Author: EnergyNews.biz Newsroom

A Chungbuk provincial council committee passed a full rewrite of the province’s hydrogen industry ordinance on 14 October, adding a five year plan, a promotion centre and support from production to use, with a final vote due on 21 October.

Heli Austria and Heli Werk offer an EASA approved upgrade that replaces the Airbus EC135 NiCad main battery with a True Blue Power TB30 or TB40 lithium-ion unit, up to 19.8 kg lighter, with price and maintenance figures undisclosed.

Parapet and MetaWealth began building the 50 MW/100 MWh Dumbrava battery in Romania, with commercial operation now targeted for April 2027 against a first plan of the fourth quarter of 2026.

A Journal of Energy Storage study cuts the daily cost of two simulated microgrids by 31 and 48 percent, using a fixed tariff and a battery model that ignores charging losses and degradation.

Jupiter Wagons is L1 for a 41 MW/102.5 MWh battery project in Uttarakhand and holds a formal award for 50 MW/200 MWh in West Bengal, together about 0.6 percent of the 50 GWh storage India approved on 30 September.

The Environment Agency issued a variation on 6 October that adds 37 smaller backup generators at Hinkley Point C, caps all of them at 500 operating hours a year and raises permitted thermal input by about 67 MWth to about 243 MWth.

BMW began building a roughly 2 km hydrogen pipeline to its Leipzig plant on 30 September, with commissioning now set for the first half of 2028 after a 2025 target of mid 2027.

DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy opened up to $50 million over three years for 12 foot silicon carbide cladding rods, with applications due 7 December 2026.

A Nature Energy paper couples alkaline electrolysis with waste heat desalination. At 250 kW it reports 48 Nm3 per hour of hydrogen; ENB checks the water balance and finds an open question.

A Nature Energy paper reports a nickel hydroxide battery cell stack capturing CO2 at 132 kJ per mole, or 0.83 MWh per tonne. ENB scales it to 13.3 km2 of active area per Mt a year.