Browsing: Hydrogen

The EU’s Clean Hydrogen Partnership is pushing hydrogen valleys beyond pilot projects toward full system integration across production, infrastructure, and industrial demand. Sweden’s High Coast to West Coast Hydrogen Valley, launching in January 2026, reflects this shift as a €20 million, six-year EU-funded initiative linking renewable hydrogen production in Västernorrland with industrial demand on Sweden’s West Coast.

Egypt is advancing its low-carbon energy ambitions with a significant allocation of land in the Red Sea Governorate to support green hydrogen development and associated infrastructure.

Green hydrogen projects aimed at industrial decarbonization increasingly face a nontechnical constraint that is proving decisive: local consent. That reality came into sharp focus in Speyside, where plans for a hydrogen production facility backed by £3.1 million in Scottish Government funding have been abandoned after sustained opposition and a planning refusal by Moray Council.

Europe’s push to decarbonize refining is increasingly shifting from policy targets to physical assets, with Plug Power completing the installation of 100 megawatts of PEM electrolyzers at Galp’s Sines refinery in Portugal.

UK aviation decarbonization policy is entering a more exposed phase as government funding for hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel is rolled out alongside some of Europe’s most contested airport expansion projects.

Six renewable hydrogen projects awarded under the 2024 Innovation Fund auction secured €270.6 million in grants, translating into an average support level well below €1 per kilogram for several winners.

Lhyfe’s supply of France’s first motorway hydrogen station accessible to heavy goods vehicles marks a tangible shift from hydrogen mobility pilots to operational logistics infrastructure.

Brazilian federal court ruling has suspended the environmental license of Solatio’s 3 gigawatt H2V Piauí project in Parnaíba, citing the absence of authorized water use and the risk of overloading the regional power grid.

Mejillones Ammonia Energy has secured environmental approval for its $2.5 billion Volta project in Antofagasta, a planned 620,000 tonne per year green ammonia facility that now moves closer to final environmental qualification following clearance from the regional Environmental Assessment Commission in late December 2025.

Europe’s renewable hydrogen market received a major boost as the European Commission approved a €200 million state aid package for hydrogen projects in Germany, matched by an equal contribution from the Government of Canada.