Masdar, EMSTEEL complete MENA’s ‘first’ green hydrogen steel pilot
Masdar and UAE steel firm EMSTEEL have completed a green hydrogen-based steel pilot project in Abu Dhabi.
Masdar and UAE steel firm EMSTEEL have completed a green hydrogen-based steel pilot project in Abu Dhabi.
Hydrogen will be supplied by Norwegian Hydrogen’s first electrolyser plant in Hellesylt, which opened in September – nearly 800km away from Sandviken.
Denmark’s European Energy has inaugurated its first green hydrogen production facility in Måde, near Esbjerg.
Spanish oil and gas firm Cepsa has said it could slow its €3bn ($3.2bn) green hydrogen investments planned in its home nation if temporary windfall taxes on energy companies become permanent.
Blue hydrogen will still account for 12% of the total hydrogen demand by 2050, a panel at the Hydrogen Technology Expo in Hamburg, Germany, has heard.
“These limitations prevent the full economic utilisation of an electrolyser of this size.”
Japanese private equity fund Advantage Partners (AP) is in talks with Tree Energy Solutions (TES) to explore potential investments into the European firm’s green hydrogen-based electric natural gas (e-NG) efforts.
Renewable energy firm RIC Energy has partnered with Cadiz, Inc. to build a 50-tonne-per-day green hydrogen plant in the Mojave Desert, which the companies claim with be the largest of its kind in California.
The German hydrogen industry must navigate funding, infrastructure and offtake challenges to achieve the scale-up of hydrogen production and distribution.
Two US firms are planning on using natural gas produced from oil extraction to produce blue hydrogen.
