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Fewer than 7% of announced European hydrogen projects have reached final investment decision, according to a new industry backed assessment that underscores the widening gap between the European Union’s hydrogen ambitions and the sector’s commercial reality.

Austrian energy group OMV is investing €65 million in a new innovation and development hub at its Schwechat site near Vienna, targeting technologies ranging from green hydrogen to carbon utilization and biotechnology.

A proposed €2 billion green hydrogen development in Ukraine’s Volyn region illustrates how logistics and existing gas infrastructure are increasingly shaping project economics as much as renewable resource quality.

Wholesale electricity prices in Greece are increasingly falling to zero or negative territory during daylight hours, forcing renewable energy curtailments across the grid and exposing a structural imbalance between renewable deployment and system flexibility.

UK consortium has secured funding through the Battery Innovation Programme to develop a localized recycling pathway aimed at retaining critical battery materials within the national economy.

Wärtsilä has joined the H4PERION initiative, a four-year program backed by Horizon Europe, to test hydrogen-based combustion systems under real…

With electricity demand rising and cross-border congestion increasingly constraining renewable deployment, the European Commission has opened a €600 million funding call targeting strategic energy infrastructure across the bloc.

Swiss Geo Energy has secured a surface exploration permit in the Canton of Vaud to assess natural hydrogen, helium, and deep geothermal resources within a single integrated program, marking a first for Switzerland’s subsurface development strategy.

Innovation in battery circularity technologies is accelerating at a significantly faster rate than battery manufacturing itself, highlighting a structural divergence between technological development and industrial deployment.

The standard cost architecture of green hydrogen production is built around two capital-intensive components: a photovoltaic array to convert sunlight…