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United States

Ørsted Begins Commercial Operations at Old 300 Storage in Texas

Aug. 5, 2026 — Ørsted has announced that Old 300 Storage, a 250 MW/500 MWh battery energy storage system in Needville, Texas, has reached commercial ope…

United States

Texas Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Statewide Audit

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a temporary halt to data center connections to the state’s power grid as officials review the sector’s growing im…

China

China Approves Eight New Nuclear Reactors at Four Sites

China has approved the construction of eight new nuclear reactors at four sites, including three pairs of Hualong One (HPR1000) reactors and two Guohe One (CAP1…

United States

First Hydrogen from Lingen Reaches Marl as GET H2 Nukleus Advances

Aug. 4, 2026 — The first renewable hydrogen produced at RWE’s electrolysis site in Lingen, Lower Saxony, has reached Evonik’s Marl Chemical Park in…

United States

RWE and Google Sign 15-Year Power Purchase Agreement for Oklahoma Solar Project

RWE and Google have signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for the full output of RWE’s 155-megawatt Crooked Creek Solar project in McCurtain County, O…

Brazil

ENGIE Awards WEG Contract for Jaguara Hydropower Plant Expansion

ENGIE Brasil has awarded WEG a contract to supply equipment for two new generating units at the Jaguara Hydropower Plant, located on the Rio Grande River on the…

United States

SpaceX Agrees to Remove Temporary Gas Turbines From Colossus Data Center Site by 2027

SpaceX has agreed to begin removing temporary gas turbines that power part of its Colossus AI data center complex, though the final units may remain in place un…

India

India’s Coal Output Rises 7.51% in July 2026 Despite Monsoon Challenges

India’s coal production registered robust year-on-year growth of 7.51% in July 2026, supported mainly by the strong operational performance of Coal India …

OPEC+ Approves September Oil Output Increase as Voluntary Cut Rollback Ends

OPEC+ approved an oil production quota increase of about 188,000 barrels per day from September, the producer group said on August 2, completing the unwinding o…

Japan

RENOVA’s Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant Resumes Normal Operation

July 29, 2026 — RENOVA, Inc. announced that the Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant resumed normal operation on July 25, 2026, as planned, after completing rep…

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…

Hungary

Greenvolt Power to Sell 57.47 MWp Hungarian Solar Project to PPC Group

July 24, 2026 — Greenvolt Power has signed an agreement to sell Kira, a 57.47 MWp solar photovoltaic park in Királyegyháza, southern Hungary, to …

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

Japan Weighs Foreign Bank Financing for U.S. Gas Power Projects

Japan is considering financing from foreign banks for natural gas-fired power generation projects in the United States as part of its $550 billion U.S. investme…

United States

Argent LNG Secures U.S. Approval for Exports to Free-Trade Partners

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved Argent LNG’s request to export liquefied natural gas from its proposed Louisiana terminal to countries that hav…