Brazil’s northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte is seeking to position itself within the increasingly crowded global green hydrogen market, leveraging some of the world’s strongest wind resources and a consortium of major German industrial companies to support a proposed €2 billion export project aimed at European customers.
The world added renewable energy capacity at a record pace and pushed clean electricity generation above 30 percent of global supply, yet 655 million people still lived without electricity in 2024 and roughly two billion lacked access to clean cooking technologies.
Colombia’s Ecopetrol and Germany’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have signed an agreement to develop feasibility studies and engineering work for a pilot Power to Liquid (PtL) synthetic fuel facility in Cartagena.
The global green ammonia market is moving from early-stage pilot projects toward long-term commercial contracting, with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) signing a 15 year supply and purchase agreement (SPA) with Samsung C&T Corporation valued at approximately $3 billion.
Energy developer NatPower and Tesla have signed an agreement to deploy 25 GWh of battery storage capacity across Italy and the United Kingdom, representing the first stage of a broader programme that could require up to $5 billion in investment.
Syntholene Energy’s completion of a geothermal integrated Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell (SOEC) demonstration facility in Húsavík, Iceland introduces a technical approach that seeks to partially decouple hydrogen production from full electrical dependence by integrating geothermal heat into the process.
Rising electricity demand in Texas is increasing the need for grid flexibility, with OCI Energy’s $130 million tax equity financing for the Alamo City Battery Energy Storage System highlighting the growing importance of large scale battery storage.
The global battery industry has spent years trying to reduce dependence on lithium, nickel, and cobalt, materials that remain central to today’s electric vehicle and energy storage markets but face supply chain, cost, and geopolitical pressures.
India’s green hydrogen ambitions are moving from policy commitments into industrial demonstrations, with Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL) commissioning what it describes as the country’s first off grid 5 MW green hydrogen pilot plant in Kutch, Gujarat.
