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German stations with Linde technology open in Bremen, Cologne
news acquired H2 Logic [see the H2 Logic feature in May 2013]. Last autumn it was awarded EUDP grants for two projects to continue developing its H2Station technology [November 2016, p11]. The company recently received additional purchase orders for H2Station equipment and services for the expanding hydrogen refueling network in California [October 2017, p6], and a joint purchase order with sister subsidiary Proton Onsite in the US [see also page 12] for a combined hydrogen PEM electrolyser and H2Station hydrogen fueling solution for SunLine Transit Agency in California [October 2017, p7]. Nel ASA: www.nelhydrogen.com Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha Ltd: www.kakoki.co.jp/english
German stations with Linde technology open in Bremen, Cologne
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he northern German city of Bremen has inaugurated its first hydrogen refueling station, and another has been opened at Cologne/Bonn Airport in North Rhine-Westphalia. These latest additions to the nationwide hydrogen network will serve fuel cell electric vehicles on the important route between Hamburg and NRW. The new station in Bremen, at Osterholzer Heerstrasse 222, is located on the Sebaldsbrück motorway exit and the Bremen interchange, and is also near the Mercedes-Benz plant, one of Daimler’s largest car plants. This is where the new generation of Mercedes-Benz FCEVs will be produced; in September, Daimler presented the preproduction GLC F-CELL, the first vehicle to combine fuel cell and battery technology in a purely electric plug-in hybrid [see the News Focus in FCB, October 2017]. Daimler developed the facility, which is integrated into a Shell service station, and features hydrogen dispensing technology from The Linde Group [see the Linde feature in September 2014]. These three companies are partners in the H2 Mobility Deutschland joint venture – along with Air Liquide, OMV and Total – which is building a hydrogen infrastructure across Germany [November 2015, p6]. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has invested E900 000 (US$1.1 million) in the facility’s construction, through its National Innovation Programme Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP). The foundations for expanding the German hydrogen infrastructure were laid by the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) demonstration 10
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project, which established common standards and norms [see the CEP feature in June 2011]. Linde and Total have also inaugurated a public hydrogen station at Cologne Bonn Airport, an important building block for further hydrogen FCEV and bus projects in North Rhine-Westphalia. The station will be operated by H2 Mobility, and has received E1.3 million ($1.5 million) in BMVI support. The station can store up to 370 kg of hydrogen, enough to refuel 90 vehicles. In addition to the 700 bar hydrogen dispenser for cars, equipment for an optional 350 bar dispenser for bus refueling is pre-installed. This opens up the prospect of establishing a fleet of fuel cell buses at the airport and in the region. The Regionalverkehr Köln (RVK) transit agency in Cologne was recently awarded a grant for the procurement of 30 fuel cell hybrid buses and two hydrogen stations, expected to enter service from 2019 [October 2017, p2]. The nationwide network also recently added hydrogen stations in Munich and Bad Rappenau [see page 8], bringing the total number of stations in the German network to 41. Additional stations in the pipeline or under construction in northern Germany include Shell facilities in the Diepholz district of Stuhr-Grossmackenstedt (south of Bremen), in the Laatzen district of Hannover in Lower Saxony, and in Kassel in Hesse. The plan is to have 100 German stations in operation by the end of 2018, with H2 Mobility aiming to set up as many as 400 service stations by 2023 [October 2013, p6]. Daimler: www.daimler.com Shell, Hydrogen: www.shell.com/hydrogen Linde, Hydrogen Energy: http://tinyurl.com/linde-hydrogen-energy-h2 H2 Mobility Deutschland GmbH: www.h2-mobility.de/en National Innovation Programme Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology: http://tinyurl.com/nip-h2fc-tech NOW GmbH: www.now-gmbh.de/en Clean Energy Partnership: www.cleanenergypartnership.de/en Total Deutschland, Emission-free mobility: http://tinyurl.com/total-de-h2-mobility
Centre of the Netherlands plans to install the world’s first wind turbine with direct hydrogen production, in the Wieringermeer area at the start of 2019. The wind turbine will produce hydrogen for the Duwaal project, the initiative of a wideranging consortium in the North Holland province led by HYGRO. The consortium aims to simultaneously implement sustainable hydrogen production alongside distribution to at least five hydrogen refueling stations serving 100 hydrogen powered trucks. The 4.8 MW Lagerwey wind turbine will be converted to allow it to incorporate electrolysis technology. Integration of these two proven technologies will enable many components to be omitted, making the hydrogen production cheaper, more efficient, and more robust. The hydrogen wind turbine, the first of its kind, will be demonstrated on ECN’s wind turbine testing field at nearby Wieringerwerf. In the future, wind turbines will ideally be connected to a hydrogen gas network rather than the electric grid, since pipelines serve as an inherent buffer, which helps to balance energy supply and demand – one of the challenges facing wind and solar energy sources. The Dutch project is the first to integrate a wind turbine with an electrolyser to produce hydrogen directly, but wind turbines are being used in a number of places to generate electricity that is then used to produce hydrogen using an electrolyser. For example, a Japanese project is utilising hydrogen produced from wind energy facilities on Tokyo Bay for the operation of fuel cell powered forklifts in Yokohama and Kawasaki [FCB, August 2017, p8 and see the News Feature in April 2016]. And the h2herten application centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany operates a wind power electrolysis plant for an independent and reliable renewable energy supply [see the feature in April 2013]. Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands: www.ecn.nl/expertise/policy-studies Lagerwey: www.lagerwey.com HYGRO: www.hy-gro.net [in Dutch]
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Element 1 deal with First wind turbine for direct ‘green’ hydrogen Chinese partner for bus planned in Netherlands hydrogen generation
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Dutch partnership initiated by sustainable hydrogen supplier HYGRO, wind turbine manufacturer Lagerwey, and the ECN Energy Research
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S-based Element 1 Corporation (e1) has signed a purchase contract with Blue-G New Energy Science and Technology Corporation in Beijing,
November 2017
German stations with Linde technology open in Bremen, Cologne
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he northern German city of Bremen has inaugurated its first hydrogen refueling station, and another has been opened at Cologne/Bonn Airport in North Rhine-Westphalia. These latest additions to the nationwide hydrogen network will serve fuel cell electric vehicles on the important route between Hamburg and NRW. The new station in Bremen, at Osterholzer Heerstrasse 222, is located on the Sebaldsbrück motorway exit and the Bremen interchange, and is also near the Mercedes-Benz plant, one of Daimler’s largest car plants. This is where the new generation of Mercedes-Benz FCEVs will be produced; in September, Daimler presented the preproduction GLC F-CELL, the first vehicle to combine fuel cell and battery technology in a purely electric plug-in hybrid [see the News Focus in FCB, October 2017]. Daimler developed the facility, which is integrated into a Shell service station, and features hydrogen dispensing technology from The Linde Group [see the Linde feature in September 2014]. These three companies are partners in the H2 Mobility Deutschland joint venture – along with Air Liquide, OMV and Total – which is building a hydrogen infrastructure across Germany [November 2015, p6]. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has invested E900 000 (US$1.1 million) in the facility’s construction, through its National Innovation Programme Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP). The foundations for expanding the German hydrogen infrastructure were laid by the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) demonstration 10
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project, which established common standards and norms [see the CEP feature in June 2011]. Linde and Total have also inaugurated a public hydrogen station at Cologne Bonn Airport, an important building block for further hydrogen FCEV and bus projects in North Rhine-Westphalia. The station will be operated by H2 Mobility, and has received E1.3 million ($1.5 million) in BMVI support. The station can store up to 370 kg of hydrogen, enough to refuel 90 vehicles. In addition to the 700 bar hydrogen dispenser for cars, equipment for an optional 350 bar dispenser for bus refueling is pre-installed. This opens up the prospect of establishing a fleet of fuel cell buses at the airport and in the region. The Regionalverkehr Köln (RVK) transit agency in Cologne was recently awarded a grant for the procurement of 30 fuel cell hybrid buses and two hydrogen stations, expected to enter service from 2019 [October 2017, p2]. The nationwide network also recently added hydrogen stations in Munich and Bad Rappenau [see page 8], bringing the total number of stations in the German network to 41. Additional stations in the pipeline or under construction in northern Germany include Shell facilities in the Diepholz district of Stuhr-Grossmackenstedt (south of Bremen), in the Laatzen district of Hannover in Lower Saxony, and in Kassel in Hesse. The plan is to have 100 German stations in operation by the end of 2018, with H2 Mobility aiming to set up as many as 400 service stations by 2023 [October 2013, p6]. Daimler: www.daimler.com Shell, Hydrogen: www.shell.com/hydrogen Linde, Hydrogen Energy: http://tinyurl.com/linde-hydrogen-energy-h2 H2 Mobility Deutschland GmbH: www.h2-mobility.de/en National Innovation Programme Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology: http://tinyurl.com/nip-h2fc-tech NOW GmbH: www.now-gmbh.de/en Clean Energy Partnership: www.cleanenergypartnership.de/en Total Deutschland, Emission-free mobility: http://tinyurl.com/total-de-h2-mobility
Centre of the Netherlands plans to install the world’s first wind turbine with direct hydrogen production, in the Wieringermeer area at the start of 2019. The wind turbine will produce hydrogen for the Duwaal project, the initiative of a wideranging consortium in the North Holland province led by HYGRO. The consortium aims to simultaneously implement sustainable hydrogen production alongside distribution to at least five hydrogen refueling stations serving 100 hydrogen powered trucks. The 4.8 MW Lagerwey wind turbine will be converted to allow it to incorporate electrolysis technology. Integration of these two proven technologies will enable many components to be omitted, making the hydrogen production cheaper, more efficient, and more robust. The hydrogen wind turbine, the first of its kind, will be demonstrated on ECN’s wind turbine testing field at nearby Wieringerwerf. In the future, wind turbines will ideally be connected to a hydrogen gas network rather than the electric grid, since pipelines serve as an inherent buffer, which helps to balance energy supply and demand – one of the challenges facing wind and solar energy sources. The Dutch project is the first to integrate a wind turbine with an electrolyser to produce hydrogen directly, but wind turbines are being used in a number of places to generate electricity that is then used to produce hydrogen using an electrolyser. For example, a Japanese project is utilising hydrogen produced from wind energy facilities on Tokyo Bay for the operation of fuel cell powered forklifts in Yokohama and Kawasaki [FCB, August 2017, p8 and see the News Feature in April 2016]. And the h2herten application centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany operates a wind power electrolysis plant for an independent and reliable renewable energy supply [see the feature in April 2013]. Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands: www.ecn.nl/expertise/policy-studies Lagerwey: www.lagerwey.com HYGRO: www.hy-gro.net [in Dutch]
commercialisation
energy storage
Element 1 deal with First wind turbine for direct ‘green’ hydrogen Chinese partner for bus planned in Netherlands hydrogen generation
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Dutch partnership initiated by sustainable hydrogen supplier HYGRO, wind turbine manufacturer Lagerwey, and the ECN Energy Research
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S-based Element 1 Corporation (e1) has signed a purchase contract with Blue-G New Energy Science and Technology Corporation in Beijing,
November 2017