UK Labour said the prime minister announced a new GB Grid plan to introduce public control into the UK energy system to reduce energy costs.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and six other ministries issued the New-type Battery Industry Development 15th Five-Year Plan. The plan directs the creation of a graded cultivation system to build high-quality, leading new-battery firms and explicitly supports corporate mergers and reorganizations to foster full-industry-chain, world-class companies. It prioritizes scaling a backbone of high-tech firms and specialized, refined, differentiated and innovative (specialized “little giant”) SMEs alongside manufacturing single-champion enterprises. The plan also calls for enhanced monitoring and services for gazelle and unicorn companies, rollout of a manufacturing excellence quality-improvement program with ongoing enterprise quality-management evaluations, and the formation of SME-focused industry clusters to underpin high-quality growth in China’s new battery sector.

SME Daily, citing industry sources, reports SK Hynix has begun preliminary foundation work for a semiconductor wafer fab in Japan's Tohoku region; it is unclear whether the facility will be independently operated or built as a joint venture with Kioxia.