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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 — […]

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 […]