Digitalisation
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Ubitricity and Deftpower are scaling Dutch public smart charging deployment. OCPI 2.2.1 Charging Profiles will manage sessions at 1,500 chargepoints without requiring direct vehicle API integration.
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Trianel has opened Borkum I to Germany’s balancing market services. Around 70MW is prequalified for negative secondary reserve, giving the 200MW offshore asset a controllable grid-services role alongside electricity generation.
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FlexPower has launched renewable electricity supply for German data centres. Customers can combine fixed-price contracts, short-term market procurement, and physical or virtual battery products as power requirements grow.
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European Energy has selected Capalo AI for Baltic optimisation services. Two hybrid projects combine 71MW/170MWh of battery storage with more than 140MWp of solar capacity in Lithuania and Latvia.
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Romania has formalised payments for voluntary electricity demand reduction services. Eligible consumers, suppliers, and aggregators can offer dispatchable load reductions through a regulated system-service mechanism.
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iON+ and ACCURE have formalised a battery data partnership agreement. High-frequency BESS information will feed ACCURE analytics, with corrected energy estimates returned for use in dispatch and trading.
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PG&E expands bidirectional charging programme across more vehicles and partners. New approved combinations widen access to home backup, flexible charging, and controlled grid export through electric-vehicle batteries.
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UC San Diego will test solid-state transformers for AI loads. The $8.48 million demonstration combines medium-voltage-to-DC conversion with flexible computing controls and utility planning at an operational supercomputer facility.
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A cyberattack reportedly shut a small UK gas peaker temporarily. The unidentified roughly 15MW facility was offline for four days, while government and NCSC work on broader energy-sector cyber resilience continues.
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Eaton and Singapore Polytechnic are expanding 800VDC engineering skills programmes. The collaboration brings emerging data-centre power architectures into technical education as higher AI rack densities increase electrical distribution requirements.