The South Australian Government has selected a consortium comprising ATCO Australia and BOC, a Linde company, as its preferred partners for Hydrogen Jobs Plan, which includes a 250 MW hydrogen production facility, power plant and storage at Whyalla in the Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

ITM Power has signed a capacity reservation agreement with Shell Deutschland GmbH. Under this agreement, Shell has reserved the future production capacity for 100 MW of TRIDENT electrolyser stacks. These stacks are set to be manufactured between 2025 and 2026 for the Refhyne 2 project.

John Cockerill has held a formal groundbreaking ceremony for its gigafactory in Baytown, Texas, marking the company’s entry into the North American market. The facility, the first alkaline electrolyzer gigafactory in the U.S., is expected to create 200 new jobs and produce 1 GW of electrolyzers annually. Production is expected to begin in Q3 2024.

Lhyfe has unveiled plans for an 800 MW green hydrogen production facility in Lubmin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, targeting a 2029 operational start. The proposed plant would produce up to 330 tons of green hydrogen daily and would be integrated with Germany’s core hydrogen pipeline network.

With the approval of federal and state funding, German chemical giant BASF has taken a major step forward in building a PEM electrolyzer. In cooperation with Siemens Energy, the work on water electrolysis at the Ludwigshafen site, known as the Hy4Chem-EI project, is now entering its next construction phase.

German electrolyzer manufacturer Sunfire is investing approximately €30 million in its Dresden headquarters, which is the manufacturing site for its high-temperature SOEC electrolyzers. Over the next five years, the company plans to build a state-of-the-art research and development center that will include prototype manufacturing.

H-TEC SYSTEMS has delivered its ME450 PEM electrolyzer to the Hydrogen Lab Bremerhaven (HLB), a research project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES. The 1 MW electrolyzer is part of a test field which focuses on researching the interaction of wind turbines with electrolytic hydrogen production.

TES Canada has presented ‘Projet Mauricie’. Totalling $4 billion in investments for the region, the project consists of an electrolyzer and renewable energy production assets. Upon its commissioning in 2028, the project will produce 70,000 tonnes of green hydrogen exclusively dedicated to users from Quebec.

REGA Energy Group has concluded a Preliminary Investment Decision (PID) for its first green hydrogen valley in Portugal, securing full off-taker capacity. The company will now launch a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to leading Tier 1 EPC contractors, aiming to choose a partner and sign a contract by the end of Q1 2024.