Thursday, 1 October 2026

Ukraine and the EBRD are implementing 13 energy-sector projects with a total portfolio exceeding EUR 3 billion, according to Ukrinform.

Ukrainian energy companies require EUR 600 million in financing to stabilize the balancing market, Ukrinform reported.

A meeting between the president of Ukraine and the EBRD president focused primarily on preparations for the winter and support for Ukraine's energy sector, according to the report carried by GlobalSecurity.org.

Odile Renaud-Basso, president of the EBRD, said the main focus is on expanding generation and renewable energy, decentralizing the system and protecting it.

Spain's latest measures will limit October's regulated gas tariff increase to about 15%, according to Hurriyet Daily News. Without intervention, the increase would have exceeded 45%.

More than 3 million consumers use the regulated gas tariff.

The measures also cap the price of a butane cylinder at EUR 19.55 until June 30, 2027.

New York's Energy Affordability Program received 21,586 household applications during the first two weeks of a statewide enrollment campaign, according to information released by Governor Kathy Hochul's administration.

The campaign began on September 15, 2026, and was designed to raise awareness of assistance available to eligible households facing electricity and natural gas costs.

Applications ran at 12,694 in the week ending September 21 and 8,892 in the week ending September 28, bringing the total to 21,586.

Eligible homeowners with a heat pump application already in progress will automatically receive an additional boiler scrappage grant of EUR 2,000. The uplift is added automatically for those who qualify.

Combined with current grants for heat pump installations and related system upgrades, homeowners could access total support reaching EUR 14,500, according to The Journal.

On Sept. 30 the U.S. Senate passed the License to Drill Act by unanimous vote, with the House having cleared it in June, according to the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and Western Energy Alliance. The measure renews a federal oil and natural gas permitting program for another decade, keeping in place an industry-funded system tied to drilling permit reviews on federal lands.

At the center of the bill is the Permitting Processing Improvement Fund (PPIF), which the legislation reauthorizes. The fund channels fees paid on oil and gas drilling permit applications to priority Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field offices.

The bill next goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer would not commit to imposing recently enacted Russian sanctions, telling Semafor and two other outlets that the decision belongs to President Donald Trump.

The sanctions legislation gives the administration until Oct. 18 to decide whether to penalize countries by up to 100% over their use of Russian oil and gas, according to Semafor.

Greer said officials must produce a report and name names within 30 days, while the president will decide what action to take. Officials plan to name names this month, he told the outlets, though it is ultimately Trump's decision whether to enact the levies.

Greer made the comments in an interview on the sidelines of the G20 trade ministerial, according to Semafor.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced an annual funding opportunity of up to USD 400 million for research to advance scientific knowledge and support future technologies and innovation, according to the DOE.

The funding will support research across the DOE Office of Science, according to the DOE. That spans advanced scientific computing, basic energy sciences, biological and environmental research, fusion energy sciences, high-energy physics, nuclear physics, and isotope research, development and production.

The notice of funding opportunity, informally known as the Open Call, is issued annually at the beginning of each fiscal year, according to the DOE.

A new interactive tool maps thousands of US manufacturing projects that have been cancelled, stalled, delayed, or lost support following attacks on manufacturing by Congressional Republicans, according to Electrek.

The tool comes from the BlueGreen Alliance, Electrek reported. In total, the group analyzes 3,446 projects it says have been affected by Republican attacks on manufacturing.

A previous BlueGreen Alliance report says more than 111,000 jobs and USD 82 billion in investment were lost to Republican policies, according to Electrek.

US Senate negotiators introduced bipartisan permitting legislation on Sept. 30 to speed federal reviews and limit the window for legal challenges to energy projects, according to Oil & Gas Journal.

The measure, named the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, would set a 150-day window for certain challenges to federal permitting decisions, Oil & Gas Journal reported. It also aims to give developers greater certainty that approved energy and infrastructure projects retain their permits.

The legislation would reform Clean Water Act reviews that can delay energy infrastructure and establish more predictable environmental reviews, according to Oil & Gas Journal. The bill is designed to improve predictability for developers.