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Sweden

Volvo CE Plans New Crawler Excavator Plant in Sweden

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has announced plans to construct a new 30,000 m² assembly plant for crawler excavators in Eskilstuna, Sweden, dedic…

Nigeria

Dangote Selects Honeywell Technologies for Upgrade Project at Africa’s Largest Petroleum Refinery

Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE has selected Honeywell International Inc. to provide advanced process technology, proprietary catalysts, equip…

Electric Vehicles

China's GWM Targets 300,000 Annual Production With First Europe Car Plant

Great Wall Motor (GWM), a major Chinese automaker, plans to establish its first European manufacturing plant with a target of producing 300,000 vehicles annuall…

Energy Storage Project

MT Group Lands €27.8m BESS Contract

MT Group has secured a €27 million EPC turnkey contract from Pure Energy Solutions to deliver a 35 MW/140 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Rieta…

Electric Vehicles

Magna to Produce China’s GAC Electric Vehicles in Europe

China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) has reached an agreement with Magna to produce its all-electric AION V model at a Magna manufacturing plant in Gr…

Power Construction

Siemens Energy to Invest $2.3 Billion in Power Grid Factories by 2028

Siemens Energy has announced plans to invest approximately 2 billion euros (equivalent to 2.3 billion U.S. dollars) in expanding and modernizing its worldwide p…

Metal

South Africa, EU Sign Critical Minerals Deal, Vow to Defend Multilateralism

South Africa and the European Union reaffirmed their commitment to multilateral cooperation as they signed a partnership agreement on critical minerals, in prep…

Solar Battery (Storage)

Germany’s Largest Solar Battery Storage Hybrid Plant Commissioned

Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy producer, has commissioned Germany’s biggest solar-battery hybrid power plant under the Renewable Energ…

United States

World’s Longest Subsea Cable Completed: Meta’s 2Africa Set to Supercharge Connectivity Across Africa

The 2Africa subsea cable system, one of the largest international telecommunications projects ever deployed, has now completed its core network and is fully ope…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

BMW Secures €273 Million in Public Funding to Scale Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

BMW AG has received approximately €273 million in public funding for its Hy2Move project, aimed at developing hydrogen fuel cell technology for passenger c…

Solar Panel

Holosolis Raises $255 Million to Help Build Solar Panel Factory in France

French company HoloSolis announced that it has secured more than 220 million euros (about $255 million) in financing to support the construction of a large-scal…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

EU Approves $2 Billion Subsidy for German Coal Exit

On Tuesday, the European Commission approved a €1.75 billion (about US $2.03 billion) compensation payment from Germany to Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG (L…

Sweden

Stora Enso’s $5.7b Spin‑off Creates Europe’s Largest Forestry Fund

Stora Enso will spin off its Swedish forest assets into a new publicly listed company, with the demerger expected to be completed in the first half of 2027. The…

Gas power plant

TotalEnergies to Buy 50% of EPH’s Power Assets for $5.9bn

TotalEnergies announced a major step in its gas-to-power integration strategy with an agreement to acquire 50% of EPH’s flexible power generation platform…

France

EDF, OpCore to Develop 4-Billion-Euro Data Centre in France

French utility EDF and OpCore, a joint venture formed by telecoms group Iliad and InfraVia Capital Partners, announced on Monday that they have entered into exc…