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When an independent analytics house such as Aurora Energy Research updates its annual battery market ranking, the headlines often focus on the usual heavyweights. Germany remains first. The United Kingdom follows. Italy continues to benefit from targeted support schemes. This year, however, the more interesting development lies further southeast. Romania

At Power Loop, we tend to read backbone announcements differently from the general market. Capacity numbers matter, but what matters more is what they unlock. The recent €12 million investment by Neterra into its Bulgarian backbone network falls exactly into that category. On the surface, this is a technology refresh.

On 30 April in Vienna, Michaela Lashova, CEO of Power Loop, will join the speaker line-up at the Frontier CEE conference organised by Platform Markets Group. Her participation comes at a time when the strategic foundations of digital infrastructure development in Central and Eastern Europe are under renewed scrutiny. A

In theory, most data center developments look solid on paper. The land is available, the demand is there, and the financing is structured. In practice, however, projects rarely stall because of ambition or capital. They stall because one assumption turns out to be wrong, usually the one about power. Anyone

Romania’s Mintia power plant is steadily moving from a large-scale investment to a structural element of the national energy system. Recent discussions at the Victoria Palace, led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, focused on the current implementation stage of the natural gas-fired facility developed by Mass Global Energy Rom. While

If you look only at the percentage, 2024 seems like a good year for nuclear energy in Europe. Output is up. The decline has stopped. Nuclear power still delivers nearly a quarter of the EU’s electricity. But the deeper story is not about growth. It is about how fragile the