Category: Energy

Cyprus private electricity market launches with 327 megawatts renewable capacity available   Cyprus will launch its competitive electricity market on 1 October 2025, marking a significant milestone in the Mediterranean island’s energy transition with approximately 327 megawatts of renewable energy capacity available for trading. The new market represents a major development in Cyprus’s energy sector, […]

China invests $625.000 billion in renewables, accelerating the global end of fossil fuels.   Alberto Noriega      12 September 2025          China’s renewable energy boom is already reducing its fossil fuel consumption and could trigger a global decline in oil, coal, and gas by 2030, according to Ember. China, once the engine of global […]

Net-billing to replace net-metering: What you need to know New system aims to ease grid pressure, encourage energy storage, and lower electricity costs for residents.   Cyprus is set to transition from the current net-metering system to net-billing for new residential solar energy systems, with the backing of the European Union. According to sources, this […]

Solar surge hits most of Europe in August In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that August 2025 marked one of the most productive months for European PV this decade, particularly across the western half of the continent. September 12, 2025 Solcast   Image: Solcast Most of Europe enjoyed a […]

School Rooftop Solar Project Recognized at The smarter E AWARD 2025 Published on: Sep 11, 2025, 1:23 pm405 school rooftops across Cyprus were installed with solar PV systems, combining energy savings and educational value in a national project. The Electricity Authority of Cyprus installed 4.9 MW of rooftop solar across 405 schools, reducing energy use while […]

Cyprus set to abandon net metering The Cyprus Ministry of Energy, Commerce says it will accept applications for new net metering and net billing systems until Oct. 1, 2025. While the government has not announced its next steps, pv magazine has learned that it plans to phase out net metering. July 17, 2025 Ilias Tsagas     Nicosia, […]

Cyprus wasted a sunny day’s worth of solar power, and burned fuel instead Technical glitch kept fossil fuel plants running, forcing solar cuts and adding €31,800 in pollution costs in just one day   Newsroom 02 JULY 2025 – 14:48 In a bizarre twist for sunny Cyprus, fossil fuel power plants pumped out more electricity […]

New EV grants open, but you’ve only got until October Buyers must register vehicles by October to get their grants, prompting concerns over timeline and funding limits.   Newsroom 02 JULY 2025 – 11:16  Cyprus is rolling out a new €2.5 million electric vehicle subsidy scheme, but only 260 spots are up for grabs, and […]

Go battery or go broke   OpinionSunday 23 February | 17:509 Comments By Karim Arnous    Cyprus desperately needs some solar energy storage to be deployed, but here’s why the energy ministry’s new scheme will not work If you’re lucky enough to have rooftop solar, check your energy app one of these days and you might […]

“We have free hot water”: How Cyprus has become a world leader in solar heating Alberto Noriega          4 October 2024         Harnessing the sun to heat water is nothing new in Cyprus. Since the 1960s, the island has been a leader in the adoption of solar thermal systems, a technology that […]