Renewables, fossil phase-out, grid and storage.
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The climate crisis is largely an energy problem: the great majority of global greenhouse gas emissions come from producing and using energy. This section tracks growth in renewable capacity, investment in storage and grids, fossil phase-out timelines, and the security-of-supply debate — checking capacity announcements against actual generation data.
The Hormuz supply crisis has revived a decades-old plan to link national grids and trade clean electricity across borders, but financing and regulation remain hurdles.
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The Hanwha-owned manufacturer is field-testing full-size panels that pair silicon with perovskites, a technology that has set lab records but struggles with durability.
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An Izmir administrative court suspended the project's zoning plans and building permit, citing protections for olive groves and special-crop farmland.
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The 1.3-gigawatt Dama Solar farm will move straight into construction and is expected to start operating in the second half of 2028.
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The tech company will anchor upgrades at six existing reactors instead of new plants, a week after Constellation struck a similar deal with Amazon.
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Spain accounts for more than a third of the exposed solar systems, and Turkey had 454, according to a Dutch study that urges operators to take admin panels offline.
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The Bill Gates-backed company plans a 400-megawatt stellarator power plant at a Tennessee Valley Authority site in East Tennessee.
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TagEnergy's 240-megawatt facility, built from 140 Tesla Megapacks, fed 70.5 gigawatt-hours back to the grid in its first four months.
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Midday solar surpluses and a late-June heat wave sent prices swinging between below zero and above 600 euros per megawatt-hour in the second quarter.
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Campaigners estimate the planned North Yorkshire site would burn 4.9 million metric tons of wood a year; Drax calls their figures inaccurate.
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Solar power already costs half as much as gas to generate across five of the region's biggest economies, and the gap is expected to widen by 2030.
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The Jintan facility stores air in caverns 1,000 meters underground and can generate for four hours at full output without burning natural gas.
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