Browsing: Europe

Wärtsilä’s new contract to supply its Wärtsilä 25 Ammonia solution to a cargo vessel for Norway-based Skarv Shipping Solutions represents one of the first commercial-scale steps toward ammonia-powered short-sea shipping in Europe, offering a concrete test of the fuel’s viability in operational conditions.

The EU’s Clean Hydrogen Partnership is pushing hydrogen valleys beyond pilot projects toward full system integration across production, infrastructure, and industrial demand. Sweden’s High Coast to West Coast Hydrogen Valley, launching in January 2026, reflects this shift as a €20 million, six-year EU-funded initiative linking renewable hydrogen production in Västernorrland with industrial demand on Sweden’s West Coast.

Green hydrogen projects aimed at industrial decarbonization increasingly face a nontechnical constraint that is proving decisive: local consent. That reality came into sharp focus in Speyside, where plans for a hydrogen production facility backed by £3.1 million in Scottish Government funding have been abandoned after sustained opposition and a planning refusal by Moray Council.

Europe’s push to decarbonize refining is increasingly shifting from policy targets to physical assets, with Plug Power completing the installation of 100 megawatts of PEM electrolyzers at Galp’s Sines refinery in Portugal.

Hungary’s grid-scale battery buildout is moving into a more capital-intensive phase, with state-owned utility MVM committing roughly EUR 26 million to a 31 megawatt battery energy storage system at its Tiszaújváros site.

Borealis has announced a EUR 49 million investment at its Burghausen site in Germany to expand commercial-scale production of Borstar Nextension polypropylene.

UK aviation decarbonization policy is entering a more exposed phase as government funding for hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel is rolled out alongside some of Europe’s most contested airport expansion projects.

BASF Coatings has replaced its internally developed carbon accounting system with a new digital solution capable of calculating Product Carbon Footprints for roughly 120,000 sales products in real time, reflecting a broader push by chemical suppliers to standardize and audit emissions data at scale.

Singapore-based developer DayOne has announced plans to build a new data center in Nurmijärvi, north of Helsinki, adding to a pipeline that is already straining regional grids and planning authorities.

Six renewable hydrogen projects awarded under the 2024 Innovation Fund auction secured €270.6 million in grants, translating into an average support level well below €1 per kilogram for several winners.