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Electra Completes First Urban Flight of Hybrid-Electric Ultra Short Aircraft in South Carolina

Electra Completes First Urban Flight of Hybrid-Electric Ultra Short Aircraft in South Carolina

Electra, a leader in ultra-short hybrid-electric aviation, announced the successful completion of the first urban demonstration of its Ultra Short airplane at the Columbus Street Terminal, in Charleston, South Carolina, offering a real-world look at how regional air travel can move beyond airports to become faster, simpler, and far more accessible.

Grenergy signs a hybrid PPA for phase five of Oasis de Atacama

Chile
Grenergy signs a hybrid PPA for phase five of Oasis de Atacama

Grenergy has signed a new long-term hybrid power purchase agreement (PPA) in Chile with an offtaker holding an investment-grade credit rating from Moody’s and Fitch, providing for the sale of 350 GWh per year for a 12-year period.

Vesper Energy Closes $236 Million Financing for 201 MW Nazareth Solar

Vesper Energy Closes $236 Million Financing for 201 MW Nazareth Solar

Vesper Energy announced the closing of $236 million in financing for its 201-megawatt Nazareth Solar project in Swisher County, Texas. The project will support grid stability and deliver reliable, affordable power to ERCOT.

Biofuels

Switzerland
WinGD celebrates another dual-fuel launch with delivery of the methanol-capable Tema Mærsk

WinGD celebrates another dual-fuel launch with delivery of the methanol-capable Tema Mærsk

Swiss marine power company WinGD has delivered the Tema Mærsk, powered by a X82DF-M/E multi-fuel engine platform with methanol capability and inherent compatibility with ethanol, to A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk).

Biogas

Maruti Suzuki Expands Biogas Capacity

Maruti Suzuki Expands Biogas Capacity

Maruti Suzuki has announced plans to set up a 10 Tons Per Day (TPD) biogas plant at its Kharkhoda facility, which will be commissioned within FY 2026-27. As the second initiative, Maruti Suzuki has expanded the capacity of the biogas plant at its Manesar facility, from 0.2 TPD to 0.7 TPD.

Biomass

Mitsubishi's New Tech May Contribute to the Realization of a Resource-Circulating Society

Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., to contribute to the realization of a resource-circulating society, is working to develop and commercialize AdBio® (Biomass High-Efficiency Recovery and Recycling System), a system to efficiently sort and recover biomass such as food waste and paper from municipal waste and unsorted food waste, enabling stable recovery of biogas in methane fermentation systems. 

Electric/Hybrid

EV transition will fail unless it works for every driver, EVA England warns at Westminster launch

EV transition will fail unless it works for every driver, EVA England warns at Westminster launch

EVA England is launching a landmark white paper in Parliament warning that the UK’s electric vehicle transition risks leaving millions of drivers behind unless Government acts now to make EVs fair, affordable and practical for every household.

Energy saving

Maryland County Secures $8.3 Million for Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects

Maryland County Secures $8.3 Million for Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects

Montgomery County has secured more than $8.3 million in State funding to support 20 clean energy and energy efficiency projects that will reduce operating costs, strengthen emergency preparedness, and modernize public facilities across the County.

Geothermal

Colorado Gov. Polis Signs Laws to Boost Geothermal Energy

Colorado Gov. Polis Signs Laws to Boost Geothermal Energy

On June 1, Gov. Polis signed SB26-142 - Development of Thermal Energy Resources, sponsored by Senators Matt Ball and Cathy Kipp, and Representatives Junie Joseph and Ryan Gonzalez to boost clean energy solutions that save Coloradans money and protect the  environment. 

Hydrogen

Plug Power Strengthens Liquidity With $44M Federal ITC Transfer for St. Gabriel Hydrogen Facility

Plug Power Strengthens Liquidity With $44M Federal ITC Transfer for St. Gabriel Hydrogen Facility

Plug Power Inc.announced it closed the sale of a federal investment tax credit for ~$39.2 million associated with Plug’s hydrogen liquefaction facility in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, operated through Hidrogenii, its joint venture with Olin Corporation. The monetization represents another step in Plug’s broader strategy to improve liquidity, optimize capital deployment, and unlock value from its expanding hydrogen generation network.

University of Aberdeen spin‑out pioneers breakthrough method to produce green hydrogen from seawater

Protium and ITM Power Enter Strategic Partnership to Deliver Green Hydrogen Projects

Germany
Lhyfe and Strabag join forces to expand green hydrogen in Germany

Miscellaneous

Virtual Power Plant: enercity and Kraken to jointly unlock full potential of the smart grid

Virtual Power Plant: enercity and Kraken to jointly unlock full potential of the smart grid

Electric company enercity has entered into a strategic partnership with global operating system for energy Kraken to jointly develop a new, high-performance virtual power plant (VPP), aiming to digitally connect decentralised generation assets, grid-scale batteries, and controllable loads, optimise them as a single, coordinated system.

Siemens Energy expands capabilities with Camlin Group acquisition

Ocean Energy

MRECo Drops First Anchor for Ocean Innovation Network

MRECo Drops First Anchor for Ocean Innovation Network

The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative has successfully deployed a SOFAR Spotter Buoy at the newly established Cuttyhunk Test Range, this marks a key milestone as the first in-water technology deployment within Massachusetts’ Ocean Innovation Network. 

Eco Wave Power to Participate in Maxim Group's AI Data Center Summit 

Panorama

APsystems Unveils New AI-Powered Micro-site & Residential Solar-Storage Solutions at SNEC 2026

APsystems Unveils New AI-Powered Micro-site & Residential Solar-Storage Solutions at SNEC 2026

APsystems is showcasing its latest solar-storage innovations at SNEC 2026 in Shanghai. Upholding the philosophy "Grounded in Safety, Powering Solar-Storage Integration", the company has launched seven new product lines spanning four energy storage solution categories: AC coupling, hybrid AC-DC coupling, off-grid and string-type energy storage. Its micro-site and residential storage solutions are major highlights of the showcase.

Europe’s competitiveness hinges on integrated industrial electrification, finds new Eurelectric report

Renewable energy stagnation in Northern Ireland raises concerns for energy security

PV

The $2.6 Billion Silver Mine: Why Landfilling is Financial Suicide

The $2.6 Billion Silver Mine: Why Landfilling is Financial Suicide

The US solar industry has reached a scale where waste management is no longer an environmental 'nice-to-have' but a core financial and regulatory requirement. With more panels now installed in the US than there are people, the fleet represents a massive, distributed domestic resource.

Spain/Poland
Alight and Lear expand solar partnership with carport in Spain and rooftop projects in Poland

RETC 2026 PV Module Index highlights growing focus on long-term solar reliability and risk

Storage

Sunly and Rolls-Royce Sign Largest Battery Storage Deal Across Baltics

Sunly and Rolls-Royce Sign Largest Battery Storage Deal Across Baltics

Sunly, one of the Baltics' fastest-growing renewable energy platforms, and Rolls-Royce Power Systems have signed contracts to build four utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Latvia with a combined capacity of 490 MWh. 

Romania
R.Power secures 46 million euros financing package and advances construction of 127 MW/254 MWh BESS project in Romania

A Guide to Integrating Backup Power Solutions 

Wind

DWT named O&M partner for 700 MW wind farms in the US

DWT named O&M partner for 700 MW wind farms in the US

DWT Inc., the largest independent service provider for wind energy in the US, has announced the successful initiation of its new Operations and Maintenance agreement for a large, investor-owned utility in the Pacific Northwest.  Together, the projects involved total more than 700MW of capacity, representing one of the largest independent service agreements in the region.            

DEME Wins Contract For Offshore Wind Project In Japan

Agenda

Heat Pump Forum & Awards 2026

Heat Pump Forum & Awards 2026

The smarter E South America

European Power Investment Summit 2026


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