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A planned 220,000 tonne per year biomethanol facility in the Netherlands is being positioned around access to renewable hydrogen, highlighting how hydrogen demand could increasingly emerge from processes that combine biogenic carbon with additional low carbon hydrogen rather than from conventional hydrogen applications alone.

A planned 4 million tonnes per year of renewable hydrogen imports from North Africa is placing the SoutH2 Corridor among Europe’s largest proposed hydrogen infrastructure routes, but the latest political agreement also underscores how much work remains before that capacity can become a bankable supply chain.

Global hydrogen demand surpassed 100 million tonnes in 2025, yet low emissions hydrogen still accounted for only slightly more than 1% of production.

The European Union used 12.2% recycled materials in 2024, the highest circular material use rate on record, but only marginally above the previous year and just one percentage point higher than in 2015.

Europe’s €10 million effort to train battery industry workers is facing scrutiny over whether its reported success reflects genuine skills…

Wärtsilä’s own chief financial officer has pointed to a specific accounting rule change as a reason the new 50:50 joint…

National Grid’s Electricity System Operator signed a formal connection offer with Tata Steel in May 2024, committing to build the…

Transporting renewable hydrogen from Spain to the Franco German border could cost between €0.60 and €1 per kilogram, according to new estimates from the H2Med Alliance, putting infrastructure costs at a potentially manageable level relative to the wider economics of European green hydrogen.

BASF’s €10.3 billion approach for Evonik has been rejected at the first hurdle, but the failed opening bid is already exposing a broader question for Germany’s chemical industry, whether consolidation can compensate for structural cost and competitiveness problems that individual companies cannot solve alone.

Germany is putting €212.5 million into research and development for e-fuels and CO2-based precursors, but the structure of the program highlights a central problem facing the sector: reducing the cost and technical complexity of synthetic fuel production before commercial scale can become viable.