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Zawya
21-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
AVEVA and Protium join forces to accelerate innovation in the green hydrogen industry
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software driving digital transformation and sustainability, has been selected by Protium, the UK's largest green hydrogen developer, as the foundation of its digital industrial intelligence platform that will drive faster development of its innovative green energy solution. By deploying AVEVA solutions to date, Protium has reduced time spent by staff on process simulation by 30%, increased reliability by 15%, and helped identify targets to reduce maintenance spend by 15%. Protium looks to save 256,000 tons of CO2 per year, and projects that AVEVA solutions will help it save an additional 5-10% by optimising process design and utility consumption. 'Our collaboration with Protium brilliantly illustrates AVEVA's commitment to enabling industrial sustainability,' comments Caspar Herzberg, CEO, AVEVA. 'Leading the transition to net zero through emerging technologies requires flexible digital infrastructure. The data platform we've developed for Protium is tailored to manage a resilient and agile digital infrastructure in a cost-effective manner, leveraging the full potential of Protium's industrial intelligence.' 'Green hydrogen is a key stepping stone in the UK's ambition to cut CO2 emissions by 1 million tonnes a year by 2030. Achieving this goal cost-effectively and reliably will depend on building the right infrastructure and operating it efficiently. By working closely with AVEVA, we've developed the right set of digital tools to enable Protium to deliver green hydrogen at scale – critical at this point when we are about to open a second hydrogen production plant and growing our project portfolio,' adds Jon Constable, COO, Protium. Protium designs, develops, finances, owns, and operates green hydrogen solutions for clients across multiple markets to achieve net zero energy emissions. Protium's digital industrial intelligence platform will leverage AVEVA software to collect, contextualise, analyse, and visualise asset performance and operations data in an integrated digital twin. This digital twin can also detect faults and perform error analysis while providing critical visibility and insights to the team working throughout Protium's value chain. With AVEVA's solutions, Protium will benefit from smart monitoring and control, certified and proven electricity origin, plant operations optimisation, minimised downtime and increased reliability. About AVEVA AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world's resources. Over 90% of leading industrial enterprises rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life's essentials: safe, reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA helps them engineer capital projects more efficiently, operate better and create sustainable value, from the plant to the cloud and beyond. Through our industrial intelligence platform, CONNECT, and our trusted and secure information management applications enriched with industrial AI, AVEVA empowers businesses to drive deeper collaboration between teams and to accelerate insight across their ecosystem of suppliers, partners and customers. Named as one of the world's most innovative companies, AVEVA's open solutions draw on the expertise of more than 6,000 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. The company, which has operations around the globe, is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. About Protium Protium is a UK-based hydrogen solutions provider for project operators, developers, and investors. Founded in 2019, Protium develops projects through their full lifecycle to support the deployment of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Through Protium's operational assets, companies can access electrolytic hydrogen powered by renewables today.
Top Gear
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- Top Gear
Hydrogen cars are definitely (maybe) still going to happen
Future Tech People are still trying to make hydrogen work for cars. Here's how fuel cells still might make it Skip 2 photos in the image carousel and continue reading They've been a long time coming, but hydrogen-powered cars are definitely still on. Maybe. "Hydrogen is coming after everything else. Solar, wind, batteries; all went through a massive cost decline curve," insists Chris Jackson, founder of hydrogen solutions firm Protium. "The problem with [hydrogen] is everyone wants to jump to the end." Feels like it's been that way... forever actually. How many false dawns and dead ends has hydrogen led us to over the years? Advertisement - Page continues below But speaking at a forum organised by BMW last week, the project managing chief for its hydrogen tech, Dr Jürgen Guldner, observed: "We need to get over those few first 10,000 units where economies of scale make sense, and then the cost curve will come down." So here's a theory: the road to hydrogen cars is via trucks. Guldner points out that 12 per cent of HGV operators planning to introduce hydrogen vehicles within the next five years: doesn't seem like a lot, but that's because businesses are worried about infrastructure. You might like Jackson steps in: "Hydrogen infrastructure is more expensive because a 50kW EV charger services up to 10 cars a day, versus a hydrogen refuelling station doing 400 vehicles a day. 'That's why in Europe [the attitude is] 'let's get the heavy-duty vehicles out first'. Create the demand, create the backbone. Then that creates confidence and certainty to bring in passenger vehicles." Advertisement - Page continues below Feels like we've had this chicken and egg debate a thousand times over, but despite the beleaguered progress of the tech since the 1966 Chevrolet Electrovan, people are still trying to make it work. Hyundai's got the next-gen Nexo coming later this year, and BMW's iX5 pilot was so successful the German carmaker is readying a production fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) by 2028 using Toyota technology. According to Toyota, there are 75,000 fuel-cell vehicles (FCEVs) on the road globally, with the Mirai accounting for around 28,000 of those. The UK's contribution to that sum is 230 Mirais... and roughly 20 hydrogen buses in London. Don't judge, eh? But here's the scale of the problem: here in Blighty there are three publicly accessible car refuelling points, with a further three planned. And four publicly accessible bus refuelling points, with a further... two planned. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. Look out for your regular round-up of news, reviews and offers in your inbox. Get all the latest news, reviews and exclusives, direct to your inbox. In total there are 16 hydrogen refuelling stations across the UK, and funded plans to build enough to enable north-to-south travel (roughly 65). Calculations suggest the UK would need around 1,300 to put every driver 30 minutes from one. So the gap is big. Really big. Refuelling hubs can take one of two approaches; one where the hydrogen produced elsewhere arrives by tanker, the other where the hydrogen is produced on-site. Jon Hunt, senior manager of Toyota's Hydrogen Transformation division, says: "What we've learned is while it's very good [to produce on-site], it does need scale to make it economically viable. So it's better to centralise large-scale production and look at the distribution routes." Meanwhile hydrogen is being used in other places, powering sound systems at music festivals and lighting motorway towers – things which should help drive costs down. So going to see Oasis this summer is actually you doing your bit for the planet. "You gotta roll with it! You gotta take your time!" Ahem. Add in fancy innovations like the portable hydrogen cartridges (pictured) that Toyota's been working on, and some cars to actually run on the stuff, and the pipe dream might not be dead after all. Maybe.
