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ABB and Charbone sign MoU for green hydrogen production

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) and Charbone Hydrogen Corporation (Brossard, Que., Canada; www.charbone.com) – an integrated green hydrogen production company based in Montreal, Canada – have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to collaborate on the development of up to…

Plug Power and Southwire join forces to implement clean-hydrogen project in Dallas-Fort Worth

Southwire, LLC (Carrollton, Ga.), a leading North American manufacturer of wire and cable, will tap Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) to implement a clean hydrogen ecosystem at its new distribution site in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.   This initiative marks Plug’s entry…

Samsung E&A acquires stake in electrolyzer manufacturer Nel Hydrogen

Samsung E&A (Seoul, South Korea) has announced its full-scale entry into the green hydrogen market with the acquisition of equity in Norwegian hydrogen company Nel ASA (Oslo, Norway). On 12 March, SAMSUNG E&A disclosed that it acquired on 11 March…

Graphitic Energy commissions pilot plant to produce low-cost clean hydrogen and graphite

Graphitic Energy (formerly known as C-Zero; Santa Barbara, Calif.) has commissioned its pilot plant at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) in San Antonio, TX. This state-of-the-art facility is the company’s first at-scale demonstration of its novel form of methane pyrolysis…

OMV receives EU funding for large-scale chemical-recycling plant

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) have signed a grant agreement for OMV’s planned industrial ReOil plant, securing up to €81.6 million funding. This marks the first time that OMV receives a…

World’s largest SOEC to be delivered for hydrogen project at Italian steelmaking site

  Elcogen AS (Talinn, Estonia) announced the official launch of the Horizon Europe SYRIUS project following a successful kick-off meeting hosted by project partner, Acciai Speciali Terni Spa. The SYRIUS project aims to transform the steel industry by enabling hydrogen…

Petrobras begins producing fuels with cellulosic content

Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Riograndense Refinery (RPR) successfully completed an industrial scale co-processing test using 5% pyrolysis bio-oil (a non-food biomass raw material) combined with fossil feedstock. The refinery, located in Rio Grande, southern Brazil, has Petrobras, Ultra…

RWE and TotalEnergies agree to long-term offtake agreement for green hydrogen

TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) have for the first time agreed on conditions for the purchase of green hydrogen over a period of 15 years. The agreement stipulates that TotalEnergies will purchase around 30,000 metric tons of…

Heidelberg Materials moves closer to deploying industrial CCUS project at Edmonton cement plant

Heidelberg Materials North America announced that the Government of Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) department has committed to finalizing negotiations on a Contribution Agreement for the groundbreaking carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project at the company’s…

BASF to source recycled feedstock from Braven Environmental in Texas

BASF Corp. and Braven Environmental LLC (Tarrytown, N.Y.) have signed a supply agreement for Braven PyChem. This advanced recycled feedstock, derived from mixed plastic waste, will partially replace fossil resources at the BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemical (BTP) facility in Port Arthur,…