Browsing: Europe

Europe’s electric vehicle market has made significant gains in charging infrastructure, yet the user experience remains fragmented. Drivers frequently navigate multiple apps, authentication systems, and payment methods depending on the charging network, creating friction that industry stakeholders increasingly view as a barrier to broader EV adoption.

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.

Russia’s repeated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have transformed electricity resilience from an engineering concern into a core element of national security policy across Europe.

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.

The world added renewable energy capacity at a record pace and pushed clean electricity generation above 30 percent of global supply, yet 655 million people still lived without electricity in 2024 and roughly two billion lacked access to clean cooking technologies.

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.

Google and Italian energy storage developer Energy Dome are advancing a 23 MW/200 MWh carbon dioxide battery project in County Offaly, Ireland, aimed at demonstrating how long duration energy storage (LDES) can support renewable heavy grids.

Energy developer NatPower and Tesla have signed an agreement to deploy 25 GWh of battery storage capacity across Italy and the United Kingdom, representing the first stage of a broader programme that could require up to $5 billion in investment.

A pilot project in Elche, Spain is testing whether agricultural and forestry waste can become a scalable feedstock for renewable hydrogen through thermochemical conversion.