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The Kalinivska community in Kyiv Oblast has received a package of backup power equipment ahead of the autumn-winter period, combining generators, inverter systems and a containerised solar installation at a critical infrastructure site. According to the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration, generators were distributed to schools, kindergartens, extracurricular centres, ambulatories, rural medical posts (FAPs) and housing […]

Air-source and geothermal heat pumps are not a realistic option for individual apartment heating, according to Oleh Popenko, head of the Union of Public Utility Services Consumers. He argued they should be removed from comparisons with other heating alternatives altogether, citing costs two to four times higher than comparable inverter air conditioners and the need […]

Polish energy group PGE has contracted Fluence to supply battery storage equipment for an 800 MWh facility near the northwestern city of Gryfino, with commissioning targeted for 2028. Once operational, the project is expected to rank among the largest energy storage installations in Central and Eastern Europe. Fluence will deliver 94 Smartstack modules rated at […]

Through the first three quarters of 2026, corporate funding for the solar industry climbed to $25.1 billion across 170 deals — a 45% increase from $17.3 billion in 127 transactions recorded over the same period a year earlier, according to a Mercom Capital Group report. The gains were unevenly distributed across funding types. Debt financing […]

The appeal of proven short-duration lithium-ion batteries to lenders may be constraining the market for long-duration energy storage (LDES), experts said at a Clean Energy States Alliance webinar covered by ESS News. Banks tend to favor technologies with predictable revenue and proven reliability — advantages that shorter-cycle systems currently hold — making it harder for […]

On 4 August 2026, RWE and its GET H2 consortium partners announced that renewable hydrogen produced at an electrolyzer in Lingen had reached the chemical park in Marl through a repurposed gas pipeline — a 120-kilometre transit completed during commissioning. The delivery is a technical milestone, but the announcement omitted the figures that would give […]

Ukraine’s flagship EU-backed funding program has no dedicated mechanism to finance the modernization of large industrial facilities, according to an analysis by GMK Center. The Ukraine Facility, running from 2024 to 2027, allocates 50 billion euros in total — 33 billion as loans and 17 billion as grants. Pillar II, the Ukraine Investment Framework (UIF), […]

Polish renewable energy developer Grupa Mosty is moving forward with plans to build a 162 MW wind farm in Ukraine’s Odessa region, following a successful bid at the country’s green auction held in September 2026. The project, known as Mayaky, would comprise 36 Vestas turbines rated at 4.5 MW each, with commissioning targeted for the […]

Ukrainian homeowner associations can receive state grants covering up to 70 percent of their clean energy investment costs under the GreenDIM program administered by the Energy Efficiency Fund, with combined payouts reaching as high as seven million hryvnias per building. The program is open exclusively to officially registered homeowners associations and housing cooperatives throughout Ukraine, […]

Austria’s Verbund is moving to construction at Albania’s first wind farm, marking a concrete advance in the country’s renewable energy programme. The company’s subsidiary Verbund Green Power will develop the 72.6 MW Spille project in the Rrogozhina municipality near the Adriatic coast, targeting commercial operations in the first quarter of 2028. Albania’s Minister of Infrastructure […]

Global electricity grid spending is set to become a permanent feature of the energy transition — not a one-time investment surge — according to BloombergNEF’s NEO Grids 2026 report. Under an economic transition scenario, the world will require $16.5 trillion in grid infrastructure through 2050; a Net Zero scenario raises that total to $25 trillion, […]

A group of eight UK battery operators is challenging proposals to over-extend state support for long-duration energy storage, arguing that an oversized initial guarantee round could add £1.6 billion to consumer bills. The coalition, known as CDAES, includes Zenobe, Fidra Energy, Voltwise Power and Pulse Clean Energy alongside four others — Constantine Energy Storage, Revera […]

A wind energy project in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region has channelled more than 20 million hryvnias into the budget of Nyzhniy Vorota territorial community — a figure that matches the community’s entire annual budget from just five years ago. The first turbine began operating within the community’s territory in August 2024. Under a social partnership agreement, […]

Cybersecurity has become what Pascal de Boor, SolarEdge’s European director, calls the “most interesting driver of change” shaping the continent’s solar supply chain politics. Speaking to pv Europe, de Boor described a clear European trend toward scrutinising suppliers from high-risk countries — China chief among them — over concerns that critical infrastructure could be compromised […]

European wholesale gas prices surged 88.4 percent between February and August 2026, yet electricity costs rose only 22.8 percent, a divergence the report attributes to the growth of clean generation. Between February and May alone, gas climbed 41 percent while electricity actually fell 7 percent. The Power Barometer 2026 attributes this decoupling to clean generation […]

Europe’s heavy industries are sitting on an underused flexibility resource that could reshape the continent’s electricity system — but sector economics vary widely, according to a Solar Promotion report drawing on smartEn research covering steel, aluminium, paper, glass and cement. The gap between sectors is striking. Pulp and paper plants earn around €340,000 per megawatt […]

BW ESS has moved into France’s battery storage market, buying two advanced-stage standalone projects from developer Recurrent Energy totalling 800 MWh in combined capacity. The two facilities — each rated at 100 MW and 400 MWh — are located in the Calvados and Pyrénées-Orientales departments. BW ESS will develop both sites through construction and into […]

A Ukrainian food industry company has commissioned a 375 kW solar power system without spending its own capital. The installation, valued at nearly 9 million hryvnias, was fully financed by energy company Yasno — through its D.Solutions subsidiary — under a power purchase agreement completed in October 2026. Under the PPA model, the investor first […]

Vjetroelektrana Trtar Krtolin, a Dubrovnik-registered company, has submitted a formal environmental impact assessment request to the relevant Croatian ministry to repower the Trtar-Krtolin wind farm near Šibenik. Erected by wpd in 2006, the site runs 14 Enercon E-48 turbines rated at 800 kW each, with 48-metre rotors on 50-metre towers and a combined output of […]

A survey of nearly 17,000 French retail sites found solar canopies on just 8 to 10 percent of store parking areas, according to mapping service Parksun, which reviewed aerial imagery from 2023 to 2026 across 16,790 locations. The figures reflect canopies visible in photographs rather than a measure of legal compliance; some sites may hold […]