Renewables

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.

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.

Fervo Energy priced 70 million shares at $27 each on May 13, surging 33% on its first trading day to push its market cap past $10 billion.

A PNAS study by University of Toronto and University of Ottawa researchers provides the first direct, decade-long measurements of white hydrogen discharging from an Ontario mine, extrapolating to 140+ tonnes per year at a single site.

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.