Bruce Power takes unit 5 offline for refurbishment, fourth of six Ontario reactors renewed
The Major Component Replacement outage began on 1 November; units 7 and 8 follow in 2028 and 2030, and unit 3 returned more than seven months early.
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Fluence CEO Julian Nebreda and CFO Ahmed Pasha leave; Axel Meier steps in as interim CEO
The departures follow a Q3 revenue shortfall of about $90 million and a guidance cut of around $600 million tied to problems at the company's Houston plant.
Urenco USA produces its first LEU+, the West's first commercial 5-10% enriched uranium
The New Mexico plant is licensed to enrich up to 10% U-235 in all its cascades; LEU+ allows longer reactor cycles and can feed HALEU production.
PJM refiles its data-centre backstop auction for 1 March; Jefferies sees as little as 630 MW
After FERC rejected most of the first design, PJM revised cost allocation and collateral; utilities have cut near-term large-load forecasts by 6.5 GW.
Elia's capacity auctions: four-hour batteries take 61.75% of Belgium's 2030-31 volume
Belgium's transmission operator contracted 1.6 GW for 2028-29 and 0.8 GW for 2030-31; no two-hour batteries were selected for the later year and the 2027-28 top-up needed nothing.
ACER: Eustream's Slovak gas tariff proposal still breaks EU rules on benchmarking and discounts
The EU agency repeats its February findings even though the Slovak regulator ended the procedure on 8 October; the proposal would have raised tariffs by more than 50%.
Exelon says utilities could spend up to $7 billion on 3.5 GW of regulated storage
On its 30 October earnings call Exelon put utility-owned storage at 1.5 GW to 3.5 GW, on top of a $1 billion, 500 MW project already proposed in New Jersey.
Longi unveils Hi-MO X12 back-contact modules up to 690 W with a conductive backsheet
Shown at All Energy Australia, the HPBC 2.0 series replaces soldered ribbons with metal foil circuits; Longi claims more than 15,000 fewer solder-joint failure points per module.
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund launches a formal sale process; shares jump 10%
The board of the London-listed battery owner, ticker GRID, asked its advisers to invite offers for all 569 million shares, a market value of nearly 600 million pounds.
Haiyang unit 5 gets first safety-related concrete, starting main construction of the CAP1000
The pour began on 31 October at the Shandong site, about 6,626 cubic metres over nearly 62 hours, for the fifth of six large pressurised water reactors planned there.