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Hungary fast-tracks battery storage to unlock solar power and ease grid strain Read More »

Hungary fast-tracks battery storage to unlock solar power and ease grid strain

Hungary is accelerating the rollout of electricity storage to capture unused solar generation, ease pressure on the power network and strengthen household energy security. Government officials argue that countries which solve large-scale storage challenges now will be best positioned in the 2030s, as adding generation capacity alone is no longer sufficient without flexibility. A central […]

Greece: Gas sector accelerates in 2025 as consumption, exports and LNG flows surge Read More »

Greece: Gas sector accelerates in 2025 as consumption, exports and LNG flows surge

Data released by DESFA, Greece’s gas transmission system operator, indicate a year of strong momentum for the country’s natural gas sector in 2025, marked by rising domestic consumption, sharply higher exports and heavier use of critical infrastructure. Gas use within Greece increased to 70.16 TWh, up 6% year on year, confirming the continued role of

Region: US infrastructure firms eye Southern Gas interconnection linking Croatia and Bosnia Read More »

Region: US infrastructure firms eye Southern Gas interconnection linking Croatia and Bosnia

Several US infrastructure companies are exploring potential involvement in the construction of a gas pipeline linking Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Bechtel emerging as one of the most prominent interested parties. Representatives of the US construction giant have recently been in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess the commercial and regulatory conditions for possible participation

Europe: EU renewables near half of power demand as 2024 marks a structural energy shift Read More »

Europe: EU renewables near half of power demand as 2024 marks a structural energy shift

Renewable energy continued to gain ground across the European Union in 2024, with green sources supplying just under half of all electricity consumed. According to the latest Eurostat data, renewables covered 47.5% of gross electricity demand, a clear increase from the previous year that underscores a long-term structural shift in the EU’s energy system. This

SEE power trading prices in 2026: A fuel-CO₂-hydro model for thermal dispatch, cross-border spreads and coal supply risk Read More »

SEE power trading prices in 2026: A fuel-CO₂-hydro model for thermal dispatch, cross-border spreads and coal supply risk

South-East Europe’s 2026 power price formation will be dominated by a three-variable stack that has become more binding than any single national policy lever: the European gas price level that sets the marginal fuel cost for the region’s gas fleets, the CO₂ price that lifts the thermal floor in every EU-linked bidding zone and therefore

SEE thermal power and coal in 2026: A quantified forecast linked to hydro swings, CO₂ pricing, coal mining supply, and regional trading Read More »

SEE thermal power and coal in 2026: A quantified forecast linked to hydro swings, CO₂ pricing, coal mining supply, and regional trading

Thermal power in South-East Europe in 2026 will not be determined by a single “coal versus renewables” narrative. It will be determined by how much hydropower the region actually receives, how high the CO₂ price floor sits across European-linked markets, how reliably coal mining can deliver lignite tonnage to power plants, and how much cross-border

Hydropower in South-East Europe in 2026 with Serbia as the anchor: A quantitative forecast linked to prices, trading and balancing value Read More »

Hydropower in South-East Europe in 2026 with Serbia as the anchor: A quantitative forecast linked to prices, trading and balancing value

Hydropower will be the decisive swing factor for South-East Europe in 2026 because it is simultaneously energy, seasonal storage, and the region’s cheapest source of flexibility. The market has increasingly learned that the same installed hydro fleet can produce two radically different economic outcomes depending on inflows: in a wet year, hydro compresses day-ahead prices,

SEE gas infrastructure in 2026: LNG gateways, storage depth, market players, and the trends reshaping pricing and security Read More »

SEE gas infrastructure in 2026: LNG gateways, storage depth, market players, and the trends reshaping pricing and security

South-East Europe’s gas market has stopped behaving like a collection of national utilities buying pipeline molecules and passing them through regulated tariffs. It is turning into a corridor-and-liquidity system where the marginal price is increasingly set by LNG access, storage withdrawal rates, and cross-border interconnector capacity rather than by any single long-term contract. The region

South-East Europe’s refining system and Serbia’s turning point under a MOL takeover Read More »

South-East Europe’s refining system and Serbia’s turning point under a MOL takeover

South-East European refining is not defined by refinery nameplates alone. It is defined by who controls crude access, who can finance inventories through cycles, and who owns the corridors that physically move oil. In this system, refineries behave less like isolated industrial plants and more like nodes inside a politically and financially constrained logistics network.

Europe: Grid build-out is stalling at the equipment and integration layer: A near-sourced execution solution from South-East Europe Read More »

Europe: Grid build-out is stalling at the equipment and integration layer: A near-sourced execution solution from South-East Europe

Europe’s electricity transition has reached a phase where policy ambition and capital availability are no longer the binding constraints. The limiting factor is execution. Transmission and distribution operators across the continent have secured investment envelopes that now push annual grid-related capital expenditure toward €110–130 billion by the late 2020s. Yet project timelines are slipping, EPC risk premiums

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