Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Oxford PV recorded a power conversion efficiency of 25.6% on a perovskite-silicon tandem solar module that uses a shingled design from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE), according to pv magazine.

The work pairs Oxford PV's perovskite-silicon tandem cells with Fraunhofer ISE's Matrix Shingle module technology for the first time, pv magazine reported.

Two tandem glass-glass modules came out of the collaboration, according to pv magazine: a rooftop module rated at 491 W across 1.92 m², and a bifacial module rated at 546 W across 2.13 m².

Stefan Glunz, head of photovoltaics at Fraunhofer ISE, said the team cut the Oxford PV cells into shingles, laid them out in a matrix structure, joined them electrically with conductive adhesive, and encapsulated them.

Oxford PV showed its first perovskite-silicon tandem solar module, at 26.9% efficiency, in June 2024, pv magazine reported.

According to pv magazine, the company started developing its perovskite tandem modules in 2014 and says it aims to push the technology past 30% efficiency.

Technip Energies, Airbus, Safran and Tereos are collaborating on a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in France that will convert agricultural and biogenic feedstocks into certified jet fuel, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

Each partner takes a defined role in the consortium. Technip Energies will handle process design and engineering for the plant, while Tereos supplies sugar beets, cereals and ethanol, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. Airbus will define aviation requirements and guide certification pathways, and Safran will provide engine performance expertise to ensure systems can safely burn high-blend SAF.

The group has not settled on a production route. Hydrogen Fuel News reported that the consortium has not yet selected a single SAF technology and is weighing different options to balance feedstock sustainability, process efficiency and lifecycle emissions.

Technip Energies spun off from TechnipFMC in 2021, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued parallel show cause orders under section 206 of the Federal Power Act, requiring each of the six regional grid operators it oversees to defend or revise tariffs covering data centers and other large energy users.

The orders came in response to a large load interconnection proceeding that Secretary Wright directed.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Deputy Secretary of Energy James P. Danly commented after the actions taken at the commission's open meeting.

Danly said the announcement showed Chairman Swett was acting on Secretary Wright's directive.

HTEC opened what it says is Canada's first 700 bar commercial heavy-duty clean hydrogen refueling station, sited on Tsawwassen First Nation industrial lands at the Chevron Commercial Cardlock in Tsawwassen, British Columbia.

The station will enable an initial deployment of 12 Class 7 and 8 fuel cell electric trucks, according to HTEC, funded through the B.C. Hydrogen Truck Pilot Project and the B.C. Hydrogen Ports Project.

Harbour Link Container Services and Triple Eight Transport will be the first to lease and operate two Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks using the station, HTEC said.

The Tsawwassen site adds heavy-duty refueling capability to HTEC's Metro Vancouver Hydrogen Transportation Hub, which also includes a 1.8-tonne-per-day clean hydrogen production facility in Burnaby and a light-duty hydrogen refueling network.

HTEC said the station was supported by financing from the Canada Infrastructure Bank and funding from Natural Resources Canada and the Government of British Columbia through its low-carbon fuel program and the Innovative Clean Energy Fund.

The Bonn climate talks ended in gridlock, with countries unable to agree conclusions on at least three major areas of climate action, including adaptation and mitigation, according to Climate Home News. Negotiators invoked Rule 16, pushing the unresolved items forward.

Those issues will be taken up again at COP31 in Türkiye in November, Climate Home News reported.

UN climate chief Simon Stiell said some negotiating rooms showed a tendency towards "you-first-ism", with groups refusing to deliver commitments or allow the process to move forward unless others go first.

On the mitigation work programme, pushback primarily from fossil-fuel producing nations has prevented any meaningful progress since its creation at COP27, according to Climate Home News, as countries have been unable to agree a united vision for its scope and purpose.

COP31 host Türkiye proposed a new electrification target, aiming to raise electricity's share of final energy consumption to 35% by 2035 from about 20% today, Climate Home News reported. The target would accelerate the switch to technologies such as heat pumps, electric vehicles and electric cookers.

Alden Meyer of E3G said there was no sense of urgency at the Bonn climate talks despite mounting climate impacts and sharply higher energy and food prices.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued orders requiring the nation's six major grid operators to propose reforms or justify their existing rules on how data centers and other large customers connect to the electric grid within 60 days, according to Inside Climate News.

Each grid operator and its transmission owners must also submit a report within 30 days describing how they will ensure adequate generation to serve existing and new large loads, Inside Climate News reported. The 60-day deadline applies to the reform proposals or justifications.

The orders trace back to a directive from U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, who last October ordered FERC to begin rulemaking on energy demands and grid stability tied to large customers, particularly data centers for AI and cryptomining, according to Inside Climate News.

Regional grid operators manage the wholesale energy market for two-thirds of the United States, roughly 200 million customers, Inside Climate News reported.

The orders point to disruptions already recorded on the system. After lightning struck a transmission line in Dominion Energy's Virginia territory, 60 data centers simultaneously dropped off the system and switched to backup power, causing a sudden loss of 1,500 megawatts in demand, according to Inside Climate News.

In Texas, ERCOT reported five loss incidents of greater than 100 megawatts from October 2023 to October 2024, Inside Climate News reported.

FERC Chairman Laura Swett said the orders do not intrude on state authority to site and permit generating resources or to set the rates, terms and conditions of retail electricity sales, according to Inside Climate News.

Virginia regulators at the State Corporation Commission are reviewing Dominion's interconnection process for 70 gigawatts of data center requests, Inside Climate News reported.

Two boiling water reactors at India's Tarapur station in Maharashtra are generating again after both sat idle since 2020 for a major overhaul, World Nuclear News reported. The pair, first switched on in 1969, formed the country's first commercial nuclear power plant.

India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board cleared TAPS unit 2 to run again on 7 May, once Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited finished the refit, according to World Nuclear News. The board set a ten-year window for continued operation.

Unit 1 received its own restart permit last December and is back at its rated 160 MWe output. GE built both reactors under a turnkey deal at an original 200 MWe rating before they were cut to 160 MWe gross.

Engineers swapped out the reactor coolant recirculation piping for forged components in corrosion-resistant stainless steel, the regulator said. The work also brought a containment filtered venting system and an alternate cooling water system into service.

The same site runs two Indian-designed pressurised heavy water reactors, Tarapur 3 and 4, which reached the grid in 2005 and 2006, World Nuclear News reported.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) projected a significant supply overhang emerging next year as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz rebounded, according to Semafor Net Zero.

Benchmark crude prices were roughly flat on Friday at around USD 80 a barrel, down more than 25% from a month earlier, Semafor Net Zero reported.

The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz after months of closure could unleash millions of barrels of previously stranded oil shipments, according to Semafor Net Zero.

OPEC pushed back on the forecast. The group told CNBC that the IEA's projection was "not really based on facts and figures," according to Semafor Net Zero.

Vantage Drilling shareholders approved a merger with Eldorado Drilling at a special general meeting held in Bermuda on June 18, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. The deal values Vantage's equity at approximately USD 258 million.

Shareholders voted in favor of all resolutions related to the merger, OEDigital reported. The companies are targeting completion of the transaction at the beginning of the third quarter of 2026.

Eldorado's principal shareholder has committed USD 125 million in equity funding support for the acquisition, according to OEDigital. That support includes new cash equity and the conversion of an existing shareholder loan into equity.

Vantage will survive the transaction as a wholly owned subsidiary of Eldorado and continue operating under the Vantage Drilling International name, OEDigital reported. Following completion, Vantage intends to seek the delisting of its shares from Euronext Growth Oslo.

Solcast expects a developing El Niño to strengthen through 2026 and shift solar irradiance patterns across several major generating regions, according to pv magazine. Warming in the central Pacific is already registering in the data used to track the pattern's strength.

The Niño 3.4 index has climbed past 0.8 C, a reading that points to warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific, according to pv magazine. That figure is the marker Solcast uses to judge how far the pattern has advanced.

During earlier strong El Niño episodes, the sharpest regional irradiance moves between July and September reached roughly 10%, according to pv magazine. Where those moves landed varied widely between regions.

Much of India logged irradiance up to 10% above other years across past strong events, climbing to about 15% above normal in Rajasthan, according to pv magazine. That state hosts some of the world's largest solar plants.

Western and southern South America recorded the clearest declines, with irradiance running around 10% below other years during strong El Niño events, according to pv magazine.

Solcast provides the irradiance data behind these estimates to more than 350 companies managing over 300 GW of solar assets, according to pv magazine.

The Audi plant in Győr, Hungary, has begun series production of the MEBeco electric drive unit, a system also carrying the APP290 designation, according to electrive.

Work to ready the site for the electric powertrain has run since 2022, with a total outlay of EUR 350 million, electrive reported. Of that, the Hungarian government put in EUR 22.5 million toward the project. The company said switching the plant to e-powertrain output keeps 260 jobs in place.

The first model to use the MEBeco/APP290 will be the all-electric Cupra Raval, assembled in Martorell near Barcelona, electrive said. The Raval will carry the motor across four output tiers: 85 kW, 99 kW, 155 kW, and 166 kW in the top VZ trim.

Electrive reports that Cupra rated the VZ at a 175 km/h top speed, 15 km/h above the rest of the Raval range. That performance variant runs from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.8 seconds.

Venture Global secured a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract with EnBW, with deliveries starting this year on top of an existing 20-year, 2-MMtpa agreement between the two companies, according to Rigzone.

The deal follows an expansion of Venture Global's export authorization at its Plaquemines facility. On March 13, 2026, the Energy Department authorized an immediate 13 percent increase in exports from Plaquemines LNG. That order left Plaquemines LNG authorized to immediately export a total of 3.85 Bcf/d to both free trade agreement (FTA) and non-FTA countries, the department said.

Venture Global CEO Mike Sabel said the company's dynamic marketing platform positions it to provide short, medium, and long-term supply solutions, in an online statement cited by Rigzone.

Export volumes rose sharply at the start of the year. In the first quarter of 2026, Venture Global exported 130 cargos and sold 481 TBtu of LNG, up 67 cargos and 253 TBtu from Q1 2025, according to its quarterly report dated May 12, 2026.

For the January to March 2026 quarter, Venture Global recorded USD 4.6 billion in revenue, USD 1.2 million in income from operations, USD 500 million in net profit and USD 1.4 billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

The company set out its shipping outlook for the year. Venture Global expects to export 147 to 154 cargos from Calcasieu and 347 to 369 cargos from Plaquemines in 2026, the report said.

German utility E.ON will extend standardized flexible connection agreements for battery energy storage systems to its German distribution grids before the end of the year, ESS News reported.

The utility will apply the model across all of its distribution system operators, which between them span about 65% of Germany's land area, according to ESS News.

The wider deployment follows a trial run with storage developer Eco Stor in Bollingstedt, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, ESS News reported.

BVES pushed for a criteria-based framework shaped to local network conditions instead of a fixed nationwide contract, imposing only restrictions that are genuinely needed, according to ESS News.

Vitol Group is supplying diesel to Zambia through exclusive access to a pipeline that runs through September, an emergency arrangement the International Monetary Fund has urged authorities to end, according to Rigzone.

Ephraim Munshifwa, permanent secretary at Zambia's energy ministry, told Bloomberg that Vitol is now the sole provider via the Tazama pipeline. The line covers about 60 percent of Zambia's fuel imports, with the remainder arriving by road, according to Rigzone.

Zambia's government in April froze open access to the conduit, which connects the country's copper-rich region to a port in neighboring Tanzania, according to Rigzone. The government said the move would ensure supply security and did not identify which company had taken over the operation.

The arrangement reverses an earlier opening of the line. Zambia granted Vitol and its local partner Agro-Fuel Investments a monopoly on the pipeline in 2022, prompting IMF calls to allow open access, according to Rigzone. After the government did so, the IMF said opening access halved the premium on fuel prices.

Diesel demand in Zambia is concentrated in mining. The industry accounts for about one-third of total diesel demand, according to Rigzone.

ChargePoint will end app and RFID card access for private customers in Europe, with affected accounts permanently closed on June 30, 2026, according to electrive.

Going forward, access to the ChargePoint app and RFID card in Europe will be reserved for users registered via employers, fleet managers, charging point operators, station owners, or leasing providers, electrive reported.

Drivers affected by the change can still charge at ChargePoint stations using contactless bank cards, roaming services or third-party charging apps, according to the company.

ChargePoint cautions that refunds of remaining ChargePoint Wallet balances may take up to 90 days to complete, electrive reported.

The change comes as Europe accounts for a growing share of the company's business. In the fourth quarter of 2025, nearly a quarter of ChargePoint's revenue came from Europe, with a long-term goal of increasing that share to 50% or more, according to electrive.

In March, ChargePoint announced a collaboration with Ford Pro for Germany and the UK, focused on charging solutions for commercial Ford Pro customers at home, in depots, and at workplaces, electrive reported.

Iranian and US officials are due in Switzerland on June 19 to put their signatures on an accord halting the war, Rigzone reported. The two sides plan a separate, later signing rather than a done deal, according to Rigzone.

Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen on June 19 once the accord is signed and mines are cleared from the channel. Iran said vessels moving through the waterway would be regulated jointly by Iran and Oman, according to Rigzone.

The strait carried close to a fifth of global oil supply before the effective blockade, in a market topping 100 million barrels a day, Rigzone reported. Kpler put the count of ships still trapped in the Persian Gulf at nearly 600, with hundreds more held on the far side.

Brent slid more than 4 percent toward USD 83 a barrel after the news broke, according to Rigzone. That drop came off a close last week at the lowest in more than three months.

The UK, France, Germany and Italy signaled Sunday they would lift relevant sanctions if the deal is completed, according to Rigzone.

PPC Blue will roll out more than 600 charging points at Dedeman locations across Romania under a partnership between the Greek charging operator and the DIY retailer, according to electrive. The two companies plan a combined installed capacity of 30 MW.

The deal spans more than 60 Dedeman stores plus two logistics centres, where the partners will build dedicated charging bays for electric trucks. PPC Blue aims to fit 21 stores with charging hardware by the end of 2026.

First chargers are due to switch on in December at stores in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Roman, Alexandria, Târgu Jiu and Onești, according to electrive.

The partnership also folds 60 chargers already running at Dedeman sites into the PPC Blue network, according to electrive. Andreea-Dana Popescu, general manager of PPC Blue Romania, is named on the agreement.

PPC entered the Romanian charging market in 2023, buying Enel Romania from the Italian Enel Group, according to electrive.

Colombia votes June 21 in a presidential runoff that sets the country's next call on oil and gas exploration, with Iván Cepeda of the governing Historical Pact party against Abelardo de la Espriella of the Defenders of the Homeland party, according to Mongabay. De la Espriella's government plan would restart oil and gas exploration and production and treat both as strategic priorities, according to Mongabay.

De la Espriella led the May 31 first round with 43.7%, ahead of Cepeda at 40.9%, according to Mongabay.

That proposal reverses the line held since Petro took office in 2022, when he blocked new oil and gas exploration contracts, according to Mongabay.

Colombia has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions 51% by 2030 and carries a legally binding net-zero target for 2050, according to Mongabay. The country held its First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in April, according to Mongabay.

The Stockholm Environment Institute counts 1,128 oil and gas lease blocks in Colombia, with 13% sitting in the Colombian Amazon across 18 million hectares of forest, according to Mongabay.

The SunZia Transmission line has entered full commercial service, moving renewable power out of New Mexico to customers in the Southwest, Pattern Energy and Hitachi Energy said, according to Electrek.

Electrek reported that the 550-mile HVDC link can deliver as much as 3,000 MW, tying the SunZia Wind project in New Mexico to Arizona and buyers across the western grid. The wind project behind it runs to 3.65 GW across 916 turbines, per Electrek.

The circuit operates at plus or minus 525 kilovolts. Electrek described it as the largest voltage source converter-based HVDC installation in the US and one of the largest in the world.

In its first full year, the project is expected to avoid roughly 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to Electrek.

BYD's Great Tang SUV has logged more than 150,000 orders, a record for a single BYD model, according to Electrek. Stella Li, BYD's executive vice president and head of overseas operations, said the SUV will reach Europe and the Asia-Pacific region by the end of 2026 or early 2027, according to Electrek.

The full-size SUV, sold as the Datang in China, is the company's most-ordered vehicle by that count, according to Electrek.

BYD launched the Great Tang at the Beijing Auto Show on April 24, and preorders topped 100,000 within the first two weeks, according to Electrek. The total has since risen above 150,000.

Pricing starts at about USD 35,500 (239,900 yuan), according to Electrek. Buyers can choose single- or dual-motor powertrains and two battery pack options.

The Flagship trim uses a 130.15 kWh battery rated for a CLTC range of 950 km (590 miles), according to Electrek.

The SUV runs on a 1,000V architecture that recharges from 10% to 70% in five minutes, according to Electrek.

Motilal Oswal Alternates has put ₹750 crore (€69.3 million) into JBM Ecolife Mobility, the Indian electric bus operator said, according to electrive. The capital is earmarked for rolling out roughly 2,000 more electric buses.

JBM Ecolife runs about 3,400 electric buses across India today, electrive reported. The company projects that figure reaching around 5,000 vehicles over the next 12 months once the new funding is deployed.

The operator builds its buses at a Delhi-NCR plant, where annual output can reach 20,000 units, according to electrive.

The expansion is expected to add more than 7,000 jobs, JBM Ecolife said.

Europe's solar module market is pulling back from the extreme oversupply of 2023 and 2024, according to Bart Wansink, CEO of Search4Solar, in comments to pv magazine.

Distributors that often carried 6 to 12 months of module inventory now hold noticeably tighter stock, pv magazine reported. Wansink said the next six months should bring relative pricing stability, with the possibility of modest upward pressure rather than further sharp declines.

The shift is already changing buyer behaviour. Several large procurement organisations have started securing volumes earlier, particularly for utility-scale projects scheduled for delivery in late 2026 and 2027, according to pv magazine.

On technology, TOPCon modules have become the dominant choice in most European tenders, replacing PERC as the default for commercial and utility-scale projects, pv magazine reported.

Polysilicon prices in China dropped for a third consecutive week, the Silicon Industry Branch of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNMIA) reported on June 18.

N-type recharging polysilicon averaged CNY 33,400 (USD 4,594) per metric ton, down 1.47% week-on-week, according to the association. N-type granular silicon averaged CNY 33,000 (USD 4,539) per metric ton, a 1.49% decline.

The association attributed the drop to continued inventory pressure and the restart and ramp-up of output by some producers in June. Those factors reinforced expectations of rising supply and prompted some manufacturers to cut prices to reduce stock levels.

The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero published updated technical guidance for assessing and controlling operational noise from onshore wind turbines on June 19, 2026, replacing the 1996 ETSU-R-97 document, according to the department.

The department said the new guidance should be used by developers of onshore wind planning applications and by planning authorities across the UK, and that the previous ETSU-R-97 guidance should no longer be applied.

The consultation behind the update ran for 8 weeks and received 79 valid stakeholder responses, according to the department. It ran from July 4 to August 29, 2025.

The consultation sought views on decibel-level noise limits and on guidance covering amplitude modulation, according to the department. It also addressed technical updates including sections on financially involved receptors and on cumulative impacts.

The review process traces to 2023, when an independent technical scoping review considered whether the 1996 ETSU-R-97 guidance could be refreshed, according to the department.

Skyborn Renewables will supply Amazon 600 MW of electricity from its planned Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea under a power purchase agreement, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported. The outlet described the contract as the largest single corporate renewable power deal signed in Germany to date.

The contracted volume equals roughly 61% of Gennaker's planned capacity, which reaches up to 976.5 MW, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

Skyborn obtained the construction permit in December 2025, per Offshore Engineer OEDigital. Financial close is set for summer 2026, when construction is due to start, with commercial operations targeted for late 2028.

The contract lifts Amazon's carbon-free energy holdings in Germany to 12 projects totalling more than 1.3 GW of combined capacity, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported.

Germany is aiming for 30 GW of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030, and Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported the project is expected to add to that target while raising domestic renewable output.

Stellantis will offer its upcoming small-car family only with electric drivetrains, according to electrive. Emanuele Cappellano, Head of Stellantis Enlarged Europe, confirmed the plan at the Automotive News Europe Congress in Brussels, ruling out alternative powertrains for the platform.

Stellantis officially confirmed its plans for the new 2CV in May, according to electrive.

The positioning follows a broader powertrain message from the company. In February, when Stellantis announced substantial write-downs related to its battery-electric vehicle business, CEO Antonio Filosa described the company as aiming to become a "beacon of freedom of choice," according to electrive.

The electric-only decision aligns with a regulatory change now in motion. The European Commission plans to introduce a new M1E vehicle class for small electric cars under 4.20 metres in length as part of its Automotive Package from December 2025, according to electrive. That class will be weighted with a factor of 1.3 as a super credit when calculating manufacturers' CO2 fleet emissions.

Energy Transfer announced a project to expand its Nederland NGL Export Terminal, adding 240,000 barrels per day of ethane export capacity and 55,000 bpd of LPG capacity, according to Rigzone.

All of the new ethane export capacity has been committed under long-term agreements running into the 2040s, according to Rigzone.

Energy Transfer expects to bring the Nederland expansion into service in stages from 2028, according to Rigzone. Following completion of additional docks in mid-2029, refrigerated NGL export capacity at Nederland will exceed 1.25 million bpd, according to Rigzone.

Combined with a separate project to raise the Marcus Hook NGL Export Facility's capacity to 420,000 bpd in mid-2027, the Nederland expansion will grow Energy Transfer's total NGL refrigerated export capacity to about 1.7 million bpd, according to Rigzone.

The Nederland terminal has exported over 430 million barrels of ethane since 2021, according to Energy Transfer.

Energy Transfer expects to invest $5 to $5.5 billion in growth projects this year, mainly for its natural gas network, according to Rigzone.

A Musselshell County commissioner who warned that a federal coal bill could strip the county of up to USD 11.6 million in tax revenue was voted out in the Republican primary, losing by 26 percentage points to challenger Mark Olson, according to Inside Climate News. Olson, a Musselshell resident, is the undersheriff in Golden Valley County.

Pancratz reached the USD 11.6 million figure in his work as a risk analyst consultant, tying the potential loss to passage of the Crow Revenue Act combined with high coal prices, Inside Climate News reported.

Sen. Steve Daines introduced that bill, which would move federally held coal to Signal Peak Energy through a land transfer routed via a private intermediary. The transfer would end Musselshell County's cut of the taxes Signal Peak Energy pays to mine coal on federal land.

Signal Peak Energy runs Montana's only longwall coal mine, at Roundup, and ships most of its coal to buyers in Asia, per Inside Climate News.

The company has said the mine could close if it loses a case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. That suit contests the Trump administration's "energy emergency," which opened federal coal to the mine.

Egypt could cut as much as $400 million a year from its LNG import bill by drawing power from Scatec ASA's Obelisk solar and battery project, Chief Executive Officer Terje Pilskog said.

Pilskog tied that figure to an LNG price near $20 per million British thermal units, the level against which Scatec measured Obelisk's displaced imports.

The plant carries a price tag of roughly $600 million and is on track to rank as Africa's largest hybrid solar-and-battery installation once it enters service in the middle of this year. Its output flows to the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company.

Capacity splits between 1.1 gigawatts of solar generation and 200 megawatt-hours of storage.

The pricing benchmark behind the savings math has moved. Benchmark European gas topped $20 per million British thermal units during the opening weeks of the Iran war, then retreated to roughly $14 per million British thermal units.

Obelisk is not Scatec's only deal at that scale in the country. The developer sealed a power-purchase agreement last year with Egypt Aluminium covering a project matching Obelisk's solar and storage capacity.

FAW Jiefang completed a full-condition, systematic test of a sodium-ion battery in heavy-duty trucking that ran for nearly seven months and covered more than 15,000 km, according to Electrek.

The 339 kWh pack was co-developed by FAW and battery supplier Zhongke Haina. At -40C, the pack retained more than 90% of its usable capacity, Electrek reported.

Zhongke Haina says a full charge takes 20 to 25 minutes. The battery has a cycle life exceeding 8,000 cycles under fast charging conditions, according to the supplier.

Other Chinese manufacturers are scaling sodium output. CATL has committed more than USD 700 million to build a 40 GWh annual sodium battery production capacity plant in Fujian, Electrek reported. BYD claims it has developed a new long-life sodium battery good for more than 10,000 charging cycles.

Tesla lodged a trademark application for Megapod, a product it describes as modular AI data center hardware, Electrek reported. The application, serial number 99893717, went to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through the company's longtime intellectual property counsel, according to Electrek.

Tesla already runs its own AI training hardware. Electrek reported that the Cortex cluster at Gigafactory Texas uses roughly 67,000 Nvidia H100-equivalent graphics processing units.

The filing comes after Tesla wound down an earlier in-house effort. According to Electrek, the company killed its Dojo supercomputer in August 2025, and Elon Musk called the Dojo 2 design an evolutionary dead end after much of the team departed.

Musk's separate AI venture already buys Tesla equipment. Electrek reported that xAI has purchased roughly USD 1 billion of Tesla Megapacks to power its training runs.

Tesla shares have fallen this year. According to Electrek, TSLA is down more than 20% year-to-date in 2026, weighed by the end of the electric vehicle tax credit and shrinking margins.

Hydro-Québec moved about 2.4 terawatt-hours across the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line through the end of April, according to Grist. Massachusetts had contracted for 9.55 terawatt-hours of hydropower each year, roughly 20 percent of the state's annual electricity demand.

Electricity started flowing from Canada into Maine on the line in January, Grist reported. Since the opening, there have been roughly 27 days when nothing at all crossed the route, commonly called NECEC.

Hydro-Québec spokesperson Lynn St-Laurent tied the most recent stoppage to "technical difficulties" in a written statement.

The line has not run in one direction only. During the first four months of this year, more than 500 gigawatt-hours flowed the other way, into Canada on the Phase 2 line, according to Grist. Volumes were far larger before the current arrangement took hold: in 2019, more than 12 terawatt-hours of hydropower reached the New England grid over the Phase 2 line.

Royal Enfield's electric sub-brand Flying Flea has begun handing its first electric motorcycle, the FF.C6, to customers, with the earliest deliveries taking place in Bengaluru, India, Electrek reported.

Local media cited by Electrek put the FF.C6's Indian price at 279,000 rupees, roughly US$3,200.

On a full charge, the bike carries a claimed range of up to 154 km, or 96 miles, under the IDC rating, according to Electrek.

The FF.C6 debuted as a lightweight urban model that draws its name and design cues from the Flying Flea motorcycles British paratroopers rode during World War II, per Electrek.

Royal Enfield has said exports remain an important focus, though export timelines and destinations have not been announced, according to Electrek.

The Baleine field's third development phase should raise output to about 150,000 bpd, with associated natural gas routed to Ivory Coast's domestic power supply, according to World Oil.

Eni operates the field alongside Petroci and Vitol, World Oil reported.

VAALCO Energy and its partner CNR International are readying a fresh drilling program on Block CI-40, tied to a wider redevelopment and production optimization effort, according to World Oil.

Murphy Oil is pressing ahead with a multi-well campaign offshore Ivory Coast aimed at the Civette, Caracal and Bubale prospects, World Oil reported.

Petrobras has picked up several offshore exploration blocks in the country, according to World Oil.

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman of the African Energy Chamber, called the offshore activity "a clear acceleration of upstream momentum".

Adura has submitted responses to requests for additional information from the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED) on its Jackdaw and Rosebank developments, moving both projects closer to final approvals before production can begin, according to World Oil.

The two North Sea projects require regulatory reconfirmation after recent UK court decisions affecting environmental assessments for offshore developments, World Oil reported.

More than GBP 3 billion has already been invested across the two projects, according to World Oil.

Adura says Jackdaw could supply more than 6% of UK natural gas during its initial production phase, per World Oil. Rosebank is expected to account for about 4% of UK oil production and 10% of UK Continental Shelf oil output once onstream, the same report said.

The Petrojarl Rosebank floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel arrived at its location west of Shetland last month as offshore installation activities continue, according to World Oil.

Eleven tankers holding 20 million barrels together left the Iranian port of Chabahar this week, according to shipping data compiled by Bloomberg and cited by World Oil.

World Oil reported that Iran signed an interim peace deal with Washington on Wednesday, and that the crude now moving had earlier been held back by a US blockade.

Outbound traffic thinned by the end of the week. World Oil reported that no non-Iranian tankers were spotted heading out of the Persian Gulf on Friday morning, against vessels carrying nearly 10 million barrels that appeared outside or transited the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday.

Negotiations on a lasting settlement have slipped their schedule. Washington and Tehran postponed the opening of talks over a permanent peace deal, which had been set for Switzerland on Friday, according to World Oil.

Woodside Energy and Petrosen are in talks over a second development phase at the Sangomar field off Senegal that could add 250 MMbbl of recoverable oil, according to World Oil.

The field's first phase carried a price tag of USD 5.2 billion and used 23 wells linked back to the Léopold Sédar Senghor FPSO, according to World Oil. Woodside runs the project on an 82% interest, with Petrosen holding the remaining 18%.

Output hit the nameplate rate of 100,000 bopd nine weeks after startup, according to World Oil. Cumulative production topped 50 MMbbl by the end of 2025, roughly 8% of the field's estimated recoverable resources.

Sangomar delivered first oil in June 2024, opening Senegal's offshore oil sector, according to World Oil.

AEC Executive Chairman NJ Ayuk said the project has "shown that the MSGBC basin can compete for global capital".

Separately, Woodside signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this year to assess exploration prospects in offshore Angola's Blocks 25, 26 and 43, according to World Oil.

Red Eléctrica's Renewable Energy Control Centre (Cecre) has integrated more than 1,346 TWh of wind and solar generation since it began operations in 2006, according to Red Eléctrica. The company said that volume is roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of the Spanish Peninsula over the past five years.

Cecre now monitors more than 4,500 wind and solar facilities, up from fewer than 450 in its early years, according to Red Eléctrica. Over two decades, 76,002 MW of wind and solar capacity have been installed in the Iberian Peninsula.

The combined share of wind and solar in the peninsular electricity mix rose from 8.4% in 2005 to 42.8% in 2025, Red Eléctrica said. So far in 2026, up to 31 May, renewables have accounted for 62.3% of the peninsular mix.

The automatic power reduction system (SRAP) holds more than 65 GW of enabled capacity, over one third of it photovoltaic, and has enabled the integration of more than 6.5 TWh since its commissioning, according to Red Eléctrica.

Concha Sánchez, General Director of System Operation, said Spain is now the second-largest producer of wind and solar power in the EU.

The Amsterdam District Court on June 3 rejected Energy Transfer's preliminary request to dismiss Greenpeace International's lawsuit, rejecting the company's argument that the court lacks jurisdiction, according to Inside Climate News.

The ruling allows the case to move forward even as the court sided with Energy Transfer on one point. According to Inside Climate News, the court found that the 2024 EU anti-SLAPP directive does not apply because the Netherlands has not yet implemented it through national legislation.

Greenpeace International sued Energy Transfer in Amsterdam District Court in February 2025, invoking a newly adopted EU directive intended to protect EU citizens from abusive lawsuits or SLAPPs, according to Inside Climate News.

The suit followed a separate case in the United States. According to Inside Climate News, on March 19, 2025, a North Dakota jury handed down a damage award of nearly $667 million against three Greenpeace entities over their alleged role in the Standing Rock protests.

In February, the trial court cut the initial award in half, to $345 million, of which Greenpeace International would be liable for about $65 million, according to Inside Climate News.

The two proceedings now run in parallel. Patrick Parenteau, emeritus professor of law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, said the parallel litigation is uncharted territory and the two courts may produce conflicting rulings, according to Inside Climate News.

The dispute traces to the pipeline route. According to Inside Climate News, the Dakota Access Pipeline runs 1,172 miles and was rerouted around Bismarck to cross within a mile of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and beneath Lake Oahe.

The federal government pledged CAD 17.2 million toward four remote renewable energy projects in Nunavut, according to Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).

The biggest allocation, close to CAD 8.5 million, went to Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation to build a clean energy system at the new Aqsarniit Hotel and Conference Centre. That money will build and test a microgrid pairing solar power with air-source heat pumps in Arctic conditions.

A separate CAD 4.8 million from NRCan and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) also flows to Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation for a solar, wind and battery microgrid. The funds cover feasibility and front-end engineering design (FEED) work in Sanirajak, Kinngait and Qausuittuq, aiming to cut future diesel use by more than 50%.

Sakku Investments Corporation drew CAD 2.5 million from NRCan for a solar and battery installation designed to run both linked to the local microgrid and in islanded mode.

Qulliq Energy Corporation received over CAD 1.3 million from NRCan to speed up renewable work across the 25 diesel-dependent communities in Nunavut.

The money sits within NRCan's Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities (CERRC) program, which has put CAD 453 million into more than 230 renewable projects nationwide, 82 of them in the North. Those projects will add more than 67 MW to remote grids by 2027, trimming fuel use by roughly 28 million litres and cutting over 75,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year, per NRCan.

Since 2016, the CIRNAC Northern REACHE program has committed close to CAD 142 million across 289 clean energy projects in the North.

The Government of Canada announced CAD 21.6 million in federal funding for clean energy projects in Sayisi Dene First Nation in Tadoule Lake, northern Manitoba, according to Natural Resources Canada.

The funding was announced by Minister Rebecca Chartrand on behalf of Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson.

The project is the first phase of a First Nation-led initiative to develop Manitoba's first integrated renewable energy microgrid, according to Natural Resources Canada. It combines bifacial solar PV and battery storage with a microgrid controller.

Once commissioned in fall 2026, the microgrid is expected to reduce emissions by an estimated 500 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year and lower power costs for the community over time, according to Natural Resources Canada.

The funding flows through Natural Resources Canada's Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities program, which has invested CAD 453 million to reduce reliance on diesel and other fossil fuels in Indigenous, rural and remote communities.

The program has supported over 230 renewable energy projects across Canada, including 82 projects in the North, according to Natural Resources Canada. These projects are collectively adding more than 67 MW of clean energy to remote grids by 2027.

Program projects are reducing fuel use by approximately 28 million litres annually and avoiding over 75,000 tonnes in greenhouse gas emissions each year, according to Natural Resources Canada.

China started construction on three coal-to-gas and coal-to-chemical projects valued at about USD 10 billion in two coal-rich regions, according to Climate Home News, as oil and gas prices climbed at the start of the Iran war.

A wider pipeline sits behind those groundbreakings. Climate Home News reported that 34 projects under active review carry more than 1 trillion yuan, or USD 150 billion, in planned investment. If built out, they would add up to 300 million tonnes of annual coal demand, Climate Home News said.

One region dominates the pipeline. Xinjiang holds more than half of all proposed modern coal chemical projects across the country, according to Climate Home News.

The track record of earlier plants is weak. Three of China's four operating coal-to-gas projects ran at a loss through much of the past decade, and several large coal chemical plants earned only marginal returns even with state backing, Climate Home News reported.

Climate Home News traced the strategy back to the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, when China accelerated its use of coal as a stand-in for imported oil and gas, prompting a rethink of energy security priorities.

Abelardo de la Espriella held 49.66% against Iván Cepeda Castro's 48.7% with 99.9% of results tallied, Colombian election authorities said, according to Inside Climate News.

De la Espriella declared himself the winner Sunday night, per Inside Climate News. In social media posts, outgoing President Gustavo Petro said the count showed irregularities, and both he and Cepeda plan to contest the outcome.

The result threatens two of Petro's signature energy measures. His government banned fracking and stopped issuing new oil and gas exploration licenses, a first among major oil-producing nations, according to Inside Climate News.

De la Espriella has staked out the opposite position on drilling. In May he said Colombia should pursue "all the fracking possible" and called worries about the practice's environmental risks "urban myths," Inside Climate News reported.

Commercial-scale fracking already operates in Argentina and Mexico, according to Inside Climate News.

More than 15,000 people and 318 communities receive protection from the Colombian government for defending the environment, safeguarding human rights, or exposing corruption, according to Inside Climate News.

GE Vernova won an order for two 9HA.02 gas turbines and two H78 generators to equip Vietnam Electricity's (EVN) Quang Trach II LNG Power Plant, the company said.

Once running, the combined-cycle station will produce upward of 1.6 GW, with commercial operation targeted for 2030, according to GE Vernova. The company logged the order in the second quarter of 2026.

EVN is building the plant alongside an engineering, procurement, and construction consortium made up of Power Construction Corporation of China and LILAMA Corporation, GE Vernova said. The site sits in the Hon La Economic Zone in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.

The 9HA.02 belongs to GE Vernova's HA gas turbine line, which the company said has passed 4 million commercial operating hours worldwide across nearly 130 units in 21 countries.

The order builds on a Memorandum of Understanding the two parties signed in March 2026 covering High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technology, according to GE Vernova.

Construction of the first unit at Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear plant is complete and cold-hot testing, part of the commissioning process, has begun, according to Rosatom.

Rosatom is building four VVER-1200 reactors at the site under a build-own-operate model. The construction licence for unit 1 was issued in 2018, with work starting that year, according to World Nuclear News. Nuclear fuel was delivered to the site in April 2023.

Unit 1 has a staff of 1,930 people, more than 40% of whom are Turkish citizens, according to Rosatom director general Alexei Likhachev.

The testing programme covers checking the operation of the four main circulation pumps at temperatures of at least 260 degrees Celsius during hot tests, according to World Nuclear News.

Once completed, the 4,800 MWe plant is expected to meet about 10% of Turkey's electricity needs.

Turkey is also developing plans for small modular reactors, aiming to add 5 GWe of capacity by 2050, which would mean the equivalent of at least 16 individual SMRs, according to World Nuclear News.

The Mobility House Energy now oversees more than 1 GW of battery storage spread over 47 projects in four countries, ESS News reported.

The German aggregator and trading firm brought four new battery projects online during June 2026, according to ESS News.

The company attributed the shift to a rising count of negative electricity price hours and shrinking feed-in tariffs, which it said are improving the economics of co-located storage.

The firm traces its trading and optimization work back to 2016, when it pooled around 12 MW from 1,000 retired electric vehicle batteries, ESS News reported.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres criticized the fossil fuel industry over its methane record during a speech at London Climate Action Week, urging faster cuts to the gas and singling out coal, oil and gas as central to climate and energy strains, according to Climate Home News.

Methane holds roughly 80 times the heat of carbon dioxide and drives about a third of global warming, though it clears from the atmosphere within a decade or two, Guterres said, per Climate Home News.

Existing technology could remove close to 70% of methane escaping from oil and gas operations, much of it at low or no net cost, Guterres said, citing an International Energy Agency (IEA) finding.

Operators flared some 167 billion cubic metres of gas during 2025, a volume matching Africa's annual consumption, Guterres said, according to Climate Home News.

That flaring climbed for a third straight year in 2025, burning off an estimated USD 54 billion of gas, a World Bank tracker showed.

Energy accounted for 41% of global methane emissions last year, ahead of agriculture at 40% and waste at 17%, Climate Home News reported.

Under the Global Methane Pledge, signatories target a 30% reduction in methane emissions by 2030 against 2020 levels.

Phenogy, a Swiss sodium-ion battery maker, presented its modular Phenogy 1.1 storage unit at The Smarter E Europe in Munich, targeting commercial and industrial buyers, according to pv magazine.

The unit is rated at 50 kW nominal power and 100 Ah nominal capacity, and runs air-cooled thermal management, pv magazine reported. Its design targets a cycle life of at least 6,000 cycles.

Each cell carries a rated 170 Ah capacity and a 2.85 V nominal voltage, according to pv magazine. Wired in a 1P208S layout, the pack delivers a nominal 592 VDC across the system.

For its primary communication interface, the Phenogy 1.1 relies on the SI50-20 inverter built by German manufacturer SMA, pv magazine reported.

Phenogy earlier put a 1 MWh sodium-ion installation into service in island mode near Bremen Airport in Germany, a system the company calls Europe's largest operational sodium-ion deployment, according to pv magazine.

A residential back contact solar module from TCL Sunpower reached the market at the Smarter E trade show in Munich, Germany, pv magazine reported. The manufacturer is based in China.

Buyers can choose from five power tiers, pv magazine reported, spanning 485 W at the low end and 505 W at the top, with conversion efficiencies that fall between 23.8% and 24.7%. The flagship SPR-BE54-HD505 posts a short-circuit current of 15.58 A alongside an open-circuit voltage of 40.88 V.

TCL Sunpower claims the design yields roughly 10 W to 15 W more output than advanced TOPCon modules in home installations. The company also says energy yield can climb by up to 9%, an advantage it ties specifically to partially shaded or low-light conditions.

The module carries a temperature coefficient of 0.26%, according to Karin Alberto-Burkhardt, Director of Product Management at TCL Sunpower, who said the figure limits performance loss in hot conditions.

Warranty coverage runs 40 years across product, performance, and service terms, pv magazine reported. Certification testing clears front-side snow loads reaching 5,400 Pa and wind loads reaching 2,400 Pa.

BMI analysts project that oil and gas markets through 2050 will be marked by plateauing demand, rapid technological change, shifting investment priorities, and the fragmentation of global trade, according to Rigzone.

The analysts said energy security and friend-shoring will draw more emphasis even as decarbonization efforts continue, favoring stability and availability over strictly cost alone, according to Rigzone. That shift, they said, will dictate the nature of upcoming oil and gas investment cycles.

BMI analysts cite the disruption to European energy trade in 2022 and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in 2026 as highlighting the risks of over dependence on a single producer or region, according to Rigzone.

In BMI's 2025 oil and gas megatrends report, analysts projected that trade will segment along carbon-differentiated lines, leading to a more fractured and less fungible global system, according to Rigzone.

Success for oil and gas companies will hinge on supply flexibility, technological adoption, and strategic positioning around climate policy and energy security, the analysts said, according to Rigzone.

BMI first highlighted the impact of new technologies and rising environmental regulations on the oil and gas industry in its first megatrends report in 2016, according to Rigzone.

Saipem has started operations for the GranMorgu offshore project in Suriname, marking the arrival of the multi-purpose construction vessel Normand Navigator at the Jules Sedney Harbour commercial port in Paramaribo, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

The project sits in Block 58 around 150 km offshore and is scheduled to start production in 2028, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported.

GranMorgu is operated by TotalEnergies, which holds a 40% interest, alongside APA Corporation with 40% and Staatsolie with 20%, according to the same report.

Saipem was awarded the Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) package contract in 2024, covering engineering, procurement, supply, construction, installation and commissioning work in water depths ranging from 100 meters to 1,100 meters, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported.

The company has set up a logistics hub at the Jules Sedney Harbour commercial port covering an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 square meters, used to receive, handle and store pipelines, equipment and containers before loading onto support vessels, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

Eos Energy Enterprises' Z3 battery modules passed independent destructive testing and received ISO 14001 certification, according to Solar Builder.

Under the tested conditions, the Z3 batteries showed no thermal runaway, no sustained fire, and no propagation to adjacent live modules, according to Solar Builder. The certification followed the positive test outcomes.

Eos subjected its modules to both direct flame impingement and overcharge during testing, Solar Builder reported.

The testing addresses a requirement in the 2026 edition of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 855, under which battery systems must confirm that heat-related system failures do not spread between units, according to Solar Builder.

In November 2025, the Allegheny County Department of Emergency Services and several municipal departments responded to an incident involving overcharged battery modules at Eos' Turtle Creek facility, according to Solar Builder.

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Dominance Financing issued a conditional loan commitment of $17.5 billion for American Nuclear Supply Chain Loans, financing five projects that will deploy 10 large-scale commercial nuclear reactors, according to the DOE.

The DOE said the loans aim to accelerate the deployment of the 10 reactors across the United States by up to three years.

The financing supports President Trump's executive order objective of having 10 new large nuclear reactors with complete designs under construction by 2030, per the DOE announcement. The department described the project as a step toward advancing the executive order titled Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base.

Each of the 10 AP1000 reactors will generate 1.1 GW of power, according to the DOE. The combined output from all 10 reactors would provide enough electricity to power nearly 10 million American households, the department said.

The DOE stated that Westinghouse and each utility partner must each commit $500 million in equity, totaling $1 billion per project. Both parties are required to fully commit that equity upfront before accessing DOE loan funds, according to the announcement.

Westinghouse has signed letters of intent with seven potential partners, each with identified project sites, the DOE said.

According to the department, Westinghouse's AP1000 units are the only licensed large-scale advanced commercial reactors operating in the United States today.

The Williams Treaties First Nations are committing CAD 700 million to the Darlington New Nuclear Project (DNNP) run by Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the group said in a GlobeNewswire release.

The capital is directed at Canada's first grid-scale Small Modular Reactor (SMR), which the release characterized as the first such project in the G7. The parties described the stake as the largest collective First Nations investment in nuclear generation in Canada.

Backing for the deal comes from a loan guarantee issued by the Canadian Indigenous Loan Guarantee Corporation (CILGC), a wholly owned unit of Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDEV), per the release.

Ontario carries half of that guarantee as a participating guarantor, taking a 50 per cent share through the Indigenous Opportunities Financing Program run by Building Ontario Fund (BOF).

MPA Morrison Park Advisors advised the Nations on the transaction and ran the financing placement as sole agent and bookrunner.

Nissan and Valeo have signed an agreement to market Valeo's bidirectional charging station in Europe, supporting Nissan's Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) roadmap for compatible Nissan electric vehicles, according to electrive.

Valeo's Ineez-branded charging station operates using AC, unlike other bidirectional providers that rely on DC charging stations, electrive reported. The outlet cited the V2G offering for the BMW iX3 and the option from VW and its energy subsidiary Elli as examples of the DC approach.

The AC route carries a technical trade-off. Bidirectional AC charging requires a special on-board charger that can function as an inverter to convert battery direct current back into alternating current for feeding to the charging station, which increases on-board technical complexity and cost, according to electrive.

Soufiane El Khomri, Director of Nissan Energy Services, said the Valeo agreement is a concrete step in redefining Nissan's vehicles as energy assets rather than just mobility products.

The new bidirectional charging station and Valeo's charging portfolio will be showcased from 23 to 25 June at Power2Drive Europe in Munich, according to electrive.

Canada's federal government launched a nuclear energy plan that backs the Darlington New Nuclear Project, which will be the first small modular reactor deployment in the G7, according to Natural Resources Canada.

Nuclear energy supplies 13 percent of Canada's national electricity and adds 22 billion Canadian dollars to the economy each year, Natural Resources Canada said. That contribution flows through the operation of 17 Canadian CANDU reactors at home and the servicing of nine reactors abroad in countries including Romania, India and South Korea, according to the agency.

The sector accounts for 90,000 direct and indirect jobs, and 90 percent of jobs within the nuclear industry itself are high-skilled roles, Natural Resources Canada said.

Canada produced roughly 24 percent of total global uranium output in 2024, according to the agency. About 90 percent of that uranium is exported for peaceful use as fuel in nuclear power plants abroad, and all active uranium mining and milling is concentrated in Saskatchewan, Natural Resources Canada said.

Uranium mining and milling contributed approximately 2.6 billion Canadian dollars to the economy in 2024 while directly employing over 3,400 Canadians, according to the agency. Nearly half of those workers and residents are in Saskatchewan's north, Natural Resources Canada said.

In September 2025, Prime Minister Carney referred the Darlington New Nuclear Project to the Major Projects Office, according to Natural Resources Canada.

ISO New England has released the summer update to its Wholesale Markets Project Plan, according to ISO New England Newswire.

The plan tracks 15 markets-related projects as of June 2026, including three new projects added since the December 2025 edition, according to ISO New England Newswire.

Capacity Auction Reforms remains the most significant current project, ISO New England Newswire reported. The project will transition the capacity market to a prompt and seasonal market with capacity accreditation and resource deactivation reforms.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accepted the first phase of Capacity Auction Reforms in March, according to ISO New England Newswire. Stakeholder discussions on the second phase are ongoing, with a FERC filing expected by year-end.

L&T Heavy Engineering has manufactured the first End Shield for the Kaiga 5 and 6 construction project at its Hazira facility, according to World Nuclear News.

The component weighs 107 tonnes and measures about 9.3 metres across, with a thickness of nearly a metre, World Nuclear News reported.

Kaiga units 5 and 6 are Indian-designed 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors, according to World Nuclear News, which said NPCIL is planning to build ten of them in fleet mode.

Excavation works for the units began in May 2022, per World Nuclear News. NPCIL aims for the first new unit at the Kaiga nuclear power plant to achieve criticality in five years.

Larsen & Toubro has already manufactured and dispatched four of the eight steam generators for the units, World Nuclear News reported.

Nio has opened a new research and development facility in Witney, Oxfordshire, according to electrive. The site brings together UK staff who had been split across two Oxfordshire locations since the company established a UK presence in 2016.

More than 40 engineers will work from the facility, electrive reported, which includes a computer-aided engineering space and a vehicle development laboratory.

The UK team has contributed to Nio vehicle programmes including the EP9 supercar, the ET9 flagship, and the first compact EV under the Firefly sub-brand, according to electrive.

Nio Europe Vice President Hui Zhang said the Witney R&D centre reflects the company's long-term commitment to the UK, Europe and international collaboration in advancing smart electric mobility.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed SB 340/HB 508, which writes a legal definition of "agrivoltaics" into Virginia's law code, according to Solar Builder. The state now defines agrivoltaics as the intentional co-location of agricultural production and solar energy generation.

Solar Builder reported that the measure is one of 12 energy bills backed by the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) that have been signed into law.

Virginia currently ranks ninth in the Solar Energy Industries Association's Solar State by State rankings, according to Solar Builder.

PEC senior energy and climate advisor Ashish Kapoor said Virginia has 39,000 farms. If ten percent of them installed a 1 MW agrivoltaics project, the combined output could equal the power of four nuclear power plants, Kapoor said.

CATL will start shipping its TENER Sodium energy storage system abroad in June 2027, after first supplying the Chinese market from September 2026, according to ESS News.

The system runs to 15,000 charge cycles when operated between 25 C and 30 C, CATL said. Caspar Spinnen of CATL said the product holds 10,000 cycles at temperatures reaching 45 C and keeps 92% of its capacity below -20 C.

Each modular unit carries just under 30 MWh of capacity and weighs roughly 42 tons, according to ESS News. CATL has attached a 30-year warranty to the system.

The company has locked in 60 GWh of sodium-ion supply deals running over three years, CATL said.

CATL is dedicating 40 GWh of yearly sodium-ion capacity at its Fuding site, and plans another 160 GWh at its Jining base in Shandong province, China, according to ESS News.

Qatar told reporters that an explosion at the Ras Laffan industrial complex, which killed 13 people and injured 66, will not disrupt its liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, according to Rigzone.

Export terminals, the Ras Laffan port, and supporting logistics escaped damage in the blast and fire, said Saad al-Kaabi, who runs operator QatarEnergy, at a briefing in Doha reported by Rigzone.

His reassurance carried weight because Ras Laffan shipped almost a fifth of the world's seaborne LNG last year, a share large enough to move prices when its export continuity is in question, according to Rigzone.

Traders responded quickly. European gas futures gave back an earlier climb of as much as 3.9 percent and steadied once the export comments landed, Rigzone reported.

Two LNG trains were hit in the incident, and Rigzone reported that rebuilding them needs specialist cryogenic equipment on a timeline of three to five years.

Qatar aims to bring 80 percent of Ras Laffan LNG output back on line within two months of the Strait of Hormuz reopening safely, according to Rigzone.

Ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg showed four tankers, either owned by Qatar's shipping arm or on long-term charter to the country, sailing toward Ras Laffan through the Strait with their positions visible.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) deployed across the United States reached a record 3.3 GW / 8.4 GWh in Q1 2026, with utility, commercial and residential segments each setting highs, according to the U.S. Energy Storage Monitor from the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie.

That total ran 54% ahead of the previous first-quarter record, the report found.

Utility-scale projects carried the quarter, contributing more than 2.3 GW / 6.8 GWh of the total.

Residential deployment hit a record 1.3 GWh, a rise of 86% against Q1 2025 and 5% against the prior quarter. ACP and Wood Mackenzie linked the surge to a backlog of projects begun late in 2025 to capture the expiring Section 25D tax credit.

Paired solar and storage installations gained ground. The national residential attachment rate for solar-plus-storage climbed to 45% in Q1 2026 from 38% a year earlier, the report said.

The Community, Commercial and Industrial (CCI) sector added 97.7 MW, up 27% from Q4 2025, with California installing 75 MW of that figure.

Cumulative BESS capacity could reach 200 GW / 655 GWh by 2031, according to the report, which attributed most of that growth to the utility sector at 85% of installations between 2026 and 2031.

Belgium's quarter-hourly electricity price hit an all-time high of EUR 1,038.25/MWh in the 15-minute window opening at 8:45 p.m. CET.

Dutch prices peaked at EUR 902.47/MWh in the same evening stretch, a quarter-hour record. German quarter-hour prices topped out at a record EUR 747.10/MWh, and the Danish DK1 zone climbed to EUR 786.83/MWh.

Montel tied the steepest jumps to the evening peak, when solar output drops off after sunset while cooling demand stays elevated, according to pv magazine.

That left more of the load for other plants to cover. German residual load, the share of demand not met by wind and solar, hit 51.5 GW, roughly 10.4 GW higher than the normal reading for the hour and season, pv magazine reported.

High temperatures also eat into thermal output. Combined-cycle gas turbine plants shed between 0.5% and 0.9% of their generation for each extra degree Celsius, according to pv magazine.

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute expects the heat wave to hold across much of Central and Western Europe into the first days of July.

Canada's government nuclear strategy sets a domestic goal of up to ten new large-scale reactors, with two under construction by 2035 and a further five planned or in development by 2040, according to World Nuclear News.

The plan pairs domestic buildout with a target to double Canadian uranium exports over the decade to 2035, drawing on new mine output entering service by 2035, World Nuclear News reported.

To speed approvals, the strategy sets a target of completing federal regulatory review within two years, part of a wider streamlining of the framework for nuclear projects.

Financing rules are still being drafted. The Departments of Finance and Natural Resources Canada will publish a draft Policy on Federal Financing of New Nuclear Power Projects by April 2027, according to World Nuclear News.

Abroad, the strategy aims to secure at least four new international markets for CANDU technology by 2040 and to engage six to ten new nuclear entrant countries across a 15-year horizon. World Nuclear News reports that CANDU reactor technology runs 26 units worldwide, 17 of them in Canada.

World Nuclear News reported that 38 countries have endorsed the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy by 2050.

Plug Power has started an initiative called Project Quantum Leap to refine its hydrogen ecosystem across the Southeastern United States, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The project centers on facilities in Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana that work together to produce around 40 tons of liquid hydrogen daily, Hydrogen Fuel News reported.

The outlet said Plug Power's electrolyzer division posted quarterly revenue growth of more than 343% year-over-year, surpassing USD 40 million.

Gross margin improved from negative 55% to negative 13%, a shift Hydrogen Fuel News attributed partly to efficiencies gained under Project Quantum Leap.

Plug Power management says it is on track to reach positive EBITDA by the end of the year, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

China Energy Investment Corp.'s subsidiary Guohua Investment has completed a project pairing a 400 MW solar photovoltaic plant, a 60 MW/120 MWh battery storage system, and an on-site electrolysis unit, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The site sits on reclaimed tidal flats near Yangkou Port in the Yudong area of Rudong County, Nantong, Jiangsu.

Hydrogen Fuel News reported that the electrolyzer has a design capacity of 1,500 Nm3/h, producing about 482 tons of hydrogen per year. The PV plant is expected to generate about 468 GWh of electricity each year.

The project includes a hydrogen refueling station rated at 500 kg per day, intended for local industrial users or testing fleets in the port area, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

Grid connection runs through a 220 kV shore substation plus a direct link to the electrolyzer.

The solar panels cover about 2.9 km2 of reshaped land, with another 4.3 km2 set aside for wetland restoration, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

SAF+ International Group has launched a EUR 700 million e-SAF initiative at Port-La Nouvelle, blending renewable electricity, green hydrogen, and industrially captured CO2, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

SAF+ has secured a long-term land agreement with port operator SEMOP, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. The project will source captured CO2 from ocean sources through a partnership with Captura, combining it with hydrogen to produce the fuel.

SAF+ projects the e-SAF will meet jet fuel specifications with up to 80% lower lifecycle CO2 emissions compared with traditional fossil kerosene, according to the same report. If successful, the plant could offset around 200,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalents each year.

The project lands against a firm regulatory backdrop. The EU ReFuelEU Aviation regulation stipulates a minimum 6% sustainable aviation fuel blend by 2030, rising to 70% by mid-century, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. France's France 2030 plan has set aside about EUR 100 million for SAF initiatives.

Škoda debuted the Peaq, its largest SUV to date, with an expected base price of €49,900, according to electrive. The seven-seat-capable electric SUV marks the brand's move into a larger vehicle class.

The Peaq measures 4.87m in length with a wheelbase of 2.97m, according to electrive. It offers space for up to five passengers, or seven for an additional charge.

Boot volume in the five-seater configuration is 935 litres, with an additional 37 litres in the frunk, electrive reported. With the third row deployed, 299 litres remain in the rear.

The Peaq Selection 60 has a battery net capacity of 59 kWh, which Škoda claims is sufficient for over 450 km of range, according to electrive. DC charging power peaks at 160 kW, rising to 199 kW with the large battery.

Motor output starts at 150 kW in the Peaq 60 and rises to 210 kW in the Peaq 90, according to electrive. The rear-wheel-drive Peaq 90 offers a WLTP range of over 640 kilometres, while the all-wheel-drive Peaq 90x delivers 220 kW output and drops to around 610 km.

For bidirectional charging, Škoda is using Moon rather than Volkswagen's Elli, electrive reported. Ambibox from Mainz supplies the DC wall box hardware.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched an AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, urging AI firms to measure and publish the carbon, water, and land footprints of their systems, according to Climate Home News.

Guterres said the data centres running AI models already draw more electricity than most countries, per Climate Home News. "But AI is also hungry for land, water and power," he said.

Data centre emissions from purchased electricity are set to more than double between 2024 and 2030 under a high-growth scenario, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates, Climate Home News reported.

Global AI data centres could draw 945 terawatt-hours of electricity a year by 2030, roughly twice France's 2025 consumption, according to a UN University report cited by Climate Home News.

The demand curve is now colliding with local opposition. Around USD 64 billion in US data centre projects were delayed or blocked between May 2024 and March 2025 as communities resisted, according to nonprofit Data Center Watch, Climate Home News reported.

That resistance has reached the ballot box. Monterey Park in Los Angeles County was the first US city to enact a citywide ban on data centres through a voter-approved measure, Climate Home News reported.

Holtec International and EDF submitted a joint proposal to the UK Government to deploy Holtec's SMR-300 small modular reactors at Cottam in Nottinghamshire, according to GlobeNewswire.

The former Cottam coal power station site will host up to four SMR-300 units, representing approximately 1.3 gigawatts of generating capacity, GlobeNewswire reported. The two companies also signed Heads of Terms to establish a joint venture to advance the project's development.

The proposal follows Holtec's completion of the United Kingdom's Generic Design Assessment process for the SMR-300, which resulted in regulatory confirmation of the reactor's fundamental safety, security, and environmental adequacy, according to GlobeNewswire.

Cottam will host a second-of-a-kind SMR-300 site. The first-of-a-kind twin Pioneer units in Michigan are being built by a joint venture of Holtec and Hyundai E&C. Holtec's construction permit application for the twin Pioneer units is under review by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, while pre-construction activities continue at the site.

Rick Springman said Holtec plans to substantially expand its UK presence with a significantly larger operation center and is evaluating a manufacturing plant to build nuclear equipment in the country.

The UAE formally left OPEC on May 1, according to Oil & Gas Journal, which links the timing to renewed reliance on the Fujairah export terminal that sits outside the Strait of Hormuz.

At the point of its exit, the UAE ranked behind Saudi Arabia and Iraq as the group's third-largest producer by capacity. Oil & Gas Journal put its capacity at an estimated 4.2 million b/d before the Iran conflict began.

About 20 million b/d of oil and petroleum products normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a volume that accounts for roughly one-quarter of global seaborne oil trade, per Oil & Gas Journal.

The Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline carries crude to Fujairah at a current capacity of about 1.8 million b/d, according to Oil & Gas Journal. Pre-conflict output ran at 3.4 million b/d, so the pipeline covers less than half of that flow.

Citing Reuters, Oil & Gas Journal reported in May that a second west-east line built by ADNOC would double export capacity through Fujairah by 2027.

Saudi Arabia has shifted volumes onto its East-West pipeline toward the Red Sea terminal at Yanbu, which holds roughly 5 million b/d of export capacity, Oil & Gas Journal reported.

UAE output climbed from 3.1 million b/d in 2016 to nearly 4.4 million b/d by 2026, according to figures the IEA cited in Oil & Gas Journal.

Ferrari has replaced its chief marketing and commercial officer Enrico Galliera weeks after the debut of the Luce, the company's first electric car, according to Electrek.

The company named former BMW Italy boss Massimiliano Di Silvestre as Galliera's successor, effective July 1, Electrek reported. The change followed a launch that wiped roughly 8% off Ferrari's stock in a single day, according to Electrek.

Galliera had spent more than 16 years at Ferrari, most recently running marketing and commercial strategy, per Electrek.

Electrek reported that Ferrari did not allow any journalist to drive the Luce at its Rome unveiling. The performance specs were public months before the production reveal, including roughly 1,000+ hp and around 530 km (329 miles) of range, according to Electrek.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna was hired from STMicroelectronics, where he spent 26 years, to push the brand toward an electric and software-defined future, Electrek reported. Electrek said Vigna set the electrification plan in motion.

EOG teams in Bahrain remain on schedule to deliver results from exploratory activity in the second half of this year, despite the Iran war this spring, according to Oil & Gas Journal.

EOG signed a partnership with state-owned Bapco Energies early last year to launch onshore unconventional gas operations in Bahrain, Oil & Gas Journal reported.

Separately, Oil & Gas Journal reported that Devon CEO Clay Gaspar announced a $22 billion deal for Coterra in February. The Devon-Coterra combination created a company with operations in six basins.

Adding Coterra's operations has grown Devon's Delaware footprint to nearly 750,000 acres, according to Oil & Gas Journal.

Gaspar described Devon's portfolio review as a months exercise, not a years exercise. "We've telegraphed this is more of a months exercise, not a years exercise," he said, per Oil & Gas Journal.

rPlus Energies has started commercial operations at the Green River Energy Center in Utah's Emery County, according to Solar Builder. The developer held a ribbon cutting and an on-site ceremony on June 22.

The 400 MW facility is the largest solar and storage installation within PacifiCorp's six-state service territory and pairs generation with a 1.6 GWh battery project, according to Solar Builder. The site holds nearly 1 million solar panels and 484 battery units.

rPlus officials say the project will generate more than USD 55 million in property taxes for local schools and public service organizations. At the commissioning ceremony, project partners announced a USD 45,000 donation to the nearby Ferron Fire Department, according to Solar Builder.

The Green River Energy Center received Project Finance International's 'Renewables Deal of the Year' award for the Americas, according to Solar Builder.

The U.S. Department of Energy has offered a conditional loan pledge worth as much as USD 17.5 billion to finance 10 large nuclear reactors planned across the country, according to Power Engineering Nuclear.

The money would flow through as many as five loans, each tied to a site holding two reactors, the outlet reported. Westinghouse would team up with up to five utilities or energy firms to build the projects.

Utility partners and Westinghouse would each have to put in USD 500 million of project equity before drawing down the federal loans, a combined USD 1 billion committed per project, according to Power Engineering Nuclear.

Each AP1000 unit produces about 1.1 GW, so the 10 planned reactors would add roughly 11 GW of capacity, the outlet reported.

The DOE expects that buying equipment in bulk across several projects could cut deployment timelines by up to three years, according to Power Engineering Nuclear.

The pledge came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking support for 10 large reactors to be designed and under construction by 2030.

Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in Georgia were the last two large U.S. reactors to reach commercial operation, starting in 2023 and 2024, the outlet reported.

Baker Hughes has been awarded a long-term service agreement by ANOH Gas Processing Company to provide lifecycle services and digital monitoring support for the ANOH Gas Processing Plant in Nigeria, according to World Oil.

The agreement covers maintenance, repair services, engineering support and digital monitoring for critical turbomachinery equipment, including two NovaLT 16 gas turbines, World Oil reported.

Baker Hughes will deploy its iCenter digital services platform, powered by Cordant, for remote monitoring and diagnostics aimed at improving equipment reliability and operational performance.

The deal builds on earlier work at the site. In 2019, Baker Hughes supplied an integrated power island solution for the ANOH plant, including two NovaLT 16 gas turbines, compressors and gears. According to Baker Hughes, those turbines were the first NovaLT 16 units deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Work under the agreement will be delivered through Baker Hughes' service center in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

James Makinde, Managing Director of ANOH Gas Processing Company, said reliable performance of critical turbomachinery equipment is essential to the ANOH Plant and to delivering on Nigeria's domestic energy supply goals.

TotalEnergies is progressing development on the Moho license after the Moho G discovery, and an infill drilling program is expected to add approximately 40,000 bopd of incremental output, according to World Oil.

World Oil reported the Moho G discovery was announced earlier this year, and the company is supporting production growth through the drilling program.

Trident Energy acquired an 85% interest in the Nkossa and Nsoko II fields in 2025, according to World Oil. The company is focused on extending the life of the offshore assets through redevelopment and subsea optimization.

Congo introduced a Gas Code in 2025 that established a framework for gas commercialization, according to World Oil. A national Gas Master Plan seeks to expand gas utilization, reduce flaring and support power generation growth.

American Petroleum Institute (API) President Mike Sommers said the Iran war and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz exposed vulnerabilities in the US energy system that Congress and policymakers should prioritize and fix, speaking at a June 22 energy security forum in Washington.

Sommers urged reengineering the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to permit larger daily withdrawals above its current 1.4 million b/d, according to Oil & Gas Journal. He also called for adding sites, particularly in California and the West Coast.

SPR inventories stand at 43-year lows of about 340 million barrels, Oil & Gas Journal reported.

A Jones Act waiver that began in mid-March 2026 because of the Strait of Hormuz closure is slated to expire Aug. 16, according to Oil & Gas Journal.

Every one of the 43 Indigenous communities surveyed by a Conservation International study reported facing drought, extreme weather, and other harms tied to a warming climate, according to Grist.

Among those interviewed, drought and extreme weather ranked as the leading climate pressures, Grist reported. A separate concern surfaced alongside the weather: 61 percent flagged mining, commercial agriculture, and logging as serious threats. Extractive industries such as mining and logging touch more than half of the communities covered by the survey.

Lead author Sushma Shrestha, who is Indigenous Newar from Nepal, framed the findings around what these communities protect. She said everyone depends on what Indigenous peoples offer through their lands, carbon storage, and biodiversity conservation, according to Grist.

In a forward to the report, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Indigenous Mbororo from Chad and a former chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, wrote that Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge cannot survive apart from the people who hold it or the ecosystems they inhabit.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act set a July 4, 2026 deadline for renewable projects to begin spending to remain eligible for federal investment tax credits during construction, according to Inside Climate News.

The cutoff puts pressure on local clean energy efforts in Pennsylvania. Inside Climate News reports that the state's Solar for Schools program secured $25 million in state funding in each of its first two years to help schools install solar arrays.

Municipal agencies also feature in the effort. According to Inside Climate News, the Philadelphia Energy Authority was established by the mayor and city council in 2010 as an independent municipal agency to facilitate large-scale energy projects the city could not undertake on its own.

Ola Cell Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ola Electric, has received Bureau of Indian Standards certification under IS 16046 (Part 2):2018/IEC 62133-2:2017 for its indigenously developed LFP 46100 cylindrical cell, according to ESS News.

Ola Electric becomes the first Indian company to receive BIS certification for an indigenously developed cell in the 46100 format, ESS News reported.

The LFP 46100 cell also qualified under IS 16893 Parts 2 and 3 and UN 38.3 standards, according to ESS News.

The cell offers an energy density of over 170 Wh/kg and a development pathway toward more than 4,000 charge-discharge cycles, per ESS News.

The certified LFP 46100 platform expands Ola Electric's in-house cell portfolio beyond its NMC 4680 Bharat cell, according to ESS News.

Offshore Norge is extending its notice of work stoppage under the Well Service Agreement to cover 1,272 of SAFE's roughly 1,770 members under the agreement, according to Rigzone, escalating a standoff that began earlier this month.

SAFE launched the strike on June 15 after rejecting proposals the union sees as years behind collective bargaining agreements in other parts of the oil and gas industry, Rigzone reported.

The expanded lockout notice widens the number of workers drawn into the dispute, covering 1,272 of the approximately 1,770 SAFE members under the Well Service Agreement.

SAFE said 325 workers covered by the Floating Rigs Agreement have also gone on strike against shipping companies, according to Rigzone.

Four Inspection, Maintenance and Repair vessels and one well intervention vessel have halted operations, and two rigs have already ceased activity, Rigzone reported.

A concurrent government-mediated negotiation between Offshore Norge and the trade union Styrke yielded a new Oil Service Agreement covering about 7,200 workers from nearly 50 companies, according to Rigzone.

DeepOcean has completed the installation and testing of all inter-array cables at the Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm in Germany, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

Cable-laying began in January 2026, with 48 inter-array cables installed between January and April, OEDigital reported. DeepOcean deployed four vessels for the campaign, including the chartered Olympic Ares and M/S Volantis and two walk-to-work vessels.

Subsea trenching and burial were carried out by the M/S Volantis using DeepOcean's UT-1 jet trenching system, according to OEDigital.

Nordseecluster A is the first phase of the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster project. It will comprise 44 Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbines totaling 660 MW once fully commissioned in early 2027, OEDigital reported.

The wind farm is jointly owned by RWE and Norges Bank Investment Management.

A grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) held a utility-scale solar plant stable through sharp output swings and grid faults, according to research published in Scientific Reports and reported by pv magazine.

The BESS relied on a grid-forming inverter built around a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) controller, which provided synthetic inertia, voltage regulation, and frequency support, according to pv magazine.

Researchers tested the setup across a wide range of grid strengths. They varied short-circuit ratio values from 0.42 to 4.5 to gauge performance under both weak- and strong-grid conditions, according to pv magazine.

In one scenario, the team cut photovoltaic (PV) output by 50%. Total plant power temporarily fell from about 92-93 MW to 70-72 MW, while frequency deviation stayed within roughly 0.8-1.0 Hz and settled within 0.5 seconds, according to pv magazine.

Under a permanent fault, the system stayed stable even as voltage dropped to 0.7-0.8 pu and reactive power peaked at 45-48 MVAR, with frequency deviations reaching up to 2.5 Hz, according to pv magazine.

Researchers from Jordan's Yarmouk University and Al-Ahliyya Amman University participated in the work, according to pv magazine.

The UK government has secured more than GBP 100 billion of private clean energy investment announcements since coming to office, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is due to confirm at London Climate Action Week.

This year's renewable auctions mobilised GBP 27 billion in clean energy investment, the largest chunk of private investment this parliament, according to the government.

National Grid confirmed GBP 1.2 billion of contracts on 23 June 2026 to upgrade 1,000km of transmission lines.

The government also pointed to Rolls-Royce SMR winning a multi-billion-pound Sweden nuclear export contract off the back of the UK's SMR programme.

Miliband is due to speak alongside UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen and IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol at the Global Energy Transition and Electrification Summit.

The IEA World Energy Investment Report 2026 expects around USD 2.2 trillion globally in 2026 to go collectively to renewables, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency and electrification, with some USD 1.2 trillion to oil, natural gas and coal.

Türkiye added nearly 2 GW of new solar capacity in the first four months of 2026, according to pv magazine.

Full-year additions are projected to reach between 4 GW and 6 GW, supported by strong private-sector demand and the scalability of commercial and industrial solar projects, according to pv magazine.

Recent Turkish regulatory changes place stronger emphasis on local manufacturing content, particularly for solar modules produced with domestically manufactured cells, said Günder Chairman Mehmet İzzet Özaydın.

Tight credit conditions are limiting access to financing for some commercial solar projects, Özaydın said.

ESS Tech Inc. is accelerating development and production of its non-lithium battery systems after a surge of early customer interest, according to Solar Builder.

The Wilsonville, Oregon-based company has seen strong early customer engagement across the United States since signing a letter of intent with battery manufacturer Alsym Energy in late April, Solar Builder reported.

"The demand we're seeing for sodium-ion is unlike anything in our company's history," said Drew Buckley, CEO of ESS Tech, in comments reported by Solar Builder.

Buckley and the company say the sodium-ion batteries will find outsized use in data centers, utility markets, and other critical infrastructure applications. That customer response is driving the faster push on development and output of the non-lithium systems.

Alongside its sodium-ion battery energy storage system products, ESS Tech will continue development of its iron flow battery technology for long duration applications, according to Solar Builder.

Quino Energy, a developer of water-based organic flow batteries, won a grant from Tencent's CarbonX program to build a MWh-scale battery for Himandhoo Island in the Maldives, according to a GlobeNewswire release. The system will serve the island's power supply.

The battery will sit inside a wider microgrid that also draws on floating photovoltaic (PV) generation, with the solar portion funded by the Asian Development Bank, the release said.

Atri Energy Transition will back the project and run operations and maintenance on the island battery for a minimum of five years once it enters service, according to the release. Atri Energy Transition also led Quino Energy's Series A round in October 2025.

Hardware for the flow battery will come from Suqian Time Energy Storage. Sinosoar, described as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and island microgrid specialist, will manage installation, construction and integration, the release said.

Chief executive Eugene Beh characterized the Maldives project as Quino Energy's first commercial rollout of its organic flow battery, set apart from earlier government-backed work the company had announced.

The company has separately tapped U.S. public funding. It received a USD 10 million grant from the California Energy Commission and USD 5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Critical Facility Energy Resilience (CiFER) program, money directed at a 5 MWh flow battery in Southern California, according to the release.

Rivian has removed the lowest-priced versions of its R1T pickup and R1S SUV from its online configurator, according to electrive. The move raises the starting price of both models by around USD 7,000.

Before being discontinued, the R1T Dual Standard started at USD 72,990 and the R1S Dual Standard at USD 76,990, electrive reported. With those trims gone, the R1T Dual becomes the entry-level pickup at USD 79,990, while the R1S Dual starts at USD 83,990.

The discontinued Dual Standard models carried an EPA-estimated range of 270 miles using Rivian's LFP battery pack, according to electrive. Buyers can now opt for Dual models fitted with the larger battery pack, which raises EPA-estimated range to 329 miles.

The pricing changes come as Rivian shifts attention to the R2. The company began deliveries of the first R2 Performance 'Launch Package' models earlier this month at a starting price of USD 57,990, with a lower-cost version targeting USD 45,000 to follow, electrive reported.

Rivian confirmed another round of redundancies last week, with several hundred employees set to leave the company, according to electrive.

Turbo Energy and HiTHIUM announced the deployment of an AI-enabled energy infrastructure project across 15 industrial facilities of one of Europe's largest electro-intensive ceramic manufacturing groups, according to a GlobeNewswire release.

The project pairs 366 MWh of battery energy storage capacity with Turbo Energy's proprietary AI-driven optimization platform, the companies said. More than 130 MWh of that storage capacity has already been installed on site.

The deployment forms part of the Pamesa Net Zero initiative, described by the companies as one of Europe's most ambitious industrial energy transformation programs.

Mariano Soria serves as Chief Executive Officer of Turbo Energy. Kelson Li is Vice President of HiTHIUM Europe.

Turbo Energy, S.A. trades on Nasdaq under the ticker TURB and describes itself as a global integrator of AI-driven solar energy storage solutions.