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Greek gas grid operator DESFA has opened bidding on an 8.6 million euro ($9.8 million) contract to design the H2DRIA pipeline, a 570 kilometer steel corridor built to carry nothing but pure hydrogen from Corinth to the Bulgarian border (Onyango, 2026). This is not a blending project or a repurposed line running at partial hydrogen content. It is a dedicated, high pressure pipeline designed from the first sketch for 100 percent hydrogen, running parallel to Greece's existing natural gas...

On Vieques, a small island eight kilometers off Puerto Rico's east coast, a Cornell University team is building something that looks less like a hydrogen moonshot and more like an insurance policy. Led by Puerto Rican chemist Héctor Abruña, the researchers are adding a solar powered electrolyzer and hydrogen fuel cells to an existing solar plus battery microgrid on a working farm, La Finca de Hamberto, with deployment of a Nel Hydrogen electrolyzer planned for early 2027 (Tilton, 2026). The...

OMV, the Vienna-based integrated energy and chemicals group whose name traces back to Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung, the Austrian Mineral Oil Administration founded in 1956, has secured a €450 million ($512 million) loan from the European Investment Bank to build a flagship green hydrogen plant in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria. The financing detail matters more than the headline figure suggests. The EIB has called this its largest ever loan to Austria's energy sector, and it will...