Thursday, 6 August 2026

State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) sent 3,750 tonnes of green ammonia from Lianyungang, China, to South Korea on July 28, 2026, which the company called a global record for the largest single-batch export of green ammonia, according to pv magazine.

The cargo left Lianyungang, in the northeastern province of Jiangsu, pv magazine reported.

The plant behind the shipment entered commercial operation in July 2025, according to the same report. It draws on 800 MW of dedicated renewable capacity.

Design throughput is 32,000 tons of green hydrogen and 180,000 tons of green ammonia a year, pv magazine reported. On that basis, the single batch shipped to South Korea represents a small fraction of one year of nameplate ammonia output.

Dajin Heavy Industry has handed over KING TWO, the second 40,000 DWT heavy deck carrier in its KING series, according to Offshore Engineer OEDigital. The company, described by the outlet as a China-based manufacturer of offshore wind foundations, developed and built the series itself.

The vessel measures 239.8 meters in overall length with a beam of 51 meters, Offshore Engineer OEDigital reported. Its cargo deck covers 12,000 square metres and the ship has a range of 16,000 nautical miles.

Those dimensions target a specific cargo class. The carrier is designed to move ultra-large offshore structures, including monopiles, jackets and floating foundations for 15-25 MW offshore wind turbines, on long-distance heavy-lift runs, per the same report.

A third unit follows shortly. KING THREE is scheduled for delivery by the end of September 2026, which would put all three KING heavy deck carriers into service during the year, Offshore Engineer OEDigital said.

European countries have cut tens of billions of euros of fossil fuel imports thanks to growth in wind and solar generation, according to CleanTechnica.

The outlet points to the 75th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy, which carries a chart showing how much money individual countries have saved by switching to wind. CleanTechnica describes the chart as sitting eleven pages into the publication.

The framing puts the displaced import bill, rather than installed capacity, at the centre of the case for wind and solar build-out across Europe.

RWE's Lingen plant has sent its first batch of hydrogen certified as a renewable fuel of non-biological origin (RFNBO) through a dedicated 120 km pipeline to the Marl Chemical Park operated by Evonik, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The outlet described the delivery as Europe's first integrated large-scale chain linking production, transmission and offtake.

Production at Lingen runs on two 100 MW proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers supplied by ITM Power, with Linde Engineering handling integration, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. The same report said the units are feeding renewable hydrogen directly into the dedicated pipeline running to Marl.

The shipment starts full-scale operation of the GET H2 Nukleus system in Germany, bringing large-scale green hydrogen production, regulated transmission and industrial offtake into a single chain, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

Companies have paid to reserve nearly 6 GW of transport capacity on Germany's hydrogen core network, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The bookings stood at that level by the end of July, spread across the network, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. That is double the volume reserved in spring, according to the same report.

The backbone the reservations apply to runs 9,040 km, Hydrogen Fuel News said, and the bookings were placed under a new tariff framework.

Nuvora Energy has finished a pre-feasibility study for a 300 MWth prismatic high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) paired with an integrated hydrogen production island, according to Hydrogen Fuel News.

The design links the reactor to a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) hydrogen island, Hydrogen Fuel News reported. High-temperature gas-cooled reactors deliver process heat at temperatures that suit solid oxide electrolysis, which draws part of the energy for splitting water as heat rather than electricity.

DBD International reviewed the study and identified no immediate technical or regulatory roadblocks, per the same report.

The work stops short of a funding or construction decision. Hydrogen Fuel News said the project has not reached the stage of securing financing or starting construction. Pre-feasibility studies sit early in the nuclear development sequence, ahead of full feasibility work, licensing submissions and any final investment decision.

The 300 MWth rating describes thermal output rather than electrical capacity, the relevant metric for a plant whose primary product is heat routed to an electrolysis process.

The Philippines' Department of Energy will dedicate its ninth green energy auction to solar projects combined with agriculture and aquaculture, according to pv magazine.

The department is targeting publication of the GEA-9 Terms of Reference in the fourth quarter of 2026, pv magazine reported. That document sets the terms bidders must meet, and its release would put the agrivoltaics and aquavoltaics round on a defined timetable.

GEA-9 sits at the end of a block of four rounds. In February the Department of Energy said it would hold GEA-6 through GEA-9 over the following two years, part of a broader plan to auction 25 GW of renewables by 2035, according to pv magazine.

A separate round in the sequence turns to territory the main grid does not reach. The department said an off-grid auction will target 20 islands, with the longlist not yet finalized, pv magazine reported.

The solar base the auctions build on remains modest. The Philippines added 899 MW of solar in 2025, lifting cumulative capacity to 3,892 MW, according to International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) figures cited by pv magazine. Reaching the 25 GW auction target therefore requires volumes several times the current installed fleet.

Pairing panels with farmland and fish ponds addresses the land question directly: dual-use sites let the same hectare carry crops or aquaculture alongside generation. Applying that design across a national auction round, rather than to single pilot projects, is what distinguishes GEA-9 from the earlier rounds in the series.

Indonesia has approved the first phase of its 100 GW solar program and will move to construction with a groundbreaking ceremony, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia said, according to pv magazine.

The program splits into two very different builds. Per pv magazine, 80 GW is earmarked for decentralized, small-scale solar paired with battery energy storage systems across 80,000 villages, with the remaining 20 GW built as centralized solar.

The plan was first announced in August 2025, pv magazine reported.

Cost is the immediate constraint. IESR estimated that reaching the goal will require USD 140 billion to USD 210 billion through the first phase investment, according to pv magazine.

The starting base is small relative to the target. Indonesia passed 1 GW of installed solar in 2025, with total capacity reaching 1.49 GW, pv magazine reported.

Rural electrification is the other half of the story. The Lisdes village program has reached more than 1,400 villages of around 11,000 without electricity, according to pv magazine.

The Trump administration issued stop-work orders on all five offshore wind projects under construction in the United States late last year, arguing the turbines could compromise national security, according to Canary Media.

Canary Media reported that national security was the single justification offered for the halt across the five sites.

Experts pushed back on the security claim as soon as it was made, according to Canary Media.