The Brief
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.
Grid Brief — Energy and the grid, read from the primary documents
Four firms sign a BWRX-300 framework at the UN sidelines
SGE, GE Vernova, Hitachi and Samsung C&T agree a cooperation framework for small modular reactors in Europe, linked to a NATO-summit memorandum between three governments.
Two regulators asked the same question about data centres today
Victoria says a new data centre must bring its own generation and storage. FERC looked at a 1.8-GW reservation backed by one dollar and sent the fight to court. Both are asking what a hyperscale load must put at risk.
Victoria will make new data centres bring their own power
Rules released on 22 September require new data centres to match new electricity demand with new renewable generation and storage rather than drawing on the existing grid.
A $1 letter of credit stood behind a 1.8-GW data centre reservation
FERC rejected ComEd's notice of cancellation of the transmission service agreement for PowerHouse Hillwood's $20-billion Joliet project, and declined to take the underlying credit dispute away from the courts.
Harvard's Ari Peskoe argues FERC can reach PJM's filing rights itself
A signed opinion piece contends the commission's jurisdiction over transmission governance lets it modify how filing rights are allocated and adjust PJM's nominating committee, without waiting for the RTO to propose it.
Negative prices change which industrial heating technology wins
Chinese researchers compared thermal energy storage against heat pumps over their full life cycle under negative-price conditions. Which one comes out ahead depends strongly on the temperature the process needs.
A fusion startup is testing magnetic mirrors with salvaged MRI magnets
Terra Fusion of Baltimore is reviving a confinement approach sidelined for fifty years, on an experimental reactor at the University of Maryland built from secondhand MRI scanners and repurposed brewing equipment.
A 918MWh battery goes up in Romania as CEE storage deals cluster
Greenvolt owns it, Renovatio Solar is building it and CATL supplies the technology, with completion reported within 12 months. Another 500MWh of projects moved elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe the same week.
Skoda JS becomes sole supplier of control rod drives for Rolls-Royce SMR
Each drive is an eight-metre electromechanical linear motor weighing 450 kg. The Czech firm belongs to CEZ, which also holds 20% of Rolls-Royce SMR, and already had pre-production work on the pressure vessel.
Two regulators just moved the risk of a forecast back onto whoever made it
North Carolina refused Duke a gas turbine because data-centre load growth is 'insufficiently reliable'. California made data centres pay their own grid upgrades. The same question, answered twice in a week.