“Nuclear power is one of the most promising approaches for efficient, massive and CO2-free hydrogen production,” said Mikhail Chudakov, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy. “High temperature gas cooled reactors are considered to be the most suitable reactor type for nuclear hydrogen production.”

The programme includes €6.9bn of state funding, and €9.5bn of private investments.

The Belgian government released its hydrogen strategy in October and Equinor said the H2BE project would help Belgium deliver on the strategy.

Designs for a $10.7 billion green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have been finalised

The agreement between Masdar and Engie was signed during French President Emmanuel Macron's official state visit to the UAE, Abu Dhabi government's media office said

Converting national and regional natural gas networks to hydrogen could be a powerful decarbonisation solution, by distributing the gas to millions of individual users across the country,

Providing consumers in underdeveloped and remote regions of Russia with reliable, high-quality and environmentally acceptable energy sources with a capacity of up to 400kW, designed for operation in extreme natural and climatic conditions, is a priority task for development of the Russian Arctic.

The UAE's Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade on the sidelines of ADIPEC conference in Abu Dhabi,

UK started last year reducing its support to overseas investments in fossil fuels and totally halted assistance this year amid the clean energy transition that country has embarked on.

A $1.2 billion pilot stage aiming to produce 35,000 tons of green hydrogen is planned for 2022-2024, before a $7.2 billion first productive stage aiming for an output of some 215,000 tons of green hydrogen - enough to power 1.6 million homes.