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27 May 2024
The future of flight: How to make aviation fossil-free
The human urge to explore the far corners of the globe is as old as time itself, but our ... environmental cost. From electric planes to biofuels, hydrogen, and electrofuels, the aviation industry is ...
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21 February 2020
Electricity and hydrogen reduce industry CO2
News Electrification, innovation and hydrogen gas reduce industry dependence on fossil fuels Electrification ... innovation and hydrogen gas reduce industry dependence on fossil fuels Electricity and ...
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13 September 2018
Vattenfall invited to EU conference on hydrogen
invited to EU conference on hydrogen High-level conference on how hydrogen can decrease Europe’s dependence ... subject is to discuss how sustainably produced hydrogen gas can be manufactured, stored ...
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30 May 2023
Five ways to reduce carbon emissions with hydrogen
Hydrogen is abundant virtually everywhere and could replace fossil fuels in a variety of industrial processes ... dioxide emissions. However, it is only now that hydrogen production and use are taking...
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23 October 2019
Hydrogen, an important step towards independence from fossil fuels
With hydrogen produced from renewable sources like wind energy, a significant part of today’s carbon ... Vattenfall is exploring different options to use hydrogen to decarbonize our society.
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30 May 2023
Accelerating ahead with hydrogen in the tank
Alongside battery drive, sustainable hydrogen is considered the major enabler when it comes to reducing ... working on several fuel projects with sustainable hydrogen as an important ingredient. But t...
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29 March 2023
Turning wind power into plannable power – with hydrogen
New technologies are set to make wind power a more predictable source of energy. Several players ... currently developing production and storage of hydrogen from wind power – so that excess energy can...
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28 August 2020
Vattenfall drives sector integration as member of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance
Hydrogen will be important for the next phase of the European energy transition. Vattenfall, who drives ... such as HYBRIT, now also joins the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance.
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13 May 2022
Vattenfall commissions hydrogen gas-driven backup power for telecoms networks
In collaboration with Ballard Power Systems and IT ... Norrbotten, Vattenfall is inaugurating Sweden’s first hydrogen gas-driven fuel cell plant for backup power for
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11 December 2019
“Renewable hydrogen will help our customers to become fossil free”
Three ... questions to Oliver Weinmann, new board member of Hydrogen Europe.
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5 July 2022
Vattenfall aims to build the world’s first offshore hydrogen cluster in the Netherlands
In the future, more and more of our energy will come from wind and solar power. Since nothing changes as much as ... possible? Vattenfall is setting its sights on hydrogen production in the North Sea....
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13 July 2021
Vattenfall and Preem continue their collaboration on fossil-free hydrogen gas for biofuels
for building an electrolysis plant for producing hydrogen gas for biofuel in Lysekil, as shown by the study ... study conducted in the spring. Producing hydrogen through fossil-free methods can reduce...
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18 February 2022
HYBRIT: A unique hydrogen storage facility in Luleå is taking shape
Construction of the rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen in Luleå has reached ... the rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen in Luleå has reached the halfway ...
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23 October 2018
Ringhals' lesser-known hydrogen gas factory contributes to tomorrow's biofuel
Preem and Vattenfall aim to produce fuel with an insignificant ... environmental impact through a process that includes hydrogen gas.
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22 September 2022
HYBRIT: Milestone reached – pilot facility for hydrogen storage up and running
pilot facility for the storage of fossil-free hydrogen gas is now in operation in Luleå. The rock cavern ... its kind in the world for storing fossil-free hydrogen gas. The two-year test period w...
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19 November 2019
Lowered costs and hydrogen production in focus for Vattenfall at WindEurope Offshore conference
By means of hydrogen production offshore wind could play a bigger role in decarbonizing heavy industry
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12 June 2018
Vattenfall/Nuon takes another step towards fossil-free gas power production
production Builds combined electricity storage and hydrogen production facility at Dutch gas power plant. ... fossil-free hydrogen made from renewable energy. Now a combined energy storage and hydroge...
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NEWS
9 February 2024
Vattenfall reviews HySkies project scope
heavy industries through fossil free electricity, hydrogen and captured CO2, the full potential is currently ... electrofuel. Electricity will mainly be used to make hydrogen via electrolysis. Rather ...
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NEWS
27 February 2024
Five better things do with carbon dioxide
combining carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) , where the hydrogen is made from renewable electricity ... projects in Sweden to capture CO2 and combine with hydrogen to produce electrofuels f...
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NEWS
23 April 2018
Vattenfall aims for carbon-free gas power
by water vapour if natural gas is switched for hydrogen. Cooperation with Statoil and Gasunie started ... and Norwegian oil company Statoil to make use of hydrogen as a fuel for Nuon’s Magnum gas powe...
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27 February 2024
Storing and using carbon – why it matters for the transition
fossil-fuelled heat, and increasing production and use of hydrogen in industrial applications are some of the necessary ... many processes or replace fossil fuels with green hydrogen, but I also belie...
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26 January 2017
Reducing industrial emissions
project designed to replace coal and fossil gas with hydrogen in the various stages of steelmaking. SSAB is ... source of carbon dioxide emissions. But by using hydrogen instead of coal in the process...
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22 April 2021
Decarbonisation through electrification – a comprehensive overview
electrification, mainly by introducing fossil-free hydrogen in industrial processes or in the transport or ... electrifying activities either directly or indirectly.” Hydrogen – a solution in those pl...
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NEWS
26 February 2024
Offshore wind continues to play major role in energy transition
2023 was a great year for offshore wind in the Netherlands with the opening of wind farm Hollandse ... looks promising. The demand for electricity and hydrogen will increase substantially in the comin...
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NEWS
21 June 2018
Construction work for Hybrit now underway
to study the method to manufacture steel using hydrogen gas instead of hard coal. This type of process ... amounts of electricity are required to produce the hydrogen gas, and this is where Vattenfall...
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28 June 2017
Swedish fossil-free steel one step closer
electrification of the industry and climate-smart hydrogen gas have an important role to play," says Magnus ... Magnus Hall, President and CEO of Vattenfall. Hydrogen instead of coal and coke Las...
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2 March 2020
How we will phase out our carbon dioxide emissions
Tuomo Hatakka head of Vattenfall's Heat operations, describes the roadmap to become carbon ... make it happen Electrification, innovation and hydrogen gas reduce industry dependence on fossil fuel...
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17 July 2019
Innovative collaborations accelerate the route to fossil-free living
fields, maintenance robots for wind turbines and hydrogen production solutions. These are some areas Vattenfall ... maintenance, Software solutions for optimising hydrogen production from renewable po...
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25 May 2018
Vattenfall welcomes the Dutch government decision on coal phase-out by 2024
The Hemweg coal fired-plant will close ten years ahead of its technical life. ... Eemshaven, Vattenfall is investigating the use of hydrogen instead of natural gas for electricity production
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26 March 2019
Vattenfall chooses Port of IJmuiden as maintenance hub for Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm
without fossil fuels possible within one generation. Hydrogen boats A contract has also been signed with Windcat ... with CMB Technologies on the development of a hydrogen-powered boat. This option is...
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31 August 2017
We have the technology to cut Sweden's emissions by 30 per cent
carbon-free steel production could be a reality if hydrogen produced from green electricity from Vattenfall ... trees in a process which uses a similar type of hydrogen. And the cement industry could ...
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4 May 2023
Halting climate change can also reduce business risk
10 per cent as coal is replaced by fossil-free hydrogen in the steel-making process. Up until today 2000 ... heating, fossil-free electricity and fossil-free hydrogen. And with ST1 and Preem Vat...
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18 March 2022
EU Commissioner for Energy visits HYBRIT pilot plant in Luleå
be able to scale up production of fossil free hydrogen”, says Andreas Regnell SVP Strategic Projects ... on a competitive and optimized integration of hydrogen production and storage with the electric...
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16 May 2019
HYBRIT– fossil-free steel receives environmental award
carbon dioxide When fossil-free electricity and hydrogen are used instead of coke and coal in steel manufacturing ... are no obstacles to manufacturing steel using hydrogen gas instead of coal. As wel...
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5 December 2019
Vattenfall reduces carbon dioxide emissions with new CHP plant in Berlin
be replaced by renewably generated gas such as hydrogen gas," says Tanja Wielgoβ. Next year, Vattenfall ... and Power (CHP) plants, primed to eventually use hydrogen gas, are the most important a...
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22 July 2022
First 6 months 2022: Gas market is in focus and emphasises the importance of the energy transition
respectively — we are looking at opportunities to use hydrogen from future wind farms to produce, e.g., fuels ... inaugurated HYBRIT’s pilot plant for storing fossil-free hydrogen together with our pa...
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20 November 2018
New report: Fossil-free industry is more than possible
via direct use and using electricity to produce hydrogen using electrolysis. Vattenfall is currently directly ... major electrification projects that are based on hydrogen. In addition to the steel pr...
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5 December 2019
Eva Vitell appointed HYBRIT’s new Managing Director
HYBRIT Development AB, which is owned by SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall, appoints Eva Vitell as ... fossil-free iron-ore based steelmaking. By using hydrogen instead of coke and coal for iron ore reduction
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29 August 2023
Excess energy from fusion – “A major breakthrough”
combining (fusing) light atomic nuclei, for example hydrogen, releases enormous amounts of energy. Sounds easy ... available – it is clearly easier to work with hydrogen than uranium. Although the pro...
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6 May 2021
Hybrid parks – new opportunities with multi-technology facilities
adding an electrolyser to produce fossil-free hydrogen for off-takers in nearby industrial areas.” Since ... electricity from the wind farm Slufterdam to produce hydrogen at a facility placed in the n...
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5 October 2020
HYBRIT’s next step receives support from Swedish Energy Agency
The Swedish Energy Agency has decided to contribute SEK 22 million in support to HYBRIT - SSAB’s, ... steel value chain. hybrit The pilot plant for the hydrogen direct reduction of iron ore started op...
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22 January 2021
Nordic energy utilities call for swift revision of the EU 2030 climate and energy legislation
efficiency gains and sector integration. Clean hydrogen should complement the use of carbon free electricity ... potential of carbon free electricity and clean hydrogen. About the Nordic Coalition: Ch...
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NEWS
12 September 2019
The Museum of Fossil Fuel shows bleak future for gasoline
Within a generation, gasoline and diesel could be placed in museums. Vattenfall's Museum of ... as methods for fossil-free steel manufacturing, hydrogen power generation and not least to develop a...
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NEWS
13 February 2020
Vattenfall reveals fossil free crib
Could an everyday object such as crib be made fossil free for the next generation? Vattenfall ... even uses the first steel in the world made with hydrogen instead of cokes, from the test installation...
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6 April 2022
How SMRs can become the future of nuclear power
industries. They can also be used to produce heat or hydrogen gas." A third obvious advantage of SMRs is safety ... likely innovative applications with things like hydrogen. We think this is very...
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29 August 2023
Modular nuclear reactors, the next big thing
electricity and co-generation of for instance hydrogen and district heating. “The so-called advanced ... 540°C to 750°C that can be used for production of hydrogen much more efficiently than...
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29 April 2022
First quarter 2022: War in Ukraine dominated energy market sentiment
The war in Ukraine and its related market volatility pose great challenges for the European ... chain on an industrial and commercial scale for hydrogen-based iron and steel production. We are gratefu...
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27 October 2022
First nine months 2022: Stable result and strong financial position in troubled times
The third quarter was characterised by the turbulent markets and there is major uncertainty ahead ... fossil-free steel, HYBRIT, the pilot plant for hydrogen storage has now started, and test findings...
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20 July 2018
Increased electricity generation contributes to stable earnings for the first half of 2018
News Increased electricity generation contributes to stable earnings for the first half of 2018 ... are also conducted into the possibility of using hydrogen instead of natural gas at the Dutch gas-fi...
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29 October 2021
Vattenfall at COP26: Will the world step up to the climate challenge?
Vattenfall recently committed to the 1.5 degree target as one of the few leading energy companies ... chain from mine to finished steel by means of hydrogen. HYBRIT is owned by Vattenfall, steel manuf...
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8 May 2023
Vattenfall replies to open letter by NGOs regarding the use of biomass
On 26 April, an open letter from a number of environmental organisations was sent to ... power-to-heat, and we are exploring geothermal and green hydrogen, with availability determining the mix. We ha...