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Projected compliance costs running into hundreds of millions of dollars per country are emerging as a central fault line in negotiations over a proposed global carbon tax on maritime emissions, as the International Maritime Organization faces intensified lobbying from the United States to delay or dilute the measure.

Research led by the University of Kentucky is exploring an alternative pathway by converting coal into high-purity synthetic graphite, aiming to establish a domestic source for a material that remains critical to battery performance.

The Pacifico Mexinol project in Mexico has entered its pre-construction phase, positioning itself as one of the largest planned facilities for blue and ultra-low carbon methanol with an expected combined output of 2.15 million metric tonnes annually.

Jinko ESS has signed a strategic cooperation agreement to deploy a 1 GWh portfolio of battery energy storage projects across the region, focused primarily on grid-side and utility-scale applications.

Brazil’s installed green hydrogen capacity has reached 10 MW with the commissioning of a new 5 MW electrolyzer in São Paulo state, a modest figure that highlights both early progress and structural limitations in the country’s hydrogen economy.

A $665 million final investment decision on a 260,000 tonne per year low-carbon fertilizer plant in Paraguay marks a notable inflection point for hydrogen-based industrial decarbonization. The Villeta project, led by ATOME PLC, is positioned as one of the first industrial-scale facilities to reach financial close based on commercial fundamentals rather than direct government subsidy support.

More than 90 percent of global electricity grid infrastructure sits at the distribution level, yet much of it was designed for a one-directional system that no longer reflects how power is generated and consumed.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is advancing a 300 megawatt battery energy storage system with 1,500 megawatt hours of capacity at its Patache project in Chile.

Roughly 4,600 households in Chile’s Coquimbo region are now receiving a natural gas blend containing 10% green hydrogen, marking one of the first residential-scale demonstrations of hydrogen injection into distribution networks in South America.

Before the Hormuz closure, approximately 20 million barrels of oil transited the strait every day. By the time Fatih Birol…