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United States

Framatome Secures NRC Approval to Manufacture Advanced Reactor Fuel Enriched Up to 10%

Framatome’s nuclear fuel manufacturing facility in Richland, Washington, has received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license a…

South Africa

Malawi Switches On 20-MW Battery Storage System to Stabilize Power Supply

July 27 — Malawi has completed the installation of a 20-megawatt utility-scale battery storage system, the only facility of its kind in southern Africa outside…

Japan

Renova Temporarily Suspends Operations at Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Plant

Japan-based Renova Inc. announced on July 21 that operations at its 74.8-megawatt Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant have been temporarily suspended for repair…

South Korea

Hyundai Motor Group Opens First Integrated Waste-to-Hydrogen Facility in Cheongju

Hyundai Motor Group has opened HTWO ENERGY Cheongju, its first Group-operated integrated waste-to-hydrogen production and refueling facility, establishing a loc…

China

Exclusive Interview: Liu Liqin – Pioneering Solutions to Extreme Climate Water System Bottlenecks, Cutting System Failure Rate Below 0.5%

Northern Chinese wind farms face temperatures as low as -30°C, coastal power plants suffer high salinity and humidity, and western photovoltaic bases operat…

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…

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…

Combined cycle power plant

Fermi taps Primoris for Texas power plant construction

Fermi announced on June 30 it selected Primoris Services Corporation to engineer and construct balance of plant infrastructure for six SGT-800 gas turbines at i…

Canada

Moment Energy Opens World's Largest EV Battery Repurposing Facility in Canada

Moment Energy has officially inaugurated Megafactory 1, which it describes as the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) battery repurposing facility, bringi…

United States

SpaceX plans to build 'Starpipe' natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets

SpaceX plans to begin next month building an eight‑mile (13-km) natural gas pipeline called "Starpipe" to its Texas launch facilities, according to county fili…

United States

Chevron signs power supply deal with Microsoft for Texas data center

Chevron said on June 22 it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to develop a co-located ​facility that would provide natural-gas fired power to the technolog…

India

Reactor pressure vessel installed at Indian nuclear plant

The 320-tonne vessel which will house the core of unit 5 at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in India was lifted by crane into place in a precision operation …

United States

Meta signs solar power deals for five Arkansas projects, including Cherry Valley site

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has reached agreements to buy solar power from five facilities in Arkansas. One of those is in Cross County.Cherry Valley …

Offshore Wind Power

UK and Japan Sign Offshore Wind Compact to Unlock £9 Billion in Japanese Investment

The UK and Japan have agreed an Offshore Wind Compact that will facilitate up to £9 billion (approximately USD 21.1 billion) of Japanese investment in UK …

South Africa

Mulilo reaches financial close on BESS project in South Africa

Mulilo has reached financial close on the Hartebeesfontein battery energy storage system (BESS) project, a 77 MW/308 MWh facility located near Klerksdorp in the…