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Jeju Special Self-Governing Province is positioning itself at the forefront of Korea’s energy transition through a strategic partnership with Hyundai Motor Group, aiming to achieve a 70% renewable energy ratio by 2035.

China and South Korea are intensifying their hydrogen agendas, but their approaches highlight different priorities—mobility infrastructure versus stationary power generation.

Fortescue has announced a web of cross-border alliances aimed at creating what it claims will be the lowest-cost, round-the-clock clean energy system—one that can rival and eventually outprice fossil fuels.

A recent road trip across China by a group of eight Western venture capitalists has unveiled a stark reality: China’s supremacy in clean technology has rendered key sectors in the West nearly uninvestable.

Fortescue has effectively sidelined green hydrogen from its near-term agenda, with the company’s latest climate transition plan omitting any reference to developing projects before 2030.

Australia’s energy storage ambitions are entering a new phase as gravity-based and vanadium technologies move from concept to deployment.

A team from Chung-Ang University in Seoul and Qingdao University of Science and Technology has unveiled a ruthenium-based nanocatalyst capable of producing hydrogen directly from seawater, addressing one of the critical bottlenecks in sustainable hydrogen generation.

EVE Energy’s latest project in Hebei has pushed the limits of utility-scale storage, signaling how fast the “big-batteries” era is moving from laboratory to grid.

A team of researchers in South Korea has introduced a method that leverages post-consumer polystyrene (EPS, Styrofoam) waste—of which less than one percent is recycled—to produce liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs). This approach aims to confront two persistent challenges in the clean-energy transition: the low recycling rate of polystyrene and the difficulties of storing, transporting, and using hydrogen at scale.

Global hydrogen demand climbed to nearly 100 million tonnes in 2024, up 2% year on year, underscoring the fuel’s entrenched role in refining and heavy industry.