Ecuador's national electricity authority said multiple provinces are experiencing power outages after an explosion at a power substation.

The final large module for Haiyang nuclear Phase II was hoisted into place, marking the project’s shift into installation and commissioning. State Power Investment Corp said the lift was for Haiyang unit 4’s nuclear island; its passive containment cooling water tank holds over 3,000 tonnes and can gravity-feed water to cool the reactor building without AC power in extreme scenarios, working with other passive safety systems. SPIC said that at full commercial output Haiyang will be the world’s largest passive PWR nuclear complex.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will step up R&D on key power-battery technologies, optimize industry management policies, uphold fair competition and deepen international cooperation to advance high-quality development of the power battery sector, Ma Chunsheng, director of MIIT's Automotive Development Division, said at the China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance forum in Beijing on June 30.