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Suboptimal management of solar panels and battery systems could cost Ukrainian companies up to 30 percent of potential revenue, according to energy management firm Gecko VPP. The finding comes as industrial storage gains wider adoption across the country as a tool for energy resilience — yet the financial return on those investments varies significantly. Ukraine […]

Filling a 50-litre diesel tank in Europe now costs €32 more than it did in February, and a new analysis by Transport & Environment points to refinery margins as a significant part of the explanation. Profit margins at European refineries climbed from around €0.10 per litre in February to €0.41 per litre by mid-September — […]

Ukraine’s solar industry association is urging exporters in carbon-intensive sectors to treat on-site renewable energy not merely as a cost-cutting measure but as a tool for managing liabilities under the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. ASEU board chair Vladislav Sokolovsky made the case at a Dialogue Hub event, explaining that CBAM explicitly accounts for the […]

A hybrid charging hub on Sweden’s E22 motorway near Ronneby, in Kalmar municipality, has connected two 180 kW fast chargers to an existing 63-ampere grid feed — without any network upgrade. The facility marks the first installation of ZOE-series DC terminals in Sweden and demonstrates how battery storage can work around the capacity constraints that […]

Ireland is expanding its residential clean-energy support scheme starting 6 October, adding battery storage to a programme that previously focused on solar panels alone. Households can now claim up to €600 toward the cost of a storage unit, while those in lower income brackets may receive a combined package of up to €9,000 covering both […]

A €561 million financing package has been assembled for Dama Solar, a 1.3 GW photovoltaic facility in Arad county, Romania, marking the largest single fundraise in developer Rezolv Energy’s history and, by installed capacity, the biggest solar park under construction in the European Union. The European Investment Bank anchored the syndicate, which draws in commercial […]

Italy’s energy regulator Arera has approved revised terms for the Macse auction mechanism, which targets battery storage deployment by 2029, lifting the ceiling on annual support payments by nearly a quarter. The maximum annual premium per megawatt-hour of qualified capacity rises from €22,000 to €27,000. Alongside that change, the reference investment benchmark used to set […]

A geothermal technology previously associated with pilots and sites with natural hot springs is moving into the commercial mainstream. Fervo Energy has begun delivering grid power from Cape Station, its utility-scale enhanced geothermal plant in Utah, with full commercial operations formally scheduled to launch Thursday. The milestone represents a meaningful scale-up from proof of concept: […]

New York state is testing a specific hypothesis: that the absence of long-term revenue certainty has been one of the key barriers to a large-scale battery storage buildout. Eight projects totaling 950 megawatts have now received contracts designed to test that theory. The gap between current capacity and ambition is striking. The state has accumulated […]

Europe’s heat pump market has swung back into growth, propelled by rising fossil fuel prices and European Commission proposals that would lower electricity taxes across the continent. Sales figures for the first half of the year show more than 1.16 million residential units sold across twelve European countries — an 11 percent gain on the […]

Leipzig’s experience with hydrogen-powered refuse trucks has exposed a persistent gap between technological promise and the realities of daily municipal operations. Two years ago, the German city purchased 16 FAUN BluePower hydrogen vehicles, which came to form roughly one third of its collection fleet. Over that period, the trucks averaged just 45.6 percent availability. Conventional […]

A new plant in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region has completed its first pipeline delivery of biomethane to Hungary, expanding the country’s roster of renewable gas exporters to five. Teofipilska Energy Company, which commissioned the facility in early 2026, pumped approximately 45,000 cubic meters of purified gas through Ukraine’s main gas transmission system in August. The buyer […]

CATL used IAA Transportation 2026 in Hanover, Germany, to unveil TECTRANS II, a second-generation battery platform developed specifically for heavy commercial vehicles. The launch targets technical barriers that have held back electrification of long-haul freight. At the centre of the platform is a modular architecture built around standardized battery packs that can be flexibly configured […]

El Niño-driven weather variability is disrupting solar power generation around the world, pushing developers and investors to overhaul the financial models behind long-term projects. El Niño impact on insolation levels in key solar hubs. Source: Global Solar Report Solar developers have relied on historical irradiance data for years, but shifting climate patterns are making those […]

At a time when many US climate programmes are absorbing budget cuts, geothermal energy has bucked the trend. The Department of Energy has announced a $99 million funding round for next-generation geothermal systems — a bet the administration frames as investing in reliable baseload power that could eventually stand without recurring subsidy cycles. The funding […]

A municipal heat plant in Gislaved, Sweden, has evolved from a straightforward biomass boiler into a local energy resilience hub — without constructing an entirely new power station. The 2025 expansion added a second turbine and a battery storage system, building on equipment that operator Gislaved Energi has run since 2021. The facility has relied […]

Volvo has claimed its eighth International Truck of the Year title, but with a historic distinction: every model in the winning lineup runs on batteries, with no combustion engine among them. The 2027 award was presented at IAA Transportation in Hanover and went to the entire electric range — the FH, FM, FMX, and the […]

New 15% Section 232 tariffs are poised to deliver a sharp price shock to America’s solar industry. Imported solar modules, which were trading at roughly 27 cents per watt before August announcements, have already climbed to 38 cents at suppliers that have updated their price lists, according to analytics platform Anza. For shipments arriving after […]

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 […]