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Slovenia’s electricity and gas transmission operators have joined forces with a Japanese industrial technology company to advance the country’s hydrogen ambitions. ELES, which manages the national power grid, and Plinovodi, the gas network operator, signed a memorandum of understanding with Yokogawa Electric Corporation at the 2026 Hydrogen Energy Ministerial Meeting in Chiba, Japan. The agreement […]

The Trump administration has quietly become a supporter of geothermal power, backing a technology that currently supplies just one percent of US electricity capacity — and whose growth could undercut coal, another White House priority. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who built his career running an oilfield services company, frames geothermal expansion as an opportunity for […]

Amazon has put 26 of 50 ordered Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 electric semi-trucks to work across its German logistics network, with the rest of the batch due to join the fleet before the close of 2026. The roll-out sits within a larger procurement agreement covering more than 200 electric heavy trucks. Each eActros 600 carries a […]

A pipeline attack that removed roughly five million barrels of oil per day from global markets — around five percent of world supply — has pushed Brent crude above $104 a barrel. The disruption struck infrastructure that had enabled tankers to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, adding a sharp geopolitical dimension to energy markets already […]

Energy company Moeve and steel giant ArcelorMittal are establishing a jointly owned innovation platform under the Green Molecules to Green Steel alliance, directing shared research capacity toward low-carbon energy carriers for the European steel industry. The 50/50 venture will bring together both companies’ research centres to develop and scale solutions built around biogas, biomethane, renewable […]

Electric vehicle sales in August revealed a widening regional divide, with Europe and North America moving in sharply opposite directions while China extended its dominance, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence data. European buyers purchased roughly 380,000 electric vehicles during the month — a 36 percent increase on the same period a year earlier. Continuing state […]

Energy Vault’s gravity-based storage facility in Rudong, China, has failed to match the economics of lithium-ion batteries even under near-ideal conditions, according to an assessment by TFIE Strategy Briefing and CleanTechnica analysts. The tower stands roughly 148 metres tall and uses more than 12,000 mineral-composite blocks weighing 25 tonnes each, raised and lowered by 96 […]

Denmark’s wind farms briefly covered the country’s entire domestic electricity demand during the early hours of last Friday, with a 40 percent surplus channeled into interconnectors serving neighboring markets — a fleeting milestone that the Danish Energy Agency wants to make routine. The agency is drawing up plans for two offshore “energy islands,” one in […]

Three territorial communities across Ukraine have completed small-scale renewable energy installations aimed at keeping critical infrastructure operational when the national grid fails. The projects — in Slobozhanska, Drohobytska and Selidivska communities — emerged from a competitive grant programme organised by civil-society organisations Ecodia and LOPTS Alternatyva with support from the UK government. Each winning community […]

Rapidly scaling up electric vehicles across the European Union could reduce the transport sector’s dependence on imported energy by roughly 25 percent within the next fifteen years, according to an assessment by Transport & Environment. The finding reframes electrification not just as a climate measure but as a concrete tool for economic resilience. What sets […]

European Union nations brought 33.8 gigawatts of new solar capacity online in the first six months of 2026, edging past the 33.2 GW recorded in the same period a year earlier, according to SolarPower Europe. The result keeps the bloc on a trajectory toward roughly 68.1 GW for the full year — though that figure […]

Britain’s solar sector delivered its strongest summer on record in 2026, with generation climbing 23% year-on-year as an extraordinary streak of hot, sun-filled weeks reshaped the country’s electricity mix. According to Carbon Brief, solar farms and rooftop installations combined produced twice the electricity over the summer months that they had in the same period in […]

Three utility-scale solar developments in North Carolina and Texas are set to receive domestically produced modules under a new supply agreement with Inox Solar Americas, an American manufacturer of solar modules and cells. The contract covers projects rated at 71 MW, 102 MW, and 594 MW, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2027. All three […]

Electronics manufacturing giant Flex has announced its intention to acquire EPC Power, a California company founded in 2010 that produces industrial-scale inverters and power conversion platforms for data centers. The move is driven by surging demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure, which requires increasingly powerful and sophisticated energy systems. The deal is expected to close in […]

Texas’s power grid set a new all-time peak in July 2026, with demand climbing above 91 gigawatts for the first time in the state’s history. What made the milestone unusual was the absence of any conservation alert from grid operator ERCOT — a quiet that would have been unthinkable just three years ago. The comparison […]

Security concerns are emerging as a decisive factor in Europe’s solar inverter procurement, potentially rivalling price as the primary selection criterion. Pascal de Buer, SolarEdge’s general manager for Europe, describes the dynamic as analogous to the earlier 5G debate: firms legally bound to comply with shutdown directives from high-risk governments cannot simply refuse, and that […]

Hungary’s energy regulator MEKH has opened the country’s first competitive tender for grid connection capacity dedicated to wind power, making 702 MVA available across nine nodes in six districts nationwide. Applications are accepted from September 4 through October 30, with results due no later than December 13, 2026. Each bidder must request a minimum 14 […]