Monday, 26 October 2026

El Dorado residents are weighing an ordinance that would ban certain data centers and battery energy storage systems within city limits, according to KSN.

If approved in the Nov. 3 general election, the ban would take effect immediately and remain in place for 10 years, KSN reported.

Separately, Energy Storage Europe said it supports the European Commission's direction on energy-sector cybersecurity while raising targeted concerns.

Scottish Labour MP Kirsteen Sullivan has urged Labour ministers to secure jobs at Invinity Energy Systems after the company threatened to leave the UK, according to The Scotsman. The firm lost out to a Chinese company under a government support scheme.

Invinity said it would quit the UK after only one vanadium flow battery project was selected for Ofgem's long-duration energy storage scheme, according to The Scotsman. Sullivan called on her own party's ministers to protect the company's workforce.

Invinity operates sites in Motherwell and Bathgate, according to The Scotsman. The company had hoped to create up to 1,000 jobs in Scotland's central belt by expanding its manufacturing operations.

The UK Government has been pressed to stop the firm from leaving after it failed to win support under the scheme.

Zimbabwe's government has urged the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to prioritise affordable energy supplies, strengthen consumer protection and accelerate independent power generation in its 2027 strategic framework, according to the Daily News.

Separately, energy minister Michael Shanks said government policy favours overhead power lines over underground cables, according to the News and Star. Shanks said undergrounding is four or five times more expensive than pylons, a cost borne by consumers.

Russian strikes on Rivne and surrounding areas were causing large-scale power supply disruptions, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

Ukrenergo, Ukraine's state-owned electricity transmission operator, said that strikes on thermal power plants due to operate through winter had somewhat worsened its winter forecasts, though the company did not assess the situation as critical.

Venezuela's government says the 600 MW unit 6 at Planta Centro, the country's largest thermal power plant, will be connected to the grid "very soon" with help from China.

China Machinery Engineering Corp. plans to switch on the 600 MW oil-fired unit next month, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the plan is not public.