🇳🇴 🇨🇦Out of the blue: earlier today, a new hydrogen fuel cell product for marine applications was launched. lnkd.in/gwTsibYp Just in time for the session on Ports and Marine Applications at the Hy-fcell conference in Vancouver (lnkd.in/gWbVMMwi). #hydrogen

🇺🇸 A pathway to decarbonization: earlier today, the Biden administration released the US National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap (lnkd.in/gw7tSmjM), enabling significant opportunities for technological and economic cooperation. #hydrogen #energytransition

🇨🇦 During yesterday’s plenary session at the Hy-Fcell conference, Josie Osborne, Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation announced support ($4M) toward the BC Hydrogen Ports Project (BCH2 Ports Project), one of the first of its kind in Canada. lnkd.in/gM4dhhNs

UK Science Minister George Freeman was in Canada today to announce deeper collaboration on biomanufacturing, quantum, climate change and alternative protein research (lnkd.in/g-E4reUq ). #quantum #biomanufacturing #climatechange

🇨🇦 Green aluminium: the Canadian government announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Rio Tinto (lnkd.in/g6Ah_yV5) to build the first Western aluminum smelter in a decade using AP60 electrolysis technology in Saguenay, Québec. #electrolysis #energytransition

🇨🇦 A new study on the #hydrogen regulatory landscape in BC (lnkd.in/gtuCkKUx). A lengthy Environmental Assessment Act Review Process (3-5 yrs or longer) would be required for projects producing more than 100,000 t/y of hydrogen or 5000 t/y of ammonia.

🇨🇦Shovels on the ground: it was great to attend the ground-breaking ceremony for HTEC’s hydrogen production facility in Burnaby. BC Hydro will provide electricity to a 2.5MW water electrolyser. #hydrogen #ClimateActionNow

🇩🇪 🇨🇦 Our latest publication is online (lnkd.in/dgeSxdK4). Accelerated testing over 1000s of hours can be used to estimate product lifetimes and improve design, operation and manufacturing processes. Another example of German-Canadian cooperation. #hydrogen #electrolysis

🇨🇦 A bit less mysterious:  earlier today, Minister Chrystia Freeland announced CAD$90M to support the scaling and commercialization efforts at Eavor, a geothermal energy company based in Calgary (lnkd.in/gN8qNnCt). #geothermal #CanadaGrowthFund #energytransition

🇩🇪 🇨🇦 New ambassador: John Horgan, the former premier of British Columbia, has been named Canada's next ambassador to Germany. (lnkd.in/dXsuF-R7). His mandate  will include  providing advice on “...shared challenges of food and energy security and global conflicts.”

🇨🇦  Canada announced a $1-billion Li-ion battery manufacturing plant in Maple Ridge, B.C. (lnkd.in/gFppg6YG). Construction will start next June and operations are scheduled to begin in 2028. The new facility will be largest Li-ion battery plant in Canada. #batteries

🇬🇧 Support for UK manufacturing: Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced £4.5 billion ($5.6 billion) to support eight manufacturing sectors (bnnbloomberg.ca/hunt-to-invest…).

🇪🇺🇨🇦Canada will join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €100B programme for research and innovation. lnkd.in/gR8vPXBs Trudeau made the announcement in Newfoundland during a Summit with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

We are hiring: to expand our collaboration University of British Columbia - FortisBC collaboration, we need someone with experience in project management, #hydrogen technologies and the interface between research and sectorial priorities. Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/gHJvU8EN #hydrogen

🇬🇹 🇨🇦 Building on our collaboration with Siemens (linkedin.com/posts/merida_t…), I I met with colleagues leading projects in Central America and the Caribbean. Special thanks to the Asociación de Generadores Renovables (ager.org.gt)

🇨🇦 Keep refrigerated: as production volumes and demand increase, the cryogenic storage of liquid #hydrogen will become indispensable in some applications. In our latest work, we evaluate the performance of cylindrical and spherical tanks.  authors.elsevier.com/a/1iHUZ1HxM51G…

🇨🇦 Scaling up: low-carbon #hydrogen from natural gas. Building on a 2020 prototype, we built a pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta (lnkd.in/gQ7gxUGX. ). The plant scales-up #pyrolysis to convert natural gas into solid #carbon and low- or zero-emission hydrogen.

🇯🇵 🇨🇦 Hydrogen across the Pacific: exploring collaboration pathways with colleagues from Toyota Tsusho (lnkd.in/dn3XMZUu), Sumitomo Corporation(lnkd.in/dKc7R4Jx), and the METI office in the Chūbu region (lnkd.in/d6tEueYq). Special thanks to Carolyn Bailey.

🇨🇦 Solid carbon, not hashtag#CO2: in our latest work, we characterise solid carbon produced as a by-product of low-emission hashtag#hydrogen from the hashtag#pyrolysis of hashtag#methane and other hashtag#hydrocarbons. lnkd.in/gcNXzFBm #hydrogen #pyrolysis #methane

🇨🇦 MéridaLabs is looking for Postdoctoral Fellow to work on hashtag#green hashtag#hydrogen production via high temperature and pressure (HTP) water hashtag#electrolysis. Apply here: lnkd.in/gUms2Tmf