Mining companies are increasingly adopting digital twin technology to enhance safety, optimise operations, and promote sustainability amid rising risks and complex site environments, with industry leaders integrating AI and IoT for smarter decision-making. Digital twin technology is shifting from experimental novelty to operational necessity across modern mining value chains, offering operators richer situational awareness and safer, more predictable decision-making in increasingly complex sites. Even as Australian mines , long among the global leaders in automation since Rio Tinto’s first fully autonomous haul trucks a decade ago , extract clear safety benefits from removing people from the most hazardous tasks, industry…

Industry warns that the UK’s efforts to achieve its industrial decarbonisation targets are at risk of stalling without firm, transparent policy and funding commitments, amid recent project reversals and funding uncertainties. The UK’s effort to decarbonise its industrial heartlands risks losing momentum unless ministers lay down firmer, more predictable policy and funding frameworks for large-scale projects, industry lawyers and developers warn. According to Energy Voice, two high-profile reversals in December 2025 have crystallised those concerns. bp withdrew its development consent order application for H2Teesside, effectively abandoning the blue hydrogen project planned for Redcar, after the land earmarked for the scheme…

Spain unveils a €355 million funding call under the second phase of its Renoval scheme, targeting hydrogen technologies to accelerate industrial decarbonisation and boost the country’s position as a European hydrogen hub amid extensive public and private sector investments. Spain has opened a €355 million funding call under the second phase of its Renoval scheme that explicitly includes hydrogen technologies, offering a new pool of support for industrial decarbonisation projects that convert existing manufacturing lines. According to h2-view, the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) approved the call to be financed from Spain’s post‑Covid recovery funds. Hydrogen equipment…

Impala Terminals has gained approval to build a 1.5km hydrogen pipeline at Milford Haven, linking MorGen Energy’s planned 20MW green hydrogen facility to local industries, supporting regional decarbonisation and infrastructure expansion. Impala Terminals has secured local regulatory approval to construct a 1.5km hydrogen pipeline at its Milford Haven terminal in Pembrokeshire, a development that plugs directly into MorGen Energy’s planned 20MW green hydrogen production facility and leverages the site’s existing tanks, pipelines and jetty to supply nearby industrial users. According to the company announcement and project partners, the pipeline will connect the electrolyser plant to on‑site storage and distribution infrastructure…

Colombia launches a nationwide initiative inviting innovative projects to demonstrate and scale low-emission hydrogen technologies, as part of its strategic move toward industrial decarbonisation and energy export potential. The Colombian government has launched a 60‑day nationwide call for proposals to pilot low‑emission hydrogen technologies across transport, industry and power, a move designed to translate its 2021 Hydrogen Roadmap from planning into operating projects. According to Hydrogen Fuel News, the CfP invites startups, utilities, OEMs and research institutes to propose pilots that deploy, adapt or test technologies such as modular electrolysis powered by solar, wind or hybrid renewables; hydrogen blending into…

A pioneering plant in Denmark has begun operation, demonstrating the potential for flexible green ammonia production that could revolutionise renewable energy utilisation in heavy industry and shipping, with significant emissions savings and cost reductions. What is being billed as the world’s first dynamic green ammonia plant has begun operation in Ramme, near Lemvig in Northwest Jutland, Denmark, in a collaboration between Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy and Vestas. According to the announcement by Topsoe and partner communications, the demonstration facility directly couples local wind and solar generation to an electrolyser and ammonia synthesis loop that can vary its output to match intermittent…

The European Union plans to expand its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to cover finished products like washing machines and car parts, sparking debate over trade impacts and industrial decarbonisation strategies. The European Union is moving to broaden the scope of its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), extending climate-related import fees beyond raw materials and electricity to a wide range of manufactured goods, industry stakeholders and officials say. According to reporting by E&E News, the Commission is considering adding finished products such as washing machines and car parts to the scheme. Commission documents and summaries indicate a package that would bring…

As global industrial heat demand continues to grow, experts highlight the potential of electric solutions like heat pumps, MVR, and ohmic heating to drive decarbonisation, amid challenges in cost, technology, and grid capacity. Industrial heat accounts for more than a fifth of global energy consumption, and roughly two thirds of industry’s energy use is dedicated to heat generation. With around 80 per cent of that thermal demand still met by fossil fuels, the decarbonisation of industrial heat is central to meeting net‑zero targets and to reducing exposure to volatile fuel markets. Electrification of processes from space heating to high‑temperature furnaces…

Researchers at Harvard and MIT have outlined a voluntary international carbon‑pricing coalition targeting heavy industry, promising significant emissions reductions and a new source of public finance, amid ongoing diplomatic efforts ahead of COP30. Researchers at Harvard and MIT have outlined a proposal for a voluntary international carbon‑pricing coalition targeting heavy industry that, they say, could sharply increase emissions abatement while generating substantial public finance for decarbonisation and just transition measures. According to the report by the Global Climate Policy Project at Harvard and MIT, the scheme focuses on four energy‑intensive sectors, steel, cement, aluminium and fertiliser, which together account for…

Britain’s aerospace and advanced manufacturing industries are increasingly turning to application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) as a strategic solution to enhance performance, reduce energy consumption, and strengthen domestic supply chains amid government support and international competition. Aerospace and advanced manufacturing in the UK are converging on a single technical linchpin: microelectronics. In a sector where every gram saved and every millisecond of latency reduced translates directly into lower fuel burn, higher reliability and clearer commercial advantage, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are emerging as a pragmatic route to the performance and efficiency gains government strategy documents and industry leaders say the country…