The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and JSC Ukrzaliznytsia have announced a tender for the purchase of container gas engine power plants for Ukraine, each of a capacity of 1.8-3.5 MW, for a total capacity of 215 MW, using EBRD loan funds and grant financing.
Sun-Ways, a Swiss start-up, is testing a system of installation of solar panels between railway tracks, and has placed 100 m of solar panels on tracks in Buttes, a small village in canton Neuchâtel in western Switzerland.
Spain and Portugal have been hit by a major power outage, causing chaos in the Iberian peninsula.
Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur, the regulatory body overseeing the country’s energy grid, has proposed phasing out payments currently made to smaller conventional power generation units over the period 2026-2028.
EnBW has officially commissioned one of Germany’s first hydrogen-ready gas turbine power plants at its Stuttgart-Münster site.
According to Montel Group’s latest GB Electricity Market Summary, CCGT generation in the UK increased by 44 per cent year-on-year for Q1 2025, averaging 8.6 GW.
Salmisaari, the last coal-fired power plant in Helsinki, has been officially closed, virtually ending coal burning across Finland.
Eurostat has released an analysis of electricity generation in the EU which states that 46.9 per cent of it came from renewable sources and a continuing reduction in dependence on fossil fuels.
Siemens Financial Services has signed a financing deal with the UK firm GeoPura to support the hydrogen specialist in its next phase of growth.
Oilon has reported very low NOx emission levels for its new LN30 burner, enabling an almost 90 per cent NOx reduction in a retrofit burner installation.