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1 week ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
Shipping giant Maersk and South Korea multinational Hyundai are to undertake joint research into solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems as part of a collaborative decarbonisation push. SOFCs are being courted more due to their potential to generate electricity efficiently and reduce emissions, and versatility, since they can operate on hydrogen, ammonia and natural gas.
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1 week ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
It remains a challenging time for hydrogen with costs remaining stubbornly high, impacting demand and market development. In the latest BloombergNEF (BNEF) data, hydrogen investment has halved to $24bn in 2024, compared with $47bn in 2023. A recent Clifford Chance report echoes the challenges. It found the average levelised cost of hydrogen (LCOH) production in Europe for clean hydrogen stands at $5-8/kg, compared with $1-3/kg of grey hydrogen.
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1 week ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
The UK and India have agreed a trade deal which locks in reductions on 90% of tariff lines, with 85% becoming fully tariff-free within a decade. The deal, the culmination of extensive talks involving the fifth and sixth largest economies, is expected to increase bilateral trade by £25.5bn, and is the biggest signed by the UK since it left the EU five years ago. Tariffs are to be cut across a range of industries including electrical machinery, circuits and conductors.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
Spanish utility Red Eléctrica has ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause for the extensive collapse of its grid yesterday as attention turns to a potential solar plants shutdown.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
Power outages which today hit Spain, Portugal, and parts of France have severely impacted industrial and consumer operations and underlined the need for grid stability and more secure networks. Regardless of whether the fault was a systems failure or from a cyber-attack, the widespread outage has upped the stakes over energy security.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
The next few years will be a critical period of learning for clean hydrogen as smaller-scale projects begin to enter operations. That was the message from MorGen Energy Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Sam French, who told H2 View’s large-scale project webinar that understanding how these projects operate in the real world will be key to informing firm policy and revenue support.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
The UK Energy Secretary told Net Zero critics to “bring it on” as he said its government is committed to driving clean power at the close of the two-day conference in London on the future of energy security. After referring to yesterday’s investment from Eni in the Liverpool Bay CCS project, which will generate 2,000 jobs, Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero said, “The critics will not shut up, I’m sure, but … let’s bring on the fight.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
Tech company Asahi Kasei has teamed up with European supplier Nobian, fellow Japanese firm Furuya Metal and global supplier Mastermelt to explore recycling precious metals used in the cells and electrodes of electrolysers that have reached their end of service. The quartet will work towards building a recycling and circular economy system for valuable metals in the chlor-alkali industry.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
Does energy security depend on fast-tracking renewables and accelerating home-grown production or furthering fossil fuel usage for economic growth? And, if both approaches are needed, how should governments and companies handle budget allocation? This big question is being examined from all sides by 60 representatives from governments around the world, plus CEOs from 50 leading companies, who have descended on London for the Future of Energy Security conference.
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2 weeks ago | 
h2-view.com | Dominic Ellis
The Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) is giving a new push behind hydrogen under a ‘Hydrogen Guidance Initiative’ for its 11-member countries. The Kuwait-based organisation co-ordinates energy policies among Arab states. The initiative will focus on supply chain challenges, how best to integrate hydrogen and renewable energy sources, exchange data and expertise, and draw on international best practice.
