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Toyota Motor Europe has announced a new Circular Factory in Wałbrzych, Poland, designed to process up to 20,000 end-of-life vehicles annually and recover both components and critical materials for reuse.

Canadian Solar has secured a 500 MW, 2,493 MWh battery energy storage system agreement through its e-STORAGE division, targeting infrastructure that supports data center reliability and grid resilience.

thyssenkrupp nucera has secured a front-end engineering design contract for a 260 MW green hydrogen project in India led by Juno Joule Green Energy Private Limited, where it will integrate alkaline water electrolysis into the plant’s infrastructure.

Tesla and LG Energy Solution (LGES) are expanding their U.S. battery manufacturing footprint with a $4.3 billion lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic cell facility in Lansing, Michigan, aimed at supporting Tesla’s Megapack 3 energy storage systems.

The UK’s ambitious target to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is pushing industrial sectors to explore unconventional pathways for decarbonization, with hydrogen emerging as a central lever.

The European hydrogen market continues to rely on public funding to close cost gaps, with the European Commission approving a €440 million Spanish state aid scheme targeting renewable hydrogen production.

Europe’s carbon management strategy is increasingly shifting toward large-scale storage infrastructure, with Greece positioning itself as an emerging hub as the Prinos CO₂ Storage Project moves into front end engineering design. The project, led by EnEarth with engineering contractor Kent, targets handling capacity of up to 2.8 million tonnes of CO₂ per year by 2029, placing it among the more advanced carbon capture and storage developments in Southern Europe. The Prinos project stands out in a European context where permitting remains a bottleneck. It is the first CO₂ storage development in the Mediterranean to secure both environmental and storage permits,…

SK Innovation’s battery unit, SK On, is actively negotiating with multiple U.S.-based data center operators and energy developers to supply lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for energy storage systems, aiming to secure at least 10 gigawatt-hours of contracts in 2026.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe convened an online Training Workshop on Circular Economy Monitoring for EU Eastern Partnership countries.

Samsung SDI has secured an additional battery supply contract worth approximately 1.5 trillion won, about $1.1 billion, for energy storage system batteries in the United States, extending deliveries through 2029.