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Chemicals firm Evonik has announced that a more-than-50km green-hydrogen pipeline in western Germany is now ready to begin operation.

Indre-et-Loire inaugurates Centre-Val de Loire region’s first green hydrogen station at Sorigny’s Isoparc business park, providing a strategic refueling point for various hydrogen vehicles.

The French government has opened a consultation on its transposition of the EU’s updated Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) into French law, proposing a national target for green hydrogen and its derivatives to make up 1.5% of transport fuel by 2030, as well as strict penalties for non-compliance.

OMV today announced the successful start-up of its 10 megawatts green hydrogen production plant, located at the Schwechat refinery near Vienna, the largest of its kind in Austria.

Fincantieri and Viking announced today the first cruise ship in the world to be powered by hydrogen stored onboard for both propulsion and onboard electricity generation, the “Viking Libra”. The vessel is currently under construction at the Fincantieri Ancona shipyard, with delivery scheduled for late 2026.

A 25km pipeline connecting a 30MW green hydrogen plant to the TotalEnergies refinery in Leuna, Germany, has been commissioned for hydrogen transport following its conversion from natural gas use.

Spain has taken a sweeping step toward dominating Europe’s green hydrogen economy, unleashing €1.22 billion [$1.34 billion USD] in funding for seven hydrogen hub megaprojects totaling 2.3GW across Aragon, Andalusia, Castilla y León, and Galicia. Announced on April 4 by the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE), the funding lands under the H2 Valleys programme, which aims to anchor large-scale domestic hydrogen production and industrial use.

The EU’s Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency has launched a call for €600m ($664m) in funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Energy towards key cross-border infrastructure.

First phase work is now underway on the hydrogen pipeline network of Belgium hydrogen network operator Fluxys Hydrogen, with 2026 targeted for completion.

Germany’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer has gone into operation at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site.