The European Commission has published its European Grids Package, which seeks to accelerate the deployment and modernisation of electricity grids across Europe, but Climate Action Network Europe (CAN Europe) has expressed concern over the package weakening environmental safeguards to speed up permitting.

Exus Renewables has entered into an agreement with Deutsche WindXperts, a German onshore wind developer, to acquire a 69MW wind portfolio comprising four wind farms under development, located in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany.

Renewable energy provider Scatec ASA has begun commercial operation of the second 60 MW phase of the 120 MW Mmadinare Solar Cluster in Botswana.

Anaergia Inc.  through its subsidiary, Anaergia Technologies, LLC  has expanded the scope of its activities with existing client Monterey One Water, in California, to operate an organic waste co-digestion facility at M1W’s Regional Treatment Plant.

CorPower Ocean has been selected to lead the €30M POWER-Farm EU Project, addressing the competitiveness and bankability of wave farms by validating the technology in conditions required for large-scale deployment in UK waters.

SmartestEnergy US has selected GridBeyond as its technology partner to optimize battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the ERCOT market. The strategic partnership will leverage GridBeyond's advanced price forecasting, bid optimization, and trading services for three BESS resources located in Texas.

At COP30 in November, Mission Efficiency—a global coalition hosted by Sustainable Energy for All —launched its Plan to Accelerate Doubling Energy Efficiency, a coordinated, action-driven roadmap uniting governments, international organizations, financiers, and businesses behind one of the most cost-effective climate solutions of the decade.

A new international joint venture has chosen South Central Kentucky as its home. Netherlands-based United Fiber Sensing (UFS) and OgMentum ARK have officially launched UFS ARK, establishing research, development, and commercialization of breakthrough hydrogen detection technologies in Bowling Green.

The UK Government has added an extra £1.5 billion to support the switch to electric vehicles (EVs), resulting in a doubling of the number of vehicles eligible for the top ECG discount.

With offshore wind deployment accelerating worldwide, the industry is grappling with the costly reality of cable failures – in the UK alone, unnecessary premature failures have already cost around £3.5 billion in lost earnings over the past 15 years. At the same time, there is still a great deal of misinformation around what really causes these failures, with the industry too often conditioned to see them as inevitable.

 

Rapidly growing climate technology company Indeximate is pioneering continuous data monitoring for subsea power cables. The company uses advanced fibre sensing and data compression to turn petabytes of DAS data into practical, predictive insights, enabling operators to plan and act before failures occur.

REM talked to Chris Minto, Co-Founder of Indeximate, to find out more.