Offshore Wind Grid Build-Out: Siemens Energy is set to build and equip the North Sea Connector 2 converter platform, a major step for Germany’s offshore wind expansion, with fabrication led by the German shipyard Neptun Werft and electrical tech largely produced in Germany. Climate Science Under Pressure: Delegates at Bonn’s COP31 prep talks say “fossil fuel interests” have tried to weaken climate science language, including references to the IPCC and the 1.5°C goal, as negotiations head toward Antalya. Renewables 24/7 Push: The smarter E Europe trade fair (June 23–25 in Munich) spotlights a cost-optimal path to a reliable, climate-neutral 24/7 German energy system, with electrification across sectors as the core theme. Data Centres Debate: Ireland’s government plan for “sustainable data centre development” is being attacked as misleading, with calls for a levy and warnings about soaring electricity demand—an argument that will resonate with Germany’s own energy-and-grid planning. Circular IT Experiment: A UCSD/Google project plans a low-emission data centre using thousands of decommissioned Pixel smartphones, aiming to cut embodied carbon by repurposing hardware. Local Energy Decentralisation: Odesa (with Germany’s RES program and the EIB) signs a memorandum to scale solar and storage for hospitals and schools, linking resilience to German-backed investment.