Author: Anela Dokso

Europe’s hydrogen import strategy is increasingly colliding with a practical constraint in partner countries: grid capacity. That tension is visible in the European Commission’s decision to back two renewable energy projects in Egypt worth roughly €124.3 million, splitting funding between export oriented hydrogen derivatives and domestic grid reinforcement.

Kenya’s plan to develop a mega scale green hydrogen facility is less a symbolic climate gesture than an attempt to leverage structural advantages in geothermal, wind, and solar generation to enter an increasingly competitive global hydrogen market.

Vallourec has signed a memorandum of understanding with Baker Hughes aimed squarely at the compression storage interface, a segment where efficiency losses and capital intensity frequently undermine project bankability.

Over the past decade, Oman has significantly reduced the risks associated with unmanaged waste, investing in modern landfills, structured collection systems, and public awareness campaigns. Yet disposal metrics tell only part of the story.

Statkraft has commissioned what it describes as Ireland’s first four-hour grid-scale Battery Energy Storage System at its Cushaling site in County Offaly, a move that targets curtailment economics as much as grid stability.

Uzbekistan has taken a significant step toward modernizing its power sector with the commercial start of a 501-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system at ACWA Power’s Riverside Solar project, according to a filing on the Saudi stock exchange.

Borealis and Borouge have entered a partnership aimed at building a fully integrated circular waste management and polyolefin recycling system in Indonesia, a market where circularity ambitions have repeatedly collided with infrastructure, cost, and governance constraints.

Final investment decisions remain the main bottleneck for Europe’s green hydrogen pipeline, which makes ITM Power’s latest notice to proceed notable more for what it signals than for its size.

More than 30 emissions trading systems are now in force or under development worldwide, according to the International Carbon Action Partnership, and the maritime sector is increasingly caught between overlapping carbon regimes.

Kazakhstan’s pitch to deepen energy ties with Germany comes as Europe continues to recalibrate its supply chains under tighter climate and security constraints.