Note: A video story about Heliogen, which is testing their solar array in Lancaster, CA. Minute 6:30 is when the CEO talks about hydrogen.
“Batteries have a role to fill, but to fully electrify and deal with the breadth of the different applications that we’re talking about, you also have to have hydrogen fuel cells,” said Charlie Freese, who leads GM’s global fuel cell business. “They complement each other extremely well.”
The initiative, part of Germany's Eur2 billion hydrogen abroad strategy, would secure long-term hydrogen supply contracts via annual auctions, with funding approved to 2030, it said. First cargoes of hydrogen or derivatives such as ammonia were expected from 2024. Energy minister Peter Altmaier named six potential exporters (Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Russia, Ukraine and Chile) with whom he had had…