News EU approves Germany’s €3bn hydrogen network plan The European Commission has approved German plans to invest €3bn in a national hydrogen distribution system. The Hydrogen Core Network (HCN) will supply Germany and connect with a European market.…
News Mott MacDonald to study North Sea hydrogen network to ‘decarbonise Europe’ Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has won a contract from Gasunie to assess the feasibility of an offshore hydrogen network in the Dutch North Sea. Gasunie is a gas network operator…
News France offers €149m to green hydrogen scheme France will offer a €149m grant to green hydrogen company Lhyfe to build an electrolysis plant in the Channel port of Le Havre. The Nante-based company is planning to install…
News Chinese firm to build $2.4bn green hydrogen plant in Vietnam Chinese energy company Huadian has proposed the construction of a $2.4bn green hydrogen plant in central Vietnam, local media report. The state-owned company is looking to carry out the project…
Markets Vietnam sets out 20-million-tonne-a-year hydrogen strategy Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade aims to produce up to 20 million tonnes of hydrogen a year by 2050. According to Vietnam Plus, the plan emerged after a 22…
News Developer plans $2.5bn green hydrogen project in Chile’s Atacama desert A green hydrogen project worth $2.5bn has been submitted for environmental review in Chile. Mejillones Ammonia Energy (MAE) aims to develop the Volta production plant in the Atacama Desert, which…
News Fluor wins role on Sweden’s hydrogen powered steel mill Texas engineer Fluor has been selected to fill engineering, procurement and construction management roles at a hydrogen-powered steelworks in northern Sweden. Work on the H2 Green Steel site in Boden…
News Seven EU states to invest €6.9bn in hydrogen infrastructure The European Commission has approved a plan put forward by seven member states to spend €6.9bn on infrastructure for hydrogen energy. The countries are France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,…
News Zaha Hadid Architects designs hydrogen fuel network for yachts Italian green energy company NatPower is planning to invest €100m in setting up green hydrogen stations for recreation boats in 25 Italian ports and marinas. A template for the stations…
News Small Finnish municipality plans to make its own hydrogen The small municipality of Utajärvi in central Finland has teamed up with the University of Oulu to work out how to make its own hydrogen to fuel vehicles and industry.…
News OX2 and Ikea owner to develop giant Swedish wind farm for hydrogen Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has teamed up with Ingka Investments, the owner of the Ikea furniture chain, to develop the Neptunus wind and hydrogen hub off Sweden’s southeast coast.…
News Netherlands to get world’s largest green hydrogen plant The Mitsubishi Corporation will invest $690m in developing the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in the Netherlands, Nikkei Asia reports. The Japanese industrial conglomerate has teamed up with Dutch renewable…
News 85-tonne-a-day hydrogen plant planned for Nantes French green-hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has been chosen by the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire to build a green hydrogen factory in Montoir-de-Bretagne at the mouth of the Loire River. It’s expected…
News Investors scrap German green hydrogen project over costs Investors have scrapped plans to build a green hydrogen plant in northern Germany because of high construction costs, broadcaster NDR reports. Set to be built in Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, the plant…
News Netherlands starts building 1,200km hydrogen network Dutch energy company Gasunie has begun work on the Netherlands’ planned hydrogen pipeline network.
News Cowi lands design contract for Denmark’s largest hydrogen plant Zurich-headquartered H2 Energy has awarded Denmark’s Cowi the front-end engineering design contract (FEED) for a 1GW hydrogen plant in Esbjerg, Denmark, ahead of H2’s final investment decision on the plant…
News Aecom to expand French green hydrogen factory Dallas-based engineer Aecom has been selected by US chemical company Chemours to expand a green hydrogen facility in the Villers-Saint Paul (VSP) region of northern France. Work at Chemours VSP…
News Sweco advises on new pipelines for green hydrogen in Belgium Design and engineering company Sweco is studying the feasibility of building 70km of new pipelines to carry imported green hydrogen to users in Belgium for gas company Fluxys Belgium. Fluxys…