In the case of Europe, where renewable energy installations are booming, the grid is not ready to handle all that new inverter-based – not inertia-creating – supply.

Europe’s electricity grid is failing to keep pace with the renewable energy transition, according to a new report. With the EU announcing last week its roadmap to phase out remaining Russian ...

The European Commission wants to drive down Europe’s energy costs, but it must do so while stimulating massive investment into an ageing electricity transmission and distribution grid – and ...

June was the hottest on record in western Europe, fuelling a rise in the use of air conditioning and prompting a sharp ...

It is designed to deliver up to 100 hours of storage, enabling multi-day energy shifting to support renewable integration.

Zenobe, a grid-scale battery storage specialist, and Wartsila Energy Storage have launched a project designed to store excess ...

A German power utility specialising in renewable energy was hit by a serious cyber-attack two weeks ago that lasted five days, knocking its internet communications systems offline, in the first ...

The system held up All of the technical preparations, said Kharchenko, were completed at 1 a.m. Eastern European Time (EET) on Feb. 24. The Russian invasion began four hours later.

In France, while outages were brief, the interconnected grid meant that Spain’s failure had ripple effects, underscoring the need for robust backup systems. The European Commission’s call for ...