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H2-View News: UK gas storage hub bets on turquoise hydrogen as engineering studies begin
UK gas storage firm EnergyPathways said it had started design work with Australian methane pyrolysis firm Hazer Group and its EPC partner KBR for a plant that will produce hydrogen from natural gas, while generating solid carbon rather than carbon dioxide. The project could be built as part of EnergyPathways’ planned Marram Energy Storage Hub (MESH), which aims to store up to 50 billion cubic feet of natural gas and hydrogen 18km off the Lancashire coast. Under an agreement signed in July, Hazer’s plant could produce up to 20,000 tonnes of turquoise hydrogen per year from natural gas and unprocessed [...]
H2-View News: Clarke Energy delivers hydrogen-ready engines Statera’s 450MW UK peaking plant
The 450MW flexible generation gas engine plant, which is currently under construction, will help stabilise the UK electricity grid. It will also be co-located with a 300MW battery energy storage system (BESS) to provide instant response to grid fluctuations. While the plant will operate primarily on pipeline gas, it can run on a variety of fuel blends, including biomethane and hydrogen. The Jenbacher J624 gas engines can reportedly start up in under five minutes, meaning the facility can rapidly generate power when renewable output drops. The scalable design enables operation from 2.25MW up to the full 450MW capacity. Ben Wilson, [...]
H2-View News: Samsung E&A to engineer hydrogen and power systems for $8bn SAF plant
Located in St. James Parish, Louisiana, the $8bn plant is expected to produce 200 million gallons of hydrogen-based jet fuel per year. Samsung is scheduled to begin front-end engineering and design (FEED) before the end of 2025, and will collaborate with Black & Veatch, the contractor and overall system integrator for the project. DG Fuels plans to take a final investment decision (FID) on the facility by Q3 2026. Blue and green hydrogen, produced from natural gas with carbon capture and electrolysis, respectively, will supply a low-carbon hydrogen feedstock to support SAF production. The SAF will also draw on waste [...]
H2-View News: Policy must be more effective on green hydrogen: Wood Mac
The development of the still-nascent opportunity in green hydrogen needs a boost in the year ahead to begin to realise its potential more speedily. That assessment was made by Murray Douglas, an analyst for Wood Mackenzie, in his presentation that launched the group’s Hydrogen Conference 2025 in London. The Vice-President for Hydrogen and Derivatives Research said policy headwinds were still holding hydrogen back, meaning that opportunities in legacy sectors with established hydrogen needs offered the clearest investment case today. This is a paid article, to read the article in full you can sign in if you are subscribed or subscribe [...]
Hydrogen Council News: Global alliance launches LEAF Initiative at COP30 to scale low-emission ammonia fertilizers
BELÉM, November 12, 2025 – An alliance of first-mover governments, international organisations, and businesses from the food, agriculture, fertilizer, sustainable fuels, and manufacturing sectors has united at COP30 in Brazil to accelerate scale adoption of low-emission ammonia-based fertilizers through the Low-Emission Ammonia Fertilizer (LEAF) Initiative. Nitrogen fertilizers are essential to global food security, supporting the harvests that feed communities worldwide. Yet conventional ammonia-based fertilizer production accounts for 510 MT of greenhouse gas emissions globally – a footprint comparable to Brazil’s or Germany’s total annual emissions. Reducing these emissions while maintaining essential nutrient supply and safeguarding food security and affordability requires [...]
H2-View News: Hydrogen groups back low-emission ammonia fertiliser initiative at COP30
The Low-Emission Ammonia Fertilizer (LEAF) initiative, backed by the Hydrogen Council, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and others, builds off a Public-Private Action Statement to reduce costs and build demand for cleaner nitrogen-based fertilisers. Current nitrogen fertiliser production accounts for around 1% of global emissions, with the majority of carbon dioxide stemming from hydrogen generation by steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas. In a report prepared by the Hydrogen Council, over 80% of that CO2 footprint could be abated with technologies that already exist. This suggests a focus on retrofitting existing SMR units [...]
H2-View News: Ryze Power to redistribute unused hydrogen from Quest One’s electrolyser gigahub
At Quest’s gigawatt-scale PEM electrolyser hub in Hamburg, a tube trailer will redistribute hydrogen generated during R&D and end-of-line testing. Under a Joint Customer Solution agreement, the partners aim to “enable end-to-end hydrogen supply,” to connect production with industrial and mobility users across Europe. “Every day, our tube trailers are delivering hydrogen to our customers across Germany and the rest of Europe,” explained Leander Hoffmann, Managing Director at Ryze Power Germany. “This is not a concept, or a trial, but a reality for businesses across the country who cannot electrify their operations and want to decarbonise with renewable fuels. The [...]
H2-View News: Green hydrogen in US is challenging without perfect conditions, says Chevron
Chevron’s news energy lead says scaling green hydrogen in the US today demand perfect conditions, as uneven policy and tightening incentives make replication of the company’s green hydrogen energy storage project difficult. Robert Nunmaker, who is General Manager, Commercial & Sales at Chevron New Energies, was speaking in an interview at Wood Mackenzie’s Hydrogen Conference 2025 in London. “In our case, we have our ACES Delta project in Utah, which we are working on with partners as the majority stakeholder.” This is a paid article, to read the article in full you can sign in if you are subscribed or [...]
H2-View News: China drives clean hydrogen growth as legacy FIDs slow, says Wood Mac
Industrial gas and fertiliser firms were the drivers of clean hydrogen growth through to 2023, but China has now taken over as the main driver of development. That was one of the takeaways from Wood Mackenzie analyst Murray Douglas, speaking at the analyst group’s Hydrogen Summit 2025 in London today. He said Chinese players were beginning to “break out” and in the process bring down the cost of green hydrogen. Douglas, who is Vice-President for Hydrogen and Derivatives Research, told attendees the past few years had seen a “defensive slowdown” in clean hydrogen capacity reaching final investment decision (FID) in [...]
H2-View News: European Commission opens call for hydrogen suppliers under Hydrogen Mechanism
Announced in June as part of the European Hydrogen Bank (EHB), the tool is designed to improve market transparency, aggregate data, and connect producers, infrastructure players, and consumers. The bloc has launched a call for interest targeting producers of green and low-carbon hydrogen and derivatives such as ammonia, methanol, and eSAF. In the future, buyers from industrial, energy, or transport companies can express interest in those supply offers once the Commission publishes anonymised information. The submission phase runs until 2 January 2026, with the call and expression of interest opening on 19 January. Policymakers have claimed the platform will provide [...]

