Author: Anela Dokso

Germany’s 30 MW Bad Lauchstädt energy park has produced its first green hydrogen, marking the start of integrated testing across a value chain designed to connect renewable electricity generation with industrial demand.

HyTerra is withdrawing from its natural hydrogen project in Nebraska and concentrating its exploration budget on the wholly owned Kansas Rift Play, while postponing its next planned well until 2027.

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.