Browsing: Hydrogen

Australia’s first Hydrogen Headstart project to reach final investment decision will produce just 4,700 tonnes of green hydrogen annually, a figure that illustrates both the progress and the constraints defining the country’s emerging hydrogen economy.

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical has signed a memorandum of understanding with Gold Hydrogen to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of a green methanol facility in South Australia.

Battery electric vehicles dominate investment flows across the global automotive sector, yet Hyundai Motor Group continues to pursue a broader decarbonization strategy centered on hydrogen fuel cells alongside electrification.

EUR 211 million in reallocated public funding is now backing the next phase of green hydrogen expansion at BP’s Castellon refinery in Spain, underscoring how European hydrogen policy is shifting from early demonstration support toward selective scaling of assets that have already cleared initial construction milestones.

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.