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Himeji Daiichi power station

Himeji Daiichi power station (姫路第一発電所) is a natural-gas-fired thermal power station in Himeji, Japan, operated by Kansai Electric; it began running in 1955 as Japan's first domestically produced thermal plant.

Himeji Daini power station

Himeji Daini power station (姫路第二発電所) is an LNG-fired thermal power station in Himeji, Japan, operated by Kansai Electric and its largest LNG-fired plant at about 2,919 MW.

Himeji LNG Terminal

Himeji LNG Terminal (姫路LNG基地) is a liquefied natural gas receiving terminal in Himeji, Hyogo, Japan, run by Kansai Electric and Osaka Gas, operating since 1979.

Hin Kong power plant

The Hin Kong power plant is a natural gas-fired combined cycle power station in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, selling 1,400 MW to EGAT under a 25-year contract.

HiNa Battery

HiNa Battery, known in Chinese as 中科海钠, is a Chinese sodium-ion battery manufacturer founded in 2017 in Liyang, Jiangsu, as the first spinoff from Chinese Academy of Sciences research.

Hindustan Petroleum

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an Indian state-controlled oil and gas company headquartered in Mumbai that refines crude oil and markets petroleum products across India.

Hines energy complex

The Hines energy complex is a natural gas-fired power station in Bartow, Florida, owned by Duke Energy Florida, with four combined-cycle blocks rated around 2,000 MW.

Hinkley Point A nuclear power station

Hinkley Point A is a decommissioned twin-reactor Magnox nuclear power station on the Bristol Channel coast at Hinkley Point, Somerset, England, which ran from 1965 to 2000.

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hinkley Point C, also known as Hinkley C, is a nuclear power station under construction on the Somerset coast, the first new UK nuclear plant in a generation.

Hirono power station

Hirono power station (広野火力発電所) is a coal-fired power station in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by JERA and now running two 600 MW coal-fired units.

Hirono Thermal power station

Hirono Thermal Power Station (広野火力発電所) is a thermal power station in Hirono, Fukushima, Japan, opened in 1980 and now run by JERA with two 600 MW coal-fired units.

Hiroshima Gas

Hiroshima Gas (広島ガス) is a Japanese city gas utility headquartered in Hiroshima, founded in 1909 and supplying natural gas to about 419,000 customers in Hiroshima Prefecture.

HIsarna

HIsarna is a smelting-reduction ironmaking process that converts iron ore fines and non-coking coal directly into liquid hot metal in a single reactor, piloted at IJmuiden since 2011.

HIST (tokamak)

HIST (Helicity Injected Spherical Torus) is a small spherical tokamak operated by the University of Hyogo in Japan, built to test helicity injection as a non-inductive plasma current-drive method.

History of coal mining

The history of coal mining covers extraction from prehistoric burning and medieval British workings, through Newcomen's 1712 steam engine and the 1913 British peak, to the modern global industry.

History of gasoline

The history of gasoline runs from an 1860s waste byproduct of kerosene refining to the dominant US car fuel, shaped by cracking, leaded fuel, and regulation.

History of the battery

The history of the battery runs from Volta's 1800 voltaic pile through Planté's 1859 lead-acid battery to lithium-ion cells, commercialized in 1991, whose prices have fallen nearly 97%.

History of the internal combustion engine

The history of the internal combustion engine spans Étienne Lenoir's first commercial gas engine of 1860, Otto's four-stroke cycle of 1876, the Benz automobile, and Rudolf Diesel's 1897 engine.

History of the petroleum industry

The history of the petroleum industry spans ancient use of surface oil seepages to the modern industry begun with the first commercial well in Pennsylvania in 1859.

History of the petroleum industry in the United States

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States began with Edwin Drake's 1859 well at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and includes the Standard Oil monopoly.

Hitachi LNG Terminal

Hitachi LNG Terminal is an LNG receiving and regasification terminal in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, operated by Tokyo Gas and its first LNG base outside Tokyo Bay, operating since 2016.

Hitachinaka power station

Hitachinaka power station is a coal-fired power plant at Hitachinaka Port in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, with 2,000 MW from TEPCO units plus a 650 MW JERA unit.

Hitec salt

Hitec salt, sold under the trademarked name Hitec, is a molten mixture of potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite, and sodium nitrate used for heat transfer, developed by DuPont in 1938.

Hithium Energy Storage

Hithium Energy Storage, or 海辰储能, is a Chinese manufacturer of lithium iron phosphate battery cells and storage systems, founded in 2019 in Xiamen by Wu Zuyu.

HK Electric Investments

HK Electric Investments is a Hong Kong-listed investment trust holding The Hongkong Electric Company, the utility supplying electricity to Hong Kong Island, Ap Lei Chau, and Lamma.

HKE (power utility)

The Hongkong Electric Company, also known as HK Electric, is one of Hong Kong's two investor-owned power companies, serving Hong Kong Island, Ap Lei Chau, and Lamma since 1890.

HKN Energy Ltd

HKN Energy Ltd is a private oil and gas exploration and production company, incorporated in the Cayman Islands, that operates the Sarsang and Atrush blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan.

HL-1M

HL-1M was a medium-sized Chinese tokamak operated at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu from 1994, created by upgrading the earlier HL-1 tokamak; its experiments formed the basis for the successor device HL-2A.

HL-2A

HL-2A is a medium-sized divertor tokamak at the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, China, built partly from the former German ASDEX tokamak, with first plasma in 2002.

HL-2M

HL-2M, officially renamed HL-3, is a medium-sized copper-conductor tokamak built by the Southwestern Institute of Physics in Chengdu, achieving its first plasma in December 2020.