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The city of Odesa is considering a new combined heat and power plant fired by refuse-derived fuel — RDF and SRF — produced from sorted municipal waste, with a preliminary price tag of 4.5 billion hryvnias. A waste-sorting facility is envisaged near the future plant to supply raw material. No construction timeline has been set. […]

Denmark’s transmission system operator Energinet has opened a consultation on two proposed grid connection models that would exempt generators from connection charges in exchange for accepting curtailment when network capacity runs tight. The proposals are designed separately for plants connecting to the transmission and distribution networks. Under either model, a generator agrees to have its […]

Authorities in Spain’s autonomous community of Castilla y León are considering extending an existing environmental impact tax — the Impuesto sobre la Afección Medioambiental — to photovoltaic installations. The proposed charge would range from €600 to €2,000 per hectare, covering solar parks across the region. The solar industry has responded sharply. José Donoso, head of […]

Six communities in Lviv Oblast have received solar power equipment and battery storage units under two separate German assistance programmes, bolstering critical infrastructure and vocational training across the coal-transition region. The winter aid package, delivered by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through GIZ Ukraine, provided 20 battery storage units of 61.44 […]

A Spanish engineering firm has developed a wind tower system that eliminates the need for heavy cranes — and earned formal certification to prove it. Whether independent developers and lenders will embrace it is a different question entirely. Nabrawind’s Nabralift design rests a tubular upper column on a tripod steel truss. Hydraulic jacks raise the […]

Poland’s energy regulator URE has scheduled its next renewable energy auction for November 9–10, running separate sessions for solar and onshore wind projects in two capacity bands: installations up to and including 1 MW, and those exceeding that threshold. Only newly built facilities may participate; bids are admitted through the IPA platform and then judged […]

Germany registered 94,086 battery-electric vehicles in October 2026, a 79.5 percent jump from the same month a year earlier that pushed BEVs to 37 percent of an overall car market that itself grew just 1.7 percent. For the second straight month, petrol and diesel combined fell below the BEV share alone. The shift is stark. […]

Decisions on solar plants, batteries and climate targets now rest with state administrations. Democrats took both legislative chambers together with the governor’s seat in several states at once, and bills that sat untouched for years can be put to a vote again: barring municipalities from imposing blanket prohibitions on renewable projects, setting connection rules for […]

Expanded tax credits for clean generation look unlikely while Republicans hold the White House, yet permitting reform retains cross-party momentum in Congress, according to Wood Mackenzie. Democrats won majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate at the midterms, and the consultancy expects faster line construction and quicker connection of new capacity to […]

Nine educational facilities in Irpin — including kindergartens and lyceums — now carry solar installations totaling more than 275 kilowatts, the Kyiv Regional Military Administration has reported. Energy storage systems are currently being fitted as the municipality works to build a hybrid power network for critical and social infrastructure. The initiative pairs existing generators with […]

Ukraine’s bioenergy industry has the raw resources to compete in European markets — what it lacks are the legal frameworks to unlock them. That was the central message from Georgy Geletukha, chair of the Ukrainian Bioenergy Association (UABIO), speaking at a conference of the Institute of Technical Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of […]

Six US states have opened highway and rail rights-of-way for new electricity transmission infrastructure, but actual construction has materialized in only one of them — a gap that underscores how difficult it is to move from policy to steel in the ground. The idea is to route power lines along approximately 48,000 miles of highways […]

Greek solar farms received just €24.63 per megawatt-hour in May 2026, against an average market price of €88.95 — meaning operators captured less than 28% of the prevailing rate. The figures come from DAPEEP, Greece’s renewable-energy settlement operator, and illustrate how heavily concentrated midday generation is eroding solar revenues across southern Europe. The mechanism is […]

The European Commission opened the buyer application window for its biomethane matching mechanism on November 4, with registration running until December 23, 2026. The step marks the beginning of a four-and-a-half-month process that will conclude on March 18, 2027, when matched parties receive each other’s direct contacts. The mechanism is not an exchange or auction. […]

Lithuania’s parliament has enacted a broad set of amendments to its energy, electricity and renewables laws, offering developers more time, lower financial obligations and new flexibility as the country addresses a marked slowdown in new project activity. The core relief measures allow developers up to 48 extra months to bring projects to completion. Developers have […]

The number of utility-scale battery energy storage systems continues to grow — yet the frequency of incidents is declining sharply. Global 100 RE Ukraine has published an article highlighting new data on the safety of large-scale battery energy storage systems in the United States. According to EPRI estimates, between 2016 and 2025, the incident rate […]

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 […]