Digitalization

Through its work on renewable H₂, ammonia supply chains and industrial autonomy, Yokogawa is pioneering efforts to enable a sustainable future, aligning industrial advancements with global decarbonization goals. YNOW2024 reinforced the company’s vision of leveraging automation and digital transformation to build a connected and sustainable world.

While other industries are undergoing digital transformations, the H₂ ecosystem is a greenfield that can begin operations with transformative technologies in place. These technologies empower people, optimize processes and automate systems to enhance business performance across the enterprise.

Holding consistent with many conference discussions in 2024, the Women’s Global Leadership Conference also tackled AI implementation. In fact, the first day of the Nov. 19-20 conference did one better, featuring multiple panels on the topic and discussing how female leaders can make strides with this new technology.

Clean H₂ producer HiiROC, has partnered with technology company Siemens on its H₂ production technology, helping customers to decarbonize their operations and support their net-zero ambitions.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that its subsidiary Yokogawa Italia has received an order to supply an integrated automation and energy control and monitoring system for the Baseload Power Hub, a pioneering offshore green H₂ production and storage pilot plant.

ENERGYai will combine large language model technology with cutting-edge ‘agentic’ AI – AI ‘agents’ that are trained in specific tasks across ADNOC’s value chain. These specialized AI agents bring a new level of autonomy and precision to critical tasks, from seismic analysis to energy efficiency and real-time process monitoring.

In virtually any area, H₂ can be added to natural gas distribution, but this is a low-value option, both in profitability and positive environmental impact. It makes no environmental sense for gray or blue H₂ sources, but it is viable for surplus green H₂.

GE Vernova was selected for award negotiations by the U.S. Department Energy’s (DOE) H₂ and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) to lead a project aiming to enable permitting and safety for H₂ deployment.

Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL, which unveiled an off-grid, sustainable, modular, built-to-suit data center, announced that it will build the first fully sustainable 1-GW AI Factory data center.

September’s H₂Tech Tech Spotlight consists of H₂-producing microbial technology, a model that fast-tracks H₂ supply chain infrastructure deployment, an advanced H₂transportation system and much more.

HydrogenXT has announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Carbonix to finance the first NeXTstop, in Avenal, Ca., strategically located halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Hystar AS has awarded German industrial engineering company thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering with the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the supply of Hystar’s automated electrolyzer manufacturing line for its GW factory in Høvik, Norway.