Weekly Debrief

Fusion energy is entering a new phase. After decades as a scientific pursuit, the sector is attracting billions in private and public capital, with big tech, oil companies and governments all racing to bring the first commercial plants online.

British supplier highlights the Norwegian company as a “world-leading supplier in the energy value chain” and plans to leverage the company’s experience in the oil industry to reduce SMR costs.

Pairing solar and wind farms with grid-scale battery storage can help protect against future energy price shocks - removing batteries from hybrid projects is a therefore strategic mistake, queries Low Carbon's CEO Roy Bedlow

£120m scheme promises to process 44,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a year to produce low-carbon hydrogen for industrial use

A 350 MW / 1,243 MWh battery energy storage project at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire, developed by BW ESS in partnership with EDF, will ultimately expand to 400 MW / 1,424 MWh following a second phase of development.

Trio have been involved in major agreements that will shape their roles in renewables and networks

Sven Utermöhlen tells Recharge company not worried about executing large volume of UK projects, which is ‘almost business as usual’

Standardisation crucial to driving down cost of renewable energy from offshore wind farms, says executive at Danish developer

Group CEO Kjetel Digre tells EnergiWatch that he thinks small modular reactors (SMRs) could become a key pillar for Aker Solutions.

Deals between buyers and suppliers of green energy or technologies among proposed climate solutions

Funding will enable company to to recycle capital into battery energy storage pipeline

Plans to process millions of used batteries in coming decades are continuing to advance

Partners seek to deliver scalable power solutions for energy-intensive sectors where electricity grids are struggling to keep up with demand

The investor is shifting across offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and batteries as COO Martin Neubert explains how local presence, being technology agnostic and having auctions that actually work are now decisive to returns

Probe underway after incident involving 6.1MW onshore machine at project built to fulfil Microsoft power deal

With CATL and HyperStrong's 60GWh sodium-ion battery deal announcement yesterday, it's an ideal time to look at the different sodium-ion cell chemistries and battery products available for BESS today.

We hear from industry sources about the significance of the CATL-HyperStrong sodium-ion BESS battery deal. Does it make a real turning point for the technology as an alternative to lithium-ion?

BEVs reach 22% market share! Thanks to a number of factors (new, cheaper and/or better models, record high gas prices, mass arrival of Chinese models, etc.), EVs have risen to record highs in Europe, with over half a million plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in March, 349,000 of them ...

2025 was a good year for heat pump water heaters (HPWHs). In our annual State of the Heat Pump Water Heater Market report, we talk about how residential and commercial manufacturers released more new and updated products last year than any other year in the product’s history. Five new residential ...

Penspen has been awarded a critical research project designed to look into how hydrogen can support the transition of the UK’s industrial clusters. Hydrogen Transition Pathways for Industrial Clusters is a research and decision-support project for the Future Energy Networks (FEN), Energy Innovation Centre, Northern Gas Networks (NGN), and Xoserve. FEN’s current members include National Gas and the four […]

Governments have no easy options to remove the link between gas and power prices

Vestas executive says that competition from contenders who 'do not play the rules' can affect investment decisions – as anger grows in China about UK 'politicisation' of the wind turbines issue

Manufacturers still need to fill factories that cost hundreds of millions of euros in investments, wind turbine maker's offshore chief warns at WindEurope conference in Madrid

Halfdan Brustad steps down after helping drive Dogger Bank and other UK projects and plans a new chapter outside the Norwegian energy group.

A takeover, which would create a combined entity serving about 9.6mn customers, could be reached within weeks

Under agreement, egg Power will supply renewable energy from a new solar farm in Suffolk that is expected to be operational from 2027

There's been progress on several large-scale BESS projects in the UK, with Matrix Renewables securing financing for its Eccles project and BW ESS enlisting EDF to optimise its Hams Hall one; plus smaller announcements.

Scientists in China claim to have solved issues with iron flow batteries., which could lead to cheaper grid scale storage batteries.

Copper is the unsung hero of the energy transition—powering everything from electric vehicles and data centers to tomorrow’s grids. But as global ambitions for electrification accelerate, copper is caught in the crossfire of structural supply shor…

CEO Anna Borg calls Vattenfall’s decisions to exit floating wind projects Utsira Nord in Norway and Muir Mhòr in Scotland a ”timing issue.”