Jeonju met on 12 October to plan around Hyundai’s nearly 9 trillion won Saemangeum hub, but only 1 trillion won of it is a 200 MW electrolysis plant, against 5.8 trillion won for an AI data center.
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.
The Environment Agency issued a variation on 6 October that adds 37 smaller backup generators at Hinkley Point C, caps all of them at 500 operating hours a year and raises permitted thermal input by about 67 MWth to about 243 MWth.
UK ministers granted consent on 8 October for the 500 MW Green Hill Solar Farm, keeping a 60 year operating life that two councils wanted cut to 40 years, with 854.5 ha of best and most versatile land out of arable use.
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.
BMW began building a roughly 2 km hydrogen pipeline to its Leipzig plant on 30 September, with commissioning now set for the first half of 2028 after a 2025 target of mid 2027.
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.
Ursula von der Leyen says six times last year’s 80 GW of new renewables is waiting for a grid connection, but three published counts of the queue measure different things.
