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The European Commission approves a French plan for sustainable fuels and hydrogen The European Commission approved €900 million in State aid to support the production of sustainable energy and fuels…
Air Liquide reopens its Alma station in the centre of Paris A few months ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Air Liquide, partner* of the Olympics, reopens its historic…
NepTech: A gem of hydrogen boats? NepTech, a young start-up based in Aix-en-Provence, is one of the rising start-ups in the maritime sector and is starting to deliver electric and…
Lhyfe to quadruple its turnover by 2024 Lhyfe has doubled its turnover in 2023, and It will do even better in 2024 thanks to the ramp-up of its projects. With…
PACA Region aspires to become a Euro-Mediterranean Hydrogen Hub The region hosting the Hyports conference, has a Hydrogen Plan and believes it has many assets. Over the period 2021-2027, €50…
A world record for Stadler hydrogen train Stadler hydrogen train, the Flirt H2, covered 2,803 km on a single tank of fuel in Colorado, which is a record that overshadows…
Roland Berger: Europe leading the way in the use of green hydrogen In a report by the consultancy firm, Roland Berger, it is estimated that green hydrogen will account for…
FrHyGe : An underground hydrogen storage project led by Storengy Supported and subsidised by the European Union via the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, the FrHyGe project brings together 17 partners and…
Inocel to receive a €64 M fund to develop its activity Inocel, the fuel cell manufacturer, has announced that it has secured a €64 million fund made up of equity,…
BMW Annual Conference: hydrogen, a viable solution At its annual conference, BMW presented its vision of energy transition, and unveiled the Neue Klasse X in the process. H2 Today spoke…
Batteries and hydrogen: key technologies to decarbonise mobility by 2050, according to KPMG As part of a study entitled "Fuels of the Future", KPMG France asked a panel* to assess…
Stellantis hydrogen-powered LCVs to significantly drop in price by the summer On the occasion of the inauguration of the Hysetco hydrogen station at Le Bourget, the group told Hydrogen Today…
Lhyfe: A €149 M subsidy to mass produce green hydrogen in Le Havre The Nantes-based company, Lhyfe is to receive subsidy from the French government for the construction of a…
AVL H2 Ice Race: an impressive hydrogen engine for motorsport The motorsport department of AVL Racetech has developed a hydrogen combustion engine. A 2-litre block with a turbocharger that develops…
US administration allocates $750 million for hydrogen projects With the elections just a few months away, the US administration announced supporting 52 hydrogen projects in 24 states. They involve both…
The largest site for ammonia to hydrogen conversion opens in the UK A consortium is working on this Birmingham-based demonstrator, which will produce 200 kg of hydrogen a day. The…
Hyzon launches its 200 kW fuel cell The company presented the Prime Mover in Australia, which is a truck incorporating its new 200 kW stack. The system is due to…
In addition to the 500 Mirai, which will be part of the official fleet at the Olympics, Toyota plans to showcase the other applications of hydrogen in mobility. According to…
Europe: a €1 billion call for projects for alternative fuels including hydrogen Under the umbrella of the CEF* mechanism for European interconnection, a call for projects has been launched to…
Cranfield Aerospace Solutions successfully integrated its fuel cell in an aircraft Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS), a UK-based company which is developing hydrogen propulsion system technology for aircraft, has just reached a…
Around €9 M for the AdvancedH2Valley Project in the west of France Coordinated by Lhyfe, this project to create a large green hydrogen valley in the west of France capitalizes…
Launch of engineering studies for the DHUNE project in Dunkirk GRTGaz launched fundamental engineering studies in January. This is an essential step before launching the construction of the future hydrogen…
Toyota starts delivering its vehicles to Paris 2024 As a partner of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Toyota made its first vehicle deliveries of its fleet on March first. It was…
Successful ground test for Universal Hydrogen, simulating liquid hydrogen supply to a regional aircraft Universal Hydrogen, the start-up specialised in hydrogen aircraft, ran a MW powertrain on the ground using…
The first successful hydrogen-powered flight in France French, Toulouse-based start-up, Beyond Aero, announced its first successful flight of a hydrogen aircraft named Blériot, in honour of the first aviator to…
Lhyfe launches its first 20 MW project in the UK This Lhyfe Wallsend project occurs 18 months after the opening of the UK subsidiary, which is headquartered in Newcastle. The…
Europe adapts its hydrogen stations to heavy mobility According to the data held by H2stations.org, there are nearly a thousand stations around the world. The trend, in Europe at least,…
GCK obtains the first series approval for a coach retrofitted with hydrogen GCK Mobility (a GCK subsidiary) has announced that it has passed all the homologation tests carried out on…
Go Hydrogen: interview with Luc Graré (Lhyfe), Head of Central & Eastern Europe As part of the Go Hydrogen event, Lhyfe took part in a session on scaling up green…
Hydrogen Infrastructure Map: a real-time map of Europe's pipelines At Go Hydrogen, the focus was on hydrogen transport infrastructure. And the event provided an opportunity to present an initiative aimed…
Go Hydrogen is being held today and tomorrow in Antwerp, a strategic port city for hydrogen-related trade in Europe. As a partner of the second edition of the event, Hydrogen…
Air Liquide completes its strategic plan ahead of schedule and doubles its ambition The Group, which has revealed its results for 2023, is focused on energy transition. It has announced…
Green steel: GravitHy plant in southern France selected by France 2030 The sustainable steel company, which completed consultation for its first plant at Fos-sur-Mer* (a port city near Marseille, southeastern…
Hydrogen in Brazil : Interview with the President of the Brazilian Hydrogen Association (ABH2) In an exclusive interview with H2 Today during the Hyvolution Paris 2024 event, Paulo Emílio de…
Retrofit : a French Region orders 50 hydrogen coaches from GCK The French region Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes made the announcement today. This is a major order for at least 50 coaches. This…
Europe approves 6.9 billions in state aid for a third hydrogen IPCEI Following IPCEI Hy2Tech and IPCEI H2Use, here is a third Important Project of Common European Interest, focusing on…
Symbio to provide fuel cells to Extreme H starting from 2025 In a press release published on Thursday 15 February, Symbio announced that it had become an official supplier to…
Solhyd: A solar panel that produces hydrogen from air and light Developed by researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium, the technology is now being run by a start-up…
The IMT Nord Europe receives a €10 M grant to run the project ECOHYDRO Based in Douai (northern France), the engineering school has obtained a grant from the European Commission…
ImagHYne: A hydrogen valley project to unite the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region During a webinar, the region presented a major project that would scale things up. Consequently, a massive production that will…
Saint-Avold coal plant prepares conversion to hydrogen The tallest tower, of 120 m, at the Emile Huchet power station in Saint-Avold (Moselle, France), was blasted out on the morning of…
Albania : the CNRS discovers a natural hydrogen mine A team of international scientists, including researchers from the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre)*, has just discovered a reservoir…
After several years of development, Daimler Truck and Linde Engineering are aiming to make sLH2 an ISO standard for refuelling hydrogen-powered trucks. In comparison with gaseous hydrogen, subcooled liquid hydrogen…
Fives' cryogenic solutions to witness a ramp up in China Fives announces an agreement with GuofuHee, a Chinese leader in integrated hydrogen solutions, to integrate its state-of-the-art cryogenic equipment and…
Hyvolution 2024: the record-breaking edition in figures Europe's largest hydrogen exhibition set new records, with 11,503 visitors (+46%) and 572 exhibitors (+45%), all gathered into two halls over three days.…
Italy: Europe approves 550 million in aid for hydrogen in industry In a different outline from those of the IPCEI, the European Commission approved a €550m Italian scheme to support…
H2MED: preliminary studies to begin for the BarMar section As part of H2med, the three partners* of the BarMar project have decided to entrust Wood with conducting the preliminary engineering…
John Cockerill to raise major funds According to the local press, the Belgian group is to raise 300 million euros for its hydrogen division. The federal government, the Walloon Region…
If you happened to cross the show's 6th hall, you wouldn't have been able to miss it. A hydrogen-powered tuk-tuk, based on a three-wheeler model from Indian manufacturer Omega Seiki…
At the opening of Hyvolution Paris, France Hydrogene presented the key figures for hydrogen in 2023. With a panel displaying the main indicators in the background, both presidents of the…
Bordeaux Airport and Elyse Energy partner up for sustainable aviation fuels The two partners will bring together their expertise from production in Lacq to refuelling in Bordeaux in order to…
Hyliko aims for type approval and prepares its refuelling itinerary One of the attendees at Hyvolution 2024, the mobility player is to announce its first deployments. Hyliko is working on…
Sealhyfe platform reveals positive results One day before Hyvolution 2024, the French hydrogen producer, took stock of its, first in the world*, offshore hydrogen production pilot site. The goals have…
General Motors and Honda begin mass production of their fuel cell In a press release published by General Motors, the two manufacturers announce the start of production at their joint…
H2eart for Europe commits to underground hydrogen storage A new alliance created in Brussels in January 2024, aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of Europe's energy system at a lower cost…
Lhyfe to produce green and renewable hydrogen in the UK and Ireland French green hydrogen producer, Lhyfe, announced a partnership with European renewable energy developer, Source Galileo. Together they are…
TMB, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, announced in a press release a purchase order of 36 hydrogen-powered buses from Solaris. Two of these buses are articulated buses, which will be the…
Hyvolution show: we know more about the Summit Among the 135 conferences and workshops scheduled over the three days of the Hyvolution show, the Summit will be the highlight. This…
H2 Green Steel has raised over €4 billion in debt financing H2 Green Steel, which produces steel using green hydrogen in the process, has secured loans while increasing its equity…
Roland Berger predicts a hydrogen mobility market worth almost 7 billion euros in 2030 In a study on hydrogen storage from December 2023, the consulting firm estimates that there will…
At Hyvolution, the European hydrogen show, attending mobility players should cover all application fields, from bikes to lorries passing by forklift trucks and even rockets. Key players in the automobile…
Heavy-Duty Vehicles: ACEA calls for infrastructure to follow suit Now that the trilogue* has reached an agreement on reducing CO2 emissions from buses and lorries, the European industry is calling…
The Indian Minister of Oil and Gas said that hydrogen is the fuel of the future At the World Economic Forum, the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas said…
Hyvolution 2024: a hydrogen industry show on the rise With less than two weeks to go before the hydrogen-focused event, GL Events and France Hydrogène took stock of the novelties…
Initiated by a number of *partners, the project of Hydrogen Highway in the Alps has reached a new stage, with the first hauliers and end customers for transport services signing…
BMW to produce hydrogen-powered vehicles in Munich While the reknown German brand's site in Munich is to produce only electric vehicles by 2027, a board member at BMW affirms that…
Italy shows interest in hydrogen from Morocco Moroccan press reports a statement from deputy Debora Serracchiani, member of the Italian Democratic Party. The former president of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region…
ArcelorMittal plans to invest €1.8 billion with government support to decarbonise its Dunkirk site The decarbonisation of the Dunkirk site, where steel will be produced using hydrogen, will reduce CO2…
Go Hydrogen organises 2 webinars before the start of its 2024 edition As announced in a previous article, the second edition of the event will take place next month, from February 21st…
BSR HyAirport: the hydrogen aircraft is coming to the Baltic Sea This European project, which will run until October 2026, has officially begun. It brings together 16 partners, including airports,…
Symbio displays its 75 kW fuel cell at the CES in Las Vegas The CES in Las Vegas is turning into a real hydrogen show as Symbio is there for…
Spain: green hydrogen to heat a hospital and generate oxygen The BDR Thermea group, which specialises in commercial water and space heating systems, has deployed a boiler in Spain that runs on 100% green…
COP28: a historic COP for hydrogen There were talks about hydrogen during the COP28. It was the first time that the issue had been given such prominence, and that it…
Bosch puts the spotlight on hydrogen at the CES in Las Vegas On the eve of the world's leading technology show, the automotive supplier took the floor to outline its…
Hyundai: a target of 3 million tonnes of hydrogen a year by 2035 On the eve of the CES in Las Vegas, the Korean giant has reaffirmed its faith in…
Hyundai and Kia develop the PEM membrane of their fuel cell While Hyundai is due to speak today in Las Vegas, on the eve of the *CES, about its vision…
Hyvolution Paris 2024 edition The 7th edition of the hydrogen industry's flagship event is coming up at the end of the month. In 2024, Hyvolution Paris will be held over…
Nikola has delivered its first hydrogen-powered trucks At the start of 2024, the American manufacturer is taking stock of 2023. Nikola has announced that it has produced 42 hydrogen-powered trucks…
2023, a unique year for hydrogen… and a 250% increase in audience for Hydrogen Today! Last year was a very busy one for hydrogen news. Every year, the number of…
Hylane, Europe's leader in hydrogen trucks? The German company, which is a subsidiary of a mutual insurance company (DEVK Versicherungen), is offering a pay-per-kilometre rental service that is developing well…
Hyliko aims to bring its plans to fruition in 2024 After a busy year in 2023, this global player in hydrogen-powered trucks will be putting its first vehicles on the…
The Call for Expressions of Interest (CEI) launched by GRTgaz last February has been successful. No fewer than 13 companies have responded and setting out their requirements. In addition to…
Boxhy project: Lhyfe wants to reoxygenate the Baltic Sea Alongside its developments in offshore wind power, the green hydrogen producer wants to help reoxygenate the oceans. There's news from Flexens…
Revision of the French hydrogen strategy open for consultation until January 19 The website of the French Ministry of Energy Transition has published a 37-page document summarising the forthcoming revision…
The French group has been selected by the Oil & Gas division of HMS in Germany for a 64 MW project. The electrolysers from McPhy will be operated as part…
At France Hydrogène's annual conference, Hoang Bui, the coordinator of the low-carbon hydrogen strategy indicated that France was opening up to imports. In fact, a mission has been launched on…
The United States releases $59 million for low-carbon hydrogen In a press release, the United States' Department of Energy announced a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for up to 59 million…
Natural hydrogen has been the subject of much media attention since the first research permit was granted in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region (southern France) and President Macron's announcements. What is the…
COP28: Hyundai commits to hydrogen At the climate conference in Dubai, the Korean carmaker signed a memorandum of understanding with Korean partners to share best practice and encourage the development…
At the climate conference, which ended on December 12, 2023, around a hundred countries have proposed a 5% reduction in CO2 emissions from aviation by 2030, based on sustainable aviation…
French hydrogen carmakers NamX and Hopium take different paths Previously aligned on building a fuel cell car, which they were planning for 2025, the two start-ups have taken different paths.…
Emmanuel Macron wants to fast-track green and natural hydrogen Visiting Toulouse to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of France 2030, the French President put the spotlight on hydrogen. He talked about…
Namx is about to unveil its hydrogen engine In a few hours, at 5pm (GMT), the start-up will present its technology. You can follow the event live on LinkedIn and…
General Motors and Autocar will collaborate to build hydrogen vehicles Through its Hydrotec division, General Motors will supply its hydrogen fuel cell technology to Autocar, a US manufacturer of heavy-duty…
The largest renewable and green hydrogen production site in France After Germany last week, Lhyfe now goes in the Occitania region (France). In the presence of the President of the…
Vallourec launches massive hydrogen storage in tubes Under the name Delphy, Vallourec is proposing to facilitate large-scale storage of gaseous hydrogen using tubes. As a matter of fact, columns of…
With the opening of SymphonHY, the group's first Gigafactory, Symbio is confirming a change of scale. It will be one of Europe's biggest production sites for fuel cell stacks and systems.…
We know a bit more about the new French hydrogen strategy While Symbio's plant was inaugurated, the French Minister for Energy Transition outlined the forthcoming review of the French hydrogen…
Hyport hydrogen station inaugurated at Toulouse-Blagnac airport Europe's first station for the production and distribution of renewable hydrogen in an airport zone was inaugurated on Monday, December 4, 2023. Hyport…
Toyota to open a Hydrogen Factory in Europe As part of the realignment of its strategy, Toyota is duplicating the Hydrogen Factory principle in Europe. This is an organisation that…
