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German wind turbine maker Nordex more than doubled quarterly EBITDA and grew order intake 32 percent, confirming its full-year 2026 guidance.

Fudan University researchers built a flow battery using circulating zinc slurry instead of a fixed electrode, retaining 81.1% capacity after 5,500 cycles.

The Scottish Government granted offshore consent for Ocean Winds' 2GW Caledonia wind farm in the Moray Firth, backed by a £1.7 billion supply-chain commitment.

Masdar reached financial close on a $6.1 billion, 5.2 GW solar and 19 GWh battery project in Abu Dhabi designed to deliver 1 GW of round-the-clock clean power by 2027.

Ember data shows solar supplied 25 percent of EU electricity in June 2026, a record 52 TWh that outranked nuclear, gas, wind, hydro, and coal for only the third month ever.

Vattenfall began offshore construction on its 1.6 GW Nordlicht cluster north of Borkum, setting the first of 68 monopiles for the 980 MW Nordlicht I phase, with both wind farms slated to enter operation in 2028.

Fraunhofer ISE data put renewables at 61.8 percent of Germany's net public electricity generation in the first half of 2026, with record solar output of 43.2 TWh, while a separate ZSW and BDEW assessment finds renewables covered a record 57.7 percent of electricity consumption.

Engie Chile's standalone Tocopilla battery, built where a coal complex once stood, reached commercial operation with 116 MW / 660 MWh of capacity.

The IEA's World Energy Investment 2026 report finds $2.2 trillion flowing to clean energy against $1.2 trillion for fossil fuels, with solar alone attracting nearly $365 billion — close to $1 billion per day.

In April 2026, wind and solar produced 531 TWh globally versus gas's 477 TWh — the first month ever that renewables topped gas in global electricity generation.

The Interior Department paid Golden State Wind $120 million to abandon its Morro Bay lease; California subpoenaed the developer and its attorney general anticipates litigation.

Invinity Energy Systems has delivered 90 vanadium flow batteries to the Copwood VFB Energy Hub in East Sussex, forming Europe's largest such installation at 20.7 MWh, backed by UK government funding.