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Sweden

Application submitted for Swedish SMR plant

Kärnfull Next has submitted an application to build a power plant based on small modular reactors in the municipality of Valdemarsvik in Östergöt…

Egypt

BP and ADNOC’s JV ready to kick off Mediterranean gas hunt with Valaris rig

Arcius Energy, an affiliate of the UK-headquartered BP and the UAE’s ADNOC, has set the stage to embark on a multi-well drilling campaign off the coast of Egyp…

Methane

California regulator conditionally approves first RNG contract under state biomethane procurement programme

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has conditionally approved a long-term biomethane procurement contract between Anaergia's SoCal Biomethane…

Energy Storage System

Quinbrook bags EPBC Act approval for 780MW Supernode North BESS in Australia

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has received environmental clearance for its Supernode North battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Queensland, Austr…

Ireland

Renewable energy producer Statkraft hits 500MW installed solar milestone

Renewable energy firm Statkraft has activated two new solar farms in Ireland, bringing the amount of solar energy it is feeding into the grid here to above half…

LNG

Samsung Heavy Industries Secures Two LNG Carriers

Samsung Heavy Industries announced on the 23rd that it signed a contract with an Oceania-based shipping company for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers wor…

Nuclear Reactor

Tepco Restarts No. 6 Reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Plant After Part Replacement

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) announced on Sunday that the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture has resum…

United States

California Approves First SB 1440 RNG Supply Project for Pipeline Injection

The California Public Utilities Commission has conditionally approved a long-term renewable natural gas (RNG) supply contract tied to Anaergia’s SoCal Biometha…

India

Power Grid board approves Rs 705 crore investment for procurement of transformers and reactors

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has approved an investment of Rs 705.30 crore for the procurement of cold spare transformers and reactors, as pa…

Geothermal Drilling

Croatia looks to expand geothermal drilling campaign and develop drilled sites

From 2025 to 2026, the Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency (AZU) undertook a campaign to drill one exploratory geothermal well each at four sites, with local company Cr…

SMR

X-energy, Talen to assess deployment of multiple SMR plants

US advanced nuclear technology developer X-energy Reactor Company has signed a Letter of Intent with Talen Energy Corporation to assess deploying X-energy's…

Nuclear Reactor

Aalo completes assembly of experimental reactor

Aalo Atomics has held a ceremony to unveil its completed Critical Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company said it expects the reactor to achi…

Japan

US, Japan announce $40B nuclear power project

The United States and Japan announced Thursday a $40 billion project to build nuclear reactors in Tennessee and Alabama, after a meeting of the two countries’ …

Estonia

Estonia moves toward nuclear energy with draft law

The Estonian government on Thursday endorsed a draft Nuclear Energy and Safety Act and forwarded it to the Riigikogu, the national parliament, for deliberation.…

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan updates on nuclear energy, uranium plans

An intergovernmental agreement with Russia on the construction of the Balkash Nuclear Power Plant, and the signing of an EPC contract, are among priorities set …