Southern Europe’s hydrogen strategy is increasingly shifting from national targets to regional industrial hubs, with Sicily moving forward on a project designed to combine renewable generation, industrial decarbonization, and energy security.
Ireland’s renewable expansion is facing growing storage challenges, with a proposed €2 billion LDES facility in County Carlow aiming to convert surplus renewable power into green hydrogen for later electricity generation.
Barcelona’s public transport transition is reshaping the city’s bus fleet, with zero emission vehicles now accounting for one quarter of the network’s 1,140 buses.
Peru is moving toward establishing a new renewable hydrogen and green ammonia export platform with the approval of a major port infrastructure project designed to support future clean fuel markets.
China Energy Group has reported the successful development of a hydrogen coal co combustion technology capable of achieving a 50% hydrogen blending ratio by heat value, while also demonstrating the ability to operate with 100% pure hydrogen combustion under test conditions.
Wärtsilä is testing a 100% hydrogen fueled engine in Bermeo, northern Spain, in what the company describes as the first large scale demonstration of a pure hydrogen engine supplying electricity to a national grid.
