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UK sets out to implement its hydrogen strategy by 2030
August 17, 2021
As the U.K launched its Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution last year, developing a thriving low carbon hydrogen sector in the UK is a key plank of the government’s plan to build back better with a cleaner, greener energy system. With the potential to overcome some of the trickiest decarbonization challenges facing […]
Colombia outlines ambition to be at the forefront of hydrogen in South America with its hydrogen blueprint
August 17, 2021
Colombia is set to accelerate its decarbonization efforts with the release of a hydrogen blueprint that looks to put the nation firmly on the global map for hydrogen. Within this proposed strategy, published by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, identifies five key pillars that Colombia will utilise to support its net zero ambitions. […]
Development floating offshore hydrogen production plant South Korea
August 13, 2021
A South Korean consortium involving state research bodies and private companies has been launched to develop a floating offshore plant using wind power to produce hydrogen. The consortium aims to build a 1.0-megawatt pilot plant in 2022 before developing and demonstrating a gigawatt-class plant in 2030. The consortium led by Korea Maritime & Ocean University […]
For many, hydrogen is the fuel of the future. New research raises doubts.
August 13, 2021
Industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes and generate electricity. But a new peer-reviewed study on the climate effects of hydrogen, the most abundant substance in the universe, casts doubt on its role in tackling the greenhouse gas emissions that are the driver of catastrophic global warming, as reported by […]
Hydrogen plan isn’t very green under U.S. infrastructure deal
August 4, 2021
Building a hydrogen-based energy system in the U.S., which some analysts call key to fighting climate change, would be based largely on fossil fuels under the bipartisan infrastructure bill heading for a Senate vote. The legislation provides for $8 billion in spending to establish at least four “regional clean hydrogen hubs” producing and using the […]
Giga-scale green hydrogen: ‘Developers are being unrealistic about levelized costs’
August 4, 2021
Recent announcements such as the $70bn, 28GW Western Green Energy Hub in Australia, the 15GW Oman project or the relatively meagre 4GW Helios project in Saudi Arabia and HNH in Chile have captured the headlines but there is one interesting point they all have in common. Each project’s estimated levelised cost of hydrogen works out […]
AI company studies distributed green hydrogen for fleet decarbonization
August 4, 2021
Artificial Intelligence company Empati has commissioned Black & Veatch to study the feasibility of using distributed production of green hydrogen to fuel vehicle fleets. The company says that hydrogen is a proven vehicle fuel and that green hydrogen offers fleet operators a route to achieving decarbonisation targets. The convention is for centralized hydrogen production, then […]
Four Things to Know About California’s Hydrogen Market – and Why Latin America Should Pay Attention

From our Editorial Team
July 21, 2021
California is getting serious about hydrogen. Governor Newsom’s recent executive order calling for the elimination of new internal combustion passenger vehicles by 2035 cited the state-wide target of 200 hydrogen stations by 2025. Various legislators are also pushing for $300 million of the state budget to be set aside to bolster hydrogen-related infrastructure. Against this […]
Joint statement of Chile and The Netherlands on collaboration in the field of green hydrogen import and export
July 14, 2021
The Minister of Energy of Chile, Mr Juan Carlos Jobet Eluchans, and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands, Ms Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, met in The Hague on the 1st of July to exchange views on the role of hydrogen in the energy transition and on future collaboration. In the joint […]