Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2025

Zenob, an owner and operator of grid-scale batteries on the GB transmission network, has announced that Europes largest battery site, located in Blackhillock, Scotland, has begun commercial operations. An area outside the substation in 2006 (image credit: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Blackhillock site is launching in two phases.

Batteries 355

Batteries Europe Resilience Fossil fuels 355

TechXplore

JULY 2, 2024

An energy crisis hit Europe in 2021–2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which sent electricity prices skyrocketing—even within countries that don't rely on Russian gas. It begs the question: Was there more to it?

Europe 288

Europe Energy Energy Electricity 288

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Eleven licensing authorities across Europe have given permission for JCBs hydrogen engine to be sold across Europe with authorities in other countries set to follow suit with certification in 2025. This formal type approval/certification paves the way for the sale and use of hydrogen engines right across the UK and Europe.

Hydrogen 296

Hydrogen Europe Construction Agriculture 296

GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2022

We have to reinvent almost everything': Dutch company Avantium aims to have a new manufacturing plant producing a fossil fuel-free polymer by 2024.

Fossil fuels 426

Fossil fuels Plastics Europe 426

Charged

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

EV charger provider Autel Energy Europe has a presence in 22 European countries, and continues to expand, installing a substantial number of its MaxiCharger DC and AC units, which are designed for applications from homes to commercial fleets, highways and public networks. Source: Autel Energy Europe

Europe 110

Europe Energy Energy Cooling 110

Energy Storage News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A flurry of grid-scale energy storage news from Europe, with large-scale projects progressed in Kosovo, Switzerland and Croatia involving Millenium Challenge Corporation, Intilion and NGEN respectively.

Europe 261

Europe Investment Energy Energy 261

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 15, 2025

JCB Secures Certification for Worlds First Hydrogen Combustion Engine JCB , a global leader in construction equipment manufacturing, has reached a critical milestone in its pioneering efforts to develop sustainable technology.

Hydrogen 126

Hydrogen Europe Construction Agriculture 126

Energy Storage News

JUNE 19, 2024

CATL, the world's largest lithium-ion OEM, has given more details around its new battery energy storage system (BESS) product, Tener, including how it claims to have achieved no degradation in the first five years of operation.

Europe 332

Europe Lithium Batteries Energy 332

Energy Storage News

MARCH 18, 2025

Juan Ceballos, Trina Storage head of sales for Europe, tells ESN Premium how one of solars big players aims to become a major presence in energy storage.

Europe 167

Europe Energy Energy Sustainability 167

GreenBiz

MAY 1, 2024

and Europe between 2026 and 2030. Deal with Brookfield will add 10.5 gigawatts of wind and solar in the U.S.

Europe 427

Europe Energy Energy 427

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

NGK Insulators, manufacturer of batteries and storage system based on sodium-sulfur (NAS) chemistry, has announced the commissioning of its first system deployed in Bulgaria.

Batteries 317

Batteries Europe Energy Energy 317

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Battery storage played a crucial role in the Baltic region's switch from Russia over to the Continental European grid over the weekend, coinciding with Lithuania launching a 100 million storage support scheme.

Batteries 312

Batteries Europe 312

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

ESN Premium hears from independent power producer (IPP) Econergy about its expansion from solar into BESS across Europe.

Europe 157

Europe 157

Energy Storage News

MARCH 12, 2025

They both say this will get around the challenges that ultimately doomed Europe's first wave of battery startups, with Northvolt today declaring bankruptcy in Sweden. We hear from startup Volklec which, like another European battery company Elinor, will build its batteries with a Chinese technology and manufacturing partner.

Startups 167

Startups Batteries Europe Technology 167

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Renewable energy developers and IPPs discussed the growing attractiveness of co-locating storage and solar at Solar Finance & Investment Europe (SFIE) 2025 this week.

Europe 157

Europe Investment Energy Energy 157

GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2024

The company also signed its first renewables contract in Europe with projects in six Italian regions.

Carbon 386

Carbon Europe 386

GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2022

and in Europe. The Right to Repair movement is picking up steam again in 2022, with recent legislation in the U.S.

Europe 419

Europe 419

Charged

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

NIOs mobile, internet-based charging and battery swapping provider NIO Power has a network of over 3,000 Power Swap Stations in China, 59 across Europe and 19 in Germany. Source: NIO

Batteries 143

Batteries Technology Europe Cooling 143

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2025

With masses of wind farms in Scotland, such a move would give Scottish businesses and households some of the lowest prices in Europe. Under zonal pricing, the whole country would save 55bn on bills, prices in Scotland would be amongst the cheapest in Europe and Scottish businesses would thrive.

Energy 147

Energy Energy Europe Investment 147

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The contract is part of a 1,000-kilometre-long planned pipeline by Equinor to transport CO2 between mainland Europe and Norway. Bringing large scale CO2 storage to European industry, this project could be a game-changer for CO2 transport and storage in northwestern Europe.

Europe 147

Europe Africa Transportation Innovation 147

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

For instance, Germany’s National Hydrogen Strategy marks the country as a leader in hydrogen innovation, though Bosch has raised concerns about the slow pace of prioritizing hydrogen energy in Europe, which the company views as a hurdle to achieving its full potential.

Hydrogen 137

Hydrogen Innovation Europe Policy 137

Energy Storage News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Rimac Energy, the battery energy storage system (BESS) division of EV supercar company, has unveiled its new product at the Energy Storage Summit Central Eastern Europe (CEE).

Europe 352

Europe Batteries Energy Energy 352

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Automotive group Mercedes-Benz has inaugurated what it claimed is the first integrated hydrometallurgical facility in Europe for battery recycling in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Recycling 313

Recycling Recycling Batteries Automotive 313

GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2024

A growing number of companies, in the United States as well as Europe, have created positions to support nature and biodiversity.

Biodiversity 322

Biodiversity Europe 322

Energy Storage News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Portugal has selected 43 winning BESS projects for a share of 100 million (US$105 million) in EU grants while, on the other side of Europe, Moldova has launched a 75MW BESS procurement with funding from USAID.

Europe 292

Europe Resilience 292

GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2024

A growing number of companies, in the United States as well as Europe, have created positions to support nature and biodiversity

Biodiversity 306

Biodiversity Europe 306

Energy Storage News

MARCH 6, 2024

EU body EIT InnoEnergy has launched a new platform for owning and operating energy storage assets across Europe, called Repono, targeting a 10% market share of an expected 1TWh market by 2030.

Investment 305

Investment Europe Energy Energy 305

Energy Storage News

JANUARY 17, 2025

System integrator Powin contributes to the latest of our Year in Review series, after a year in which it expanded into Europe and launched a new BESS product.

Europe 271

Europe Batteries 271

Energy Storage News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Europe's telecommunications sector has the potential to deploy 15GWh of distributed energy storage (DES), halving its energy costs and helping the energy transition, Finnish telecoms firm Elisa said discussing its new DES solution with Energy-Storage.news.

Energy 301

Energy Energy Europe Electricity 301

GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2024

Impending regulation will make DPPs a requirement in Europe and a wise choice around the world.

Europe 309

Europe 309

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Optimising co-located BESS is "much more complicated" than standalone and few companies can do it well, panellists on Day 2 of Solar Finance & Investment Europe (SFIE) said.

Europe 321

Europe Investment 321

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) energy storage market is in its infancy but has the potential to leapfrog more developed markets with Poland in a leading position, said executives from Fluence.

Europe 293

Europe Energy Energy Investment 293

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Toyota’s own hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered forklifts (pictured, above) currently operate at sites across the Nordic region, Europe, and Australia. The authors also nod to a growing enthusiasm among operators of larger materials-handling equipment fleets for fuels such as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and hydrogen.

Logistics 288

Logistics Energy Energy Batteries 288

GreenBiz

JULY 24, 2023

A recent Greenpeace analysis reveals how regulations across Europe are incentivizing travel by plane, despite flying being five times more polluting than train travel.

Pollution 312

Pollution Europe 312

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Tata Steel said it intends to make Port Talbot one of Europes premier centres for green steelmaking. . “We are fully supportive of Tata Steel UKs investment proposals and are pleased to be one of the first customers to endorse those plans by making this agreement to secure British-made green steel as soon as it is available.

Investment 261

Investment Construction Hydrogen Carbon 261

Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

System integrator Powin has been enlisted by oil, gas and renewable energy firm Galp to install a battery energy storage system (BESS) at a PV plant in Portugal, Powin's first in Europe.

Europe 318

Europe Batteries Energy Energy 318

Energy Storage News

MARCH 21, 2024

What is thought to be the largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) at a solar farm in Europe has been switched on by Enel Green Power in Mallorca, Spain.

Batteries 313

Batteries Europe Organic 313