Author: Arnes Biogradlija

At 40 gigawatts of offshore wind, the Netherlands’ electricity grid infrastructure will require a cumulative investment of €246 billion between 2026 and 2040, a figure that carries a margin of uncertainty wide enough to swallow entire national budgets. The lower bound of that estimate is €172 billion; the upper bound is €320 billion. These are not projections from advocacy groups. They are drawn from the FIEN2026 report produced by PwC on behalf of Netbeheer Nederland and published as an annex to the Dutch government’s Voorjaarsnota 2026, the spring budget update submitted to the Tweede Kamer on 27 March 2026. The…

A hydrogen explosion at a pilot production facility in Gangneung, South Korea, in 2019 killed two people and injured six others, with investigators attributing the blast to oxygen spillover and inadequate earthing connections that allowed static electricity to ignite leaked hydrogen. Six years later, inspections following a hydrogen bus explosion in Chungju in December 2024 found that one in nine of South Korea’s 147 hydrogen buses in operation at the time had active leaks. Against that backdrop, the hydrogen gas leak on May 31, 2026, at a semiconductor specialty gas manufacturer in Samsung-myeon, Boeun-gun, arriving with a loud report heard…

The global inverter market is projected to grow from $25.33 billion in 2025 to $54.57 billion by 2030, a compound annual growth rate of 16.6%, driven primarily by accelerating solar PV deployment, battery storage integration, and the electrification of industrial loads. Within that market, the competitive pressure on power electronics manufacturers is increasingly defined by a single trade-off: delivering higher output power quality without the component count, cost, and thermal management complexity that traditional multilevel inverter topologies impose. A peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Energy Storage in 2026 by researchers from institutions in India addresses that tension directly,…

Global greenhouse gas emissions grew 2.3% year on year to reach 57.7 gigatons of CO2 equivalent in 2024, according to UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report published in November 2025. Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius requires those emissions to roughly halve by 2030 relative to 2019 levels. Against that arithmetic, the Climate TRACE data released on May 28, 2026 showing global GHG emissions of 5.1 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent in March 2026, a decline of just 0.1% against March 2025, is a useful and uncomfortable baseline. It is not a crisis data point in isolation. It is, however, a precise illustration…

India’s green hydrogen production currently costs between $4.40 and $4.80 per kilogram in favorable states, against a grey hydrogen equivalent of $2.30 to $2.50 per kilogram. The National Green Hydrogen Mission’s target of $2 per kilogram by 2030 requires simultaneous progress on renewable energy tariff reduction, domestic electrolyser manufacturing scale-up, high utilization rates, and access to concessional finance. That cost gap is the central challenge against which every project announcement in India’s green hydrogen sector must be evaluated. The 4 MW project commissioned by NLC India Limited at Neyveli, Tamil Nadu, executed through a collaboration between Ohmium International and InSolare…

India’s Central Electricity Authority has set a target of 27 GW of pumped storage capacity by 2031-32, part of a broader 74 GW storage requirement across technologies needed to integrate renewable energy at scale. A national roadmap published in early 2026 extends that ambition further, targeting 100 GW of pumped hydro capacity by 2035-36, with cumulative investment projections of Rs 5 to 6 lakh crore. Against that backdrop, the eighth amendment issued by MP Power Management Company Limited on May 20, 2026, to its tender for 500 MW of pumped storage procurement, is not a bureaucratic footnote. It is a…

The Lawson well in central Saskatchewan returned hydrogen concentrations of up to 286,000 parts per million when results were confirmed in January 2026, establishing Canada’s first verified subsurface natural hydrogen system through drilling validated by three independent laboratories. That single data point placed MAX Power Mining Corp. among a small and growing cohort of companies globally that have moved natural hydrogen from theoretical resource to confirmed subsurface occurrence. What happens next is considerably more uncertain, and the company’s latest drilling campaign is the mechanism through which that uncertainty either narrows or expands. MAX Power’s announcement on May 22, 2026, details…

Since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz in late February 2026, close to 20% of global LNG supply has been removed from the market, triggering sharp price increases across key importing regions and reversing a trend of market rebalancing that had characterized the 2025/26 heating season. European TTF benchmark futures reached $14.80 per million British thermal units for the week ending April 24, 35% above pre-closure levels. EU gas storage levels have fallen below 30%, nearly 20 percentage points down from a year earlier, underscoring Europe’s vulnerability to further supply shocks. Against that backdrop, the decision by Türkiye,…

Germany recorded 573 hours of negative day-ahead electricity prices in 2025, up from 459 hours in 2024 and 301 in 2023. Each year sets a new record, and the trajectory shows no signs of reversing. Solar PV accounted for approximately 17% of Germany’s total electricity generation in 2025, up from 14% the previous year, and the EU as a whole is expected to reach 414 GW of installed solar capacity by year-end 2025. The structural consequence of this buildout is now visible not just in isolated price spikes but in the distributional shape of wholesale electricity prices, which has changed…

The economics of clean hydrogen have long been trapped in an uncomfortable paradox. Green hydrogen, produced through electrolysis powered by renewables, costs between €4 and €12 per kilogram to produce. Grey hydrogen, derived from natural gas without carbon capture, sits at €1 to €2 per kilogram. The gap between what the planet needs and what the market will bear has defined the hydrogen sector’s central challenge for years. Against that backdrop, Mantle8, the Grenoble-based natural hydrogen exploration company, is making a specific and audacious claim: that geological hydrogen can be extracted at production costs as low as €0.80 per kilogram.…