The Australian company behind plans to develop a 1.6GW renewable hydrogen production, transportation and export hub in the New South Wales Hunter region has signed up a key new partner to the project.

AFC Energy produces hydrogen from methanol in field trial in Spain to power ACCIONA site compound at Alcalá del Valle.

The tower generated on-site hydrogen from methanol to power ACCIONA’s site compound at Alcalá del Valle.

AFC Energy PLC (AIM:AFC, OTC:AFGYF, ETR:QC8) said the first trial of its prototype methanol fuel tower with construction group ACCIONA in Spain has been a success.

Scientists have demonstrated the use of controllably synthesized single-atom catalysts (SACs) to depict the relationship between electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) performance and single-atom (SA) loading.

H2 Green Steel has received support from leading European financial institutions for its €3.5bn debt financing which will help finance the construction of its hydrogen-powered green steel plant in Northern Sweden.

H2 Green Steel has executed conditional commitment letters for €3.3bn in senior debt with AB Svensk Exportkredit (SEK) and the commercial banks BNP Paribas, ING, UniCredit, Societe Generale and KfW IPEX-Bank.

The European Investment Bank has received board approval for €750 million of senior debt funding for the H2 Green Steel project.

Construction machinery manufacturer, JCB on Friday (October 21) unveiled its mobile hydrogen refueller, which it says comes as a first for the industry.

Having already showcased working hydrogen-powered prototypes of a backhoe loader, and a loadall telescopic handler, as the company invests €100m in developing ‘super-efficient’ hydrogen engines, the refueller hopes to meet the needs of potential hydrogen customers in the future.