Energy
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Gresham House has cleared another milestone in Britain’s queue reforms. Firm Gate 2 offers for two battery storage projects move the schemes closer to financing close, procurement, and construction under NESO’s reworked connections regime.
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ENTSO-E’s verdict exposes Europe’s lagging voltage control architecture. Iberia’s outage was triggered by overvoltage, but the deeper failure lay in weak reactive-power discipline, soft plant obligations, and tools built for a slower grid.
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Energy operators are moving autonomy from pilot stage to scale. Schneider Electric’s latest survey points to faster investment in autonomous operations as AI-linked power demand, cost pressure, and workforce attrition reshape priorities across energy and chemicals.
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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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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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China’s next grid cycle points to another infrastructure surge nationwide. Multi-year spending plans from the country’s state grid operators show how transmission, distribution, and renewable integration are becoming central to energy security strategy.
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Fusion plans at West Burton have moved decisively into delivery. A new government strategy and the appointment of ILIOS bring the STEP programme closer to site redevelopment, supply chain mobilisation, and a prototype fusion plant targeted for operation in 2040.