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DOE releases draft guidance for Clean Hydrogen Production Standard (CHPS)

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released draft guidance for a Clean Hydrogen Production Standard (CHPS), developed to meet the requirements of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Section 40315. by employing high rates of carbon capture, using low-carbon electricity, or mitigating upstream methane emissions).

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Clean Cleaning Hydrogen Standards

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill.

Texas

Texas Hydrogen Renewable Austin

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

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MARCH 8, 2020

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), Tohoku Electric Power Co., The FH2R can produce as much as 1,200 Nm 3 of hydrogen per hour (rated power operation) using renewable energy.

Low Cost

Low Cost Hydrogen Power Grid Japan

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc.

Renewable

Renewable Hydrogen Supplies North America

Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

Solar

Solar Hydrogen Emissions Production

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Indeed, much of Big Oil's reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leans on the so-called natural gas bridge. 2 Total SA.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric

Xcel Energy, INL to use nuclear energy for clean hydrogen production; HTSE

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will work with Idaho National Laboratory to demonstrate a system that uses a nuclear plant’s steam and electricity to split water. The new project is the first to pair a commercial electricity generator with high-temperature steam electrolysis (HTSE) technology. Earlier post.)

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Energy Production Clean

Raven SR waste-to-hydrogen plant in California to be powered by INNIO Jenbacher’s Ready-for-H2 engines

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Raven SR plans to use INNIO’s Jenbacher engines [60 Hz] with a “Ready for H2” option to produce renewable energy. The energy system will power and heat Raven SR’s S-Series hydrogen production facility at a sanitary landfill in Richmond, California. The hydrogen product will be resold to power fuel cells in heavy-duty trucks.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen California Engine

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

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JULY 30, 2020

A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. The largest transmission congestions were in California.

Grid

Grid Charging Power Grid California

LiNa Energy successfully demonstrates Na-ion technology for battery energy storage systems

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The test saw a 1kW/1kWh LiNa system perform dynamic containment—a key revenue stream for battery energy storage systems in the UK which requires rapid injection and absorption of power to maintain the grid’s frequency.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Sodium Batteries

Bloom Energy announces hydrogen-powered energy servers to make always-on renewable electricity a reality

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JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. Current Bloom Energy Servers generate electricity using natural gas or biogas as fuel. Bloom Energy Servers can operate on pure hydrogen or a combination of natural gas and hydrogen.

Renewable

Renewable Hydrogen Energy Power

Air Products announces multi-billion dollar net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex in Edmonton, Alberta

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JUNE 10, 2021

Industrial gases leader Air Products, and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., Aligned with that vision, Air Products began work in 2018 on the core of this world-scale energy complex in Edmonton, which will begin with a transformative $1.3 Hydrogen-fueled electricity will offset the remaining five percent of emissions.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Production Energy Canada

DOE awards $2.4M to 3 projects for next-generation grid energy storage

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APRIL 1, 2022

The technologies will initially support transitioning of existing fossil assets to low carbon energy systems, with the long-term potential to support a fully decarbonized electricity grid by 2035. Gaston Electric Generating Plant in Wilsonville, Alabama. DOE Funding: $800,000; Non-DOE Funding: $331,971; Total Value: $1,131,971.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Grid Energy Alabama

LCA finds EMN high-purity manganese products have lower carbon footprint than incumbent industry

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

GWP processing routes using both grid-mix electricity and renewable electricity were evaluated in-line with LCA best-practice and Global Battery Alliance requirements for the battery passport. For HPMSM produced in China via EMM dissolution, the main contributor is the same: embodied emissions in the electricity grid mix.

Carbon

Carbon Industrial Industry Czech Republic

Bosch on importance of renewable synthetic fuels to reach climate goals; e-fuels

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Electromobility is just now picking up momentum; further, electric cars are only as emissions-free as the production of electricity that charges their batteries. One path to achieving this is with renewable synthetic fuels (e-fuels). Renewable synthetic fuels have long since left the basic research phase.

Renewable

Renewable Climate Fuel Gasoline-Electric

DOE: Life cycle GHG emissions for 2020 electric small SUV were half those of a conventional gasoline small SUV

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The vehicle manufacturing cycle includes impacts of raw material extraction, vehicle parts production, assembly, as well as its disposal and related materials recycling processes. When fueled by hydrogen produced from landfill gas, the total dropped to 117 g CO 2 e/mi. Key assumptions for these two scenarios (e.g.,

Gasoline-Electric

Gasoline-Electric 2020 SUV Gasoline

DOE funding demonstration project to replace natural gas with solar energy for production of Oberon’s rDME fuel; Bullet Steam Accumulator

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JUNE 14, 2023

The US Department of Energy is funding a demonstration of Sunvapor ’s solar steam and thermal battery technology to lower further the Carbon Intensity (CI) of the renewable dimethyl ether (DME) produced by Oberon Fuels at its Maverick Innovation Center in Brawley, California. —Philip Gleckman, PhD, CEO at Sunvapor

Solar

Solar Gas Fuel Energy

BASF breaks ground on syngas plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The facility will produce syngas and hydrogen for captive use within BASF’s production Verbund. The production technologies deployed in the syngas plant will mainly utilize CO 2 off-gas, a by-product of the ethylene oxide process and excess fuel gas from steam cracker operations, to manufacture syngas.

China

China Belgium Asia Gas-Electric

BASF produces methanol on basis of biomass balance approach; production with renewable raw materials reduces GHG at least 50%

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

BASF has introduced a product for the production of methanol on the basis of renewable raw materials according to the biomass balance approach. The product name is EU-REDcert-methanol. The company replaces fossil raw materials with second-generation renewable raw materials and uses waste as well as residual materials.

Renewable

Renewable Production Gas-Electric Waste

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The prototype will use ammonia to deliver 200kg of hydrogen a day—enough to power around 5-10 hydrogen fuel cell-electric buses. We have just 13 years to deliver a net-zero electricity grid for the UK. The traditional process of producing ammonia has used “grey” or “black” hydrogen from either natural gas or coal.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland

BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

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MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). Optimizing charging against renewable energy was the primary focus of the second phase.

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BMW Grid Renewable Charging

BMW plant brings electrically heated ring hearth furnace into operation

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MAY 16, 2023

For the first time, chassis and drive component production in Plant 02.10 at the BMW Group site in Dingolfing is operating an electrically heated ring hearth furnace. Compared with its conventional gas-powered equivalent, the latest electric furnace currently saves some 300 tonnes of CO 2 a year. Plant 02.10

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BMW Climate Protection Gas-Electric Electric

ORNL study finds best current use of natural gas for cars is efficient production of electricity for EVs

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

However, they also noted, high PTW efficiencies and the moderate fuel economies of current compressed natural gas vehicles (CNGVs) make them a viable option as well. If CNG were to be eventually used in hybrids, the advantage of the electric generation/EV option shrinks. Their open access paper is published in the journal Energy.

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Gas-Electric Gas Fuel Economy PHEV

thyssenkrupp’s water electrolysis technology qualified as primary control reserve in Germany; hydrogen production for the electricity market

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JULY 6, 2020

thyssenkrupp’s proprietary water electrolysis technology for the production of. In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. In the following year the production of ammonia succeeded.

Water

Water Hydrogen Market Production

EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to the IEO2021 Reference case, which projects future energy trends based on current laws and regulations, renewable energy consumption has the strongest growth among energy sources through 2050. EIA projects electricity generation to almost double in developing non-OECD countries by 2050.

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Global Energy Emissions Asia

ITM Power to study large-scale production of renewable hydrogen in British Columbia; export to Japan and California

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MARCH 30, 2018

The British Columbia Government Ministries of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and Jobs, Trade and Technology has awarded ITM Power a grant to undertake a Power-to-Gas (P2G) feasibility study. This positions BC as a strong candidate for production of renewable hydrogen generated via electrolysis.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Renewable Power Powered

European HYFLEXPOWER project to demo first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine

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JUNE 1, 2020

A consortium comprising Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities is implementing the HYFLEXPOWER project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement 884229). million, of which €10.5

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Power Powered Gas

GKN Hydrogen, SoCalGas and NREL to collaborate on solid-state hydrogen storage project; HY2MEGA

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JUNE 30, 2022

GKN Hydrogen and Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) will work with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on an innovative green hydrogen storage solution. The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce green hydrogen to be stored in the HY2MEGA. Supported by $1.7

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Hydrogen Store Colorado Renewable

False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

Grid

Grid Power Powered Vehicles

Altair submits LCFS application for fuel pathways for rewewable diesel, jet and naphtha: 19.51 gCO2e/MJ

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Altair Paramount, LLC (Altair) has applied for California LCFS fuel pathways for renewable diesel, renewable naphtha and renewable jet fuels derived from rendered animal fat feedstock and processed at their facility in Paramount, California. Process energy used includes grid electricity and natural gas.

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Diesel Fuel Utah Renewable

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

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APRIL 11, 2020

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IFF in Germany are designing the distributed and modular production and distribution of green hydrogen for industry, business and transportation throughout the value chain—a hydrogen factory of the future. We additionally want to supply electricity, gas and heat to industry. © Fraunhofer IFF.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Future Design Ozone

What is Renewable energy integration, challenges, why it is needed

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

what is renewable energy integration ? Renewable energy integration refers to the process of efficiently incorporating renewable energy sources into existing energy systems. Energy Storage: Renewable energy sources are often intermittent, meaning they don’t produce energy consistently.

Renewable

Renewable Energy Energy Storage Wind

Tesla’s solar neighborhood in Austin could help TX learn if renewables are viable

Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Tesla Energy takes a stand against coal and gas generators in Australia. In April, Tesla integrated its solar products and Powerwall battery, choosing to sell the two together as a bundle. Customers could choose between Tesla solar panels or Solar Roof, but all solar products would be installed with a Powerwall.

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Neighborhood Austin Solar Renewable

DOE awarding nearly $8M for national laboratory H2@Scale projects

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and GKN Powder Metallurgy will validate and demonstrate the dynamic operation of a 520 kg hydrogen metal hydride storage subsystem integrated with the ARIES megawatt-scale hydrogen capabilities. NREL, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Gas Technology Institute, EPRI, and Paulsson, Inc.

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Seattle EPRI Hydrogen Energy Storage

Hyliion launches Hypertruck Electric Range Extender; CNG genset; 1,000-truck pre-order

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JUNE 26, 2020

a developer of electrified powertrain solutions for Class 8 commercial vehicles, launched its Hypertruck Electric Range Extender (ERX), a long-haul, natural-gas series-hybrid electric powertrain. With more than 700 public stations across the US, the Hypertruck ERX leverages a robust natural gas refueling infrastructure.

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Range Gas-Electric Gas Electric

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. 8 Rivers Capital.

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Carbon Gas-Electric Grid Gas

Raven SR, Chevron and Hyzon Motors collaborate to produce hydrogen from green waste in Northern California

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company; Chevron New Energies, a division of Chevron USA; and Hyzon Motors are collaborating to commercialize operations of a green waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Richmond intended to supply hydrogen fuel to transportation markets in Northern California.

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Chevron Waste Hydrogen California

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. It can also provide lowest-cost long-term storage for electrical grids relying on renewable energy.

Waste

Waste Hydrogen Green California

Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, has acquired California-based eMotorWerks, a North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities. Enel S.p.A.,

Grid

Grid Market North America Colombia

CNG Fuels and National Grid unveil first high-pressure grid-connected CNG filling station; biomethane option

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MARCH 21, 2016

UK-based CNG Fuels, in partnership with National Grid, has unveiled a new state-of-the-art filling station in Leyland, Lancashire, allowing vehicles to fill up on compressed natural gas (CNG) directly from the high-pressure local transmission system. —Philip Fjeld, director at CNG Fuels.

Grid

Grid Connect Connected Fuel

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. FREYR will pay both upfront and running fees to 24M.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery

BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

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JUNE 29, 2018

Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so.

Grid

Grid BMW Power Powered

v2g, g2v technology company benefits drivers and grid

Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) are two-way communication technologies that involve the flow of electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. Let’s explore each in detail: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: 1. Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) Technology: 1.

Grid

Grid Companies Power Grid Charging

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Vault agreed to provide 1.6

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Fuel Louisiana

DOE releases draft guidance for Clean Hydrogen Production Standard (CHPS)

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

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

Anaergia to supply RNG to FuelCell Energy to create renewable hydrogen supporting Toyota’s port facility

Monash study on solar-driven electrolysis for green hydrogen production cautions on life-cycle emissions and EROI

3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

Xcel Energy, INL to use nuclear energy for clean hydrogen production; HTSE

Raven SR waste-to-hydrogen plant in California to be powered by INNIO Jenbacher’s Ready-for-H2 engines

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

LiNa Energy successfully demonstrates Na-ion technology for battery energy storage systems

Bloom Energy announces hydrogen-powered energy servers to make always-on renewable electricity a reality

Air Products announces multi-billion dollar net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex in Edmonton, Alberta

DOE awards $2.4M to 3 projects for next-generation grid energy storage

LCA finds EMN high-purity manganese products have lower carbon footprint than incumbent industry

Bosch on importance of renewable synthetic fuels to reach climate goals; e-fuels

DOE: Life cycle GHG emissions for 2020 electric small SUV were half those of a conventional gasoline small SUV

DOE funding demonstration project to replace natural gas with solar energy for production of Oberon’s rDME fuel; Bullet Steam Accumulator

BASF breaks ground on syngas plant at Zhanjiang Verbund site in China

BASF produces methanol on basis of biomass balance approach; production with renewable raw materials reduces GHG at least 50%

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

BMW Group and PG&E launching ChargeForward Phase 3 pilot; V2G testing

BMW plant brings electrically heated ring hearth furnace into operation

ORNL study finds best current use of natural gas for cars is efficient production of electricity for EVs

thyssenkrupp’s water electrolysis technology qualified as primary control reserve in Germany; hydrogen production for the electricity market

EIA projects increases in global energy consumption and emissions through 2050

ITM Power to study large-scale production of renewable hydrogen in British Columbia; export to Japan and California

European HYFLEXPOWER project to demo first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine

GKN Hydrogen, SoCalGas and NREL to collaborate on solid-state hydrogen storage project; HY2MEGA

False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Altair submits LCFS application for fuel pathways for rewewable diesel, jet and naphtha: 19.51 gCO2e/MJ

Fraunhofer IFF team designing hydrogen factory of the future

What is Renewable energy integration, challenges, why it is needed

Tesla’s solar neighborhood in Austin could help TX learn if renewables are viable

DOE awarding nearly $8M for national laboratory H2@Scale projects

Hyliion launches Hypertruck Electric Range Extender; CNG genset; 1,000-truck pre-order

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

Raven SR, Chevron and Hyzon Motors collaborate to produce hydrogen from green waste in Northern California

SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

CNG Fuels and National Grid unveil first high-pressure grid-connected CNG filling station; biomethane option

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

BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

v2g, g2v technology company benefits drivers and grid

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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