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With demand for e-SAF projected to reach 36,000 tonnes by 2030 and surge beyond 160,000 tonnes by 2035, Europe’s aviation sector is entering a regulatory phase where compliance obligations are already outpacing industrial readiness, according to industry assessments cited by Scandinavian Airlines.

Somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a massive cargo ship pitches in a deep-water swell. The ambient temperature…

Wind and solar generated a combined 30 percent of the European Union’s electricity in 2025, surpassing fossil fuels at 29 percent for the first time and marking a structural shift in the bloc’s power system. This milestone reflects both accelerated renewable deployment and a policy-driven effort to reduce dependence on imported energy following recent supply disruptions.

Before the Hormuz closure, approximately 20 million barrels of oil transited the strait every day. By the time Fatih Birol…

The global green hydrogen industry is confronting a resource allocation problem that grows more acute as deployment ambitions scale upward.…

Gray hydrogen, produced from unabated fossil fuels, currently accounts for approximately two percent of global CO₂ emissions. That figure alone…

Austria has committed €275 million to four national flagship hydrogen projects and is actively developing the diplomatic groundwork for a…

Global renewable power capacity reached 5,149 gigawatts (GW) by end-2025, following a record 692 GW addition that marked a 15.5% annual increase, with renewables capturing 85.6% of all new capacity expansions.

Global LNG markets are operating under an extreme stress test as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapses from an average of 94 vessels per day to just over five in early March 2026, with LNG and oil tanker flows falling from more than 53 per day to roughly two.

Fusion energy systems have spent decades operating under a persistent commercial constraint: even advanced experimental reactors still struggle with net energy stability once internal power demands are fully accounted for.