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Fiedler Group Applauds Rimere’s Breakthrough Plasma Technology: Pioneering Clean Hydrogen and Graphene Solutions
March 25th, 2024 by Fiedler Group
In the race to combat climate change, innovation is key. Rimere, a climate solutions company based in Newport Beach, California, has developed a proprietary plasma technology that looks to revolutionize the energy landscape. Recently, Rimere announced a significant milestone: the closing of a $10 million strategic investment from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE). This injection of funds is set to accelerate the development and field testing of Rimere’s groundbreaking devices: the Reformer and the Mitigator.
Rimere’s patented and patent-pending technologies operate at a molecular level, employing high voltage and high-frequency arcs under induced electromagnetic fields to deconstruct methane. This innovative approach is poised to reshape the outlook for natural gas, leveraging existing infrastructure to deliver clean hydrogen and graphene to end-users.
At the core of Rimere’s innovation lies the Reformer, a device that utilizes proprietary sequential hybrid plasma technology to convert natural gas into two invaluable resources: clean hydrogen and high-quality graphene. This game changing technology produces zero CO2 emissions, and when powered by renewable natural gas (RNG), achieves a negative carbon-intensity rating surpassing renewable electrolysis in emission reduction.
The Mitigator offers a cost-effective solution to a pressing environmental concern. This device, a plasma thermal oxidizer, diminishes fugitive methane emissions by significantly reducing greenhouse gas potency, particularly those emissions escaping from natural gas infrastructure like compressors and pneumatic controllers along pipelines.
Mitchell Pratt, CEO of Rimere, is encouraging about the impact of their technology. “The world continues to consume more natural gas annually, but with Rimere’s technology, we’re not just cleaning up the infrastructure; we’re transforming the role of natural gas in our clean energy future.”
For Clean Energy Fuels Corp., this investment represents a natural progression in their ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship. Andrew J. Littlefair, President, and CEO of Clean Energy, sees Rimere’s technology as a logical step in addressing the challenges facing the natural gas and hydrogen industries.
With $18.25 million of committed capital raised since its formation in 2020, Rimere is poised to make a significant impact on the transition to a cleaner, greener future.
California’s Ambitious Plan for a Hydrogen-Powered Future Unveiled by Governor Newsom
August 30th, 2023 by Fiedler Group
In a significant move towards a cleaner and more sustainable future, Governor Gavin Newsom has unveiled a groundbreaking strategy to establish California as a leader in the hydrogen economy. The Governor has tasked the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) with the development of the California Hydrogen Market Development Strategy. This comprehensive approach aims to cultivate a robust market for clean and renewable hydrogen, echoing the successful model of the Zero-Emission Vehicle Market Development Strategy. The goal is to propel California towards a future characterized by zero-emission benefits that positively impact all residents.
Governor Newsom emphasized the state’s commitment to embracing clean, renewable hydrogen as a pivotal element in the quest to reduce pollution and power the forthcoming generations.
The directive to expand the market for clean, renewable hydrogen is imperative for California’s climate objectives. This initiative will be instrumental in achieving ambitious milestones, including a clean electric grid, net-zero carbon emissions, and substantial reductions in air pollution. Furthermore, California is currently in competition to secure federal funding as a designated Hydrogen Hub. This initiative, bolstered by $8 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, seeks to establish multiple Hydrogen Hubs throughout the United States.
The California Hydrogen Market Development Strategy will encompass the following initiatives: Accelerating Clean Energy Deployment, Building on Existing Foundations, Collaborative Governance, Project Delivery Strategies, Inclusive Engagement, and Coordinated Efforts. This innovative strategy builds upon Governor Newsom’s previous executive order, which established an Infrastructure Strike Team to streamline projects across the state. The Hydrogen Strategy emerges as a result of collaborative efforts from the Infrastructure Strike Team’s hydrogen, clean energy, transportation, and zero-emission vehicle workgroups.
Fiedler Group continues to be a leader in hydrogen fueling station design and engineering, as well as navigating even the most difficult entitlement and permitting processes. To learn more about how Fiedler Group can support you, please visit our website, or contact us here.
Fiedler Group Supports Iwatani’s Roll-Out Of Hydrogen Fueling Stations Despite Covid
April 28th, 2023 by Fiedler Group
Fiedler Group was contracted by Iwatani Corporation of America (ICA) to perform the multi-site program known as Futurity. Fiedler Group services included both Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services for six (6) light duty hydrogen fueling facilities in existing retail petroleum stations located in Anaheim, Corona, Hawaiian Gardens, La Mirada, Santa Ana, and Seal Beach, California. Despite the processing delays experienced during the time of Covid, Fiedler Group had all project sites designed, permitted and constructed in record time. ICA selected NEL Hydrogen to supply the integrated hydrogen fueling system for the program.
As the Engineer of Record for the Futurity Program, Fiedler Group provided design expertise and technical oversight on each project. FEED services included delivering preliminary conceptual designs to ensure site viability; entitlement processing with the completion of Site Investigation Reports to evaluate capability and capacity for site development as well as barriers to execution; and engineering and design sets for permitting and AHJ review. Furthermore, Fiedler Group provided continuous construction management support during the design phase to ensure constructability and expediency during construction. Fiedler Group selected Fastech for the construction of all six locations.
HAWAIIAN GARDENS
The first of six projects to be completed for ICA was co-located at an existing 76 gas station. The site at 11807 E. Carson Street, Hawaiian Gardens, CA was enhanced with a hydrogen fueling station that included two fuel dispensers supported by an equipment compound holding the storage and compression equipment required to operate the dispensers.
Fiedler Group saved our client a significant amount of costs by presenting to the AHJ options to eliminate design requirements for additional water lines and service. The initial requirement included an irrigation water meter for the planned landscape area. However, Fiedler Group designed the Landscape Water Efficiency Plan to intercept the water line on the private property and use the existing meter for both irrigation and domestic service.
Construction of the hydrogen fueling facility was completed on October 22, 2021, with an approximate construction duration of 4 months.
SEAL BEACH
The second Futurity project to be completed for ICA was co-located at an existing 76 gas station. The site at 13980 Seal Beach Blvd. Seal Beach, CA was enhanced with a hydrogen fueling station that included two fuel dispensers supported by an equipment compound holding the storage and compression equipment required to operate the dispensers.
This project was another Fiedler First, as we were given the opportunity to design and construct the first hydrogen station in the City of Seal Beach. Fiedler Group’s extensive experience in bringing new fueling solutions to cities allowed us to anticipate the jurisdiction’s concerns and resolve them to facilitate entitlement and permit processing.
One of the challenges presented involved the restrictions against modifying the existing canopy. Fiedler Group’s solution was to design and construct a canopy “spanner” which provided the client the opportunity to showcase their logo and hydrogen branding.
Construction of the project was completed on February 17, 2022, with an approximate duration of 6 months.
ANAHEIM
The third Futurity project to be completed for ICA was co-located at an existing Mobil gas station. The site at 1100 N. Euclid Street. Anaheim, CA was enhanced with a hydrogen fueling station that included two fuel dispensers supported by an equipment compound holding the storage and compression equipment required to operate the dispensers.
One of the challenges Fiedler Group overcame on this project was the management of stakeholders to energize the site. This process was a milestone in the construction of these sites and required careful coordination. Fiedler Group collaborated with all parties to have the site energized after normal working hours, thereby ensuring that the project schedule was not impacted.
The Anaheim project was completed on April 15, 2022, with an approximate construction duration of 5 months.
CORONA
The fourth Futurity project to be completed for ICA was co-located at an existing Mobil gas station. The site at 616 Paseo Grande, Corona, CA was enhanced with a hydrogen fueling station that included two fuel dispensers supported by an equipment compound holding the storage and compression equipment required to operate the dispensers.
The Corona site had several unique obstacles. During the Preliminary Phase, Fiedler Group discovered that the site had various conflicting and outdated recorded property lines that impacted the constructability within the proposed location of the equipment compound and canopy. Fiedler Group was retained to ensure that a Lot Line Adjustment was granted. A Lot Line Adjustment is an extensive process that involves altering the property lines of existing parcels of land. Fiedler Group successfully obtained a Certificate of Compliance granting the adjustment that included the merging of a Lot that had been acquired by the City via annexation from the County. In addition, we successfully obtained a release of an existing but unused utility easement on the property returning 74 feet of land to the site owner, while also providing a third access point to the site, and clean Title to the property.
The hydrogen fueling facility was completed on June 24, 2022, with an approximate construction duration of 5 months.
SANTA ANA
The fifth Futurity project to be completed for ICA was co-located at an existing Shell gas station. The site at 2120 E. McFadden Ave. Santa Ana, CA was enhanced with a hydrogen fueling station that included two fuel dispensers supported by an equipment compound holding the storage and compression equipment required to operate the dispensers.
Fiedler Group was able to reduce the entitlement and permitting schedule significantly by preemptively communicating with the City’s Planning Department to address any concerns and expedite an administrative review of the proposed project. Fiedler Group facilitated the extensive negotiation process to have easement documents modified and accepted by SCE, the site owner, and the neighboring property owner for the installation of new electrical equipment, as well as acceptance of transformer use on a neighboring property.
Once preconstruction issues were mitigated, the site was completed on July 7, 2022, with an approximate construction duration of 5 months.
LA MIRADA
The sixth Futurity project to be completed for ICA was co-located at an existing ARCO gas station. The site at 13550 S. Beach Blvd., La Mirada, CA was enhanced with a hydrogen fueling station that included two fuel dispensers supported by an equipment compound holding the storage and compression equipment required to operate the dispensers.
This site had one of the most interesting utility challenges we have had the opportunity to resolve to date. During the Preliminary Phase of the project a few challenges were discovered: (1) the existing gas station’s electrical transformer also served power to the neighboring Fire Station, (2) the existing gas station and the Fire Station were in two different jurisdictions, and (3) the same city that owned the Fire Station also owned an easement on the gas station property that conflicted with the proposed location of the equipment compound. The primary obstacle to the project was that, regardless of the solution, the Fire Station could not be without power for any amount of time. Therefore, after extensive research and negotiation with relevant stakeholders, Fiedler Group successfully resolved to have SCE provide the Fire Station with independent power lines and transformer.
The La Mirada project site was completed on December 21, 2022, with an approximate construction duration of 7 months.
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CTE TO SUPPORT ANOTHER GROUNDBREAKING MILESTONE IN ZERO-EMISSION DEPLOYMENTS: Class 8 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks to Service the Entire Northern California Region
August 4th, 2021 by Fiedler Group
Fiedler Group congratulates the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) for being awarded a multi-million-dollar grant to support the largest commercial deployment of thirty (30) Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks (FCET) to service Northern California. The NorCAL ZERO Project, also known as Zero-Emission Regional Truck Operations with Fuel Cell Electric Trucks, will expand the domestic supplier base of low-emission vehicles with the inclusion of world-wide manufacturer, Hyundai.
Read the rest of this entry »The Future Is Now: Shell Hydrogen Rolls-Out New Fueling Stations for a Cleaner Today!
July 14th, 2021 by Fiedler Group
July 15, 2021, marks the official launch date of Shell’s two new heavy-duty hydrogen fueling stations, embracing the future of zero-emissions transport. Fiedler Group celebrates this landmark milestone and is a proud partner in the innovation of a greener tomorrow.
Read the rest of this entry »1-Year Anniversary of OCTA’s Hydrogen Fueling Station Rollout and Fiedler Group’s Participation in the Landmark Project
March 24th, 2021 by Fiedler Group
It has been approximately one year since The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) debuted 10 new hydrogen fuel cell buses as well as the nation’s largest fueling station located in Santa Ana, CA. The deployment not only demonstrated the technology capable of reducing greenhouse gas emissions but bolstered the push for upgrading current facilities to meet the growing demand of hydrogen-fueled vehicles.
Read the rest of this entry »Shell Opens San Francisco’s First Hydrogen Stations
February 25th, 2020 by Fiedler Group
As reported by California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), Shell Oil® working in partnership with the California Energy Commission, has opened three hydrogen fueling stations in San Francisco. The stations are the first hydrogen stations in San Francisco and are conveniently located at existing Shell gas stations.
Read the rest of this entry »Shell’s Sacramento Hydrogen Station Opens – 40th in the State
November 27th, 2019 by Fiedler Group
As reported by California Fuel Cell Partnership, Shell Oil® working in partnership with the California Energy Commission, is in the midst of a seven-station development program in Northern California.
Read the rest of this entry »Air Liquide Opens Hydrogen Station #38 in Palo Alto
February 6th, 2019 by Fiedler Group
Air Liquide, working in partnership with Toyota, has completed the installation of a Hydrogen Station that is co-located with a Shell service station at 3601 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA. Read the rest of this entry »
Shell Opens Citrus Heights Hydrogen Station
January 15th, 2019 by Fiedler Group
As reported by California Fuel Cell Partnership, Shell Oil® working in partnership with the California Energy Commission, is in the midst of a seven-station development program in Northern California.
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