Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Global X launched an SMR ETF of about 15 companies whose top 10 holdings carry 97.8 percent of the weight, as the IEA scenario of 1,000 SMRs by 2050 would need about $670 billion of cumulative investment against about $5 billion a year now.

The European Investment Bank agreed up to €40 million in a convertible loan to Finland’s Steady Energy for its 50 MW thermal LDR-50 district heating reactor, its first SMR investment, with construction not due to start before 2029.

A review in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy says replacing oxygen evolution with ethylene glycol oxidation from PET waste can lower the anode potential by up to 1 V while co-producing chemicals and hydrogen.

The founder of Europe’s largest second-life storage factory says the model lost to cheaper new cells, and that is good news: Germany needs about 100 GWh of stationary storage by 2030 against about 25 GWh installed, and prices keep falling.

BCA Industries has designed a mobile battery recycling system on two semitrailers that it says captures about half the available high purity black mass on site, but throughput, cost and regulatory status are not disclosed.

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…