Every 15 minutes, across dozens of European power markets, a financial settlement mechanism reconciles the gap between what energy participants planned to produce or consume and what actually happened. The imbalance price, applied to each Balance Responsible Party’s deviation from its scheduled position, is one of the least visible and most consequential pricing signals in the European electricity system.
UK electricity prices remain among the highest in Europe, with domestic consumers paying more than in all but one EU country during the first half of 2025, according to the House of Commons Library.
The Huai’an Salt Cavern Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) project in Jiangsu Province, China, has entered full operation, marking a significant milestone in long-duration energy storage deployment.
A new study led by researchers at the University of Sheffield suggests that without rapid power sector decarbonization and tighter oversight of supply chains, the global push toward green hydrogen could fall short of its climate objectives.
Germany’s ambition to anchor a hydrogen based industrial transition is colliding with hard infrastructure timelines and unresolved cost pressures. That tension is visible in the decision by transmission system operator Ontras Gastransport to commission nearly 110 kilometers of hydrogen pipelines to supply steelmaker Salzgitter, even as large parts of Europe’s green steel pipeline remain exposed to market uncertainty.
China’s Huawei will supply batteries to British power producer Aggreko for what both companies describe as Brazil’s largest energy storage system to date, supporting renewable microgrids across the state of Amazonas.
London has unveiled what is believed to be the UK’s first large-scale circular economy hub for construction materials, designed to keep resources in circulation rather than sending them to landfill.
DRIFT Energy and Enapter have signed a collaboration agreement to adapt anion exchange membrane electrolyser technology for deployment at sea, a move that directly addresses one of the sector’s most persistent technical bottlenecks.
Roughly one third of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are already absorbed by the ocean, according to long standing global carbon budget estimates. As emissions trajectories continue to overshoot mitigation pathways, U.S. lawmakers are now pushing to examine whether that natural sink can be responsibly enhanced through targeted intervention.
TotalEnergies has agreed to sell a 50 percent stake in a portfolio of 11 battery storage projects to Allianz Global Investors, advancing nearly 800 MW of new capacity scheduled to enter operation by 2028.
