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Masdar to buy 550 MW Greek solar plant from Lightsource bp
Abu Dhabi's Masdar has agreed to acquire a solar plant of more than 550 MW in Greece from Lightsource bp, its first strategic investment through Greek...
Citicore secures $552 million for 900 MW of solar and storage in the Philippines
Citicore Renewable Energy Corp. has secured PHP 35.014 billion (about $552 million) in syndicated project financing from three Philippine banks for fi...
Maryland opens $200 million clean energy auction to replace lost federal tax credits
Maryland has launched Megawatts for Maryland, a closed-bid grant programme worth up to $200 million over two years for grid-scale renewables and stora...
Vietnam gives provinces a December deadline to support rooftop solar
Vietnam's government has ordered provinces to introduce household rooftop solar support policies by the end of December 2026 and called for battery st...
Batteries cut Australian solar farm shutdowns by more than half in a year
Solar farms in Australia's National Electricity Market switched off at negative prices 54% less in the September quarter than a year earlier, accordin...
South Korea's renewable capacity overtakes coal for the first time
South Korea's installed renewable capacity reached 41,040 MW on October 21, passing coal at 40,757 MW for the first time, according to Korea Power Exc...
Solar was Germany's largest power source in Q3 with a record 31.5 TWh
German PV systems fed 31.5 TWh into the grid in the third quarter of 2026, a 28.4% share that made solar the country's largest power source, according...
SEIA says solar and storage cut summer power costs in Texas and California by about $6 billion
Solar and battery storage saved about $3.55 billion in wholesale energy costs in Texas and about $2.5 billion in California between June and August 20...
Deriva secures $540 million for 350 MW Indiana solar project
Deriva Energy has closed about $540 million in financing from five banks for the 350 MW Sullivan County Power Project in Indiana, its largest solar pr...
Greece nears 20 GW of renewables as curtailment and storage delays squeeze solar producers
Greece's renewable capacity excluding large hydro has passed 19 GW and should reach almost 20 GW by the end of 2026. But curtailment reached 1,905 GWh...
Australia's grid connection queue overtakes installed capacity for the first time
Projects seeking connection to Australia's main grid now total 80.9 GW, more than the 77 GW already installed, according to AEMO's latest quarterly sc...
Aiko to convert a PERC plant into 6 GW of back-contact cell capacity
Chinese manufacturer Aiko Solar plans to turn its Tianjin PERC cell factory into 6 GW of all-back-contact (ABC) cell capacity, at an estimated cost of...