A study puts 150 GW of extra PV behind 1,313 German rural substations
Fraunhofer IEE, for the solar association BSW-Solar, models batteries absorbing peaks at existing transformers — and says the figure is not verified connection capacity.
Serguey Asael Shinder
Contributing writer
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.
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Finland would sort grid connection requests into four priority groups
A draft amendment to the Electricity Market Act puts consumption sites and storage into ranked groups where capacity is scarce; comments close on 9 October, entry into force set for 1 January 2027.
EDF clears a contract hurdle before dismantling the first UNGG reactor
Cyclife says the contractual strategy for taking apart Chinon A2's heat exchangers is validated after three and a half years of study, with the dismantling decree still pending.
Austria and Slovenia keep their one-way gas link until 2029
EU rules require gas to flow both ways at every cross-border point. ACER agrees the market gives no signal to build it at Murfeld.
A perovskite cell tuned for blue-green light hits 34.7% underwater
Water absorbs everything past 630nm, so a cell built for the spectrum that survives ten metres beats what the same cell manages in air.
India's largest cell plant opens at 7GW, built for $343 million
Premier Energies takes its cell capacity to 10.6GW with an n-type TOPCon line in Andhra Pradesh designed to turn out 88,000 cells an hour.
ACER tells Ireland to reclassify the Corrib Linkline before December
The tariff methodology passes on cost-reflectivity and non-discrimination. Two things do not: how one pipeline is classified, and forecasts built on a 2024 plan.
Panels cut crop water loss by a fifth in French agrivoltaic trials
Barley under the canopy reached 90-96% of the control plot, air at crop level ran 4.1C cooler at midday, and maize yielded 19.6% more in a hot dry season.
Virginia makes direct-connect data centres pay for their own lines
The state commission ordered a mandatory construction contribution for the substations and lines that serve large loads. Microsoft has filed to keep its options open.
Slovenia's second reactor needs a 195m tower and 112 road works
GEN energija published two studies before the referendum: a cooling tower choice and a transport route from Koper that needs clearance work in 112 places.