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Three territorial communities across Ukraine have completed small-scale renewable energy installations aimed at keeping critical infrastructure operational when the national grid fails. The projects — in Slobozhanska, Drohobytska and Selidivska communities — emerged from a competitive grant programme organised by civil-society organisations Ecodia and LOPTS Alternatyva with support from the UK government. Each winning community […]

Rapidly scaling up electric vehicles across the European Union could reduce the transport sector’s dependence on imported energy by roughly 25 percent within the next fifteen years, according to an assessment by Transport & Environment. The finding reframes electrification not just as a climate measure but as a concrete tool for economic resilience. What sets […]

European Union nations brought 33.8 gigawatts of new solar capacity online in the first six months of 2026, edging past the 33.2 GW recorded in the same period a year earlier, according to SolarPower Europe. The result keeps the bloc on a trajectory toward roughly 68.1 GW for the full year — though that figure […]

Ukrainian energy trader D.Trading, part of the DTEK holding, has signed a partnership with Finnish technology firm Capalo AI to give battery energy storage developers a more predictable long-term income on European power markets. The agreement was announced on 8 September. The structure divides responsibilities along two clear lines. D.Trading will act as the power […]

Britain’s solar sector delivered its strongest summer on record in 2026, with generation climbing 23% year-on-year as an extraordinary streak of hot, sun-filled weeks reshaped the country’s electricity mix. According to Carbon Brief, solar farms and rooftop installations combined produced twice the electricity over the summer months that they had in the same period in […]

Three utility-scale solar developments in North Carolina and Texas are set to receive domestically produced modules under a new supply agreement with Inox Solar Americas, an American manufacturer of solar modules and cells. The contract covers projects rated at 71 MW, 102 MW, and 594 MW, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2027. All three […]

Electronics manufacturing giant Flex has announced its intention to acquire EPC Power, a California company founded in 2010 that produces industrial-scale inverters and power conversion platforms for data centers. The move is driven by surging demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure, which requires increasingly powerful and sophisticated energy systems. The deal is expected to close in […]

Texas’s power grid set a new all-time peak in July 2026, with demand climbing above 91 gigawatts for the first time in the state’s history. What made the milestone unusual was the absence of any conservation alert from grid operator ERCOT — a quiet that would have been unthinkable just three years ago. The comparison […]

Security concerns are emerging as a decisive factor in Europe’s solar inverter procurement, potentially rivalling price as the primary selection criterion. Pascal de Buer, SolarEdge’s general manager for Europe, describes the dynamic as analogous to the earlier 5G debate: firms legally bound to comply with shutdown directives from high-risk governments cannot simply refuse, and that […]

Hungary’s energy regulator MEKH has opened the country’s first competitive tender for grid connection capacity dedicated to wind power, making 702 MVA available across nine nodes in six districts nationwide. Applications are accepted from September 4 through October 30, with results due no later than December 13, 2026. Each bidder must request a minimum 14 […]

Corporate power purchase agreements for renewable energy in the European Union now sit at €60–85 per megawatt-hour — roughly half what buyers face during periods of grid stress, when spot prices have climbed to €120–150/MWh. The cost gap draws attention, but analysts say long-term predictability is the stronger motive. Jonathan Brügel of IEEFA Europe argues […]

Germany’s transmission system operators began procuring synthetic inertia as a new ancillary service in early 2026, driven by the accelerating retirement of thermal power plants that once provided natural rotational stability to the grid. Battery systems fitted with grid-forming inverters can qualify by holding network frequency within 0.2 Hz of the 50 Hz standard. The […]

Wholesale electricity prices across Europe climbed sharply in August 2026, driven by a combination of summer heat, surging gas costs, and constrained generation from both renewables and nuclear plants, according to data from the Ember analytics centre. Day-ahead prices rose across all major markets compared with July. France recorded a 30 percent jump to €125.6 […]

Bulgaria has quietly leapfrogged California to claim the world’s highest share of battery energy storage relative to total grid capacity, a milestone that also signals mounting pressure on the very business model that made the buildout possible. The country’s operating battery fleet has reached 5.4 GW, equal to 22.8 percent of all installed generation capacity, […]

A proposed 420-mile high-voltage direct-current line from Montana to North Dakota has become one of the United States’ most closely watched grid projects. The North Plains Connector, valued at $6 billion, earned support from both the Biden and Trump administrations and secured a $700 million Department of Energy grant to cover startup costs — backing […]

The European Commission has approved Germany’s long-awaited capacity mechanism under EU state aid rules, clearing the way for the country to secure adequate electricity supply from 2031. The green light came after roughly three and a half years of negotiations — arriving just six days before the scheme’s opening auction, scheduled for September 8. The […]

Europe’s expanding solar capacity shielded the continent from even steeper energy costs, saving more than €30 billion as two consecutive geopolitical shocks kept fossil fuel markets on edge, industry figures show. The savings built up across back-to-back disruptions. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine first laid bare the risks of dependence on pipeline gas and tanker routes. […]

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 […]