South Korea will replace hard limits on grid connections with curtailable access and competitive bidding, aiming to connect more than 100 GW of renewables by 2030, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment said on 1 October.
South Korea's Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment lifted restrictions on new renewable energy connections in the Honam region on 1 October. The move is part of a package that will raise national transmission-level hosting capacity from 119 GW to 171 GW by 2030.
On 1 October, fleet operators including IKEA, EDF, Geopost and DFDS wrote to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen urging her not to weaken heavy truck CO2 standards. That same day, fresh analysis argued Europe will have enough Made-in-EU battery cells by 2030 to meet demand.
Europe will have enough battery cells to meet the demand of its Industrial Accelerator Act by 2030, but it still cannot make enough cathode active materials to build those cells, according to analysis by Transport & Environment published on 30 September.
Europe has enough battery cell capacity to meet the demand created by its own industrial rules, but only if every announced project actually gets built, according to analysis published by Transport & Environment on 30 September. The fight now moves to midstream components that China dominates.
The EU's energy import bill jumped by about €100 billion during the US-Iran conflict. On 1 October 2026, the industrial fallout dominated Brussels as fleet operators, space engineers and grid planners pushed back on the same problem.
US utilities are already pausing procurement with foreign-linked supply chains ahead of Department of Energy rules due 24 December, after President Trump signed an executive order on 26 August declaring a national emergency over high-risk grid equipment.
Four of Europe's largest corporate fleet operators wrote to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on 1 October asking Brussels not to weaken heavy truck CO2 standards, as high diesel and gas prices push energy costs up the industrial agenda.
The US Department of Energy has until 24 December to write the rules that will decide which foreign-made transformers, inverters and control systems are barred from the American grid, according to a SemiEngineering analysis published on 1 October. Utilities are already pausing procurement rather than wait for the answer.
On 1 October Reuters reported that Washington told France and Germany to release diesel from strategic reserves or face a US export ban, the sharpest turn yet in Europe's energy squeeze.
FedEx has ordered 2,000 electric delivery trucks from California startup Harbinger for $300M, with the vehicles due before the end of 2027, according to a report published on 1 October by The Next Web.
The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and the research group Metr, the first official US enforcement action aimed at rogue AI agents, according to The Guardian. The news was first reported by the New York Post.
Follow the Money reported on 30 September that Ursula von der Leyen's Congress of Europe pitch dropped a reference to bringing in "citizens and civil society", the week's most recent dated development in a dossier otherwise dominated by Europe's energy price problems.
The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, according to The Guardian on 30 September.
Most large data centres in the Netherlands and across Europe are refusing to disclose how much electricity and water they use, a year-long investigation published on 30 September found, even as grid operators project the sector will take 10 to 15 percent of Dutch power by 2030.
Paris-based Inbolt closed an €11 million round on Wednesday to give industrial robots real-time perception, bringing its total funding to €30 million, according to Tech.eu.
Toyota dropped a 1,675 lb (760 kg) caravan 30 feet onto the roof of its electric Hilux at Bentwaters airfield in Suffolk, and the truck drove off, the stunt Electrek reported on 30 September. The same week, the money moving into electricity grids got bigger and harder to see.
Toyota dropped a 1,675 lb caravan onto the roof of its electric Hilux at Bentwaters airfield on 30 September and the pickup drove away. The stunt lands in the same week that grid and electrification data showed the harder numbers behind the transition.