Chinese automotive manufacturer Changan has introduced the world’s first mass-produced passenger vehicle equipped with sodium-ion batteries, developed in partnership with CATL. The companies are positioning the technology around strong performance in...
Global electricity demand is projected to grow by an average of 3.6% per year through 2030, propelled largely by industrial electrification, the rapid uptake of electric vehicles, and the expanding power needs of data centres and artificial intellige...
A year ago, the view from Argjileo hill told an uncomfortable story. Across the bay from Himara’s port, the Ionian Sea was visibly darkened by a plume of untreated wastewater flowing into the water. Today, that stain is gone—and so are the lingering...
The Studina solar power plant has entered regular commercial operation, developer CWP Europe announced. With 174 MW of peak capacity, the project is currently Romania’s largest operating photovoltaic plant, although several bigger utility-scale devel...
Suhindol Solar Park Faces Legal Setback After Local and Environmental Complaints Environmental organizations and residents in Suhindol, north-central Bulgaria, are pushing back against a planned EUR 450 million hybrid renewable energy project that wo...
EnEarth is advancing plans to develop a carbon dioxide storage hub in depleted offshore oil reservoirs beneath the Aegean Sea, near the northern Greek city of Kavala, after receiving a favorable opinion from the European Commission on its storage per...
Romania had nearly 290,000 prosumers by the end of November, with a combined installed capacity of 3.35 GW, according to the national energy regulator. While prosumer projects have been the main driver of the country’s solar expansion for years, util...
Chinese energy group GCL has advanced its plans for the Knjaževac solar power plant, a major photovoltaic project proposed for eastern Serbia and among the country’s largest developments currently in the pipeline. The Municipal Council of Knjaževac h...
After extended negotiations, Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement enabling its companies to develop solar power plants totaling 2 GW across two provinces in Turkey. The move forms part of a broader bilateral framework covering 5 GW of photovoltaic an...
GEN-I and R.Power have signed a long-term optimisation agreement for the Scornicesti battery energy storage system (BESS), one of Romania’s largest utility-scale storage projects currently under development. The project is planned with an installed c...
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into possible foreign subsidies that may have given Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind an unfair advantage in the European Union’s internal market. The probe follows a preliminary i...
Slovenia selected a range of projects eligible for support via the European Union’s Modernisation Fund. The focus is on battery storage and distribution grid. Two proposals for photovoltaics are for sites envisaged for investments in batteries as wel...
Serbian state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) posted a RSD 42.3 billion (EUR 360.3 million) profit for 2025, a significant increase from RSD 26.1 billion the previous year, though still well below the record RSD 114 billion, achieved...
North Macedonia’s 2026 plan includes 67 power plant projects of at least 1 MW each, for investments totaling an estimated EUR 3.74 billion, and 96 acceptable proposals for standalone and co-located energy storage facilities, worth EUR 1.98 billion. T...
NGEN Group took over 100% of Latvian firm Liepāja ESS to implement a standalone grid-connected battery energy storage project for 100 MW in operating power and a capacity of 200 MWh. The Slovenia-based investor opted for Tesla’s solutions, marking th...