Energy & Climate

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

A Nature study explains how mechanically soft lithium dendrites still crack the hard ceramic electrolyte inside solid-state batteries, causing short circuits.

ESS Tech and Juniper Energy signed a non-binding LOI to deploy 500+ MWh of sodium-ion storage, starting with an 80 MWh California project targeted for 2027.

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

Antares Nuclear closed a $470 million Series C, seven weeks after its Mark-0 reactor reached criticality, to build microreactors for US military bases.

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.

Ucaneo and Siemens opened a 150-ton-per-year electrochemical DAC plant in Berlin's Marzahn district, Germany's first project to combine direct air capture with permanent geological CO2 storage.

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.

A brutal early-July heat wave pushed PJM's forecast demand to 166.3 GW, threatening the grid's 165,563 MW record from 2006, as DOE ordered emergency fossil-fuel dispatch and data-center curtailment.

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.