20 March 2023
Today's Top Nordic Green News:
- Denmark's climate goals jeopardised as too few municipalities lead renewable energy expansion
- Vestas lands 50 MW wind turbine order in Germany for green hydrogen project
- Norwegian HydrogenPro to expand to US with large-scale green hydrogen technology and systems
Denmark's climate goals jeopardised as too few municipalities lead renewable energy expansion
Only five municipalities in Denmark accounted for 60% of new solar cells and wind turbines installed in 2022, while 88 municipalities collectively installed just 20%, according to Green Power Denmark's climate barometer. The five municipalities are Aabenraa, Ringkøbing-Skjern, Viborg, Skive and Faxe. Aabenraa topped the list with 108 MW of new solar cells. However, just 165 MW of wind turbines were built last year, with only seven municipalities installing them.
Jacob Klivager Vestergaard, head of department at Green Power Denmark, called for more municipalities to take responsibility for the green transition to meet Denmark's climate goals. The trade association has recommended entering binding targets for municipal expansion. According to Green Power Denmark's figures, setting up one wind turbine per year by all municipalities would be enough to double the production of electricity from onshore wind turbines by 2030.
Norwegian HydrogenPro to expand to US with large-scale green hydrogen technology and systems
Norwegian hydrogen solutions provider HydrogenPro is set to build a 500 MW hydrogen plant in Texas, marking its first major entry into the US market. The project will cost between USD 30 and 50 million and increase the company's total capacity to 800 MW. The company cited the favourable tax conditions for producers of green hydrogen under the Inflation Reduction Act as a reason for the move, and added that the US will become its top priority.
Vestas lands 50 MW wind turbine order in Germany for green hydrogen project
Vestas, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer, has secured a wind turbine order for 50 MW from Energiepark Bad Lauchstädt GmbH for the Bad Lauchstädt TerraWatt project in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The contract includes the delivery, installation and commissioning of eight wind turbines along with a 25-year service agreement. The wind turbines will be used to produce green hydrogen, and delivery and installation are expected to begin in Q1 2024, with commissioning anticipated in Q2 2024.
Swedish Plagazi joins project for carbon capture and storage management in Stockholm Norvik Harbor
Plagazi has been included as a key partner in Project NICE (Norvik Infrastructure CCS East Sweden), a carbon dioxide collection hub in Stockholm Norvik Hamn with other actors in the carbon, capture and storage ("CCS") sector. Plagazi is a Swedish clean-tech company and its involvement concerns the facilitation of up to 150,000 tons of captured carbon dioxide annually from its flagship project, Köping Hydrogen Park, in addition to participating in the in-depth feasibility study. The project's goal is to establish a carbon dioxide infrastructure to increase the possibilities for emission reduction as well as transport and handling of carbon dioxide.
Swedish Smoltek to scale manufacturing of its cell material for electrolysers with nanotechnology
Smoltek, a Swedish nanotechnology company, is aiming to develop concepts for volume manufacturing of its cell material for electrolysers. Shafiq Kabir, the founder of Smoltek, has been appointed as responsible for volume processes in the group company Smoltek Hydrogen. Shafiq Kabir founded Smoltek in 2005 to develop technical solutions based on nanostructures. In his new role, Kabir will develop and evaluate concepts for volume manufacturing of Smotek's cell material for electrolysers. His focus will be on the actual processes used to produce nanostructures and coatings in order to successfully scale them up to industrial manufacturing. The market for green hydrogen production is growing rapidly, and Smoltek Hydrogen's iridium coating material technology for electrolyzers allows the company to lower the cost of new electrolyzers as the industry scales up and iridium prices soar.
Press Release, DagensMiljöteknik
What we’re reading
- UN climate report: Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster (BBC)
- EU climate agenda at risk after German pushback (Financial Times)
- Cyclone Freddy teaches deadly lessons on storm warnings, city sprawl (Reuters)
- Germany, Spain push to keep nuclear out of EU renewable energy goals (Reuters)
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