We have made it through the first month of 2023 and have already highlighted many interesting and exciting developments in the #hydrogen space!
Here are our top 5 news pieces for this week with key takeaways:
- Europe emerges as the largest producer of #greenhydrogen, with a 30% share in the world production, due to its ample, low-cost #renewables capacity, in a race for #decarbonization aiming at transforming by 2030 industries with high carbon footprint such as heavy industry, refinery, aviation, road freight and sea transports, according to the
德勤
study “Hydrogen. Making it happen” ??
- In order to achieve the “zero-emissions by 2050” objective, the global amount of “clean” hydrogen should triple, the study also shows ??
- Hydrogen enjoys an increasing #demand in the market, the EU estimating that by 2030 every billion EUR invested in hydrogen projects will produce 10,000 new direct and indirect #jobs ??
- Out of the 600 hydrogen projects announced or operational at a global level in 2022, the largest 25 amount to about 70% of the current total capacity ??
- Brooklyn company
Amogy
’s ammonia-powered truck holds about 900 kWh of energy. Unlike the
Tesla
semi, it takes just about eight minutes to refuel ??
- At present, transportation is the single highest emitting sector in the United States, representing 27% of overall #greenhousegasemissions according to figures from the
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
. And over a quarter of transportation #emissions come from medium- and heavy-duty trucks ??
- At the beginning of last year, the EPA proposed two different pathways to drastically decreasing nitrous oxide [N2O] emissions in the #trucking industry: “a two-step process with standards getting progressively tighter in model years (MY) 2027 and 2031, or a one-step standard in 2027 that would be less aggressive in cutting emissions.” ??
- Energy giant
bp
has teamed up with
Redcar & Cleveland College
to offer 20 school leavers the chance to earn while they learn on a bespoke two-year #engineering programme that will specialise in the #green skills needed for the future ?? ??
-
Louise Kingham CBE FEI
, bp’s UK head of country and senior vice president of Europe, said: “We believe that our planned hydrogen and CCS projects can help turn Teesside into a world-class low carbon #energy hub, and that local people will be at the heart of that transition” ?
- Redcar and Cleveland College’s principal
Jason Faulkner
said: “This is an incredible opportunity for those age 16 to 18 who are wanting to train to be an engineer with an interest in working in the #lowcarbon sector” ??
- Tees Valley Mayor
Ben Houchen
has also welcomed the programme “With #NetZero Teesside and its blue and #greenhydrogen projects, bp is massively investing in our region in the cleaner, safer and healthier industries of the future – and now it’s backing local people too.” ??
- Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to announce funding which will help
British Steel
and
Tata Steel
move away from using #coal fired furnaces and embrace #greenersolutions to make steel ?
- The Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales accounting for two per cent of the entire country’s #carbonemissions ?
- Steel companies would look to use either #hydrogen or electric arc furnaces to make #steel which would cut coal out of the making process altogether ??
- The ￡600 million #greeninvestment puts further doubts to the viability of the proposed Woodhouse Colliery near Whitehaven ??
- The annual meeting for #alternativeenergy sources, taking place 3-8 July in Monaco, will welcome newcomers, some unusual projects and new initiatives to celebrate the 10th anniversary ??
- "Faced with the #climate emergency, it is imperative that living proof of progress replaces promises," says HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco ??
- Those given the green light include newcomers like Aritra from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
for its #hybrid hydrogen-battery propulsion project, with the idea of adding a wave energy capture system using regenerative suspension in the future ??
- There are nine #hydrogen projects in this class, launched 2018 by YCM which supplies the teams with a one design catamaran hull ??
- It requires all the ingenuity of participants to design the cockpit and the most efficient and enduring propulsion system, using #renewable energy sources of their choice, all from a given quantity of energy (10kWh maximum stored on board) ?
