Author: Anela Dokso

Sahamco Holding BV has completed advanced pre-feasibility studies for the first phase of a planned $25 billion green hydrogen and renewable ammonia complex in Morocco’s Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region.

Portugal has launched competitive procedures to allocate up to 1,050 MVA of grid connection capacity to battery energy storage projects, marking its first auctions of this kind since 2021.

EU non-household electricity prices averaged EUR 0.18 per kWh in H1 2026, down 5.4% year on year, with 19 countries lower and 8 higher, Eurostat says.

India VGF scheme: the Cabinet approved Rs 14,500 crore for 92 GWh of grid storage, with a 40% domestic content rule for batteries and competitive bidding.

An Australian-developed electrolysis technology that uses industrial waste heat to reduce electricity consumption by around 30% is moving toward industrial testing, with a AUD 30 million pilot plant planned in Victoria.

Ford Energy is targeting annual production capacity of at least 20 GWh at its repurposed Glendale, Kentucky, battery plant and has partnered with renewable energy developer DESRI to deploy its battery storage systems across utility-scale solar projects and other applications in the United States.

Asahi Kasei and US-based Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) are evaluating the scale-up and commercialization of anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolysis.

India and Denmark are exploring closer cooperation in offshore wind, green hydrogen and energy system integration.

India’s Union Cabinet has approved ₹14,500 crore ($1.53 billion) in viability gap funding to support the development of 92 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of grid-scale energy storage capacity between fiscal years 2026-27 and 2030-31.

Spain could require up to 75 GW of electrolyzer capacity and 301 TWh of electricity annually by 2050 to produce synthetic fuels for aviation and shipping, according to a roadmap by Transport & Environment (T&E), prepared with technical support from Comillas Pontifical University.