In Lääneranna, a rural municipality on Estonia’s west coast, the local council has now run three separate auctions to lease land for a solar park at Alaküla Lodu. All three…
Chile’s grid operator, the Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN), granted grid-connection authorization on 31 August 2026 for a 356 MW/2,136 MWh battery energy storage system to be built alongside Enel Green…
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) confirmed on September 1–2, 2026 that installed solar photovoltaic capacity had overtaken coal-fired capacity for the first time — a reversal the agency itself called…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. On paper, Solara4 should have been a triumph. When the 220-megawatt plant near the village of Vaqueiros, in Portugal’s sun-baked Alcoutim municipality, switched on in September…
On November 24, 2025, the Clean Hydrogen Partnership — the EU body that funds and judges Europe’s hydrogen infrastructure push — named BalticSeaH2 its European Hydrogen Valley of the Year.…
Ukraine’s Solar Energy Association (SEAU) expects the country to add at least 1.5 GWs of new solar capacity and more than 3 gigawatt-hours of new battery storage in 2026 —…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Only a few days ago a new piece of news made waves across the Romanian and CEE energy space: EBRD announced that it would provide up…
For much of the past five years, Europe’s renewable hydrogen industry has measured progress in megawatts. Every new electrolyser, every gigawatt-scale project announcement and every government subsidy has been viewed…
A landmark auction, but not the real story Italy’s first MACSE auction was widely hailed as a landmark moment for battery energy storage. The numbers appeared impressive enough on their…
Technology group Wärtsilä has started validation of a new 100% hydrogen engine to power Spain’s national electricity grid in Bermeo, northern Spain – the world’s first demonstration of a large-scale, 100% hydrogen engine. The trial marks a major step forward in proving that…