Hydrogen economy

Italgas, which two years ago acquired DEPA Infrastructure and renamed Greece's gas grid company Enaon, announced this week it is preparing a total investment of 1 billion euros in Greece as part of the group's 2024-2030 Strategic Plan.

Greece is expanding its plans into the renewable fuel value chain, promising to decarbonize its industry and heavy vehicle transport, with an ambitious green hydrogen production plan to feed the large German market and intermediate points along the axis of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

An investment plan by Advent Technologies in Kozani, northern Greece, worth 64 million euros to develop innovative hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyte systems and create 650 job openings has been removed from the Plan for Just Development Transition because it was "problematic," officials said on Monday.

It never occurred to Baki Bajraktari that the presence of hydrogen in the Bulqize chrome mine where he works in northeastern Albania could be considered good news: a colleague died in an explosion in 2011 when a team hit a gas pocket.

A hydrogen-consuming enzyme from a common soil bacterium is able to generate an electrical current using the atmosphere as an energy source

This had previously only been reached inside hydrogen bombs

When Advent won an international business competition in Athens in 2006, few would have predicted that the company - a spin-off of the Research & Technology Foundation and the University of Patras - would become the protagonist in hydrogen technology.

Hydrogen combustion engines have slowly been entering the serious phase of discussion

After riding a fossil-fuel boom for decades, Gulf Arab states are eyeing "green" hydrogen as they try to transition their economies and ease the climate crisis at a stroke.

Oil producers Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman are investing heavily in the climate-friendly fuel in a search for alternative revenues to crude and gas.

A consortium of businesses and science and technology bodies, led by the Eunice group, has announced an investment of 11 million euros for the construction of a hub for the production and distribution of green hydrogen in Atherinolakkos, Crete.