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.
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.
