Move comes amid hostile US policies and talk of Canada becoming “51st state”. Infrastructure Ontario has picked a team including AtkinsRéalis, GHD, Ernst & Young, Wood, Turner & Townsend, and…

China’s government said on 31 December December 31st that it will spend $42bn on transportation, water and energy projects in its latest five-year plan. The money will go towards building…

Engineers have started building the United States’ first “microreactor”, a 1.5MW mobile nuclear reactor compact enough to be shipped in four standard shipping containers. BWXT Advanced Technologies is now fabricating…

Vinci Energies has signed an agreement to buy Romanian electrical infrastructure engineer EnergoBit, which specialises in electrical substations, overhead transmission and distribution lines, and network monitoring and automation. Founded in…

The European Commission has approved an investment of €202m for a particle accelerator in the Grenada region of southern Spain, around a quarter of the expected total construction cost. The…

Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres. Initially, the US tech company will buy…

A team at Aston University is working with Kyiv’s National Academy of Sciences on a heat pump able to deal with Ukrainian winters. The design works with Ukraine’s Soviet-style cast-iron…

International certification body DNV has issued a Statement of Compliance for Bouygues Travaux Publics’ OO-Star concrete floating wind-turbine foundation. Bouygues said the certification will help commercialise the concept, which secured…

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, this month signed deals securing sources of nuclear and geothermal power as it races to secure enough energy to develop AI. On…

Oslo-headquartered lighting firm Glamox is lighting up a giant offshore platform that will convert electricity from a 900MW wind-power scheme in the North Sea some 100km off the German coast.…

Belgian grid operator Elia Group announced on Wednesday that the first two of 23 concrete caissons had been installed at Prince Elizabeth Energy Island in the North Sea. Elia said…

German energy company EnBW has ordered one of Germany’s first hydrogen-ready gas turbine power plants at its generating site in Stuttgart-Münster. Now, the site generates heat and electricity from three…

The Kazakh Atomic Energy Agency has shortlisted four companies to supply reactors for its first nuclear power plant, the Interfax news agency reports. They are Russia’s Rosatom, Korea Hydro &…

Egypt and France have signed a €7bn agreement to develop a green hydrogen and ammonia complex near Ras Shokeir on the Red Sea coast, Arab News reports.  It will be…

Skanska has won an €89.5m (SEK 990 million) contract to build foundations for a major new carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant in Stockholm. The client is heating and electricity…

The government of Sweden is planning to issue state loans to fund its planned fleet of four nuclear reactors instead of seeking private finance. Energy minister Ebba Busch said the…

Swedish equipment maker Atlas Copco has launched an energy storage system that is capable of delivering 1MW of power from a single unit, which the company says is the most…

French automation and energy company Schneider Electric says it will spend $700m in the US over the next two years developing its manufacturing capacity, digitalisation and energy infrastructure for artificial…