Author: Arnes Biogradlija

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.

DOE’s conditional loan of up to $4.2 billion is mostly a bill for keeping existing reactors running, and the release leaves out the numbers that would show how much.

India’s utility-scale storage market faces a critical execution test as the Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited issues a Request for Selection targeting 800 MW / 3,200 MWh of standalone battery storage capacity. Published under tender reference SECI/C&P/IPP/15/0010/26-27, the SECI-ESS-IV solicitation establishes a tariff-based competitive bidding mechanism for four-hour duration assets operating on a Build-Own-Operate framework. As the Intermediary Procurer, SECI will execute 20-year Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with winning developers while backing these commitments through Power Sale Agreements (PSAs) with buying entities. The technology-agnostic tender allows grid interconnections at either the Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) or State Transmission Utility…

When energy infrastructure operators evaluate blending hydrogen into natural gas transmission networks, the safety calculus appears straightforward at first glance. However, quantitative risk assessments reveal a surprising physical reality: overall pipeline risk does not scale linearly with hydrogen concentration. In a high-pressure 10-kilometer transmission pipeline operating at 84 bar and 50 °C, the maximum individual risk does not occur with pure natural gas or pure hydrogen. Lower Mass Flow Rates Do Not Equal Lower Risk When a pipeline breach occurs, fluid density determines release dynamics. Substituting natural gas with lighter hydrogen molecules lowers mixture density, reducing mass discharge rates through…

India’s green hydrogen industry is entering a more commercially significant phase as developers begin converting government-backed production ambitions into binding international offtake agreements. Publicly announced commitments involving ACME Group, AM Green and Larsen & Toubro’s L&T Energy GreenTech now point to an export pipeline of roughly 1.2 million tonnes per year of green and renewable ammonia, alongside about 100,000 tonnes per year of green methanol. The significance is not simply the volume. The agreements increasingly connect Indian production projects with Japanese and European buyers through long-term contracts, take-or-pay structures and government-supported mechanisms designed to address the central weakness of the…

Europe’s €10 million effort to train battery industry workers is facing scrutiny over whether its reported success reflects genuine skills development or inflated participation figures. The European Battery Alliance Academy, implemented by EIT InnoEnergy, announced more than 100,000 learners in December 2024. However, questions remain over how those numbers were calculated and whether the programme delivered the workforce capabilities Europe needs. The central issue is measurement. The reported total was based on certificates issued rather than necessarily on unique individuals. Participants completing multiple courses could therefore be counted repeatedly. Significant discrepancies have also emerged between reported participation figures for individual…

More than 80% of global merchandise trade by volume moves by sea, making shipping one of the least visible but most consequential components of the global economy. UN Trade and Development continues to describe maritime transport as the backbone of international trade, while recent disruptions in the Red Sea have demonstrated how quickly longer routes, higher freight costs, and constrained capacity can transmit into the wider economy. That exposure makes the shipping industry’s fuel transition fundamentally different from a conventional technology substitution exercise. Shipowners are being asked to commit capital to vessels expected to operate for 20 years or more…