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HES International and the Canadian energy company North Atlantic aim to jointly establish an import route for hydrogen via the port of Wilhelmshaven. The basis will be LOHC technology. Both companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Berlin.

The French exploration company Mantle8 has raised 31 million euros in a Series A funding round. The company intends to use the capital to finance a global drilling campaign for the development of natural hydrogen.

When can CO₂-based E-Fuels be recognized in the EU as Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBO)? A compliance report from the EU project ECO2Fuel outlines the requirements—from electricity procurement to lifecycle assessment.

Thyssenkrupp Nucera nearly quadrupled its order intake in the second quarter of the 2025/2026 fiscal year. The drivers were a 300 MW order from the Spanish company Moeve and a record order in the chlor-alkali business. However, revenue and earnings fell due to special effects.

The market for renewable and low-carbon H2 is expected to grow a hundredfold by 2060. This is predicted by the Norwegian certification company DNV in its new "Energy Transition Outlook Hydrogen to 2060." China is expected to account for 35 percent of the new production and use. Compared to 2022, DNV has reduced its forecast by 35 percent.

The European Commission has published the results of the third auction of the European Hydrogen Bank. Nine projects in seven countries will receive more than 1.09 billion euros in funding. For the first time, electrolytically produced low-carbon hydrogen is also eligible for funding.

The Dutch company H2Flexx emerged from the merger of H2Fuel and HydroFlex. It offers H2Easy, a hydrogen carrier in powder form. The material is intended to enable storage and transport without high pressure or cryogenic technology.

Around 50 representatives from industry, project development, and research are consulting in Aberdeen on the German-British hydrogen collaboration. The focus is on an offshore pipeline intended to transport hydrogen from the central North Sea to Germany and the United Kingdom.

The British government wants a gigawatt-scale factory for the latest generation of electrolysers, and ITM Power is set to build it. The company announced today that it has received two separate government funding packages. Together, they amount to £86.5 million, nearly 100 million euros.

The South African company Phelan Green plans to build one of the world's first commercial plants for power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) in Saldanha Bay. For production, it is relying on Fischer-Tropsch technology from Honeywell UOP.

The Asia-Pacific region has built up one of the world's largest hydrogen project pipelines. Yet according to a new report by the Energy Industries Council (EIC), only a fraction of these projects are making the leap from planning to implementation. Contract awards halved in 2025.

Toyota intends to join the fuel cell joint venture Cellcentric as an equal shareholder. Daimler Truck, Volvo, Cellcentric and Toyota have signed a non-binding agreement to this effect. The goal is the joint development and production of fuel cell systems for heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

The adhesive manufacturer Tesa is receiving funding of 950,000 euros from the City of Hamburg, Germany, to connect its plant in Hamburg to the Hamburg hydrogen industrial network (HH-WIN) and to convert production facilities to hydrogen. Supply is scheduled to start in 2027.

Asahi Kasei has begun installing an alkaline water electrolyser of the Aqualyzer-C3 type with a capacity of 1 MW in Jyväskylä. Finland's first commercial hydrogen refuelling station is being built there. Operations are scheduled to start in summer 2026.

MorGen Energy, a subsidiary of the commodity group Trafigura, has made the final investment decision for a 20 MW green hydrogen production plant in Milford Haven, Wales. The plant is expected to produce around 2,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year from 2028.

The Swiss cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft have presented a joint strategy for green hydrogen. In it, they define areas of application, call for technology-neutral incentives, and position the region as a hub in the European hydrogen network.

The French geoscience company Mantle8 has entered into a strategic partnership with the seismic service provider S³. This secures Mantle8 access to its own fleet of seismic sensors to explore natural hydrogen deposits worldwide more quickly.

The Estonian electrolysis developer Stargate Hydrogen has entered into a partnership with the British Seacht Group. The agreement marks the company's entry into the British hydrogen market and is part of a European growth strategy.

The 220 MW hydrogen project ACES Delta in Utah is nearing completion. All forty alkaline high-pressure electrolyzers from HydrogenPro are operating at full load, according to the company. The project is set to produce up to 100 tonnes of green hydrogen per day and store it in salt caverns.

The Austrian SAG Group started the series production of its self-developed hydrogen cryotank system for heavy-duty vehicles in 2025. The Austrian aluminium tank manufacturer achieved a turnover of 160 million euros in the fiscal year.

At the Sea Lapland Hydrogen Day 2026 on February 11 in Kemi, Finland's north presented itself as a future hydrogen hub for Europe. The five municipalities of Tornio, Keminmaa, Kemi, Simo, and Tervola jointly courted international investors.

Chantiers de l'Atlantique has completed two offshore substations for the North Sea Cluster A. The platforms are scheduled to be transported to the construction site in the German North Sea by the end of February. The project by RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management is expected to go online in 2027.

Thyssenkrupp Nucera reports a 44 percent revenue decline to 147 million euros in the first quarter of 2025/2026. At the same time, the electrolysis specialist announces the largest chlor-alkali order for a new construction project in the company's history and confirms the forecast for 2025/26.

The Karlsruhe-based company Ineratec is collaborating with a Chilean consortium on a potential Power-to-Liquids (PtL) plant in the Biobío region. Ineratec has provided a basic engineering study for this purpose. The project aims to process biogenic CO2 and green hydrogen into e-fuels.

As part of the DeCarTrans project, the TU Bergakademie Freiberg has processed industrially produced e-methanol from Denmark into synthetic gasoline for the first time. This step is considered a technological milestone for industrial e-fuel production.