Industry News
December 2025
Global EV Charging Infrastructure to Reach 11 Million Units in 2030, Forecasts GlobalData
With electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerating, driven by stricter government emissions regulations worldwide, the demand for a strong EV charging network is rapidly increasing. Countries such as the US and China have seen especially fast growth in EV uptake, supported by substantial public investment in ch
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Date:
12/30/2025
Taiwan Renewable Power Capacity to Reach 50.7GW by 2035, Forecasts GlobalData
Taiwan’s power sector has entered a new operating environment following the completion of its nuclear power phase-out in May 2025. With the shutdown of the last operating reactor, the government has intensified its focus on expanding renewable energy and flexible gas-fired generation to replace lost baseload su
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Date:
12/29/2025
Valmet's Automation Powers Helsinki Closer to a Clean-Energy Transition With the World's Largest Air-to-Water Heat Pump
Valmet will supply an automation system for Helen Ltd’s Patola air-to-water heat pump plant and two electric boilers currently being built in Helsinki, Finland. When completed, the air-to-water heat pump plant will be the largest in the world with a full heating production capacity around 30 MW. The mission-critical Va
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Date:
12/19/2025
Dinesh Ramanathan, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, onsemi
onsemi announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with GlobalFoundries to develop and manufacture advanced gallium nitride (GaN) power products using GF’s state-of-the-art 200mm eMode GaN-on-silicon process, starting with 650V. This collaboration accelerates onsemi’s roadmap for high-performance Ga
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Date:
12/18/2025
WireMasters Achieves CMMC Level 2 Certification to Strengthen Cybersecurity Posture
WireMasters, a leading distributor of Wire, Cable, connectors and HMP, today announced it has successfully achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2. The certification, independently verified by a CMMC Third-Party Assessor Organization (C3PAO), formally confirms that WireMasters meets th
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Date:
12/18/2025
Suman Narayan, CEO of Cyient Semiconductors
Cyient Semiconductors has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Kinetic Technologies, a global leader in power management, high-performance analog and mixed-signal ICs for a total consideration of up to USD 93 Mn. The combination establishes a scaled platform in the $40B+ power semiconductor ma
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Date:
12/18/2025
Buildings are often green due to certificates, but not real-time performance, experts say
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has recently published its 2025 Sustainability Report, and the picture for green buildings is getting weaker. Demand for sustainable real estate is cooling in most regions, many projects are stalling over high upfront costs and uncertain payback, and almost half of construction professionals still don’t measure carbon on their projects – a share that has actually grown over the past year.
Energy-efficiency experts from Exergio,
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Date:
12/17/2025
NHanced Semiconductors Leads the Semiconductor Industry in Heterogeneous Hybrid Bonding Production
NHanced Semiconductors, the first U.S.-based pure-play advanced packaging foundry, uniquely supports mixed-material hybrid bonding with either copper or nickel bonds. Their new Besi bonding system further expands its advanced packaging yield and throughput.
NHanced announced earlier this year that it had ta
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Date:
12/17/2025
Nelson Family Vineyards Powers 100% of Operations with Solar Energy, Reducing Electricity Costs by $90k Annually
Nelson Family Vineyards in Mendocino County, California, is powering 100% of its operations with renewable energy following the installation of a floating solar system on an irrigation pond. The innovative project enables the 74-year-old, 1,800-acre family-run farm to operate entirely on clean energy without ta
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Date:
12/16/2025
Next-Generation Composite Conductor Cores Promise Stronger, More Resilient Power Grids
Global electricity demand is forecast to rise sharply in the coming decade. At the same time, the race to decarbonize energy systems is placing unprecedented demands on power grids. Transmission system operators are under increasing pressure to deliver more power, more reliably, without building entirely new in
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Date:
12/16/2025
Daniel Brooks, EPRI senior vice president of energy delivery and customer solutions
The aftermath of the 2025 Iberian blackout highlighted how rapidly changing grid conditions can overwhelm traditional monitoring and control processes. EPRI today announced a global initiative to modernize how the electric sector detects, anticipates, and responds to emerging risks and manages increasing complexity in
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Date:
12/15/2025
MICHAEL TIMBERLAKE, E2 DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Businesses cancelled the fewest investments in large-scale factories and clean energy projects in over a year last month but losses continued to outpace new project announcements, according to E2’s latest monthly analysis of clean energy projects tracked by E2. Companies announced $550 million in
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Date:
12/12/2025
AI data center (Source: Canva)
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has published the first findings from its AI Company Data Initiative (AICDI), analysing AI governance disclosures from 1,000 companies across 13 sectors. Developed with UNESCO, it is currently the world’s largest dataset on how firms describe and oversee their use of artificial intelligence.
The results reveal a wide gap between AI adoption and its governance – companies are deploying AI far faster than they are managing its risk
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Date:
12/12/2025
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Flex Power Modules Extends Manufacturing to Europe in Support of Growing AI Demand
Flex Power Modules has extended its manufacturing to Europe with new production based at the Flex facility in Althofen, Austria. This move boosts the company’s power module capacity, enabling Flex Power Modules to respond faster and more efficiently to rapidly growing demand from AI data center customers.
This expansion
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Date:
12/11/2025
Wärtsilä's First Power Plant with Synchronous Condenser Feature to Support Renewable Energy Integration for Australian Mining Operation
Technology group Wärtsilä will supply the engines, controls, and auxiliary equipment for a new 120 MW power plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The contract has been placed by Australian Independent Power Producer (IPP) Zenith Energy Operations. The plant is expanding the power supply of one of Australia’s la
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Date:
12/09/2025
Empower Semiconductor Expands Global Footprint with New Silicon Valley Headquarters and Munich R&D Office
Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in powering artificial intelligence (AI)-class processors, today announced a major expansion of its global operations with the opening of its new headquarters in Milpitas, California, and the establishment of a dedicated research and development (R&D) center in Munich, Ge
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Date:
12/09/2025
Energy efficiency in buildings should be digitalized (Source: Canva)
The International Energy Agency’s new Energy Efficiency 2025 report says the world is veering off its pledge to double efficiency gains by 2030. Instead of the roughly 4% improvement needed each year, progress since 2019 has averaged only 1.3%. The authors of the paper identify the built sector as
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Date:
12/08/2025
Navitas, Cyient Semiconductors Enter into a Strategic Partnership to Accelerate GaN Adoption in India’s AI, Mobility, Industrial, and Energy Markets
Navitas Semiconductor Corporation, the industry leader in next-generation GaNFast™ gallium nitride (GaN) and GeneSiC™ silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors and Cyient Semiconductors Private Limited, a fast-growing provider of ASIC, ASSP and power solutions provider have announced a st
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Date:
12/08/2025
Lance Medlin, CEO/Red Post Energy
Red Post Energy, LLC ("RPE"), BASIC Equipment ("BASIC"), and BHI Co., LTD ("BHI") have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a strategic collaboration to accelerate the development of U.S.- based power generation projects. The partnership integrates Red Post's pro
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Date:
12/04/2025
Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX
AI’s growth is pushing the boundaries of what our digital infrastructure can support. In many places, the power required to train and run models is already outpacing the speed at which new energy capacity can be deployed, and the physical limits of terrestrial grids are beginning to shape the debate about wh
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Date:
12/04/2025
Li-ion production capacity by location. Source: IDTechEx
An analysis of the materials adopted in li-ion batteries quantifies the change of cathode and anode materials used over the coming decade, with the increase of ultra-high nickel cathodes and high silicon anodes. The full assessment is provided in the new IDTechEx report Li-ion Battery Market 2026-2036: Te
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Date:
12/02/2025
Exterior of FM INDUSTRIES, INC. plant planned for expansion in Arizona
NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (hereinafter “NGK”) announced that it will invest a total of ¥8.96 billion in FM INDUSTRIES, INC. (President: David Miller; Head Office: California, U.S.A.; hereinafter “FMI”), a subsidiary that manufactures components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, to increase production ca
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Date:
12/01/2025
Will Chu, executive vice president and general manager of Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell
Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced that Microsoft expanded the use cases for its cloud-based security offerings powered by Marvell® LiquidSecurity® hardware security modules (HSMs) for customers in Europe, adding to existing cloud-based security offerings in
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Date:
12/01/2025
