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Water, transport, energy, digital, and municipal infrastructure, with a focus on governance, investment, implementation, and delivery.
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Queensland’s optional network tariffs will remain available under the approved timetable after the regulator refused a mid-period amendment. The decision preserves different ways to reward changes in peak demand and appliance operation.
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Colombia has set a procedure allowing qualifying thermal generators to obtain liquid fuel from additional wholesalers when supply constraints threaten electricity reliability.
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Shanghai has listed three direct green-power projects, placing two in its implementation category and one in reserve.
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Indonesia’s new energy-import arrangement places a government-assigned public service agency between overseas procurement and Pertamina.
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Spain’s draft national framework combines road charging, port electricity, airport ground power and alternatives for unelectrified rail.
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Germany’s National Security Council has ordered further action against espionage and sabotage while linking critical-infrastructure protection to investment screening, raw-material resilience and artificial-intelligence security.
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Great British Railways will plan rolling stock, infrastructure, depots and maintenance together, while testing public ownership against leasing for new trains.
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Britain will expect electricity, gas and water utilities to use procurement to support domestic jobs and skills, while centralizing civil ship buying and coordinating insourcing.
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China’s water ministry has reviewed guidance that joins dam safety, river ecology and digital intelligence in one operating model.
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Australia has released the construction tender for a A$59.1 million Busselton water project, moving a new inland source, treatment plant and storage from planning toward delivery for 7,000 additional connections.
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