Germany, Austria and Luxembourg will provide up to €2.12bn through a joint eSAF funding scheme, using a double-sided auction to bridge the price gap between buyers and sellers of electricity-based aviation fuel. Germany, Austria and Luxembourg announced on 21 September a joint eSAF funding scheme worth up to €2.12 billion.…
Mesabi Metallics has announced an $18bn plan, including a $15bn Iowa steel complex that will pair hot direct-reduced iron with electric arc furnaces and use ore from its new Minnesota mine. Mesabi Metallics announced on 28 September an $18 billion investment to build a fully integrated steel company. The plan…
The Commission has published final terms for its second industrial heat auction, releasing €1 billion from EU Emissions Trading System revenues to cut fossil fuel use in process heat, with bidding expected from December. The European Commission published the final terms and conditions on 24 September for its second Europe-wide…
NSG Group has completed a float glass recycling trial at its Chiba Plant, reprocessing end-of-life laminated glass from a University of Tokyo building into new glass products. NSG Group has completed a float glass recycling trial at its Chiba Plant in Ichihara City, in what it calls horizontal recycling, feeding…
INEOS Energy has brought the Greensand offshore carbon storage site off Esbjerg into full operation, the European Union’s first full-scale facility, with capacity to store up to 8 million tonnes a year. INEOS Energy, with partners Harbour Energy and Denmark’s Nordsøfonden, has brought the Greensand offshore carbon storage site off…
Sanofi, UCB and Opella Healthcare have joined AstraZeneca as founding members of the Clean Heat Program, targeting industrial heat as the largest remaining source of pharmaceutical manufacturing emissions. Multinational pharmaceutical companies Sanofi, UCB and Opella Healthcare Group have joined AstraZeneca as founding members of the Clean Heat Program, an initiative…
Bulgaria’s glass packaging industry has launched a national Close the Glass Loop platform to raise collection for glass recycling, aiming to help meet the EU’s 90% target by 2030. Bulgaria’s glass packaging value chain has united to launch a new national platform for glass collection and recycling, joining a Europe-wide…
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Calgary-based Cura has closed a $10 million USD funding round to expand its electrochemical low-carbon cement pilot with Grand Forks Concrete, a step toward commercial-scale production in Alberta. Calgary-based cleantech company Cura has closed a $10 million USD ($14 million CAD) funding round on 17 September, its second tranche, to accelerate commercial development of its low-carbon cement technology near Taber, Alberta. The round was led by Zacua Ventures, with Sandpiper Ventures, Vantage Futures, Amplify Capital, the University of Calgary’s UCEED fund, the Mount Rundle Club and Sebastian Becker also participating. Zacua’s Juan Nieto joins Cura’s board of directors. Cement is…
The Hydrogen Council’s latest Hydrogen Compass report puts the global low-carbon hydrogen pipeline at $130 billion and 6.9 million tonnes a year, with ammonia the leading offtake. The Hydrogen Council said in its latest annual Hydrogen Compass report that the global low-carbon hydrogen project pipeline has grown to $130 billion and 6.9 million tonnes a year of capacity across 570 projects, with 90% of that capacity under construction or already operational. The figures mark a maturing pipeline, with a growing share of projects moving past the announcement stage into construction and operation. Ammonia remains the dominant offtake for the pipeline,…
EU member states agreed to expand free ETS allowances for energy-intensive industries from 2026 to 2030, aiming to protect steel, cement and chemicals producers from carbon leakage. EU member states have agreed to expand free ETS allowances for energy-intensive industries between 2026 and 2030, a move the Council of the European Union says will protect steel, cement and chemicals producers from carbon leakage during a sensitive stretch of the transition. Ambassadors representing member states agreed on 16 September to release around 88 million allowances that had been set aside for free allocation to sectors covered by heat and fuel benchmarks…
CAC Engineering’s pilot plant in Freiberg, Germany has produced 300,000 litres of synthetic gasoline, showing its power-to-liquids process can run reliably over a sustained period. A pilot plant in Freiberg, Germany has produced 300,000 litres of synthetic gasoline, a threshold its developer says demonstrates that its power-to-liquids process can run reliably over a sustained period rather than only in short bursts. The facility, run by CAC Engineering at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, uses the company’s METHAFUEL technology to convert e-methanol into synthetic gasoline through the DeCarTrans research programme. Reaching 300,000 litres of cumulative output matters because continuous, reliable operation, rather than…
NEDO and four Japanese partners achieved 85% ammonia co-firing in a full-scale naphtha cracking furnace, a step towards decarbonising petrochemical production without a full plant redesign. A Japanese consortium has achieved an 85% ammonia co-firing rate across a full-scale naphtha cracking furnace, a milestone the group says clears one of the toughest technical barriers to decarbonising petrochemical production. NEDO, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, ran the demonstration together with Mitsui Chemicals, Maruzen Petrochemical, Toyo Engineering and Sojitz Machinery, testing a furnace fitted with a newly developed ammonia-fired burner. The 85% figure covers the entire furnace on a…
China’s CESTRI has opened a demonstration plant that turns coal fly ash into fly ash geopolymer concrete, a cement-free binder the institute says cuts emissions and costs against Portland cement. The CHN Energy Science and Technology Research Institute (CESTRI) has opened a demonstration base in China that converts coal fly…
Rohrdorfer has co-fired hydrogen on the clinker kiln at its Gmunden works in Austria, the first trial of its kind at an Austrian cement plant, though the producer says the fuel still costs far too much. Austrian cement producer Rohrdorfer has run the first large-scale hydrogen combustion test at an…
Holcim Germany has commissioned a membrane-based carbon capture demonstration at its Höver cement plant in Lower Saxony, capturing up to 10,000 tonnes a year and targeting 90% of site emissions after expansion. Holcim Germany has commissioned a membrane-based carbon dioxide capture demonstration plant at its Höver cement works in Lower…
Aircapture and NGK have commissioned a direct air capture unit at AIZAWA Concrete’s Fukushima site, testing NGK ceramic substrates in commercial conditions and looking at concrete mineralisation as an outlet for the captured gas. Aircapture and NGK Corporation have started a joint direct air capture demonstration at AIZAWA Concrete Corporation’s…
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BMW’s Car2Car consortium has shown that additional sorting can strip copper from end-of-life vehicle scrap well enough to make flat steel for cars, with more than 100,000 series parts already built and installed. High-quality material loops are technically feasible in the automotive industry, and copper-bearing impurities in steel scrap can be reduced notably, BMW said after completing its Car2Car research project with partners, EUROMETAL reported on 27 August. The project focused on steel, aluminium and copper, and also considered other materials including glass. BMW’s consortium included Scholz Recycling, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe and Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung, alongside academic partners such as…
UNEP says copper demand will rise more than 40% by 2040 while mined output peaks around 2030, leaving a projected shortfall of 6.5 million tonnes within the next five years. Demand for copper will rise more than 40% by 2040 while mined production is expected to peak around 2030 and then flatten or decline, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. The projection appears in a UNEP article published on 27 August on securing the materials the energy transition needs. Copper carries electrification. Electric vehicles use up to four times as much of it as traditional combustion engines, and it…
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The African Development Bank has approved a $10 million pre-investment facility to Hyphen Hydrogen Energy’s ambitious green ammonia project in Namibia, aiming to transform the region into a global hydrogen export hub and bolster Africa’s role in the green energy transition. The African Development Bank has approved a $10 million pre‑investment facility to Hyphen Hydrogen Energy to advance a planned green ammonia project in Namibia that the company values at more than $10 billion. According to the original report from the African Development Bank, the loan, sourced from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), will finance front‑end engineering and…
A new bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to extend and enhance financial incentives for sustainable aviation fuel producers, potentially accelerating decarbonisation efforts in the aviation sector amid industry-supported and critical debates. A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on 9 December 2025 seeks to restore a targeted tax incentive for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producers and extend the broader clean fuels credit, measures backers say are necessary to scale domestic SAF production and decarbonise aviation supply chains. The Securing America’s Fuels (SAF) Act, led by Representatives Sharice Davids (D‑KS) and Mike Flood (R‑NE),…
Researchers and industry in Ireland are adopting lessons from Roman mortar techniques to develop durable, low-carbon concrete mixes, promising significant reductions in construction emissions and enhanced longevity of infrastructure. When a fragment of a Roman hypocaust survives nearly two millennia in London clay, it does more than spark curiosity about ritual and empire; it invites engineers to re-examine the materials that built long-lived infrastructure. According to the original report, Roman builders mixed lime with volcanic pozzolans and coarse aggregate to make a concrete that not only endured but in places grew stronger with age. The Pantheon’s unreinforced dome , a…
Researchers at EPFL have developed atom-thin pyridinic-graphene membranes that promise significant reductions in energy, footprint, and costs for CO2 removal from industrial flue gases, with potential to disrupt current capture technologies. Carbon-capture membranes made from atom-thin pyridinic-graphene could sharply reduce the energy, footprint and cost of removing CO2 from industrial flue gases, according to a new techno‑economic assessment that models real operating conditions and cost scenarios for power, coal and cement plants. According to the original report from researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the single‑layer graphene sheets contain engineered nanopores that favour CO2 transport and combine…
Cool Planet Technologies announces a major milestone with successful full-scale testing of its third-generation membrane carbon‑capture module, paving the way for industrial deployment at a German cement plant and potentially transforming decarbonisation efforts in hard-to-abate sectors. Cool Planet Technologies said it has successfully completed full-scale testing of its third‑generation membrane carbon‑capture module, a step the company describes as a key de‑risking milestone for industrial deployment. According to the original report, tests at Cool Planet’s Grimsby facility in the UK demonstrated capture flow rates of up to 37,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of CO2 with recovery of about 95 per cent,…
Ember’s latest analysis reveals utility-scale batteries near $65/MWh outside China and the US by October 2025, making dispatchable solar increasingly viable and transforming global energy markets. A new analysis by energy think tank Ember signals a watershed moment for solar-plus-storage: utility-scale batteries, outside China and the United States, now cost around $65 per megawatt-hour (MWh) to store electricity as of October 2025, making dispatchable solar broadly economically feasible. According to the original report, Ember’s assessment draws on recent auction results in Italy, Saudi Arabia and India and interviews with active developers across global markets. The think tank calculates a full…
The US petrochemical industry leverages regional feedstock abundance, digitalisation, and regulatory foresight to unlock high-margin opportunities, with specialised advisory playing a key role in navigating complexities and securing investor confidence. The United States’ petrochemical equipment market offers a rare combination of scale, capital intensity and technical specificity that can deliver outsized returns for firms able to navigate its regulatory, logistical and procurement complexities. According to the original report, abundant, low‑cost ethane and propane from US shale plays, together with significant new downstream capacity in the Gulf Coast and the Appalachian Basin, has re‑shaped demand for high‑performance process equipment, from crackers…
Montreal-based PyroGenesis has secured a confidential contract with a leading global battery recycler to test high-temperature plasma for sustainable lithium-ion battery material recovery, signalling a disruptive shift in the reusability of EV batteries. PyroGenesis, the Montreal-based plasma-technology firm, has signed a confidential testing contract with one of the world’s largest battery recyclers to assess the use of high‑temperature plasma in lithium‑ion battery material recovery and new battery production. According to the announcement, the programme , scheduled to run from Q4 2025 into Q1 2026 , will test PyroGenesis’ plasma technology as a replacement for fossil‑fuel heating when superheating materials during…
DeepMind’s upcoming London laboratory aims to dramatically shorten materials discovery cycles using AI and robotics, targeting innovations in energy storage, superconductors, and sustainable technologies as part of the UK government’s industrial renewal strategy. Google DeepMind will open an automated materials‑science laboratory in London in 2026 as part of a partnership with the UK government, aiming to use large AI models and robotics to shorten the cycle from materials design to physical validation from years to months. According to the original report in the Financial Times and official statements from the UK government and DeepMind, the facility will combine DeepMind’s Gemini…
GridBeyond’s latest report highlights a dramatic shift in electricity demand driven by digital infrastructure, prompting a rethink of grid planning, resilience, and renewable integration ahead of 2026. GridBeyond’s sixth annual Global Energy Trends report, titled Global Energy Trends 2026: Caught in the Crosswinds, frames 2025 as the year the energy transition was fundamentally reshaped by a new, concentrated wave of electricity demand driven by digital infrastructure. According to the original report, AI computing, hyperscale data centres, electric vehicles, heat pumps and an expanding array of “always-on” smart devices combined to produce a surge in power consumption that is changing how…
