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Opposition is intensifying around National Grid’s Norwich-to-Tilbury transmission proposal locally. Tendring District Council has escalated its challenge to the 400kV scheme, arguing that unresolved land-use, ecological, transport, and community impacts still outweigh the current mitigation package.
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Armenia has secured fresh funding for major transmission reinforcement works. A new €135 million package extends support for the Caucasus Transmission Network, backing cross-border interconnection, renewable integration, and wider regional electricity trading capacity.
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ENTSO-E has published its final Iberian blackout engineering verdict today. The report links the April 2025 collapse to oscillations, voltage-control failures, reactive-power issues, and cascading generator disconnections, while urging tighter monitoring, coordination, and rule changes for increasingly inverter-heavy grids.
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Irish solar has secured fresh EIB-backed financing for large-scale buildout. A €100 million loan to Dolmen Solar underpins a 395MWp four-project portfolio being developed by Power Capital Renewable Energy.
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AMPECO has launched an AI operations agent for charging networks. CoOperator is designed to cut fault-resolution time by tracing session failures, hardware issues and network faults across EV charging estates.
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Battery storage secured fresh capacity market contracts across Great Britain. The combined 1.8GW haul in the T-1 and T-4 auctions underlines storage’s growing role in firming a more renewable system.
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Muir Mhòr has awarded scholarships to Scotland’s next wind specialists. The latest University of Strathclyde awards extend a skills pipeline tied to one of Scotland’s most advanced floating offshore wind developments.
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Wales has launched a sector deal to accelerate renewable deployment. At Morlais, Inyanga’s 30MW HydroWing project gives marine energy a defined role in meeting Wales’ 2030 and 2035 electricity targets.
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Fourth Power is nearing a grid-scale thermal storage demonstration phase. The company plans to switch on a 1MWh unit later this year as it advances a high-temperature modular storage system.
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Rexel UK has opened a new specialist branch in Watford. The site combines wholesale stock, rapid delivery, and technical design services for contractors and commercial electrical projects.