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Europe’s hydrogen economy is taking a decisive step forward as Uniper and thyssenkrupp Uhde have formalized a framework agreement to deploy large-scale ammonia cracking technology.

Thyssenkrupp Nucera’s latest preliminary results offer a snapshot of a sector caught between long-term climate ambitions and short-term investment caution.

Spain’s push to anchor itself as a leading hydrogen producer gained new traction this week, as the Ministry for the Ecological Transition confirmed EUR 126.4 million in operating subsidies for two electrolyzer projects totaling 160 MW, installations that narrowly missed financing in the second European Hydrogen Bank (EHB) auction due to exhausted EU funds.

Germany’s grid operators are processing an unprecedented surge in applications for large battery storage systems, many exceeding 100 MW, yet projects continue to advance only in strict chronological order.

Europe consumes resources at a rate far beyond what its ecosystems can regenerate, and the European Commission’s newly released Bioeconomy Strategy, expected to guide policy through 2030, does little to shift that trajectory.

Across Europe’s agricultural sector, biogas has long been treated as a low-value byproduct—useful for electricity generation, but structurally constrained by methane leakage risks and CO₂-rich exhaust streams.

The political and economic stakes surrounding the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) became sharply visible at COP30, as competing visions for global trade, climate ambition, and industrial competitiveness played out in real time.

As Europe accelerates its transition toward low-carbon energy, the inauguration of Greenlyte Carbon Technologies’ LiquidSolar SNG plant in Duisburg represents a key milestone in industrial-scale synthetic fuel deployment.

Global demand for lower-carbon feedstocks is rising as the plastics sector confronts both emissions pressure and supply-chain volatility.

Global EV adoption is accelerating faster than most recycling systems can keep up. Waste from end-of-life batteries, just 500,000 tons in 2019, is projected by researchers to reach eight million tons by 2040, underscoring a widening gap between electrification targets and the infrastructure required to support them.