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Canada

Alberta Awards Eavor $8 Million to Advance Geothermal Drilling Technology

July 7, 2026 — Eavor Technologies Inc. has been awarded $8 million from the Government of Alberta’s industry-supported Technology Innovation and Emission…

United States

SMT Energy, Axpo Sign Seven-Year Battery Storage Swap Agreement in ERCOT

July 7, 2026 — SMT Energy and Axpo have signed a 120 MW, seven-year battery storage swap agreement linked to SMT Energy’s Houston IV BESS, a newly operational…

France

Airbus and MTU Plan Joint Venture for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Aircraft Engine

Airbus and MTU Aero Engines plan to deepen their collaboration by creating a joint venture focused on developing and commercialising a fully electric hydrogen f…

China

Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 Connected to Grid for First Time

Unit 2 of the Taipingling nuclear power plant in Guangdong province has supplied electricity to the grid for the first time, China General Nuclear announced.(Im…

Poland

Uniper and Respect Energy Sign Six-Year Solar Power Purchase Agreements in Poland

Uniper and Respect Energy have signed six-year Power Purchase Agreements for electricity and Guarantees of Origin generated from four new Uniper photovoltaic as…

Gas turbine engine

Gas-fired power plant planned for Banana

Plans for a new Central Queensland gas turbine power station with a generation capacity of up to 850MW are moving through the approvals process.The gas-fired pl…

Switzerland

Metacon Secures Up to SEK 111 Million in Klimatklivet Support for Green Hydrogen Plant in Uppsala

Metacon AB has been granted up to SEK 111 million in climate investment support from Klimatklivet to build a 10 MW electrolysis plant in Uppsala, Sweden, for lo…

United States

Tesla Reports Q2 2026 Production, Deliveries and Energy Storage Deployment

Tesla, Inc. reported on July 2 that it produced more than 450,000 vehicles and delivered over 480,000 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026.The company also de…

Spain

Statkraft wins over EUR 38m in aid for wind farm repowering in Spain

Norwegian power company Statkraft has secured more than EUR 38 million (USD 43.3m) in Spanish public funding to repower old wind farms with a combined capacity …

United Kingdom

Polish small nuclear plant developer SGE targets £35 billion fleet in Britain

Poland-based SGE ​plans to build a fleet of 14 small nuclear reactors at a ‌total cost of £35 billion ($46.5 billion), it said on July 2, targeting …

Norway

Statkraft Seeks Licence for New Mår Hydropower Plant in Norway

Statkraft has submitted a licence application to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate for a new Mår power plant in Rjukan, Tinn municipali…

United States

Commonwealth Fusion Joins UK Program to Demonstrate Fusion Fuel Production

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a U.S.-based company working to generate electricity by replicating the process that powers stars, said on July 1 that it is joinin…

South Korea

SK, KKR to launch South Korea renewable energy venture valued at $1.3 bln

Private equity firm KKR and South Korea's SK Inc said ​on July 1 they will launch the ‌country's largest renewable energy platform, valued at 2 tr…

World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending resources to climate change projects

The World Bank Group said on June 29 it will "retire" its previous goal ‌to devote 45% of its annual lending resources to projects with climate co-benefits…

Austria

Vienna Geothermal Test Exceeds Expectations, Could Heat 25,000 Homes

Wien Energie and OMV have reached a major milestone in their deep geothermal project in Aspern, bringing Vienna closer to year-round, climate-neutral heat gener…