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https://www.technologynetworks.com/analysis/news/energy-resilience-could-be-improved-thanks-to-emerging-hydrogen-storage-technology-361513

"Green hydrogen production powered by renewable electricity could be more dispersed at first, as multiple small-scale projects come online in the coming decade.
Noting the burgeoning number of green hydrogen projects announced for deployment across the country, Green said: "I think we'll see green blossom."

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/051222-interview-uks-national-grid-targets-hydrogen-network-build-from-2026

Fuel-cell stacks: the recipe for success in mass manufacturing.

https://www.bosch.com/stories/fuel-cell-stack/

"Together in a strategic partnership with Robert Bosch GmbH we follow the only viable high-volume path to success: durable, high quality, high performance, high production speed, low material usage stainless steel bipolar plate fuel cell technology. This technology advantage is currently being leveraged in all our customers applications. Due to our commitment to high-performance stainless steel solutions our technology and products have left the tarmac and are flying, literally.

https://powercell.se/en/why-powercell-technology

https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/recommendations-to-support-uk-green-hydrogen/

The Oil and Gas industry has allowed the UK Government to put energy at the centre of its legislative agenda as it announced a series of new bills that will impact the rollout of hydrogen projects, CCS, heat networks and its push to achieve net zero emissions.

The Energy Security Bill will deliver on the commitments of the Energy Security Strategy that the Government outlined last month. This involves producing more oil and gas, doubling its target for hydrogen production to 10 GW by 2030, with at least half produced via electrolysis powered by offshore wind, and approving up to eight new nuclear reactors.

The Government aims for its new bill to attract billions in private investment and support tens of thousands of new, skilled jobs across the UK. “Developing carbon capture usage and storage and low carbon hydrogen will create new industries, transforming our former industrial heartlands,” it said.

https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/uk-sets-out-measures-to-boost-hydrogen-and-ccs/

Following the study, Oxfordshire Council is evaluating the logistics of establishing a hydrogen refuelling infrastructure with Oxfordshire Fire Service who manage a county wide service covering both the City and the wider urban, semi-urban and rural areas of Oxfordshire.

https://www.fire-magazine.com/hydrogen-fuel-in-conjunction-with-battery-energy-storage-can-provide-for-zero-emission-fire-engine

More exposure than Wim Hof but no translation into chunky sales thus far.

D'oh!
https://ibb.co/WnNM9Qg

https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/blackstone_snaps_up_geosyntec_in_global_energy_transition_bet-11-may-2022-168958-article/

Every little helps !

In a novel bit of policy logic, the European Union (EU) is considering abandoning certain environmental protections in its ongoing efforts to promote heavily-subsidized favored energy industries, i.e., wind, solar and “green” hydrogen.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/05/11/eu-may-suspend-environmental-protection-for-renewable-energy/?sh=4e11ac1a1979

In a novel bit of policy logic, the European Union (EU) is considering abandoning certain environmental protections in its ongoing efforts to promote heavily-subsidized favored energy industries, i.e., wind, solar and “green” hydrogen.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/05/11/eu-may-suspend-environmental-protection-for-renewable-energy/?sh=4e11ac1a1979

In 2030, 72TWh of excess renewable and nuclear energy is expected – equivalent to almost 25 per cent of current demand.
Using all this excess would require 50GW of demand-side support from energy storage such as batteries, electrolysers and interconnectors to enable exporting.

Accelerating the growth in demand-side flexibility along these lines would reduce the costs of balancing the grid.

It would also mitigate falling revenues for renewable generators to reduce subsidies, and help consumers realise wider benefits from renewable power.

LCP estimates a need of an additional 45GW of back-up capacity to provide energy during periods of low renewable output.

“To tackle this significant oversupply, the UK needs to accelerate the delivery of demand-side flexibility to capture this spare energy and ensure it doesn’t go to waste. This can be through fast-growing technologies such as battery storage, longer-term storage such as pumped hydro, as well as the electrolysers to produce hydrogen for use in other energy market such as heating.”

https://www.cityam.com/uk-electricity-grid-faces-oversupply-problems/

https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Hydrogen-semi-trucks-roar-into-the-future-17163116.php?IPID=Times-Union-business-spotlight

Japan’s biggest steel maker and a major buyer of Queensland’s coal, Nippon Steel, has announced it would supply carbon neutral steel by 2024.

https://inqld.com.au/business/2022/05/11/new-threat-to-queensland-coal-as-nippon-steel-shifts-to-hydrogen/

https://hydrogen-central.com/hexagon-purus-maritime-order-hydrogen-cylinders-maritime-applications/

Net zero is critical - but not enough, audiences told at annual lecture.

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/15993/

Fortescue Future Industries, the Australian green hydrogen start-up owned by billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, will need a staggering 450GW of wind and solar power by 2030 in order to meet its ambition to produce 15 million tonnes of renewable H2 by that date.
That's double the amount of renewable energy installed around the world last year, according to figures from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena).

Joshua Moran, FFI’s head in New South Wales, told delegates at the Smart Energy Expo that meeting the company’s 2030 target would also require 150GW of electrolysers — a figure equating to roughly half of all the machines produced in the world by that date, according to one forecast.

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/billionaire-forrest-s-ffi-needs-450gw-of-wind-and-solar-by-2030-to-meet-its-green-hydrogen-target/2-1-1215830

Bosch launches an economically and environmentally sustainable transition
The advantage of mass production.

https://www.energynews.pro/en/bosch-turns-to-hydrogen/

Energy Vault.
100 MWh gravity-based EVx system is being built adjacent to a wind farm and national grid site in Rudong, Jiangsu Province located outside of Shanghai to augment and balance China’s national energy grid through the delivery of renewable energy to the State Grid Corporation of China.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220505005467/en/Energy-Vault-Atlas-Renewable-and-China-Tianying-Begin-Construction-of-First-Chinese-Deployment-of-EVx%E2%84%A2-Gravity-Based-Energy-Storage-System