Renewable Energy
Renewable EnergyVena Energy, a Singapore-headquartered renewable energy developer, is set to invest ₱115 billion in renewable energy projects across the Philippines, expanding its portfolio to a combined capacity of 1,824 megawatts (MW). The announcement was made after President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Finance Secretary Frederick D. Go met with the company's executives in Singapore during
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Renewable EnergyThe UK government has approved one of the country's largest solar developments: the 450-megawatt Steeple Renewables Project in Nottinghamshire, pairing vast solar generation with 150 megawatts of battery storage so clean power keeps flowing after sunset. What the approval covers The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) granted a development consent order for
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Renewable EnergyIndia has set its sights on 100 GW of installed wind energy capacity by 2030, as the country's Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, inaugurated the eighth edition of Windergy India 2026 in Chennai on 8 October 2026. The three-day global wind energy conference brings together around 400 exhibitors from more than
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Renewable EnergyNew Delhi, October 8 — Tata Power, one of India's largest integrated power companies, has partnered with Norway-based Ocean Sun to bring membrane-based floating solar technology to India, starting with a 300 kWp pilot at its Mulshi reservoir in Maharashtra. The collaboration agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 2nd India–EFTA Prosperity Summit, a
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Renewable EnergyNorthland Power and ORLEN have finished installing all 76 turbines at Baltic Power, Poland's first offshore wind farm — the 1.1 GW project is on track for commercial operations later in 2026.
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Renewable EnergyEuropean Energy has formally opened its first Baltic battery storage facility — a 25 MW/65 MWh plant integrated with its 78.5 MW solar park at Anykščiai, Lithuania.
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Renewable EnergyThree renewable energy projects — a 650 MW wind farm in Ukraine, a 180 MW wind-solar hybrid on the Polish-German border and a cross-border heating network in Austria-Germany — received EU cross-border status on 1 October 2026, opening the path to EU funding.
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Renewable EnergyJapan's Sumitomo Corporation will take a 49% stake in a new 500-megawatt solar-and-wind project with battery storage in the Indian state of Karnataka, designed to supply electricity around the clock from renewable sources alone. The project, developed by Hero Future Energies (HFE), the renewable energy arm of India's Hero Group, is one of a growing
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Renewable EnergyDTE Energy has completed construction of the 100-megawatt Cold Creek Solar Park near Coldwater, Michigan — a $194 million project funded through Ford Motor Company's enrollment in the utility's CleanVision MIGreenPower program — moving Ford a step closer to its goal of assembling every vehicle it builds in Michigan with the equivalent of 100 percent
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Renewable EnergyDevelopers Renalfa IPP and Eurowind Energy have begun commercial operations at Bulgaria's 242 MW Tenevo complex — a 242 MWp solar plant paired with 311 MW/773 MWh of battery storage, described as Europe's first dispatchable renewable asset at that scale.
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Renewable EnergyFor the first time in history, global solar power generation has overtaken nuclear power over a full calendar year, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026 finds — a turning point in the global energy transition.
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Renewable EnergyGermany's net solar generation hit 90.2 TWh by 27 September — already more than the whole of 2025's 90 TWh — but the record is straining grids and fuelling a policy fight over incentives.
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News, stories and solutions driving change towards a greener and more sustainable planet for future generations.
The Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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ClimateGreen JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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Green JournalismWUFT's Rose Schnabel and the Miami Herald's 'Built on Sand' series share the 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for outstanding environmental journalism, announced 2 October.
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Green JournalismA new international planetary health journalism prize is calling on journalists to report one of the least-covered intersections in climate coverage: how demographic change shapes the health of the planet — and vice versa. The Demographics & Planetary Health Story Prize 2026, hosted by Johns Hopkins University institutions, will award $500 in each of two
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