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Agrivoltaics — the simultaneous use of land for solar electricity generation and crop production — remains at an early stage in Ukraine, even as domestic farms increasingly install solar panels and storage systems for their own operational needs. Unlocking the full dual-use model requires clearing a series of regulatory and legislative hurdles that currently deter […]

A Norwegian industrial facility has cleared the European Union’s certification process for renewable hydrogen, becoming the first site in the country to earn that status — and offering the wider industry its clearest proof yet that the bloc’s demanding requirements are workable in practice. Hellesylt Hydrogen Hub, operated by Norwegian Hydrogen, received an RFNBO certificate […]

The head of Danish offshore wind developer Orsted has openly acknowledged that the company pursued growth targets at the expense of financial discipline in the United States, a strategic error that has weighed on the business for several years. Rasmus Errboe, who took the chief executive role in January 2025, said on the In Good […]

Vestas’s EnVentus onshore wind platform now has more than 15 gigawatts of installed capacity and over 2,500 turbines operating across 26 countries, industry publication reNews reports. The Danish manufacturer’s confirmed orderbook for the platform has surpassed 24 gigawatts. Recent deployment milestones include the installation of the platform’s first turbine in Chile and the completion of […]

High-voltage direct current transmission has crossed a threshold. Once a specialist tool reserved for submarine links and intricate grid challenges, HVDC has become a standard option for designing major transmission corridors — and that shift has exposed a new set of obstacles. Equipment manufacturers have largely kept pace. Europe has coalesced around a standardized 2 […]

New debt financing for US clean energy, manufacturing and clean fuel projects climbed 12% in the first half of 2026, reaching $59 billion — up from a $53 billion tally posted across the prior six-month period. Full-year lending is now on track to total $143 billion by December, a 19% rise over the 2025 annual […]

Europe’s persistently turbulent gas markets are reshaping the investment case for battery energy storage, with new analysis from Aurora Energy Research projecting internal rates of return of 12% annually for standalone battery projects in Greece. The consultancy’s modelling shows that two-hour storage systems commissioned in 2027 are expected to outperform projects brought online in 2030 […]

Battery energy storage has crossed a significant threshold in two geographically distant electricity markets, supplying roughly a quarter of evening electricity demand and marking the technology’s transition from niche pilot to essential grid infrastructure. Analysis by the Ember think tank shows that in the first half of 2026, the combination of solar panels and storage […]

Romania has taken a major step toward hosting the continent’s largest single solar installation. The national energy regulator ANRE has issued a construction authorization for the Dama Solar project — a 1.24 GW peak-capacity plant — to West Power Investments, a company linked to developer Rezolv Energy. The facility is not yet operational; commercial startup […]

Germany’s most recent onshore solar tender attracted substantially more capacity than the Federal Network Agency was prepared to award, with submitted bids outpacing the available volume by more than one gigawatt. The agency received 401 applications totalling 3.17 GW. It awarded 2.13 GW across 261 successful bids, leaving roughly a third of the submitted capacity […]

The Association of Solar Energy of Ukraine (ASEU) has announced an open session of its Energy Storage Committee, scheduled for 27 August at 11:00 via Zoom. The event is being held jointly with iSolar, an integrated alternative-energy developer. The session will be moderated by Serhiy Ruchko, who chairs the ASEU Energy Storage Committee. Speakers from […]

California is projected to have nearly 10 million passenger electric vehicles on its roads by 2036, and a joint report from GridLab, Kevala, and E3 argues that even a small share of that fleet could reshape how the state meets its energy storage goals — without large-scale investment in new generation capacity. The combined potential […]

Ukraine’s energy sector is set to gain what has been described as the largest private storage project announced for 2026: a 200 MWh battery system paired with up to 100 MW of new solar capacity, born from a deal between domestic developer Askania Energy and Chinese equipment maker Risen Energy. The two companies signed a […]

A team of energy industry engineers has released a voluntary draft protocol designed to speed up the connection of new generation and flexible loads to the power grid, separating grid access from the slow, reliability-driven planning processes that have long bottlenecked clean energy deployment. The effort is led by Chris Shelton, a senior vice president […]

Europe’s decarbonization ambitions have not made green hydrogen bankable. Weak real demand and persistent unprofitability form a structural barrier that policy targets alone cannot remove — and lenders have not moved. The Port of Antwerp-Bruges recently installed a 0.5 MW anion exchange membrane electrolyzer supplied by Power to Hydrogen, producing high-purity hydrogen for actual industrial […]

Global photovoltaic capacity has crossed the 3-terawatt mark, a milestone that illustrates how sharply the pace of solar deployment has accelerated. BloombergNEF analysis shows the industry needed roughly a decade to advance from 100 GW in 2012 to its first terawatt. The second followed in under three years; the third arrived less than two years […]

Ukraine’s wartime mass production of drone batteries has, almost incidentally, built one of Europe’s most innovative defence manufacturing clusters — and analysts now see a credible path for converting that capability into a peacetime energy-storage industry. The scale is striking. Roughly four million drones were produced in 2025, with forecasts pointing to six million in […]

Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union’s energy sector rose 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2026 relative to the preceding quarter, Eurostat data show, while overall economy-wide emissions edged up just 0.3 percent across the same period. The gap between the two figures reveals that record-pace renewable installations are not enough to guarantee […]

Europe is approaching a structural turning point in electricity generation. For the first time in the continent’s modern energy history, the installed base of wind and solar has grown large enough to routinely match or exceed gas-fired output — not because of favourable weather, but because of sheer capacity. The arithmetic is straightforward. Over the […]

Eight energy corporations accumulated €7.5 billion in excess profits within the European Union over a six-month period that coincided with Brent crude prices rising above $100 per barrel following the outbreak of a conflict in Iran in late February, according to a report by Transport & Environment (T&E). The analysis benchmarks each company’s adjusted net […]