Author: Arnes Biogradlija

Moeve started building the first phase of its Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley. ENB tests the company claims: 45,000 t of hydrogen needs about 2.34 TWh, or 89% load at 300 MW.

The NRC proposed changes to nine parts of 10 CFR on reactor licensing, decommissioning and oversight. Comments on Docket NRC-2025-1138 are due 9 November 2026.

LNG Canada took a final investment decision on Phase 2 on 28 September 2026. At CAD 33 billion for 14 mtpa, ENB puts capital at about CAD 2,360 per tonne of annual capacity.

The 30 September framework puts $100 billion of overnight cost on six AP1000 and two APR1400 units, about $10,460 per kW. Korea’s $20 billion annual funding cap and the unsettled link to the 2025 $80 billion Westinghouse deal decide whether it becomes orders.

The NRC issued the Clinch River BWRX-300 construction permit 447 days after accepting the application, with the final safety evaluation about 129 to 158 days before the staff’s own July 2025 plan. IAEA data still list no US reactor under construction.

US developers delivered 69 to 82 percent of their early-year battery plans in 2024 and 2025. Applied to 2026, and checked against ERCOT outlooks, the 24 GW plan points to roughly 17 to 20 GW.

The paper’s own highlights state that its hybrid deep learning model “reaches R2 > 0.998 with the best RMSE and MAPE among all previous research,” a comparative claim that rests on the authors’ literature review rather than on a shared benchmark or independent replication. The model that achieved that score was tested on two datasets: hydrogen yield from sucrose photocatalysis using a single lab-synthesized perovskite catalyst, and syngas hydrogen concentration from gasifying two specific types of leather-industry waste sourced from one industrial zone in Turkey. The architecture behind that result, a hybrid combining one-dimensional convolutional neural network layers with bidirectional…

Wärtsilä’s own chief financial officer has pointed to a specific accounting rule change as a reason the new 50:50 joint venture with RCT Solutions matters for how the company’s results will look going forward. Under IFRS 18, effective January 1, 2027, the venture’s results will move out of Wärtsilä’s operating result and into a separate investing activities line, removing a loss-making business from the metric investors use most to judge the company’s core performance, just as the venture’s own forecast shows it finally turning profitable. The joint venture, named Valo, formally closed on October 1 after a transaction first announced…

South Korea’s newly launched public-private SMR effort targets commercializing domestic light-water reactors by 2035, with construction of non-light-water designs not beginning until sometime in the 2030s. Doosan Enerbility, one of the supply-side companies the government convened for this exact roundtable, is already an equity investor in and preferred strategic supplier to X-energy, a US developer whose Xe-100 reactor is advancing on a considerably faster timeline using a Doosan-operated South Korean facility that has already manufactured 34 reactor pressure vessels and 124 steam generators for nuclear projects worldwide. That dual role is worth examining closely because it describes existing capability rather…

The 70% new-energy-vehicle sales target in China’s companion automotive plan set for 2030 sounds like an ambitious acceleration. China’s own August 2026 data already showed NEVs reaching 60.6% of monthly new-car sales, with some retail estimates touching nearly 66% that same month. The battery industry plan released three days later is setting national technology and manufacturing priorities against a target that requires only about 10 more percentage points of growth over four years, a considerably smaller stretch than the headline figure alone conveys. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s battery plan, issued September 14 alongside six other government agencies,…