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Romania’s gas transmission operator Transgaz has signed a declaration of intent with Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries to jointly prepare tests of a centrifugal compressor intended to move hydrogen through Romania’s existing gas transmission pipelines. The agreement was reached in Tokyo at the fourth Romania–Japan Innovation Forum, with Transgaz chief executive Ion Sterian and Kawasaki Energy […]

OKKO Group, which operates a network of nearly 400 fuel stations, is building two wind farms in the Volyn region with a combined budget of €500 million. The first, rated at 147 MW, is expected to be completed by the end of this year or in the first quarter of 2027; work on a neighbouring […]

Maryland has launched a two-year, $200 million grant competition aimed at expanding in-state renewable generation and energy storage, as the state moves to fill a gap left by reduced federal clean energy funding. The “Megawatts for Maryland” programme, administered by the Maryland Energy Administration, can draw up to $100 million a year from Maryland’s Strategic […]

India’s rooftop solar sector has undergone a rapid transformation. Driven by the government’s PM Surya Ghar subsidy scheme, installed capacity tripled from 2024 levels to reach 30.7 GW by July 2026, according to analytics firm Ember — nearly 19 percent of the country’s total 165 GW solar fleet. Yet for the more than five million […]

Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has struck a deal to purchase a nearly complete solar facility of more than 550 MW in Greece from Lightsource bp, in a transaction announced during the visit of Abu Dhabi’s crown prince to the country. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal remains subject to regulatory clearance before closing. Once […]

Ukrainian legislation explicitly prohibits double network charges for energy storage systems, yet industry research by AIN found that some distribution system operators still apply grid-connection requirements designed for conventional power plants — creating a persistent gap between the legal framework and day-to-day practice. Laws №2046-IX and №4777-IX established the legal status of storage installations and […]

Ukraine’s DTEK VDE, the Poltava State Agrarian University, and the regional military administration have signed a trilateral memorandum aimed at establishing a renewable energy research and training laboratory tied to the company’s planned 650 MW wind farm in the Poltava region. Under the agreement, students will have access to a dedicated space for studying renewable […]

Portugal has made synthetic inertia a binding condition for battery energy storage systems connecting to its grid. The obligation took effect on 23 October. It covers new storage connected to the transmission grid, and separately any installation rated at 45 MW or more. State Secretary for Energy Jean Paulo Gil Barroca signed the order, which […]

Kryvyi Rih has included a 12 MW solar power plant in a draft community development action plan, with the installation intended to supply electricity to the city’s wastewater treatment infrastructure. The proposed site is the Central Aeration Station of municipal utility Kryvbasvodokanal, where the plant would power pumps and aeration systems. The draft action plan […]

Ukraine registered roughly 4,600 battery-electric vehicles in September 2026, cutting last year’s figure nearly in half, according to the Ukravtoprom industry association. The contrast with European trends is stark: European electric-car sales rose nearly 72.9 percent over the same period. The passenger segment accounted for 4,349 of September’s registrations, yet the split between new and […]

Ukraine’s energy regulator has extended access to Ukrenergo’s replacement-reserve mechanism to distributed generation facilities across the entire country, a step expected to ease electricity shortages at grid nodes where supply is under pressure. Previously, only cogeneration facilities in Kyiv and Kyiv region were eligible to participate in the tertiary-frequency and active-power reserve scheme run by […]

Europe assembles solar panels in quantity but barely makes the materials that go into them — and an industry coalition wants the bloc’s forthcoming Industrial Accelerator Act to fix that imbalance. More than 35 companies and institutions have jointly petitioned the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, urging legislators to use the IAA […]

New clean energy investment declarations in the United States fell $8.2 billion short of cancellations in 2025, according to business group E2’s Clean Economy Works tracker. Projects cancelled, frozen or scaled back since early 2025 are valued at $86.6 billion — more than the $78.4 billion in newly declared plans. Comparison of announced and cancelled […]

Battery storage has emerged as the least expensive option for providing flexible power to large data centers when total costs are measured across a full 25-year lifespan, according to a new analysis by S&P Global commissioned by energy storage firm Fluence. The report, titled “The Real Cost of Power,” modelled a 390 MW data centre […]

Dutch developer Giga Storage is set to attract €260 million in project financing for its Albatross battery storage facility in Germany, the company’s first large-scale BESS deployment in the country. A syndicate of seven banks — ABN Amro, Rabobank, ING, SMBC, Société Générale, Hamburg Commercial Bank and Siemens Bank — will provide the credit package. […]

The onshore wind sector in the United States is recording a sharp surge in equipment orders even as federal authorities move to block offshore auctions and seek court injunctions against in-progress offshore projects. The driver is a shift in how existing tax incentives are applied. Under recently enacted federal legislation, developers who broke ground before […]

A missile strike on 19 July destroyed the Ukrainian logistics hub of Viessmann Climate Solutions Ukraine, incinerating the facility along with equipment prepared for reconstruction projects. Within two months the company had a new warehouse of approximately 1,000 square metres ready for opening at an alternative location — concrete shelters are currently being installed on […]

The Ukrainian Red Cross has transferred close to a thousand solar panels, totalling nearly 600 kW of capacity, to the Bucha community in Kyiv Oblast. The equipment will serve modular settlements in Bucha and Vorzel that house internally displaced persons, according to the Kyiv Regional Military Administration and the Bucha City Council. The humanitarian shipment […]

Google has struck a deal with demand-response aggregator Voltus to manage up to 1 gigawatt of flexible electricity load across the PJM Interconnection grid — a tenfold jump from the 100-megawatt pilot the company announced in June, according to Canary Media. Under the arrangement, Google will compensate households and businesses that voluntarily cut their consumption […]

Large-scale battery storage in the United States has become far safer over the past ten years, with incident frequency dropping by more than 97% between 2016 and 2025 even as installed capacity grew 250-fold, according to an EPRI report reviewed by Canary Media. Three of those ten years recorded zero incidents at all. The improvement […]