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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 …

Italy

Octopus to install 99-MW Italian battery with ZE Energy

Renewables investor Octopus Energy Generation has teamed up with French solar-plus-storage specialist ZE Energy to build a 98.5-MW/895-MWh battery project in It…

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 …

China

Chinese Scientists Achieve Mass Production of High-Purity Silicon-28 Isotope for Quantum Computing

Engineers at the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry, a Tianjin-based subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC), …

Brazil

Brazil's Vale plans to invest $2.6 billion in decarbonization initiatives

Brazilian miner Vale plans to invest up to 13 billion reais ($2.56 billion) in ​decarbonization initiatives to meet its voluntary emissions reduction ‌targets…

Oil & Gas Trade

S. Korea, Saudi Arabia sign agreement on crude oil, gas cooperation

South Korea and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement to seek cooperation in the energy resources industry, including crude oil and natural gas, amid recent vol…

China

China's top coal region to expand coal-to-oil output in energy security push

China’s top coal-producing region plans to build the country’s largest base for turning coal into oil, gas and chemicals to help ​reduce reliance o…

Electric Vehicle Charging

Optimus Energy Solutions Acquires South Carolina EV Fast-Charging Network

Optimus Energy Solutions (OES) has acquired and will continue operating a major electric vehicle fast-charging network in South Carolina. Originally developed t…

United States

Voltus Acquires Brightfield AI to Accelerate Energy Storage Deployment

Voltus, Inc., the leading virtual power plant (VPP) operator and distributed energy resource (DER) platform, announced on June 10 its acquisition of Brightfield…

Portugal

Portugal Approves GreenH2Atlantic Hydrogen Project

The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) has issued a conditional favourable opinion on the GreenH2Atlantic hydrogen project in Sines, in the region of Set&uacut…

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 …

China

Failure Rate Dropped from Industry Average 18% to 0.3%: Zhang Ying Reshapes Industrial Measurement Reliability Standards with Ultra-High-Temperature Molten Salt Measurement Technology

In the industrial measurement and control and energy equipment sector, long-standing pain points—including measurement instability under ultra-high-temperature…

United States

Qualitas Energy Acquires 164 MW Solar Project in US

Qualitas Energy, an investment firm specializing in renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure, has acquired a development-stage solar …

United States

The Geysers Geothermal Complex Completes 25-Megawatt Expansion Project, Strengthening California Grid Reliability

Calpine, a business unit of Constellation, has announced the completion of a 25-megawatt (MW) expansion project at The Geysers geothermal complex located in Son…

Gas turbine engine

US lab’s rotating detonation engine breakthrough could boost gas turbine efficiency

Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have designed and tested a key component for rotating detonation engines (RDEs), an emerging com…