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New debt financing for US clean energy, manufacturing and clean fuel projects climbed 12% in the first half of 2026, reaching $59 billion — up from a $53 billion tally posted across the prior six-month period. Full-year lending is now on track to total $143 billion by December, a 19% rise over the 2025 annual […]

Europe’s persistently turbulent gas markets are reshaping the investment case for battery energy storage, with new analysis from Aurora Energy Research projecting internal rates of return of 12% annually for standalone battery projects in Greece. The consultancy’s modelling shows that two-hour storage systems commissioned in 2027 are expected to outperform projects brought online in 2030 […]

Battery energy storage has crossed a significant threshold in two geographically distant electricity markets, supplying roughly a quarter of evening electricity demand and marking the technology’s transition from niche pilot to essential grid infrastructure. Analysis by the Ember think tank shows that in the first half of 2026, the combination of solar panels and storage […]

Romania has taken a major step toward hosting the continent’s largest single solar installation. The national energy regulator ANRE has issued a construction authorization for the Dama Solar project — a 1.24 GW peak-capacity plant — to West Power Investments, a company linked to developer Rezolv Energy. The facility is not yet operational; commercial startup […]

Germany’s most recent onshore solar tender attracted substantially more capacity than the Federal Network Agency was prepared to award, with submitted bids outpacing the available volume by more than one gigawatt. The agency received 401 applications totalling 3.17 GW. It awarded 2.13 GW across 261 successful bids, leaving roughly a third of the submitted capacity […]

The Association of Solar Energy of Ukraine (ASEU) has announced an open session of its Energy Storage Committee, scheduled for 27 August at 11:00 via Zoom. The event is being held jointly with iSolar, an integrated alternative-energy developer. The session will be moderated by Serhiy Ruchko, who chairs the ASEU Energy Storage Committee. Speakers from […]

California is projected to have nearly 10 million passenger electric vehicles on its roads by 2036, and a joint report from GridLab, Kevala, and E3 argues that even a small share of that fleet could reshape how the state meets its energy storage goals — without large-scale investment in new generation capacity. The combined potential […]

Ukraine’s energy sector is set to gain what has been described as the largest private storage project announced for 2026: a 200 MWh battery system paired with up to 100 MW of new solar capacity, born from a deal between domestic developer Askania Energy and Chinese equipment maker Risen Energy. The two companies signed a […]

A team of energy industry engineers has released a voluntary draft protocol designed to speed up the connection of new generation and flexible loads to the power grid, separating grid access from the slow, reliability-driven planning processes that have long bottlenecked clean energy deployment. The effort is led by Chris Shelton, a senior vice president […]

Europe’s decarbonization ambitions have not made green hydrogen bankable. Weak real demand and persistent unprofitability form a structural barrier that policy targets alone cannot remove — and lenders have not moved. The Port of Antwerp-Bruges recently installed a 0.5 MW anion exchange membrane electrolyzer supplied by Power to Hydrogen, producing high-purity hydrogen for actual industrial […]

Global photovoltaic capacity has crossed the 3-terawatt mark, a milestone that illustrates how sharply the pace of solar deployment has accelerated. BloombergNEF analysis shows the industry needed roughly a decade to advance from 100 GW in 2012 to its first terawatt. The second followed in under three years; the third arrived less than two years […]

Ukraine’s wartime mass production of drone batteries has, almost incidentally, built one of Europe’s most innovative defence manufacturing clusters — and analysts now see a credible path for converting that capability into a peacetime energy-storage industry. The scale is striking. Roughly four million drones were produced in 2025, with forecasts pointing to six million in […]

Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union’s energy sector rose 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2026 relative to the preceding quarter, Eurostat data show, while overall economy-wide emissions edged up just 0.3 percent across the same period. The gap between the two figures reveals that record-pace renewable installations are not enough to guarantee […]

Europe is approaching a structural turning point in electricity generation. For the first time in the continent’s modern energy history, the installed base of wind and solar has grown large enough to routinely match or exceed gas-fired output — not because of favourable weather, but because of sheer capacity. The arithmetic is straightforward. Over the […]

Eight energy corporations accumulated €7.5 billion in excess profits within the European Union over a six-month period that coincided with Brent crude prices rising above $100 per barrel following the outbreak of a conflict in Iran in late February, according to a report by Transport & Environment (T&E). The analysis benchmarks each company’s adjusted net […]

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has adopted its first-ever subsidy programme for privately owned solar photovoltaic systems, a move the government frames as the foundation of a household self-generation market that does not yet exist in the region. The scheme runs from 2026 to 2030 and is administered by the national Renewable Energy and […]

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have demonstrated that megawatt-scale charging for heavy electric vehicles can work without reinforcing the grid connection — a result confirmed during trials in Freiburg under the HV-MELA-BAT research programme. Partners included Motion Control & Power Electronics and Mercedes-Benz Energy. The core challenge the project addressed is […]

The number of fires involving photovoltaic systems in the United Kingdom is growing more than twice as fast as the solar market itself, according to data from industrial insurer QBE. Between 2022 and 2025, fire service call-outs linked to PV installations rose 133%, while the installed base expanded by just 52% over the same period. […]

Ørsted’s chief executive has given a broadly positive assessment of Germany’s draft tender rules for an upcoming 2.5 GW offshore wind auction, calling the reintroduction of two-sided contracts for difference as a support mechanism a welcome and long-delayed development. Speaking on the company’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Rasmus Errboe told analysts that Germany represents a […]

France has renewed its C3IV investment tax credit for green manufacturing for a further three years, formalised in the Official Journal on 12 August 2026. The extension is part of the country’s broader reindustrialisation strategy, aimed at reinforcing France’s standing as a European leader in decarbonisation technologies. The scheme covers four sectors: Battery manufacturing Wind […]