Westwood’s October Compass flags a policy pivot: Germany will support all low-carbon hydrogen (incl. CCUS) and replace rigid capacity targets with demand-driven goals – while H2Global expands auctions (incl. a joint DE–NL auction for pure hydrogen) and restarts e-methanol imports. In the UK, a £448m UK SHORE package targets maritime decarbonisation (H₂, ammonia, methanol, electrification, […]
The Clean Hydrogen Partnership has selected 15 Hydrogen Valleys from 11 countries for Project Development Assistance (PDA)—9 “PDA light” (early-stage, 6 weeks) and 6 “PDA plus” (toward feasibility/FID, 12 weeks). Expert teams (Roland Berger with Worley) will help on commercial, technical, regulatory, and governance tracks, with work starting in November, subject to a collaboration declaration. […]
Australia’s new bioenergy feedstock strategy proposal excludes used cooking oil (UCO), municipal waste and non-biogenic inputs—explicitly including green hydrogen used for power-to-liquids fuels. Instead, the plan backs agriculture/forestry-derived feedstocks (canola, tallow, biomass, sugar cane, sorghum) and prioritizes HEFA over FT/ATJ/PtL pathways, alongside the A$1.1bn Cleaner Fuels Program. Hydrogen projects can still pursue separate support via […]
FactSet finds that, despite global headwinds, Asia-Pacific and Europe are the only regions meaningfully moving green hydrogen projects into mature stages (FID/construction/commissioning/operations). In 2025 to date, APAC advanced ~824 ktpa H₂e while Europe advanced ~157 ktpa. India’s pipeline is skewed to green ammonia for fertilizers; China’s is diversified (refining, chemicals, transport—including marine fuels); and Europe […]
On October 1, 2025, the Federal Cabinet adopted the draft Hydrogen Acceleration Act to speed up the development of hydrogen infrastructure and reduce bureaucratic hurdles. The law addresses the ENTIRE HYDROGEN SUPPLY CHAIN: from production to import, storage, and transport. The law covers, among other things, onshore and offshore electrolyzers, import facilities for hydrogen (and […]
Global Hydrogen Review 2025 from the IEA: my take on it (by Carlos Bernie Lopez) Every year the IEA comes with a very extended report describing the status of hydrogen in the world. It is nearly impossible to summarize in a post the hard work that many colleagues have put to come up with this […]
Southeast Asian low-emissions hydrogen production could reach 480,000 t/yr by 2030 based on announced projects but progress has been slow, Paris-based energy watchdog the IEA says. Developers have announced 25 projects that are slated to start operations by 2030, with all of them targeting electrolysis and 40pc aiming for exports, the IEA says in a […]
To date, a total of 9 winners have withdrawn from the first and second European Hydrogen Bank (EHB) auctions, resulting in 2.4 GWel of electrolysis capacity being dropped, and ca. 2 Mt of unmaterialised renewable hydrogen. Among the factors leading to hydrogen project exits are regulatory uncertainties related to the transposition of the Renewable Energy […]
French firm Verso Energy will supply at least 6,000 t/yr of renewable hydrogen to German steelmaker Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) for 10 years from 2029, under a binding agreement signed on 5 September. The deal is the first publicly announced result of SHS’s March 2024 tender to procure 50,000 t/yr of “locally produced” renewable hydrogen to decarbonise […]