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Europe’s hydrogen pipeline is growing on paper faster than it is on the ground. While gigawatt-scale electrolyzer announcements and national hydrogen strategies continue to dominate headlines, deployment timelines are slipping, permitting queues are lengthening, and investment decisions are being deferred.

Global demand for silver continues to climb, driven by its critical role in electronics, solar panels, and other clean technologies, yet only around 20 percent of supply is currently recycled.

The European Union is moving to broaden its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to include manufactured goods such as car parts, household appliances, and construction equipment, signaling a shift from targeting raw materials to addressing embedded emissions deeper in global supply chains.

Fortescue Metals Group has revised the power purchase agreement for its Holmaneset green hydrogen and ammonia project in Norway, effectively postponing the plant’s operational start beyond 2029.

At H2 MEET, while electrolyzers, mobility platforms, and hydrogen infrastructure maps dominated the exhibition floor, 3M delivered a perspective that cut across the hype: hydrogen today does not face a technological barrier in production or transport. Its primary constraint is industrial uptake.

ABB and HDF Energy’s joint-development agreement (JDA) to design high-power hydrogen fuel cell units for marine applications addresses a technical gap that has constrained hydrogen’s role at sea.

Nova Power & Gas, a subsidiary of the E-INFRA Group, has officially commissioned Romania’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS), a 200 MW facility with 400 MWh of storage capacity in Florești, Cluj County.

China’s nuclear buildout continues to progress through methodical construction milestones rather than capacity announcements, and the completion of cold functional testing at Xudabao Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit 3 is one such inflection point.

Drax has confirmed it will cut more than half of its global carbon capture and storage (CCS) division, eliminating around 100 roles across its core business and its CCS-focused subsidiary, Elimini, in the UK and the United States.

Europe’s battery storage sector is entering a period of rapid scale-up, with annual deployments set to climb from 11 GW in 2024 to 16 GW in 2025, a 45% year-over-year increase, according to new forecasts from Wood Mackenzie.