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Engineer. Reads grid data, market notices and regulator decisions, and writes down what each one changes for the people who operate and pay for the system.
TerraPower will rebid the EPC contract for the Kemmerer Natrium plant; Bechtel stays on site to finish the Sodium Test and Fill Facility and filed a WARN notice covering about 200 positions.
New rooftop connections after 5 March 2026 fall under a feed-in tariff capped at 12 years, with smart meters required and higher time-dependent rates for solar-plus-storage.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence figures put August commissioning at 6,516 MW / 20,855 MWh, with China at 61%, Saudi Arabia 19% and Europe 11%.
New York approved a $3.26bn line while the offshore wind it was sized for keeps slipping. The mismatch is not a mistake — it is what building infrastructure against a statute rather than a pipeline looks like.
SEIA and Wood Mackenzie put cumulative US solar at 299.4 GWdc; Q2 added 11.4 GWdc, up 45% year on year, with developers rushing utility-scale projects ahead of a July safe-harbor deadline.
California's governor rejected an inspector general for the utilities commission on budget and independence grounds, while signing laws that tighten data-center energy reporting and require new rate structures.
The funding backs next-generation geothermal technologies and resource exploration — a grant programme aimed at making the heat-under-everywhere resource dispatchable at scale.
The Australian state has opened consultation on a mandatory product-stewardship scheme that would put financial responsibility for end-of-life solar panels on brand owners, aiming to divert thousands of tonnes from landfill.
The framework runs 2027-2031: 16 GWh committed for 2027 and 190 GWh reserved for 2028-31, disclosed in an Eve Energy filing to the Shenzhen exchange.
NPCIL began fuel loading at Rajasthan unit 8 on 19 September and at Kaiga unit 1 as it returns from refurbishment, while starting site work for two further Rajasthan units.