A decade of hydropower in the Balkans
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There are currently 3,188 planned hydropower projects across the Balkans, with around a hundred un...
The shifting landscape of hydrogen: a reality check and the need for a coherent strategy
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, hydrogen has captivated the imagination of the energy sector, garnering significa...
Corporate renewable procurement: greenwashing or key driver of the EU’s clean industrial deal?
In 2023, the amount of renewable energy purchased by businesses and corporations in Europe grew by over 52%, reaching 20 GWs. However, several academic papers like Bjorn, A. et al. (2022) have ...
Decarbonization is not enough: energy efficiency is the key to true progress
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Decarbonising our energy supply through renewable sources of energy is absolutely key. But if the ...
EU Sustainable Energy Week 2025: a fair and competitive green transition
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), the biggest event dedicated to renewables and effici...
Innovatec, a Single Player for the Various Challenges of the Energy Transition
The CO₂ emissions generated by the energy sector are constantly growing: in 2023, they reached a new record high of 37.4 billion tonnes. However, without renewable energy, the increase in emission...
Hera Group’s Solutions for Circular Decarbonisation
EU climate targets require businesses to undertake rather complex industrial decarbonisation. This radical transformation in the way companies manufacture products and consume energy necessitates th...
Renewable, Circular Energy Thanks to Biomethane from Landfills
In countries with highly developed networks, such as the U.S.A., Italy, Japan, and Germany, it is best to promote the consumption of alternative fuels on existing networks in support of strong elect...
Bernabei, CEO Enel Green Power: 10 GW of renewables and stop coal by 2027
Enel Green Power continues its drive toward an increasingly renewable mix within the Enel Group, one of the world's leading electricity producers. Renewable energy sources now account for 68.6 perce...
Energise Europe: interview with Kadri Simson, EU Energy Commissioner
During her five years as Energy Commissioner in Brussels, Kadri Simson faced one of the most complex and decisive periods in European energy history. The feat of cutting off Russian gas supplies; fe...
Electro! Shock!
Triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency by the end of the decade: this is the core of the global energy industrial plan adopted by 196 nations last December at COP28 in Dubai, at the he...
New Economy Turns 50
The authorship of a project is always collective, but somewhere there is a moment and specific people who trigger the process that, eventually, will lead to its realisation. This may sound like a cl...
The future of energy: interviews from RM50
The Think Tank section of issue 50 of Renewable Matter, focusing on Energy, is particularly rich and valuable. As always, we brought together for a virtual roundtable discussion some of the most aut...
A Roadmap for the Netherlands, European Leaders in Solar Energy
Some might consider it odd that a country certainly not renowned for being sunny has invested and believed so much in solar that it now ranks first in solar capacity per capita in the EU. After year...
The Energy Transition Opens the Doors to the Humanistic Engineering of the Future
Like a contemporary industrial revolution, the energy transition will change the global approach to the working world. More jobs, new roles, but most importantly, an innovative way of studying and t...
Electricity grids at the heart of the energy transition
The energy transition is accelerating rapidly. In Italy, according to the proposed update to the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (Piano Nazionale Integrato Energia e Clima – PNIEC)...