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A joint session of Ukraine’s solar energy association ASEU and the Ukrainian Heat Pump Association has shown how pairing solar installations with heat pumps can sharply reduce heating costs for public facilities, with a development centre in Zvyahel serving as the lead case study. At the meeting, moderated by Serhiy Ruchko, participants reviewed results from […]

A 650-megawatt wind project in Ukraine’s Poltava region has secured cross-border renewable energy status from the European Commission, qualifying it for EU funding. The facility, named WIND and developed by Ukrainian energy company DTEK, is projected to produce 2 terawatt-hours of electricity per year, with output destined in part for export to Romania. The CB […]

Bulgarian manufacturer AuroraCell has introduced a residential energy storage system built on sodium-ion chemistry with a chromium oxide (NCO) cathode — a variant the company says delivers durability and cold-weather performance that standard sodium-ion cells typically struggle to match. The AuroraCell 9.7 kWh 48V RESS Pack is designed for 48V DC hybrid inverters and carries […]

Rezolv Energy has secured €561 million from 14 lenders to fund construction of Dama Solar, a 1.3 GW solar project in Romania’s Arad county that the company says would be the largest ground-mounted renewable energy development in the European Union. Spread across more than 1,000 hectares, the plant is scheduled to reach commercial operation in […]

When Cherokee County, Iowa placed an indefinite moratorium on battery storage siting in March 2026, a planned agrivoltaic project came to an abrupt halt. The Smith brothers had intended to combine cattle grazing with solar panels and a 25 MW / 100 MWh battery system — but community fears, not the technology itself, blocked the […]

Researchers have found 8,547 industrial control systems managing solar and wind installations across Europe exposed and accessible on the public internet — where they have no business being. The joint investigation by security firm Modat and the Netherlands National Cybersecurity Centre identified the affected interfaces, many protected by nothing more than a basic login page. […]

LEGO has moved e-methanol-based plastic into serial production, using the material for more than 90 types of components in its standard brick range. The rollout covers some of the toy maker’s most structurally demanding parts — cross-shaped axles, connectors, steering wheels and minifigure hands — elements subject to the strictest strength and rigidity requirements in […]

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has provided a HoldCo debt package worth €155 million ($174.5 million) to MaxSolar, a developer and operator based in Traunstein, Germany, to accelerate the build-out of its renewable energy assets. The capital will refinance MaxSolar’s existing 2023 obligations, fund the completion of projects currently under development, and support the acquisition of […]

Tesla has added hardware-level vehicle-to-home (V2H) capability to its Model 3 and Model Y, expanding bidirectional charging beyond the Cybertruck where the technology first appeared. Both models can now route battery power to a house during grid outages through a converter embedded directly in the vehicle. The architecture sets Tesla apart from most rivals in […]

Poland’s government has announced a one-billion-zloty (roughly $258 million) subsidy scheme for residential energy storage, covering both electrical batteries and thermal systems. The announcement follows a sharp rise in adoption: since early 2024, the country’s installed base of home batteries has grown from 10,000 to 150,000 units, and the programme aims to push that figure […]

Teofipol Energy has delivered its first biomethane cargo to Hungary — 45,000 cubic metres routed through Ukraine’s existing gas transport system — making it the country’s fifth biomethane exporter. The buyer was Hungarian firm ERU Europe. The company operates a plant in Khmelnytskyy region that opened earlier this year and is currently Ukraine’s largest active […]

Solar energy is now powering 55 Ukrainian hospitals, with total commissioned rooftop capacity reaching 4.1 megawatts by early October 2026. Each installation combines photovoltaic panels with battery storage systems and related equipment, giving medical facilities reliable autonomous power during blackouts. The work is coordinated under the “Ray of Hope” initiative, which brings together the European […]

Ukraine’s energy regulator has narrowed the hours during which households can sell surplus rooftop solar power at the full feed-in tariff, introducing a seasonal time-of-use framework that takes effect under updated retail market rules. The National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission introduced the changes without cutting the green tariff rate itself. Instead, it altered the […]

The United States now has 60.4 gigawatts of new gas-fired power capacity in the planning pipeline for completion by 2030 — a 44 percent increase from the 41.8 GW anticipated just last December, according to an Environment America Research & Policy Center report. To grasp the scale: those planned gas additions would exceed the total […]

The Ukrainian Solar Energy Association (ASEU) will hold an open online committee meeting on 15 October at 11:00, dedicated to the commercial prospects and hands-on deployment experience of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The session will run as an open Zoom conference conducted in Ukrainian. It is specifically intended for energy companies, investors, project developers, […]

France’s draft 2027 national budget puts three new policy instruments on the table for the country’s hydrogen sector, a package that industry group France Hydrogene has welcomed as a meaningful step toward building demand for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen. The most significant measure is IRICC, a carbon-intensity reduction mechanism for transport fuels that replaces the […]

Ukraine will receive $116 million from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) to support decentralized power generation, grid infrastructure, and energy storage. The financing is expected to unlock an additional $693.8 million in co-investment from the World Bank, the EBRD, and private companies. The scale of the challenge is considerable: according to DixiGroup, Russia has destroyed, […]

Bulgaria’s National Electric Company (NEK) has issued a tender worth €350 million to construct a new dam at Yadenitza, a project that would more than triple the working water volume of the existing cascade and materially expand the country’s grid balancing capacity. Rather than building from scratch, NEK is scaling infrastructure that already operates at […]

Solar installations in the 1–5 megawatt range face a median wait of 45 months before receiving grid interconnection approval in the United States — more than twenty times longer than the roughly two months it takes for residential rooftop systems under 30 kilowatts, according to a new Berkeley Lab report. The study drew on 2.7 […]

For more than a year, Virginia residents have watched their utility bills climb as electricity-hungry data centers serving artificial intelligence have pushed demand sharply higher. Now the Spanberger administration has put forward a plan to reroute those costs, proposing that tech companies — not ordinary consumers — shoulder the bill for new carbon-free generation. The […]