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    Jeju Island Deploys Nation's First Self-Driving Cleaning Vehicle
    Energy & TransportOctober 27, 2025

    Jeju Island Deploys Nation's First Self-Driving Cleaning Vehicle

    Excerpt from chosun.com Jeju Island has introduced a self-driving cleaning vehicle. While self-driving city buses and taxis are operating in various parts of the country, this is the first time a self-driving cleaning vehicle has been deployed. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Jeju Island began operating a self-driving cleaning vehicle in downtown Jeju from the 16th. The cleaning vehicle was created by modifying a 1-ton electric truck. Like other self-driving vehicles, it is equipped with cameras, LiDAR, and other devices throughout the vehicle. The front of the vehicle is equipped with a suction inlet to collect waste, fallen leaves, etc., and a sprayer to spray water.

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    Gran Canaria is preparing to become the first Spanish island to generate geothermal electricity
    Energy & TransportOctober 27, 2025

    Gran Canaria is preparing to become the first Spanish island to generate geothermal electricity

    Excerpt from antena3.com Gran Canaria is moving forward with an ambitious project to harness subsoil heat and continuously produce clean energy. If surveys confirm its potential, the island could lead Spain in geothermal electricity generation, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.

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    Rooftop solar and battery storage on Hawaiian Electric grids reach historic milestone
    Energy & TransportOctober 13, 2025

    Rooftop solar and battery storage on Hawaiian Electric grids reach historic milestone

    Excerpt from mauinow.com Hawaiian Electric announced today that customer-sited rooftop solar and battery storage connected to its grids have surpassed 1 gigawatt of generating capacity — the equivalent of about 100 million LED lightbulbs. The achievement comes about 25 years after the company launched its first solar programs and began addressing the technical challenges of integrating large amounts of intermittent solar energy. Today, Hawaiian Electric’s service area has one of the highest rooftop solar adoption rates in the nation, with an estimated 44% of single-family homes equipped with solar systems. Helped by steady customer demand, the rated capacity of rooftop solar systems and battery storage has more than doubled over the past 10 years.

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    Scottish Government funding to create EV charging points in rural and island communities
    Energy & TransportSeptember 10, 2025

    Scottish Government funding to create EV charging points in rural and island communities

    Photo credit: news.stv.tv Excerpt from news.stv.tv Scottish Government funding to help install charging points in remote and rural parts of Scotland will ensure “no one is left behind” in the move to electric vehicles (EVs), transport secretary Fiona Hyslop has insisted. Hyslop confirmed £4.5m is being made available to enhance public charging points in “under-served” areas of the country. The cash, from the Rural and Island Infrastructure Fund, will contribute towards meeting the target of having 24,000 additional public charging points by 2030, the government said. Under the scheme, money will be made available to rural and island businesses, landowners and charge point operators to help them with the costs of installation. The funding was announced as Hyslop said Scotland had already made “incredible progress in growing the public charging network in Scotland”.

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    Saint Kitts and Nevis receives five bids in geothermal production drilling tender
    Energy & TransportAugust 26, 2025

    Saint Kitts and Nevis receives five bids in geothermal production drilling tender

    Photo credit: Daniel Farrell / Flickr (Creative Commons) via ThinkGeoEnergy.com Excerpt from thinkgeoenergy.com The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Commission (OECS) has announced that five bids from internationally recognized firms have been received following a tender for the production drilling phase of the planned St. Kitts and Nevis geothermal power project. Bids from the following companies have been accepted: Iceland Drilling Marriott Drilling Consortium Drilling Ormat Technologies Inc. IPS-USA Drilling is expected to begin by early 2026. The development envisions a 30-MW geothermal power facility that will provide baseload renewable energy to both Nevis and St. Kitts.

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    Thousands protest plan to build world’s longest bridge from Sicily to Italy
    Energy & TransportAugust 13, 2025

    Thousands protest plan to build world’s longest bridge from Sicily to Italy

    Excerpt from aljazeera.com Thousands of people have marched in Sicily to protest against a government plan to build a bridge that would connect the Italian mainland to the Mediterranean island, and would be the world’s longest single-span bridge. Some 10,000 demonstrators marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to stage their opposition to the 13.5-billion-euro ($15.7bn) infrastructure project.

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    Italy gives final go-ahead for landmark Sicily bridge project
    Energy & TransportAugust 11, 2025

    Italy gives final go-ahead for landmark Sicily bridge project

    Excerpt from reuters.com MESSINA/ROME, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Italy's government gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of what will be the world's longest single-span bridge, linking Sicily to the mainland, despite environmental, financial and other concerns that have delayed it for decades. The 3.7-kilometre (2.3-mile) structure, set to break the record currently held by Turkey's Canakkale Bridge across the Dardanelles, has been under discussion since at least the late 1960s as a tool to develop Italy's poorer south. The right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made it a priority and has set aside 13.5 billion euros ($15.63 billion) over the next 10 years to build it and surrounding facilities. The Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning and Sustainable Development (CIPESS) gave its green light to the project during a meeting in Rome, paving the way for the start of construction work. "It is not an easy task but we consider it an investment in Italy's present and future, and we like difficult challenges when they make sense", Meloni said at the meeting, her office said. The bridge to Sicily, which has a population of 4.7 million, should be ready in 2032, the Messina Strait Company said.

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    Malta receives three bids for its first offshore wind concession
    Energy & TransportJuly 28, 2025

    Malta receives three bids for its first offshore wind concession

    Excerpt from splash247.com Three submissions were made in Malta’s initial call for the development of the country’s first offshore wind project. Two consortia and a Greek company submitted preliminary qualification questionnaires for Malta’s first offshore wind farm concession. Submissions were made by the Code Zero Consortium, led by SEP Malta Holding, with partners Kornelio Energy 1, M. Demajo, and NMK Renewables. A second submission was made by the Atlas Med Wind consortium, led by GreenIT, partnered with Seatrans Shipping, Central European Advisors, and CI V Transfer Coöperatief. The third submission was by McKedrick from Greece. The concession will be awarded through a competitive dialogue process involving the design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of a wind farm offshore Malta. The project will also include the operation and maintenance of an offshore substation and export cable system, which will remain owned by the government. The project will have an expected installed capacity of around 300 MW. “It is a key component of Malta’s National Energy and Climate Plan, which outlines the strategic transition toward a sustainable, decarbonised energy mix,” said Ismail D’Amato, CEO of Interconnect Malta. An evaluation process to verify compliance, technical experience, and financial capability is now underway.

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    Japan switches back to nuclear, 14 years after Fukushima
    Energy & TransportJuly 14, 2025

    Japan switches back to nuclear, 14 years after Fukushima

    Japan is laying the groundwork to proceed with next-generation nuclear energy plants once its fleet of idled reactors has been restarted, as soaring gas prices and power-hungry data centres have prompted a rethink on atomic power in the earthquake-prone nation. Asia’s second-largest economy signalled late last year that it would allow construction of new atomic reactors at existing sites, marking a significant policy shift in the country’s aversion to the controversial electricity source following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Japan is reactivating nuclear reactors that were shut down in the wake of the accident, reopening 14 out of 54 that were closed to date.

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