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India’s battery industry is entering a period of rapid expansion that will test not only its manufacturing capacity but also the resilience of its supply chain.

Aluminum is becoming an increasingly important decarbonization target for electric vehicle manufacturers because its production is energy intensive and the metal is used extensively in lightweight vehicle structures and battery related components. Mercedes Benz and Norwegian aluminum producer Hydro are now expanding their partnership to increase the use of recycled and low carbon aluminum across the automaker’s European supply chain, with the first step involving Hydro’s Hydro CIRCAL material in series production of Mercedes Benz’s next generation of large electric vehicles. The shift is significant because the new material contains at least 75 percent post consumer recycled aluminum, compared with…

GreenH2 Opportunities Pvt. Ltd., operating as Green H2 India, has signed a three year strategic collaboration agreement with Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park (SPARK) to establish a Clean Energy Innovation Hub in Sharjah.

India is expanding its policy toolkit for green hydrogen by addressing one of the sector’s most persistent challenges: the high upfront cost of electrolyzer deployment.

Jinko ESS and Dutch energy storage developer Eturn have expanded their collaboration with the deployment of a 40 MWh utility scale battery energy storage project in Germany. The project reflects a broader trend in the European storage market, where developers are moving beyond pilot installations toward larger commercial assets designed to participate in wholesale electricity markets and provide grid services.

A new study published in Energy & Fuels estimates that U.S. data center power capacity will increase from 40 GW in 2025 to 169 GW by 2030, more than quadrupling within five years as AI computing requirements continue to accelerate.

Germany’s growing renewable electricity surplus has created an increasingly expensive challenge for grid operators. As wind and solar generation outpaces transmission capacity in certain regions, particularly in northern Germany, renewable electricity is frequently curtailed to maintain grid stability.

Germany’s proposed overhaul of electricity network charges has triggered concern across the hydrogen industry, with developers warning that extending grid fees to electrolysis could undermine the economics of renewable hydrogen production.

The United Kingdom has emerged as one of the first countries pursuing two fundamentally different pathways to commercialize small modular reactors.

In Colombia, state owned energy company Ecopetrol and Germany’s development agency GIZ have launched a two year feasibility study for a pilot power to liquid facility that could produce electro sustainable aviation fuel at the Cartagena refinery, signaling growing international interest in Latin America as a future supplier of synthetic fuels.