By 2025, Serbia emerged as one of the most structurally interesting renewable-anchored industrial locations in Southeast Europe, not because it offered the lowest electricity prices in the region, but because it combined energy availability, contractual stability and industrial readiness in a way few neighbouring markets could replicate simultaneously. While Romania, Greece and Bulgaria all possess larger renewable fleets,...
Across Europe’s energy, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors, artificial intelligence is no longer limited by algorithms. It is limited by data engineering capacity. Predictive maintenance, energy optimisation, demand forecasting, asset life-extension and process control all depend on vast amounts of industrial data that must be collected, cleaned, structured, validated and maintained continuously. This work is slow, methodical...
Across Europe’s energy and industrial landscape, regulation has shifted from being a legal overlay to becoming a core operational system. Compliance is no longer satisfied through periodic reporting or manual controls. It is increasingly embedded in software, data pipelines and audit-grade digital processes that must operate continuously and withstand regulatory scrutiny in real time. This transformation...
Europe’s energy transition and industrial modernisation are colliding with a constraint that is rarely discussed publicly but is decisive in practice: embedded software and firmware engineering capacity. As grids, plants, machines and devices become smarter, safer and more connected, the complexity of code running inside physical equipment has exploded. Control logic, real-time operating systems, safety layers,...
Industrial digital twins are moving rapidly from experimentation into the core operating logic of Europe’s energy and heavy-industrial systems. What began as pilot simulations for individual assets has evolved into continuous, regulation-adjacent engineering programmes covering power plants, grids, refineries, steel mills, cement kilns, chemical complexes, logistics hubs and water systems. The shift is structural: regulators, insurers, financiers...
Applied energy engineering is rarely treated as an industrial force in its own right. In most European energy discussions, engineering appears as an overhead line in EPC budgets, a cost centre rather than a value generator. Yet once engineering is scaled, stabilised and embedded into delivery pipelines, it begins to reshape physical supply chains. Nowhere...
Germany’s industrial challenge in 2025–2026 is no longer framed around competitiveness in abstract macro terms. It is defined at plant level, production-line level and, ultimately, at the investment committee table where a simple question dominates decision-making: can the next marginal unit of capacity still clear its internal hurdle rate if it is built, upgraded or...
When Serbia introduced dual carbon taxation starting in 2026, the immediate debate focused on numbers. At €4 per ton of CO₂ equivalent, many industrial operators initially treated the levy as marginal, almost symbolic when compared with EU carbon prices. That interpretation misses the point. Carbon pricing in Serbia is not about the first euro paid in tax;...
Europe’s metallurgical and critical raw materials supply chain is not being dismantled, nor is it being rebuilt in the way official strategies describe. Instead, it is being re-zoned. Carbon, cost and execution risk are being shifted away from Western Europe’s political and regulatory centre toward South-East Europe (SEE), not through dramatic relocations, but through a quiet...
Europe’s electricity system is entering a phase where engineering capacity, not capital or political will, has become the primary constraint. Across the continent, transmission and distribution operators are under pressure to connect unprecedented volumes of renewables, reinforce aging grids, integrate flexibility, and comply with increasingly complex regulatory requirements. The common bottleneck is no longer financing or...
