Closer to the production of hydrogen without emissions thanks to a new pilot site in Denmark

A European initiative will facilitate the production, storage and supply of hydrogen for a wide range of end users. This action will contribute to integrate the ecological energy into the energy system with flexibility.

The renewed efforts to reduce carbon emissions have made renewable energies a fundamental source for electricity generation. Thanks to the versatility, safety and cleanliness of hydrogen as an energy carrier, no one doubts its enormous potential to assist in the energy transition.

In fact, the technology that allows it to be produced by means of wind energy by electrolysis, the separation of water into hydrogen and oxygen, is well known. However, the profitable and sustainable production of large quantities of this gas through this process is not simple. The European-funded HyBalance project addresses this problem by producing large-scale hydrogen from wind turbines in a hydrogen-electricity conversion plant. In this way it will be possible to store renewable electricity for little price and at the same time achieve network balancing services and supply hydrogen to commercial users. In addition, the generated hydrogen can be consumed in the transport sector.

Hydrogen, as an energy storage solution

The European Commission (25 individual countries of the Union), Switzerland, Iceland and eighty organizations and companies in the sector have signed the Hydrogen Initiative in Linz (Austria), an initiative whose main objective is to accelerate the use of hydrogen technologies . The signatories highlight in that Declaration “the great potential of renewable hydrogen as an energy storage solution”. The Government of Spain, the Spanish Hydrogen Association (AeH2) and six of its individual partners have joined this initiative, which has not been supported by the governments of Ireland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities), the National Hydrogen Center (public consortium promoted by the Ministry of Education and Science – currently the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness – and the Community Board) of Castilla-La Mancha), the Foundation for the Development of New Hydrogen Technologies in Aragon (promoted by the Government of Aragon) and the companies Ariema Energía y Medio Ambiente SL, ClanTech and H2B2 (all of them partners of the Spanish Association of Hydrogen) have joined The Hydrogen Initiative, an initiative arising from the High-Level Energy Conference, held in Linz, Austria, on September 17 and whose objective is the development and implementation of hydrogen technology. The AeH2 as an association, other 80 companies and entities with diverse profiles from all over the European continent, 25 countries of the European Union, Iceland, Switzerland and the European Commission have also joined this initiative.

Two consortiums in Chile adapt mining equipment to use green hydrogen as fuel

Both technological initiatives seek to promote the entry of new sources of energy in the mining industry, and then focus on production. The objective is for Chile to be a global hub of zero emission hydrogen in the short term.

The Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO), co-finances two technological consortiums that seek to adapt extraction trucks and mobile mining equipment, to a dual oil-hydrogen combustion and to fuel cells, respectively. In what is the first step to transform the regions of Antofagasta and Atacama into world leaders in the green production of green hydrogen, an economically competitive fuel that does not generate carbon dioxide (CO2).

From Corfo explain that as part of the roadmap of the Solar Energy Program, has been coordinating efforts to make visible this opportunity for the productive transformation of the country and has initiated the path of technological development and innovation initiatives through programs or consortiums technological, integrated by leading universities and companies.

Through these efforts, the Corporation hopes to boost the penetration of new sources of energy in the mining industry and generate the demand for green hydrogen, to then be able to focus on production. Thus, it currently provides co-financing to two consortiums.

And now, the hydrogen car

The Paris Motor Show confirms the progressive goodbye to gasoline and diesel

Almost 25 years ago, José Ignacio López de Arriortúa already predicted that the cars of the future would not contaminate but would even clean the air. It seemed a boutade of the enthusiastic and controversial Basque engineer, known as Superlopez, who revolutionized the automotive sector with his management methods, first in General Motors and then in Volkswagen, before falling into disgrace due to a dark case of industrial espionage.

The loquacious Superlopez did not exaggerate in those informal meals with the press – always with asparagus on the menu – at the Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg. I already had hydrogen in mind as fuel. History has proved him right. At the last Paris Motor Show, the longest-serving car showroom – 120 years old – which closed on Sunday, one of the models that attracted the most attention from the public was the Hyundai Nexo, the first multi-purpose vehicle (HUV) that It goes on the market with hydrogen propulsion.

¿Did you know that…?

Did you know that Latin American scientists managed to produce electricity with coffee waste?

Behind every steaming cup of coffee there is a great environmental challenge: what to do with millions of tons of polluting waste. An Argentine scientist based in the United Kingdom and his Colombian colleague found a possible answer to the problem: transform coffee waste into electricity. These wastes have already been used to produce biofuels, but it is the first time they have been used to generate electricity.

The research is the product of the collaboration of Claudio Avignone Rossa, a professor at the University of Surrey, in England, with Lina Agudelo, from the University of Antioquia. Both say that using coffee waste to produce electricity could not only reduce the problem of pollution, but help financially to coffee farmers.

Agenda

4-7 November 2018 Tartu (Estonia)

8-9 November 2018 Torremolinos-Malaga (Spain)

14-16 November 2018 Brussels (Belgium)

19-20 November 2018 Lisbon (Portugal)

27-28 November 2018 Cologne (Germany)

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