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Brazil's electricity regulator has proposed common connection requirements for distributed solar, batteries, electric vehicles and flexible demand, shifting distribution rules from technology categories toward the functions each resource performs on the grid.
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A new national directive treats tunnel accidents as the product of decisions made across procurement, design, scheduling and construction—not just failures at the tunnel face.
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Europe's transmission operators have proposed seven measures linking risk assessment, asset protection, crisis authority, offshore recovery, cross-border resources, sensitive information and dedicated funding.
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Germany's cabinet has agreed principles for a new heat-network law that combines investment recovery with price disclosure, oversight, customer adjustment rights, and dispute resolution.
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Spain's draft decree would tie large data-center grid access to hourly renewable matching, water and energy efficiency, and EU control of operational data.
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Indonesia has launched a 100 GWp solar program with 14 initial projects totaling about 5.3 GWp.
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Saskatchewan’s new data-center framework combines Canadian ownership, data sovereignty and local participation with a decisive infrastructure condition: new proponents must bring their own power rather than displace existing demand or exports.
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A new US executive order makes foreign-linked bulk-power equipment subject to transaction controls, conditions, inventory and possible replacement, while requiring implementation to account for reliability and continuity of service.
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Canada's C$195 million investment in Xanadu's C$893 million Project OPTIMISM moves quantum policy beyond research support and into domestic integration, packaging, testing, and assembly.
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Britain’s £28 million Ultra-LDES Challenge sets a 100-hour discharge threshold, cost tests and demonstration milestones designed to move multiple storage technologies from feasibility work toward grid-scale deployment.
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