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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.

Terabase Energy's next-generation automated solar construction platform completes field testing and enters commercial deployment, targeting 10 GW annual capacity by 2027.

Brent crude has surged more than 50 percent since the Strait of Hormuz closure, and European consumers are responding by dramatically accelerating purchases of solar panels, heat pumps, and electric vehicles.

The IEA's Electricity 2026 report projects renewables and nuclear will reach 50% of the global power mix by 2030, but warns that 2,500 GW of projects are stranded in grid connection queues.