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Power Transitions: Offshore Wind Reset, Modular Reactors Advance, and Smart Grids Scale Up Globally
Plus: Offshore wind eyes a reboot, microgrids gain strategic ground, modular reactors move toward deployment, AI reshapes nuclear innovation, global funding flows into smart grids, and decentralised generation charts new paths in emerging markets – and more!
The pace of the energy transition is picking up – and so are the questions. How do we build infrastructure fast enough, clean enough, and secure enough to meet rising global demand? From floating nuclear designs to hybrid inverters and green hydrogen pilots, this week’s updates reflect a sector moving from theory to execution.
A conceptual design for a floating small modular reactor has just received a major green light, signalling that nuclear innovation is beginning to untether itself, quite literally, from traditional infrastructure. Could ocean-based deployment solve one of the sector’s biggest location challenges?
Also making waves: modular reactor design approvals are doubling, bringing us closer to a low-carbon baseload solution that’s smaller, faster to build, and potentially more scalable. Is this the momentum the SMR market has been waiting for?
On the inverter front, a new hybrid solution is targeting high-demand commercial and industrial applications, promising to optimise how solar and storage interact in real time. As grid complexity grows, are smarter hardware layers the key to keeping systems agile?
Turning to hydrogen, India has commissioned its first off-grid green hydrogen pilot, designed to operate independently from the national grid. The move suggests decentralized hydrogen may soon play a bigger role in industrial decarbonization, especially where grid connectivity is limited or unreliable.
Across the water, a major funding boost for clean hydrogen in the UK is expected to generate thousands of jobs while supporting domestic production capacity. As competition heats up globally, are we seeing the start of a true hydrogen economy?
And with extreme weather events increasingly testing grid resilience, new analysis is urging greater focus on renewable system readiness. From storms to heatwaves, are we adapting fast enough to protect the assets we’re so rapidly deploying?
Plenty of questions, plenty of momentum, and plenty to watch. Let’s dive in.
We hope this week’s roundup sparks fresh thinking as you navigate the energy transition – follow us on LinkedIn for daily updates and breaking news. In the meantime, here’s to another energizing week!
