White Hydrogen Exploration: Three-Continent Push Tests EU Policy Readiness
A surge in geological H₂ mapping across the US, Canada and Australia is outpacing the EU regulatory frameworks designed to certify and reward it.
EU Regulation · Mobility · Policy · ReFuelEU · 2025–2050
A surge in geological H₂ mapping across the US, Canada and Australia is outpacing the EU regulatory frameworks designed to certify and reward it.
Belgium's €3.5 M national geological hydrogen survey, approved in March 2026, raises immediate questions about whether naturally extracted white hydrogen could qualify under RED III's RFNBO framework — and what…
Sustained natural hydrogen flows measured directly from billion-year-old Canadian Shield rocks reopen a critical policy question: how should EU frameworks classify and certify geological H₂ that requires no electrolysis?
EASA's 2026 ReFuelEU Annual Report confirms EU SAF supply reached 2.8% of aviation fuel in 2025, surpassing the regulation's mandatory 2% first threshold.
Nova Pangaea Technologies has completed endurance trials at its Teesside demonstration plant, a critical milestone as EU ReFuelEU Aviation mandates tighten and 13 Member States face infringement proceedings for failing…
American Airlines and Google have concluded the largest single-corporate SAF certificate agreement on record, covering 35 million gallons over three years — a transaction that illustrates both corporate demand pull…
Climeworks' Mammoth plant captured 675 t CO₂ in H1 2026 — nearly six times its year-earlier output — a benchmark that matters directly for RFNBO and e-fuel certification chains under…
The inauguration of Germany's first membrane-based carbon capture unit at a cement plant signals a critical inflection point for industrial operators navigating RED III obligations and future CO₂ utilisation mandates.
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