Burnaby, BC, April 22, 2021 (T-Net)
Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) today announced that it is a member of the Hydra Consortium - together with Mining3, a leading research organization in the global mining industry and ENGIE, a global player in low-carbon energy and services.
The Hydra Consortium will
enable heavy-duty mining mobile equipment to run on renewable hydrogen, displacing diesel and decarbonizing the mining sector. Ballard will provide zero-emission fuel cell systems that run on hydrogen, to power mining equipment.
The Hydra Consortium is now actively working to
validate the business case for a hydrogen fuel cell-based powertrain in heavy-duty mobility within the mining sector.
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Mining3, a leading research organisation in the global mining industry, and ENGIE, a global player in low-carbon energy and services, have announced the commencement of the Hydra Consortium.
The Hydra Consortium is now actively working on validating the business case of utilising a hydrogen fuel cell-based powertrain for heavy-duty mobility within the mining sector. This will enable heavy-duty mining mobile equipment to run on renewable hydrogen, displacing diesel, and as such decarbonise the mining sector.
To achieve this target, several workstreams will be executed, amongst others a pre-feasibility and engineering study of a powertrain and the renewable hydrogen value chain. This includes designing, manufacturing and testing of a 200 kW fuel cell plus battery powertrain prototype under mining conditions (altitude, dust, temperature, etc.). The test outcomes will provide valuable information to optimise the overarching design that could replace the traditional diese
Hydra Consortium wants heavy-duty mining equipment to run on renewable hydrogen
Hydrogen station.
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Mining3, a research organization focused on the mining industry, and Engie, a global player in low-carbon energy, announced the starting of operations of the Hydra Consortium, a joint effort aimed at promoting the use of hydrogen fuel cell-based powertrain for heavy-duty mobility within the mining sector.
In a press release, the companies said the Consortium is currently working on building the business case that will support such a goal and which includes a competitiveness analysis and a pre-feasibility and engineering study of a powertrain and the renewable hydrogen value chain. This PFS involves the designing, manufacturing and testing of a 200kW fuel cell plus battery powertrain prototype under mining conditions.