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Networks, interconnection, flexibility and the infrastructure behind electrification.
GRID / LEAD STORY
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 fourth one on standby. Litgrid has put…
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Europe: Network queues and permitting timelines are increasingly setting the pace of renewable deployment.
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 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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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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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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