Snam, ITM Power To Develop Green Hydrogen Projects
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Renewables Now.
Points from the article.
- Snam will pump £30 million into ITM Power.
- Snam are planning up to 100 MW of green hydrogen projects.
In Joint Venture With Linde AG And £38M Strategic Investment, I asked “How Much Hydrogen Would A 5 MW Electrolyser Create In A Day?”
- I gave the answer as 2.182 tonnes of hydrogen, so multiplying up by twenty gives 43.6 tonnes of hydrogen.
- In a Wikipedia entry called Renewable Energy in Italy, it is stated that Italy produced 51.5 GW of renewable energy in 2015.
- The UK produced 30 GW of renewable energy in 2015, but our capacity is growing fast.
I suspect Italy will have plenty enough renewable electricity to supply 100 MW for hydrogen.
As iTM Power are building a factory to manufacture one GW of electrolysers per year, I suspect they can provide their part of the hasrdware for the Italian job.
Renewable Hydrogen Will Replace Natural Gas In Millions Of Australian Households
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Hydrogen Fuel News.
This is the introductory paragraph.
Under a new Australian government-backed initiative, millions of households across the country will be supplied with renewable hydrogen in the place of natural gas.
The project will start in a small way by adding 10 % of hydrogen to the natural gas networks by the end of 2022.
Eventually, hydrogen will completely replace natural gas.
According to one of the comments to the article, ITM Power will supply the electrolysers.
That could be a nice little order.
EDF Determined To Play ‘Major Role’ In UK Flexibility As It Signs 50MW Battery Optimisation Deal
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on Energy Storage News.
This is the opening two paragraphs.
EDF is set to optimise Gresham House Energy Storage Fund’s 50MW Wickham Market lithium-ion battery site.
The French energy giant will use its Powershift platform to optimise the asset to deliver optimal value and minimise battery degradation at the site in Suffolk, England.
This is a paragraph from the article.
Recently, EDF has signed a number of agreements with battery storage owners, including to optimise SWGT‘s 30MW utility-scale battery earlier in December. The company is also working to build up its own battery portfolio, investing in cleantech startup PowerUp to support its 10GW of storage by 2035 ambition.
Note.
- I suspect in this section of the article, whoever wrote it, doesn’t know a MW from a MWh or a GW from a GWh. Storage or capacity should be measured in GWh not GW.
- SWGT would appear to be Still Waters Green Technology, who are building the 30 MW battery near Swindon.
- EDF purchased Pivot Power in June 2020.
It seems to me that EDF Energy are moving fast into both building and optimising energy storage.
Conclusion
Brexit seems to making little difference to EDF’s plans to invest in the UK.
But then we have the potential for the generation of Gigawatts of offshore wind, that is less of a resource for France.
Octopus Energy Chief Greg Jackson Declares London World Leader Of Green Energy Tech As It Wins “Double Unicorn” $2bn Status
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the Standard.
This is the sub-title.
CEO declares Britain’s mixture free market and technology skills give green energy tech massive export potential.
These are some points from the article.
- Octopus Energy started five years ago and is now worth $2 billion.
- It supplier 1.7 million homes in the UK, with green energy.
- It has customers in the US and Germany.
- It has its own management software called Kraken.
- Due to Kraken, their costs are 2.5 times lower than rivals.
- Kraken is a fun-for-hire, that is now used by other energy supplier.
The CEO wants a 100 million customers in five years.
We need more companies with this attitude!
New Form Of Solar Energy To Enter US Market
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on abc News.
This is the first few paragraphs.
Organic energy is getting a jolt with the launch of GO-OPV’s ORENgE system in North America.
Organic energy uses a thin film panel to capture the sun’s rays and converts it to power, similar to traditional solar power.
The panels could be used for windows or trucks, phone or computer chargers, or it can be a building-integrated photovoltaics in glass.
This sounds good to me!
My South-facing windows make air-conditioning a must in my house.
But my air-conditioning broke in 2018 and no-one has been able to fix it!
This technology would sort it out in a trice!
Conclusion
This is technology to watch.
New Device Separates Hydrogen From Natural Gas When The Two Gases Are Blended In Pipelines
The title of this post, is the same as that of on this article on Hydrogen Fuel News.
This is the introductory paragraph.
With clean hydrogen gaining recognition worldwide as the carbon-free fuel capable of making a significant contribution to addressing climate change, Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced it will field test a new technology that can simultaneously separate and compress hydrogen from a blend of hydrogen and natural gas.
It may sound rather mundane, but it means, you can convert surplus electricity into hydrogen and blend it with natural gas and distribute it in the local natural gas grid.
- As natural gas grids can contain a proportion of hydrogen, this shouldn’t be a problem.
- Any user, who needs hydrogen connects one of these clever devices to the grid and it separates out the hydrogen, for your use.
- All very simple and efficient, as you don’t need a second gas grid for hydrogen.
I very much like this idea, which was developed by a Dutch company called HyET Hydrogen.
There is also an explanatory video.
This invention could change the world!
Will The United States Be The Largest Battery In The World?
This article on Renewables Now is entitled Swell Bags Funds For 200 MWh Of Distributed Energy Storage In VPPs.
This is the introductory paragraph.
US distributed energy and grid solutions provider Swell Energy Inc has secured financial backing for up to USD 450 million (EUR 370.6m) worth of virtual power plants (VPPs) to be deployed across the country.
200 MWh a lot of energy storage and it works out at around $450,000 per MWh.
But it was the last paragraph that caught my eye.
Swell expects distributed energy systems in its portfolio to generate more than 3,000 GW over the next 20 years and customers to potentially store 1,000 GWh for later use.
If that should be 3,000 GWh, that will be 150 GWh per year. By comparison Drax, which is the largest power station in the UK, can generate 34,689.6 GWh in a year.
Drax may be 230 times bigger in GWh per year, but the US numbers are impressive and as wind and solar develop in the country, I suspect the United States will become the largest battery in the world.
Watch the US renewable energy sector grow!
Neutrinovoltaics Are Advancing The Science Of Green Energy
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Cision.
This is the introductory paragraph.
By pioneering the world’s first neutrinovoltaic energy generators, the Neutrino Energy Group believes that it has taken the preliminary steps toward a world fueled by honest green energy. No longer will petty squabbles over limited forms of energy generation rule the planet, and human beings will be free to recapture their interstellar origins and explore the utmost limits of consciousness.
Harvesting the energy of neutrinos is an interesting concept!
The Neutrino Energy Group believe that neutrinovoltaic technology will power the world.
Engineers Go Microbial To Store Energy, Sequester CO2
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the Cornell Chronicle.
This is the first two paragraphs.
By borrowing nature’s blueprints for photosynthesis, Cornell bioengineers have found a way to efficiently absorb and store large-scale, low-cost renewable energy from the sun – while sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide to use later as a biofuel.
The key: Let bioengineered microbes do all the work.
This is slave labour, that even the most ardent of Human and Animal Rights activists would approve.
This is technology to watch!
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