Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Research have launched a second international funding call to back renewable hydrogen and derivative projects in non-European countries.

MIT researchers have developed CRESt (Copilot for Real-world Experimental Scientists), a multimodal platform that integrates literature, imaging, large language models, active learning, and robotic high-throughput experimentation to optimize materials recipes and accelerate discovery.

The UK government announced that two carbon capture projects — Padeswood (Heidelberg Materials UK) and Protos (Encyclis) — have signed final contracts with the Low Carbon Contracts Company and are ready to begin construction.

The Office of the Governor of California announced that the state has surpassed 201,180 publicly available electric vehicle (EV) charging ports statewide.

Siemens Energy has delivered the first nine of 12 PEM electrolysers to Air Liquide’s 200MW Normand’Hy hydrogen production project in Port-Jérôme, France.

The Industry, Research and Energy committee adopted legislation to amend major EU funding programmes to channel EU funding towards defence and security as part of the ReArm Europe Plan.