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In a single week Westinghouse placed orders with Polish suppliers, ČEZ filed the environmental documentation for its small modular reactor and Slovakia took full control of its Bohunice project, as the region's four nuclear programmes take four different routes.
The Innovation Fund's latest call gave €3.4 billion to 77 projects, and Central and Eastern Europe did well in manufacturing and small projects but won nothing at large scale, ahead of a €1 billion manufacturing topic in December.
Dosing iron into the digester is one of a biogas plant's main defences against hydrogen sulphide, but iron chloride, iron hydroxide and iron oxide behave very differently – and reactivity matters more than the price per kilo.
Drinking water in the United States has become 62% more expensive in ten years, while Eurostat shows Hungarian water prices did not move at all over the same period – two extremes that give two bad answers to the same question.
Market data from Bavaria's state agricultural research institute show biogas plants earning 3–9 cents more per kilowatt-hour by producing in the most expensive hours instead of running at baseload, provided they invest in gas storage, larger engines and daily trading.
A meta-analysis of 455 datasets finds that fertilisers made from separated urine and faeces perform as well as mineral fertiliser, so the open questions are now quality assurance and regulation.
A BloombergNEF comparison of 37 markets shows German industry paying twice the US price per megawatt-hour, while fresh Eurostat data put Hungary near the top of the EU even before taxes.
Streamflow records from 19,000 catchments show that a drying atmosphere does not translate evenly into river-flow deficits – a finding that argues for catchment-specific drought planning.
EU member states have approved a stronger price brake for the carbon market for buildings and road transport due to start in 2028 – and a week later, EU leaders asked the Commission to reassess the whole system, without postponing it.
Prague's draft law transposing the recast EU wastewater directive puts the investment bill at up to CZK 176 billion and gives a detailed view of what the rules mean for a central European member state.
Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid will require new wind and solar plants connecting at weak points in its grid to provide grid-forming capability – through their own inverters, batteries or synchronous condensers.
A study commissioned by the European Biogas Association finds that European industry's demand for biomethane could reach 35 billion cubic metres a year by 2050, led by steelmaking and high-temperature processes.