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Spain

Ford and Geely Reach Deal for EV Production at Spanish Plant

Ford Motor and China’s Geely have reached a landmark agreement on July 22 under which the U.S. automaker will sell part of its Almussafes plant near Valencia, …

United States

Xcel Energy Completes Sherco Solar Phase 3 in Minnesota

July 21, 2026 — Xcel Energy has completed Sherco Solar Phase 3, marking a major step in the company’s effort to transform a retiring coal plant site into…

Gas power plant

Alliant Energy Seeks Air Permit for Morgan Valley Natural Gas Plant Amid Air Quality Concerns

Alliant Energy has submitted a 309-page air quality permit application for its proposed Morgan Valley Natural Gas power plant in Linn County near the Benton Cou…

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…

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

SpaceX to Build 10 GW Solar Manufacturing Facility in Texas

Aerospace company SpaceX has announced that it will build a 10 GW solar manufacturing facility in Bastrop County near Austin, Texas, as part of its aims to laun…

Sweden

Vattenfall officially opens 139MW Bruzaholm wind farm in Sweden

Vattenfall has inaugurated the 139MW Bruzaholm wind farm near Eksjö municipality in Sweden, which is expected to generate 460GW-hours of electricity annual…

Japan

Steam leak prompts shutdown of nuclear reactor in central Japan

A nuclear power plant in Japan’s central Fukui Prefecture temporarily shut down one of its reactors on Friday morning after a steam leak was detected near…

United States

DOE's Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office to Release $430 Million to Improve America's Hydropower Fleet

The Department of Energy’s Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office (H2O) announced it will soon resume negotiations to issue nearly $430 million in payments to…

China

CATL’s Shenxing 3rd Gen Battery Hits Full Charge in Under Seven Minutes

At its CATL Tech Day, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited rolled out the third generation of its Shenxing LFP battery, and the headline number is the ki…

United States

Santa Fe County officials approve massive solar array near Stanley

One of the largest solar and battery energy storage developments proposed in New Mexico has won approval from the Santa Fe County Planning Commission.Thursday n…

Kazakhstan

Construction Kicks Off on Kazakhstan’s 1-GW wind farm

Work on a 1-GW wind farm project has begun near Ekibastuz in the Pavlodar region.source: Kazakhstan Energy MinistryAccording to the Kazakh Ministry of Energy, t…

Philippines

Petron secures 2.5M barrels of Russian crude oil

THE Philippines’ sole oil refinery has secured nearly 2.5 million barrels of Russian crude out of extreme necessity, a stock exchange filing revealed on M…

China

PH, China reopen oil exploration talks

THE Philippines and China have made initial exchanges on potential oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea, nearly four years since previous talks were t…

Nepal

Nepal seeks fourfold increase in hydropower supplies to India

Nepal aims to quadruple hydropower supplies to neighboring India, helping New Delhi meet its growing electricity needs.The Himalayan nation is looking to nearly…