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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 […]

European natural gas futures briefly crossed €100 per megawatt-hour at the Dutch TTF hub on October 28, rising roughly four percent above the previous session. The threshold had not been breached since the 2022 energy crisis, when prices reached a record of around €340 per megawatt-hour in August of that year. The surge is driven […]

GE Vernova has agreed to buy Trench Group, a high-voltage equipment supplier, for $9 billion, with the transaction expected to close in late 2027. The announcement came as the energy technology company reported that its gas turbine backlog grew by just 6 gigawatts in the most recent quarter, down from double-digit quarterly increases earlier in […]

A joint venture is advancing plans to connect Azerbaijan’s grid with Central Europe via a €22.1 billion infrastructure corridor crossing the Black Sea and the Caucasus. GECO, a joint venture registered in Bucharest, was founded on equal terms by four parties: Azerbaijani system operator AzerEnerji, Georgia’s grid operator GSE, Romania’s Transelectrica, and Hungary’s state energy […]

A broad coalition of energy companies, NGOs and civil society groups has called on the European Commission and EU member states to stop reopening the bloc’s Renewable Energy Directive for revision. The appeal, issued ahead of the EU Energy Council meeting on 29 October, argues that four revisions in four years have outpaced member states’ […]

A major medical facility in Zaporizhzhia region is constructing a layered energy autonomy system designed to keep the hospital fully operational even when the city grid goes dark entirely — going well beyond conventional backup generators. Acting regional governor Mykhailo Semikyn reported on the preparations after inspecting work at the site. According to outlet Spravzhnie, […]

A widespread argument against large-scale heating electrification holds that mass heat pump adoption will inevitably strain power grids — but new research from RMI challenges that claim. In most US states, peak demand falls on hot summer days due to air conditioning, while winter infrastructure sits underutilized. Those same lines can carry more electricity during […]

German transmission system operator TenneT has commissioned a new 10-kilometre, 380 kV overhead line that gives one of the region’s largest industrial complexes the electrical headroom it needs to decarbonise steel production. The newly built section connects two nodal substations located near the Salzgitter AG steelmaking site, unlocking grid capacity that will allow the plant […]

Ukraine has enacted Law №4963-IX to bring its renewable energy permitting framework into line with European standards. The central shift is procedural: the Ministry of Energy must now map territories — weighing available resources, grid capacity, and demand — and designate accelerated development zones before developers submit applications, reversing the previous developer-led sequence. Within those […]