Germany’s troubled solar energy sector has won some breathing space after the country’s regional government blocked subsidy cut plans tabled by Berlin in the upper house of parliament, leading to hope for solar companies that they might avoid the full force of cuts being proposed.

Uzbekistan state joint-stock company Uzbekenergo has announced a tender to select a general contractor for modernizing the Syr-Darya combined heat and power plant, one of the largest such plants in Central Asia.

The steel city of Sheffield in the UK is pondering the use of its most famously associated commodity, in a district energy initiative.