Solar power has grabbed a foothold in Romania, with installed capacity expected to surpass 7 gigawatts in early 2026, driven by high demand, EU funding and over 290,000 commercial and residential consumers. The Eastern European country is rapidly installing solar to transition away from coal, enhance energy security, and meet …
Read More »AI Boom Faces Power Crisis without Global Renewable Surge
The global AI and data center boom will need acceleration of renewable energy rollout to avoid plunging millions of people into energy poverty as power bills jump, the founder of China’s major wind turbine maker Envision told the Financial Times. “For this AI revolution, lots of people may end up …
Read More »Africa’s Solar Boom Draws New Investment
This week, the World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation announced that they will funnel tens of millions of dollars into the budding African solar power sector. The two major global funding bodies are investing in non-profit organizations across the African continent to expand solar power projects with the tandem goal …
Read More »Europe’s Wind Bet Meets a Cold, Hard Energy Lesson
Europe has been trying to reduce its reliance on imported energy for four years now. It has had partial success, notably through demand destruction resulting from excessive prices. This month, part of Europe doubled down on that plan just as the United States grid presented an object lesson in the …
Read More »China’s Tarim Oilfield Records Solar Generation of over 2 Billion kwh
The annual solar power generation at PetroChina Tarim Oilfield, China’s third-largest onshore oil and gas field, has surpassed 2 billion kWh as of Sunday. To date, Tarim Oilfield has completed five centralized solar power projects with a total installed capacity of 2.6 million kilowatts. There are also 239 distributed photovoltaic …
Read More »China Aims for 15 Gigawatts of Solar Thermal Power by 2030
China looks to accelerate solar thermal power development in a new policy roadmap unveiled on Tuesday, with plans to have as much as 15 gigawatts (GW) of such installed capacity by 2030. Costs for the solar thermal power, which differs from solar photovoltaic (PV) as it is used to heat …
Read More »Equinor Suspends Work on $3 Billion Offshore Wind Farm
Norway’s Equinor said it had suspended work on the offshore wind project Empire Wind 1 following a Monday stop-work order issued by the Trump administration. The order relates to a pause on the leases of five offshore wind power projects, declared by the Department of the Interior on national security …
Read More »Global Solar Power Expansion to Dip for the First Time ever in 2026
Amid major policy shifts, next year will see the first-ever decline in annual solar power capacity installations, following the weakest growth in seven years in 2025, according to BNEF’s Global PV Market Outlook. Developers are set to add globally a total of 649 gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity in …
Read More »U.S. Solar Installations Soar as Developers Rush to Secure Tax Credits
The U.S. solar market saw a significant jump in capacity installations in the third quarter as developers ramp up activity and construction to qualify for the last investment tax credits that are being phased out by the Trump Administration. The industry added 11.7 gigawatts direct current (GWdc) of solar power …
Read More »Oversupply Warning Jolts India’s Solar Buildout
India’s solar sector has hit that awkward stage of adolescence where ambition seems to be outpacing demand. And now the adults in the room are issuing critical warnings. A new letter from the clean-energy ministry, quietly circulated to the finance ministry, urges lenders to think twice before showering cash on …
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