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Baltic grids are selling a surplus that vanishes in February
The Baltic states are pitching their renewable surplus to AI data centres just as Denmark and Finland ration large-load connections, but that pitch rests on an annual…
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Merchant, Toll, Swap, and PPAs: The True Cost of Surviving Cannibalisation
On a sunny weekday in April 2026, a solar farm in France could produce at full output for hours and earn almost nothing. Analysis by Pexapark found…
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Scotland’s wasted wind finds a home. CIP finds €1.2bn
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) made two announcements on 2 October 2026. In Scottish Ayrshire, it committed more than €270 million to a battery designed to hold Scottish…
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Monthly energy storage PPA & Deals Tracker — September 2026
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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Algebris Acquires Vector Renewables From Nadara
Algebris Investments, through its Algebris Green Transition Fund, has completed the acquisition of 100% of Vector Renewables from Nadara, adding the renewable energy technical advisory and asset…
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€1bn financing. €200m failure. Enerparc’s financing model breaks down
Grow responsibly. This is what ENERPARC’s corporate brochure, published on 26 October 2024, was headlined by. Less than two years later, the Hamburg-based solar developer and park…
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Greece’s Storage Gap Is Becoming a Bigger Problem Than the Battery Numbers Suggest
Greece is producing more renewable electricity than ever, but the country is increasingly struggling to extract its full economic value. Solar generation is pushing wholesale prices towards…
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Lithuania’s surplus solar power is looking for a data centre
Lithuania has built more renewable capacity than its market can comfortably absorb. Lithuanian Ministry of Energy put installed renewables at 6.5 GW in June 2026, and prices…
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Hedged on paper: the risks solar, wind and storage deals leave behind
In April 2026, a solar farm selling into the French wholesale market earned about a tenth of the average price for the month, by commodity analytics firm…
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Europe’s Energy Treaty Shield Has Become a Seat Lottery
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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The Battery Bill That Arrives After the Loan Is Paid Off
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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Alpiq pairs gas-fired generation with battery storage in new Hungarian plant
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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Britain’s four largest battery sellers own none of the capacity they trade
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’s Renewable Energy Boom: Solar, Wind, and Battery Storage Today — and What’s Coming Next
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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The €200 Million Loan That Finances Only Half a Cross-Border Wind Farm
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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Poland’s grid queue is filling up with renewables and batteries
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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Greece Licensed 67 GW of Batteries. The Grid Can Take About 7.
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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The Battery That Grew Without Getting Stronger
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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Bulgaria Beat Its 2030 Storage Target Four Years Early. Then What?
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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The Fine Print in Portugal’s Big Storage Bet
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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The Battery Supply Chain’s Next Bottleneck Is Being Fought Over in Chilean Courts
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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Field Wins Planning Approval for a 400 MW Battery at a Former Coal Power Station Site
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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Equinor Brings Its Largest US BESS Project Online in Texas — With a Bigger Bet on Virginia Next
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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Pre-Construction Battery Storage Deals Are Getting More Common in Europe
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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Monthly energy storage PPA & Deals Tracker — August 2026
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 Day-Ahead Trap: How Bulgaria Accidentally Built Europe’s Most Cutthroat Energy Market
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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LEAG starts construction of 400 MW / 1.6 GWh battery storage project at Boxberg
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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Grid-Forming Inverters: The Quiet Shift Rewriting Europe’s Grid Engineering
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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UK grid storage start-up Certain Energy lands £10m as curtailment bill nears £8bn
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 Optimisation Blind Spot: Why Static Degradation Curves Are Costing BESS Operators Revenue
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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BESS and Critical Materials: The Supply Chain Behind the Storage Boom
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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European Energy expands battery portfolio with 545 MWh now operational
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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Does the European CfD auction model need a fundamental redesign?
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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Financing solar + BESS across Europe in H2 2026 and into 2027 — how countries, deals and funding models stack up
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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Romania joins CEE’s emerging market for financeable solar-plus-storage
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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Germany BESS 2026–2027: The Rules, Risks and Development Tests
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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Italy to Unlock 37.15 GW of New Renewable Capacity Under €23bn FER X Framework
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 10 GW Storage Challenge: Industry Calls for a More Flexible Power Market
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 merge to create 11GW UK solar and battery storage platform
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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Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System – Part II
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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Romania’s Next Energy Storage Challenge Isn’t Building Batteries – It’s Integrating Them
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’s UDER92 reform could unlock gigawatts of renewable energy investment by speeding up grid access
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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ENGIE commissions 100 MW of battery storage in Scotland, reinforcing UK grid flexibility
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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Elgin expands UK solar ambitions with long-term PPA agreements for 112.6 MW portfolio
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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Sixth Commercial 20 MW Battery Energy Storage System Connected to the Lithuanian Electricity Transmission Grid
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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Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System – Part I
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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Electricity Is Becoming a Location-Specific Industrial Asset Again
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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Energy Cybersecurity in Europe: Securing the Digital Backbone of the Energy Transition
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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Lithuania’s Renewable Market Enters the Portfolio Optimisation Era: Why Merchant Risk Alone Is No Longer Enough
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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Lukas Savickas Takes Charge of Lithuania’s Energy Ministry as Focus Shifts from Energy Security to Economic Competitiveness
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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Sungrow tests investor appetite with 350 MW Spanish battery portfolio as Europe’s BESS M&A market accelerates
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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Physical PPAs are reshaping Europe’s renewable energy market as corporate demand accelerates
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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Korean-built transformer arrives at Poland’s largest battery storage project in Żarnowiec
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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Milliseconds Matter: How Battery Storage Became Europe’s New Grid Stability Tool
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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Portugal Bets on Storage: How September’s 1 GW Auction Marks a New Era for Renewable Energy
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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Moldova’s Energy System Enters the Integration Phase
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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Beyond OPEX: How Smart Asset Management Is Redefining Renewable Energy Performance
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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UK selects 7.6 GW of long-duration storage in first LDES cap-and-floor window, reshaping Scotland–England power flows
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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Alpiq Bets Big on Battery Storage with 300 MW Swiss BESS as European Pipeline Surpasses 1 GW
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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Italy’s MACSE Auctions: Turning Battery Storage Into Infrastructure
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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Rethinking Battery Value: Why Opportunity Cost Will Define the Next Phase of Storage Markets
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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Greece solar PV + battery storage: bankable investment framework under curtailment and flexibility penetration scenarios (2026–2032)
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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Romania’s Battery Storage Market: From Policy Momentum to System Constraint Economics
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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Assessment of Chile’s 2026/01 Electricity Supply Tender: Opportunities and Risks for Renewable Energy Developers
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 to begin operations on first Baltic BESS
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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Chile’s energy transition: from renewable expansion to execution, infrastructure and industrial growth
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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Irish Developer Net Zero Energy Unveils Plans for €2 Billion Green Energy Park in Carlow
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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ACCIONA Energía doubles its energy storage plan in Chile
ACCIONA Energía has announced the construction of a new 1GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Chile’s Atacama Desert, doubling its planned energy storage capacity in the…
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European Energy Launches Construction of Solar and Battery Energy Storage Project in the UK
European Energy has commenced construction of the Indian Queens solar and battery project in Cornwall, advancing a renewable energy asset with integrated storage that has cPPA and…
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Greece is signalling a “mature renewables market” phase and unveiling sweeping new planning framework for renewables with much stricter environmental safeguards
Greece has unveiled a comprehensive new Special Spatial Planning Framework for Renewable Energy Sources (RES), introducing significantly stricter land-use rules for solar and wind developments while aiming…
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NextEra and Dominion to Create Largest Regulated Utility
NextEra Energy, Inc. and Dominion Energy, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction. Dominion Energy shareholders will…
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Ingka Group unveils hybrid power park in Portugal, unlocking 233 GWh
Imagine significantly increasing renewable energy output while optimizing an existing grid connection—without building entirely new infrastructure. That is exactly what Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, is doing…
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Statkraft inks its largest BESS PPA in Nordics with OX2
Statkraft and Swedish developer OX2 have signed a seven-year, 235-MW battery energy storage agreement in Finland. This is Statkraft’s largest BESS PPA in the Nordics to date. …
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Lithuania’s Largest Battery Storage Project Joins the Balancing Market
The largest commercial battery energy storage system in Lithuania to date has joined the electricity balancing market. A new participant has joined the electricity balancing market organised…
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Iberdrola boosts electrification in Australia with two new storage projects in New South Wales
The Iberdrola Group is making progress in its drive for electrification in Australia with two new energy storage milestones in the state of New South Wales. The…
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European Energy inaugurates Northern Europe’s largest combined solar and battery park in Kvosted
European Energy has inaugurated Northern Europe’s largest combined solar and battery park in Kvosted, Denmark. The hybrid asset includes a 200 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS),…
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Scatec JV reaches financial close for 80 MW BESS in the Philippines and prepares for construction start
SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP), Scatec ASA’s joint venture with Aboitiz Renewables, inc., the renewable energy arm of Aboitiz Power Corporation in the Philippines, has reached financial close…
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Qair secures construction permit for 20 MW/44 MWh Battery Energy Storage
Independent renewable energy company Qair has obtained the construction permit for its 20 MW/44 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project in Fuchsstadt, Germany. This milestone marks…
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Alpiq acquires France’s largest battery storage facility
Alpiq is consistently pursuing its growth strategy in the area of flexible assets: the Swiss energy company has acquired the Cheviré operational battery storage facility in the…
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Enery starts the Ogrezeni project, one of Europe’s largest solar and BESS plants
Enery, an independent renewable power producer in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) announces the start of the Ogrezeni hybrid project, combining photovoltaic (PV) generation with battery storage,…
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PowerBank Announces New 5 MW Distributed Solar and Battery Energy Storage System Project in New York
PowerBank Corporation announced it has executed a lease agreement on a 5 MW AC hybrid solar plus battery energy storage project known as the NY-Holland Glnwd project…
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Energy Aggregators in Lithuania: Market Overview and Emerging Dynamics
Lithuania has rapidly become one of the most dynamic markets in Europe for energy aggregation, driven by its fast-growing renewable energy capacity, advanced smart-metering infrastructure, and regulatory…
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Scatec signs equity partnership agreements for Obelisk in Egypt
Scatec ASA, a leading renewable energy solutions provider, has signed shareholder agreements with Norfund, the Norwegian investment fund for developing countries and EDF power solutions, an international…
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Toki Power acquires 150 MW standalone BESS project, strengthening its position in Romania
Toki Power Holding GmbH (Toki Power), the electricity trading part of Renalfa Solarpro Group (Renalfa Group), closed a major transaction in Romania – the acquisition of a…
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Alpiq secures 370 MW battery energy storage (BESS) pipeline in Germany
Alpiq is expanding its position in the European flexibility market and has secured its first 370 MW project pipeline for battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Germany.…
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Romania’s Solar & Storage Outlook for 2026: Clarity, Discipline and the Rise of Hybrid Assets
Romania enters 2026 with renewed momentum across its solar and energy-storage markets — but also with a sharper sense of discipline. The era of inflated pipelines and…
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Lithuania Launches New Financing Round for Standalone Energy Storage Projects
As of November 6, legal entities are invited to apply for financing for standalone energy storage parks connected directly to the electrical grid. 📢 The Ministry of Energy, together with the National…
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Energy Transition in the Baltic States: Key Challenges and Opportunities Discussed at the Baltic Electricity Market Forum
The Baltic States are at a pivotal moment in their energy transition, where it is essential to strike a balance between market competitiveness, grid security, supply reliability,…
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Greece Energy Roundup — October 2025
October 2025 was a dynamic month for Greece’s energy transition, marked by a wave of announcements and milestones across solar, wind, hydrogen, energy storage and grid development.…
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Lithuania Powers Ahead: Renewables, Storage, and Grid Upgrades Transform Energy Future
In October 2025, Lithuania continued to make significant strides in its energy transition, focusing on expanding renewable generation, energy storage, and grid resilience. The country has been…
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Drax signs £157.2m deal with battery storage developer Apatura
BESS developer Apatura has signed an agreement with renewable energy company Drax Group, who will initially acquire three battery energy storage system (“BESS”) projects located in Scotland and Northern…
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RWE is constructing Germany’s largest battery storage facility in Gundremmingen, Bavaria
RWE is building Germany’s largest battery storage facility to date at the Gundremmingen energy site. The 400-megawatt plant will have a storage capacity of 700 megawatt hours…
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Greenvolt secures €35 Million financing for Large-Scale hybrid project of over 150 MW in Denmark
The Greenvolt Group, through Greenvolt Power, has signed a €35 million project finance agreement with Ringkjøbing Landbobank to finance the construction and operation of a large-scale hybrid project in Høegholm, Denmark,…
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Axpo and Energix join forces to optimise Poland’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system
Axpo and Energix, a leading renewable energy developer and independent power producer, have signed an agreement to optimise the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland.…
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Wärtsilä to deliver Australia’s largest DC-coupled hybrid battery system
Technology group Wärtsilä will deliver a large energy storage system in Australia, which will be Wärtsilä’s second DC-coupled project in the country. Significantly, this will be the…
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European Energy divests combined solar and battery park in Latvia to Sampension
European Energy sells 50% of its 111 MW Saldus solar and battery project in Latvia to Sampension, one of Denmark’s largest pension funds. The project combines a…
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EBRD backs Croatia’s first grid-scale battery storage and virtual power plant
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a direct equity investment of up to €16.8 million in IE‑Energy Projekt, a newly established joint‑stock company developing a…
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Cybersecurity challenges for the renewable energy sector
Author: Davide Barbieri, PhD As renewable energy becomes the backbone of global decarbonisation, the sector faces a rapidly growing but often underestimated risk: cyberthreats. Solar farms, wind…
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Renalfa IPP Completes Repowering of Kaolinovo Solar Park in Bulgaria
Renalfa IPP has completed the repowering of its Kaolinovo photovoltaic (PV) park in Northeast Bulgaria, which is now fully operational. Originally commissioned in 2012 with a capacity…
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Powering Greece’s Energy Future: Battery Storage Projects Are Evolving Beyond Subsidies
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Greece are transitioning from early-stage pilots to critical infrastructure, driven by a rapidly maturing regulatory framework and increasing investor appetite. Multiple…
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Principia Launches Greece’s “Themelio” — Landmark 49 MW / 98 MWh Energy Storage Unit in Chalkidiki
Principia has announced the completion of its first Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) unit — commercially named “Themelio” — in the Vouno area of Chalkidiki, near Polygyros. As one…
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20 MW of Solar and BESS Power Purchase Agreements Secured by PowerBank with the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs (DMNA)
PowerBank Corporation announced it has executed lease and power purchase agreements with the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs (DMNA) for the development of a…
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and AIP Management to partner 50/50 on Coalburn 2
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), on behalf of its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure IV (CI IV), has signed an agreement to divest a 50% ownership stake in Coalburn 2…
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Wärtsilä debuts GEMS Pulse, a new software solution to enhance revenue for BESS customers through cell-to-fleet data analytics
Technology group Wärtsilä has launched GEMS Pulse, a breakthrough predictive analytics solution designed to increase the financial and performance output of energy storage facilities. Batteries generate thousands…
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Lithuania’s Smart Grid Revolution: Why Data, Flexibility and Digital Twins Hold the Key to Energy Independence
Lithuania stands at a pivotal point in its energy transition. Having successfully synchronised its power grid with continental Europe and launched major tenders for large-scale battery energy…
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The 2025 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics: How Quantum Physics and Molecular Chemistry Are Powering the Future of Clean Energy
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for their pioneering work on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) — porous crystalline materials constructed from metal ions…
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Greece’s Big Battery Push: Ambitious BESS Plans Aim High Amid Market Challenges and Investor Caution
In 2025, Greece has accelerated its plans for utility-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), signalling a shift in policy, financing, and market expectations. However, while the scale…
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Hash Functions and Merkle Trees: Securing Data in European Energy Utilities
Europe’s energy sector is undergoing an unprecedented digital transformation. Smart grids, renewable integration, and decentralised energy markets are redefining how electricity is generated, distributed and traded. This…
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METLEN and Karatzis Group Partner to Develop Greece’s Largest 330MW Battery Energy Storage System in Thessaly
METLEN and Karatzis Group of Companies are entering into a new strategic partnership, through a joint venture with ownership stakes of 49% and 51% respectively, for the…
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Lithuania Launches €45 Million Funding Call to Boost High-Capacity Electricity Storage Systems
The Lithuanian Ministry of Energy has approved nearly €45 million in funding to expand high-capacity electricity storage systems nationwide, with a new call for applications opening on 10…
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Greece Balances Growth and Challenges in Its Renewable Energy Transition
Weekly round-up of the latest developments in Greece’s energy sector, based on research by The Voice of Renewables. From policy updates and major investments to the challenges facing industry…
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Capalo AI Begins Trading and Optimising Lithuania’s First Commercial BESS
A new participant has joined the electricity balancing market organized by Litgrid, the Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator, and submitted its first bids – a 1 MW…
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Lithuania’s Energy Revolution: Balancing Ambition and Reality
A Bold Path to Independence Lithuania’s energy transformation has been nothing short of remarkable. Once heavily reliant on Russian energy imports, the small Baltic nation has reinvented…
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KN Energies Secures Funding to Expand Electricity Storage Systems
KN Energies, with the aim of promoting the optimisation of renewable energy infrastructure and the efficient use of energy resources, submitted an application to the Lithuanian Energy…
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ACL Energy and BWESS to Add 2,500 MW of Renewable Energy Projects
ACL Energy and BW ESS have announced a significant expansion of their joint project development pipeline for stand-alone, utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Italy. Building…
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Lithuania Accelerates Battery Energy Storage Development to Support Renewables
Lithuania is rapidly emerging as a frontrunner in Central and Eastern Europe for battery energy storage deployment, with a string of large-scale projects designed to stabilise the…
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Neoen launches first 6-hour energy storage battery in Muchea & delivers Collie Battery 2, both in Western Australia
Neoen, one of the world’s leading producers of exclusively renewable energy, has provided notices to proceed to Tesla and construction contractor UGL (a member of the CIMIC…
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Greece’s Renewable Energy 2025: Growth Surges Amid Grid and Storage Challenges
Greece has entered 2025 with a renewable energy sector that is simultaneously thriving and troubled. Installed capacity has climbed to record levels, with solar photovoltaics and wind…
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L&G NTR Clean Power Europe Fund Acquires 105MWp Ballydonagh Solar Project from RES
The L&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) Fund today announces the acquisition of Ballydonagh Solar Limited, a 105MWp solar project, from renewable energy company, RES. Located in Co.…
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Simtel and HEPA Energy to develop one of the largest hybrid photovoltaic and storage projects in Romania
Simtel, an engineering and technology group listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and one of the leading players in Romania’s renewable energy sector,…
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Moldova’s Election Results Clear Path for a Renewable Energy Future
Moldova’s ruling pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) scored a clear victory in yesterday’s parliamentary election, securing just over 50% of the vote and a working…
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KNESS commissions over 100 MWh capacity of energy storage systems
KNESS completed the implementation of more than 100 MWh capacity of energy storage systems within the framework of special auctions won. These are eight energy storage parks…
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Pacific Green Achieves Planning Permit for 1GW / 2.5GWh Portland Energy Park
LinkedInTwitter Pacific Green, a global battery energy storage company, has secured a planning permit from the Victorian Government for its second Australian grid-scale battery energy park located…
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European Energy issues new bond on NASDAQ
European Energy has successfully issued a new bond on NASDAQ worth EUR 100m. The bond was met with strong demand from investors and was fully subscribed within…
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AI for Energy Utility Asset Management: Utilities, Transmission & Distribution, and Nuclear – Strategic Impacts, Use Cases, and ROI
Strategic Context Energy operators face increasing pressure to balance reliability, regulatory compliance, sustainability, and cost control. Ageing infrastructure, rising demand, and the growth of intermittent resources such…
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Sonnedix surpasses 800MW capacity in Italy with five renewable project acquisitions and entry into battery storage: on track for 1GW by year end
Sonnedix, a global renewable energy company with over 4GW of operating capacity, has expanded its Italian portfolio with the acquisition of five new projects in Sicily and…
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Neoen signs 100 MW renewable energy baseload agreement to supply power to BHP in South Australia
Neoen, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has signed a 100 MW renewable energy baseload agreement to supply power to BHP, a world-leading resources company.…
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Australia’s first eight-hour battery system registered with AEMO
RWE Renewables Australia has achieved a major milestone in Australia’s energy transition with the successful registration of the country’s first eight-hour Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), located…
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Environment Minister Thekla Walker Opens Energy Park in Gundelsheim, Germany
Gundelsheim. A microcosm of the future energy system is taking shape in the district of Heilbronn – and the first part is already up and running. The…
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La Caisse to acquire Edify, a leading Australian renewable energy and battery storage company
Edify Energy, a leading Australian renewable energy and battery storage company, and global investment group La Caisse (formerly CDPQ), today announced that binding agreements have been entered…
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DTEK’s, DRI, Picks Fluence to Deliver Trzebinia Battery Project
DRI, the EU renewables arm of Ukraine’s DTEK Group, has selected Fluence Energy B.V., a subsidiary of Fluence Energy, Inc., a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage…
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Palladio Partners and Voltfang Launch Battery Storage Partnership
Infrastructure-focused investor Palladio Partners and Voltfang, a specialist in battery storage solutions and development, have entered into a binding partnership aimed at accelerating the energy transition through…
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Macquarie Asset Management reaches $US3 billion close of Green Energy Transition Solutions Fund and co-investment commitment
Macquarie Asset Management today announced the final close of Macquarie Green Energy Transition Solutions (“MGETS” or the “Fund”) with over $US3 billion of total Fund and co-investment…
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Clifford Chance advised Grenergy on solar and BESS projects in Chile
Clifford Chance has advised Grenergy on the US $270 million senior secured green bridge financing for the development of a 77 MWp operational solar photovoltaic project and…
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Hogan Lovells advises Terra One on the €150m mezzanine financing for BESS
Led by partners Dr. Tim Heitling and Dr. Carla Luh, global law firm Hogan Lovells has advised Terra One Climate Solutions GmbH on the €150m mezzanine financing…
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DLA Piper advises Rabobank and Siemens Financial Services on Irish solar and BESS portfolio financing for NTR
NTR completes on an initial €65 Million Financing Deal with Rabobank and Siemens Financial Services Funding will enable the construction phase of Irish ready-to-build solar and BESS…
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ANDRITZ receives order from Adani Green Energy for 1800 MW Gandikota pumped storage project in India
International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), India’s largest renewable energy company and a leading global player, to equip the…
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Beyond the Lowest Bid: What Really Matters in Europe’s Energy Transition
When governments and utilities launch auctions for renewable energy projects, the lowest price used to be the ultimate deciding factor. But in 2025, the picture is more…
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Enery Completes Growth Facility with Rivage Investment and Kommunalkredit
Enery, a leading green independent power producer in the CEE region, is pleased to announce the successful placement of a medium-term growth facility with Rivage Investment and…
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Moldova increases RES capacities
The Government of Moldova reconfirmed today the intention to promote the use of energy from renewable sources by extending the application period and increasing the capacities allocated…
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Finnish Olana Energy set to develop BESS project in Lithuania
Finnish IPP Olana Energy Oy has made a final investment decision (FID) for a grid-connected energy storage project in Šalčininkai, Lithuania. The 70 MW / 140 MWh…
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Moldova 2050 draft Energy Strategy announced
Following a series of earlier announcements, The Ministry of Energy of Moldova presented the draft Energy Strategy until 2050. The announcement was made at a public event,…
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Wärtsilä completes first-of-its-kind integrated explosion control system tests
Technology group Wärtsilä has successfully completed large-scale testing of its proprietary Active Ignition Mitigation System (AIMS). AIMS is engineered to mitigate potential flammable gas build-up during an…
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Zelestra and BKW sign innovative long-term BESS tolling agreement
Zelestra, a global, multi-technology, customer-focused renewable energy company, has signed a long-term tolling agreement with BKW, a leading energy and infrastructure company based in Switzerland, to deliver…
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greentech reaches Financial Close for £15 million loan with Lombard to build Chalkpit Solar Farm in Kent
greentech, a European solar and storage specialist, and Lombard, a leading UK asset finance provider, have reached financial close on the 25.9 MW Chalkpit Solar Farm in…
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Deep Dive: Moldova’s Energy Independence Driven by Renewables + Auction Insights
Moldova aims to achieve energy independence by 2030. The government’s action plan outlines 22 actions related to major infrastructure projects, increasing local electricity generation capacity from renewable…
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