A Chinese industrial conglomerate is to invest $1bn in a pumped-storage system in southwest Cambodia. According to news site Yicai, the Upper Tatai Pumped Storage Power will be added to…

The Bavarian town of Geretsried will test a novel way of extracting energy from the earth, the AP news agency reports. The plan is to borrow oil and gas drilling…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will make €827m available for spending on the Czech Republic’s rail sector; a €527m will be spent on the network and €300m on train upgrades.…

India and France have agreed to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) together after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, The Indian Express reports. India’s foreign ministry…

The Belgian government wants to extend the lives of its five nuclear reactors and start building their replacements, repealing a 2003 law banning new nuclear construction, the Belga news agency…

A conference held in Tanzania last week to progress the electrification of Africa has resulted in a pledge to spend more than $50bn on expanding the continent’s grids and generating…

Spain’s second-largest oil company will start work on part of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley scheme, which will install enough electrolysers to turn 2GW of wind and solar energy into…

China plans to drill 15km into the Earth’s surface to hunt for fossil fuels and to learn about the structure of the earth’s crust, South China Morning Post reports. The…

Amid a blizzard of executive orders issued on Monday after his inauguration, US President Donald Trump moved to halt the development of offshore wind power by temporarily suspending the sale…

A coalition of engineers led by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has applied to the Department of Energy for an $800m grant to speed up the development of small modular…

Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction and Swedish energy company Kärnfull Next have signed a preliminary agreement to develop small modular reactor (SMR) projects in Sweden. The two signed a memorandum…

France’s plan to secure the future of its energy sector by building six nuclear reactors beginning in 2027 have been thrown into doubt by a report from the Cour des…

Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom has offered to build two VVER-1200 reactors in Vietnam, and help with wind and battery projects, the Interfax agency reports. Chief executive Alexei Likhachev told journalists…

Swiss energy company Edisun has announced plans to build a 941MW solar park northwest of Madrid to provide power for AI datacentres. The Fuencarral project is intended to meet the…

China is planning to build a solar farm in space, a project that one scientist likened to recreating the Three Gorges hydroelectric project in a geostationary orbit, South China Morning…

A $2bn LNG-fuelled power plant planned for Vietnam’s Thai Binh province is on track to break ground in the fourth quarter of 2025, Vietnamese business outlet The Investor reports. The…

Norwegian utility Halden Kjernekraft is in talks to buy a plot of land for a power station made up of small modular reactors (SMRs). If it goes ahead, it will…

Energy Northwest, a power company in the state of Washington, has hired Montreal-headquartered engineer AtkinsRéalis to be owner’s engineer in a project to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) for Amazon…