Solar PV and wind are now the cheapest sources of power, with co-located hybrids increasingly delivering round-the-clock electricity at fossil fuel-competitive costs in high-resource regions, according to a new report by IRENA.  

Chinese renewable energy solutions provider Envision Energy will explore renewables opportunities in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, with Nova Scotia-based Cape Breton China Corp.

Denmark-headquartered independent power producer (IPP) Ørsted has purchased a 150MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Michigan, US, from developer ESA Solar Energy.

Sumitomo Electric will supply a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage system to enable grid integration of wind energy in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

TotalEnergies is pushing ahead with a co-located battery storage and gigawatt-scale wind project in Kazakhstan, Central Asia.  

Energy firm RWE added 2GW to its US operating capacity in 2025, bringing its total operational capacity to nearly 13GW across the country.

More needs to be done to cement energy storage’s vital role in European energy resilience, writes Teresa Casacchia, head of storage at Baywa r.e.

DNV has forecast that the MENA region will add 860GW of new solar PV by 2040, and energy storage capacity will grow 10x by 2030.

Developer Apex Clean Energy has announced financing of three utility-scale renewable energy projects across Texas, Ohio, and Illinois, including the Raven Storage project in Wharton County, Texas.

Curtailment of solar PV and wind continued to increase in Chile last year and passed 6TWh according to the Chilean renewable energy and energy storage association ACERA.