Daily Debrief

Joint venture between energy developers EDPR and ENGIE aims to deliver up to 1.5GW of capacity over the next decade

New funding forms part of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition and Zero Emissions Vessels and Infrastructure fund

Direction by the Secretary of State on the H2East Pipeline: Humber to Nottinghamshire.

Qatar LNG shutdown threatens bigger supply hit than the Ukraine war

Sainsbury's Smart Charge service to provide UK’s second-largest commercial EV fleet with access to ultra-rapid charging in 80 locations

A second-round auction in the UK for grid stability services, including inertia, concluded without any wins for grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Commodity houses reinvest bumper profits from years of volatility to cement dominance

Allianz GI, Luxcara and Return have acquired BESS projects and portfolios in Germany, Finland and Spain; Low Carbon, OX2, Cero Generation and Revera have taken FIDs on projects in Poland, Finland and the UK; and NHOA Energy has received a 600MWh order in Italy. All in all, the projects total at least 3.7GWh of capacity.

The University of Manchester will lead a new research project to understand how noise generated by tidal-stream turbines travels through the marine environment and how it may affect marine life, supporting the responsible commercial scaling of tidal energy.

volytica diagnostics and Cellect Energy have announced a native API integration to streamline grid scale battery energy storage management.

Sometimes ultrafast chargers turn out to be about 180 kW to 350 kW, but these new BYD chargers are actually ultrafast, providing 1,000 kW, or 1 MW, of power capacity. Now, that may sound great because an EV might, in theory, be able to receive over 200 miles of range ...

New analysis shows why made-in-EU requirements are a sovereignty premium worth paying. As the European Union is debating whether to set “Made-in-EU” criteria for public funding in the Industrial Accelerator Act, new analysis shows how scale will reduce the current cost advantage of Asian battery makers. Only with Made-in-EU criteria ...

Aberdeen’s hydrogen double decker buses are being withdrawn, and a German municipality was left with seven hydrogen garbage trucks that could not refuel. Paris saw Hype’s hydrogen taxi fleet collapse after years of public claims about scale. Liverpool is trying to convert its abandoned hydrogen bus fleet. More hydrogen fleets ...

”The activities at the facility are important for making CO2 management a cost-effective climate measure,” says Norwegian energy minister Terje Aasland.

Gas prices have not seen such volatility since the energy crisis in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.