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Electric vehicles now account for roughly 40 percent of all new Volkswagen Group orders placed in Europe, with the manufacturer attributing the shift to elevated fossil-fuel prices and the debut of a new affordable urban EV family. According to a company report cited by CleanTechnica, battery-electric car orders across the group climbed more than 60 […]

Drinking water continues to reach homes in Mykolaiv’s eastern suburbs even during emergency electricity outages, thanks to a battery-backed solar installation that keeps an underground pump running autonomously. The compact photovoltaic system sits discreetly among residential buildings and powers the pump from its own generation — no waiting for high-voltage lines to be restored. The […]

Greece is moving to impose dedicated grid-connection rules on data centres after applications for high-voltage capacity doubled — from five to nine gigawatts — across just two summer months. Balkan Green Energy News disclosed the draft legislation, which was proposed by the Ministry of Environment and Energy to prevent data centres from exhausting available capacity […]

France is preparing its first long-term capacity auction, seeking to secure power availability for the winter of 2030-31 — four years before delivery begins. The energy regulator CRE has submitted a proposed methodology to the Ministry of Energy for conducting the auction. According to analysis by transmission system operator RTE, as reported by ESS News, […]

Ukrainian banks have approved 68.7 billion hryvnias in financing for energy projects, supporting the restoration of 2.115 gigawatts of generation capacity, according to a National Bank of Ukraine survey of the country’s largest financial institutions. Of the total committed, businesses drew 63.4 billion hryvnias and households 5.3 billion hryvnias under a sectoral memorandum. The gross […]

WindEurope has pushed back against proposals to reopen the EU’s Birds and Habitats Directives, arguing that inconsistent enforcement — not the rules themselves — is what holds back wind energy development across Europe. The call comes as Brussels moves toward a broader review of environmental legislation, with nature law among the targets. WindEurope, joined by […]

Bulgaria has substantially widened its electricity trade surplus this year, with net exports reaching 3.5 TWh from January through early October — a 62 percent increase over the 2.16 TWh recorded in the same period last year. The country has been supplying neighboring Balkan states during summer heat waves and regional capacity shortfalls, according to […]

The European Commission has approved 46 new strategic projects across 16 countries, raising the total number of supported critical raw materials initiatives to 106, including ventures outside EU borders. Selected from 102 submitted applications, the projects span mining, processing, and recycling — part of the bloc’s broader effort to reduce dependence on external suppliers. Under […]

A 4.6-million-tonne synthetic fuel requirement facing European shipping risks going unmet unless producers can secure guaranteed long-term price commitments, Transport & Environment (T&E) has warned. The EU federation’s assessment points to a gap between the ambition of FuelEU regulations and the investment signals the market is currently receiving. Under Brussels’ investment roadmap for clean transport, […]

Ukraine commissioned up to 1.1 GW of new solar photovoltaic capacity in the first half of 2026, according to preliminary estimates from the Solar Energy Association of Ukraine (ASEU), bringing total installed solar generation in the country to between 9.4 and 9.7 GW. Full-year additions are expected to reach around 2 GW. The majority of […]

Groupe Bellemare, a Canadian industrial group, has released interim findings from an ongoing electric heavy equipment testing program at Quebec worksites, showing battery-powered machinery reduced energy costs by more than 87% compared with diesel. The initiative, launched in 2024 under the Plug-In Fleet Heavy Equipment research program alongside IVI — Quebec’s Institut du véhicule innovant […]

HELLENiQ Renewables has completed construction of a 100 MW / 200 MWh battery energy storage system near Thessaloniki, placing it among the largest such facilities in Greece. The €50 million project was financed with support from the Greece 2.0 programme under the NextGenerationEU fund, and occupies ten hectares fitted with 56 containers of liquid-cooled lithium […]

Croatia’s electricity distribution operator HEP ODS has drawn up a ten-year infrastructure investment programme worth €1.95 billion covering 2027 to 2036, with the primary goal of adapting the country’s distribution grid to accommodate rising volumes of clean generation. The figure excludes connection costs; it covers line and substation upgrades, smart metering rollout, and preparations for […]

France and Germany have agreed to push for a weaker carbon target for new vehicles sold in the European Union, backing a proposal that would lower the emissions-cut requirement from 90 to 80 percent. The joint proposal is scheduled for review by EU governing bodies on October 15. The move would mark the third loosening […]

A structural bottleneck is slowing Europe’s energy transition: roughly 1,700 GW of renewable and hybrid projects are queued for grid connections across 16 EU member states and the United Kingdom — a backlog more than six times Germany’s entire installed generation capacity. A technically proven workaround already exists. Solar and wind plants can share a […]

Austria’s Federal Ministry for Climate and Energy has announced plans to overhaul the country’s solar subsidy system after its latest funding round was swamped with applications in the opening minutes. During the third round of Austria’s EAG-based solar grant programme, administered by agency OeMAG, roughly 43,300 applications were submitted within the first ten minutes of […]

A global registry of zero-emission bus procurement shows a sharp divide between battery-electric and hydrogen technologies. TFIE Strategy, which tracks 388 verified deals across 81 countries, recorded 13,165 firm orders for battery buses against just 65 for hydrogen — giving battery-electric models 99.5 percent of confirmed orders across both categories. Those battery orders span 55 […]

Ukraine is transforming its energy sector not just through strategies and plans for the future. Today, projects are already being implemented across the country that make local communities, businesses, and critical infrastructure more energy-independent, resilient, and technologically advanced. Green energy technologies today are about more than decarbonization and energy transition. They represent one of the […]

Battery energy storage has crossed a decisive cost threshold: a new levelized cost of energy (LCOE) report from Wood Mackenzie finds that storage systems now deliver electricity more cheaply than gas-fired peaker plants in all 43 global markets the firm analyzed. The economics of grid balancing have fundamentally changed. On a lifecycle basis, battery installations […]

High upfront costs and rigid long-term contracts have kept many building owners from installing battery storage. Finnish startup Truman Data, which is commercialising a VTT-developed technology through its Energy Coop platform, is pitching a different arrangement: it organises battery financing, operates the systems, and takes an agreed share of whatever earnings the client actually receives […]