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Europe's heat map is turning red due to annual heatwaves - IPCC
Villages in northern France have been sweltering this week as temperatures topped a record breaking 43°C in what is already clearly going to be the fourth hottest year in recorded history.
Lithuanian carbon farming programme secures first corporate buyers
Several international companies have purchased the first carbon credits generated by local farmers in Lithuania.
Hungary's Futureal Gruop enters Baltic energy storage market with Latvian acquisition
The Baltic power system is undergoing structural change following the 2025 integration of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the continental European electricity grid.
Chinese EV giant BYD quietly shelves plan for billion-dollar plant in Turkey
Confirmation of move comes after lawmaker revealed not a single shovel had hit the ground at the project site.
Poland energy plan sees renewables dominating power growth by 2040
Poland’s updated National Energy and Climate Plan assumes a sharp increase in power capacity, renewables and nuclear generation by 2040, the government said.
Estonia’s Sunly and Rolls-Royce strike Baltics’ largest private battery storage deal
After Baltic region's synchronisation with the European electricity network and disconnection from the Russian grid, demand for balancing and frequency-control services has increased sharply.
Hungary’s battery boom is causing a water crisis
Hungary’s ambition to become Europe’s electric vehicle battery hub is colliding with a growing environmental reality: the country is running short of water, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) said in a report.
Estonian firm to invest €100mn in hybrid energy park in Latvia, partner with Rolls-Royce
Sunly has emerged as one of the Baltic region’s fastest-growing renewable energy developers, focusing on solar, wind and storage projects across the Baltics and Poland.
The Iberian blackout was a grid failure, not a renewables failure
When the lights went out across almost all of Spain and Portugal last year in one of the biggest blackouts since the war, experts quickly blamed the explosion of renewable generating capacity as the cause. They were partly right.
Output of Czech hydro plants drops by 30-50% amid continued drought
Fears this year’s drought could be the worst in 65 years, after Czechia registered only 32mm of rainfall in March and April.