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Europe is sitting on a straightforward fix to its 1,700 GW backlog of stalled renewable projects: let solar and wind farms share existing grid connection points. The technical case is solid — solar peaks during daytime and summer, wind tends to dominate at night and in winter, so combining them at a single interconnection point […]

Ukrainian energy company DTEK has secured an €85 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to build battery energy storage systems (BESS) that will help stabilise the country’s war-strained power grid. The funds will finance storage capacity designed to absorb electricity during off-peak periods and release it when demand surges, boosting grid […]

Security concerns over critical energy infrastructure are beginning to harden into regulatory action across Europe, with Chinese solar inverters increasingly under scrutiny. Pascal de Boer, General Manager of SolarEdge Europe — whose company stands to gain from tighter restrictions — says governments are drawing on a logic similar to what drove early 5G technology policy. […]

Mingyang’s OceanX floating wind platform — a twin-rotor, downwind design — has released measurement data from its encounter with Supertyphoon Yagi, offering the clearest look yet at how the unconventional architecture behaves under extreme conditions. Conventional offshore wind has long avoided placing rotors downwind of the support structure, because blades passing repeatedly through the turbulent […]

Ukraine’s agricultural sector generates a feedstock base for biomethane production, yet regulatory shortcomings and cost pressures continue to limit the fuel’s uptake in transport, according to a new analytical paper from the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (UABIO) prepared under the Innovate Ukraine project. The document outlines two processing routes: biomethane can be compressed to 200 […]

The Trump administration has committed $5.25 billion in combined public-private funding to modernize the United States electricity transmission network. The federal government will contribute $1.9 billion, with participating project developers covering the remaining $3.35 billion. Channeled through the SPARK initiative, the money will fund 31 infrastructure projects aimed at adding 23 GW of transmission capacity. […]

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 […]

“We never proceed from simply hearing that funding is available somewhere and then inventing a project for it.” This is one of the principles by which Zhytomyr works with international funding. As explained by Olha Kruhliak, Lead Specialist at the City Development Agency of the Zhytomyr City Council, the city acts in reverse: it first […]

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 […]