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Can Poland dismantle the EU Green Deal with legal challenges?
Warsaw has challenged key pillars of President von der Leyen’s climate policy with the EU’s high court, and looks set to challenge more. If successful, it could upend EU energy policy.
Critical minerals are becoming the energy transition’s delivery constraint
The renewable energy sector is entering a more difficult industrial phase, where refining capacity, export controls and equipment bottlenecks increasingly shape project viability. Critical minerals are now becoming a defining constraint on project delivery.
Changes to EU ESG rules punish first-movers
The EU is once again scaling back a landmark regulation after delaying it twice, continuing a broader pattern of weakening ESG rules that rewards companies slow to comply — even as those same laggards remain exposed to far greater long-term climate risk.
How opening the UK’s grid to competition could cut bills and boost growth
Consumers are bearing the cost of an energy network that hasn’t kept pace with the demands placed on it. Emma Ford, CEO of Eclipse Power, argues that opening transmission to competition could help lower bills and improve grid resilience.
Hydrogen’s next phase will favour execution over scale
GlobalData’s Q2 2026 hydrogen market outlook points to a sector moving beyond announcement-led growth, with renewable power access, permitting and durable subsidy frameworks increasingly deciding which projects proceed.
An energy transition can help end our reliance on expensive fuel
Volatility sparked by the conflict in Iran is sending oil and gas prices soaring, exposing the risks of relying on fossil fuels.
Germany’s renewable sector: Reform, uncertainty and the race against the clock
Germany’s renewables boom has shifted the challenge from expansion to integration. As Berlin pushes ahead with reforms to subsidies, grid access and fees, growing regulatory uncertainty is testing investor confidence at a critical moment for the energy transition, writes Frederik Koenig, CEO of CC: Collective.
Global power’s $8tn pipeline faces a buildability test
Data points to an unprecedented global pipeline for power generation construction. But with most value still in early development, the industry’s defining challenge is no longer ambition. It is conversion.
Remote monitoring is scaling. Off-grid power is the constraint
As the need for remote monitoring applications grows, the issue of providing reliable remote power is becoming more acute. Dr Lee Juby, CEO at Fuel Cell Systems, explains how direct methanol fuel cells can help address some of the challenges associated with conventional micro-renewable power sources.
The nuclear renaissance is real in politics. It doesn’t exist as construction
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, politicians are selling a nuclear comeback – but almost no one in the West is actually building it. Behind the headlines lies a widening gap between rhetoric and reality, writes Hanna Skryhan.
North America’s energy transition is accelerating, but policy volatility is reshaping the winners
Renewables are set to expand their share of North America’s power mix by the mid-2030s, but the transition is becoming less predictable.