The UK authorities mentioned it’s funding 11 new inexperienced hydrogen initiatives throughout England, Scotland, and Wales, which it claims can be among the many first commercial-scale initiatives on the planet. Chancellor Rachel Reeves introduced the funding plan throughout in a fall 2024 price range speech, allocating GBP 3.9 billion ($5 billion) for inexperienced hydrogen producers and carbon seize utilization and storage (CCUS) initiatives within the 2025-26 interval. The federal government chosen the initiatives, which have a cumulative capability of 125 MW, in December 2023, as a part of the primary hydrogen allocation spherical (HAR1) that was launched in July 2022. The federal government awarded them contracts for distinction at a weighted common strike worth of GBP 241/MWh.
RWE has secured the required building and environmental permits to construct a 100 MW electrolyzer in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. “If constructed, the electrolyzer will contribute to the onshore vitality system integration plans related to the 795 MW OranjeWind offshore wind challenge within the Dutch North Sea, which RWE is realising along with its three way partnership companion TotalEnergies,” mentioned RWE.
Hyundai Motor has unveiled a hydrogen gasoline cell electrical car (FCEV) idea. The South Korean automotive firm has outfitted the automotive with aerodynamic wheels to scale back drag wrapped in low rolling resistance tires “for a focused driving vary of greater than 650 km between refueling.” The electrical motor output is as much as 150 kW. The automotive’s manufacturing model is ready to launch within the first half of 2025.
Masdar seems to have delayed its goal of manufacturing 1 million tons of inexperienced hydrogen from 2030 to 2034, in response to a Bloomberg report that the corporate’s press workplace has neither confirmed or denied. “We stay dedicated to supporting the aims set out underneath the UAE’s Nationwide Hydrogen Technique, in addition to to delivering on our ambitions of changing into a number one inexperienced hydrogen producer globally by 2030,” the corporate informed pv journal. It mentioned in a current press launch concerning the completion of a pilot challenge that makes use of inexperienced hydrogen to provide inexperienced metal within the United Arab Emirates, which it goals to attain inside a decade.
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