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Corporate power purchase agreements for renewable energy in Europe totalled 5.9 GW through October 2026, a 9.7% decline from the same stretch last year and the second consecutive annual drop — even as Brussels adopted an electrification action plan aimed at raising electricity’s share in final energy to 46% by 2040. The pullback unfolded against […]

The 704-megawatt Revolution Wind offshore wind farm, situated off the southern New England coast, has entered full commercial service. Developer Ørsted brought the project to completion despite two stop-work orders from the Trump administration that caused construction setbacks. For Eversource Energy, the commissioning carries direct financial consequences. The utility divested its 50% stake in Revolution […]

More than one hundred European companies from energy-intensive sectors have issued a joint letter warning that proposed changes to the EU’s emissions trading rules could speed up factory closures and the relocation of production beyond the bloc’s borders. Among the signatories are Covestro, Evonik, Wacker Chemie, Voestalpine, and Thyssenkrupp’s steel division. The companies argue that […]

Ukraine has introduced a state-backed lending program that lets homeowners finance autonomous energy equipment while the government absorbs part of the cost. Launched through the єОпора platform under the “Energy Independence of Individuals” program, the scheme provides bank loans of up to 480,000 hryvnias repayable over as long as ten years. The instrument is credit […]

The United States is on track to add more than one terawatt of new solar, wind and energy storage capacity between 2026 and 2036 — a build-out that would more than double the country’s combined fleet of those three technologies from its level at the end of 2025, according to a forecast by BloombergNEF. The […]

Sodium-ion batteries carry a steeper upfront price tag than their lithium iron phosphate rivals — roughly $229 per kilowatt-hour against around $200 for LFP — yet new analysis from Wood Mackenzie suggests the gap reverses decisively over a 20-year project life. Lifecycle ownership costs for sodium chemistry could run about 21% beneath those of LFP, […]

Can electricity consumers become active participants in the energy system and help support the grid during periods of peak demand? Global 100 RE Ukraine has published an article examining Google’s decision to scale up a virtual power plant (VPP) within the US PJM power grid to more than 1 GW. The concept involves aggregating thousands […]

The city of Odesa is considering a new combined heat and power plant fired by refuse-derived fuel — RDF and SRF — produced from sorted municipal waste, with a preliminary price tag of 4.5 billion hryvnias. A waste-sorting facility is envisaged near the future plant to supply raw material. No construction timeline has been set. […]

Denmark’s transmission system operator Energinet has opened a consultation on two proposed grid connection models that would exempt generators from connection charges in exchange for accepting curtailment when network capacity runs tight. The proposals are designed separately for plants connecting to the transmission and distribution networks. Under either model, a generator agrees to have its […]

Authorities in Spain’s autonomous community of Castilla y León are considering extending an existing environmental impact tax — the Impuesto sobre la Afección Medioambiental — to photovoltaic installations. The proposed charge would range from €600 to €2,000 per hectare, covering solar parks across the region. The solar industry has responded sharply. José Donoso, head of […]

Six communities in Lviv Oblast have received solar power equipment and battery storage units under two separate German assistance programmes, bolstering critical infrastructure and vocational training across the coal-transition region. The winter aid package, delivered by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through GIZ Ukraine, provided 20 battery storage units of 61.44 […]

A Spanish engineering firm has developed a wind tower system that eliminates the need for heavy cranes — and earned formal certification to prove it. Whether independent developers and lenders will embrace it is a different question entirely. Nabrawind’s Nabralift design rests a tubular upper column on a tripod steel truss. Hydraulic jacks raise the […]

Poland’s energy regulator URE has scheduled its next renewable energy auction for November 9–10, running separate sessions for solar and onshore wind projects in two capacity bands: installations up to and including 1 MW, and those exceeding that threshold. Only newly built facilities may participate; bids are admitted through the IPA platform and then judged […]

Germany registered 94,086 battery-electric vehicles in October 2026, a 79.5 percent jump from the same month a year earlier that pushed BEVs to 37 percent of an overall car market that itself grew just 1.7 percent. For the second straight month, petrol and diesel combined fell below the BEV share alone. The shift is stark. […]

Decisions on solar plants, batteries and climate targets now rest with state administrations. Democrats took both legislative chambers together with the governor’s seat in several states at once, and bills that sat untouched for years can be put to a vote again: barring municipalities from imposing blanket prohibitions on renewable projects, setting connection rules for […]

Expanded tax credits for clean generation look unlikely while Republicans hold the White House, yet permitting reform retains cross-party momentum in Congress, according to Wood Mackenzie. Democrats won majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate at the midterms, and the consultancy expects faster line construction and quicker connection of new capacity to […]

Nine educational facilities in Irpin — including kindergartens and lyceums — now carry solar installations totaling more than 275 kilowatts, the Kyiv Regional Military Administration has reported. Energy storage systems are currently being fitted as the municipality works to build a hybrid power network for critical and social infrastructure. The initiative pairs existing generators with […]

Ukraine’s bioenergy industry has the raw resources to compete in European markets — what it lacks are the legal frameworks to unlock them. That was the central message from Georgy Geletukha, chair of the Ukrainian Bioenergy Association (UABIO), speaking at a conference of the Institute of Technical Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of […]

Six US states have opened highway and rail rights-of-way for new electricity transmission infrastructure, but actual construction has materialized in only one of them — a gap that underscores how difficult it is to move from policy to steel in the ground. The idea is to route power lines along approximately 48,000 miles of highways […]

Greek solar farms received just €24.63 per megawatt-hour in May 2026, against an average market price of €88.95 — meaning operators captured less than 28% of the prevailing rate. The figures come from DAPEEP, Greece’s renewable-energy settlement operator, and illustrate how heavily concentrated midday generation is eroding solar revenues across southern Europe. The mechanism is […]