Making Europe’s hydrogen economy a reality
Top-down investment alone will not be enough to make the European hydrogen economy a reality, writes Andreas Schierenbeck. Not only does production need ramping up,…
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Renewable or ‘low-carbon’? EU countries face off over hydrogen
EU member states are fighting over which type of hydrogen to support, with two opposing camps facing off: those backing green hydrogen produced exclusively from…
Hydrogen is an Essential Component of the Energy Transition
Forschungszentrum Jülich’s contribution to the Federal Government’s hydrogen strategy The energy transition is one of the great challenges to society of our time. Germany and…
Siemens and Uniper join forces to decarbonize power generation
April 8, 2020 – Uniper and Siemens Gas and Power signed a cooperation agreement for the development of projects on the decarbonization of power generation and…
Successful demonstration of conversion of wind power to methanol
Plant operation launched in Stralsund (Germany) for converting renewable electricity into bio methanol. The plant will be operated in a long-term test over one year…
Power-to-X: Germany’s search for green fuels
Germany wants to take a leading role worldwide in the production, transport and use of green hydrogen as an energy source, also known as Power-to-X…
1.4 MW Power-To-X Project Underway
Hydrogen will be stored for later use The Dutch energy company Alliander has chosen Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS) to supply the electrolyzers for a large-scale…
Integrated power-to-fuel project underway in Europe
The Power-to-Fuel project, led by Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden; www.liquidwind.se), will establish commercial-scale renewable fuel facilities. The Consortium (consisting of Axpo, COWI, Carbon Clean Solutions, Haldor…
HYFLEXPOWER: The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator
– Green hydrogen project launched in May 2020 – Decarbonizing a paper factory by modernizing an existing combined heat and power plant in France With…
A power-to-gas system integrating co-electrolysis and methanation
Researchers in Italy extensively analyzed four different configurations of their proposed system to assess its potential, including under non-optimal, ‘off-design’ conditions and concluded that, for…
A Glimpse into Real-Time Methanol Synthesis
Scale-down miniplant for research on methanol synthesis at Fraunhofer ISE Methanol will gain importance as a chemical energy carrier in the course of the energy…
Methanol: from grim to green
Isolated for the first time in 1661 by the Irish chemist and physicist Robert Boyle from the distillation of boxwood, methanol (or methyl alcohol) was…
Power-to-X collaboration established in Denmark
Trade groups Wind Denmark and Hydrogen Denmark are joining forces to form a new PtX Alliance to promote the use of renewable energy-powered electrolysis. Wind…