The Sauk Valley Hydrogen project in Illinois will produce green hydrogen using electricity from Invenergy's co-located solar power plant. Green hydrogen projects can scale quickly and efficiently to reach megawatt to gigawatt applications. The project will break ground in the coming months and is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2022.
Upgrades allow older engines to be prepared for future climate-neutral operation. 80% of all necessary adjustments and changes are made during lifecycle upgrades. Based on 6,000 hours of full-load operation, users can save about 500 tons of fuel and 25 tons of lubricating oil per year. Newly modified engines can also be upgraded to run on synthetic fuels.
Peterhead International (PIL) has signed a contract with a Chinese shipyard for the progressive delivery of four 8,000 TEU LNG dual-fuel vessels in 2025. Lars Kastrup, chief executive of PIL, said the ships would help meet its decarbonisation target of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The new vessel will be equipped with an ammonia intermediate-ready fuel tank and run on LNG and low-sulphur fuel oil.
A methanol dual fuel. The 300,000 dwt crude oil carrier has received approval in principle (AIP) from Korea Classification Society (KR). Methanol is considered to have high commercial potential because it offers less technical difficulty than LNG and is less toxic than ammonia. Methanol can be stored as a liquid at room temperature, similar to marine oil, making it easier to store and transport.
Norway-listed BW LPG has announced that it has converted the main engine of the 'BW Malacca' to dual-fuel operation. The last of its kind in a series of 15 LPG carriers that were refitted with MAN B&W 6G60ME-C9.2 engines. The work was carried out at Yaolian Shipyard in Shenzhen, China, while the vessel is scheduled for a five-year berth.
Wärtsilä will deliver the first engine for an offshore wind installation vessel ordered by Dutch contractor Van Oord. Expected to be delivered in 2024, Boreas will be ready to install the largest 25MW offshore windmill. Since there are not enough carbon-neutral fuels on the market, the engines can run on either green methanol produced using renewable resources such as biomass and solar energy, or regular marine fuels.
A large rooftop solar project has been completed at a healthcare distribution facility in Massachusetts. The 6.7 MW DC system is located on the roof of Medline's 820,000-square-foot facility in Uxbridge. The company has invested $34 million in renewable energy since 2016. Rooftop solar systems are now installed at five of the company's U.S. plants.
More than 400 clean energy companies are urging congressional leaders to take legislative action. The Solar Energy Industries Association is calling for a settlement that includes a long-term extension of the Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and a stand-alone energy storage credit. The group is also calling for ratification of the Solar Manufacturing in America Act (SEMA). SEMA will provide a tax credit of 11 cents/watt for integrated modules, 4 cents/watt for batteries, and $12/m2 for batteries. Meter. wafers, and $3/kg of polysilicon. The bill's provisions were contained in the now-defunct Build Back Better Act. Experts suggest it may take 2-3 years to build a domestic solar supply chain to meet U.S. demand.
A hydrodynamic generator placed in the water supply channel serving the Denver, Colorado water system has been commissioned. The four vertical axis rotor arrays are connected to a nearby control panel that includes an inverter, the same as those used to connect the solar modules to the larger utility grid. The United States has thousands of miles of canals, especially in the Southwest, that could accommodate similar distributed energy sources.
Tekmar Group has been awarded a contract to provide integrated engineering solutions, including cable protection systems and cable suspension clamps, for an offshore wind farm project in Japan. The company did not disclose who the customers were. The contract is expected to be delivered in 2023. Tekmar has initiated a formal sales process and will communicate further with shareholders regarding this process in due course.