Japan’s effort to scale low-carbon fuels has taken a tangible step forward with INPEX Corporation launching the country’s first integrated blue hydrogen and blue ammonia demonstration plant in Niigata Prefecture.
Author: CBR
Global EV adoption is accelerating faster than most recycling systems can keep up. Waste from end-of-life batteries, just 500,000 tons in 2019, is projected by researchers to reach eight million tons by 2040, underscoring a widening gap between electrification targets and the infrastructure required to support them.
Global demand for lower-carbon feedstocks is rising as the plastics sector confronts both emissions pressure and supply-chain volatility.
Fluence Energy’s evaluation of India as a battery energy storage system manufacturing hub confronts a market paradox: ambitious capacity projections totaling 411 GWh by FY 2031-32 meet current installed capacity of just 4 GWh as of December 2024, creating a 103-fold expansion requirement within seven years. The gap between forecast demand and operational infrastructure exposes […]
The distinction between hydrogen concentration and hydrogen accumulation in subsurface systems represents the central engineering challenge facing natural hydrogen commercialization, a gap that current exploration enthusiasm has largely overlooked. While geological surveys map prospective zones and media coverage amplifies discovery potential, reservoir drive mechanisms and recovery efficiencies will ultimately determine which projects achieve industrial scale […]
Germany’s decision to allocate €273 million to BMW’s Hy2Move program comes at a moment when the European Union is intensifying support for hydrogen technologies, more than €1.4 billion has already been committed through the IPCEI Hydrogen framework.
China’s grid investment is projected to exceed ¥3 trillion this decade as the country works toward its dual-carbon goals, and the latest agreement between Shanghai Electric and Siemens positions both companies to capture a share of that momentum.
A new analysis from the University of Sheffield and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies warns that the UK’s residual municipal waste is becoming a contested climate resource—one that current policy frameworks risk allocating inefficiently.
EnergyPathways’ newly announced non-binding cooperation agreement with Siemens Energy positions compressed air energy storage (CAES) as a potential tool for absorbing surplus renewable electricity and delivering multi-day, low-carbon power, a capability conventional battery systems cannot economically provide at scale.
Global primary energy intensity, the key metric for measuring improvements in energy efficiency, is projected to rise by 1.8% in 2025, according to the IEA’s latest Energy Efficiency 2025 report, an improvement from 1% in 2024 but still far below the 4% annual increase agreed at COP28 for 2030.