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Spain has committed €265 million to expand its pumped-storage hydropower infrastructure, channelling the funds through two competitive rounds of a government scheme called Boralmac. Eleven projects were selected, spanning both the upgrade of existing reservoirs and the construction of entirely new hydro facilities. Among the standout awards, the BOREAL initiative in Extremadura secured the largest […]

Nala Renewables has taken ownership of the Green Breeze wind facility in eastern Romania, completing an acquisition agreed two years ago and valued at €214 million. The deal marks the largest single asset in Nala’s portfolio. The company was established by commodity trader Trafigura alongside infrastructure fund IFM Investors as their shared renewables vehicle. Green […]

Ukraine’s energy regulator has introduced a new billing mechanism for residential solar panel owners that limits compensation during nighttime hours and for electricity exported above a permitted hourly threshold. Under the decision by the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Utilities (NCRECU), households will receive the lower of two values for power fed […]

Some 170 companies investing in Europe’s energy sector have urged EU leadership to preserve mandatory renewable hydrogen targets beyond 2030, warning that weakening the binding requirements embedded in the RED III directive would destabilise the investment environment the sector has carefully built. In a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, business […]

America’s clean energy workforce shrank for the first time since the post-COVID recovery period, shedding nearly 37,000 jobs over the past year. According to E2’s Clean Jobs America 2026 report, the reversal follows the federal government’s withdrawal of support for clean energy. The losses end four consecutive years of strong growth. Losses touched virtually every […]

Ukraine’s solar sector brought its scale and policy priorities to a European audience on 17 September, when Vladyslav Sokolovsky, head of the Ukrainian Solar Energy Association (USEA), addressed an international SolarPower Europe webinar attended by European business representatives, Germany’s BSW Solar association, and EU institutions. Despite generating capacity losses exceeding 27 GW, the country’s solar […]

Construction has begun on what is set to become Poland’s largest battery storage facility — a 600 MW, 2.4 GWh project in Siedlce being developed by Greenvolt Power with construction contractors P&Q and ONDE, and commercial operations targeted for late 2027. Equipment will be supplied by BYD. The project’s economics rest on a 17-year capacity […]

Nvidia has introduced a dedicated energy storage certification scheme for its AI infrastructure buildout, selecting three vendors in the programme’s opening phase. Known as DSX Ready, the programme certifies products that meet category-specific qualification requirements for AI factory infrastructure. The first certification tier focuses on battery energy storage and liquid cooling systems. Three suppliers qualified: […]

Spain’s Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has launched a two-week public consultation on how to distribute up to 11 gigawatts of grid capacity earmarked for renewable energy and storage projects in just transition zones. The proposed framework splits the quota between two tracks. Fifteen designated nodes — spread across northern and southern Spanish provinces — […]

The world’s largest wind energy trade fair, WindEnergy Hamburg, drew more than 43,000 attendees from over a hundred countries this year — convening at a landmark moment for the industry. According to the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA), offshore wind globally surpassed 100 gigawatts of installed capacity for the first time ever. At the opening […]

Austrian energy company Kelag has purchased a portfolio of eight solar parks in Italy with a combined planned capacity of 64.4 megawatts, deepening its push into Southern European renewables through a format that combines agriculture and power generation on the same land. The sites are located primarily in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, two of northern Italy’s […]

Federal incentives designed to grow American solar manufacturing may inadvertently treat finishing operations on par with fully domestic production, according to a technology executive in the industry. Sekhar Tatineni, vice president of technology at ES Foundry, made the argument in an op-ed published by PV Magazine USA. The concern centers on a technical distinction that […]

The world added 20.9 GWh (6,516 MW) of battery storage in August, bringing the year-to-date total to 177 GWh — a 35 percent increase over the same stretch last year, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence data. China accounted for 12,757 MWh of August’s figure, cementing its absolute dominance of the global market. The month’s largest […]

A newly formed corporate coalition has placed an order for 2,500 Class 8 electric heavy-duty trucks — a volume large enough to nearly double the total number of such vehicles currently operating on US roads. The initiative, called ZET SCALE, was launched by Catalyst Mobility and Smart Freight Centre. Among its first corporate shippers are […]

Finland is moving to overhaul how electricity grid capacity is allocated among competing applicants, proposing a tiered priority system that ranks new consumers and standalone battery storage against each other rather than against conventional generation. The government’s proposed amendments to the Electricity Market Act would divide all new connection requests into four categories. The first […]

On the evening of September 9, a coordinated fleet of residential battery systems across California simultaneously discharged 580 megawatts into the state grid — more than double the upper end of what a single gas peaking plant typically produces (50–250 MW). The event is the largest on record for a distributed residential virtual power plant, […]

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has handed his own administration an unexpected legal defeat, striking down the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to terminate a multibillion-dollar clean energy programme and rescind grants that had already been awarded. The Solar for All programme, backed by $7 billion in funding, was established to accelerate the energy […]

Four decades after the catastrophic meltdown sealed off vast swaths of northern Ukraine, the Chernobyl exclusion zone is being assessed as a potential site for large-scale clean energy development. Polish developer ELQ, operating through a Ukrainian subsidiary, has reached a framework agreement with Ukrainian authorities to study green power generation on the formerly restricted territory, […]

Three technology companies have joined forces to accelerate grid access for data centers that can actively manage their electricity consumption — a push that comes as public anxiety over AI’s power appetite reaches a new high. Google, NVIDIA and Emerald AI are founding members of the newly launched AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), which opened […]

The $6.2 billion Revolution Wind offshore wind farm has installed all 65 of its turbines, finishing construction despite two rounds of federal stop-work orders from the Trump administration. The 704-megawatt project has been feeding carbon-free electricity to Rhode Island and Connecticut at partial capacity since March. Full-power operation is expected before the end of the […]