Sustainable Energy
EcoJet Airlines, a Scotland-based startup aiming to pioneer the world's first fully electric passenger airline, has filed for voluntary liquidation after failing to secure necessary funding. The company, founded in 2023, sought to retrofit existing aircraft with hydrogen-electric propulsion systems to cut emissions. Despite ambitious plans for routes starting between Edinburgh and Southampton, it never operated any commercial flights.
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The Commercial International Bank Egypt (CIB) has signed a financing and partnership agreement to support Elsewedy Electric Power Systems Projects in building a combined-cycle power plant in Hungary, worth €58m (around $62.9m). The project is the largest of its kind in Hungary in decades and will become the country's first hydrogen-ready power plant.