Browsing: Europe

During a recent visit to China alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, BMW Group CEO Oliver Zipse signed a memorandum of understanding with CATL, formalizing a partnership aimed at lowering the embedded carbon footprint of BMW’s electric vehicles by reworking battery sourcing and production processes.

Germany is preparing to classify hydrogen production as being of “overriding public interest,” a legal designation designed to accelerate permitting and implementation at a moment when the country’s hydrogen strategy is visibly off track.

Energinet has awarded a five-year Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management contract to Worley for Phase 1 of the Danish Hydrogen Backbone pipeline.

Europe’s largest business lobby, BusinessEurope, is calling for targeted reforms to the multi billion euro carbon market, arguing that the current trajectory risks accelerating deindustrialization at a time when energy costs and global competition are already straining manufacturers.

In northern Sweden, the HYBRIT consortium has secured an extension of its temporary building permit for its underground hydrogen storage pilot in Luleå until 2031, allowing continued testing of a technology that early data suggest could cut variable hydrogen production costs by 25 to 40 percent.

Power2X has acquired HyCC, a Netherlands-based developer of large-scale green hydrogen projects, marking a strategic consolidation in the European clean molecules sector.

The Netherlands is witnessing a shift in energy storage strategies as Greenchoice and Invest-NL invest in Zhero Systems, a producer of circular energy storage systems built from reused lithium-ion cells.

Europe’s installed battery capacity surpassed 17 gigawatts in 2025 after adding more than 7 gigawatts in just two years, yet deployment remains uneven across the continent.

Despite promising baseload power, geothermal continues to attract a fraction of the investment flowing into wind and solar. Mike Eason, Chief Technology Officer at John Crane, argues that the sector’s bottleneck is not resources—it’s engineering credibility.

Electrifying industrial process heat is already cheaper than fossil gas in parts of Europe, even under today’s unfavorable electricity pricing.