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Ukraine Maps the Route to Biomethane Export Markets
Ukraine’s Bioenergy Association (UABIO) has published a detailed report, produced under the Innovate Ukraine project, setting out the business models and legal conditions required for the country to begin exporting biomethane to Europe. The document addresses producers, investors, and government bodies alike. Ukraine’s biogas sector carries substantial energy potential — estimated at 21.8 billion cubic […]
Tesla Pulls Solar Roof Tiles After Seven Years and Roughly 3,000 US Installs
Tesla has stopped accepting orders for its Solar Roof product, according to two sources who spoke with Electrek. The company notified its network of certified contractors of the decision, and the tile offering has since been removed from the website’s navigation menu, which now features only conventional solar panels and the Powerwall and Megapack storage […]
Poland’s Hydrogen Bus Fleet Grows, but Its Largest Private Energy Company Is Walking Away from Fuel Supply
Poland built public demand for hydrogen transport — then watched its largest private energy company conclude the supply side did not add up commercially. The government’s rationale was to create an ecosystem: subsidies helping municipalities buy hydrogen buses would guarantee a stable customer base for fuel producers and refueling operators. By April 2026, Poland had […]
Europe’s Battery Storage Market Crosses 100 GWh as Ukraine Posts Fivefold Growth
Europe installed 36 GWh of new battery storage capacity over the past year, a 48% increase that pushed the continent’s cumulative total above 100 GWh for the first time, according to a SolarPower Europe report. Utility-scale projects were the primary engine of that growth. Germany held its lead with 6.6 GWh of new capacity, despite […]
Ukraine Eyes War-Scarred Fields as Testing Ground for Agrivoltaics
Agrivoltaics — the simultaneous use of land for solar electricity generation and crop production — remains at an early stage in Ukraine, even as domestic farms increasingly install solar panels and storage systems for their own operational needs. Unlocking the full dual-use model requires clearing a series of regulatory and legislative hurdles that currently deter […]
Norway’s Hellesylt Hub Becomes First in Country to Win EU Renewable Hydrogen Certificate
A Norwegian industrial facility has cleared the European Union’s certification process for renewable hydrogen, becoming the first site in the country to earn that status — and offering the wider industry its clearest proof yet that the bloc’s demanding requirements are workable in practice. Hellesylt Hydrogen Hub, operated by Norwegian Hydrogen, received an RFNBO certificate […]
Orsted CEO Admits Firm Chased Volume Over Value in Costly US Misstep
The head of Danish offshore wind developer Orsted has openly acknowledged that the company pursued growth targets at the expense of financial discipline in the United States, a strategic error that has weighed on the business for several years. Rasmus Errboe, who took the chief executive role in January 2025, said on the In Good […]
Vestas EnVentus Reaches 15 GW Installed With 24 GW in Contracted Orders
Vestas’s EnVentus onshore wind platform now has more than 15 gigawatts of installed capacity and over 2,500 turbines operating across 26 countries, industry publication reNews reports. The Danish manufacturer’s confirmed orderbook for the platform has surpassed 24 gigawatts. Recent deployment milestones include the installation of the platform’s first turbine in Chile and the completion of […]
Grid Planning, Not Hardware, Now Holds Back HVDC Expansion
High-voltage direct current transmission has crossed a threshold. Once a specialist tool reserved for submarine links and intricate grid challenges, HVDC has become a standard option for designing major transmission corridors — and that shift has exposed a new set of obstacles. Equipment manufacturers have largely kept pace. Europe has coalesced around a standardized 2 […]
US Clean Energy Debt Finance Surges to $59 Billion in First Half of 2026
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 […]
Greek Battery Projects on Track for 12% Returns as Gas Volatility Reshapes Storage Economics
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 Storage Reaches a Quarter of Evening Grid Demand in California and Bulgaria
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 Approves Construction of 1.24 GW Solar Plant That Could Set a European Record
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 Solar Auction Closes Oversubscribed as Average Price Falls Below 4.8 Cents
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 […]
Ukraine’s Solar Association to Host Online Forum on Battery Storage and Energy Trading
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 […]
Rate Reform, Not New Hardware, Could Unlock California’s V2G Storage Potential
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 Largest Announced Private Battery Project Takes Shape With Chinese Partner
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 […]
Grid 2.0 Protocol Aims to Fast-Track Flexible Energy Connections
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 […]
Banks Won’t Finance Green Hydrogen Without a Captive Customer
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 […]
Solar Reaches 3 Terawatts as Grid Bottlenecks Replace Factory Constraints
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 […]
