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
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.
Australia's grid hit 80.5% renewables while curtailing 8.4GW
Two records in two days on the NEM, and the same weekend set a curtailment record of 11.1GW. Both numbers describe the same system.
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.
Brazil's utility-scale module imports fall 82% as curtailment bites
Total imports halved to 5.48GW in the first half. The centralised segment collapsed from 2.3GW to 430MW, and prices went up 12.9% while volumes fell.
Investment-grade notes now sit behind operating batteries in Texas
Jupiter Power closed $1.4bn across four deals for 1,500MW/3,600MWh — including a BBB− rated private placement secured on three plants already running.
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.
The discount rate sets the price of low-carbon electricity
Slovenia's own figures put the same reactor at €65 or €103 a MWh. Nothing about the plant changes between those two numbers — only who lends the money, and at what rate.