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The European Union’s aviation decarbonization strategy is approaching a politically sensitive phase as policymakers consider extending carbon pricing pressure beyond intra-European flights to emissions generated on international routes. The debate is emerging alongside a broader redesign of the EU Emissions Trading System aimed at aligning the bloc’s carbon market with its 2040 climate targets.

Germany is moving deeper into the industrialization phase of sustainable aviation fuel production, committing €350 million in public funding to the Brandenburg eSAF project in Schwedt as the European aviation sector faces binding fuel decarbonization mandates under the EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation framework.

Byhmgard AB has signed a right of first refusal agreement with Solarigo Systems Oy covering the development of battery energy storage system projects in Finland. The agreement includes an initial pilot project planned at approximately 50 MW in Nivala, at the Hitura site.

Fewer than 7% of announced European hydrogen projects have reached final investment decision, according to a new industry backed assessment that underscores the widening gap between the European Union’s hydrogen ambitions and the sector’s commercial reality.

Austrian energy group OMV is investing €65 million in a new innovation and development hub at its Schwechat site near Vienna, targeting technologies ranging from green hydrogen to carbon utilization and biotechnology.

A proposed €2 billion green hydrogen development in Ukraine’s Volyn region illustrates how logistics and existing gas infrastructure are increasingly shaping project economics as much as renewable resource quality.

Wholesale electricity prices in Greece are increasingly falling to zero or negative territory during daylight hours, forcing renewable energy curtailments across the grid and exposing a structural imbalance between renewable deployment and system flexibility.

UK consortium has secured funding through the Battery Innovation Programme to develop a localized recycling pathway aimed at retaining critical battery materials within the national economy.

Wärtsilä has joined the H4PERION initiative, a four-year program backed by Horizon Europe, to test hydrogen-based combustion systems under real…

With electricity demand rising and cross-border congestion increasingly constraining renewable deployment, the European Commission has opened a €600 million funding call targeting strategic energy infrastructure across the bloc.