The facility was officially opened on November 24.  

Russian news agency Tass has reported that the State Duma has ratified the protocol to the agreement between Russia and Egypt for the provision of a $25-billion State export loan to build the plant. 

NexGen Energy has announced a significant milestone in the federal environmental assessment for the project. 

A consortium has achieved financial close on an agreement to supply wind and solar PV energy to Sasol’s Secunda operations. 

The project entails the development of two pumped-storage projects in Maharashtra. 

Portugal is preparing for its first offshore wind auction. 

Iberdrola plans to build a hydroelectric pumpstation, which will be able to generate more than 1 000 additional gigawatt hours a year using the same water resources. 

Axpo is building a wind farm that is expected to produce about 70 GWh/y of renewable electricity. 

ExxonMobil Development Africa, Eni and CNODC Dutch Cooperatief plan to monetise more than 60-trillion cubic feet of gas in the deep-water Area 4 of the Rovuma basin. 

Ebon Solar plans to build a beginning-to-end advanced solar cell manufacturing facility. 

The turbine generator stator for the project has been delivered. 

The first batch of 275 new container wagons has arrived in Lobito. 

Construction has started. 

The solar plant has received a formal grid connection certificate from Eskom. 

The old Johannesburg Planetarium has been relaunched as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome. 

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific plans to build an aircraft parking apron at the Basa Air Base. 

Two more battery energy storage system projects selected as preferred bids under Bid Window 1 have achieved commercial close. 

Unit 1 has successfully completed its overhaul, five months ahead of schedule, and will soon be returned to the grid.  

The South African National Roads Agency Limited plans to upgrade the existing roadway to a five-lane divided dual carriageway. 

The Transnet National Ports Authority released a request for information for a multipurpose terminal at the Port of Mossel Bay’s Quay 4 precinct in October 2024. 

The South African National Roads Agency Limited has awarded 12 road infrastructure contracts since the beginning of the 2024/25 financial year. 

Kestrel Coal Resources plans to build a waste gas-to-electricity facility, in Queensland, cutting the Kestrel mine’s CO2 emissions by more than one-million tonnes over eight years.   

Hewatele plans to build a manufacturing plant, which will address the rising demand for medical-grade liquid oxygen in healthcare facilities across Kenya.  

bp and Iberdrola plan to build a 25 MW green hydrogen project at bp’s Castellón refinery. 

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory will create a direct path from bench-scale materials and process innovations to pilot-scale integration and production. 

Construction has been completed on the concreting of the dome of the outer containment of the reactor building of Unit 1.