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Flexible connection agreements have emerged as both a lifeline and a liability for battery energy storage developers in Germany. Distribution network operators are increasingly granting grid access to BESS projects under such contracts — but at a cost: restrictions on participation in ancillary services markets that meaningfully cut into project revenues. At the Energy Storage […]

Kosovo has moved from discussing its wind potential to testing it on the open market, with three international developers submitting bids in the country’s inaugural wind power tender. The Ministry of Economy is awarding 15-year contracts for difference for projects sized between 50 and 100 MW. The winner will be determined by the lowest offered […]

A technology that originated in MIT research has crossed from the laboratory into one of the world’s largest cement producers. Electrified Thermal Solutions announced that two Joule Hive thermal battery units are now in place at a Holcim facility, with an evaluation phase ahead — a milestone that adds the cement giant as ETS’s third […]

The European Union’s flagship industrial policy tool for renewable energy is not working fast enough to stop the collapse of its domestic solar manufacturing sector, according to a new SolarPower Europe report. The Net Zero Industry Act, designed in part to limit reliance on Chinese equipment by reserving a share of public tender contracts for […]

Spain added 10.1 gigawatts of solar capacity in 2025, with ground-mounted installations accounting for nearly 9 GW — a 31 percent year-on-year increase. The expansion pushed solar’s share of national electricity output to almost 23 percent, making it the country’s leading generation source. Yet scale is proving a double-edged sword. The average price captured by […]

A White House executive order designed to protect the power grid from foreign-manufactured components could slow the United States’ own clean-energy expansion, according to industry analysts. Signed on August 26, the order restricts procurement of overseas-made equipment used in high-voltage systems at 69 kilovolts and above. The restrictions cover power-conversion hardware, high-capacity transformers, and utility-scale […]

Greece’s electricity transmission operator IPTO has unveiled a ten-year development programme covering 2027 to 2036 that lifts its capital commitment to €9 billion — a €2 billion increase over the equivalent plan from the previous year. Roughly 80 percent of that spending is targeted for deployment before 2030. The central goal is connecting more than […]

Two pieces of California legislation could cut up to $1,000 from the cost of installing residential heat pumps, solar panels, or battery storage — but only if Governor Gavin Newsom signs both bills before September 30. The timing is pointed. Congress and the Trump administration repealed federal tax credits for home clean energy equipment last […]

Roughly 1,700 gigawatts of renewable capacity sit waiting for grid connections across sixteen EU member states and the United Kingdom — a backlog more than six times Germany’s entire installed generation. Hybrid plants that pair wind and solar at a single connection point could absorb much of that queue without building new transmission lines, yet […]

Geothermal power is gaining unusual momentum in Washington. The Trump administration has made the sector a quiet priority under its energy dominance agenda, and the industry is beginning to show concrete signs of growth — even as it remains a marginal source, accounting for just one percent of total US electricity generation capacity. Energy Secretary […]

A drone strike on Saudi pipeline infrastructure that circumvents the Strait of Hormuz pulled roughly five million barrels per day from global supply — about five percent of the world total — and sent Brent crude past $104 a barrel. The episode has renewed a broader argument in energy circles: that electric vehicles and rooftop […]

The United States Department of Commerce has set final anti-dumping and countervailing duty rates on solar modules from three Asian countries, concluding the so-called Solar IV trade investigation launched by the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing. Under the determinations, Indian producers face anti-dumping duties of 123.04% and countervailing duties of 126.09%. Indonesian manufacturers are subject […]

Energy firm Moeve and steelmaking giant ArcelorMittal have agreed to establish an equal-ownership joint platform dedicated to developing and commercialising green-molecule energy solutions, including renewable hydrogen, biomethane and biofuels, as substitutes for fossil fuels in steel production. Operating under the Green Molecules to Green Steel alliance, the venture will be anchored by a shared innovation […]

Global electric vehicle sales grew by just 2 percent in August 2026, reaching 1.83 million units — a modest headline that conceals sharply diverging regional trajectories, according to data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence cited by Electrek. Europe was the standout performer. Around 380,000 electric cars changed hands in August, a 36 percent gain year on […]

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 […]

Ukrainian energy trader D.Trading, part of the DTEK holding, has signed a partnership with Finnish technology firm Capalo AI to give battery energy storage developers a more predictable long-term income on European power markets. The agreement was announced on 8 September. The structure divides responsibilities along two clear lines. D.Trading will act as the power […]