Southeast Europe's renewable energy transition is accelerating, with solar deployment surging across the region while policymakers, grid operators and investors grapple with challenges around storage, grid access and infrastructure development.

The European Commission (EC) is finalising its long-awaited Geothermal Action Plan, which is expected “before summer,” a senior energy official said at the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) in Brussels this week.

European renewables developer RP Global has pointed to negative hours and generation curtailments as common issues it sees across the seven markets it operates in Europe and has urged regulators to ensure clear rules that support market development.

As renewable portfolios become larger, more complex, and increasingly hybridised, the industry is entering a new era in which software intelligence and AI-driven technologies have become as critical as the generation capacity itself.