Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS

India’s renewable energy ministry announced plans to commit approximately $4 B to commercialize a green H₂ ecosystem in the country. The ministry’s roadmap focused on the developing infrastructure, materials and technologies to help boost green H₂ production and distribution in India.

ABB is supplying critical power technology to the HyPilot project, the in-field demonstration of Norwegian company Hystar’s one-megawatt containerized proton exchange membrane electrolyzers, to qualify Hystar’s technology under realistic field conditions.

Horisont Energi has signed a Letter of Intent with Barents NaturGass AS for a long-term purchase agreement of up to 100,000 tpy of clean ammonia from Horisont Energi’s and Fertiberia’s Barents Blue plant.

Statkraft joined Aker Horizons as a partner on the large-scale green H₂ and ammonia project in Narvik, Norway. The plant under development at Kvandal in Narvik has a planned capacity of up to 600 MW and will be one of the first large-scale plants for green ammonia in Europe.

Hexagon Purus Maritime has received a purchase order for a H₂ fuel storage system from Hvide Sande Shipyard, a Danish shipyard building and servicing a wide range of vessel types.

Everfuel's transaction establishing the JV has been completed, enabling the JV to commence financing the development of electrolyzer capacity across the Nordics with a special emphasis on servicing the rapidly growing market within the EU.

Gen2 Energy received a general building permit for the H₂ plant in Mosjøen and for the associated administrative building. Vefsn municipality has approved Gen2 Energy’s plans for the green H₂ production facility and the administrative building.

Maersk and Equinor have signed an agreement securing supply of green methanol for Maersk’s landmark, new methanol-enabled feeder vessel during its initial months of operation from September 2023 and into the first half of 2024.