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Both units of Finland’s Loviisa nuclear power plant have resumed power generation following the completion of extended annual outages, marking a critical step in Fortum’s long-term operational and modernization strategy. While the outages ensured continued safety and reliability, they also underscored the operational complexity of extending plant lifetimes amid fuel diversification efforts and infrastructure renewal.

Swiss greentech startup Plan-B Net Zero introduced a hybrid system that merges battery storage, green hydrogen, and artificial intelligence to stabilize power grids and improve energy utilization efficiency, at the DA-CH Hydrogen Symposium in Wiener Neustadt.

The European hydrogen market, especially in green hydrogen, is under a cloud of regulatory uncertainty, causing concern among producers and…

UK Oil & Gas PLC (UKOG), through its subsidiary UK Energy Storage (UKEn), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Gas Transmission PLC to align future salt cavern hydrogen storage projects with Project Union, the UK’s planned 100% hydrogen pipeline system.

Plug Power has delivered its first 10-megawatt (MW) GenEco™ electrolyzer array to Galp’s Sines Refinery in Portugal—part of a 100MW project that, once operational in 2026, is set to become Europe’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen installation.

Volvo Group has officially launched the PU2000 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), marking a strategic shift from transportation toward integrated energy infrastructure solutions.

ADS-TEC Energy GmbH has announced plans for a 1-GW/2-GWh battery energy storage facility in southern Germany, a project designed to provide both grid stability and long-duration storage capacity at a scale rarely seen in the European market.

Repsol, the Iberian Peninsula’s largest hydrogen producer at roughly 360,000 tones per year, has now approved the construction of a 100 MW renewable hydrogen facility at its Cartagena complex, backed by €155 million in Spanish government support.

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) drive exponential growth in global electricity demand, attention is shifting to nuclear’s smaller cousin: the small modular reactor (SMR).

Tata Steel Netherlands faces €685 million in emission allowance purchases between 2024 and 2030, marking a dramatic reversal from the…