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Germany recorded 459 negative-price hours in 2024 and 573 in 2025, setting new records each time. Through the first half…

The LDES Council estimates that up to 8 terawatts of long-duration energy storage capacity will be needed globally by 2040,…

Tesla reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025, continuing a pattern in which the company has owed…

Direct solar hydrogen production has long promised a simpler pathway to renewable hydrogen by eliminating unnecessary energy conversion steps. While most commercial green hydrogen projects rely on photovoltaic electricity feeding standalone electrolyzers, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have demonstrated a laboratory scale integrated system that converts sunlight into hydrogen with a solar to hydrogen efficiency of up to 31.3%, placing it among the highest reported performances for direct photoelectrochemical hydrogen production.

Google and McKinsey & Company, through the Symbiosis Coalition, together with Tencent, have signed separate agreements to purchase a combined 635,000 metric tons of carbon removals from Thryve.Earth, providing long term demand for a rainforest restoration project in Indonesia.

International technology group ANDRITZ and energy storage company RAG Austria AG have begun construction of what is expected to become the country’s largest green hydrogen production facility, designed to convert surplus summer solar power into hydrogen for use during periods of higher winter energy demand.

The Netherlands is moving to address one of the least developed segments of the hydrogen value chain by committing €450 million ($513 million) to support large scale underground hydrogen storage, recognizing that production and transport infrastructure alone will not be sufficient to establish a functioning hydrogen market.

Germany’s latest economic recovery program places renewed emphasis on infrastructure investment and industrial competitiveness, but the country’s gas and water industry argues that the strategy risks overlooking a critical component of the energy transition.

Conventional enhanced geothermal systems access rock at temperatures around 150 to 200 degrees Celsius. Quaise Energy is targeting 300 to…

Global sodium-ion battery shipments reached 9 GWh in 2025, up 150% year over year, almost entirely driven by Chinese manufacturers…