Browsing: Hydrogen

China aims to source half of its electricity generation from non-fossil fuels by 2030, up from a target of 42.3% in 2025, according to the country’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a New Energy System.

A new Finnish consortium, MatH2, has been launched to address one of the hydrogen economy’s least resolved bottlenecks. Led by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and supported through a co-innovation program funded by Business Finland, the initiative brings together ten industrial and research partners spanning materials suppliers, component manufacturers, technology developers, and end users.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Saudi Arabia’s $9 billion NEOM green hydrogen project is becoming a test case for whether large-scale industrial developments can attract international capital by combining energy infrastructure, logistics, and investment incentives into a single platform.

Jordan is moving forward with plans for a large scale green hydrogen project that could produce 200,000 tonnes of green ammonia annually, as the country seeks to establish a role in the emerging clean fuels market.

Oman’s green hydrogen sector is moving from strategy development toward large scale industrial deployment, with India based ACME Group committing approximately $4.2 billion to expand its green hydrogen and green ammonia project in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm.