Browsing: Hydrogen

Saudi Arabian Refineries Company, known as SARCO, has signed a non binding memorandum of understanding with China’s Ally Hydrogen Energy Co., Ltd. to jointly develop a green ammonia production plant alongside a manufacturing and assembly hub for hydrogen production and purification equipment.

China, where coal-based blast furnaces still account for about 90 percent of steel production and roughly 15 percent of national CO2 emissions, is expanding its hydrogen strategy beyond transport into sectors including steelmaking, shipping, aviation, and chemicals.

Egypt is positioning green hydrogen and Sustainable Aviation Fuel as part of a broader strategy to align its aviation sector with tightening international emissions standards and emerging low-carbon fuel markets.

EDP has halted its planned green hydrogen project in Aboño, northern Spain, citing delays in the Spanish government’s implementation of European hydrogen regulations that are expected to define usage mandates, market incentives, and compliance frameworks.

A reported 93.9 percent energy utilization efficiency, roughly one-third higher than conventional thermal hydrogen storage methods, is drawing attention to a new gas-solid battery prototype developed by researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Global clean hydrogen production is now expected to reach only 150 million to 160 million tonnes annually by 2050, according to DNV’s latest hydrogen outlook, marking a sharp downgrade from the company’s earlier expectations and reinforcing growing concerns that the hydrogen economy is advancing far more slowly than governments and developers anticipated just a few years ago.

Australia has shortlisted seven hydrogen derivative projects totaling 2.18GW of electrolysis capacity under the second round of its Hydrogen Headstart program, but the government’s decision to halve the available funding highlights growing pressure to narrow support toward projects viewed as commercially defensible rather than politically ambitious.

European Energy now says it has produced the first e methanol at its Kassø Power-to-X facility in Denmark, marking an operational milestone for a sector still under pressure to prove economic viability as much as technical feasibility.

Europe’s e fuel sector entered 2026 already facing mounting financing pressure, rising power-cost uncertainty, and slower-than-expected shipping demand for green fuels. Liquid Wind’s bankruptcy filing in Sweden now adds another stress test for a market that has relied heavily on large-scale project announcements but has delivered relatively few operating facilities.

Germany is moving deeper into the industrialization phase of sustainable aviation fuel production, committing €350 million in public funding to the Brandenburg eSAF project in Schwedt as the European aviation sector faces binding fuel decarbonization mandates under the EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation framework.