Author: Arnes Biogradlija

A single demonstration facility processing 10,000 tonnes of retired wind and solar equipment a year sits against a projected 20 million tonnes of decommissioned solar panels by 2050 and 3 million tonnes of wind turbine blades by 2035. The gap between pilot-scale capacity and the coming wave, not the absence of policy, is the more useful measure of how far China’s closed-loop ambition has to travel. The National Development and Reform Commission’s announcement on August 16 that recycling rules for wind, solar, and electric vehicle equipment will roll out faster than planned did not arrive in a vacuum. It extends…

On April 28, 2025, Spain and Portugal lost power. Two full European Union member states went dark within seconds, and it took most of a day to restore the grid. It’s a useful backdrop for a new reserve and production breakdown, compiled by geologist Simon Michaux, that complicates a plan reportedly circulating among European bank executives: quietly stepping back from the green transition and falling back on gas. WATCH HERE A weaker correlation, and three hidden groups Oil consumption tracks GDP tightly across countries. Gas doesn’t. Run the same comparison on gas, and the data splits into two clusters instead…

The industry’s own numbers show why the debate over 100, 170, or 300 million tonnes by 2050 matters less than it sounds. Roughly 700 megawatts of electrolysers are actually running today, producing around 110,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year, a fraction of even the most conservative target on the table. Global electrolyser capacity in operation today stands at around 700 megawatts, producing an estimated 110,000 tonnes of green hydrogen annually, according to analysis published by BloombergNEF’s Michael Liebreich. Whether the eventual 2050 market turns out to be 100 million tonnes, 170 million, or 300 million, current output represents somewhere…

The world’s largest battery maker says 20 of its plants are now carbon neutral and its supply chain will follow by 2035. The timeline lines up closely with EU rules that will start blocking high-carbon batteries from the European market in 2027, and the company’s own numbers show why its factories were always the easier half of the problem. CATL supplied 39.2% of the batteries installed in electric vehicles worldwide in 2025, according to SNE Research, the only manufacturer above 30% and, together with fellow Chinese maker BYD at 16.4%, more than half of a global market that itself grew…

The 106-foot demonstrator flew for 27 minutes on about $5 of electricity, a genuine engineering result. But the certification target it is meant to support has already slipped several times, and the industry’s closest comparable programs have mostly gone bankrupt or been shelved before reaching theirs. On August 12, Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator took off from Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York, flew for 27 minutes on battery power alone, reached 1,100 feet, and landed having used roughly $5 worth of electricity, according to the company. At 106 feet of wingspan and more than 25,000 pounds at takeoff, it…

The $8.4 billion Oxagon facility is more than 90% complete and moving into commissioning. That milestone now sits inside a Saudi giga-project program that has been retrenching, next to a joint-venture partner that has written down close to $6 billion on comparable clean-hydrogen bets elsewhere in the past sixteen months. The NEOM Green Hydrogen plant at Oxagon has moved into commissioning, with energization underway across a facility that is now more than 90% complete, according to disclosures from NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) and joint-venture partner Air Products. The $8.4 billion complex, financed in 2023 with $6.1 billion in non-recourse…

Energy security, energy prices and the ability of the economy to respond to European decarbonisation are becoming issues that will determine the competitiveness of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For this reason, Sarajevo will host domestic, regional and European experts from 21 to 25 September at the Sarajevo Energy and Climate Week – SECW 2026, which focuses on concrete solutions for energy and industrial transformation. At a time when European climate and energy policies are increasingly affecting the operations of companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this year’s SECW will address financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, the development of green…

The company frames its new agreements with SGS and a domestic membrane supplier as industrial refinement. The market data around them, price collapses of up to 73 percent, hundreds of loss-making competitors, and a customs system now rewarding certified equipment, point to something closer to a survival strategy. Chinese electrolyzer manufacturers shipped roughly 321 megawatts of hydrogen production equipment overseas in the first half of 2026, more than 17 times the 18.5 megawatts exported in the same period a year earlier. That surge is the backdrop against which Trina Green Hydrogen, the hydrogen unit of solar manufacturer Trina Solar, has…

Battery storage across Australia’s National Electricity Market broke its own discharge record for at least the second time in two weeks on 11 August. The same fleet’s revenue per megawatt has been falling even faster than its capacity has grown. On 11 August, battery discharge across Australia’s National Electricity Market reached 4,325MW at 18:25, according to analysis published by Geoff Eldridge of energy consultancy Global Power Energy, eclipsing the previous all-time high of 4,131MW set just eleven days earlier, on 31 July. At the same interval, batteries supplied 14.42% of NEM electricity consumption, also a record. Both figures matter less…

Washington calls its steel and aluminum tariffs a national security necessity. Brussels calls its carbon border charge a climate safeguard. The numbers behind both mechanisms tell a less symmetrical story than either side’s talking points suggest. Since June 2025, the United States has charged a flat 50 percent duty on most primary steel and aluminum entering the country under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Since January 2026, EU importers of the same two metals have operated under the financially binding phase of the bloc’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, facing certificate charges now benchmarked at just over…