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With a planned battery capacity increase from 2.2 MWh to 12.6 MWh, the Wasaline ferry Aurora Botnia is set to operate with the largest marine battery hybrid system currently in service. Wärtsilä, selected as electrical integrator for the project, booked the order in Q3 2025, with commissioning targeted for early 2026.

In 2022, Germany shut down its last nuclear reactors, marking the end of a decades-long policy shift that cost an…

La Française de l’Énergie (FDE) is moving ahead with a new drilling campaign in Lorraine aimed at producing methane from coal seams and exploring recently discovered natural hydrogen resources.

France has taken a major step in expanding its energy storage capacity with the activation of a 100 MW/200 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at the port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire.

Sweden’s nuclear power landscape is edging closer to its first new construction project in more than 40 years. Vattenfall has shortlisted GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce SMR as potential suppliers for small modular reactors (SMRs) on the Värö Peninsula, narrowing the field from an initial 75 candidates to two.

Spain’s Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN) has completed operational testing of a sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery storage facility designed to integrate with green hydrogen production.

Europe’s refining sector could become the launchpad for green hydrogen adoption, with regulatory pressure under the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) driving demand that smaller industrial users alone could not achieve.

By 2035, natural gas production in the Eastern Mediterranean is projected to peak at 100 billion cubic meters (bcm) annually, according to new modeling by the H2Zero Research Unit.

Wrexham University has set out plans for a modular laboratory dedicated to green hydrogen research. Planning documents submitted to Wrexham County Borough Council outline a facility built from prefabricated container-style units, positioned between the university’s main campus building and the sports centre.

Svalbard Kjernekraft has formally submitted a proposal to the Governor of Svalbard for an assessment programme to evaluate the installation of a small modular reactor (SMR) in Longyearbyen, marking the first step toward establishing nuclear power on the Arctic archipelago.