Browsing: hydrogen

Battery electric vehicles dominate investment flows across the global automotive sector, yet Hyundai Motor Group continues to pursue a broader decarbonization strategy centered on hydrogen fuel cells alongside electrification.

EUR 211 million in reallocated public funding is now backing the next phase of green hydrogen expansion at BP’s Castellon refinery in Spain, underscoring how European hydrogen policy is shifting from early demonstration support toward selective scaling of assets that have already cleared initial construction milestones.

General Fusion says its Lawson Machine 26 has achieved electron temperatures of approximately 0.72 keV, or 8.4 million degrees Celsius, bringing the company closer to its first major milestone of 1 keV and offering one of the clearest demonstrations to date of its magnetized target fusion approach at commercially relevant scale.

China aims to source half of its electricity generation from non-fossil fuels by 2030, up from a target of 42.3% in 2025, according to the country’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a New Energy System.

A new Finnish consortium, MatH2, has been launched to address one of the hydrogen economy’s least resolved bottlenecks. Led by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and supported through a co-innovation program funded by Business Finland, the initiative brings together ten industrial and research partners spanning materials suppliers, component manufacturers, technology developers, and end users.

Brazil’s northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte is seeking to position itself within the increasingly crowded global green hydrogen market, leveraging some of the world’s strongest wind resources and a consortium of major German industrial companies to support a proposed €2 billion export project aimed at European customers.

Colombia’s Ecopetrol and Germany’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have signed an agreement to develop feasibility studies and engineering work for a pilot Power to Liquid (PtL) synthetic fuel facility in Cartagena.

The global green ammonia market is moving from early-stage pilot projects toward long-term commercial contracting, with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) signing a 15 year supply and purchase agreement (SPA) with Samsung C&T Corporation valued at approximately $3 billion.

Syntholene Energy’s completion of a geothermal integrated Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell (SOEC) demonstration facility in Húsavík, Iceland introduces a technical approach that seeks to partially decouple hydrogen production from full electrical dependence by integrating geothermal heat into the process.

India’s green hydrogen ambitions are moving from policy commitments into industrial demonstrations, with Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL) commissioning what it describes as the country’s first off grid 5 MW green hydrogen pilot plant in Kutch, Gujarat.