The UK National Energy System Operator (NESO) has said it will update its Demand Flexibility Service in the coming months to introduce measures to encourage consumers to increase their energy consumption during periods of excess electricity supply.
The UK Government has approved the 800 MW Springwell Solar Farm in Lincolnshire, which will become the UK’s largest such farm by capacity. The project will include battery storage and grid connection infrastructure in North Kesteven.
Andritz has won a significant contract in Serbia to upgrade a series of historic hydropower plants.
Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine’s Energy Minister, has announced a tender for the construction of new power generation facilities that will add around 1.3 GW to the country’s energy system.
ScottishPower has won financing of £600 million from the UK’s National Wealth Fund to support development of the Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4), a 2 GW HVDC cable between Fife in Scotland and Norfolk in England.
According to a report from Eurostat, in 2025, 47.3 per cent of the electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy systems. This is a slight increase from 2024, when the share of renewable energy in electricity generation was 47.2 per cent.
The European Commission has announced that it has approved a €1.1 billion French state aid scheme aimed at supporting strategic investments in clean technology manufacturing capacity in line with the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal objectives.
The United Downs deep geothermal power project in Cornwall, the first geothermal power plant in the UK, has started generating electricity.
EirGrid, the operator of the Irish national grid, has warned that it faces “a potentially challenging situation” in meeting electricity demand between 2026 and 2028.
Doosan Enerbility has won a €200 million contract to supply key turbine equipment for new reactors in the Czech Republic. It will supply two sets of steam turbines, generators, and turbine control systems for Units 5 and 6 of the Dukovany nuclear power plant through its subsidiary Doosan Skoda Power.