Caracas – October 31, 2026 -- North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) will raise its in-country Venezuelan fleet to 41 of the 60 rigs it announced earlier this month, as production reached 223,509 barrels of oil equivalent per day on October 19, up from about 200,000 in August.

SHENZHEN – October 31, 2026 -- SKYWORTH Solar has launched Solavita, a global brand that consolidates its smart microgrid portfolio into four product lines covering residential, commercial, utility and portable applications.

Murfeld/Ceršak – October 31, 2026 -- The EU energy regulators' agency ACER has endorsed a four-year extension, running until November 2029, of the exemption from building physical bi-directional gas capacity at the Murfeld/Ceršak interconnection point between Austria and Slovenia.

ACER issued a favourable Opinion on the decisions by the Austrian and Slovenian national energy regulators to prolong the existing exemption. The Austrian and Slovenian transmission system operators (TSOs) proposed the extension, and the national regulators approved it.

Ireland – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has found Ireland's proposed gas transmission reference price methodology largely compliant with the EU Network Code on Harmonised Transmission Tariff Structures (NC TAR), but says the treatment of the Corrib Linkline fails the criteria for non-transmission tariffs.

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has approved amended implementation frameworks for the PICASSO and MARI electricity balancing platforms. It adopted Decisions 12/2026 and 13/2026 and added three prequalification options for balancing service providers (BSPs).

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) found that institutional frameworks for hydrogen network planning remain incomplete across Member States, limiting alignment with the EU-wide Ten-Year Network Development Plan (EU TYNDP). The finding comes from its latest Opinion on national gas and hydrogen Network Development Plans (NDPs).

Europe – October 31, 2026 -- Switching to dynamic pricing and shifting consumption to cheaper periods could have saved EU households an average of 20%, or about €120, on electricity bills in 2025, according to ACER analysis in its 2026 Monitoring Report on retail energy markets.

Europe – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) will open a public consultation on 5 November 2026 on the preliminary version of EU-Flex, an open-source electricity market model built to assess flexibility needs across the EU. The consultation will run until 17 December 2026.

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- EU underground gas storage stood at 75% of capacity on 21 October 2026, and the upper-bound cost of refilling it this year reached €27 billion, according to the latest gas Monitoring Report from the EU energy regulators' agency ACER.

European Union – October 31, 2026 -- The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has published the first of three sets of revised REMIT data reporting guidance. Its first-phase requirements apply from 29 October 2027.