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South Korea has opened its 2026 hydrogen power auction with 500 GWh of annual procurement for clean hydrogen electricity, down from 3,000 GWh in 2025 and 6,500 GWh in 2024.

Oman plans to add 1 GW of battery energy storage capacity through a partnership between Nama Holding and China’s State Grid International Development, as the country prepares to integrate more than 7 GW of planned solar and wind capacity into its electricity system.

Sea Link has development consent from the UK energy department, with a converter station within 5 km of Friston substation. The cost is still open.

Construction has begun on the 200 MW Chereh floating solar project in Pahang after financial close of about RM580 million on 27 October.

Benin solar gets 30 million euros of financing for four plants totalling 62 MWp, the first independent power project of its kind in the country.

Korea offshore wind gets a second 2026 tender of about 2.2 GW, with ceilings of 168,937 and 174,003 won per MWh, slightly below the first round.

The Sharjah grid plan aims to cut losses by 25 percent and faults by 40 percent as SEWA announces AED 5.2 billion of energy and water projects.

The Glenrowan battery adds 102 MW of storage to a 130 MW solar farm after Victoria SEC rewrote its 10 year power purchase deal.

South Korea won the first SMR design approval in 2012 but has no small modular reactor running. Data center demand and the IAEA meeting in Incheon raise the pressure.

Brazil first battery auctions are set for 2 and 4 December. More than 6,000 projects registered, but the volume to be bought has not been published.