carrier

SunHydrogen extends research agreement with University of Iowa; development of Gen 2 multi-junction nanoparticles for hydrogen production

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

New long-duration, extended capacity Na-Al battery design for grid storage

Carbon Clean and Liquid Wind partner on eMethanol production for marine fuel

Zeon Corporation invests in Mitra Chem; LFP cathode materials

SOFC-maker Bloom Energy announces initial strategy for hydrogen market entry; partnership with SK

DOE to award $59M to expand biofuels production and decarbonize transportation sector

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

Hydrogen Optimized to supply more than 40 MW of large-scale hydrogen production capacity

DOE to award $33M to advance hydrogen and fuel cell R&D and the H2@Scale vision

SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

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