Germany will head to the polls on February 23, 2025, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government lost a confidence vote following its collapse in November, with uncertainty surrounding hydrogen policy growing.
Elections, ambitions, delays and obscurity. Those are the words that spring to mind when thinking about the global hydrogen policy developments in 2024.
Effective, cheap and safe hydrogen storage technologies are critical to underpinning the success of the energy carrier. Typically, hydrogen is stored in its gaseous form, in high-pressure cylinders, supercooled into its liquid form or stored...
Bureaucratic delays have stalled the UK’s hydrogen progress, putting supply chains at risk and jeopardising critical goals.
“When it comes to centralised, large-scale crackers, the high cost of platinum group metals quickly makes them a prohibitive option.”
“If you want to store really large volumes of energy from one season or another, or for large industrial use cases, then hydrogen storage is considered the way to go,” Uniper tells H2 View.
Developing a process digital twin during the pre-front-end engineering design (FEED) phase is a crucial first step in establishing a digital twin for a hydrogen project, an H2 View webinar has heard.
“Some of our cylinders were made in the 1930s…It really just supports how important it is to keep our maintenance and inspection regime relevant.”
Claudio Lanzarini, Vice-President of Engineering at Massachusetts-based FIBA Technologies, looks at decades’ worth of research, design and rigorous testing that has produced the safe methods of hydrogen transportation and storage we rely on today.
“Mantle Ridge’s campaign is nothing less than an attempt to unilaterally seize full control of Air Products without paying a control premium,” the company claimed.
