The latest hydrogen industry news, developments, and community updates.
French startup Mantle8 has secured €31 million in Series A funding to develop geological exploration techniques for natural hydrogen, marking a shift toward subsurface hydrogen as an alternative to traditional electrolysis methods.
The European Commission has approved €1.3 billion in German state aid for green hydrogen production, utilizing the European Hydrogen Bank's Auctions-as-a-Service model to support up to 1,000 MW of new electrolysis capacity.
The European Commission has approved a €1.3 billion German state aid scheme to support renewable hydrogen production through the European Hydrogen Bank's Auctions-as-a-Service tool.
Clean energy company Mantle8 raised €31 million in Series A funding to scale its natural hydrogen exploration platform, which uses geoscience and imaging technologies to identify naturally occurring hydrogen reservoirs.
Mantle8, a French natural hydrogen exploration company, has raised €31 million in Series A funding to support exploration and drilling campaigns aimed at identifying commercially viable natural hydrogen reserves.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has shortlisted major renewable hydrogen projects for Round 2 of the Hydrogen Headstart Program, with $1 billion in federal funding allocated to support large-scale production initiatives across multiple states.
Spain's Ministry for the Ecological Transition allocated €439.4 million in national PRTR funds to three green hydrogen projects with combined electrolyser capacity of 250 MW, including Iberdrola's Noon II and Odin plants in Andalucía.
Germany's federal government and Brandenburg state have awarded €350 million to the Brandenburg eSAF project, a sustainable aviation fuel production facility at the PCK refinery in Schwedt developed by ENERTRAG and ZAFFRA.
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously denied Southern California Gas Company's request to recover $266 million in early-stage engineering costs for the Angeles Link hydrogen pipeline from ratepayers, citing lack of immediate customer benefits.
The European Hydrogen Bank's third auction allocated €1.09 billion across nine winning projects, delivering 1.1GW of electrolyser capacity and 1.3 million tonnes of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production over ten years.
MorGen Energy has secured a conditional grant of up to €422.75 million from the European Hydrogen Bank to support its Njordkraft green hydrogen project in Esbjerg, Denmark, marking a key milestone toward final investment decision.
The European Commission has selected nine hydrogen production projects across seven countries to receive €1.09 billion in EU funding, expected to deliver 1.1 gigawatts of electrolyser capacity and produce over 1.3 million tonnes of hydrogen within the first decade.
