The US Energy Department puts $99 million into 21 geothermal projects
The funding backs next-generation geothermal technologies and resource exploration — a grant programme aimed at making the heat-under-everywhere resource dispatchable at scale.
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New South Wales consults on making panel makers pay for solar waste
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.
Fluence reserves 206 GWh of Eve cells, one of the largest supply deals yet
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.
India loads fuel at a new reactor and restarts another after refurbishment
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.
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.
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.
Two Australian batteries holding 1.8 GWh entered AEMO's system on one day
Tailem Bend BESS 3 and Wooreen registered in the market management system on 15 September — a step towards testing, not the same thing as commercial operation.
Nuward aims to start building the first of ten European SMRs in 2030
EDF's SMR subsidiary set out a schedule in Vienna: commercialisation before 2029, construction from 2030, first power in 2035, with a 48-month build assumed.
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.
Curtailment is a price signal that nobody is allowed to receive
Australia spilled 11.1GW on Sunday. Brazil's utility-scale module imports fell 82%. These are the same event, eighteen months apart.