In brief | 19 September '24

Electric-Vehicles.com: Nio in talks to buy Audi’s factory in Belgium

Move is part of its strategy to establish local production in Europe and avoid European Commission tariffs on imported Chinese EVs.

Euractiv: Europe's electrifiers say their time has come

After years of stagnating electrification rates in the European Union, the nomination of an electricity-friendly energy commissioner with a mandate to create an ‘Electrification Action Plan’ is giving fresh hope to beleaguered power sector stakeholders.

Financial Times: Europe's great battery hope Northvolt fights for survival

Northvolt battery factory in Sweden was meant to symbolise EU green fightback against China & US. Instead, it is in danger of turning into emblem of EU failure to stay in the race.

Jennifer Morgan: Stability, security and affordability - common goals of the German and Canadian energy transition to net-zero

Our Transatlantic Clean Economy Bridge roundtable in Alberta asked where we can learn from each other: be it energy market reform, flexible grids, hydrogen or critical raw materials.

Financial Times: Rolls-Royce wins pioneering deal to build mini nuclear plans in Czech Republic

Partnership with state utility ČEZ could prove key test of whether technology can live up to potential.

Bloomberg: UK gas plants are hardly running as renewable power floods grid

Running hours of gas-fired power plants in the UK are at the lowest since at least 2017 as wind, solar and imports from Norway and France flood the grid.

Euronews: Europe's first lithium refinery opens in Germany

The refinery is expected to produce enough lithium hydroxide for 500,000 electric cars per year.

Politico: Who works for whom in the new EU power structure

The lines of command in Ursula von der Leyen’s second term.