Italy Raises BESS Auction Premium Cap as Project Costs Climb
Italy’s energy regulator Arera has approved revised terms for the Macse auction mechanism, which targets battery storage deployment by 2029, lifting the ceiling on annual support payments by nearly a quarter. The maximum annual premium per megawatt-hour of qualified capacity rises from €22,000 to €27,000. Alongside that change, the reference investment benchmark used to set […]
Fervo Energy’s Utah Plant Marks a Commercial Breakthrough for Enhanced Geothermal
A geothermal technology previously associated with pilots and sites with natural hot springs is moving into the commercial mainstream. Fervo Energy has begun delivering grid power from Cape Station, its utility-scale enhanced geothermal plant in Utah, with full commercial operations formally scheduled to launch Thursday. The milestone represents a meaningful scale-up from proof of concept: […]
New York Bets on 15-Year Contracts to Unlock Battery Storage Investment
New York state is testing a specific hypothesis: that the absence of long-term revenue certainty has been one of the key barriers to a large-scale battery storage buildout. Eight projects totaling 950 megawatts have now received contracts designed to test that theory. The gap between current capacity and ambition is striking. The state has accumulated […]
European Heat Pump Sales Up 11% as Fuel Costs and Tax Signals Converge
Europe’s heat pump market has swung back into growth, propelled by rising fossil fuel prices and European Commission proposals that would lower electricity taxes across the continent. Sales figures for the first half of the year show more than 1.16 million residential units sold across twelve European countries — an 11 percent gain on the […]
Leipzig’s Hydrogen Refuse Fleet Logs Just 45.6% Availability After Two Years
Leipzig’s experience with hydrogen-powered refuse trucks has exposed a persistent gap between technological promise and the realities of daily municipal operations. Two years ago, the German city purchased 16 FAUN BluePower hydrogen vehicles, which came to form roughly one third of its collection fleet. Over that period, the trucks averaged just 45.6 percent availability. Conventional […]
Ukraine’s Fifth Biomethane Exporter Ships First Pipeline Delivery to Hungary
A new plant in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region has completed its first pipeline delivery of biomethane to Hungary, expanding the country’s roster of renewable gas exporters to five. Teofipilska Energy Company, which commissioned the facility in early 2026, pumped approximately 45,000 cubic meters of purified gas through Ukraine’s main gas transmission system in August. The buyer […]
