Top 10 Renewable Renewable Energy Milestones: Solar, Wind, Hydrogen, and Grid Innovations Lead the Charge

Ameren Missouri has announced a major renewable energy milestone, unveiling three solar facilities set to transform Missouri's energy landscape. These state-of-the-art centers—the 200-MW Huck Finn Renewable Energy Center, and the 150-MW Boomtown and Cass County Renewable Energy Centers—will collectively add 500 megawatts (MW) of capacity to the state’s grid, enough to power 92,000 homes annually. The $950 million investment aligns with Ameren Missouri’s vision to advance clean energy and grid reliability. Read more >>

Premier Energy PLC, through its subsidiary Alive Renewable Holding Limited, completed the acquisition of a 90% stake in Development Power Solar Energy S.R.L., a company holding rights for a 49 MW DC solar park with a 16 MWh energy storage facility in Buz?u County, Romania. The project is expected to reach commercial operation by the second half of 2025, as per a report submitted to the Bucharest Stock Exchange. The acquisition was previously announced on June 17, 2024. Read more >>

Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust (DORE) has finalized the sale of its entire stake in the Gabrielsberget wind farm in Sweden, achieving a total return of approximately 54% over the investment period. The asset was acquired in January 2022 for ￡19.8 million and yielded €36 million (￡29.8 million) in sales proceeds and dividends during DORE's ownership. Read more >>

Better Energy has connected its second large-scale solar park in Sweden to the grid in 2024, located at Hovby Airport in Lidk?ping Municipality, V?stra G?taland region. The Lidk?ping solar park is expected to generate 24 GWh of renewable energy annually, enough to power approximately 4,800 Swedish households. Read more >>

Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the French Development Agency (AFD) on Wednesday to advance Serbia's energy transition efforts.The project will be financed under AFD's Program 2050, which supports low-carbon development models. Donations for the initiative will amount to €650,000. Read more >>

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a loan to JKP Novi Sadska Toplana, owned by the City of Novi Sad, according to eKapija. The funds will finance a solar-thermal plant with 38,600 square meters of collector fields, seasonal heat storage, a heat pump, and an electric boiler. Read more >>

Hynfra Energy Storage has secured 153 MW of capacity in Poland's main capacity market auction for the 2029 delivery year, the company announced. The winning bids included two projects: BESS9 in Warsaw, with a capacity of 100.2 MW and 200.4 MWh, and BESS10 in Zabrze, with a capacity of 203.7 MW and 814.7 MWh. Read more >>

Prim?ria Targu?or has lost a definitive legal battle against Eco Power Wind SRL, a company owning a wind farm in the area. The court ruling mandates the municipality to repay 1,129,803.86 lei, along with accrued interest and penalties from July 3, 2017, until full settlement. This decision poses a significant financial strain on the local budget. Read more >>

JSC Atsinaujinan?ios Energetikos Investicijos has sold its 100% stake in Energy Solar Projekty, a portfolio of photovoltaic farms in Poland with a total capacity of 66 MW, to a British investment management company specializing in renewable energy infrastructure. The solar installations, operational since 2020, mark the company’s first divestment. Read more >>

Smoltek Nanotech Holding AB (publ) ("Smoltek") announced that its subsidiary, Smoltek Hydrogen, has released a filmed interview featuring Dr. Felix Büchi, a leading expert in PEM electrolyzers. Dr. Büchi evaluated Smoltek's innovative Porous Transport Electrode (PTE) technology, which drastically reduces iridium usage without compromising performance. Read more >>