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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 […]

An exceptional burst of renewable output raised Greece’s green energy share to 78% of its electricity balance, creating a surplus that strained grid management and drove wholesale prices to the lowest level on the continent. Strong winds powered the surge, pushing natural gas to just 13.2% of the energy mix while electricity imports shrank to […]

Germany’s rapid expansion of solar capacity is creating a recycling problem the country’s industrial infrastructure is not yet equipped to solve. By 2030, more than 600,000 tonnes of spent photovoltaic panels are projected to require disposal — but the facilities to handle them at industrial scale barely exist. A study by the Fraunhofer CSP Institute […]

The Texas Public Utility Commission has approved Southwestern Public Service Company’s plan to close the Tolk coal-fired power station near Lubbock and replace its capacity with a broad portfolio of renewable energy and battery storage. SPS operates as an Xcel Energy subsidiary. The Tolk plant is scheduled to shut down in early 2029. Under the […]

California has signed into law a measure that lets residents connect portable solar panels directly to household outlets without utility fees, permits, or interconnection paperwork. SB 868 — dubbed the “Plug Into the Sun Act” — takes effect on 1 January 2027 and sets a 1,200-watt AC ceiling per dwelling unit. The legislation defines qualifying […]

North Macedonia’s Chebren pumped-storage hydropower project — stalled for decades — may be approaching a breakthrough, with the prime minister reporting that American financial institutions have shown potential interest in funding its construction. During a recent visit to Washington, the prime minister held talks with Caroline Vick, who handles development projects at the US International […]

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two California bills that broaden the role of virtual power plants in the state’s grid, opening wholesale market access for home battery systems and pushing regulators to plan around distributed storage rather than new infrastructure spending. SB 913 removes restrictions that had blocked customer-owned batteries from competing freely in the […]

Europe’s count of officially recognised cross-border renewable energy projects climbed to 15 following the fifth CB RES competition, as three new initiatives secured a status that grants eligibility for CEF Energy funding covering both research and construction phases, alongside strengthened support from EU member states. The total shifted after project PONTIS left the existing list […]

Battery-powered container handlers are gaining ground over hydrogen alternatives in heavy port operations, with the global fleet of electric machines now numbering around 1,500 units — roughly 15 to 16 percent of all such equipment worldwide, according to analysis by CleanTechnica. Despite a widely held assumption that hydrogen is the only viable option for heavy […]