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China has introduced a consumer tax on lithium-ion batteries, closing a tax-free window that stretched eleven years. The levy took effect on September 1, 2026, starting at 2% and scheduled to rise to the standard 4% in September 2027, according to China’s Ministry of Finance. The new charge covers battery cells, modules, and clusters sold […]

Ukraine’s national energy regulator has overhauled the rules governing connections to the electricity grid, with the updated framework taking effect on 1 September 2026. The revision is designed to make grid access more flexible and to expand opportunities for decentralised power generation at a time when the country’s energy infrastructure continues to recover from sustained […]

Romania’s state-owned transmission operator Transelectrica has obtained €67 million — more than 351 million lei — through the EU Modernisation Fund, split across two infrastructure projects designed to strengthen the national grid and expand its capacity to absorb renewable power. The first project, an extension of the DigiTEL smart-line programme, receives €18.62 million to deploy […]

In the countries most exposed to climate risk, the economics of energy transition have quietly reached a turning point. According to a new Ember analysis, solar generation now costs less to start up than coal or gas for members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum — a bloc that represents more than a fifth of the […]

Fervo Energy has secured the largest enhanced geothermal system contract on record, agreeing to deliver close to 400 megawatts of round-the-clock power to Google from a Utah project that could reshape how the technology attracts investment. The deal is built around EGS technology, which unlocks heat from deep dry rock formations rather than relying on […]

“Is the green transformation of a community possible without a municipal energy plan? It is—but it will be fragmented.” This is how Olena Pavlenko, President of DiXi Group, explains it. When a community implements isolated energy solutions without a single strategic vision, the result may resemble the piecemeal thermal insulation of a building: different solutions […]

Energy Resilience Laboratory Opened at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) RSE, a member of Global 100% RE Ukraine, has opened the Energy Resilience Laboratory at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI). This modern educational and research space is designed to train specialists who will work with distributed generation, backup, and autonomous power systems. The […]

Wind Parks of Ukraine is pushing forward with new capacity even after the conflict destroyed one of its wind facilities in Kramatorsk, illustrating how the country’s renewable sector is adapting rather than retreating. The company already runs 80.8 MW of turbines at Nyzhni Vorota in the Zakarpattia region and is breaking ground on approximately 70 […]

Shell has offloaded Sonnen, the German home battery manufacturer it acquired in 2019 for close to €500 million, to Munich-based investment firm Tiven. The divestiture marks a costly retreat from the residential energy storage segment for the oil major. The financial toll has been steep. Sonnen’s performance weakened considerably in the years after the acquisition, […]

Poland is decarbonizing more quickly than its reputation as a coal-dependent economy would suggest, yet the transition is unfolding in ways that complicate a clean break from fossil fuels. Gas recorded the steepest output increase of any power source in both 2024 and 2025, indicating that coal is being displaced by a combination of renewables […]

Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein, the sole producer of white tinplate in Germany, has agreed to build an 8 MW solar facility at its Andernach plant under a long-term power purchase agreement, with generation scheduled to begin in mid-2027. The installation will cover 5.2 hectares of the existing industrial site — roughly seven football pitches — and is […]

Industrial gas giant Air Products has agreed a long-term supply contract with Dutch chemicals company Nobian, securing offtake from what is currently Europe’s largest certified renewable hydrogen facility. The Rotterdam plant, operated by Nobian, produces hydrogen through a chlor-alkali electrolysis process powered entirely by renewable electricity. In 2025 it became the first large-scale European facility […]

President Donald Trump has signed an emergency executive order targeting imports of critical electricity infrastructure components from countries subject to US arms embargoes or sanctions, with China as the primary focus. The measure extends earlier Federal Communications Commission restrictions on foreign-made inverters to cover high-voltage transformers and grid-scale stationary storage units, along with other equipment. […]

Solar power crossed a significant milestone in the first half of 2026, supplying more than one tenth of global electricity consumption — yet the same period highlights the technology’s structural limitation. Analytics firm Ember found that solar plants met over a quarter of worldwide demand between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., while contributing virtually nothing […]

Grants, loans, PPAs, and ESCOs are different mechanisms for implementing green recovery projects in communities. Within the framework of the ANEW-LIFE project, Nizhyn, Zhytomyr, and Kalush are working on six pilot projects—two projects in each community. As Viktoriia Kovalenko, General Manager for Sustainable Development at DiXi Group, explains, various financing mechanisms are being developed for […]

Between 390 and 540 gigawatts of planned wind, solar, and battery storage capacity could disappear from the United States over the next decade if the federal government proceeds with canceling Inflation Reduction Act tax incentives, imposing fresh tariffs, and buying out offshore wind leases. That projection comes from a new Natural Resources Defense Council analysis […]

New Jersey utility Public Service Electric & Gas is offering homeowners a substantial financial package to install battery storage systems — and in return, hand the utility some control over when those batteries discharge. Under the GridSmart Battery pilot, participants receive a $5,000 upfront incentive plus access to up to $25,000 in zero-interest financing, repaid […]

As coal plants and gas turbines retire across Europe, they take something critical with them: the rotational mass that once kept power grids stable. Now battery energy storage systems are being asked to fill that gap — if their inverters can rise to the challenge. The physics are straightforward. Spinning generators carry kinetic energy that […]

Experts who have already gone through the green transformation alongside successful communities can help scale this experience across all of Ukraine. This is the exact model proposed by Olena Pavlenko, President of DiXi Group. Instead of every community navigating this complex journey on their own, the practical expertise of specialists from Zhytomyr and other cities […]

A $110 million battery recycling facility is taking shape in Commerce, Georgia, backed by a $50 million grant from the US Department of Energy. The project will be developed by Princeton NuEnergy and centres on a low-temperature plasma process that restores cathode structures from spent lithium-ion cells — an approach that sidesteps the conventional pyrometallurgical […]