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Green hydrogen production to drive Latin America and the Caribbean’s green energy agenda with effective policy intervention

GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Latin America and the Caribbean Hydrogen Market’, notes that an abundance of renewable and biomass resources in the LAC region could allow for low-cost green hydrogen production, with Chile expected to produce the world’s cheapest green hydrogen in its southern regions by 2030. The report highlights that the main barrier to the […]
Chile gets its first green hydrogen truck from South Korea

Chile announced it is poised to be getting its first green hydrogen truck in early 2022. The XCIENT Fuel Cell truck will be brought in from South Korea, where it was devised and developed. Source (in Spanish)
Colombia publishes its 30-year hydrogen development strategy

The Colombian government published the Andean country’s hydrogen plan that maps the development of this clean energy resource over the course of the next 30 years. Source (link in Spanish)
New IEA report: Global hydrogen review for 2021

The Global Hydrogen Review is a new annual publication by the International Energy Agency to track progress in hydrogen production and demand, as well as in other critical areas such as policy, regulation, investments, innovation and infrastructure development. The report is an output of the Clean Energy Ministerial Hydrogen Initiative (CEM H2I) and is intended […]
Air Liquide, TotalEnergies, VINCI and a group of international companies launch the world’s largest clean hydrogen infrastructure fund

Air Liquide , TotalEnergies and VINCI, are combining forces with other large international companies to sponsor the creation of the world’s largest fund exclusively dedicated to clean hydrogen infrastructure solutions. The fund aims to reach 1.5 billion euros and has already secured initial commitments of 800 million euros. Its objective is to accelerate the growth […]
HDF energy breaks ground on world’s largest green hydrogen-power project in French Guiana

French hydrogen firm HDF Energy and its equity partners, the infrastructure fund Meridiam and the petroleum operator SARA (Rubis Group) have begun the construction of CEOG Power Plant in French Guiana. CEOG is the world’s first multi-megawatt hydrogen power plant. Weighing in at 128MWh, it includes the largest green hydrogen storage of intermittent electricity sources. Representing […]
Mining billionaire spearheads green hydrogen push

Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest on Thursday launched a green hydrogen organization, GH2, in a push to speed up development of the clean fuel to help curb global warming. GH2’s goal is to ensure that by 2050 a quarter of the world’s energy comes from green hydrogen, which is extracted from water with electrolysis, an […]
Bill Gates raises $1 billion as corporate CEOs join race to scale clean tech

Bill Gates raised more than $1 billion in corporate funding for Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, drawing on BlackRock Inc.’s Larry Fink and Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella to rally support for some of the world’s most demanding clean-energy projects. They are looking to accelerate the commercial viability of four key solutions to the climate crisis: green hydrogen, sustainable […]
Fortaleza will be the first Brazilian city to power public transport by green hydrogen

With the Green Hydrogen Hub of Ceará, the state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the use of vehicles for public transport powered by fuel produced from renewable energy. The Spanish company Neoenergia will be responsible for the project called “Corredor Verde”. Fortaleza will receive the pilot project and the plan is […]