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A new KfW study says Germany must more than double its yearly climate investment, and it leaves the hardest financing problem on the balance sheets of municipal utilities.
In a single week Westinghouse placed orders with Polish suppliers, ČEZ filed the environmental documentation for its small modular reactor and Slovakia took full control of its Bohunice project, as the region's four nuclear programmes take four different routes.
The Innovation Fund's latest call gave €3.4 billion to 77 projects, and Central and Eastern Europe did well in manufacturing and small projects but won nothing at large scale, ahead of a €1 billion manufacturing topic in December.
Drinking water in the United States has become 62% more expensive in ten years, while Eurostat shows Hungarian water prices did not move at all over the same period – two extremes that give two bad answers to the same question.
Market data from Bavaria's state agricultural research institute show biogas plants earning 3–9 cents more per kilowatt-hour by producing in the most expensive hours instead of running at baseload, provided they invest in gas storage, larger engines and daily trading.
A BloombergNEF comparison of 37 markets shows German industry paying twice the US price per megawatt-hour, while fresh Eurostat data put Hungary near the top of the EU even before taxes.
A study commissioned by the European Biogas Association finds that European industry's demand for biomethane could reach 35 billion cubic metres a year by 2050, led by steelmaking and high-temperature processes.
The European Commission's new Water Resilience Investment Accelerator will help 20 pilot projects become bankable and attract private finance, with applications open until the end of October.
According to Wood Mackenzie, Europe's annual storage installations exceeded those of the United States for the first time in 2026, and Poland has become the world's top emerging market – while investors move from capacity payments to long-term trading contracts.
The Czech government's first biomethane support auction drew bids for more than four times the expected capacity, pushing down the price of the winning offers.
According to the latest BloombergNEF data, $327.5 billion flowed into renewable energy worldwide in the first half of 2026, while solar projects combined with storage attracted record investment.
According to the latest map from EBA and GIE, the continent's biomethane production grew by 17% in a year, but 95% of capacity is still concentrated in just five countries.