Tuesday, 4 August 2026

China General Nuclear has installed the CA01 "super module" at unit 2 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province, the company announced. The lift took place on 21 July.

The concrete and steel structure has a hoisting weight of more than 950 tonnes and measures more than 26 metres long, 29 metres wide and 23 metres high, according to World Nuclear News. It is composed of 47 sub-modules.

The equivalent module at Lufeng unit 1 was set in place in September last year. Both units are scheduled to begin operating in 2030.

CGN said that once all six units at the site are in operation, the Lufeng plant will generate about 52 TWh.

Charging power of up to 1,000 kW is now available to heavy battery-electric trucks at a new hub run by Energiesysteme Groß (ESG-Solar) at Niestetal, near Kassel in Germany, electrive reported.

The layout puts three truck bays on Alpitronic HYC1000 hardware, with four high-power charging points added for cars, according to electrive. Work on the site started in December 2025.

Power comes partly from behind the meter. ESG-Solar built a 2.1 MWp solar park next to the chargers and installed 1,000 kWh of battery storage to buffer output, electrive reported. The buffer sits between the local connection and truck sessions drawing up to 1,000 kW.

Backing came from the state of Hesse under a support scheme electrive named as "Strom bewegt".

electrive put the tariff at a fixed 29.9 cents per kilowatt-hour for all new contract customers, valid until the end of 2026. The rate is tied to contracts rather than ad-hoc charging.

Kia begins building the EV3 at its Pesquería plant in Nuevo León on August 4, according to Electrek.

The compact electric crossover had been assembled only in South Korea until now. Electrek reports that Mexican-built units will be exported to the US later this year.

The Korean automaker is committing $649 million over the next two years to electric vehicle production in the region, Electrek reported.

Pre-orders are already live. The EV3 SXL trim is listed on Mercado Libre from 767,700 pesos, or roughly $44,000, according to Electrek.

Subsea7 has been awarded a contract by Brunei Shell Petroleum covering subsea installation work on a Pipeline Replacement Project offshore Brunei, the company announced through GlobeNewswire.

The scope covers engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of subsea pipeline and riser systems serving offshore assets, in water depths reaching 50 metres, according to the company statement.

Subsea7 classified the award as "sizeable," a category the contractor defines as a contract worth between USD 50 million and USD 150 million.

A microwave-driven pyrolysis reactor built by a joint UPV-CSIC team in Valencia converted 80% of methane fed into it at a reactor temperature of 500 °C, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The reactor splits methane into hydrogen and solid carbon rather than burning it, and Hydrogen Fuel News reports the process yields clean hydrogen and carbon nanofibers with no direct CO2 emissions. Carbon nanofibers are a saleable solid product, which distinguishes pyrolysis routes from steam methane reforming, where the carbon leaves as CO2.

Selectivity is the second figure the researchers put forward. The system operates with 100% selectivity, according to Hydrogen Fuel News. Taken with the 80% conversion rate, that implies unconverted methane rather than unwanted by-products accounts for the balance of the feed.

The 500 °C operating point is the core technical claim. Conventional thermal methane pyrolysis runs far hotter, and microwave heating targets the catalyst directly instead of raising the temperature of the whole reactor volume.

Two institutions share the work. The system came out of a collaboration between the DIMAS group at the ITACA institute of the Universitat Politècnica de València and the mixed CSIC-UPV team at the Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ), Hydrogen Fuel News reported.

Hydrogen produced this way sits outside the electrolysis route that dominates policy support for low-carbon hydrogen. It uses natural gas as feedstock but avoids the capture-and-store step that blue hydrogen depends on, since the carbon exits as a solid. The commercial question for any pyrolysis process is whether the carbon output finds a market at volume; nanofibers command higher prices than the carbon black that simpler pyrolysis routes produce.

No scale-up timeline, reactor throughput, or energy input figure accompanies the conversion and selectivity results.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has won a USD 27.5 million contract to build a liquid hydrogen fueling station at the Orange County Transportation Authority's Garden Grove bus base in California, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The scope covers design, construction, operation, and fuel supply for the site, Hydrogen Fuel News reported.

OCTA intends to grow its hydrogen fuel cell bus fleet from a ten-bus pilot to at least fifty by the time the station enters service in 2028, according to the same report.

The project supports California's zero-emission transit targets, Hydrogen Fuel News said.

Panamint Capital has broken ground on Big Rooter Power, a 1.2-gigawatt solar farm in Bremond, Texas, on land tied to an operating coal mine, according to Grist. The investment firm announced the start of construction last week, Grist reported.

The combined solar and battery storage project carries a price tag of USD 1.7 billion, per Grist, and converts coal mining land into generating capacity.

The first phase covers 491 MW and is scheduled to reach commercial operation in August 2028, Grist reported. Construction on the remaining 658 MW begins in December, with power output possible from August 2029.

The site spans 10,000 acres and will host 1.6 gigawatt-hours of battery storage alongside 20 miles of new extra-high-voltage transmission lines, according to Grist.

Big Rooter draws on land and assets from the neighbouring Twin Oaks coal-fired power plant and the Calvert surface coal mine. Both will keep running, Grist reported. Panamint bought the 310-MW Twin Oaks plant and the Calvert mine in 2023.

The firm says it holds the infrastructure and natural gas access to add at least 800 MW of gas-fired generation at the location, either supplying the grid or serving customers such as data center developers, according to Grist.

A childcare nonprofit in Urbana, Illinois, has operated for 45 years while contending with recurring funding pressure, Canary Media reported.

The organization, called the Crisis Nursery, takes in young children at any hour of the day or night when their parents face homelessness, domestic violence, or other emergencies, according to Canary Media. Parents can drop children off and know they will be safe and cared for.

Canary Media described funding as a constant challenge for the nonprofit.

Virginia is laying groundwork to combine solar generation with active farming, Canary Media reported, as the state confronts two pressures at once: rising electricity demand from data centers and the loss of agricultural land.

The state is the world's data center capital and faces a surge in energy demand that could push up power costs and lead to more polluting fossil fuel plants, according to Canary Media.

At the same time, Virginia is losing farmland at one of the fastest rates in the United States, Canary Media reported.

Those two trends frame the case for siting solar arrays on land that stays in agricultural use rather than converting it outright. Pairing panels with crops or grazing keeps acreage productive while adding generation capacity in a state where new load is arriving faster than supply.

The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has updated its accredited official statistics publication UK energy in brief 2026, releasing the accompanying dataset on 3 August 2026, according to the department's statistics page.

DESNZ, the United Kingdom's energy department, first published the compilation on 30 July 2026 and recorded its most recent update on 3 August 2026. The dataset itself was published on the later of those two dates.

The publication carries accredited official statistics status and is described by DESNZ as a summary of key annual statistics in the UK energy system.

According to DESNZ, the release covers how energy is produced and used, and the way energy use influences greenhouse gas emissions. It also covers combined heat and power, renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy prices and fuel poverty.

Dominion Energy now expects the 176th and final turbine at its 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project to be installed by the end of 2027, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital, which reported the revised construction schedule.

The project stood at roughly 81% complete as of July 31, per the same report. That is up from about 71% in March 2026, the month the wind farm began delivering electricity to Virginia's grid.

Foundation work is finished. All 176 monopiles and 176 transition pieces are in place, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported. Turbine erection is the remaining bottleneck: 31 generators have been completed, with installation of the 32nd underway.

Offshore substations are on a separate timeline. The third and final substation is expected to complete commissioning by the end of 2026, according to the report.

The turbine fleet is Siemens Gamesa 14 MW units. Once all 176 are operational, Dominion Energy expects output sufficient to supply approximately 660,000 homes.

The Alphington community battery in Melbourne's inner north is live on the grid, closing an eight-year volunteer effort by Village Power, according to RenewEconomy.

Village Power president Graeme Martin described the path to connection as a game of snakes and ladders, RenewEconomy reported.

The group has turned that experience into a policy demand. Village Power is calling on electricity distributors in Australia to publish how much electricity local communities already generate and consume within their own areas.

Village Power says releasing that generation and consumption data would give better recognition to the value of community batteries and other consumer energy resources.

Egypt has pulled forward its renewables target to 45% of the electricity mix within two years, replacing an earlier goal of 42% by 2030, according to Climate Home News. Ember data cited in the report put the current share at around 13% in 2025.

The transmission network is the constraint. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said in a speech to the nation in March that USD 50 billion of investment was needed to overhaul the electricity grid and transmission infrastructure, Climate Home News reported.

Part of that gap is being filled from outside. The EU and its European Investment Bank lending arm announced in June a financing package of up to EUR 690 million, or USD 795 million, to modernise the Egyptian transmission network, which Climate Home News described as a weak point in the country's clean energy ambitions.

The EU-backed project is designed to let the grid absorb 22 GW of renewable capacity by 2030, cut electricity losses, and move output from wind and solar zones to consumers and, eventually, foreign markets including the EU.

Domestic budget allocations moved in the same direction. Planned investment in electricity and renewables reached EGP 136.3 billion, or USD 2.7 billion, for the 2025/26 financial year, up from EGP 72.6 billion the year before, with public investment expected to account for about three-quarters of the total, Climate Home News reported.

Sisi met government ministers in June to press for faster delivery of solar and energy storage projects and grid upgrades tied to the new target, including 105 renewable energy projects intended to bolster grid stability.

The export leg of the plan runs through interconnection. Egypt would supply clean power via existing links with Jordan, Libya and Sudan, alongside a 3 GW connection under construction with Saudi Arabia, according to Climate Home News.

Sono Motors GmbH has filed for insolvency for a second time and is offering its solar business to buyers, according to pv magazine. The Munich-based company said it ceased operations as of July 31, pv magazine reported on August 3.

The filing follows a restructuring attempt that failed to produce funding. Sono Motors said that "despite intensive and promising discussions with investors", it had been unable to secure viable financing, per pv magazine.

That restructuring was triggered by the exit of the company's main backer. Sono Group N.V. announced in March 2026 that it was withdrawing from Sono Motors' photovoltaic division with immediate effect, according to pv magazine.

The sale process covers the brand and the business-to-business operation. Assets on offer include all intellectual property, hardware components and technical documentation, pv magazine reported.

Oil and Natural Gas Corp will set aside half of a planned 1.75 million metric ton oil storage facility, equivalent to about 13 million barrels, for India's strategic needs, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

The explorer announced the strategic petroleum reserve plan last month, siting it at Mangaluru in Karnataka state. The same outlet reported that MRPL has already leased half of the 1.5 million ton Mangaluru SPR.

India currently holds enough crude oil and petroleum product storage to cover 74 days of net crude import needs, per Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

The existing Strategic Petroleum Reserve spans three sites in southern India, at Mangaluru, Padur and Vizag, with a combined 5.33 million tons of capacity. Indian rules allow part of that built storage to be used commercially.

A further expansion is planned at Chandikhol in the eastern state of Odisha, where India intends to build about 4 million tons of strategic storage. ISPRL has acquired the land for Chandikhol, a project estimated to cost 90 billion Indian rupees, the report said.

Saipem and Subsea7 have passed the US antitrust review required for their planned merger, after the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expired, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported. Clearance lets the transaction close in the United States once the remaining conditions are met.

Completion is anticipated in the second half of 2026, subject to the approvals still outstanding, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

The merged group will trade as Saipem7. The deal is structured as an EU cross-border statutory merger, with Subsea7 absorbed into Saipem.

Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported that the combined company will carry a backlog above USD 50 billion, annual revenue of approximately USD 24.6 billion, EBITDA above USD 2.3 billion and free cash flow exceeding USD 930 million.

Saipem7 will stay incorporated and headquartered in Milan, with its shares listed in Milan and Oslo, according to the same report.

The U.S. Department of Justice has told a federal court that private citizens should not be permitted to enforce environmental statutes and should instead defer to the executive branch, according to The Conversation. The position was filed in litigation involving Elon Musk's xAI.

The Conversation reports that the Justice Department's argument would require plaintiffs to leave enforcement to the executive branch even when the executive decides to take no action.

The underlying case dates to April 2026, when the NAACP, a nationwide civil rights organization, sued xAI in federal court under the citizen suit provision of the Clean Air Act, The Conversation reports. The complaint alleges that xAI and a subsidiary built and operated 27 natural gas-fired turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, without the Clean Air Act permits required for them, to power the company's Colossus 2 data center.

Citizen suit provisions are not a marginal enforcement channel. They have been used in more than 2,000 lawsuits since the 1970s, according to The Conversation.

Two settlements illustrate the financial stakes attached to that mechanism. Formosa Plastics settled a 2017 Clean Water Act citizen suit in 2019 for USD 50 million, money directed to mitigation and remediation projects in Lavaca Bay, Texas, The Conversation reports.

A more recent case closed at a smaller figure. Styropek USA settled a citizen suit brought by PennEnvironment and Three Rivers Waterkeeper for USD 2.5 million in 2025 over plastic pellet discharges in western Pennsylvania, according to The Conversation.

By Q2 2026, Ministry of Energy figures put Kazakhstan's installed solar PV capacity at roughly 1,375.21 MW, pv magazine reported.

Solar is one slice of a wider fleet. Kazakhstan counted 169 renewable plants above 200 kW in operation at that point, and their combined rating came to 3,749.62 MW, according to pv magazine. The count covers hydroelectric, biogas and wind units alongside solar.

This year's build-out includes ten projects rated at 245 MW in total, pv magazine reported. Four are wind and one is hydroelectric; the remaining five are solar plants carrying 92.6 MW between them.

The comparison with 2025 is unfavourable. Nine renewable plants entered service that year, at a combined 503.5 MW, per pv magazine.

Generation lags capacity. Renewables produced 8.6 billion kWh through the end of 2025, equal to 7% of national electricity output, according to pv magazine.

Auction volumes sit well above connected capacity. Tenders run internationally from 2018 through 2025 awarded 6,935 MW, pv magazine reported, versus the 3,749.62 MW currently in service.

February brought the latest auction order, clearing tenders in 2026 for 450 MW of wind, 265 MW of solar and 200 MW of hydro, according to pv magazine. The solar tranche of 265 MW compares with 92.6 MW of solar slated for commissioning this year.

Battery-electric vehicles took 97.6 per cent of Norway's new passenger car market in July, with 9,379 registrations, according to the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV), as reported by electrive.

Total new passenger car registrations reached 9,609 for the month, an increase of 0.5 per cent against the same month a year earlier, electrive reported.

Toyota was the best-selling brand, with 1,260 registrations. Chinese carmaker Xpeng placed third on 843 vehicles, a 161 per cent rise year-on-year, according to electrive.

OFV chief executive Geir Inge Stokke said Toyota has moved from tenth to first place in one year, and Xpeng from thirteenth to third, while Tesla remains the largest brand so far this year.

The commercial segment lags well behind the car market. Electric vans made up 61.4 per cent of new van registrations in July, electrive reported.

Year-to-date figures show a shrinking overall market alongside a growing electric one. Norway has registered 83,012 new passenger cars since the start of the year, down 2.4 per cent year-on-year, while battery-electric registrations rose 1.3 per cent to 81,040 units, according to electrive.

Edenred has completed its purchase of The Mobility House Solutions, according to electrive, which reported that the deal strengthens the buyer's position in the European fleet electrification market.

The acquired business will trade as Edenred E-Mobility GmbH, electrive said. Its work covers turnkey charging infrastructure and intelligent energy management for fleets.

The renamed unit draws on more than 2,700 managed projects and over 2,500 actively supported fleet depots, according to electrive. On that base it positions itself as an end-to-end partner for businesses, logistics fleets, car dealerships and property operators.

The buyer sits alongside UTA Edenred, which offers fuel and charging cards among other fleet services and serves more than 300,000 corporate customers worldwide, electrive reported.

For the seller, the transaction narrows the remaining business. The Mobility House plans to focus more strongly on vehicle-to-grid technology, flexibility marketing and energy trading, a shift the company had announced previously, according to electrive.

Blue Solutions and AVL have completed a joint development programme assessing the safety of a new generation of solid-state batteries, according to electrive.

The two partners are targeting volumetric energy density up to 25% higher than comparable battery packs built on NMC lithium-ion cells, electrive reported. Gravimetric energy density, which measures stored energy relative to pack weight, is expected to improve by 13%.

The cell design at the centre of the programme uses a lithium-metal anode alongside other new technologies, according to electrive. Lithium-metal anodes raise the energy stored per unit of volume and weight, which is why safety validation sits at the front of the development sequence rather than after it.

Blue Solutions plans to commercialise the technology for passenger cars by the end of the decade, electrive reported. That timeline places the product against NMC lithium-ion packs, the incumbent chemistry the partners used as their benchmark for the density comparison.

The gap between the two density figures is the more informative detail for vehicle integration. A 25% volumetric gain frees packaging space in the floor of a passenger car, while the 13% gravimetric gain is the smaller of the two improvements and constrains how much of the volumetric benefit converts into range at constant mass.

The European Commission approved a EUR 59 million Slovenian state aid program for battery energy storage system (BESS) deployment, ESS News reported. The money backs 370 MWh of new BESS capacity in Slovenia.

The Commission said on July 31 that the Slovenian scheme can proceed because it meets objectives set out under the EU Clean Industrial Deal, according to ESS News.

Disbursement is expected before December 31, 2030, ESS News reported.

Financing comes from the Just Transition Fund and the ETS Modernisation Fund, per the same report.

United States regional grid operator PJM Interconnection has cleared 715 new generation projects for study in the opening Cycle of its overhauled interconnection process, a fleet able to produce more than 200 GW, according to PJM Inside Lines.

Before the filing window shut on April 27, developers submitted 811 new-resource proposals, PJM said. Screening cut that pool to the 715 accepted projects, which carry 201.5 GW of nameplate capacity between them.

Storage leads on project count with 314 submissions. Natural gas follows at 147, then solar at 117 and wind at 61. Smaller groupings include 37 solar-storage hybrids, 24 nuclear entries, 10 filed as other and five hydro.

Measured in megawatts rather than headcount, the order flips. Gas holds 99.8 GW of the 201.5 GW, with storage at 60.0 GW and nuclear third at 17.3 GW. Solar adds 11.8 GW, hybrids 7.5 GW and wind 3.9 GW, while other resources account for 1.1 GW and hydro for 0.07 GW.

The operator has said load on its system could climb by as much as 70 GW through 2038, with data centers and other large customers the main driver.

PJM is using HyperQ, an AI-enabled tool built by Google's Tapestry, to review application data.

Signed paperwork has not translated cleanly into completed plants. PJM said 51 GW of generation now holds signed interconnection agreements, but many of those projects are not under construction at all, held back by state permitting and supply chain backlogs.

PJM has run more than 300 GW of projects through its queue since 2020, of which over 100 GW ended up with signed interconnection agreements.

Tandem PV has bought thin-film metal oxide coating developer nexTC Corp., according to Solar Builder, which reported the deal on Aug. 3 based on statements from company representatives. Tandem PV is a United States developer of perovskite-silicon solar panels.

The buyer did not put a price on the transaction. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, Solar Builder reported.

The deal carries personnel as well as technology. Dr. Cory Perkins, founder and chief executive of nexTC, joins the Tandem PV team as part of the agreement, according to Solar Builder.

Tandem PV's manufacturing base is a 65,000-square-foot commercial demonstration factory in Fremont. Solar Builder reported the site runs a production line with roughly 40 MW of annual nameplate capacity, turning out large-format tandem solar panels with the stated aim of scaling to commercial production.

Base Power closed a USD 1 billion Series D that values the residential storage company at USD 13 billion post-investment, according to Electrek, alongside the unveiling of Core, a 39.2-kWh home battery.

Ribbit, Addition, Valor Equity Partners, and JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group led the round, with participation from new and existing investors. Electrek reported the financing takes Base's cumulative capital raised past USD 2.5 billion.

The Core unit is sized to keep a house running for up to 36 hours and can be installed in under an hour, according to the company. At 39.2 kWh, it sits well above the capacity of typical residential systems.

Base's installed battery fleet now exceeds 500 MWh, Electrek reported, and the company has extended its footprint from Texas into Illinois.

The company has also signed utility programs with El Paso Electric, Austin Energy, and CoServ that together account for more than 200 MW of capacity. Those arrangements tie distributed home batteries to utility dispatch rather than leaving them as standalone backup hardware.

The USD 13 billion post-investment mark prices Base above the value implied by its raised capital of more than USD 2.5 billion, a gap that rests on the fleet growth and utility contracts disclosed to date.

VinFast has formally introduced its electric two-wheeler division to the Philippines, according to CleanTechnica. The Vietnamese battery-electric vehicle maker paired the launch with plans for 30,000 battery exchange hubs in the country, CleanTechnica reported.

The swapping network is the structural piece of the entry. Battery exchange hubs let riders trade a depleted pack for a charged one rather than wait at a charge point, shifting charging time off the rider and onto the operator's inventory of packs. CleanTechnica put the planned hub count at 30,000.

The launch covers the company's e-scooter lineup alongside an expanded retail footprint, according to CleanTechnica. VinFast is best known as a battery-electric vehicle manufacturer, and the Philippines move extends that business into two-wheelers.

The Port of Long Beach in California signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration on 22 July, becoming the first US port to formalise work on small modular reactor technology for commercial vessels, ports and other maritime assets, according to World Nuclear News.

World Nuclear News reported that the signing makes Long Beach, one of the busiest container ports in the country, the first US seaport to formalise a partnership with the Maritime Administration aimed at establishing nuclear-powered vessels for commercial service.

The agreement carries no financial or procurement obligations. It is non-binding and does not commit either party to funding, procurement decisions or the adoption of any specific technology, according to World Nuclear News.

The Maritime Administration, known as MARAD, launched its initiative to develop small modular reactors for use in commercial shipping in May, World Nuclear News reported.

Separately, the port has leased space to BlueCore Energy, which emerged from stealth on 21 July. The lease allows the company to assemble, test and store maritime power modules, according to World Nuclear News.

BlueCore Energy's initial system is rated at 10 MWe and is being developed to power the equivalent of about 15,000 homes, or to scale to meet the power demand of a major port, World Nuclear News reported.

Uniper has contracted 2 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project in Canada, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. The publication described the agreement as the first major long-term LNG supply arrangement between Canada and Germany.

Purchases will be made on a free-on-board (FOB) basis for a term of up to 20 years, with first cargoes expected from 2032, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported.

The export terminal is planned for Pearse Island in British Columbia. Offshore Engineer OEDigital said total nameplate capacity will reach 12 mtpa, split across two floating LNG production and storage facilities. Uniper's contracted volume therefore covers a sixth of the plant's design output.

Development is being led by the Nisga'a Nation together with Western LNG and Rockies LNG, per the same report.

Liquefaction is to be driven by hydroelectric power from British Columbia. The developers are targeting a carbon intensity around 90% lower than conventional LNG facilities, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. That design choice distinguishes the project from gas-turbine-driven liquefaction trains, where the compression duty is met by burning part of the feedgas.

The FOB structure leaves shipping and destination decisions with Uniper rather than the seller, giving the buyer control over where each cargo lands once loaded at Pearse Island.

Fugro, the Dutch geological data specialist, said on Friday that the offshore wind downturn has yet to bottom out and that a recovery is not expected before 2027, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. The company's shares fell around 10% after the announcement.

The order book carried the clearest evidence of the slowdown. Fugro's 12-month backlog fell 13.9%, while its offshore wind backlog slumped 47%, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported.

Headline results moved the other way. First-half revenue rose 4.3% to EUR 920.5 million, and the earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margin widened to 4.1% from 2.3% a year earlier.

Mark Heine, Fugro's chief executive, said the offshore wind market had deteriorated more than expected, and that the company now expects activity to start recovering in 2027. Governments are still working on the new contract structures needed to restart projects, Heine said.

The company came into 2026 already carrying the cost of the slowdown. Fugro posted a EUR 21 million annual loss and cut its dividend by 80% because of project delays and cancellations in the renewables sector, particularly in the U.S., according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

A second, unrelated disruption hit vessel availability. Heine said tensions in the Middle East disrupted operations in parts of the Gulf, where GPS signal-jamming prevented vessels from operating on some days.

The gap between the revenue line and the backlog line is the substance of the warning. Revenue and margin reflect work already contracted and executed, while the 47% drop in offshore wind backlog measures what is not coming. With Heine tying the restart of projects to contract structures still being drafted by governments, the timing of any pickup sits outside the company's control.

BYD has opened UK order books for the Ti 7, a seven-seat plug-in hybrid SUV priced from GBP 47,995 on the road, according to Electrek.

That undercuts the plug-in Land Rover Defender 110, which Electrek reports starts at GBP 71,840 in the UK.

The Ti 7 runs BYD's DM-p powertrain, pairing three electric motors with a 1.5-liter turbocharged engine for a combined 402 hp, per Electrek.

The engine primarily feeds a 35.6 kWh BYD Blade Battery, which Electrek says delivers a pure-electric driving range of up to 74 miles.

Customer deliveries in the UK are expected to begin in January 2027, according to Electrek.

Kosmos Energy lifted second-quarter net production 12% year on year to roughly 71,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day, according to World Oil, with the Jubilee field offshore Ghana and GTA Phase 1 carrying the increase.

Quarterly revenue came in at USD 607 million, World Oil reported. Operating cash flow reached approximately USD 175 million and free cash flow totaled USD 89 million. Net income was USD 185 million, while adjusted net income was USD 68 million.

Gross oil production at Jubilee averaged about 72,000 bpd over the quarter, according to World Oil. Two new wells there started producing in June and July, and a further well is expected online shortly, taking Jubilee output above 90,000 bpd.

GTA Phase 1 averaged approximately 2.65 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas equivalent during the quarter, with nine gross LNG cargoes lifted, per World Oil.

On the balance sheet, Kosmos said net debt fell by more than USD 400 million across the first half of 2026. The company kept full-year capital expenditure guidance at USD 350 million and said it remains on track to cut debt by roughly 20% over the course of the year.

The production figure of about 71,400 boed marks a 12% gain from the same period a year earlier.

Diplomatic efforts to end the Iran war ruptured on Monday after Tehran denied that negotiations would take place, according to Semafor.

US President Donald Trump described Iran's leaders as "unbelievably duplicitous," Semafor reported. He later vowed to blockade Iran until "a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished."

On the Iranian side, Semafor reported that Tehran is resolved on a "pressure points" strategy, aimed at reframing Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz as less costly for the region and the global economy.

NIO delivered 35,934 vehicles in July 2026, 71% more than in the same month a year earlier, according to CleanTechnica.

The comparison base was 21,017 deliveries worldwide in July 2025, CleanTechnica reported.

The July figure came in slightly below the previous month. CleanTechnica put June 2026 deliveries at 40,597.

Australian coal exports have risen 3%, according to BNEF's Australia Energy Transition Outlook 2H 2026. The same outlook describes the country's emissions reductions as making "limited progress".

BNEF released the Australia Energy Transition Outlook 2H 2026 on Monday. According to RenewEconomy, the report captures what it calls the messy middle of Australia's energy transition.

The export figure and the emissions assessment sit side by side in the outlook, which pairs a rising coal trade with slow domestic decarbonisation.

Data centers and the electricity they consume have become a central dispute in the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin, which takes place on August 11, according to Canary Media.

Canary Media described the primary as hotly contested, with the computing facilities and their energy sourcing among the issues dividing candidates.

The salience is new. Local leaders and journalists told Canary Media that most Wisconsin residents thought little about data centers a year ago.

Geothermal developer Zanskar purchased a New Mexico power plant in 2024 that, from the outside, appeared to be failing, according to Canary Media.

The problem sat in the resource itself. Canary Media reported that the plant's shallow wells had been rapidly losing heat.

Heat decline in shallow geothermal wells cuts the temperature of the fluid reaching the surface, which reduces the output a binary or flash plant can deliver from the same flow rate. That is the condition Zanskar took on when it bought the asset.

GE Vernova has signed an agreement with Enfinity Global to supply 43 onshore wind turbines of the 3.8 MW-154m model for the Fatehgarh Wind Farm in Rajasthan, India, according to GE Vernova. The order totals 163.4 MW, the company said.

GE Vernova said the order was booked in the second quarter of 2026. Deliveries are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026, according to the company.

The turbines will be built at GE Vernova's Pune facility, which the company said has an annual capacity of up to 1,500 MW. That figure places the Fatehgarh order at roughly a tenth of one year of nameplate output from the plant.

Enfinity Global holds a 4 GW renewable portfolio in India, of which approximately 300 MW is already in operation, according to GE Vernova. The Rajasthan order therefore represents about half again the developer's current operating base in the country, and a small fraction of its full pipeline.

GE Vernova described the Pune plant as a cornerstone of its 'Make in India' strategy.

Amazon is building a USD 10 billion data center in Hamlet, North Carolina, a project touted as the largest economic development project in state history, according to Inside Climate News.

The build includes hundreds of diesel generators, Inside Climate News reported. Diesel units are standard backup for large computing campuses, supplying power when grid supply is interrupted.

Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process, according to Inside Climate News. The outlet described the arrangement behind the campus as secretive in its account of how the deal came together.

The USD 10 billion figure is the investment attached to the Hamlet site itself, placing it above every other economic development commitment recorded in North Carolina, per the same reporting.

Vattenfall has secured the rights to build two offshore wind farms in Denmark, among them North Sea I Mid, a site about 20 kilometers off Hvide Sande on the Danish west coast with a minimum capacity of 1 GW, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital.

Both projects come with 30-year operating consents and an option to extend for a further 10 years, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported. The 1 GW figure for North Sea I Mid is a floor rather than a fixed design capacity.

The awards build on a Danish offshore position that currently stands at around 1.5 GW, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. Vattenfall operates five offshore wind farms in the country, generating about 6.5 TWh of electricity a year on the same reporting.

David Flood, Head of Business Unit Offshore, said winning both projects reflects the company's continued ambition to grow its offshore wind portfolio and support the electrification of industry and society.

Researchers from China and Rwanda have designed a dual-source direct-expansion photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) heat pump that draws solar and ambient-air heat through one finned evaporator, removing the need for separate heat exchangers, according to pv magazine. Scientists from Southwest Jiaotong University in China and the University of Rwanda took part in the work.

In simulations run under the climate of Yibin, the system held a heating coefficient of performance (COP) between 5.2 and 5.38 across the full year, pv magazine reported. The stability matters because a single evaporator surface has to serve two heat sources whose availability moves in opposite directions between seasons.

Modelled photovoltaic (PV) surface temperatures moved from 11 C in winter to 53 C in summer, per pv magazine, giving electrical efficiencies of 13.9% to 15.4%. Thermal efficiency stayed at roughly 55% over the same range. The colder panel surface in winter lifts electrical output, while the warmer summer surface pushes it toward the lower end of the band.

Peak performance in the simulation reached about 230 W of electrical power and 1,181 W of thermal power, with a maximum heating COP above 5, according to pv magazine. The thermal figure is more than five times the electrical figure, which places the design closer to a heat-delivery machine than a generator.

The design is sensitive to operating pressure. Raising condensing pressure from 12 bar to 20 bar cut the COP from 5.3 to 3.3, pv magazine reported. That is a drop of two full COP points across an eight-bar band, and it sets the practical ceiling on the delivery temperature a system of this type can supply before the efficiency case weakens.

Direct-expansion PVT heat pumps circulate refrigerant behind the PV laminate itself, so the panel doubles as the evaporator. Cooling the cells lifts electrical yield while the harvested heat raises evaporation temperature and therefore COP. The reported approach differs in collapsing the solar collector and the air-source coil into one finned component rather than plumbing two evaporators in series or parallel.

The results are simulation outputs for a single location, and the COP band of 5.2 to 5.38 reflects that modelled climate rather than measured field performance.

Lynas Rare Earths' Mount Weld operation ran on a 95.7% renewable energy share in the March 2026 quarter, according to pv magazine, one of several remote Australian mining sites now sourcing the bulk of their power from solar, wind and batteries rather than diesel.

The hybrid power station serving Mount Weld, in the Goldfields region, cut diesel consumption by more than 870,000 litres against the same period a year earlier, pv magazine reported.

Bellevue Gold's mine site in the northern Goldfields set a monthly record of 93.8% renewable supply in February 2026, drawing on a 90 MW hybrid plant, according to the same report. The site also logged 155 consecutive hours of engine-off operation, running entirely on renewable generation over that stretch.

Lithium producer Liontown reported an 82% renewable share at its Kathleen Valley project across the six months to the end of June, pv magazine said.

The operator side of the trade is consolidating around long-term supply deals. Zenith Energy holds contracted capacity of more than 1.2 GW across grid-connected and islanded systems, secured under long-term contracts, according to pv magazine. Islanded systems are the harder engineering problem: with no transmission link to lean on, frequency and reserve have to be held locally, which is what makes an engine-off run of the length recorded at Bellevue Gold a technical marker rather than a commercial one.

Diesel displacement is where the numbers translate into cash for mine operators, since fuel has to be trucked to sites far from any network connection. The 870,000-litre reduction at Mount Weld is a like-for-like quarterly comparison, not a cumulative figure.

The three sites sit at different points on the same curve. Kathleen Valley's 82% half-year share falls below the quarterly figure at Mount Weld and the monthly peak at Bellevue Gold, though the periods measured are not the same length, and monthly records capture favourable conditions that annual averages smooth out.

Trucking startup Revoy raised USD 27 million in a Series A funding round led by Standard Capital, Electrek reported, with Doerr Capital, Time Ventures, Y Combinator and Leap Ventures also participating.

The company sells an electrified trailer that couples to a conventional diesel tractor rather than replacing it. According to Electrek, the Revoy EV has a range of about 250 miles. Revoy puts the weight of the electrified trailer at about 22,000 pounds.

Instead of plug-in charging, Revoy is building out attended swap sites. Two stations are already running, in Texas and Arkansas, where a driver pulls in, is met by a Revoy attendant, and has the spent battery exchanged in about five minutes, per Electrek. That model sidesteps the depot charging infrastructure that battery-electric tractors require.

Revoy has finished a year-long proof of concept pilot with Ryder Systems, according to Electrek. The startup plans to put four more units into service on a 200-mile route in the Pacific Northwest by the end of the year.

Electrek describes the Revoy EV's range as comparable to the second generation Volvo VNR Electric and the Freightliner eCascadia.

Romania's installed solar capacity has moved past 8.5 GW after roughly 1.8 GW of new plants were connected since the beginning of January, according to figures from the Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association (RPIA) reported by pv magazine.

The pace exceeds last year's build-out. RPIA data cited by pv magazine put additions at 2.2 GW last year, with more than 2.5 GW projected for this year, which would lift the national total above 9 GW. On that trajectory, Romania reaches the 10 GW solar target in its National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) for 2030 during 2027, pv magazine reported.

Solar has become a large share of daytime supply. Irene Mihai of RPIA said the technology now consistently delivers between one-quarter and more than one-half of total daytime demand.

Storage is scaling alongside it. RPIA figures reported by pv magazine show around 1.1 GW/2 GWh of installed utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), against 494 MW/914 MWh at the start of the year. A call for projects covering standalone batteries is set to launch, and pv magazine reported it is expected to support the deployment of around 3 GWh of BESS.