POWER Digest [August 2026]

VSB Chooses INTEC arsenic EPC Contractor for German Solar Project. VSB Group, portion of TotalEnergies, successful June said it had awarded the engineering, procurement, and operation (EPC) declaration for a 20-MW star task successful Loberitz, Germany, to UK-headquartered INTEC Energy Solutions. VSB, based successful Dresden, Germany, said INTEC volition beryllium liable for the afloat EPC scope, alongside operations and attraction services, for an archetypal play of 2 years with the enactment to extend. The companies said the task is an important milestone successful the ongoing improvement of renewable vigor infrastructure successful Germany, and added that it further strengthens the collaboration betwixt VSB and INTEC Energy Solutions. The companies are moving unneurotic connected star powerfulness infrastructure supported by sustainable improvement principles. The Germany task besides contributes to the broader advancement of renewable vigor initiatives supported by starring vigor marketplace participants, including TotalEnergies. VSB operates successful six European countries and has a task pipeline of much than 20 GW.GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Canada's Velan Support SMR Deployment successful Europe. GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) and Canadian shaper Velan precocious announced a collaboration to research opportunities for Velan to proviso reactor integral isolation valves and containment isolation valves for GVH's BWRX-300 tiny modular atomic reactor (SMR) projects successful Europe. The valves are components that assistance power coolant flow, enactment harmless reactor operation, and lend to the semipermanent reliability and show of the plant. The statement builds connected the expertise and capabilities being developed done the companies' enactment connected the Darlington New Nuclear Project successful Ontario, Canada, wherever Velan is supporting deployment of the archetypal BWRX-300. GVH is pursuing SMR opportunities successful aggregate countries, including successful Poland wherever GVH and Orlen Synthos Green Energy are executing site-specific engineering and improvement activities to enactment the deployment of astatine slightest 24 BWRX-300 units. The BWRX-300 is simply a 300-MW SMR. Ontario Power Generation is presently deploying the exertion astatine its Darlington site, making it the archetypal commercial-scale SMR nether operation successful the Western world.Florida Company Will Support Development of Data Center Campus successful Spain. Florida-headquartered EdgeMode successful June said the institution has officially entered into a memorandum of knowing with the metropolis assembly of Mora, Spain, to formalize organization practice for the improvement of "DC Malpica," a planned 300-MW large-scale information halfway field located successful Toledo, Spain. The statement establishes a cooperative model to guarantee improvement of what officials said is 1 of Europe's astir high-potential information halfway sites. The information halfway is being designed to enactment artificial quality (AI), high-performance computing, and unreality services. The metropolis of Mora has pledged important concern successful exertion astir the Malpica site, with a committedness to put €3 cardinal ($3.45 billion) successful the task with respective exertion companies. EdgeMode earlier this twelvemonth announced a large collaboration with a supplier to deploy coagulated oxide substance compartment microgrid solutions to powerfulness the site. The Malpica information halfway is located adjacent to Madrid, 1 of Europe's starring AI and integer infrastructure hubs, and is portion of EdgeMode's eight-site Spanish portfolio, totaling much than 4.35 GW of planned capacity.Nextpower Announces Expansion of Solar Product Portfolio for International Market. Solar powerfulness exertion supplier Nextpower successful June announced the motorboat of its NX Gemini two-in-portrait (2P) star tracker strategy arsenic portion of the company's broader enlargement of its star solutions portfolio successful Europe. The enlargement besides includes NX Anchor, an integrated instauration strategy co-engineered for the company's flagship NX Horizon 1P tracker. Nextpower said it is expanding its level to assistance enactment the adjacent signifier of star powerfulness improvement successful Europe with high-density tracker systems, integrated foundations, and intelligent controls that code progressively site-specific task needs. Nextpower, which has much than 160 GW of procreation capableness projects deployed globally, besides successful June announced it has entered into a definitive statement to get Zimmermann PV-Steel Group, a Germany-based star exertion supplier with much than 20 GW deployed. The institution has a heavy marketplace beingness successful Germany, 1 of Europe's largest star markets. Zimmermann was founded successful 1950 and expanded into the star manufacture successful 2009, and has delivered much than 2,500 star projects crossed 58 countries. The information for the transaction is comprised of currency and banal of up to €330 cardinal ($378 million). The transaction is expected to adjacent successful the 2nd fractional of Nextpower's fiscal 2027. Zimmermann is known for structural solutions, including fixed tilt, carports, high-density trackers, innovative agriPV solutions, and floating star photovoltaic.FlexGen Launches International Operations for Battery Storage successful Europe. Battery vigor retention developer and vigor absorption bundle supplier FlexGen said the institution is gathering its beingness successful Europe. The institution successful June said it has been awarded projects crossed the UK, Finland, and Sweden to boost availability, trim risk, and amended plus absorption done its bundle and work offerings. The institution said the projects volition beryllium capable to store excess vigor from renewables, and discharge that vigor erstwhile energy request is precocious and prices spike. FlexGen said its vigor absorption strategy offerings successful Europe volition see powerfulness works controls, analytics, site-level supervisory power and information acquisition, integration abilities, and lifecycle services. Mike Wallace, managing manager for Europe astatine FlexGen, said, "As Europe faces rising vigor prices, precocious curtailment rates, and rising request from electrification, FlexGen's precocious bundle and services volition conscionable section grid challenges and lick for vigor independence, reliability, and affordability." FlexGen said the European effort volition enactment the information halfway market, with the institution highlighting its acquisition of pairing artillery retention with state turbines, on with its acquisition to accelerate the interconnection process. FlexGen said it is expanding its squad of experts to enactment artillery retention projects crossed the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Poland, and Germany.European Investment Bank Invests successful Latvian Energy Group. The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced it has committed to put successful greenish bonds issued by Latvenergo, Latvia's state-owned vigor company. The EIB information supports the astir caller enslaved issuance nether Latvenergo's European Green Bond framework, helping concern investments successful renewable vigor and sustainable infrastructure successful Latvia. The slope said the financing volition enactment renewable vigor projects including onshore wind, artillery vigor retention systems, hydropower refurbishment, and star photovoltaic installations. EIB said the concern successful a greenish elder enslaved successful the Baltics reinforces the bank's committedness to advancing renewable vigor and processing superior markets successful the region. The EIB said its committedness is to a €300 cardinal ($341.4 million) seven-year enslaved issued nether Latvenergo's Euro Medium Term Note programme and aligned with the European Green Bond Standard, which ensures precocious transparency and beardown biology credibility. As an anchor investor, the EIB helps to mobilize further backstage capital, diversify the capitalist base, and grow entree to sustainable financing.—Darrell Proctor is simply a elder exertion for POWER.