Belgium’s CMB.Tech said the world’s largest green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol project should start in January 2026. In the meantime, Gascade has converted 400 kilometers of gas pipeline for hydrogen transport.
CMB.Tech has signed an offtake agreement for green ammonia produced by CEEC Hydrogen Energy in Jilin Province, China, and will own a minority stake in privately held Jiangsu Andefu, one of China’s largest ammonia supply chain companies. “The first phase of the CEEC Songyuan project will produce approximately 158,000 tons of renewable ammonia annually. Construction of the project was completed at the end of September 2025 and commercial operation is scheduled for January 2026,” said the Belgium-based company. CMBT confirmed this pv magazine that the project in northeastern China is the “largest green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol project in the world.” The company added that “CEEC Phase I has a total installed power generation capacity of 800 MW of integrated wind and solar energy.”
The Netherlands’ Hynetten and two German companies, Thyssengas H2 and Gasunie Deutschland has signed an agreement to jointly develop a cross-border hydrogen transport infrastructure between the Netherlands and Germany. “The connection will consist largely of existing natural gas pipelines, which will be repurposed for hydrogen transport,” the three companies said, adding that the agreement includes the schedule, location, capacity and other specifications. Hynetwork is a subsidiary of Gasunie, a Dutch natural gas infrastructure and transport company.
Deutsche ReGaswhich was selected by the state of Baden-Württemberg to receive funding for the hydrogen project “H₂ Hub Bruchsal”, accepted the grant agreement this week. “The financing, which amounts to approximately ten million euros, will go towards the construction of a 15 MW electrolysis plant in Bruchsal, which is expected to supply 1,200 to 2,250 tonnes of green hydrogen annually to companies and municipal customers in the region from 2028.” said the German gas company. The Deutsche ReGas project is part of the German state’s first funding call, which will create 55 megawatts of new electrolysis capacity in Baden-Württemberg. The state is making a total of 50.7 million euros available for eight selected projects.
An international consortium of 38 scientists published a piece of paper in it Nature conclude that rising global hydrogen emissions over the past thirty years have contributed to planetary warming and increased the impact of methane. “More hydrogen means less detergents in the atmosphere, which allows methane to persist longer and therefore warm the climate longer,” said lead study author Zutao Ouyang, an assistant professor of ecosystem modeling at Auburn University. If underlined by Stanford researchershydrogen interacts with other gases and indirectly warms the atmosphere roughly 11 times faster than carbon dioxide during the first 100 years after release, and about 37 times faster during the first 20 years. “The biggest cause of the increase in hydrogen in the atmosphere is the oxidation of more and more methane in the atmosphere,” said Robert Jackson of Stanford. In other words, methane breaks down into hydrogen in the atmosphere, and an increasing concentration of methane translates into a higher concentration of hydrogen. Hydrogen, in turn, ensures that methane gas emissions last longer.
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