Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Norway sells electric vehicles to 96% of new car buyers. Its EV fleet now represents roughly 35% of all cars on the road. And yet, because internal combustion vehicles waste so much of the fuel they consume, the electricity used by those EVs accounts for only 14% of the Final Energy used by Norwegian road transport. If the country that has done more than any other to electrify its passenger car fleet cannot get halfway to the COP31 target using the proposed metric, the metric itself deserves serious scrutiny. That is the core problem with the “35 by 35” announcement…

With electricity reaching just 32.5% of its population as of 2023 and rural access barely above 9%, Liberia sits at one of the sharpest ends of sub-Saharan Africa’s energy poverty problem. The structural cause is well established: installed generation capacity stood at 126 MW in 2024, composed of 88 MW at Mount Coffee and 38 MW at heavy fuel oil plants, with hydropower output declining sharply during the dry season and contributing to recurring load shedding. A $125 million World Bank financing package signed on June 7, 2026, attempts to address several of these deficits at once, combining renewable energy…

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,…