L&T from India is front runner for NEOM’s renewable facilities contract

According to MEED, India’s Larsen & Toubro is believed to has been selected to build solar and wind plants for supplying electricity to the city’s $6.4-billion green hydrogen-based ammonia plant at OXAGON industrial zone for Saudi Arabia’s NEOM Green Hydrogen Co. L&T, along with Energy China and Power China, has submitted a proposal for an

Iberdrola announces plan to invest €3bn in green hydrogen

Spanish energy utility Iberdrola has committed to investing €3bn ($3.2bn) in green hydrogen as part of its efforts to expedite the European Green Deal. Initially agreed on in 2020, the European Green Deal calls for a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Iberdrola chairman Ignacio Galán

Johnson Matthey invests $21.51 mn in Enapter for green hydrogen

Johnson Matthey PLC, a company that supplies specialised catalysts, Invests EUR20 million ($21.51 mn) in Enapter AG for latter’s technology that produces green hydrogen. The partnership aims to accelerate the scale-up of the mass production of the AEM electrolysers. Enapter is a German and Italian firm whose anion exchange membrane electrolyser extracts hydrogen from water

NGH mission in India expected to be launched soon

Indian governmentis expected to launch National Green Hydrogen (NGH) mission in two months. The government has made plans to take forward the green hydrogen policy announced in February. The mission is also expected to list the sectors that will have to start using green hydrogen on a voluntary basis and a roadmap for sectors such

Wärtsilä to partner with Capwatt in green hydrogen blending

The technology group Wärtsilä will collaborate with the Portuguese energy solutions provider and independent power producer Capwatt in the testing of a green hydrogen and natural gas blend fuel for Capwatt power plant located in Maia. The project will start in Q1, 2023 and it aims at testing blends of up to 10 vol.% green

Shell and Acu port in Brazil agree for developing pilot green hydrogen plant

Shell and Brazil’s Acu port have agreed to develop a green hydrogen generation pilot plant at the port’s facilities, located in the northern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, the pilot plant, which is expected to be ready in 2025, will have an initial capacity

Sif, GE, Pondera and KCI agree for the feasibility study on green hydrogen

Sif Group, GE Renewable Energy, Pondera and KCI have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the feasibility study of an offshore green hydrogen project. The Green Hydrogen Centralized Offshore Wind Production Project, or AmpHytrite, is aimed at “mastering the complexity” of a centralised offshore and off-grid hydrogen production unit. The ultimate objective of the

$197 bn worth of renewable energy projects underway in India: Bhagwant Khuba

Bhagwant Khuba, Union Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy, has invited global investors to invest in India’s clean energy industry. Addressing investors at a conference in Munich, Germany, he stressed that projects worth around $196.98 billion are underway in the sector. Khuba delivered the keynote address at ‘Intersolar Europe 2022’ on “India’s Solar

CMA CGM joins in exploring green hydrogen from renewable power

CMA CGM is joining an innovative demonstrator project underway in Europe exploring the production of green hydrogen from renewable power, e-methane, and the reuse of captured CO2 to produce new synthetic fuels. Known as the Jupiter 1000 project being piloted by GRTgaz, the operator of France’s gas transmission network, the goal is to convert renewable

NREL looks to perovskites for enhanced hydrogen production

Perovskite materials may hold the potential to play an important role in a process to produce hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to analysis from scientists at the US-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The NREL team analysed an emerging water-splitting technology called solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production. The technique potentially can be more energy