OTP Bank and Unisolar Launch Joint Financing for Business Solar and Storage
Ukrainian businesses looking to install solar power plants or industrial battery storage can now access near-zero-rate financing under a new joint program from OTP Bank and engineering firm Unisolar. The arrangement operates within Ukraine’s state “Affordable Loans 5-7-9%” initiative. For the first seven months, borrowers pay an annual rate of just 0.01%; from the eighth […]
Battery Complex Backed by Karatzis and Metlen Goes Live in Thessaly
A 330 MW battery energy storage facility with a capacity of 790 MWh has entered commercial operation in Larissa, Thessaly. The project’s partners describe it as the largest standalone storage asset in Greece; Metlen additionally counts it among the biggest in the European Union. The site was developed through a joint venture in which Karatzis […]
China Scales Electric Inland Shipping While Europe Pilots in Isolation
A new analysis from TFIE Strategy Briefing, published by CleanTechnica, reveals a widening gap between how China and Europe are approaching electrification of inland waterway transport — and the difference is largely systemic. China’s fleet growth has been rapid: according to ICCT figures, the country’s electric cargo vessel count rose from just four in 2022 […]
US Small-Scale Solar Output Has Nearly Quintupled Over the Past Decade, EIA Finds
Small solar installations of one megawatt or less generated close to 93,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity across the United States in 2025, up from roughly 18,800 GWh a decade earlier, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The agency links the expansion to falling equipment costs and federal support programs. Growth was not linear. Annual output […]
Ukrenergo Debt Restructuring Frees $135 Million for Grid Rebuilding
Ukraine’s electricity transmission system operator NEC Ukrenergo has completed a restructuring of its 2021 sustainable development Eurobonds, redirecting approximately $135 million that would otherwise have gone to creditors toward repairing war-damaged power infrastructure. Holders of 97.49% of the company’s securities backed the deal, according to First Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal. Under […]
US Clean Energy Loses 37,000 Jobs in First Decline Since 2021
The United States clean energy sector shed nearly 37,000 jobs in 2025, its first year-on-year decline in four years, according to an E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) analysis of federal data published by Canary Media. Total employment stood at 3.52 million by year’s end — a drop of roughly one percent that nonetheless erased about 40 percent […]
Italy Faces a Storage Race as Solar Expansion Threatens Green Energy Waste
Italy will need around 50 GWh of new industrial-scale battery storage to absorb a surge in solar power as it pursues a 63% renewable energy target by 2030, according to a joint report by grid operator Terna and gas network operator Snam. The report projects solar generation rising to 110 TWh by 2030 — up […]
