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To date, a total of 9 winners have withdrawn from the first and second European Hydrogen Bank (EHB) auctions, resulting in 2.4 GWel of electrolysis capacity being dropped, and ca. 2 Mt of unmaterialised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 […]
Blue hydrogen could offer better costs as it could take advantage of low natural gas prices, although it is not free of several challenges and questions: 1.- Taking into account the emission levels that we put in place to consider a molecule of H2 renewable and the issues with the emissions around natural gas, what […]
South Korea’s Jeollanam-do province has applied to the trade, industry and energy ministry (Motie) for support to establish a 1GW hydrogen complex at the Daema Industrial Complex in the southwest port city of Yeonggwang. The province plans to develop the country’s “largest” hydrogen production hub with a total investment of 2.7 trillion won ($1.93bn), starting […]
French industrial gas firm Air Liquide has taken a final investment decision (FID) to build a 200MW electrolysis plant at the Dutch port of Rotterdam. The ELYgator project at the port’s Maasvlakte site will produce around 23,000 t/yr of renewable hydrogen. Of this, 15,000 t/yr is earmarked for TotalEnergies’ 338,000 b/d Antwerp refinery in Belgium under […]
Australian iron ore miner and energy developer Fortescue will exit its planned PEM50 green hydrogen project in Australia’s northeastern city of Gladstone and its 80MW hydrogen hub near Phoenix in the US state of Arizona. An evaluation is underway to repurpose the assets and the land, the company said, with a pre-tax write down of […]