Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Global greenhouse gas emissions in May 2026 totalled 5.0 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent, a decrease of 0.1% compared to May 2025, according to Climate TRACE’s monthly release published July 30. Year-to-date through May, total global emissions stand at 25.3 billion tonnes CO2e, unchanged from the same period in 2025. Those numbers sit against a backdrop in which global average temperatures have now exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for two consecutive years. Flat emissions in absolute terms, at a level still producing year-on-year temperature increases, are not the emissions trajectory consistent with limiting warming. They are the trajectory consistent…

Grey hydrogen produced via steam methane reforming without carbon capture generates between 9 and 11 kilograms of CO2 per kilogram of hydrogen produced. Combusting that hydrogen in a gas turbine to generate 1 megawatt of net electrical output produces approximately 857 kilograms of CO2 per hour, compared to 577 kilograms per hour for natural gas combustion at the same output level. A policy or infrastructure decision that switches from natural gas to grey hydrogen combustion does not reduce emissions. It increases them by roughly 50% while adding the cost and complexity of hydrogen production, storage, and delivery. This is the…

Of 4,328 solid-state battery electrolyte patent families filed globally between 1999 and 2023 and analysed in a study published in the Journal of Energy Storage in 2026, 45% cover sulfide electrolytes, making them the dominant platform by a significant margin. But the data also shows that halides and polymer-inorganic hybrids are growing faster than sulfides as a share of annual filings, and that oxides, once a primary R&D focus, are transitioning toward a complementary and hybrid role. The pattern that emerges from this analysis is not convergence on a single winning chemistry, but diversification across platforms with meaningfully different manufacturing…

TerraPower’s Natrium reactor received NRC construction approval in March 2026, the first commercial-scale next-generation nuclear plant to achieve that milestone in the United States, and began major reactor construction at Kemmerer, Wyoming in April. Within months, TerraPower’s founder Bill Gates is arranging a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook to discuss SMR cooperation, with SK Group, which invested $250 million in TerraPower in 2022, expected to help coordinate the agenda and participants. The timing is not coincidental. The Kemmerer construction permit unlocked a project that was previously a regulatory ambition, and the companies now being asked to supply…

More than half of all new battery storage capacity cleared in PJM’s 2027/28 Residual Capacity Auction belongs to a single project in Licking County, Ohio. Eolian Energy’s Flint Grid Project, a 200 MW system with 5.3 hours of duration producing 1.06 GWh of deliverable energy, began construction this week in Jersey Township, positioned adjacent to the New Albany data centre corridor and the industrial load cluster that has made central Ohio one of the most capacity-constrained zones in the eastern US grid. The scale of the project relative to the auction it cleared is itself a signal: PJM’s capacity market…

Natural hydrogen sits in an unusual position in the energy transition: geologically documented across multiple continents, commercially attractive in principle, and almost entirely unmapped as a resource at any scale relevant to policy or investment. The European Commission’s decision to commission a continent-wide assessment of natural hydrogen potential across all EU member states, awarded to a consortium led by Trinomics with Getech as the principal geological delivery partner, is the first attempt by any major regulatory body to produce a systematic, evidence-based view of what subsurface natural hydrogen actually exists within a defined jurisdiction and under what conditions it might…

Electric vehicle sales exceeded 20% of global new car market share in 2024 and reached 35% in the first quarter of 2025. The battery management system sitting at the centre of every one of those vehicles has evolved in parallel, but less visibly than the cells it monitors. A review published in the Journal of Energy Storage in 2026 by researchers from Moroccan universities provides a structured account of where BMS technology currently stands: the gap between what the system needs to do to support next-generation batteries and what current commercial implementations can reliably deliver is wider than the EV…

Nineteen new green methanol projects were approved in China in the first half of 2026, representing approximately 3.525 million tonnes of annual planned capacity, making green methanol by far the most active segment of China’s hydrogen-derived fuel pipeline. Into that accelerating build-out, SPIC’s Wenzhou Da’an Green Hydrogen Demonstration Project has delivered something none of the new approvals can yet claim: an actual commercial export cargo. The first batch of 3,750 metric tonnes of green methanol has been loaded and shipped to international destinations, the first large-scale export of Chinese green methanol on record. The project behind the shipment is one…

Global battery energy storage capacity is expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 42% through 2030, according to GlobalData’s 2026 Strategic Intelligence report on batteries in power. China and the United States together held 74.6% of installed capacity at the end of 2025. Still, the geography of deployment is broadening: Australia has emerged as the third-largest market worldwide, with total installed capacity in the National Electricity Market exceeding 9 GW after more than doubling in the past year, alongside more than 1 GW added in Western Australia’s Wholesale Electricity Market over the same period. AEMO commissioned 2.7 GW of…

In January 2025, CATL announced a 19 GWh storage partnership with Masdar valued at US$6 billion for the Round-The-Clock solar project in Abu Dhabi, widely reported as a landmark agreement that would anchor the Chinese battery giant’s position in the Middle East’s rapidly expanding energy storage market. By mid-2026, the actual supply contracts for that same project had been split between BYD, which won 11.275 GWh, and Sungrow, which secured 7.5 GWh in May. Together they account for 18.775 GWh, nearly the entire planned storage capacity of a project that features a 5.2 GW solar PV plant paired with 19…