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Rosyth shipyard expected to win £1bn Danish navy contract
Douglas FraserBBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor ShareSave HMS Venturer is the first of five Type 31 frigates being built for the Royal Navy by Babcock at Rosyth The shipyard at Rosyth in Fife is expected to win a contract to build four...

Rob Sand talks water quality, trans rights and ‘tables in Des Moines that need flipping’ on the campaign trail
Rob Sand speaking at Field Day Brewing in North Liberty, Sept. 4, 2025. — M.T. Bostic/Little Village Not everyone at Field Day Brewing in North Liberty last Thursday night was there to see Rob Sand, something he acknowledged as he started the...

Spotify rolls out lossless audio for premium users
The feature, which supports playback at up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC quality, will be extended to more than 50 markets through October, the company said. Premium users in countries including Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New...

Daily on Energy: A boost for nuclear, Oklo to recycle nuclear fuel, and FERC nominees
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! With some help from our editor Joe Lawler, today’s edition of Daily on Energy takes a closer look at the energy and water spending bill passed in the House this morning, in which...

EU Greenlights $755M for Bornholm Offshore Energy Hub
Sep 4, 2025 © Matvejs / Adobe Stock The European Commission is providing a €645 million ($755.10 million) grant for a renewable energy cluster near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, Germany's economy ministry said Thursday, a major step towards the...

EU Grants €755m for Bornholm Offshore Energy Cluster
The European Commission is providing a 645 million euro ($755.10 million) grant for a renewable energy cluster near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, Germany's economy ministry said Thursday, a major step towards the creation of a cross-border offshore...

Danish Energy Agency Re-Rejects Applications for Feasibility Study Permits Under ‘Open-Door’ Scheme
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has revised the applications for feasibility study permits under the open-door scheme, for which the process was suspended in 2023 and reactivated last year. The DEA has now made new decisions in the cases and...

NKT to Deliver Cables for Bornholm Energy Island Interconnection
Danish power cable maker and services provider NKT has signed a contract with Energinet to deliver a HVDC power cable system for the offshore interconnector linking the Bornholm Energy Island to the power grid on Zealand. Energinet, the Danish...

Clockwork raises $20.5M to synchronize GPU clusters and accelerate AI workloads
Data center infrastructure optimization startup Clockwork Systems Inc. says it’s expanding its clock synchronization technology with the launch of a new offering called FleetIQ in order to maximize the utilization of graphics processing units and...

Amid Gaza war, Israeli filmmakers battle international condemnation and isolation
Pnina Halfon Lang has spent more than two decades promoting, marketing, and building collaborations for Israeli cinema abroad. From her office in a worn-down Tel Aviv building, the executive director of the nonprofit CoPro Foundation now senses a...

States, energy company sues Trump administration for stopping work on major offshore wind farm
Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states said Thursday they’re suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project. The states will file a complaint...

Denmark Proposes To Check All Gas For Signs Of Supply From Russia
2 Importers are planned to be required to prove that the gas was not produced in Russia. As the EU has decided to ban Russian gas imports by the end of 2027, countries in the union are looking for ways to provide guarantees that gas imported into...

“Flamingo” manufacturing company to produce missile fuel in Denmark
Ukrainian defense company “Fire Point”, the developer of the “Flamingo” missile, will open a production facility in Denmark to produce fuel for long-range missiles. This was reported by the Danish government, Reuters reports. The production will...
HERE Technologies: EV Infrastructure growth slows as consumers cite charging access as top barrier to adoption across U.S. and Europe
HERE-SBD EV Index 2025 reveals already-significant infrastructure gaps grow larger HERE Technologies, the leading mapping and location data company, and SBD Automotive, a global automotive research firm, today released the third annual HERE–SBD EV...
Milestone reached: Energinet and 50Hertz sign contracts for CEF--Connecting Europe Facility funding for Bornholm Energy Island
Transmission system operators Energinet (Denmark) and 50Hertz (Germany) today signed contracts with the European Commission for EU funding under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). This marks another decisive step towards the realization of the...

The Paradox Of American Technological Leadership In Renewable Energy
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. OPINION: Seen from a journalist’s perspective, thriving in a developing nation, dependent on first-world technology In a previous article, I explored how three American...
Wind energy developers and two states sue Trump admin for stopping work on nearly complete offshore project
By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Offshore wind developers and the attorneys general of Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the federal government in an effort to reverse a stop-work order on a nearly complete wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island....

Lord King: G7 all in the same mess with rising debt — as it happened
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite have opened higher today after cooler-than-expected producer price inflation data boosted bets on a US interest rate next week. Adding to gains were strong results from Oracle, which saw its shares jump 39 per...

Ukraine urges 10 more Patriot systems from allies
30th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group "Ramstein" in London, September 9, 2025Ministry of Defense of UkraineUkraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, during a meeting with Ukraine's allies in the Ramstein format, outlined "critically...

PSG Group launches first UK facility in Essex
International pallet company PGS Group has launched its first UK facility in the port town of Grays, Essex to process second-hand pallets. The French-Belgian business has opened a facility exclusively for pallet rental business La Palette Rouge...