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 solar farms to…
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 the order it…
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 the country, electricity…
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 to strengthen electricity…
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, forcing utilities, transmission…
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…
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 acquisition represents another…
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 the company’s growing…
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 network. The new…
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 1.6GW development as…