Author: Arnes Biogradlija

An Italian engineering venture is developing a machine that converts the restless motion of the sea into electricity while potentially serving as a breakwater and floating coastal structure. Its central idea is deceptively simple: let the waves move water, use that motion to drive air to flow in one direction, and extract energy with a turbine. The difficult part is proving that the system can survive the ocean long enough to make the promise commercially meaningful. The energy hiding in every wave A wave advances towards the shoreline, gathers itself against the shallows and breaks. Water surges forward, retreats and…

The Commission puts the saving to pesticide makers from ending routine renewals at €49.6 million a year, on cost data its own annex records as unverified stakeholder input. What would go is the point at which the EU re-examines approved substances against current science, the process that removed chlorpyrifos, mancozeb and chlorothalonil. The Council has since capped most approvals at 15 and 25 years, and Parliament has yet to settle its position. The Commission’s estimate of what pesticide applicants would save once systematic renewals end is €49.6 million a year. A peer-reviewed analysis in Environmental Sciences Europe traces the figure…

A 1:20 scale experiment using helium puts the high concentration region of a vertical hydrogen leak at about 4 to 6 m in a refuelling area, a figure inferred by scaling rather than measured.

InnoEnergy and 28DIGITAL are due €19 million and €24 million in EIT grants for 2026 and 2027, according to Follow the Money, against the €44.0 million and €30.6 million the EIT allocated them for 2023 and 2024. Annualised, that is about 42% less. The cut is real, but so is the distance between the EIT’s label of financial sustainability and a programme goal that its own rules frame as independence from the EIT. Across the two hubs, €43 million over two years is €21.5 million a year, against €37.3 million a year in 2023 and 2024. InnoEnergy’s annual allocation falls…

Nvidia’s reference design for megawatt-class AI racks asks for two things at once: 800 VDC power distribution and storage that works across timescales from milliseconds to minutes, with supercapacitors named for the fastest layer. A memorandum of understanding announced by Infineon Technologies and Skeleton Technologies in early September sets out a framework to explore both, from the grid connection to the processor. The memorandum maps directly onto that two-part requirement. Its first track covers next-generation solid-state transformers that convert medium-voltage AC to high-voltage DC, combining Infineon’s CoolSiC power semiconductors with Skeleton’s power conversion systems and supercapacitor technology. Its second track…

In September 2022, EnerVenue signed a master supply agreement covering 250 MWh from 2023 to 2025, with deliveries of 50, 100, and 100 MWh, for an earlier generation of its product. The order it now calls its first commercial contract at multi-megawatt-hour scale is 26 containerized units totaling 11 MWh for an unnamed Chinese oil and gas producer, with the first three due in December from a production line that made its first conforming cell at the end of September. Eleven megawatt-hours across 26 units works out to about 423 kWh per container. Launch coverage of the Energy Prism by…

The Commission opened applications on 6 October for up to 30 seats on a new investor council, against an energy investment need it puts at €660 billion a year to 2030, of which the EIB pledge and the proposed CEF budget cover about 4.5 percent.

Seven reactors appeared in three NRC filings published in the Federal Register on 8 and 9 October, but they sit at very different stages: a draft environmental review, a docketed application and a first filing.

Poland adopted its updated nuclear programme on 29 September, but the 2036 date for the first unit had been in official documents since March 2025; the risk now sits in the permit and 2028 first concrete.

The UK government ruled on 2 October that LionLink’s rise from up to 1.8 GW to up to 2 GW does not change the project enough to vary its planning direction, which leaves the homes and savings claims still describing the smaller design.