Renewables

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.

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.

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.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers's 2026-27 budget pivots clean-energy policy from industrial subsidies toward consumer-side regulation, funding a new Clean Energy Regulator body for distributed solar, batteries, and EVs while cutting Hydrogen Headstart, Solar Sunshot, and Battery Breakthrough.

Fervo Energy, the Houston enhanced geothermal developer behind Utah's Cape Station, filed an S-1 with the SEC on April 17 to list on the Nasdaq as FRVO, with banks led by J.P. Morgan and a private valuation around $3 billion.

China Huaneng Group fully energized the 504 MW Shandong Peninsula North L offshore wind farm on April 7, 2026, installing 42 twelve-megawatt turbines on jacket foundations in 52 to 56 meters of water — the deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind project ever built in China.

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%.

Pattern Energy's 3.5 GW SunZia project in New Mexico—the largest clean energy infrastructure project in US history—started commissioning in April 2026, delivering power across a 550-mile HVDC line to California and Arizona.

Swiss researchers set a new certified record of 30.02% efficiency for a triple-junction solar cell combining silicon with two perovskite layers, published in Nature.