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Winners of the SotWind tender, which Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) and the author of the study ‘Offshore Wind to Green
will include floating wind projects in Hydrogen: Insights from Europe,’ Val Stori.
deep water areas and include hydrogen “The question is, are solar installations located in the best places for making green
production projects, are to be announced hydrogen, keeping in mind that producing green hydrogen is a water-intensive process? Solar
in the next few months. projects located in water constrained areas are not the best situated to make green hydrogen.”
Offshore wind power generation is Offshore turbines are less common in the United States than in Europe and, for at least
constrained by the need to access the the next decade, any electrical output from U.S. wind farms will be needed to replace fossil-
power grid, which can be expensive and fuel generation, says Stori.
technically challenging, especially when The US’s Energy Earthshot, launched in 2021, seeks to reduce the cost of hydrogen from
projects like those being developed in renewable sources by 80% to $1/kg in one decade (‘1 1 1’) but the current administration’s
northern Europe turn to deep water struggles to pass its environmentally-leaning ‘Build Back Better’ bill has left that plan in the
installations which require floating, rather air.
than fixed, wind turbines. However, large infrastructure companies are leveraging their own experience of offshore
But a move to hydrogen could resolve and digging into deep pockets to move into the green hydrogen space.
this problem, with electrolyzers located “Oil companies and engineering companies that have been involved in large offshore oil
next to the turbines of an offshore wind and gas projects are all moving into green hydrogen because you can put an electrolyzer at
farm. the bottom of the turbines offshore, and you will put green hydrogen into a vessel, like oil
“It’s certainly cheaper right now to and gas,” says Laurent Dallet, Managing Director at Nomura Greentech in Paris.
make green hydrogen out of another “I think this type of project will be very similar to the oil and gas projects we have seen
renewable, such as solar, which is much over the last 25 years and the international oil companies have a big edge.”
cheaper than offshore wind, even
in Europe,” says Project Director at This article was first published by Reuters Events.

Compact IR camera for glass manufacturing

lass manufacture requires special equipment for non-contact temperature
measurement due to its physical properties. In addition to special infrared
Gthermometers, Optris, locally represented by INSTROTECH, has on offer an industry-
specific, thermal imaging camera Optris PI 450 G7 with 7,9 μm filter.
Optris cameras are highly regarded in the industry due to their compact design and the
excellent price-performance ratio, and with the new G7 model of the PI series, processes
in the glass industry can now be regulated by even more highly accurate temperature
measurement on glass surfaces.

Application as line scan camera for tempering processes
The Optris PI 450 G7 infrared camera can be used for various tasks in the production,
refinement and processing of glass panes, glass bottles and other glass products. The line- performance infra-red camera for the glass
scan camera function which, in the tempering of toughened glass for instance, measures the industry is available with interchangeable
temperature distribution between the heating zone and the cooling zone, and automatically lenses and industrial accessories.
regulates heating or cooling elements where necessary. It can also measure pane The camera is shipped with Optris PI
temperature during transport of glass panes on conveyor belts using the line-scan feature of Connect, an extensive thermographic
the license-free Optris PI Connect software. analysis software package.
At an ambient temperature of up to 70°C, the infrared camera is fully operational
without a cooling jacket. With a jacket size of 46x56x90 mm and a weight of 320 grams Contact Instrotech, Phone 010 595-1831,
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