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Aberdeen City Council said it would drop the 25-double-decker bus fleet in favour of electric vehicles, after a series of technical problems. Operated by First Bus, the fleet of Wrightbus Hydroliner FCEVs has been on Aberdeen streets since 2021 under a local and EU-funded £8.3m ($11.2m) project. It was billed as the “world’s first” hydrogen double-decker fleet. The buses have been out of operation since the winter of 2024 due to delays in repairing and refuelling equipment across the city, leaving the buses parked up at First’s depot. In a statement, the council said the decision to axe the fleet [...]

The South Korea-based chemical company will receive an unspecified volume of ammonia from Envision’s Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, plant in the “world’s first” commercial delivery of the molecule. Ammonia could be an important energy carrier for importing regions like South Korea, which aims to import around 1.96 million tonnes of green hydrogen per year by 2030. Seung Won Chung, CEO of Lotte, said the shipment represents a milestone of “historic significance”, establishing a green hydrogen and ammonia value chain which represents a leading decarbonisation solution. “We will continue to cooperate with global industry leaders to lay the foundation for becoming Asia’s [...]

Passed by the Bundestag on Thursday (26 February), the Hydrogen Acceleration Act is hoped to reduce bureaucratic hurdles by streamlining and digitalising approval procedures. Covering developments across production, import terminals, storage, and transport, the bill has designated the expansion of hydrogen infrastructure as of “overriding public interest” until 2045. This designation will grant legal priorities for approvals. The bill was amended by the Committee on Economic Affairs to cover the construction and operation of hydrogen derivative conversion facilities. This means import terminals receiving derivatives like e-fuels, liquid organic hydrogen carriers, and more are eligible. Those amendments also specified that hydrogen [...]

The French industrial gas major’s local subsidiary, Wits University (Wits), and the Localisation Support Fund (LSF) will work on the system, which comes under the new Wits-South Africa Hydrogen Localisation Initiative (Wits-SAHLI). Expected online by 2028, the 2.2kg per hour facility with 200kg of on-site storage will be used by the university for teaching, research, testing, campus energy needs, and campus transport projects. At 2.2kg per hour, the electrolyser will have a around 110kW capacity. It will use solar energy from the campus’s 14 solar installations, a mix of photovoltaic and hot water systems, which have a total peak capacity [...]

Despite an oversupply of electrolyser stack manufacturing capacity, supply chain bottlenecks remain in balance components such as power conversion and gas treatment, according to a new World Bank Group report. The report by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMPA) estimates global annual electrolyser manufacturing capacity at 61GW, with a further 16GW under construction. This is a paid article, to read the article in full you can sign in if you are subscribed or subscribe today.

The US hydrogen player has entered a definitive agreement with Stream Data Centers to sell its Project Gateway site at the STAMP industrial park in New York, including land, associated infrastructure, and substation assets. The STAMP site had secured substantial grid and substation capacity for hydrogen electrolysis – infrastructure now highly attractive to power-hungry data centre developers. Stream Data Centers is already developing campuses at the site. Plug expects to receive at least $132.5m for the sale, with a higher-end estimate of $142m depending on the timing of closing the deal and conditions around asset removal. It could close before [...]

The 1.400 TEU Yara Eyde container ship has been under construction since September 2025 at Qingdao Yangfan Shipbuilding in China and is expected to be delivered by mid-2026. It is planned to enter service on a weekly route between Rotterdam, Oslo, Brevik, and Bremerhaven later this year, delivering fertiliser products made by Yara. It is owned by Delphis, an arm of CMB.Tech, and will be operated by NCL Oslofjord, a joint venture of NCL and Yara Clean Ammonia. While details of its powertrain remain unclear, CMB.Tech was involved in the construction – providing expertise on “hydrogen and ammonia engines” – [...]