Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Zug, Switzerland) and Zukunftsenergie Nordostbayern GmbH (ZENOB) signed a letter of intent in Wunsiedel for the turnkey construction of a 100-MW battery storage facility in the German town. The plant, with a storage capacity of 200 MWh,…
Portuguese energy utility EDP, TechnipFMC (Paris) and other research partners are joining forces to develop a conceptual engineering and economic feasibility study for a new offshore system for green hydrogen production from offshore wind power, called the BEHYOND project. The…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to participate in the recently announced Acorn carbon capture and storage project (CCS) in Scotland. The project plans to capture and store approximately 5-6 million tons of CO2 per…
SSE Thermal (Perth, Australia) and Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) are developing plans for one of the world’s largest hydrogen storage facilities at their existing Aldbrough, U.K. site on the East Yorkshire coast. The facility could be storing low-carbon hydrogen…
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.), through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative…
Fusion Fuel Green PLC (Dublin, Ireland), a green hydrogen technology company, announced that Aziz Rabbah, the Moroccan Minister of Energy, Mines and Environment, unveiled the HEVO Ammonia Morocco project at an event yesterday in Rabat, Morocco. The project is Morocco’s…
Asahi Kasei Corp.’s (Tokyo, Japan) Medical business has decided to expand production capacity of hydrophilic PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) hollow-fiber membranes for Planova BioEX filters at its spinning plant in Oita, Japan. The global COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgent demand…
Abengoa SA (Seville, Spain) has achieved the production of the first permeate, that is, obtaining the first desalinated water, at the 600,000-m3/d desalination plant that it is building in the city of Rabigh, in Saudi Arabia This important milestone occurred…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has started up its fifth liquid hydrogen plant in the U.S., reinforcing the company's robust supply network of plants in California, Alabama, Indiana and New York. The new plant in La Porte, Texas,…
Earlier this year, Vattenfall AB and Preem AB (both Stockholm, Sweden) instigated a strategic analysis of the role of fossil-free hydrogen from electrolysis, produced using fossil-free electricity, could play for Preem’s potential to produce biofuels on a large scale. Work…