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The Number Behind Bailey’s Warning That Offshore Wind Already Knows
When the Bank of England governor tells a room that Britain faces “very, very substantial challenges,” most people hear a headline about debt and growth. Offshore wind…
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The Fine Print in Portugal’s Big Storage Bet
Lisbon has put a number on its energy storage ambitions — 6.9 GW by 2030 — and opened the plan to public scrutiny. The real story is…
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TenneT Netherlands prices EUR 2.5 billion dual-tranche Green Bond issuance
TenneT Netherlands B.V. has successfully priced a dual-tranche Green Bond issuance under its funding structure supported by an irrevocable and unconditional institutional guarantee from the Dutch State.…
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A Quarter of Eurowind Now Belongs to Wall Street
Eurowind Energy has completed its acquisition of EnBW’s Swedish renewable energy business, folding roughly 120 MW of operating onshore wind, a sizeable pipeline of projects still in…
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Estonia Saw Its Solar Glut Coming Two Years Ago — And Built It Anyway
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…
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The Battery Supply Chain’s Next Bottleneck Is Being Fought Over in Chilean Courts
Every grid-scale battery storage project and electric vehicle covered in the clean energy press runs on lithium-ion cells, and a large share of the world’s lithium comes…
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Latvia Blocks a 46-Turbine Wind Park Over a Coastal Zone Dispute
Latvia’s Cabinet of Ministers rejected developer SIA K2 Ventum’s proposed wind park near Pāvilosta on 25 August 2026, citing unresolved legal questions over building in the Baltic…
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Hungary’s New Government Launches Its Flagship Wind Tender — and Immediately Draws Fire
Hungary’s Ministry of Economy and Energy opened applications on 4 September 2026 for a national wind power tender covering approximately 700 MW across nine grid-connection points in…
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Field Wins Planning Approval for a 400 MW Battery at a Former Coal Power Station Site
Bassetlaw District Council has granted planning permission, described in trade press coverage as “irrevocable,” for a 400 MW battery energy storage system proposed by developer Field at…
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A UK BESS Project Ties Together a Greek Contractor, a Chinese Supplier and a Norwegian Trader
Metlen Energy (the Greek energy group formerly known as Mytilineos) has signed a Balance-of-Plant contract with developer Pulse Clean Energy covering grid connection and construction work on…
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Madrid-Barajas Gets Europe’s Biggest Airport Solar Plant — But It’s Not Finished Yet
Spanish airport operator Aena inaugurated a 120 MW photovoltaic plant at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport on 2 September 2026, which the company describes as the largest solar…
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Greece’s First Industrial Green Hydrogen Plant Starts Up — Built With Chinese-Made Electrolysers
Motor Oil Hellas’s green hydrogen unit at its Agioi Theodoroi refinery in Corinthia is entering commissioning, with construction largely complete as of late August 2026 and testing…
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Equinor Brings Its Largest US BESS Project Online in Texas — With a Bigger Bet on Virginia Next
Equinor’s US battery storage subsidiary, East Point Energy, brought its Citrus Flatts battery storage facility online on 3 September 2026 in Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas. The plant,…
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Berliner Stadtwerke acquired the Diehlo-West wind project from JUWI.
Berliner Stadtwerke, Berlin’s municipal utility, announced on 2 September 2026 that it has acquired the Diehlo-West wind project from developer JUWI. The project, located in Diehlo, a…
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Enel Wins Grid Connection for 356 MW BESS at Its Guanchoi Solar Plant in Chile
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…
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Germany Redesigns Offshore Wind Auctions to Move Beyond “Zero-Cent” Bidding
Germany’s Federal Cabinet approved a draft amendment to the Offshore Wind Energy Act (Windenergie-auf-See-Gesetz, WindSeeG) on 2 September 2026, rewriting how the country will auction offshore wind…
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Castilla y León Approves Two Green Hydrogen Plants in a Village of 230 — and a Water Dispute
The regional government of Castilla y León published environmental authorizations for two green hydrogen production plants in Granja de Moreruela, a village of about 230 residents in…
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Lithuania Accelerates Underground Cabling in Municipalities Hosting Military Training Grounds
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy announced on 2 September 2026 that it is accelerating the replacement of overhead 10 kV power lines with underground cable in three municipalities…
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ABO Energy Advances 600 MW Hydrogen Project in Finland While Restructuring at Home
ABO Energy, a German renewable energy developer listed as ETR:AB9, has signed a cooperation agreement with the City of Oulu in northern Finland to advance a planned…
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Ukraine’s Parliament Passes Law Implementing EU Renewable Energy Rules
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, adopted Draft Law No. 14271 in its second reading and in full on 2 September 2026, according to the bill’s official record…
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Pre-Construction Battery Storage Deals Are Getting More Common in Europe
JLL advised Navacant, a Spanish renewable energy and storage developer, on the sale of a 126 MW battery storage portfolio in Valencia to BW ESS, the global…
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Monthly energy storage PPA & Deals Tracker — August 2026
The Voice of Renewables presents our monthly global roundup of energy storage deals announced or closed in August 2026. Covering major PPAs and offtake agreements alongside financing,…
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Monthly hydrogen PPA & Deals Tracker — August 2026
The Voice of Renewables presents our monthly global roundup of hydrogen energy deals announced or closed in August 2026. Covering major PPAs and offtake agreements alongside financing,…
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Monthly wind PPA & Deals Tracker — August 2026
The Voice of Renewables presents our monthly global roundup of wind energy deals announced or closed in August 2026. Covering major PPAs and offtake agreements alongside financing,…
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Monthly solar PPA & Deals Tracker — August 2026
The Voice of Renewables presents our monthly global roundup of solar energy deals announced or closed in August 2026. Covering major PPAs and offtake agreements alongside financing,…
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Sun Over Coal: China’s Power Grid Crosses a Century-Old Threshold
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…
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The World’s Largest Solar Microgrid Went Online. The Resorts It Was Built For Are Quietly Scaled Back.
The off-grid solar-and-battery microgrid built to power Red Sea Global’s flagship tourism destination on Saudi Arabia’s west coast has reached full commercial operation, according to pv magazine,…
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BW ESS Buys Into Spain’s Battery Boom, Nine Months After Blackout Made the Case for It
BW ESS, the Singapore-headquartered, BW Group-backed battery storage owner-operator, has acquired two utility-scale standalone battery energy storage projects in Spain’s Valencia region from Spanish developer Navacant, totalling…
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A Hacker and a Typo Can Now Do the Same Amount of Damage to a Substation
A protection scheme in a digital substation can be disabled two ways. One is a deliberate cyberattack: an intruder spoofs a GOOSE message or injects false Sampled…
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The Small Box That’s Quietly Replacing Miles of Substation Copper
In May 2026, Turkish transmission operator TEİAŞ and Hitachi Energy did something unusual with a new piece of grid infrastructure: instead of simply switching it on, they…
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The Grid Needs 50% More Investment by 2030. Utilities Think Less Copper Is Part of the Answer.
Global electricity demand is set to grow by an average of 3.6% a year through 2030 — roughly 50% faster than the previous decade’s pace — according…
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The Day-Ahead Trap: How Bulgaria Accidentally Built Europe’s Most Cutthroat Energy Market
On April 25 this year, the price of electricity on Bulgaria’s day-ahead exchange fell to minus €100 per megawatt-hour. Generators were paying the grid to take their power. “Such a marvel has never happened before,” Bulgarian economist Vladislav Panev said at…
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LEAG starts construction of 400 MW / 1.6 GWh battery storage project at Boxberg
GigaBattery Boxberg 400 will form part of LEAG’s planned GigawattFactory and provide large-scale flexibility and grid-support services in eastern Germany LEAG Clean Power has started construction of…
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22nd wind turbine of the Nordseecluster now in place
RWE celebrated the halfway point on the high seas as the 22nd wind turbine was installed around 50 kilometres north of the German island of Juist and…
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Grid-Forming Inverters: The Quiet Shift Rewriting Europe’s Grid Engineering
Grid stability used to be a byproduct nobody had to design for. Spin enough steel — the rotating mass inside coal, gas, nuclear, and hydro turbines —…
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The Sun Also Sets: Inside Europe’s First Big Merchant-Solar Bankruptcy
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…
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Romania Will Now Pay You Not to Use Electricity — Just as Its Only Nuclear Plant Runs Dry
On 19 August, Romania’s energy regulator ANRE approved a regulation that lets electricity consumers get paid for temporarily and voluntarily cutting how much power they use. It…
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Europe Crowned Its Best Hydrogen Valley. Nobody Agrees How Big It Actually Is.
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…
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The 100-Megawatt Category That Aims to Move a Gigawatt-and-a-Half Market
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…
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The Meshed Offshore Grid: a Hardware Story and a Harder, Quieter One
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Offshore wind’s move to High Voltage Direct Current transmission is usually explained as a simple physics fix: AC struggles over distance, DC doesn’t,…
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UK grid storage start-up Certain Energy lands £10m as curtailment bill nears £8bn
Britain’s renewable energy boom has a costly side effect: on windy, sunny days when the grid can’t absorb all the power being generated, operators pay wind and…
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Not All POE Is Created Equal: Selection Criteria for High-Quality Encapsulants
The encapsulant sits at the center of every photovoltaic module’s reliability story. It bonds glass, cells, and backsheet into a single laminate, keeps moisture and ions away…
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The Optimisation Blind Spot: Why Static Degradation Curves Are Costing BESS Operators Revenue
Battery energy storage systems are dispatched by optimisation engines that chase the best combination of arbitrage, frequency response, and capacity payments across a forecast horizon. Almost all…
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Klaipeda’s Next Energy Chapter: An Interview with Algis Latakas
As Klaipeda is entering a significant new phase of development, Derek Michalski, Chief Editor at The Voice of Renewables speaks to Algis Latakas, Director General of Klaipeda…
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BESS and Critical Materials: The Supply Chain Behind the Storage Boom
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Battery energy storage is becoming core electricity infrastructure. Global battery demand exceeded 1.5 TWh in 2025, driven by electric vehicles and rapidly expanding…
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Cost Causation in the Age of Hyperscale Demand: How Europe Is Rewriting Grid Access and Network Tariffs
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. For most of the liberalised era, European network tariffs and connection policy operated on a simple, largely unexamined premise: new demand connects in…
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Hydrogen and Data Centres: The Case for an Integrated Power Architecture
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is changing the energy requirements of data centres. Higher power densities, continuous operation and the concentration of large facilities are placing…
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European Energy expands battery portfolio with 545 MWh now operational
European Energy has brought 167 MW / 545 MWh of battery storage into operation since the beginning of 2026, adding a new asset class to its growing…
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Does the European CfD auction model need a fundamental redesign?
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Until now the Contract for Difference has been treated as settled policy furniture — the mechanism that turned offshore wind from a subsidy-hungry…
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Financing solar + BESS across Europe in H2 2026 and into 2027 — how countries, deals and funding models stack up
Europe’s energy transition is still being financed by a patchwork of public banks, institutional investors, corporate offtakers and project-level lenders — but the mix has shifted meaningfully…
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Hungary’s Wind Market Reopens: From Stagnation to a New 4 GW Development Pipeline
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. After more than a decade of stagnation, Hungary is moving to rebuild its onshore wind market. A new regulatory framework combines competitive grid-capacity…
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Europe’s Wind Turbine Market Accelerates: Vestas and Nordex Book 12.8 GW in H1 2026
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Europe’s wind turbine procurement market is showing measurable signs of acceleration in 2026, with order intake at the two leading Western European manufacturers…
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Where Capital Is Going in Hydrogen, Ammonia, E-Methanol and SAF
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. The clean-molecules investment market has entered a more disciplined phase. Capital is still available for hydrogen, ammonia, e-methanol and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF),…
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From Price Forecasting to Autonomous Trading Decisions
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. European power trading is becoming a higher-frequency optimisation problem. The growth of intermittent generation has increased forecast and imbalance exposure, while BESS has…
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Europe’s Nuclear Bet Is Being Made Against an Electricity System That Does Not Yet Exist
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Europe is committing billions to new reactors as data centres, electrification and AI drive electricity demand higher. But most of the new nuclear…
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The green revolution running out of ideas
Author: Gary Bills Watch Europe’s grid build itself and one thing jumps out. Solar goes from almost nothing in 2000 to the largest single source of capacity…
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Romania joins CEE’s emerging market for financeable solar-plus-storage
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…
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Germany BESS 2026–2027: The Rules, Risks and Development Tests
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Germany’s battery storage market has moved rapidly from a relatively small development segment to a major source of new grid connection demand. Network operators…
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The Netherlands: Europe’s Most Extreme Example of Grid Congestion
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. The Netherlands has moved beyond the point at which grid congestion can be treated as a temporary infrastructure bottleneck. In significant parts of…
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Italy to Unlock 37.15 GW of New Renewable Capacity Under €23bn FER X Framework
Italy has put in place one of its most significant new frameworks for renewable electricity investment, opening the way for up to 37.15 GW of additional renewable capacity under…
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Chile’s 10 GW Storage Challenge: Industry Calls for a More Flexible Power Market
Chile’s energy transition is entering a new phase. After years of rapid growth in renewable generation, the country is now building an increasingly large battery storage fleet…
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Aura Power and Verdant Energy merge to create 11GW UK solar and battery storage platform
Aura Power and Verdant Energy have merged to create one of the UK’s largest privately backed solar and battery storage independent power producers (IPPs), combining around 1GW…
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PNE sells two German repowering wind farms to private investors as construction advances
PNE AG has completed the sale of two German onshore wind farm projects with a combined capacity of 45 MW to a consortium of private investors, continuing a…
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Germany’s GET H2 Nukleus Delivers First Renewable Hydrogen Through Future National Backbone
Germany has reached an important milestone in the development of its hydrogen economy, with the first delivery of renewable hydrogen through the GET H2 Nukleus network from…
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Vattenfall Wins 1.8 GW Danish Offshore Wind Tender with Hesselø and North Sea I Mid Projects
Vattenfall has secured the rights to develop two offshore wind projects in Denmark after emerging as the successful bidder in the country’s latest offshore wind tender, adding…
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OMV Petrom’s first wind project reaches financial close as Romanian renewable pipeline moves into execution
Securing permits is one milestone in developing a wind farm. Securing financing is another altogether. For Romania’s rapidly expanding renewable energy sector, projects reaching financial close are…
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Scatec enters European onshore wind with 77 MW Romanian acquisition
Scatec has strengthened its position in one of Europe’s fastest-growing renewable energy markets by acquiring the 77 MW Urleasca onshore wind project in Romania from Swedish developer…
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Croatian KONČAR Secures €370 Million Financing Package to Expand Grid Equipment Manufacturing as Europe Races to Modernise Power Networks
Croatian engineering group KONČAR has secured a €370 million financing package to accelerate the expansion of its manufacturing capacity for transformers, switchgear and other critical electricity grid equipment, reinforcing Europe’s efforts…
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Gurit expands wind energy partnership with new turbine blade materials contract
Swiss composite materials specialist Gurit has strengthened its position in the global wind energy supply chain after securing a new two-year supply agreement with a leading Western…
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The Grid Is Not Enough: Why islanding is becoming the next frontier for AI data centres and electricity systems
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Artificial intelligence is changing far more than the digital economy. It is rapidly becoming one of the most significant drivers of electricity demand,…
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Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System – Part II
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This article is the second instalment of an eight-part series, “Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System,” examining the market forces, infrastructure…
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Romania’s Offshore Wind Ambitions Become Investable as Government Unveils Black Sea Concession Framework
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. The publication of Romania’s draft offshore wind concession regulations marks a decisive shift from political ambition to market implementation, providing the regulatory certainty developers…
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Romania’s Next Energy Storage Challenge Isn’t Building Batteries – It’s Integrating Them
Romania’s battery storage market has moved beyond the development phase. Financing is flowing, projects are reaching financial close, and construction has started on a growing number of…
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Poland’s UDER92 reform could unlock gigawatts of renewable energy investment by speeding up grid access
Poland is preparing one of its most important energy market reforms in recent years, with the UDER92 deregulation package aimed at removing regulatory bottlenecks that have slowed renewable energy…
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Iberdrola doubles down on electricity grids with €5 billion Finnish distribution deal
Iberdrola is accelerating its expansion into regulated electricity infrastructure after agreeing to acquire Caruna, Finland’s largest electricity DSO, in a transaction that values the business at approximately €5 billion. The…
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ENGIE commissions 100 MW of battery storage in Scotland, reinforcing UK grid flexibility
ENGIE has commissioned two utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Scotland, adding 100 MW / 200 MWh of new flexibility capacity to Great Britain’s electricity network. The milestone strengthens…
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Elgin expands UK solar ambitions with long-term PPA agreements for 112.6 MW portfolio
Irish renewable energy developer Elgin has signed a series of long-term PPAs with Erova Energy Group, securing route-to-market services for a 112.6 MW portfolio of UK solar projects. The agreements…
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Sixth Commercial 20 MW Battery Energy Storage System Connected to the Lithuanian Electricity Transmission Grid
Lithuania continues to expand its battery energy storage fleet, with transmission system operator Litgrid connecting the country’s sixth commercial utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to the national transmission…
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RWE’s Nordseecluster offshore wind project delivers first power to German grid
RWE has exported electricity to Germany’s grid for the first time from its Nordseecluster offshore wind project in the North Sea, marking a construction milestone for the…
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Lithuania Unveils Integrated Energy Network Roadmap as Grid Investments Accelerate
Lithuania is bringing greater transparency to one of Europe’s fastest-moving energy transitions with the launch of a new interactive map showcasing the country’s planned electricity, gas and…
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Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System – Part I
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Poland has become one of Europe’s most important energy investment markets. Driven by rapid economic growth, rising electricity demand and one of the continent’s…
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GREGY: The Green Electricity Bridge That Could Transform Europe’s Energy Relationship with Egypt
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. How a €4.2 billion subsea interconnector aims to turn the Eastern Mediterranean into a major renewable energy corridor History has a habit of finding…
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Electricity Is Becoming a Location-Specific Industrial Asset Again
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. “The world is moving quickly into the age of electricity.” With this observation, Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, captured one…
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From NASA to Your Back Garden: The Story of the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
This article is a part of MDVR’s 500 words series. Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. The transition to a power system dominated by renewable generation is creating a growing…
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Energy Cybersecurity in Europe: Securing the Digital Backbone of the Energy Transition
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Europe’s energy transition is creating one of the most digitally advanced power systems in the world. Smart grids, renewable generation, artificial intelligence, digital twins,…
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H2 and Data Centres: ‘Could’ Is Still Where We Are
Hydrogen has proved it can power data centres. The question is whether the market still needs it. Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This article is a part of MDVR’s…
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Lithuania Adds Another Utility-Scale Solar Project as Grid Expansion Keeps Pace with Renewable Growth
Lithuania has taken another step in strengthening its renewable electricity system after transmission system operator Litgrid connected a new utility-scale solar park in Kaišiadorys District to the national grid.…
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The Cheapest Electricity Is Not Always the Most Valuable: Challenging One of the Solar Industry’s Biggest Assumptions
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. China may be pointing the industry towards a different future The solar industry has spent the last decade pursuing one overriding objective: reducing the…
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The Best Grid Connection May Be No Grid Connection
Why the Next Generation of Renewable Projects Will Start with Customers Rather Than the Grid For decades, renewable energy developers have followed a familiar sequence. Find suitable…
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Why Google’s Biggest Solar Project Is Not Really About Solar
How the Steel River Energy Center Signals the Next Phase of Renewable Energy Economics At first glance, Google’s latest renewable energy investment looks like another headline about…
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The Changing Economics of Modern Solar Assets: Why Future Value Will Come from Intelligence, Flexibility and Market Optimisation
Solar Has Mastered Deployment. The Next Challenge Is Value Creation The solar industry has achieved what few industrial sectors ever manage: it has transformed its core product…
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Solar 2.0: The Evolution of Solar Plants into Intelligent Power Infrastructure
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. The Solar Industry Has Won Its First Battle. The Next One Will Be Much Harder. The solar industry has spent the last two decades…
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Lithuania’s Renewable Market Enters the Portfolio Optimisation Era: Why Merchant Risk Alone Is No Longer Enough
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Lithuania’s renewable revenue model is changing Lithuania’s renewable energy market is entering a new phase. After several years of rapid solar and wind expansion,…
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The Great Hydrogen Capital Rotation: Why Infrastructure Will Shape the Next Generation of Energy Winners
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. For much of the past five years, the global hydrogen industry has been asking the wrong question. Governments, investors and developers have devoted enormous…
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ABB expands DC power portfolio with acquisition of French power conversion specialist Advantics
ABB is strengthening its position in next-generation power systems with the acquisition of Advantics, a France-based specialist in Silicon Carbide (SiC)-based power conversion technologies. The transaction expands…
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Lukas Savickas Takes Charge of Lithuania’s Energy Ministry as Focus Shifts from Energy Security to Economic Competitiveness
Lithuania has entered a new chapter in its energy transition with the appointment of Lukas Savickas as Minister of Energy following the July 2026 government reshuffle. His arrival comes…
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Lithuania’s Renewable Transition Enters a New Phase as Battery Storage Takes Centre Stage
Lithuania’s energy transition has reached a defining moment. The country is moving beyond the initial phase of renewable energy expansion and entering a more complex stage: building…
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Portugal Bets on Storage: How September’s 1 GW Auction Marks a New Era for Renewable Energy
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Part I can be viewed here Part II: Why This Auction Could Redefine Europe’s Flexibility Market When Portugal opens bidding for more than 1…
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Offshore Wind Becomes Critical Infrastructure: Europe’s New Energy Front Line
Part I: How the North Sea and Baltic Sea are becoming strategic energy regions – and why protecting offshore wind is becoming a national security priority For…
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Ocean Winds Brings France’s First Mediterranean Floating Wind Farm into Full Commercial Operation
Ocean Winds has achieved another milestone in Europe’s offshore wind sector after bringing its Éoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) project into full commercial operation, marking the successful…
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Austria Bets on Seasonal Hydrogen Storage as RAG Expands Gampern Green Hydrogen Hub to 15 MW
Austria is accelerating efforts to address one of the most difficult challenges of a renewable energy system: how to store clean energy when generation is abundant and…
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Electrolyser Degradation Is Becoming One of Green Hydrogen’s Biggest Challenges – And Spain Is Trying to Solve It
Europe’s renewable hydrogen industry has invested enormous effort in reducing the cost of renewable electricity and scaling up electrolyser manufacturing. Yet as commercial projects begin moving from…
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Lithuania lays legal foundations for green hydrogen market as government approves first hydrogen law
Lithuania has taken a major step towards creating a dedicated hydrogen economy after the Government approved a draft Hydrogen Law and amendments to related legislation that will…
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Sungrow tests investor appetite with 350 MW Spanish battery portfolio as Europe’s BESS M&A market accelerates
China’s Sungrow is exploring the sale of a development portfolio of up to 350 MW of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Spain, a move that…
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Physical PPAs are reshaping Europe’s renewable energy market as corporate demand accelerates
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This three-part analysis by The Voice of Renewables explores how physical power purchase agreements (PPAs) have evolved from a niche procurement tool into one of the…
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Bohr Energie secures a €10 million Series A round led by Suma Capital to scale its energy renewable and flexibility platform
French energy technology company Bohr Energie has secured €10 million in Series A funding to accelerate the expansion of its renewable energy optimisation platform, as demand grows for technologies…
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Velto Renewables secures €800 million refinancing to strengthen Spanish solar portfolio and prepare for expansion
Velto Renewables has completed an €800 million refinancing of one of Spain’s largest portfolios of operational solar photovoltaic assets, providing the company with greater financial flexibility as…
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Solar for Hydrogen: Why Photovoltaics Are Becoming the Engine of the Green Hydrogen Economy
The Voice of Renewables conducted an extensive international research project examining one of the fastest-evolving trends in the global energy transition: the growing integration of utility-scale solar power…
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Korean-built transformer arrives at Poland’s largest battery storage project in Żarnowiec
Poland’s largest battery energy storage project has reached another major milestone with the arrival of a high-voltage transformer at the Żarnowiec construction site in northern Poland. The…
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Poland’s Hydrogen Market: Building the Foundations of a Low-Carbon Future
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This is the first part of a three-piece article. Parts two and three will be published on consecutive days of this week. Across Europe,…
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Milliseconds Matter: How Battery Storage Became Europe’s New Grid Stability Tool
For more than a century, electricity grids relied on a simple physical principle: large rotating generators provided not only electricity but also stability. Coal plants, gas turbines…
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Lhyfe bets on logistics as Europe’s renewable hydrogen market enters its next phase
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…
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Portugal Bets on Storage: How September’s 1 GW Auction Marks a New Era for Renewable Energy
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. Europe’s renewable leaders are no longer competing to build more generation – they are competing to build flexibility. Portugal’s first large-scale energy storage auction…
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Moldova’s Energy System Enters the Integration Phase
A Year of Acceleration, Integration and Hard Constraints The Moldova Energy Forum, organised by The Voice of Renewables in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of…
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Beyond OPEX: How Smart Asset Management Is Redefining Renewable Energy Performance
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. The Voice of Renewables editorial team has prepared a new ten-part feature series exploring how renewable energy asset management is evolving from a traditional…
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Hydrogen Reaches Operational Reality at Dublin Data Centre as Equinix Completes ESB-Backed Trial in Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown, a large outer suburb of Dublin in the modern county of Fingal, until today best known for the sprawling Blanchardstown Shopping Centre housing over 180 big…
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The eSAF Bottleneck: Hydrogen, Not Aviation
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. A shift in framing but not yet in physics Electro-sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) is increasingly presented in Europe as more than a decarbonisation pathway…
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Mobile hydrogen refuelling station unlocks immediate deployment of fuel cell bus fleet in northern Germany
A mobile green hydrogen refuelling station has enabled the immediate rollout of a fuel cell bus service in northern Germany, effectively closing the gap between vehicle deployment…
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CVC DIF Sells 171 MW Polish Wind Portfolio to Actis as Investor Interest in Operational Renewables Remains Strong
Global infrastructure investor CVC DIF has agreed to sell Klara Renewables, a portfolio of six operational onshore wind farms in Poland with a combined installed capacity of 171 MW, to sustainable…
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UK selects 7.6 GW of long-duration storage in first LDES cap-and-floor window, reshaping Scotland–England power flows
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. The UK energy regulator Ofgem has selected 16 long-duration electricity storage projects with a combined capacity of 7,645 MW under the first application window…
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Statkraft plans to upgrade Mår power plant
Statkraft has submitted a licence application to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) for a new Mår power plant in Rjukan, Tinn municipality, Norway. The…
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Hydrogen Demand in Europe: Will Aviation and Shipping Become the Defining Markets of the 2035 Hydrogen Economy?
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This is the first in a series of investigative articles to be published weekly by The Voice of Renewables, examining the state of hydrogen demand…
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Czech-German and Central European Hydrogen Corridors Retain PCI Status as Europe Strengthens Hydrogen Backbone
The Czech Republic has reinforced its position at the centre of Europe’s emerging hydrogen economy after two major cross-border infrastructure projects were re-confirmed as Projects of Common Interest…
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Amid Russia’s War, Ukraine’s Hydrogen Ambition Takes Shape: From Projects to Integrated Energy Systems
While Ukraine’s energy system continues to operate under wartime conditions, a parallel long-term transformation is quietly advancing. Across the country, hydrogen developers, European institutions, and international technology…
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Alpiq Bets Big on Battery Storage with 300 MW Swiss BESS as European Pipeline Surpasses 1 GW
As Europe races to build a more flexible electricity system, battery energy storage is rapidly becoming one of the sector’s most strategic investments. Swiss utility Alpiq has…
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Italy’s Solar Expansion Reaches Industrial Scale as Iberdrola Delivers 243 MW Fenix and Builds Clustered Portfolio Model
In Sicily, Iberdrola has brought its 243 MW Fenix photovoltaic plant into operation—currently the largest solar installation in Italy. On paper, it is another milestone in Europe’s…
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Hydrogen Meets Maritime Reality in Norway
Norway is attempting to build one of the world’s first integrated hydrogen shipping ecosystems, testing whether the fuel can move beyond demonstrations and compete in the commercial…
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Castellón and the Next Phase of Industrial Hydrogen: When Refining Decarbonisation Meets Scale Reality
European hydrogen strategy has entered a phase where ambition is no longer the binding constraint. Execution is. Across industrial clusters, refinery operators and utilities are now confronting…
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India’s Hydrogen Ambitions: Can the World’s Fastest-Growing Energy Market Become a Global Green Hydrogen Powerhouse?
A market defined by ambition rather than execution For much of the past decade, hydrogen has been discussed globally as a decarbonisation solution searching for scale. By…
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Hydrogen’s Hidden Bottleneck: Why Materials Could Determine the Success of the Hydrogen Economy
The hydrogen industry has spent much of the past decade focused on production. Governments have announced ambitious electrolyser deployment targets. Developers have unveiled gigawatt-scale projects. Manufacturers have…
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What Ballard’s GeoPura Deal Reveals About the Future of Hydrogen Power
For much of the past decade, the hydrogen industry has focused heavily on technology. Fuel cells became more efficient. Electrolysers became larger. New hydrogen production pathways emerged.…
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Chile electricity tariff reform and the Valparaíso discussion (June 2026)
Implications for generators, IPPs, and renewable investment in solar, wind and storage The recent discussion in Valparaíso on electricity tariffs and subsidy extensions in Chile reflects a continuation of…
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When Grids Sweat: How Europe’s Heatwave Is Stress-Testing the Electricity System
As much of Europe swelters under another intense heatwave, the immediate concerns are familiar. Health warnings are issued. Transport networks face disruption. Water usage rises. Air conditioning…
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Chile’s 2025 Blackout and the Emerging Limits of Grid Stability
Event context and what is already known The February 2025 blackout in Chile is already well understood in its immediate technical terms. A disturbance in the 500…
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EBRD provides €46 million to strengthen Bosnia and Herzegovina’s electricity transmission system
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a loan of up to €46 million to Elektroprenos-Elektroprijenos BiH Banja Luka (TransCo) to strengthen Bosnia and Herzegovina’s…
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Italy’s MACSE Auctions: Turning Battery Storage Into Infrastructure
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…
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From Local Utility to System Architect: Stadtwerke München’s Renewable Strategy
Stadtwerke München has emerged as one of Germany’s most structurally significant municipal energy and infrastructure companies, not through a single technology bet, but through the deliberate construction of…
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Rethinking Battery Value: Why Opportunity Cost Will Define the Next Phase of Storage Markets
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are now central to electricity system operation, yet the analytical frameworks used to value and dispatch them remain structurally incomplete. The core…
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No Grid Too Small: The Universal Stress of Electrification and the Investment Repricing of Electricity Networks (2026–2040)
Electricity systems are undergoing a structural transition in which traditional assumptions about scale, redundancy and diversity are being replaced by a constraint-dominant operational reality. Across Europe, Latin…
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When Physics Becomes a Commodity: How Germany’s Inertia Market Signals the Birth of the Grid Stability Economy
For most of the past two decades, the energy transition has been measured in gigawatts. Governments announced renewable deployment targets, developers competed to build larger wind and…
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Reality Check: Italy’s Hydrogen Ambitions Face Their Most Important Decade
Can Italy Become a Major Hydrogen Economy, or Will Hydrogen Remain a Niche Decarbonisation Tool? For much of the past five years, Italy has been presented as…
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Chile’s water industry: how mining, renewable energy and data centres are reshaping the country’s water future
Chile’s Water Sector Has Become a Strategic Infrastructure Industry For much of the past decade, Chile’s water challenges have been viewed primarily through the lens of drought.…
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Greece solar PV + battery storage: bankable investment framework under curtailment and flexibility penetration scenarios (2026–2032)
Investment Summary Greece’s solar PV and battery storage market is transitioning into a structurally differentiated investment environment where returns are increasingly determined not by technology type alone,…
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Romania’s Battery Storage Market: From Policy Momentum to System Constraint Economics
For years, discussions about Romania’s energy transition focused on a familiar challenge: how quickly the country could deploy new renewable generation. Today, a different question is emerging.…
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EnBW commissions Wangen im Allgäu solar park
PV plant supplies around 2,350 households with solar power; battery storage system improves grid flexibility and enables time-shifted renewable energy supply Since mid-September 2025 the new solar…
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Amazon and Skyborn Renewables sign Germany’s largest Power Purchase Agreement for the Gennaker offshore wind farm
Munich, 19 June 2026. Amazon and Skyborn Renewables today announced the signing of a 600 megawatts (MW) Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for carbon-free electricity from the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. It is the…
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Ingka Group enters Spanish solar market as Iberia becomes a core pillar of its global renewable energy strategy
Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer and long-term clean energy investor through Ingka Group, has acquired its first two solar parks in Spain, marking a significant expansion of…
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Finland moves to wire hydrogen into national grid as Vetyalfa aligns Utajärvi and Vaala projects with Gasgrid backbone
Finland’s hydrogen strategy is gaining momentum on two converging fronts: infrastructure development and project financing, as developer Vetyalfa Oy advances its Utajärvi and Vaala hydrogen projects alongside…
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Ohmium and Hynfra sign FEED agreement for green hydrogen projects in Mauritania, Jordan and Oman
Partnership advances modular PEM electrolyser deployment across MENA as developers move projects into front-end engineering phase amid growing green ammonia export push. Ohmium International Inc. and Hynfra P.S.A. have signed…
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JCB Hydromax Hydrogen Land Speed Record Car: How It Supports JCB’s Hydrogen Construction Equipment Strategy
JCB’s 1,600-horsepower Hydromax hydrogen streamliner looks, at first glance, like an eccentric return to the golden age of land-speed records. But the real objective is far less…
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The electrolyser durability problem: why hydrogen’s biggest challenge is no longer efficiency
As hydrogen moves from pilot projects to industrial-scale deployment, a new generation of engineering challenges is emerging beneath the headlines. Hydrogen Pulse by The Voice of Renewables…
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Financing the hydrogen economy in Europe: bankability, risk and delivery (2026 and beyond)
Europe’s hydrogen sector is entering a more disciplined phase in which political ambition is increasingly being tested against financial reality. As policy frameworks mature and early-stage projects…
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Grid-Forming inverters and the re-engineering of power system stability
How inverter-based power systems are turning grid reliability into a tradable service For most of the history of electricity systems, stability was not something engineers needed to…
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Assessment of Chile’s 2026/01 Electricity Supply Tender: Opportunities and Risks for Renewable Energy Developers
Chile’s National Energy Commission (CNE) has released the preliminary terms for its 2026/01 electricity supply tender, seeking 2,835 GWh of electricity per year through long-term contracts. This…
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European Energy to begin operations on first Baltic BESS
European Energy will commission a 25 MW / 65 MWh battery energy storage system in Anykščiai, Lithuania, combining battery storage with its existing 78.5 MW solar park…
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Austria’s H2 Hub Bergla signals a new phase for industrial hydrogen in the DACH region
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor Austria’s hydrogen sector received a significant boost in June with the formal signing of agreements for the H2 Hub Bergla project, a development…
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Voith receives order to modernize two additional pump-turbines at the Torrejón pumped-storage power plant in Spain
Voith is modernizing two additional pump-turbines at the Torrejón hydroelectric power plant in Spain. The contract from Iberdrola Generación S.A. builds on an ongoing modernization project and…
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Statkraft to pump more water into Blåsjø reservoir
Statkraft has decided to build the Blåfjell Pump, which will channel more water directly into Blåsjø, Norway’s largest hydropower reservoir. This will increase production in the Ulla-Førre…
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European Energy extends asset management agreement with Enea Nowa Energia for six Polish wind farms
European Energy will continue providing technical asset management services for six Polish wind farms owned by Enea Nowa Energia through the end of 2027. • European Energy…
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Chile’s energy transition: from renewable expansion to execution, infrastructure and industrial growth
Chile’s energy transition in 2026 is no longer defined by questions of ambition, resource availability or even technology cost. Those debates have largely been resolved in favour…
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Salzgitter AG and EWE finalise contract for the supply of green hydrogen
Landmark signal for the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy and the decarbonisation of industry: EWE and Salzgitter Flachstahl agree long-term supply of 10,000 tons of green hydrogen…
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BMW’s Hydrogen Flat Storage: rethinking how hydrogen fits into the clean mobility future
Hydrogen has always promised something batteries struggle to match: fast refuelling and high energy storage potential. Yet one of the biggest obstacles for hydrogen vehicles has never…
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Irish Developer Net Zero Energy Unveils Plans for €2 Billion Green Energy Park in Carlow
Plans to develop a 600MW Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) facility, which will use excess renewable energy to generate green hydrogen for electricity generation, have today been…
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World’s first large-scale 100% hydrogen engine tested at Wärtsilä’s Bermeo laboratory to support the Spanish grid
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…
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Renopool Solar Project: Plenitude Completes Its Largest 330 MW Photovoltaic Plant Worldwide
Plenitude has started production at the second 200 MW block of the Renopool photovoltaic project, located in the municipality of Solana de los Barros, in Badajoz, Extremadura…
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ENGIE and European Energy start cooperation on large-scale renewable hydrogen development in Denmark
ENGIE and European Energy have entered into a cooperation agreement to advance the development of a large-scale renewable hydrogen project in Denmark. The project is designed to…
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GasNet opens the Czech Republic’s first gas training facility
Gas Engineers to Train with Natural Gas and Hydrogen. GasNet, the Czech Republic’s largest gas distributor, has opened a unique gas training facility at its site in…
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Schneider Electric and Kraken partner to boost grid flexibility and accelerate grid connections
Schneider Electric and Kraken today announce a strategic partnership to accelerate global adoption of electricity demand flexibility. Schneider Electric and Kraken are partnering to deliver new solutions…
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Klaipėda Port opens first H2 station in Lithuania
Klaipėda Port has officially opened Lithuania’s first green hydrogen production and refuelling facility, marking a significant milestone in the country’s transition to clean energy. The new station…
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ACCIONA Energía doubles its energy storage plan in Chile
ACCIONA Energía has announced the construction of a new 1GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Chile’s Atacama Desert, doubling its planned energy storage capacity in the…
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EBRD backs €175m PPC financing to accelerate 400 MW renewable expansion in Southeast Europe
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €175 million loan to Public Power Corporation (PPC) to support renewable energy projects across Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. This financing…
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Port of Alicante launches tender for renewable hydrogen hub as Mediterranean decarbonisation plans gather pace
The Port of Alicante has taken a major step forward in its decarbonisation strategy with the launch of a public tender for the construction and operation of…
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Spain’s hydrogen market at an inflection point: regulation, infrastructure and the race to become Europe’s green hydrogen hub
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor, The Voice of Renewables Spain has emerged as one of Europe’s most ambitious hydrogen markets. Supported by some of the continent’s strongest solar and…
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The geopolitical cost of the hydrogen molecule: how the Iran war is reshaping Europe’s hydrogen economy
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor, The Voice of Renewables The immediate market reaction to the war involving Iran has been predictable. Analysts have focused on oil prices, LNG…
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EBRD supports Kawar Energy’s expansion in Jordan
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a loan of up to US$ 12.1 million (€10.4 million) to Kawar Energy, a leading Jordanian renewable energy…
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EBRD helps HoSt Group boost biomethane production in Latvia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boosting Latvia’s biomethane production capacity and use of renewable fuels with a €26 million loan to SIA Next Biogas,…
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Litgrid and Gijos ink agreement on flexible electricity consumption projects
Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator Litgrid and Gijos, the company managing Vilnius’s urban energy ecosystem, have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the connection of 32 MW…
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Plug Power advances UK hydrogen project while strengthening balance sheet through tax credit sale
Plug Power has announced two significant milestones spanning both its operational and financial strategy, with the company reaching final investment decision (FID) on a major UK green…
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Germany’s green hydrogen pipeline faces delays despite growing demand mandates
Germany’s green hydrogen ambitions continue to face significant delivery challenges, with nearly 12GW of planned electrolysis capacity yet to reach final investment decision (FID) despite the introduction…
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Rolls-Royce achieves full-power hydrogen jet engine test in aviation milestone
Rolls-Royce has successfully operated a jet engine at full take-off power using 100% hydrogen fuel, marking a significant milestone in the development of low-carbon aviation technologies and…
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Bosch and Maserati to showcase hydrogen-powered Ligier prototype at Le Mans
Bosch Engineering and Maserati are set to demonstrate the potential of hydrogen combustion technology at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, unveiling a hydrogen-powered racing engine…
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Toyota advances hydrogen motorsport ambitions with liquid hydrogen prototype at Le Mans
Toyota Gazoo Racing has unveiled a significant new chapter in its hydrogen mobility programme with the public debut of its TR LH2 Racing Prototype ahead of the…
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ITM Power and Protium Forge Strategic Partnership to Accelerate UK Green Hydrogen Projects
ITM Power and Protium Green Solutions have announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the development of industrial-scale green hydrogen projects across the United Kingdom, marking a…
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Germany awards €1.3 billion to Danish green hydrogen projects to strengthen cross-border supply chain
Germany has awarded more than €1.3 billion (£1.1 billion) in subsidies to three major Danish green hydrogen projects, providing a significant boost to cross-border hydrogen trade and…
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Statkraft and Elkem ink seven-year PPA for Bjølvefossen plant in Norway
Statkraft and Elkem ASA have signed a new long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) that secures competitive and predictable electricity supply for Elkem’s plant in Bjølvefossen, Norway. The…
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Iberdrola promotes the electrification of industry with eight projects that will mobilise 150 MW of renewable energy
Iberdrola has been awarded eight projects in the first European auction for the decarbonisation of industrial heat promoted by the European Commission’s ‘Innovation Fund’, an initiative that…
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Johnson Matthey says hydrogen business poised to become cash-flow positive
UK technology group Johnson Matthey has said its hydrogen business is expected to become cash-flow positive during the current financial year, marking a potential turning point after…
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Matrix Renewables and SOLV Energy break ground on 457 MWdc Tormes Solar Project in Navarro County, Texas
Matrix Renewables, the TPG Rise-backed global renewable energy platform, and EPC contractor SOLV Energy announced the start of construction on the Tormes Solar Project, marked by a…
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£500m push for Humber Hydrogen network aims to establish UK’s first hydrogen production and storage hub
A parliamentary meeting has been held in support of a campaign to secure £500 million in government funding for the Humber region, as industry leaders, trade unions…
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Bundestag’s RED III implementation and permitting reforms mark Europe’s most consequential hydrogen market intervention yet
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor, The Voice of Renewables Germany has spent the better part of five years positioning itself as Europe’s future hydrogen powerhouse. It published strategies,…
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Shoreline Wind and Youwind collab delivers industry-first, full lifecycle digital solution
Two powerhouses in wind farm design, modelling and operational planning, Youwind and Shoreline Wind have today announced a strategic partnership and product integration to deliver a complete,…
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European Energy Launches Construction of Solar and Battery Energy Storage Project in the UK
European Energy has commenced construction of the Indian Queens solar and battery project in Cornwall, advancing a renewable energy asset with integrated storage that has cPPA and…
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Lhyfe and STRABAG Join Forces to Expand Green Hydrogen in Germany
Lhyfe, one of the world’s pioneers in the production of green hydrogen for the decarbonisation of industry and mobility, and STRABAG, a leading European technology group for…
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Vattenfall builds first solar park using low-emission steel
When constructing the large-scale Juliusburg/Krukow solar park in Germany, Vattenfall is cutting CO₂ emissions across the construction phase and supply chain by 67% through the use of low-emission steel…
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Panevėžys Green Hydrogen Megaproject: Up to 120 MW Irish-Led Renewable Fuel Plant Planned
Irish renewable energy developer, N1 Capital Limited, is planning to begin construction of a large-scale green hydrogen and synthetic methane production facility in the industrial district of Panevėžys in 2028.…
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EBRD invests €20 million in Eesti Energia’s inaugural green bond
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is investing €20 million in the first green bond issued by Eesti Energia, the Estonian state-owned energy group. The…
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Litgrid announces procurement of 220 kV controlled shunt reactors for the Harmony Link connection
Lithuania’s electricity transmission system operator, Litgrid, has announced the procurement of three 220 kV controlled shunt reactors for the construction of the Harmony Link interconnection. To date, Lithuania has only…
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Whitelaw Brae Wind Farm: Scotland’s Onshore Wind Build-Out Enters a Critical Construction Phase
By Derek Michalski, Editor, The Voice of Renewables Whitelaw Brae Wind Farm, developed by Thrive Renewables, is located in the Scottish Borders near Tweedsmuir and is now…
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EnBW Commissions Dainbach Wind Farm
With the Dainbach Wind Farm, EnBW has expanded its commitment to renewable energy in the Main-Tauber district. Four modern wind turbines will now feed climate-friendly electricity into…
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Europe’s Hydrogen Market Enters Its Bankability Era
By Derek Michalski, Editor, The Voice of Renewables The mood around hydrogen in Europe has changed. Only a few years ago, the sector was defined by sweeping…
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