Defense conglomerate Rheinmetall AG announces on June 16, 2025 that it is joining forces with German cleantech company Ineratec to facilitate scalable power-to-liquid (PtL) solutions across defence and critical infrastructure sectors to substitute fossil fuels.

Rheinmetall AG and Ineratec seek to develop energy systems that produce carbon-neutral synthetic fuels on-site, for “hospitals, critical infrastructure, and armed forces alike (that) require a stable, independent, and clean fuel supply – in peacetime and during crisis.”

The statement included an interesting remark, “that the military sector can be decarbonised with no changes to current vehicle technologies via access to Ineratec’s systems”.

Ineratec recently opened a power-to-liquid plant for e-fuels and e-chemicals in Frankfurt with a capacity to produce up to 2,500 tonnes annually.

Om May 23, 2025 the Dutch Defence ministry published a map of military locations that will be need to be empowered in the coming years, in anticipation of the upcoming NATO meeting on June 24-25, 2025 in The Hague, on increasing military spending (to 5%). The “Draft Outline for a National Programme for Room for Defence” with as subtitle “Room for Peace, Security and Protection” refers to 475 objects and 11.000 buildings that will need to be renovated (3.500 buildings), upgraded or built.