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On Wednesday, 23 September, Lithuania’s parliament got its first look at the numbers behind the country’s biggest renewable energy project. It was a closed session of the…
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At the beginning of this year the verdict on Estonian wind was blunt: no new wind farm would be finished in the country this year, and probably…
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A single building in Hüüru, just outside Tallinn, is about to become the second-hungriest electricity user in Estonia. When the Greenergy data centre adds roughly 20 megawatts…
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Tsirguliina is a village of a few hundred people in southern Estonia, close to the Latvian border. If its backers are right, it will have the largest…
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The Seimas voted 84 to 1, with 16 abstentions, on 24 September 2026 to amend three energy laws: the Law on Energy, the Law on Electricity and…
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Three machines at a substation outside Alytus carry almost everything that ties Lithuania’s power grid to continental Europe. Litgrid, the country’s transmission system operator, now wants a…
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Klaipėda’s cruise terminal was built for one job: waving holidaymakers onto Baltic Sea liners. It’s now being rebuilt for a second one — docking NATO warships. That…
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Twice in the same week in Vienna, the same Lithuanian official had to switch registers entirely. At the IAEA’s 70th General Conference, deputy energy minister Gabrielius Gorbačevskis…
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Energy was the second-largest sector for arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce last year, trailing only construction, and just over half of the 881 new cases…
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Read the draft tender documentation that MEKH — Hungary’s Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority, sometimes referred to under its English initialism, HEPURA — put out for…
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A battery storage project financed in Europe today will likely still be running in the late 2040s. The debt behind it almost certainly won’t be. That gap,…
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H2APEX and Lhyfe have expanded an existing hydrogen supply agreement, with Lhyfe committing to deliver up to 100 tonnes of RFNBO-certified renewable hydrogen to H2APEX annually over…
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Greece’s grid operator has a number for how much renewable capacity it can wire up by 2035. What it hasn’t settled — and what Athens seems in…
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Greece’s transmission network is about to take on more renewable capacity than it has absorbed in the country’s entire history to date, and the state operator responsible…
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Alpiq has officially inaugurated its new Csepel hybrid power plant in Budapest, a facility that pairs battery storage with highly flexible gas engine generation in a single,…
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On the grounds of Vilnius’s second cogeneration plant, next to turbines that have heated the city for decades, sits a new kind of machine: a 3-megawatt electrolyzer…
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Companies outside the asset owner’s group sell power for 68 per cent of Britain’s operating battery capacity, according to analysis by Vitreous Labs. Public registers identify the…
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Lithuania has quietly become one of Europe’s most striking renewable energy growth stories. A country of under three million people has gone from a negligible solar base…
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During the state visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, to Germany, RWE and UAE partners signed two…
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AS SEB Pank, AS Swedbank and OP Corporate Bank have provided syndicated financing for the Latvian phase of the Lode hybrid wind and battery park, developed by…
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Ignitis Group, the Lithuanian energy conglomerate whose shareholders include the country’s Finance Ministry, is replacing nearly all of its senior leadership within about a year. The chief…
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PSE’s latest connection register shows hundreds of megawatts of new wind, solar and battery projects seeking access to the transmission network, while the offshore wind pipeline alone…
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Carno 3 got the green light to build in 2016. The wind farm that’s actually under construction now looks nothing like the one that was approved. Santander…
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“Self-healing grids restore power up to three times faster than traditional networks” is the kind of line that shows up in almost every smart-grid pitch deck. Dig…
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A ministry ranking list due in October reads like paperwork. What it’s actually deciding is which sliver of a wildly oversubscribed queue gets to exist. Greece’s Ministry…
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Greece’s grid operator frames its meter rollout as a customer-service upgrade. The numbers underneath it tell a story about solar and EVs outrunning the grid’s ability to…
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A new industrial zoning law signed in Athens looks like routine planning bureaucracy — until you notice it’s the third of three, all finished inside the same…
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Grid operators no longer get to chase a single “optimal” answer. A wave of multi-objective optimisation research – from transmission topology control to microgrid dispatch – is…
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Vattenfall has taken FID on a 254 MW battery at a decommissioned German nuclear site — but the number that changed since permitting isn’t the one you’d…
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“It’s not coherent.” That’s Bruno Ladsous’s flat assessment of French energy policy – worth sitting with before getting to the part where France is, by most measures,…
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Authors: Derek Michalski, Editor in Chief, The Voice of Renewables and Iliya Grozdanov, Partner, Dinova Rusev & Partners Law Office Three years ago, Bulgaria had almost no…
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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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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 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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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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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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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’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 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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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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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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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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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’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, 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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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’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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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’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, 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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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, 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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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, 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’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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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’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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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