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Ukraine

Ukraine Adds 415 MW of Wind Power Capacity in First Half of Year.

Ukraine launched 70 wind turbines with a combined capacity of 414.8 MW in the first half of the year, according to the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. The fi…

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…

Canada

Canada Plans New Alberta-to-Pacific Oil Pipeline to Expand Asian Exports

Canada has announced on July 2 plans to build a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific coast, a project aimed at expanding the country’s export capa…

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

UK's National Grid bets $1.75 billion on AI power boom with Joulent investment

Britain's National ‌Grid said on July 1 it will invest $1.75 billion for a 35% stake in Joulent, a U.S. energy platform developing power infrastructure…

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…

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…

Electricity Transmission

Türkiye inks 3 deals to steer Pakistan's power privatization

Türkiye signed three agreements on June 25 with Pakistan, expanding cooperation on electricity distribution, transmission, and market operations as Islamab…

Germany

PNE brings online 18-MW wind farm in Germany

The PNE Group has successfully commissioned the Gnutz Ost wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein. It comprises three modern wind turbines with a total installed capaci…

Sweden

Fortum provides local hydropower to EcoDataCenter in Falun, Sweden

Fortum and Swedish digital infrastructure provider EcoDataCenter have signed a five-year power supply agreement for delivery of 10 MW capacity and Guarantees of…

Venezuela

Venezuela, GE Vernova sign cooperation agreement on power supply

Venezuela's government and electricity supply company GE Vernova signed ​a memorandum of understanding on June 15.Interim ⁠President Delcy Rodriguez said …

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 …

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…

United States

GM to offer EV owners ability to sell power to US electricity grid

General Motors is releasing a software update that allows some U.S. electric-vehicle owners ​to pipe power back to the electric grid, another example ‌of …