The ‘Hydrogen: Overview and Action Options for Switzerland’ report was unveiled by the Federal Council on December 13 and developed with input from an internal administrative working group, an external working group and in consultation with the gas industry and regional authorities. Although the current hydrogen demand in Switzerland is forecasted to remain low until [...]

Aimed at tackling challenges in conveying hydrogen under severe conditions and ensuring competitive transmission costs, the pair will jointly conduct qualification testing of high-pressure offshore pipelines. IGI Poseidon, set up by Greece’s DEPA International Projects and Italy’s Edison, is currently developing natural gas pipeline projects across the Mediterranean and Black Sea region. Italy’s Tenaris already [...]

Up from €88m ($92m) in the same quarter of 2022/23, it brings its 2024 order intake for the green hydrogen production technology to €524m ($549m) – up 60% year-on-year. The vast majority of the sales come from its 700MW order from Swedish green steelmaker Stegra. Having received full notice to proceed, thyssenkrupp nucera recorded over [...]

The Baytown plant is expected to be the “world’s largest of its kind upon startup,” scheduled to produce up to 28.3 million metres of low-carbon hydrogen daily and nearly one million tonnes of ammonia per year. Read more: Air Liquide backs ExxonMobil’s blue hydrogen mega project awaiting FID The contract awarded to global engineering company [...]

Whilst the first section in Rotterdam, which has already begun construction, will reportedly be ready in 2026, Gasunie has warned the “hydrogen market as a whole is not developing as fast as expected, and the infrastructure is unfortunately no exception.” Read more: Construction begins on Gasunie’s Dutch national hydrogen network Designed to connect Rotterdam, Zeeland, [...]

Germany will head to the polls on February 23, 2025, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government lost a confidence vote following its collapse in November, with uncertainty surrounding hydrogen policy growing. The three-party coalition fell apart last month after Scholz sacked his finance minister, which sparked the resignation of three other ministers, seeing the [...]

Standard Investments, which holds around 11% of JM’s outstanding shares, in an open letter to JM Chairman Patrick Thomas, said immediate action needs to be taken to prevent further value degradation for shareholders. The investor said under Thomas’ six-year tenure, JM shares delivered a total shareholder return of -53%. Despite stressing its belief in JM’s [...]

Consisting of 14 additional Marine System 225 units, the new booking brings its total orders for the unit to over 75 since its launch in June. The third-generation fuel cell unit is said to offer a 13% increase in power output from its previous version, providing 225kW from a 1.2m x 0.9m x 2m containerised [...]

Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn Betriebsgesellschaft (NEB) will operate the trains, which will be powered by locally produced hydrogen and fuel cells, with a reported operating range of up to 1,200km. With a power capacity of 1.7MW and a top speed of 160km/h, the trains are set to replace diesel units on NEB’s network for a trial period [...]

Elections, ambitions, delays and obscurity. Those are the words that spring to mind when thinking about the global hydrogen policy developments in 2024. Over half the world’s population has participated in elections across more than 80 countries, with new hydrogen strategies and support schemes unveiled alongside persistent delays in finalising regulations, leading to a lack [...]