Welcome to our News Round Up for this week. We hope everyone is well and looking forward to the long weekend.
Here are our top 5 news pieces for this week with key takeaways:
- ?Earlier this week,
Grupa Azoty S.A.
halted production of #fertilisers due to high gas prices which ultimately determines the profitability of the business. ??
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Grupa Azoty Pu?awy
also announced it is cutting production of ammonium down to about 10% capacity, citing #gasprices , after suspending production of melamine earlier in August.
CF Fertilisers UK Ltd
has also announced plans to temporarily halt ammonia production at the Billingham Complex, citing current natural gas prices and will instead use the plant to import ammonia. ?
Yara International
said earlier this week that it is cutting its ammonia utilisation to about 35%, with the latest reductions bringing total curtailments to an equivalent of 3.1 million tons of #ammonia and 4 million tons of finished products across its production system in Europe.The chemical industry is of paramount importance to the entire #agricultural value chain and ensuring #foodsecurity in the short and medium term so the need to diversify and reduce reliance on costly #hydrocarbons is greater than ever. We must seek alternatives, and carbon-free ammonia being one of those, produced using #renewable electricity, is ATOME’s focus. ATOME's #greenammonia is intended for use in fertiliser production which aims to displace fossil fuel products and #decarbonise industry all whilst combatting the evolving issues of the #energycrisis and #foodinsecurity.
- ?The agreement is to supply 10,950 tons of #greenhydrogen annually for transportation and building operations starting in January 2025. ??
- 10,950 tons of green hydrogen is enough to power 30,000 forklifts or 800 heavy-duty trucks for long-haul transportation annually. ??
- Plug’s stocks rose on Thursday and Plug have also granted Amazon a warrant to acquire up to 16 million shares of common stock.
Plug Power
has assisted
亚马逊
with deploying more than 15,000 fuel cells to replace batteries in forklifts since 2016. Amazon also has 70 fulfilment centres outfitted with hydrogen storage and dispensing systems.
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Octopus Hydrogen
has been granted a permit from the Environmental Agency for the production of green hydrogen at the Energy Hub project based at
MIRA Tech Park
. ??Octopus are purchasing a 1.1MW
Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2)
electrolyser and Maximator compressor system, which be an integral of plans of establishing a green hydrogen refuelling station at the Park in Nuneaton.
- The operation is expected to be live at the end of 2022, with gas certification expected in December. ?
- The onsite generation is anticipated to produce enough green hydrogen to support around 10, 44-tonne HGV’s per day. ??
- Currently, both countries rely heavily on fossil fuels for energy but #China hopes to be producing 200,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually by 2025 and #India is aiming for 5 million tonnes by 2030 respectively. ??
- It is expected that hydrogen will account for between 10 and 12 percent of China’s energy consumption by 2??0??5??0??.
- China is also aiming to have 50,000 hydrogen-fuelled vehicles on the road by 2025. ??
- In India, one pilot project is already underway in Hazira, Gujarat. Hazira has an electrolyzer capacity of 800 KW and is powered by a solar PV rooftop. The plant is expected to produce around 45 kg per day of green hydrogen. ?
- India’s first long-term hydrogen agreement was signed this month between
HYGENCO - The Hydrogen Company
and
Jindal Stainless
, one of the biggest stainless-steel firms in the world. Hygenco plans to construct and operate a multi-megawatt green hydrogen facility for two decades. ??
- ?LNVG plans to replace all 15 diesel passenger trains on its Cuxhaven to Buxtehude route with 14 hydrogen #fuelcell -powered models made by
阿尔斯通运输
by the end of the year. ??
- The train will have a range of 1,000km on a full tank of hydrogen and will need filling up once per day. ?
- The train will fill up at a
林德
facility in Bremerv?rde, which can dispense 1,600kg of compressed hydrogen per day.
- The hydrogen will be sourced from a
陶氏化学
chemical plant which produces hydrogen as a by-product of chlor-alkali electrolysis, used to produce caustic soda and chlorine from salt water. However, this process runs on 46% renewable energy rather than 100% but using the hydrogen in a fuel cell still prevents it from being vented into the atmosphere.
- Linde plans to convert the station to green hydrogen in two to three years using wind renewables. ??
