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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 on the Rada’s…
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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, M&A, refinancings, bonds,…
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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 agency itself called…
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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, nearly five years…
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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 126MW and up…
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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 the time — and…
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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 on in September…
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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 is, on paper,…
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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 in 2026 —…
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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 from the metallization,…
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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 curiosity into Europe’s…
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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 since 2025. The…
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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 capacity will not…
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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 would provide up…
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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 the definitive FER…
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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 of operational and…
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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 challenges and investment…
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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 development, grid connections…
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