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China's wind and solar curtailment jumps 49% as plants generate more but earn less
An estimate by CREA and Global Energy Monitor puts China's combined wind and solar curtailment at 360 billion kWh in the first half of 2026, up 49% ye...

China's JA, Longi and Tongwei report wider nine-month losses as solar revenue falls
Three of China's largest solar manufacturers lost a combined CNY 15.1 billion (around US$2.2 billion) in the first nine months of 2026, more than a ye...

Australia's rooftop solar is heading for its biggest year ever, running 41% ahead of 2025
Australia installed 305 MW of rooftop solar in October, about 16% more than a year earlier, and SunWiz says the January–October total is the highest o...

Türkiye targets 175 GW of wind and solar by 2040 in new national energy vision
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has presented Türkiye's "National Energy 2040" vision, which aims to quadruple wind and solar capacity to 175 GW a...

European solar module prices rose across every technology in October, ending two months of declines
sun.store's PV Index shows European module prices up across all technologies in October, with Full Black rising 13.3% to €0.144/Wp and TOPCon bifacial...

Sunrun's battery attachment rate hits a record 75% as its solar installations fall 15%
US home solar company Sunrun reported a record 75% storage attachment rate and 5.0 GWh of networked storage in the third quarter, while installed sola...

Storage and hybrid projects take 45% of India's Q3 renewable auctions as solar slows
Battery storage and hybrid projects made up 45.2% of the 12 GW of renewable capacity auctioned by Indian government agencies in the third quarter of 2...

NSW inquiry calls for data centres to run on 100% renewable power every hour
A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has recommended that data centres be legally required to supply their own 100% renewable electricity on an hou...

US solar stocks jump as Democrats win Congress and Georgia's utility regulator
Democrats won control of both houses of Congress and a 3–2 majority on Georgia's Public Service Commission in the US midterm elections, lifting renewa...

Solar capture prices have more than halved in Greece and Spain since 2022, ACER finds
A new analysis by ACER, the EU agency for energy regulators, finds that solar capture rates fell by more than half in Greece and Spain between 2022 an...

India approves ₹14,500 crore to fund 92 GWh of grid-scale energy storage by 2031
India's Union Cabinet has approved a ₹14,500 crore (about US$1.53 billion) viability gap funding scheme to support 92 GWh of grid-scale storage by 203...

India could have 135 GW of spare solar module capacity for export by 2030, IEA says
The IEA's India Renewable Energy Market Report 2026 finds that India's module manufacturing capacity has grown from about 22 GW in 2022 to 225 GW in S...