Author: Arnes Biogradlija

India’s green hydrogen industry is entering a more commercially significant phase as developers begin converting government-backed production ambitions into binding international offtake agreements. Publicly announced commitments involving ACME Group, AM Green and Larsen & Toubro’s L&T Energy GreenTech now point to an export pipeline of roughly 1.2 million tonnes per year of green and renewable ammonia, alongside about 100,000 tonnes per year of green methanol. The significance is not simply the volume. The agreements increasingly connect Indian production projects with Japanese and European buyers through long-term contracts, take-or-pay structures and government-supported mechanisms designed to address the central weakness of the…

Europe’s €10 million effort to train battery industry workers is facing scrutiny over whether its reported success reflects genuine skills development or inflated participation figures. The European Battery Alliance Academy, implemented by EIT InnoEnergy, announced more than 100,000 learners in December 2024. However, questions remain over how those numbers were calculated and whether the programme delivered the workforce capabilities Europe needs. The central issue is measurement. The reported total was based on certificates issued rather than necessarily on unique individuals. Participants completing multiple courses could therefore be counted repeatedly. Significant discrepancies have also emerged between reported participation figures for individual…

More than 80% of global merchandise trade by volume moves by sea, making shipping one of the least visible but most consequential components of the global economy. UN Trade and Development continues to describe maritime transport as the backbone of international trade, while recent disruptions in the Red Sea have demonstrated how quickly longer routes, higher freight costs, and constrained capacity can transmit into the wider economy. That exposure makes the shipping industry’s fuel transition fundamentally different from a conventional technology substitution exercise. Shipowners are being asked to commit capital to vessels expected to operate for 20 years or more…

Moeve started building the first phase of its Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley. ENB tests the company claims: 45,000 t of hydrogen needs about 2.34 TWh, or 89% load at 300 MW.

The NRC proposed changes to nine parts of 10 CFR on reactor licensing, decommissioning and oversight. Comments on Docket NRC-2025-1138 are due 9 November 2026.

LNG Canada took a final investment decision on Phase 2 on 28 September 2026. At CAD 33 billion for 14 mtpa, ENB puts capital at about CAD 2,360 per tonne of annual capacity.

The 30 September framework puts $100 billion of overnight cost on six AP1000 and two APR1400 units, about $10,460 per kW. Korea’s $20 billion annual funding cap and the unsettled link to the 2025 $80 billion Westinghouse deal decide whether it becomes orders.

The NRC issued the Clinch River BWRX-300 construction permit 447 days after accepting the application, with the final safety evaluation about 129 to 158 days before the staff’s own July 2025 plan. IAEA data still list no US reactor under construction.

US developers delivered 69 to 82 percent of their early-year battery plans in 2024 and 2025. Applied to 2026, and checked against ERCOT outlooks, the 24 GW plan points to roughly 17 to 20 GW.

The paper’s own highlights state that its hybrid deep learning model “reaches R2 > 0.998 with the best RMSE and MAPE among all previous research,” a comparative claim that rests on the authors’ literature review rather than on a shared benchmark or independent replication. The model that achieved that score was tested on two datasets: hydrogen yield from sucrose photocatalysis using a single lab-synthesized perovskite catalyst, and syngas hydrogen concentration from gasifying two specific types of leather-industry waste sourced from one industrial zone in Turkey. The architecture behind that result, a hybrid combining one-dimensional convolutional neural network layers with bidirectional…