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The EU data centre rating creates a label, not a mandate: the first reporting period covered about 36% of estimated sites, and the minimum performance standards are still in consultation until 14 December 2026.

The first 33 MW net GeoBlock at Cape Station reached commercial operation on 30 September 2026, but the company published no well count or flow per producer. ENB rebuilds the numbers from filings and laboratory data and finds the 50 MW design closes only at the top of published ranges.

FERC accepted PJM’s one-time backstop for a 6,831 MW capacity shortfall but suspended it until 28 February 2027, with cost allocation, transmission owner exit and collateral still open. The regular auction cleared only 525 MW of new generation against the gap.

A Nature Energy paper lifts lithium-sulfur voltage from 2.05 V to 2.54 V with a three-electron sulfur reaction. ENB tests the 1,700 Wh/kg headline against first principles and shows why the stack-level estimate is 477 Wh/kg.

Canada is developing a policy framework that could allow Canadian companies to participate more extensively in international carbon markets through internationally transferred mitigation outcomes, or ITMOs, under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Transporting renewable hydrogen from Spain to the Franco German border could cost between €0.60 and €1 per kilogram, according to new estimates from the H2Med Alliance, putting infrastructure costs at a potentially manageable level relative to the wider economics of European green hydrogen.

BASF’s €10.3 billion approach for Evonik has been rejected at the first hurdle, but the failed opening bid is already exposing a broader question for Germany’s chemical industry, whether consolidation can compensate for structural cost and competitiveness problems that individual companies cannot solve alone.

Germany is putting €212.5 million into research and development for e-fuels and CO2-based precursors, but the structure of the program highlights a central problem facing the sector: reducing the cost and technical complexity of synthetic fuel production before commercial scale can become viable.

EcoMethanol, Taebaek City and Sinokor Merchant Marine signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding to develop a green methanol production and supply hub at the Dongjeom Industrial Complex in Taebaek, Gangwon Province.

DHL has expanded its global network of battery logistics facilities to more than 20 sites as electrification increasingly moves beyond passenger vehicles into grid storage, industrial equipment, mining and renewable energy infrastructure.