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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.

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.

Qcells began making solar cells at its Cartersville, Georgia plant, the first US factory to produce ingots, wafers, cells and modules under one roof.

In May 2026, solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity versus coal's 12.2% — the first month solar has outgenerated coal, according to Ember.

PG&E says it has connected more than 1 million customer solar systems to its grid, more than any US utility, as California leans on rooftop solar and home batteries.

The U.S. startup says its 100 cm2 mini-module reached 30.4% conversion efficiency and is now in third-party certification, as it pushes tandem solar from the lab toward utility-scale manufacturing.

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.

A new IRENA report introduces firm levelised cost of electricity for hybrid solar/wind-plus-battery systems and finds round-the-clock renewable power now beats new coal in China and new gas globally.

A Nature Energy paper from Nanchang University achieves 26.61% certified efficiency with cesium doping, while a private Chinese cell surpasses all single-junction silicon cells at 27.98%.

Chinese battery makers are racing to add stationary-storage capacity while Beijing phases out export rebates, a shift that could tighten margins abroad and deepen domestic grid-storage demand.

The International Renewable Energy Agency's latest data shows the world added a record 692 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in 2025, bringing renewables to 49 percent of total global installed capacity and within reach of the halfway mark for the first time.