SF’s new hydrogen ferry could fuel clean energy market

collected by :Victor Alphen

as mentioned in In fact, as electric vehicles and charging stations pop up all over San Francisco, there are no existing hydrogen fuel stations in The City. If hydrogen fuel cells become more widely adopted, the demand could also provide California with support to store renewable energy. The widespread adoption of hydrogen fuel cells by the maritime industry could also benefit electricity suppliers in California. But storing renewable energy in hydrogen tanks may be a better choice; at least, in some situations. If the vessel is successful, Pratt and others must then motivate the maritime industry to ditch diesel for hydrogen fuel on a wider scale.

Reforms to 'broken' energy market will shave 25 per cent off power bills: ACCC

Australia's consumer regulator has recommended transformative changes to the country's energy market, describing prices as "unacceptable and unsustainable" in a scathing 400-page report. AAP"We think those numbers are conservative," Mr Sims told reporters on a conference call on Wednesday. "The national energy market is largely broken and needs to be reset across the board." The report backs the Turnbull government's national energy guarantee, but Mr Sims said it would not be "sufficient" without further action. Mr Sims said retailers had been "deliberately confusing consumers" by slowly rising their rates and then marketing bigger "discounts" for new consumers.

Russia & United States can compete & work together in energy market - Putin

as mentioned in Read moreThe United States is a major opponent of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will double gas flows through the existing pipeline from Russia to Germany. On Monday, Germany maintained that the gas pipeline from Russia is purely about business. "Nord Stream 2 is first and foremost a commercial project," government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a regular government news conference in Berlin. During the Helsinki press conference on Monday, President Trump repeated his concerns. The $11-billion Nord Stream 2 will double the existing Nord Stream pipeline's current annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters and is expected to become operational by the end of next year.