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With hydrogen vehicle production timelines tightening across Europe, supply chain readiness is emerging as a key constraint, prompting the BMW Group to secure green hydrogen volumes for its Austrian manufacturing base through a new agreement with Lhyfe.

A 60 GWh supply agreement for sodium-ion batteries signals a shift in the global energy storage market, where reliance on lithium-based chemistries is increasingly being challenged by emerging alternatives. The three-year partnership between CATL and HyperStrong marks the largest sodium-ion battery deal announced to date, highlighting growing confidence in the technology’s readiness for large-scale deployment.

Sunfire has launched HyLink® Alkaline 23, a new outdoor pressurized alkaline electrolyzer system. The 50-megawatt electrolyzer module is designed for the implementation of triple‑digit megawatt projects and reduces total installed costs (TIC) on the customer side by up to 50 percent.

Research from the University of New South Wales suggests that one of the technology’s most fundamental constraints, internal water accumulation, may be addressed through relatively simple design modifications, with reported performance gains of up to 75 percent.

The UK’s low-carbon hydrogen pipeline has added another permitted project, with Uniper receiving planning approval for its Humber H2ub Green facility, a 120MW electrolytic hydrogen plant intended to supply industrial demand from the end of the decade.

Technip Energies has taken a minority equity stake in the DEZiR project, a synthetic aviation fuel (eSAF) facility under development in Rouen, France, signaling a strategic push into Europe’s decarbonized aviation sector.

The Huai’an Salt Cavern Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) project in Jiangsu Province, China, has entered full operation, marking a significant milestone in long-duration energy storage deployment.

DRIFT Energy and Enapter have signed a collaboration agreement to adapt anion exchange membrane electrolyser technology for deployment at sea, a move that directly addresses one of the sector’s most persistent technical bottlenecks.

TotalEnergies has agreed to sell a 50 percent stake in a portfolio of 11 battery storage projects to Allianz Global Investors, advancing nearly 800 MW of new capacity scheduled to enter operation by 2028.

In northern Sweden, the HYBRIT consortium has secured an extension of its temporary building permit for its underground hydrogen storage pilot in Luleå until 2031, allowing continued testing of a technology that early data suggest could cut variable hydrogen production costs by 25 to 40 percent.