Author: Arnes Biogradlija

The fourth edition of Sarajevo Energy & Climate Week (SECW 2026) concluded today in Sarajevo after five days of intensive discussions. Featuring over 200 speakers, panelists, and decision-makers across 21 sessions, the event reinforced its role as Southeast Europe’s primary platform for energy and climate policy. This year’s program focused heavily on accelerating decarbonization, expanding smart grids, deploying green hydrogen, and enhancing infrastructure climate resilience. Panelists issued a strong call to action regarding European trade regulations—such as CBAM and the ETS system—warning that failure to align quickly could severely impact regional exports and broader economic competitiveness. Program committee members and…

Exactly one natural hydrogen well has ever reached commercial operation anywhere in the world, a small site in Bourakebougou, Mali, that supplies electricity to a single village. That is the entire global track record behind the category MAX Power Mining Corp. is marketing when it describes its Lawson Complex in Saskatchewan as the “world’s first large-scale commercial discovery” of natural hydrogen, a claim that, by the company’s own September disclosures, still describes wells in commercial validation drilling with a completions program planned but not yet finished. MAX Power was originally a mining company before pivoting into natural hydrogen exploration, building…

Arcadia eFuels’ own 2023 roadmap projected its first Danish plant would begin producing eSAF this year. The offtake agreement Uniper signed this week instead expects first deliveries only “from the early 2030s,” a slip of at least four years from the project’s original target, for a facility that had completed front-end engineering design but had not yet reached a final investment decision as of the most recent independent tracking. Uniper’s commitment to buy 40,000 metric tons of eSAF annually for more than a decade from Arcadia eFuels’ Project Endor in Vordingborg, Denmark, is not a modest slice of that facility’s…

Ontario Power Generation’s final investment decision for the first BWRX-300 at its Darlington site put the cost of that single 300-megawatt unit at roughly 7.7 billion Canadian dollars, about 5.6 billion US dollars, close to 18,700 dollars per installed kilowatt before any of the standardization and repeat-build savings a European fleet is meant to eventually deliver. That is the only real-world cost figure available for the reactor design SGE, GE Vernova, Hitachi and Samsung C&T agreed this week to jointly advance across Central and Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. The memorandum signed on the sidelines of the United Nations…

S&P Global Platts assessed the cost of PPA-backed green hydrogen production in Germany at 11.78 euros per kilogram on September 11, a figure the industry treats as a general benchmark but one that describes almost exactly the setup Shell has chosen for Refhyne II. Shell has said the plant will run on “multiple groups of renewable energy power purchase agreements”, the same procurement model underlying that price assessment, against grey hydrogen produced from natural gas, which typically costs one to two euros per kilogram in the same market. The equipment milestone announced this month, the delivery of the first 14…

The DIANLL battery-swap system Gotion High-Tech and C&C Trucks unveiled at IAA Transportation this week is framed around delivering “the first customer vehicle for the Europe-Africa transport corridor,” language that suggests a continental logistics network. According to the joint venture’s own disclosure earlier this year, the actual project is a pilot linking Morocco and France with an initial phase of 100 electric trucks. That joint venture pairs Gotion, Moroccan partner Green Power Morocco, identified in this week’s ceremony only by its initials GPM, and Chery Heavy Trucks to oversee fleet operations, charging and battery-swap infrastructure, and digital fleet management along…

The Army published its request for proposals for this exact solicitation on June 15, gave companies two weeks to respond, and announced conditional awards across six installations on September 18, a three-month turnaround for a program that lists nuclear electric generation among its possible technologies. No capacity figures, investment amounts, binding construction timelines or final technology selections have been disclosed for any of the six sites. The conditional awards, issued under the second tranche of the Army’s Strategic Capital Initiative, went to Ameresco for Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, to Indelible-Bloom for Fort Detrick…

Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture facility was inaugurated in Sluiskil, the Netherlands, on September 7, with the prime ministers of Norway and the Netherlands and the EU’s climate commissioner in attendance. Yara’s own CEO, Svein Tore Holsether, offered a more candid assessment than the ceremony’s framing: the project is, for now, primarily a way to avoid costs under the EU Emissions Trading System, and whether it becomes commercially viable at all depends on where carbon prices and demand for low-carbon ammonia land in the years ahead. The facility can capture and liquefy up to 800,000 tons of CO2 annually from…

Smurfit WestRock’s much-cited renewable energy deal with PepsiCo, Givaudan, and Statkraft is not, strictly speaking, Smurfit WestRock’s deal. PepsiCo is the lead buyer that aggregated demand from Givaudan and Smurfit WestRock as supplier-partners, and the wind asset underpinning the 10-year virtual power purchase agreement is an existing Spanish project undergoing repowering, not new generation capacity built from scratch. Both details matter for judging how much additional clean power the arrangement actually brings onto the grid, a question that sits underneath most of this year’s manufacturer energy announcements. The urgency behind these deals traces to a specific, verifiable shift in US…

The AI Energy Management Alliance that Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launched this week presents itself as a first-of-its-kind coalition. It revives, under a new name, the Advanced Energy Management Alliance, an organization founded in 2014 to promote demand response and distributed energy resources that went largely dormant as that industry matured and consolidated. The underlying idea, that flexible loads deserve different grid treatment than fixed ones, is not new. What is new is the scale of the load asking for it. Nvidia’s own commercial stake in that request is direct and easy to trace. Texas grid operators face 230…