14 April 2021
Plans backed by international renewables giant Engie to build a solar powered, megawatt-scale hydrogen electrolyser plant to produce “green ammonia” in the Western Australia Pilbara region have been referred to the state’s Environmental Protection Authority.
Yara Pilbara Fertilisers and Engie said the project would initially build an 18MW solar farm and a 10MW hydrogen electrolyser within the Burrup Strategic Industrial Area (SIA), to provide a zero-carbon feed source for the existing YPF Ammonia Plant.
The two companies began actively investigating the feasibility of decarbonising Yara’s Pilbara ammonia plant in February of last year, with the backing of $995,000 in grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
5 April 2021
Hydrogen has the potential to help bring more than half of the world’s emissions down to zero, but to reach that potential it requires aggressive government support, a dramatically improved value chain – and it needs batteries to fail.
That last point is one of the most striking findings in a new series of reports by Norwegian energy research house Rystad Energy, the last of which, on the “battery society”, was released last week.
The reports examine three solutions to the problem of storage in an energy system dominated by wind and solar: carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and batteries.
MALAYSIA is forging an international reputation as a major player in the renewable energy space.
It is the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) industry employer in Asean and has set an ambitious renewable energy generation target of 20% by 2025.
With approximately 3.2 million landed houses, 450,000 shoplots, 21,000 standalone factories and 1,000 shopping complexes, there is a substantial amount of rooftop area that can be used in Malaysia’s renewable energy revolution.
As Malaysia and the world transition to relying more heavily on renewable energy generation technologies for their electricity needs, a range of opportunities for battery-based energy storage is opening up.
The most obvious use of batteries is to provide back-up power during blackout. But helping consumers with rooftop solar panels capture and use their self-generated electricity rather than sell it to the grid is also becoming more economically viable in places where electricity costs are high.
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