Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Mitsubishi Power Americas and Texas Brine Company are collaborating to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the eastern United States. Long-duration hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for the transition to a net zero carbon energy future.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, and the use of energy storage is becoming more widespread. And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Battery storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

At the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) Spring Meeting, US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) Director Sunita Satyapal announced a planned collaboration with the new Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS), launched by AIChE.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

Cheesecake is part of a cohort of companies trying to meet a growing need for alternative forms of energy storage. As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

An international research group has improved graphene’s ability to catalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction, which releases hydrogen as a result of passing an electronic current through water. The graphene-based electrocatalyst was then used to enhance the release of hydrogen during electrolysis. Wakisaka, Y.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argues a commentary by four energy researchers in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A recent study has suggested a new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as a stabilizer. The research proposed a practical gas phase modulator based synthesis of a hydrogen-natural gas blend (HNGB) without generating chemical waste after dissociation for the immediate service. Credit: KAIST.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Both the transportation and the storage contribute considerably to the hydrogen price.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

A Stanford-led team has developed a new electrolysis system to split seawater in hydrogen and oxygen. Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 31, 2021

Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […]. Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The first hydrogen plant for renewable energy storage in Greenland has been inaugurated. The plant is a test system which shall help provide suggestions for how hydrogen can be used for future renewable energy storage in the country. Svend Hardenberg, energy director from Nukissiorfiit.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 10, 2023

Hydrogen is the miracle element. It can power fuel cells that make electricity, leaving nothing behind but water and little heat. In theory, if humanity used hydrogen to meet all its energy needs, a pollution-free environment would be ours to enjoy forever and a day. What a wonderful world that would be.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Salt caverns such as the one depicted here could provide a low-cost solution for the geologic storage of hydrogen. Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it economically possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for a growing fuel cell electric vehicle market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) awarded A$22.1 million (US$16 million) in funding to 16 research projects to propel innovation in exporting renewable hydrogen. In December 2017, ARENA announced the funding round into hydrogen R&D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The case for using Power-to-Gas solutions to store renewable energy is compelling for a number of important use cases, according to a new white paper released by the California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC). P2G systems use electrolysis powered by renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Applying the model, they found that the average LCOE associated with meeting this seasonal imbalance is $2400/MWh using a HFGT fueled with green hydrogen and $3000/MWh using a LI.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Swiss research intsitute Empa’s future mobility demonstrator, “move”, is investigating three paths for CO 2 reduction in road traffic—electric mobility, hydrogen mobility and synthetic fuels—against the background of a rapidly changing energy system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

This project includes the development of improved pressurized stack module designs, critical to supporting the configuration of very high-efficiency power generation systems, while also enhancing the efficiency of solid oxide-based electrolysis and energy storage systems.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In these clusters, the wind turbines are integrated with electrolyzers that generate hydrogen from desalinated seawater. US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Shell, together with ITM Power, plans to install a 10MW electrolyzer to produce hydrogen at the Wesseling refinery site within the Rheinland Refinery Complex. Today, the refinery uses approximately 180,000 tons of hydrogen per year in its various plants. The hydrogen produced could be integrated into the refinery processes.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2021

A novel project in Australia aims to harness the sun’s energy in two different ways: by storing it and by using it to produce green hydrogen. Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “ hydrogen batteries ” in coming years. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2018

The catalyst is also readily applicable to other energy storage and conversion systems, including metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, electrolyzers, dye-sensitized solar cells, and photocatalysis. The ions meet to make water, which exits the fuel cell. An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

Greyrock’s systems are designed to transform a variety of gas resources (including natural gas, flare gas, bio-gas, natural gas liquids, and other feedstocks) into premium transportation fuels. Additionally, Greyrock’s systems may be deployed in remote oil fields and may be configured to produce high-purity hydrogen as a by-product.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

It will make it possible to understand the impact and get the most value from the millions of new devices—such as electric vehicles, renewable generation, hydrogen, energy storage, and grid-interactive efficient buildings—that are being connected to the grid daily.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Using quantum dots (QD) and a process called Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG), the NREL researchers were able to push the peak external quantum efficiency for hydrogen generation to 114%. The research is outlined in a paper in Nature Energy. A salt bridge connects the two compartments and transports H + and Na +.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) issued a funding opportunity announcement for up to $4.6 million for 12–24 month projects with industry and academia ( DE-FOA-0000966 ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. Hydrogen infrastructure (TRL 9-10). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

To further this emerging market, DOE also announced a notice of intent ( DE-FOA-0001411 ) to invest $30 million, subject to appropriations, to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. This partnership will allow for broad dissemination of information and increased awareness of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The demo plant incorporates the entire process chain, and comprises four separate units: a solar power plant; equipment for separating carbon dioxide and water from the air; a section that uses electrolysis to produce hydrogen; and synthesis equipment for producing a crude-oil substitute from carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.]. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. Note the large impact of energy storage in the latter. The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. —Romain Sacchi.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2012

AHEAD’s polygeneration concept for ammonia and hydrogen fuels for developing countries. The AHEAD concept for bringing power to off-grid areas in Africa is to make modest use of renewables where it makes sense, and to drive mass deployment of ammonia and hydrogen along with small engine generators, microturbines and fuel cell systems.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Vilupanur Ravi of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona will receive $95,000 to identify the most effective catalyst materials to lower capital and operating costs of hydrogen production. The project aims to increase energy efficiency of set top boxes beyond current and planned EnergyStar and Department of Energy standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Energy. Advanced Batteries for Transportation and Renewable Energy Storage. Radically new battery systems or breakthroughs based on existing systems can move the US more rapidly toward a more sustainable transportation future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2015

The combination of chemical functionalization and curvature control also opens new opportunities for hydrogen storage. MXene sheets are promising for energy applications, such as lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and hydrogen storage. Batteries Graphene Hydrogen Production Hydrogen Storage'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. UNO MK3 allows CO 2 to be withdrawn and stored as solid potassium bicarbonate during high energy demand, eliminating stripper energy and enabling profitable regeneration.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Specifically, the researchers used synchrotron-based micro X‐ray computed tomography (CT) to visualize and to quantify the water distribution within gas diffusion layers subject to a thermal gradient. This type of flow, which is due to the evaporation and condensation of water, is known as phase-change-induced (PCI) flow.

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