Power

Virtual power plants

New Battery-Enabled Virtual Power Plant Taking Shape in Texas

This week, sonnen, a provider of battery and virtual power plant (VPP) technology, shared updates on its residential VPP program in Texas. Partnering with Abund…

Nuclear Reactor

Spain Expands Garoña Nuclear Storage

Spain’s Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has approved the expansion of the used fuel interim dry storage facility at the Santa María de Garoña N…

Nuclear Reactor

Significant Acceleration Imperative for India’s 100 GW Nuclear Target

India is intensifying efforts to expand its nuclear energy capacity from 8 gigawatts (GW) to 100 GW by 2047, according to a recent SBICAPS report. Currently, on…

Pumped Storage

Avaada Group to Develop 3,650 MW Pumped Storage Projects in Maharashtra

Avaada Group, a renewable energy company, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Water Resources Department of the Government of Maharashtra to…

United States

ValorC3 Announces New 10MW AI-Ready Data Centre in Boise

ValorC3 Data Centers will soon begin construction on a new data center in Boise, Idaho, marking its second facility in the city. The project, set to be operatio…

Tidal Energy

Welsh Government Invests £2M in Tidal Power

The Welsh Government has completed a £2 million equity investment in Inyanga Marine Energy Group to support the development of tidal energy technology. Th…

SMR

Pilot Non-nuclear SMR Plant to Be Built in Finnish Coal-Fired Plant

Steady Energy, a Finnish small modular reactor (SMR) developer, has announced plans to build a non-nuclear pilot facility at the decommissioned Salmisaari B coa…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Irish Distributed Solar Hits 66 GWh of Electricity in April, Setting New Record

In April 2025, Ireland’s small-scale solar output reached a new record of 66 GWh, enough to power the monthly average demand of around 188,000 homes. This…

Wind Power Project

Huisman Bags New Sea1 Offshore Contract

Huisman, a Netherlands-based company specializing in heavy lifting equipment, has secured a contract to supply two knuckle boom cranes for Sea1 Offshore’s…

Wave Energy

Carnegie Sets Sights on Deploying CETO Wave Energy Tech in Alaska

Carnegie Clean Energy, an Australian wave energy developer, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chugachmiut, an Alaska Native tribal conso…

Offshore Wind Power

Google, Shell PPA Will Extend Life of Wind Farm

Google and Shell have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to extend the operational life of the NoordzeeWind project, the Netherlands’ first offshore …

Offshore Wind Power

UK Commits to CFD Budget Reforms

The UK government has approved changes to enhance the flexibility of the Allocation Round 7 (AR7) Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, shifting from fixed bu…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Chinese Candu Reactor Sets Operating Records

On May 1, 2025, Unit 1 of the Qinshan Phase III nuclear power plant in Zhejiang province, near Shanghai, was taken offline after operating continuously for 738 …

Power Construction

Europe’s Grid Requires Significant Investment to Avoid Blackouts

A widespread blackout across Spain and Portugal on April 28, 2025, has underscored the pressing need to modernize Europe’s aging power grid. With much of the i…

Solar project

DESRI and Ranger Power Close Finance and Commence 290MW Solar Projects

DE Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a renewable energy assets operator, and Ranger Power, a utility-scale clean power developer, have achieved financial clos…