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Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), Tohoku Electric Power Co., Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), Tohoku Electric Power Co.,
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They endorse the development of a hydrogen economy and infrastructure in Germany and in Europe. With this project, we will lay the foundation of a hydrogen economy in North Rhine-Westphalia. It also has a connection to the existing natural gas network, which in the future could also be used for the transport of hydrogen.
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The highly ambitious new-build electrolysis facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, initially 3.4 Ceará’s potential for renewable energy generation, coupled with access to a strategic deep-sea port to facilitate the export of hydrogen, was key to the choice of the scoped 500-hectare site for the US$5.4-billion
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