With power generation being accountable for 41% of current global carbon emissions, which amount to about 33.7 Gt/y of carbon dioxide (CO2), multinational conglomerate General Electric Company (GE) believes that gas can play a vital role in decreasing carbon emissions. “Gas burns at less than half the CO2 of coal and GE seeks to convert its gas technologies to low or near-zero carbon emissions using hydrogen and carbon capture and sequestration technologies,” says GE Gas Power emerging technologies director Dr Jeffrey Goldmeer.
Renewable-energy and hydrogen supply company Nel Hydrogen has installed a 2 MW proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser system at transport operator SunLine Transit’s premises in California, in the US, to fuel their fleet of fuel cell buses.