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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, integrated operating concept. The plant delivers fast-response…
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Solar is adding generation faster than any other power source in many reporting markets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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. 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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