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Malta and Bechtel team up for long-duration energy-storage projects

Malta Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), a developer of grid-scale, long-duration energy storage, and Bechtel (Reston, Va.), announced they are teaming up to pursue new energy storage projects around the world. The companies will work together to develop and deploy Malta's 10-150+…

Iberdrola and H2 Green Steel to build €2.3-billion green-hydrogen plant for sustainable steel production

Iberdrola (Bilbao, Spain) and H2 Green Steel have signed an agreement to build a green hydrogen plant with an installed capacity of 1,000 MW and an estimated investment of €2.3 billion. The new plant will power with clean fuel a…

TotalEnergies launches construction of biomethane plant in Texas

Through their joint venture, TotalEnergies and its U.S. partner Clean Energy are launching the construction of their first biomethane production unit, in Friona, Texas. The biomethane will be used as an alternative fuel for mobility, thus contributing to decarbonize road…

Veolia advances hydrogen-economy programs in the U.K.

Veolia is advancing its program to create a hydrogen gas-supply infrastructure and decarbonize the U.K. energy supply. Believed to be the first application of its type in the U.K., the company's latest development is now managing projects which incorporate electrolyzer…

Waste-based ceramics improve energy-storage economics

Ceramic materials’ high heat resistance makes them a promising media for thermal energy storage, but their high costs have inhibited their widespread use for this application. Now, a new technology offered by Seramic Materials Ltd. (Masdar City, U.A.E.; www.seramic.eco) can…

Linde and Singapore LNG to study CO2-liquefaction facility

Singapore LNG Corp. Pte Ltd (SLNG) and Linde Gas Singapore Pte Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaboratively explore the feasibility and development of a Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Liquefaction and Storage Facility, located adjacent to the SLNG…

Sabic and HHI to produce circular polymers from ocean-bound plastic waste

SABIC (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Malaysia-based plastic recycling company HHI, have announced a pioneering new collaboration to create the first certified circular polymers produced through the advanced recycling of recovered mixed and used ocean-bound plastic. The certified circular polyolefins from…

Asahi Kasei and Shell announce sustainable butadiene supply agreement in Singapore

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) concluded an agreement with Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd. regarding the supply of butadiene derived from plastic waste and biomass (sustainable butadiene). The signing ceremony was held at the “Creating the Plastic Circular Economy in…

BASF to launch new renewable energy subsidiary

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is bundling its activities in renewable energies under the umbrella of BASF Renewable Energy GmbH as of January 1, 2022. The wholly owned subsidiary’s business activities will focus on supplying the BASF Group in Europe with…

Styrolution to build advanced-recycling pilot plant for polystyrene

INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) confirmed its decision to invest into a pilot plant for advanced recycling of polystyrene. The site will be set up in collaboration with Recycling Technologies in Swindon, U.K. It is expected to be operational in the…