China’s HBIS Group is set to export over 10,000 tonnes of hydrogen-based “green steel” to Italy by August 2025, signaling a significant shift in industrial decarbonization strategies between China and the European Union.
Author: Anela Dokso
Amid global uncertainty around hydrogen’s viability as a low-emissions fuel, the Taranaki Mayoral Forum is urging New Zealand’s central government to back the region as a strategic hub for hydrogen production.
Hong Kong’s largest natural gas utility, Towngas, plans to build the city’s first public hydrogen-powered EV charging station, challenging a market narrative that has shifted from optimism to retreat in recent months.
India is positioning itself as a major green ammonia exporter with a $4 billion project set to rise near Visakhapatnam port.
When Mali’s Bourakébougou gas field revealed a steady stream of near-pure hydrogen from a shallow reservoir, it disrupted long-held assumptions about hydrogen availability—and reignited global interest in what’s now called “natural hydrogen.”
The final investment decision by Air Liquide to proceed with its 200 MW ELYgator electrolyzer in Rotterdam signals a significant turning point for Europe’s industrial decarbonization efforts.
Chile’s green hydrogen sector, once hailed as a global frontrunner, has struggled to convert early enthusiasm into tangible project deployment. Now, a $2.8 billion tax credit program—capped at $5/kg of green hydrogen—is the government’s latest effort to unstick stalled developments and inject financial certainty into the market.
Europe’s ambition to lead the green hydrogen transition is unraveling, with industry analysts now projecting that only 12 GW of hydrogen production capacity—just a fifth of the 2030 target—may be delivered by the end of the decade.
The UK’s first Hydrogen Allocation Round (HAR1) has finally crossed a critical threshold: ten green hydrogen projects selected for subsidies have now signed funding agreements with the government.
Europe’s ambitions to decarbonize its steel sector using hydrogen-based direct reduced iron (DRI) have suffered a significant blow, as ArcelorMittal confirmed it is scrapping its €1.8 billion DRI and hydrogen plant in Dunkirk, France.
