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Time to do right by future generations

Time to do right by future generations

Dear Readers! We could have had it so much easier. Everything we need today, we could have built and prepared long ago. But we knew, or at least suspected, that it might eventually come to this. The Club of Rome had prophesied exactly this scenario already fifty years ago ...
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/ Club of Rome, editorial, Germany, hydrogen, Sven Geitmann
The EL 4.0 will be built first in Pisa and then Saerbeck, © Enapter

H2-international survey of electrolyzer manufacturers

The developments in the electrolyzer sector are continuing in great strides. Particularly in costs, where most manufacturers have been able to achieve substantial price reductions in the recent months, even if this has not been reflected in a reduction of the final price in all cases. In addition, both stacks and whole systems are becoming ...
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/ AEM, EL 4.0, electrolyser, Enapter, Germany, Green Hydrogen Systems, Nel Hydrogen, Pisa, Saerbeck, Sven Geitmann
Elogen-E100, © Elogen

Decentralized H2 plants can be economically operated

Up to now, Germany has had an energy supply system that’s as centralized as possible. Large power plants generated electricity and heat, which was then distributed nationwide by means of an extensively branched infrastructure. With the emergence of renewable energies two decades ago, the idea of decentralization became increasingly widespread: since local solar and wind ...
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/ Elogen, Germany, Greenpeace Energy, Marcel Keiffenheim, NWS, Reiner Lemoine, RLI, Sven Geitmann
Pilot plant for producing hydrogen from seawater in the port of Texel island, the Netherlands, © Hydron Energy

Desalination for future offshore wind farms

A consortium has shown that it’s possible to extract climate-neutral hydrogen from seawater. Involved in the SEA2H2 project are automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler, the startup Hydron Energy, which joined the Schaeffler Group in summer 2021, and Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, or WFBR for short, which is in turn part of Wageningen University ...
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/ Germany, hydrogen, Niels Petrik Petersen, North Sea, SEAH2, seawater, Texel, WFBR
Pic. of a wave, © NorthShoreSurfPhotos – Fotolia

Water need for a green H2 economy

For the production of the 14 TWh of green hydrogen capacity the German federal government expects by 2030, no more water is needed than what a city with around 200,000 inhabitants consumes. This was the calculation of the DVGW (Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches), the German association for gas and water standards, in the ...
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/ BDEW, DVGW, Germany, Niels H. Petersen, water deficit
H2 industry must grow faster than PV by 2030

H2 industry must grow faster than PV by 2030

The realization that we need a lot of green hydrogen very quickly, not only in Germany and Europe, but also worldwide, is becoming more and more widespread. Germany has already made the decision to phase out nuclear energy and coal. And after Putin’s attack on Ukraine, natural gas is also under examination. The plan was ...
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/ Europe, Germany, Germany, Green Hydrogen, hydrogen, PIK, PV, Sven Geitmann
Gas pipes – also suitable for hydrogen, © Mannesmann Line Pipe

Is the gas sector really H2-ready?

The heating sector is still seen as the “sleeping giant” that needs to be awakened in order for the energy transition to be reached. A major problem is the lack of alternatives to heat generation with fossil fuels. A major beneficiary of the phase-out of coal and nuclear energy is likely to be the gas ...
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/ DBI, Gas, Germany, H2ready, Ronald Aßmann, Sven Geitmann
New H2 research reactor at Entsorgungszentrum Leppe, © RGH2

Hydrogen from landfill gas

Bioenergy is not talked about as much as solar and wind energy in the context of H2 production, but biogas, for example, is perfectly suitable for the production of green hydrogen. To bring some more light into the bioenergy darkness, the waste management association of Nordrhein-Westfalen (Bergische Abfallwirtschaftsverband, BAV) and the Austrian energy startup Rouge ...
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/ BAV, Bioenergy, Gas, Germany, H2 production, RGH2, TH Köln
Commentary on the Handelsblatt Energy Summit

Commentary on the Handelsblatt Energy Summit

Hydrogen was a dominant feature at this year’s Handelsblatt Energy Summit, which took place online and in Berlin from Jan. 17 to Jan. 20, 2022. The discussions covered its many production-dependent colors and possible applications and underlined the major role the energy carrier has to play in successfully transforming the planet’s energy ecosystem ...
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/ Germany, Handelsblatt Energy Summit, hydrogen, Sven Jösting
Portrait Alina Hain, © NOW

Alina Hain becomes NOW COO

NOW GmbH (Nationale Organisation Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie), the German organization for hydrogen and fuel cells, is getting a new head of business. On April 25th, 2022, Alina Hain is taking over the position of managing director and chief operating officer (COO). Spokesman of the managing board remains Kurt-Christoph von Knobelsdorff ...
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/ Alina Hain, Germany, Leibniz IGZ, NOW, Wolfgang Axthammer
Portrait Martin Füllenbach, © SOLIDpower

Füllenbach replaces Pichler

The SOLIDpower Group came under new leadership at the end of 2021. On Dec. 1, Martin Füllenbach took over the reins from Andreas Pichler who stepped down after his term of office expired following three years of service at the fuel cell equipment manufacturer ...
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/ Andreas Pichler, EADS, Germany, Martin Füllenbach, SOLIDpower, Voith Turbo
H2 and LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven

H2 and LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven

The search for alternatives to Russian natural gas is in full swing. Even before the march into Ukraine, some stakeholders had been advocating the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the USA – as an alternative to Nord Stream 2. However, since the US exports gas obtained by fracking, which does not have a ...
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/ Germany, LNG, Nord Stream 2, Otto Waterlander, TES, Wilhemshaven
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Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen

THE E-JOURNAL ON

hydrogen and fuel cells

H2-international is the English-language e-journal of choice for everyone who wants to stay at the forefront of news about hydrogen and fuel cells. In-depth articles about science, technology and the latest developments keep readers up to date on advances in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector as well as the electric vehicle and the energy storage market. The focus is on detailed yet clearly written news stories by industry journalists and R&D experts.

In-depth news articles on hydrogen, fuel cells, energy storage and electric transportation.

The e-journal is intended for readers who are looking for in-depth news articles on hydrogen, fuel cells, energy storage and electric transportation. The main audience consists of professionals and executives working in all parts of the energy market.. This group comprises decision makers at production and trading companies, representatives for associations, government agencies as well as universities, and staff members at gas companies, carmakers and their suppliers.

The publisher Sven Geitmann, owner and founder of the Hydrogeit publishing house, had taken an intense interest in hydrogen and fuel cells as early as 1997 and became a contributor to energieportal24 and H2Report in 2000. After he wrote a number of technical books, he founded his own publishing company in the northwest of Berlin. In 2005, he took on responsibility for the former “H2Tec” magazine, which he renamed “HZwei”. This trade publication soon boasted a revamped design and more issues per year and grew into the quarterly must-read for everyone following the hydrogen and fuel cell market.

In 2015, Hydrogeit Verlag created the global English-language edition H2-international. Since then, it has kept readers in all corners of the world up to date on what’s happening in the sector.