Insights

The decision by the EU to ban financing for inverters from high-risk provider countries is already changing customer buying behaviour, Lars Stephan, who leads the Policy and Advocacy Department for US energy company Fluence, said at the recent European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) conference in Brussels.

Paul Warley, CEO of US flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels maker Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:ASTI), sees great opportunities in the area of solar power generation in space as the market is expanding.

Delivering projects that can integrate smoothly into the grid, with great focus on flexibility, reliability and speed of execution, rather than the capacity deployment itself, is a key trend in the Philippine renewable energy market, a top company official from Australian engineering services company GHD said.

Renewable energy and green manufacturing is where Europe's energy security interests can align with Africa's industrial growth and these are two dimensions of the same transition.

Southeast Europe's renewable energy transition is accelerating, with solar deployment surging across the region while policymakers, grid operators and investors grapple with challenges around storage, grid access and infrastructure development.

The European Commission (EC) is finalising its long-awaited Geothermal Action Plan, which is expected “before summer,” a senior energy official said at the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) in Brussels this week.

European renewables developer RP Global has pointed to negative hours and generation curtailments as common issues it sees across the seven markets it operates in Europe and has urged regulators to ensure clear rules that support market development.

As renewable portfolios become larger, more complex, and increasingly hybridised, the industry is entering a new era in which software intelligence and AI-driven technologies have become as critical as the generation capacity itself.