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.
A new Carbon Brief analysis finds India's power-sector CO2 emissions unchanged for two years running as record clean-energy growth absorbs all new demand.
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Sri Lanka has ended net metering for new rooftop solar installations, moving to a feed-in tariff scheme as the island's distributed solar market keeps growing rapidly.
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Brazil's solar module imports fell by nearly half in the first half of 2026, as widespread grid curtailment scares off utility-scale developers even as rooftop demand holds steadier.
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Ofgem wants battery storage developers to pay new security fees to hold their place in a grid connection queue that is running many times larger than the UK actually needs.
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France's Tiamat plans Europe's first sodium-ion battery gigafactory as manufacturers look to sodium's abundant supply to loosen China's roughly 80% grip on global battery production.
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A Texas school board's unanimous vote clears a key tax hurdle for Tesla's planned 10.1 billion dollar solar cell and module factory near Houston.
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Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar says Turkey will invest $28 billion in transmission infrastructure by 2035, nearly doubling grid capacity to support a target of 120 gigawatts of wind and solar.
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A new industry report finds that short electricity export licenses in Indonesia and Malaysia clash with the decades-long financing that cross-border clean power projects need, complicating Singapore's push to import 6 gigawatts of clean electricity by 2035.
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Revolution Wind's last turbine is now installed off Rhode Island, completing a $6.2 billion project the Trump administration twice tried to halt before courts overturned the orders.
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A new fire broke out at Vistra's Moss Landing battery site in California on Friday, more than a year after a catastrophic blaze forced the plant's shutdown and ongoing dismantling.
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A regional war disrupted oil and gas shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing some countries toward coal even as it accelerated the shift to electric vehicles and clean energy elsewhere.
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Mazama Energy's new funding will support drilling near Newberry Volcano as it tries to make next-generation geothermal power cost-competitive with fossil fuels.
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