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A week in Green Hydrogen - Oman enters green hydrogen movement, MoU between ACWA power and South African Gov, Kazakhstan's 50 billion USD investment ... etc

A week in Green Hydrogen - Oman enters green hydrogen movement, MoU between ACWA power and South African Gov, Kazakhstan's 50 billion USD investment ... etc
Source: HYRASIA ONE, a subsidiary of the European cleantech group SVEVIND Energy Group, is developing one of the world’s largest industrial plants for the production of pure green hydrogen in Kazakhstan.

The sultanate of Oman has announced its green hydrogen strategy and plans that go for an ambitious goal of installation of 180GW renewable energy capacity by 2050 and also as an immediate target of one million tonnes green hydrogen per year by 2030.

Oman aims to become leading green hydrogen producer
Oman has set an ambition to become one of the largest green hydrogen producers and exporters globally, targeting production of one million tonnes by 2030.

Saudi-based ACWA Power has signed an MoU with South Africa’s government-owned finance institution, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) with an estimated value of $10 billion placing ACWA Power to serve as the key developer for green hydrogen projects in South Africa while the IDCis the co-developer and equity partner in the proposed projects.

ACWA Power, South Africa’s IDC Sign Green Hydrogen MoU
Hydrogen Saudi-based ACWA Power and South Africa’s Industrial Development Institution have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of green hydrogen and its derivatives in the southern African country.

Greenko, India's first dispatchable renewable company and Keppel Infrastructure, Singapore sign an MoU to explore opportunities in working towards a 250,000 tonne of Green Hydrogen per year contract to be supplied to a 600Mw power plant in Singapore.

India to export green energy to Singapore from 2025, Greenko-Keppel sign Hydrogen MoU
The MoU to explore opportunities in green hydrogen potential in India will see Greenko group and Singapore’s Keppel Infrastructure working towards a 250,000 tonne per annum contract to be supplied to Keppel’s new 600Mw power plant in Singapore.

Jakson Green, a newly formed Indian green energy company is to set up a 3,65,000 tonnes of green hydrogen and ammonia per year plant along with an integrated hybrid renewable power complex in Rajasthan’s Kota district.

Jakson Green, Rajasthan govt sign MoU for $2.8 billion green hydrogen and green ammonia plant
Jakson Green, the energy transition platform of Jakson Group, will set up a 3,65,000 tonnes per annum green hydrogen and green ammonia plant along with an integrated hybrid renewable power complex in the state’s Kota district.

The Netherlands has become the first European country to issue green Guarantees of Origin for hydrogen that guarantee the hydrogen is produced from green electricity. This certificate can be converted into renewable fuel units (RFUs) for traffic and transport.

Europe’s first green hydrogen certificates issued in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is the first European country to issue Guarantees of Origin for hydrogen, following a pilot test conducted by HyXchange.

Japanese conglomerate Toshiba claims green hydrogen breakthrough with new production technology for electrodes in electrolyzers which improves the efficiency of power-to-gas (P2G) reducing the use of iridium by 90%.

Toshiba’s New Large-scale Production Technology for Electrolysis Electrodes for Hydrogen Production from Renewables Cuts Iridium Use to 1/10-Promoting PEM water electrolyzers for power to gas technology that will contribute to realization of a hydrogen economy- | Corporate Research & Development Center | Toshiba

Kazakhstan government has signed a $50 billion agreement with Svevind a European renewables company to build 120 terawatt-hours annually hydrogen production facilities in Mangystau Region

Kazakhstan: Oil-rich west to become green hydrogen hub
Best known as an oil and gas hub, western Kazakhstan hopes to become a leading global exporter of clean energy.The government has signed a $50bn ...