Hydrogen Council welcomes 11 new members from Asia, North
America and Europe. Leading international oil & gas, energy,
science & technology and automotive companies come on board,
driving hydrogen innovation to support the energy transition and
almost doubling Council membership one year on from its launch.
3M, Bosch, China Energy, Great Wall Motor, JXTG Nippon Oil &
Energy Corporation and Weichai, join as steering members alongside
Hexagon Composites, Marubeni, McPhy, Nel Hydrogen and Royal Vopak
at supporting level. Since its launch in early 2017, the Hydrogen
Council, the first of its kind CEO-led initiative, has doubled in
size, now covering all key markets with members across the value
chain. In addition to their ongoing individual investments and
projects, this year will see Council members join forces to drive
change, accelerating the pace on a global scale.
"We are delighted to welcome such impressive growth and the strong
CEO-level commitment to hydrogen this demonstrates. This is
corporate leadership at scale--multinationals are walking the talk
when it comes to building better solutions to address the Paris
Agreement climate goals and hydrogen has become an integral part of
our strategies," said Dr Woong-chul Yang, Co-Chair of the Hydrogen
Council and Vice Chairman of Hyundai Motor Company.
With increasing interest from policy makers and investors around
the globe, the next five to ten years could see a decisive shift in
deployment of hydrogen technologies, with scenarios suggesting that
hydrogen technologies could contribute to meeting 18% of the
world's final energy demands, avoiding 6 Gt of CO2 emissions,
creating a market with revenues of 2.5 trillion dollars each year
and providing 30 million jobs by mid-century(1).
Benoit Potier, co-chair of the Hydrogen Council, Chairman and CEO
of Air Liquide said, "I am pleased to see more and more leading
companies around the world committing to the development of
hydrogen, recognizing it as a key solution to the energy
transition. Since its launch one year ago, the Council has been
able to build strong momentum. Its active participation in high
level international events such as the World Economic Forum, New
York Climate Week, One Planet Summit and Cop23, lead to major
progress engaging with policy makers and governments. Our priority
in 2018 will be to continue this rapid pace working alongside
global partners and international organizations to help make
hydrogen an everyday reality."
About the Hydrogen Council:
Launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2017, the
Hydrogen Council is a first-of-its-kind global CEO initiative to
foster the role of hydrogen technologies in the global energy
transition. Current members include 24 leading multinationals--3M,
Air Liquide, Alstom, Anglo American, Audi, BMW GROUP, China Energy,
Daimler, ENGIE, General Motors, Great Wall Motor, Honda, Hyundai
Motor, Iwatani, JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Kawasaki,
Plastic Omnium, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, The Bosch Group, The
Linde Group, Total, Toyota and Weichai---as well as 15 dynamic
players from across the value chain - Ballard, Faber Industries,
Faurecia, First Element Fuel (True Zero), Gore, Hexagon Composites,
Hydrogenics, Marubeni, McPhy, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui &
Co, Nel Hydrogen, Plug Power, Toyota Tsusho and Royal Vopak. The
coalition collectively represents total revenues of over EUR 1.6
trillion and close to 2.5 million jobs around the world.(2)
The Hydrogen Council has published two studies to date, How
hydrogen empowers the energy transition (January 2017) exploring
the role of hydrogen in the energy transition, including its
potential, recent achievements, and challenges to its deployment
and Hydrogen, scaling up (November 2017) presenting the first
comprehensive vision of the long-term potential of hydrogen and a
roadmap for deployment. To find out more:
www.hydrogencouncil.com.
About our new members:
Steering members
3M is a global science company that never stops inventing. Using 46
technology platforms, our integrated team of scientists and
researchers works with customers to create breakthroughs. Our
inventions have improved daily life for hundreds of millions of
people all over the world.
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and
services. Its Mobility Solutions business sector pursues a vision
of mobility that is accident-free, emissions-free, and stress-free,
and combines the group's expertise in the domains of automation,
electrification, and connectivity. The fuel cell is a technology
for further reducing CO2 emissions, especially in heavy commercial
vehicles.
China Energy proactively explores the full value chain of hydrogen
production, distribution and application, investing in
infrastructure and key R&D programmes that cover areas such as
hydrogen production, storage and transport, fuelling stations, fuel
cells, etc. In addition, the company also participates in drafting
roadmaps for hydrogen energy development in China.
Great Wall Motor Company Limited is China's largest SUV and Pickup
Truck manufacturer with more than a million vehicles sold in 2017
under one of the brands Great Wall, Haval and Wey. Advancing
electric propulsion including hydrogen fuel cell drive is a key
focus of Great Wall Motor's R&D. Great Wall Motor is on the way
to develop and roll-out high-power Fuel Cell Electric Cars and SUVs
with a cost-competitive design, very low weight, high
energy-efficiency and low carbon footprint. With a highly skilled
R&D team and novel Hydrogen R&D facilities in Baoding,
Hebei, China, Great Wall Motor is committed to advance
cost-competitive technologies for Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen
Refueling and Fuel Cell Electric Drive in China and worldwide.
Weichai, founded in 1946, is currently one of the strongest and
most comprehensive auto and equipment manufacturing groups in
China. It owns six global business segments of automobile business,
construction machinery, powertrain system, intelligent logistics,
luxury yacht and finance & after-services. Weichai is striving
to develop new energy business and has set up a new energy science
and technology company. After nearly 10 years of independent
R&D and strategic investment reserve, Weichai now owns a
R&D team of more than 100 people and competitive products,
motors, batteries, electric control systems and other businesses,
and is promoting the industrialization of scale. In Weichai's
2020-2030 strategy, Weichai tries to lead the global new energy
industry development by 2030. At present, Weichai undertakes the
major projects of hydrogen fuel cell industrialization project of
China Ministry of Science and Technology and Replacing Old Growth
Drivers With New Ones of Shandong Province, for which Weichai will
invest 50 billion RMB to build a new energy industrial park. In the
future, Weichai will make full efforts in the field of new energy
and look forward to open cooperation with the most innovative
enterprises in the world through the Hydrogen Council so as to
contribute more to the development of new energy industry and
hydrogen energy.
JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation is implementing
initiatives as an energy conversion company to convert primary
energies, such as crude oil, natural gas, solar and wind, into the
optimal energy for delivery to consumers, such as oil products, LP
gas, city gas, electricity, and hydrogen. As an energy supplier,
JXTG is putting in place hydrogen refueling stations for fuel cell
vehicles, working actively to apply the accumulated technologies
and expertise needed for the proliferation of these vehicles. Our
first commercial hydrogen station opened in December 2014, and by
the end of February 2018 the number of locations had grown to
40.
Supporting members
Hexagon Composites delivers safe and innovative solutions for a
cleaner energy future. We are adapting our leading composite
pressure vessel technology for a wide range of mobility and storage
applications. The energy transition towards a low-carbon society is
constantly opening up exciting growth opportunities for us.
Marubeni is a major integrated trading and investing business
conglomerate active in a broad range of products and services
globally especially in the power and energy field.
McPhy "Driving clean energy forward". In the framework of the
energy transition, and as a leading supplier of hydrogen
production, storage and distribution equipment, McPhy contributes
to the deployment of clean hydrogen throughout the world. As a
designer, manufacturer and integrator of hydrogen equipment since
2008, McPhy provides turnkey solutions tailored to our client
applications: renewable energy surplus storage and valorization,
fuel cell car refueling, raw material for industrial sites.
Nel Hydrogen is a global, dedicated hydrogen company, delivering
optimal solutions to produce, store and distribute hydrogen from
renewable energy. We serve industries, energy and gas companies
with leading hydrogen technology. Since its foundation in 1927, Nel
has a proud history of development and continual improvement of
hydrogen plants. Our hydrogen solutions cover the entire value
chain from hydrogen production technologies to manufacturing of
hydrogen fueling stations, providing all fuel cell electric
vehicles with the same fast fueling and long range as conventional
vehicles today.
Royal Vopak is the world's leading independent tank storage
company, operating a global network of marine terminals at
strategic locations. Vopak is storing vital products with care,
currently enabling the delivery of oil, chemicals, gases, LNG,
biofuels and vegoils. The company is listed on the Euronext
Amsterdam stock exchange and employs an international workforce of
5,700 people.
(1) Hydrogen: Scaling Up, The Hydrogen Council, 2017
(2) Company figures from financial years 2015 to 2017.
About Toyota
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is the global mobility company that
introduced the Prius hybrid-electric car in 1997 and the first
mass-produced fuel cell sedan, Mirai, in 2014. Headquartered in
Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937. Today,
Toyota proudly employs 370,000 employees in communities around the
world. Together, they build around 10 million vehicles per year in
29 countries, from mainstream cars and premium vehicles to
mini-vehicles and commercial trucks, and sell them in more than 170
countries under the brands Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. For
more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
Source: Toyota
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