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Power grids are losing something that once went largely unnoticed: the physical inertia of large spinning turbines. For decades, that rotational mass acted as a natural buffer against sudden frequency swings. As coal and gas plants are decommissioned, the buffer shrinks — and grids become markedly more sensitive to any generation-load imbalance. Engineers at ABB […]

A fault on a 230-kilovolt transmission line in Dominion Energy’s service territory triggered the largest single load-loss event in PJM’s recorded history this July. The regional grid operator shed 3.8 gigawatts of demand in two waves, pulling total system load from roughly 100,000 megawatts down to 96,205 megawatts — a 3.8 percent drop. Dispatchers contained […]

Contracts pairing renewable generation with battery storage have moved from the margins to the mainstream of Europe’s clean-energy market. According to data analytics platform LevelTen Energy, hybrid project proposals now represent close to 30% of all offers tracked in its marketplace — up sharply from a period when such structures were a rarity. The shift […]

Global electric vehicle sales rose 9 percent in July compared with the same month last year, reaching roughly 1.85 million battery-electric and plug-in hybrid units, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Year-to-date volumes have now crossed 11.5 million vehicles worldwide. Europe accounted for much of the momentum, with 450,000 units sold across the region. France led […]

France collected 13,760 tonnes of end-of-life solar panels last year, a 40% increase over the prior year, according to Soren, the organisation responsible for managing photovoltaic equipment through its lifecycle in the country. Of the more than 12,700 tonnes that were processed, roughly 10,600 tonnes completed a full material recovery cycle, returning glass, aluminium and […]

How do you turn a home battery into a full distribution-grid asset when the homeowner will not pay thousands of dollars up front to install one? Several US energy companies have launched subscription models for home storage that remove the upfront barrier. Startup Base Power offers Texas households a backup subscription for a single upfront […]

€234.1 million, four major lenders and one Sicilian site: European Energy says its Vizzini project shows agrivoltaics can move from development into large-scale construction and financing. The company reached financial close on the 225 MW plant with financing secured for borrower Sun Project s.r.l. The money came from NORD/LB, Societe Generale, Crédit Agricole CIB and […]

Who pays for new generating capacity once the federal investment tax credit winds down? Increasingly the answer is market discipline: power purchase agreements are taking over from state support and moving the financial burden onto corporate buyers. The phase-out is reshaping developers’ financial models. Research firm Enverus Intelligence Research reviewed more than three thousand US […]

Financial commitments to new renewable-gas projects across Europe have grown by €8 billion in a year, according to the European Biogas Association, which records a rise of nearly thirty percent in planned investment against the previous period. If every announced project is built, they would add about nine billion cubic metres of new annual capacity […]

Greek state-owned power company PPC is buying ABO Energy’s Hungarian and Polish subsidiaries, taking on the project pipeline, operating assets and 38 staff. The deal hands PPC control of a portfolio of roughly two gigawatts. It covers five operating solar plants totalling 82 MW plus one 17 MW project nearing completion. Financial terms were not […]

Norway has unveiled a package of measures aimed at speeding up both renewable build-out and grid expansion. The plan streamlines project assessment and caps the handling of applications to connect to the grid at two years, the bet being that thinner bureaucracy and shorter approvals move projects along. The stated aim is to halve how […]

A solar eclipse on August 12 will briefly pull thousands of megawatt-hours of generation off the grid and push balancing reserves hard. For system operators running high shares of renewables, the natural event doubles as a real-world drill in how fast reserve capacity can respond. The shadow travels from Siberia across the Arctic toward Spain […]

Data centers in Ireland of 10 MW and above now have to cover 80% of their own demand from newly built renewable capacity. Under a scheme called the Large Energy User Action Plan, or LEAP, facilities of 10 MW and above must meet the bulk of their load through new local clean generation and storage. […]

A fire that burned through 35,000 acres, ignited by a private overhead power line, has led Greek prosecutors to arrest three people and order a sweeping inspection of every comparable site in the country. The disaster in western Attica was traced to the private grid of a wind station whose construction was completed only in […]

What do 6 GW of reserved capacity in Germany’s future hydrogen network actually mean, if the reservations themselves are not long-term contracts? Germany’s gas industry reported nearly 6 GW of paid bookings in the planned grid and framed it as a sign of a fast-developing market. The figure breaks down into 2.7 GW of entry […]

Aravana Energy LLC is at the public consultation stage for a hybrid renewable energy facility in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region. According to documentation filed with the national Environmental Impact Assessment registry and reported by ExPro, the developer intends to construct a 22 MW wind farm paired with a 120 MWh battery energy storage system within […]

Recent reforms to the interconnection queue at PJM, the largest grid operator in the United States, have resulted in a pronounced shift toward fossil fuel generation. While the procedural overhaul was designed to eliminate speculative applications through stricter financial requirements, natural gas proposals now make up roughly 50 percent of the 201.5 GW qualified for […]

A growing disconnect has emerged between the institutional planning for grid flexibility and the physical commissioning of new assets. An analysis of 25 major power systems, including Australia, Brazil, and China, reveals that while market mechanisms are being established, the conversion of announced projects into operational resources remains a systemic vulnerability. According to CleanTechnica, the […]

North Macedonia has officially adopted its first dedicated renewable energy law, establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework aimed at attracting long-term capital to the sector. The legislation formally aligns the national legal structure with the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) and introduces three primary market mechanisms: two-way CfDs, competitive capacity auctions, and corporate power […]

The United States is on track to more than double its utility-scale battery storage fleet over the next 30 months. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), developers plan to add 54 GW of new energy storage capacity, a figure that exceeds the country’s current operational total of nearly 52 GW. The sector has […]