Plug Power breaks ground for a new green hydrogen production facility in Georgia, USA which is expected to produce 15 tons of liquid green hydrogen daily. With this move, the company intends to continue its aim of establishing the first North American green hydrogen supply network.

Under a MOU signed between the Port of Corpus Christi and Howard Midstream Energy Partners, both the companies will work together to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery services facility located in the Port of Corpus Christi, USA into a carbon-neutral hydrogen production facility. The project is claimed to be the region’s first carbon-neutral (blue) hydrogen production facility.

Global Energy has partnered with Proman to set up the ‘Cromarty Clean Fuels Project,’ a renewable power to methanol plant at the Nigg Oil Terminal in Scotland. The new facility is expected to use local sources of captured CO2 for the production and it will also store as well as load green methanol to be exported on bulk carrier vessels.

Air Liquide has teamed up with Total Energies to develop low-carbon hydrogen production in the Normandy industrial basin in France. A large-scale CO2 capture and storage solution (CCS) will also be implemented at the site.

EW Höfe, Alpiq and Socar Energy Switzerland have plans to build an electrolysis facility with a capacity of up to 10 MW in Freienbach, Switzerland. If approved, the facility is expected to produce around 1000 to 1200 tons of green hydrogen, thus making the project the country’s largest production facility for green hydrogen.

RE Energy has plans to revive the operations at its acquired old biorefinery in Denmark. For this purpose, the company has appointed Valmet to rebuild the plant’s pretreatment system. Once the facility begins stable operations, it is expected to produce 2G bioethanol, lignin, and new innovative ingredients.

The advanced active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility for small molecules will be established in Dublin, Ireland and is expected to transform the development and commercialization of new medicines.

BASF and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) have entered into a strategic partnership which aims at developing a sustainable battery value chain by focusing on cathode active materials (CAM) and battery recycling. CATL is also building its first European factory in Germany to localize lithium-ion battery production while BASF is constructing a cathode active materials plant in Schwarzheide, Germany.

The Emirati company Helios plans to build the Gulf state's first commercial plant for CO2-free ammonia in Abu Dhabi. Engineering planning for the green hydrogen-ammonia project has been entrusted to Thyssenkrupp.

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