Author: Anela Dokso

Europe’s ambition to become a global hub for energy storage system (ESS) manufacturing is facing a sobering reality check. As the Clean Energy Associates’ (CEA) Q2 2025 ESS Supply, Technology, and Policy Report outlines, while new policy frameworks like the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CIDSAF) are designed to accelerate domestic energy storage production, a wave of cancelled or delayed projects suggests that economic headwinds and global supply pressures are undermining Europe’s manufacturing vision.

Scotland’s electricity grid, increasingly saturated with renewable energy, is under mounting pressure from intermittency and congestion. In response, battery energy storage is becoming central to maintaining grid stability—and two new 100 MWh projects backed by Envision Energy and Field mark a notable expansion in that strategy. Envision Energy has signed supply agreements to deliver Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery systems for Field’s Holmston and Drum Farm projects, each offering 50 MW/100 MWh of capacity. Construction at Holmston in South Ayrshire began this summer, while Drum Farm, located near Keith in northern Scotland, is set to break ground in early autumn. Both are slated…

Andhra Pradesh has launched the Green Hydrogen Valley–Amaravati Declaration, setting forth 2030 as the target year to become a global hub for green hydrogen production.

French firm Lhyfe has raised €2.5 million through a public crowdfunding campaign—surpassing sector norms and introducing a novel funding approach to Europe’s decarbonization landscape.

Battolyser Systems and VDL Hydrogen Systems have joined forces to develop and commercialize what they claim will be the first fully flexible industrial electrolyzer.

Italian gas technology firm ErreDue has finalized a €3.2 million contract with Dutch company Groengas Asset BV for the supply of three hydrogen production plants totaling 2.5 MW.

For decades, hydrogen has been pitched as a clean fuel with vast potential. Its only byproduct when burned or used in fuel cells is water—offering a tantalizing route to deep decarbonization.

With €303.75 million in federal funding secured for the first 400MW phase of Moeve’s planned 2GW Andalusian Hydrogen Valley, Spain’s southernmost autonomous community is moving to head off a familiar problem: the shortage of skilled labour to support the deployment of large-scale hydrogen infrastructure.

YamnaCo Limited has entered the frame with a proposed one million tonnes per annum (TPA) green ammonia project in Andhra Pradesh.

In a bid to scale up green hydrogen production, the Dutch government has allocated €700 million in subsidies to 11 projects totalling 602MW of electrolyser capacity—three times the size of any facility currently under construction in the Netherlands.