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LEGO has moved e-methanol-based plastic into serial production, using the material for more than 90 types of components in its standard brick range. The rollout covers some of the toy maker’s most structurally demanding parts — cross-shaped axles, connectors, steering wheels and minifigure hands — elements subject to the strictest strength and rigidity requirements in […]

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has provided a HoldCo debt package worth €155 million ($174.5 million) to MaxSolar, a developer and operator based in Traunstein, Germany, to accelerate the build-out of its renewable energy assets. The capital will refinance MaxSolar’s existing 2023 obligations, fund the completion of projects currently under development, and support the acquisition of […]

Tesla has added hardware-level vehicle-to-home (V2H) capability to its Model 3 and Model Y, expanding bidirectional charging beyond the Cybertruck where the technology first appeared. Both models can now route battery power to a house during grid outages through a converter embedded directly in the vehicle. The architecture sets Tesla apart from most rivals in […]

Poland’s government has announced a one-billion-zloty (roughly $258 million) subsidy scheme for residential energy storage, covering both electrical batteries and thermal systems. The announcement follows a sharp rise in adoption: since early 2024, the country’s installed base of home batteries has grown from 10,000 to 150,000 units, and the programme aims to push that figure […]

Teofipol Energy has delivered its first biomethane cargo to Hungary — 45,000 cubic metres routed through Ukraine’s existing gas transport system — making it the country’s fifth biomethane exporter. The buyer was Hungarian firm ERU Europe. The company operates a plant in Khmelnytskyy region that opened earlier this year and is currently Ukraine’s largest active […]

Solar energy is now powering 55 Ukrainian hospitals, with total commissioned rooftop capacity reaching 4.1 megawatts by early October 2026. Each installation combines photovoltaic panels with battery storage systems and related equipment, giving medical facilities reliable autonomous power during blackouts. The work is coordinated under the “Ray of Hope” initiative, which brings together the European […]

Ukraine’s energy regulator has narrowed the hours during which households can sell surplus rooftop solar power at the full feed-in tariff, introducing a seasonal time-of-use framework that takes effect under updated retail market rules. The National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission introduced the changes without cutting the green tariff rate itself. Instead, it altered the […]

The United States now has 60.4 gigawatts of new gas-fired power capacity in the planning pipeline for completion by 2030 — a 44 percent increase from the 41.8 GW anticipated just last December, according to an Environment America Research & Policy Center report. To grasp the scale: those planned gas additions would exceed the total […]

The Ukrainian Solar Energy Association (ASEU) will hold an open online committee meeting on 15 October at 11:00, dedicated to the commercial prospects and hands-on deployment experience of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The session will run as an open Zoom conference conducted in Ukrainian. It is specifically intended for energy companies, investors, project developers, […]

France’s draft 2027 national budget puts three new policy instruments on the table for the country’s hydrogen sector, a package that industry group France Hydrogene has welcomed as a meaningful step toward building demand for renewable and low-carbon hydrogen. The most significant measure is IRICC, a carbon-intensity reduction mechanism for transport fuels that replaces the […]

Ukraine will receive $116 million from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) to support decentralized power generation, grid infrastructure, and energy storage. The financing is expected to unlock an additional $693.8 million in co-investment from the World Bank, the EBRD, and private companies. The scale of the challenge is considerable: according to DixiGroup, Russia has destroyed, […]

Bulgaria’s National Electric Company (NEK) has issued a tender worth €350 million to construct a new dam at Yadenitza, a project that would more than triple the working water volume of the existing cascade and materially expand the country’s grid balancing capacity. Rather than building from scratch, NEK is scaling infrastructure that already operates at […]

Solar installations in the 1–5 megawatt range face a median wait of 45 months before receiving grid interconnection approval in the United States — more than twenty times longer than the roughly two months it takes for residential rooftop systems under 30 kilowatts, according to a new Berkeley Lab report. The study drew on 2.7 […]

For more than a year, Virginia residents have watched their utility bills climb as electricity-hungry data centers serving artificial intelligence have pushed demand sharply higher. Now the Spanberger administration has put forward a plan to reroute those costs, proposing that tech companies — not ordinary consumers — shoulder the bill for new carbon-free generation. The […]

The European Union covered 72% of its electricity needs with clean sources last year, managing to insulate prices from a gas-market surge — but Eurelectric’s Power Barometer 2026 warns that the shift is exposing a widening gap in the system’s ability to balance supply. Between February and August 2026, natural gas prices climbed 88.4%, yet […]

The European Commission is preparing to direct €1 billion toward cutting carbon emissions from industrial process heat, publishing final terms for a dedicated competitive auction set to launch in December. This is the second pan-European call under Brussels’ clean-technology innovation programme — and the first designed specifically to reward emissions reductions in industrial heat production. […]

Europe’s drive to reduce dependence on imported solar panels is losing momentum before it has fully begun, with the great majority of EU member states yet to apply the procurement rules they are legally required to use. Status of solar panel manufacturing support rules across 27 EU member states. Data: pv Europe Under the Net-Zero […]

The share of new US residential solar installations paired with a battery system climbed from 25 percent in 2024 to 37 percent in 2025, according to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory data drawn from roughly 450,000 systems installed over the year. The figures point to a fast-moving transition in which home storage is evolving from an […]

A third Vinnytsia homeowners’ association has been approved for a zero-interest loan from the city’s Revolving Fund, following a commission review on 2 October. The association, ОСББ “Vasyl Poryk 14,” will receive up to 500,000 hryvnias, repayable within 365 days, to finance energy efficiency work ahead of the heating season. The funds are earmarked for […]

Italian industrial gas company SIAD Group has commissioned a 2 MW proton exchange membrane electrolyzer at its IGAT facility in Pignataro Maggiore, near Caserta in southern Italy, creating what the company says is a fully integrated renewable hydrogen production site. The electrolyzer runs exclusively on electricity from a 2.37 MW solar array built on the […]