October 13

Electric vehicles now account for roughly 40 percent of all new Volkswagen Group orders placed in Europe, with the manufacturer attributing the shift to elevated fossil-fuel prices and the debut of a new affordable urban EV family. According to a company report cited by CleanTechnica, battery-electric car orders across the group climbed more than 60 […]

Drinking water continues to reach homes in Mykolaiv’s eastern suburbs even during emergency electricity outages, thanks to a battery-backed solar installation that keeps an underground pump running autonomously. The compact photovoltaic system sits discreetly among residential buildings and powers the pump from its own generation — no waiting for high-voltage lines to be restored. The […]

Greece is moving to impose dedicated grid-connection rules on data centres after applications for high-voltage capacity doubled — from five to nine gigawatts — across just two summer months. Balkan Green Energy News disclosed the draft legislation, which was proposed by the Ministry of Environment and Energy to prevent data centres from exhausting available capacity […]

France is preparing its first long-term capacity auction, seeking to secure power availability for the winter of 2030-31 — four years before delivery begins. The energy regulator CRE has submitted a proposed methodology to the Ministry of Energy for conducting the auction. According to analysis by transmission system operator RTE, as reported by ESS News, […]

Ukrainian banks have approved 68.7 billion hryvnias in financing for energy projects, supporting the restoration of 2.115 gigawatts of generation capacity, according to a National Bank of Ukraine survey of the country’s largest financial institutions. Of the total committed, businesses drew 63.4 billion hryvnias and households 5.3 billion hryvnias under a sectoral memorandum. The gross […]

WindEurope has pushed back against proposals to reopen the EU’s Birds and Habitats Directives, arguing that inconsistent enforcement — not the rules themselves — is what holds back wind energy development across Europe. The call comes as Brussels moves toward a broader review of environmental legislation, with nature law among the targets. WindEurope, joined by […]

Bulgaria has substantially widened its electricity trade surplus this year, with net exports reaching 3.5 TWh from January through early October — a 62 percent increase over the 2.16 TWh recorded in the same period last year. The country has been supplying neighboring Balkan states during summer heat waves and regional capacity shortfalls, according to […]

The European Commission has approved 46 new strategic projects across 16 countries, raising the total number of supported critical raw materials initiatives to 106, including ventures outside EU borders. Selected from 102 submitted applications, the projects span mining, processing, and recycling — part of the bloc’s broader effort to reduce dependence on external suppliers. Under […]

A 4.6-million-tonne synthetic fuel requirement facing European shipping risks going unmet unless producers can secure guaranteed long-term price commitments, Transport & Environment (T&E) has warned. The EU federation’s assessment points to a gap between the ambition of FuelEU regulations and the investment signals the market is currently receiving. Under Brussels’ investment roadmap for clean transport, […]