Decarbonizing aviation is a big challenge. It is one of the most carbon intensive business sectors in the modern world and change comes slowly to the aviation industry. Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies offer a pathway to decarbonize regional flights in the not-so-distant future and big names are looking at potential solutions for long-haul flights in the longer term. But even if we build the aircraft that can use hydrogen as a fuel, how do we get the fuel to them in a timely, reliable, and cost-efficient way?

Fortunately, some of the brightest people in the room are working on this problem. Paul Eremenko, CEO of Universal Hydrogen, and his team are building a capsule-based hydrogen transport and storage solution for both gaseous and liquid hydrogen that they say can make hydrogen-powered flight possible by 2025. Paul comes on the show to tell the EAH team how aviation is the "killer app for hydrogen" and what he means when he says Universal Hydrogen is building the "Nespresso(™) of aviation fueling." THIS IS AN AWESOME CONVERSATION, PEOPLE! DON'T MISS IT!

Links:

Universal Hydrogen website: https://www.hydrogen.aero/

Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/universal-hydrogen-wants-to-get-fuel-cell-planes-ready-to-fly-by-2024

Aviation Today: https://www.aviationtoday.com/2020/09/23/universal-hydrogen-secures-electric-propulsion-supplier-magnix/

Plug Power PR re partnership: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/23/2097971/0/en/Plug-Power-Partners-with-Universal-Hydrogen-on-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Propulsion-System-for-Regional-Turboprop-Aircraft.html

Anglo American is the world's largest platinum mining company. Their core mining operations produce copper, diamonds and platinum group metals, as well as iron ore, coal, polyhalite, and nickel and manganese. These minerals are essential inputs for a staggering variety of products today, and demand for them is continuing to grow.

Anglo American (and the mining industry in general) is therefore confronting the monumental challenge of how to continue to meet increasing demand for metals and minerals while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions. In the case of Anglo American, the company has committed to making its operations carbon neutral by 2040.

On this episode of Everything About Hydrogen, Jan Klawitter, Head of International Policy for Anglo American, speaks with Andrew, Chris, and Patrick about Anglo American's strategy for decarbonizing its mining operations and how they plan to use hydrogen and fuel cell technologies as a key part of their approach.

Links:

Anglo American website: https://www.angloamerican.com/

Anglo American sustainability page: https://www.angloamerican.com/sustainability/our-sustainable-mining-plan

CSIRO "Moving to Hydrogen" article: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MRF/Areas/Resourceful-magazine/Issue-21/Moving-to-hydrogen

Hatch press release re: Green Hydrogen Consortium: https://www.hatch.com/en/About-Us/News-And-Media/2020/03/Industry-comes-together-to-form-Green-Hydrogen-Consortium

GTM article re decarbonization of mining operations: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mining-giants-embrace-renewables-but-decarbonization-remains-a-steep-climb

Events:

inspiratia will be hosting the "Hydrogen Decade" virtual event on Feb 17, 2021. EAH hosts will be in attendance and we will be recording a segment for the podcast during the event. For updates and more information about the Hydrogen Decade virtual event, visit:

https://www.inspiratia.com/welcome/events

Tickets are free for inspiratia subscribers, but non-subscriber tickets are also available. If you or your company are interested in attending the Hydrogen Decade virtual event, or if you are interested in potential speaking and/or sponsorship opportunities, drop the inspiratia team an email at [email protected]

This is the last episode of the EAH podcast for 2020. It's been quite an interesting past 12 months and the EAH team has decided to close out this roller coaster year by heading "down under" to discuss the surge in investment in low- and zero-carbon hydrogen going on in Australia. Australia's hydrogen strategy is amongst the most ambitious of the national plans to develop a regional hydrogen economy in the coming decades.

On today's show, the EAH team will be joined by Brendan Norman to talk about deployment of sustainable FCEV technologies across many different segments of the transport sector and utility vehicles. Brendan is the CEO of H2X, a new vehicle manufacturing company based in Sydney with a manufacturing facility in Port Kembla, will deliver its first hydrogen FCEVs to market beginning in 2022 before expanding its vehicle offerings in subsequent years. Brendan joined the EAH team via SquadCast from Kuala Lumpur to talk fuel cells with us and you don't want to miss the excellent discussion that we had on this week's episode.

Links:

H2X website: https://www.h2x.earth/

InsideEVs article about H2X (June 6, 2020): https://insideevs.com/news/428416/h2x-australia-car-producing-fcevs/

H2X will face competition in Australia in the FCEV markets from the likes of Hyundai & Toyota: https://thedriven.io/2020/06/18/hyundai-australia-lands-first-20-hydrogen-powered-nexo-suvs-for-act-fleet/

Australia's National Hydrogen Strategy overview: https://www.industry.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/australias-national-hydrogen-strategy.pdf

2020 has been a year for the history books! Some good, most of it not so good; but 2020 has been a boom year for the future of hydrogen technologies. Patrick, Chris, and Andrew do their level best on this episode to talk about all the stories and the highlights of 2020 in under 50 minutes. Have a listen and let us know if we missed anything in our penultimate episode of 2020!

We spend a lot of time on the show talking about the interesting use cases and potential applications of hydrogen technologies as a means to decarbonize high-emissions sectors, and that is the point! However, moving hydrogen around the world (e.g., to remote areas without the capacity to produce it locally) presents a number of complexities and challenges that are unique to hydrogen itself, or for which there are no traditionally established technologies to do so. On this episode, the EAH team has a fascinating chat with Dr. Daniel Teichmann, CEO and founder of Hydrogenious, to learn more about liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) and how they can help companies overcome some of the major hurdles that moving hydrogen around the globe presents.

Links:

Hydrogenious website: https://www.hydrogenious.net/index.php/en/hydrogen-2-2/

IJHE article on LOHCs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360319919303581

We talk a lot on the EAH podcast series about where hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) fit into the overall zero emission vehicle (ZEV) ecosystem. From personal passenger vehicles and the family car to commercial trucking and public transportation fleets and everything in between. Different vehicles and different use cases call for different capabilities, and that is what makes the future of decarbonized transportation co interesting.

Rob Del Core is one of the individuals working to deploy the best zero emission drive system solutions for large scale transportation systems, and he has been working with hydrogen fuel cell solutions for more than two decades. Now AVP for Advanced Technology Strategy at Ricardo plc, he joins the EAH team on this episode to discuss why hydrogen fuel cells are the best solution for decarbonizing most commercial and public fleets as well as his firsthand experience deploying HFC buses on the streets of London.

Links:

Ricardo plc website: https://ricardo.com/

TfL FC bus program case study from Ballard Power Systems: https://www.ballard.com/docs/default-source/motive-modules-documents/transport-for-london-case-study-website.pdf?sfvrsn=9f51c280_2

California Governor's ZEV executive order announcement from Sept. 23, 2020: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-california-will-phase-out-gasoline-powered-cars-drastically-reduce-demand-for-fossil-fuel-in-californias-fight-against-climate-change/

Text of actual EO available here: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/9.23.20-EO-N-79-20-Climate.pdf

Forbes article about NextEra Energy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/10/03/how-nextera-overtook-exxonmobil-as-the-largest-us-energy-company/#790fcdfa7349

On this week's episode, the EAH team catches up with Mark Selby, Chief Technology Officer at Ceres Power, to dive into the world of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOE) technologies. Ceres Power specializes in the design of SOFCs for applications in a diverse range of energy intensive sectors. Mark takes the time in this episode to walk the team through the details, advantages, and challenges of deploying SOFCs and low-carbon hydrogen solutions more broadly and discusses how consumer and customer awareness of these technologies varies widely across international markets. We cover a lot of ground this week, so be sure not to miss out on our conversation with Mark!

Links:

Ceres website: https://www.ceres.tech/

US DoE article on SOFC tech: https://www.energy.gov/fe/why-sofc-technology

Ceres SteelCell video: https://youtu.be/9INwSdMOsNA

Siemens is a global powerhouse technology company that builds the components and control systems that underpin some of the most important segments of today's economy - manufacturing, infrastructure, and transportation. Now Siemens Energy - which just last week completed one of the largest IPOs in DAX history - is looking at how to change the energy sector of the future including how to integrate renewables in developed industry, energy, and mobility infrastructures with Power-to-X solutions using green hydrogen. On this week's episode the EAH team speaks with Prof. Armin Schnettler, CEO of New Energy Business at Siemens Energy, to talk about where green hydrogen solutions fit into the path to decarbonisation, how companies like Siemens are looking at those solutions and working to scale them to meet future demand, timelines for deployment in different markets, how governments can help the private sector, and much much more.

Links:

Siemens Energy hydrogen page: https://Siemens-energy.com/hydrogen

Article on the hydrogen economy: https://www.powermag.com/at-the-dawn-of-the-hydrogen-economy/

Siemens Energy article on hydrogen transport: https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/news/magazine/2020/repurposing-natural-gas-infrastructure-for-hydrogen.html

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The team are joined by Dr. Jenifer Baxter of the Institution for Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE). Dr. Baxter is based in the UK and is the Chief Engineer at IMECHE. We often focus heavily on the business cases and development models at the heart of the hydrogen economy here at EAH. On this episode, we bring the technical discussion to the forefront and speak with Dr. Baxter about the technical advantages and the challenges that hydrogen presents as an essential part of the path to decarbonizing the future. The team's conversation is a can't miss exploration of a wide range of potential applications for hydrogen technologies that brings a new and essential perspective to the podcast. Don't miss out on EAH's newest episode where we get the engineer's perspective on the future of hydrogen!

If you have any questions, comments, or would simply like to get in touch with us, please drop us an email at [email protected] or find us on Twitter at @AboutHydrogen

Links:

IMECHE site: https://www.imeche.org/

Bio of Dr. Jenifer Baxter: https://www.imeche.org/about-us/our-people/dr-jenifer-baxter

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On this week's episode of Everything About Hydrogen, the team are catching up with Astrid Behaghel, the Energy Transition expert on hydrogen for BNP Paribas. On the show the team discuss how BNP Paribas see the emerging role of hydrogen in the energy transition, how the financing of hydrogen projects differs for newer hydrogen initiatives and why BNP Paribas joined the Hydrogen Council. We also dive into the question of what role can (or even should) Banks play in the evolution and development of the emerging hydrogen market, and BNPs plans to expand its activities in this sector. All this and more! 

BNP Paribas explain how they see the role of Hydrogen in deep decarbonisation

The Hydrogen Council adds BNP Paribas and other leading Financial Institutions to its membership

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