The UK Government has approved funding for construction of the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk.
Kosovo’s energy ministry has announced that it is cancelling planned power cuts for the time being as it had managed to secure electricity supplies from Albania.
Ukraine has claimed that Russian forces fired rockets on 6 August at a spent fuel storage area at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, risking what Energoatom, the country’s nuclear power company, called a “nuclear disaster”.
Hitachi Energy has won an order from TenneT and TransnetBW, two of Germany’s four transmission system operators, to supply a transmission solution for the SuedLink DC4 HVDC interconnection between the north and south of the country.
Iberdrola of Spain has reached a preliminary agreement with Augusta Energy to acquire a 98 MW wind and solar project portfolio in Poland.
Following Russia’s cutting of gas supplies to Europe, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has called for a halt to electricity production using gas and delaying the phaseout of nuclear power.
Northvolt, the Swedish battery manufacturer, and Stora Enso, the Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer, have signed an agreement to jointly develop wood-based batteries.
Joao Galamba, Portugal’s Energy Secretary, said that the country was totally opposed to an EU proposal for member states to cut gas usage until March because it would hamper electricity production when the country faces an extreme drought.
The UK Government has approved a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the planned Sizewell C plant, based on EDF’s EPR design being used at Hinkley Point C.
Acciona Energía, a subsidiary of Spanish firm Acciona, will build two wind farms in Croatia.