Germany’s Economy Ministry has announced that the government will tender 10 GW of new natural gas-fired power plants that can be converted to run on hydrogen in the 2030s, as part of plans to ensure stable electricity supply and the proportion of wind and solar installations increases.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business, Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and Nareva, a Moroccan company specialised in the development and operation of IPPs, have signed an MOU to collaborate on a feasibility study to use green hydrogen to decarbonise ONEE’s Laâyoune Power Plant, which is powered by three GE Vernova 6B gas turbines.
GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has announced it has won an order from CS Energy, an energy company owned by the Queensland government, for 12 LM2500XPRESS gas turbines for a new power station in the Western Downs Region, west of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.
Hanwha Impact and Hanwha Power Systems have announced that they have successfully operated an 80 MW gas turbine solely on 100 per cent hydrogen.
The Ontario government is investing $5.9 million in nine new projects to integrate hydrogen use into the Canadian province’s electricity grid.
EnBW, a German regional utility, has placed awarded GE Vernova two orders for H-Class natural gas-fired combined cycle power generation equipment for EnBW’s CHP power stations in Heilbronn and Altbach/Deizisau near Stuttgart.
Singapore has announced its intention to start a project to utilise ammonia as a fuel source for power generation.
The consortium HYFLEXPOWER has used 100 per cent renewable hydrogen to operate a gas turbine on the site of Smurfit-Kappa at Saillat-sur-Vienne in France.
With only around 9 per cent of new green hydrogen projects under construction or having reached final investment decision stage, Nadim Chaudhry, Chief Executive Officer, World Hydrogen Leaders, takes a look at the challenges and likely pathways to drive the industry forward.
The untapped potential of green hydrogen is key to decarbonisation and achieving net zero targets but more long-term projects are needed to meet 2050 demand forecast.
Olga Bezhentseva, Director Commercial Advisory, Mazars