The Commission raised minimum import prices for grain-oriented electrical steel and transformer cores on 18 September; grid suppliers say EU mills cannot supply the volumes and grades transformers need.
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.
Fraunhofer IEE, for the solar association BSW-Solar, models batteries absorbing peaks at existing transformers — and says the figure is not verified connection capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Australia spilled 11.1GW on Sunday. Brazil's utility-scale module imports fell 82%. These are the same event, eighteen months apart.
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.
