Europe
Issues
Smart Cities
With the implementation of smart lighting, electric vehicle integration and charging and wifi hubs across cities, utilities are well positioned to utilise...
Energy & Grid Management
COVID-19 may end coal in Europe 5 years earlier says research...
Inflexible baseload coal will fade into Europe’s past more quickly than originally thought, with the pace of the transition being accelerated by more than five years.
Electric Vehicles
Slovenian electric plane “world’s first” to receive official certification
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has announced the certification of an electric airplane, the Pipistrel Velis Electro, the first type certification world-wide of a fully electric aircraft and an important milestone in the quest for environmentally sustainable aviation.
Finance & Investment
Offshore wind capex set to top oil and gas in...
Offshore wind capital investment is set to reach parity with that of both oil and gas in Europe by 2021, and surpass both sectors by 2022, due to plunging oil prices and increasing levels of offshore wind activity in Europe.
Renewable Energy
May sees renewable energy set a span of records in Europe
May approved to be a record month for renewables in multiple ways across Western Europe, with much of the continent’s energy provided by solar and wind, thanks to favourable weather conditions according to the Wärtsilä Energy Transition Lab.
Renewable Energy
EDF and partners finalise €2 billion funding for 550MW offshore wind...
French utility EDF has finalised funding for a €2 billion offshore wind project, along with its German and Canadian partners.
Europe & UK
EU carbon emissions fell 23% between 1990 and 2018 says EEA...
Carbon dioxide emissions in the EU fell by nearly a quarter between 1990 and 2018, thanks in no small part to the power sector.
Storage
EIB provides €1 billion in funding to support European battery industry
At a meeting of the European Battery Alliance on Tuesday 19 May, European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice-President Andrew McDowell, confirmed the Bank’s commitment to supporting a strong, independent European battery industry.
Data & Analytics
Winners of European Energy Data Access Pilots competition announced
In the beginning of April 2020, a group of leading European grid operators announced a Europe-wide competition to select pilots of innovative energy products and services that need access to metering data.
Electric Vehicles
Europe’s EV sales double in Q1 2020, despite COVID-19
Registrations of new of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe doubled in the first quarter of 2020 by 100.7%, despite the pandemic.
Renewable Energy
Europe set to break solar records in 2020 says Solargis
Following solar production records set in the UK, Germany and Spain in March and April, the European solar market is set to break further records in 2020, according to Solargis
