LINDE LINKS WITH ITM

ITM Power has announced the sale of a 24 megawatt electrolyser for use at Linde’s Leuna Chemical Complex in Germany.

The electrolyser will be used to produce green hydrogen to supply the Dublin-headquartered company’s industrial customers through the company’s existing pipeline network.

In addition, Linde will distribute liquefied green hydrogen to refuelling stations and other industrial customers in the region.

It’s claimed the Leuna facility, which will be built, owned and operated by Linde, will be the world’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser plant.

The electrolyzer will be built by ITM Linde Electrolysis GmbH, a joint venture between Linde and ITM Power.

The plant is due to start production in the second half of 2022 - Link

GEELY STARTS SNIFFING AROUND MUSK

China’s search engine Baidu has announced it will partner with carmaker Geely to make smart electric vehicles (EVs).

Baidu will provide “intelligent driving capabilities”, while Geely will offer design and manufacturing expertise.

Geely is one of China’s largest carmakers, and also owns Volvo and a stake in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler.

The two companies will be competing not just with Elon Musk's Tesla, but also with several Chinese competitors - Link

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MITSUI & BOMBORA WAVE POWER

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) is to partner with a company specializing in marine energy to scope for potential project sites in Japan and surrounding regions. 

The collaboration between the Tokyo-headquartered shipping giant and a firm called Bombora Wave Power will center on finding possible locations for the latter's mWave system, as well as hybrid projects which combine mWave and wind energy - Link

SIEMENS GAMESA IN ETHIOPIA

Siemens Gamesa has landed its first wind turbine order in Ethiopia, in a deal to supply 29 3.4MW turbines to state-owned electricity company Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP).

They will be used to build the 100MW Assela wind farm, which will be located around 150 kilometres to the south of capital Addis Ababa and is expected to be commissioned by the start of 2023.

Once completed, it will generate about 300,000MWh of clean electricity per year.

Ethiopia aims to supply all of its domestic energy demand with renewable energy by 2030 - Link

IF WE ALL BECAME VEGAN TOMORROW

If everyone became vegan tomorrow, between 14.5 to 15.6 per cent of anthropogenic (human-made) global greenhouse gas emissions would be wiped out. 

That is huge. 

You would be forgiven if you thought it was higher, as a recent viral Guardian article, based on a new study (June 2018) out from the University of Oxford, sensationally reported that meat and dairy accounted for 60 per cent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, without stating the proportion of global anthropogenic emissions attributable to agriculture specifically - list

06/06/2018 - worth reading again

1.5 BILLION COWS

The world is home to about 1.5 billion cows, most of them bred and raised for the meat and dairy industry. Each of them has a quadripartite stomach, whose largest section is called rumen. 

An adult cow’s rumen can hold about 150 to 200 litres, and is populated by a staggering collection of microorganisms (25 billion bacteria per gram of volume), tasked with breaking down vegetal fibres through fermentation. 

A by-product of rumen fermentation is hydrogen; a specific bunch of rumen-dwelling microbes, called methanogens, convert that hydrogen into methane. 

Methane is subsequently expelled through the cow’s front end – through burping – or through the cow’s backdoor – via farting. A cow burps and farts between 160 to 320 litres of methane per day. That is bad news for the environment.

While much of the climate change debate (rightly) focuses on slashing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, methane still makes up 16 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to 2015 figures from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - link

VESTAS CLOSES COLUMBIAN DEAL

Vestas has secured a 504MW order for an undisclosed project in Columbia, its first for EnVentus machines in Latin America.

The Danish manufacturer said the deal covers 90 V162-5.6MW units and a 15-year service agreement.

Delivery and commissioning details have been withheld at the customer’s request, the company said.

“The EnVentus platform establishes a new benchmark in competitiveness, and we expect it to make a huge contribution to the energy transition both in Colombia and in Latin America over the coming years”, said Vestas Vice President for LATAM North Agustín Sánchez Tembleque- Link

RUDOLF THE RED NOSED TEA LIGHT

GREEN HYDROGEN CATAPULT

Has the time for the “fuel of the future,” green hydrogen, arrived? 

Recently, some of the world’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners joined hands to launch the “Green Hydrogen Catapult” initiative that aims to drive down costs to below U.S. $2 per kg to help change energy across carbon intensive industries, including steel.

The seven founding partners include the Saudi-based ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Iberdrola, Ørsted, Snam and Yara - Link - Picture link

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SEOUL ROLLS OUT H2 BUSES

Hydrogen-powered buses are running on roads throughout downtown Seoul in South Korea as of today (18th Dec).

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) said the buses will be introduced in the regular intracity route for bus 370.

This particular route was chosen due to the close proximity of a nearby hydrogen station, the Gangdong Hydrogen Station, which is 2.4km from the garage of 370 buses, making refuelling.

A single refuel is sufficient for a day-long operation, SMG said.

The introduction of the hydrogen-powered bus is one of the key projects of the Seoul-type Green New Deal, announced in July - Link

OXFORD PV

Solar technology developed by British scientists has set a new world record for the amount of the sun’s energy converted to electricity by a single cell. 

Oxford PV, a spin out of Oxford University, has spent a decade working on more efficient solar technology. 

The fruits of its labour is a ground-breaking solar cell that can convert 29.5 per cent of solar energy into electricity. That far outstrips the performance rate of average solar cells, that convert just 15-20 per cent of solar energy into electricity - link - more like this (UOX) - link

THE WORLD'S LARGEST H2 PROJECTS

Gigawatt-scale: the world's 13 largest green-hydrogen projects

These projects alone account for 61GW of the 80GW of renewable H2 developments now in the works, promising economies of scale that would drive down the cost of the zero-carbon fuel

Despite all the challenges that 2020 has brought, a staggering 50GW of green-hydrogen electrolysis projects have been announced this year, out of a current global total of 80GW, as more and more countries announce ambitious clean-hydrogen strategies to help them decarbonise transport, heating and heavy industry.

Many of these projects are gigawatt-scale, with the hope that their immense size will quickly bring down the cost of green hydrogen through economies of scale — in the same way that the prices of wind and solar power have fallen exponentially over the past decade. For project details, click on this - Link - Photo LINK

PANDEMICS FOR DUMMIES

Matt Hancock has branded Londoners who left the city in huge crowds on Saturday night ‘totally irresponsible’. 

It comes after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced at 4pm that the capital would be placed into a new ‘tier four’ within hours, meaning people risked being arrested for leaving the capital after midnight.

What an insensitive arsehole Matt Hancock is - should have seen that one coming? Link