Renewable Energy
Renewable EnergyThe Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026 opens in New Delhi on 2 November, bringing participants from more than 130 countries together as India presses towards 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030.
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Renewable EnergyChina's desert wind and solar bases passed 157 GW of completed capacity by September 2026, with the first 94.53 GW batch largely in operation.
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Renewable EnergyMasdar has signed an agreement with Invest New Zealand to explore up to NZ$1 billion in solar, wind and battery storage projects, with co-investment open to local and Māori-owned businesses.
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Renewable EnergyEgypt's Cabinet has approved golden licences for two 900 MW wind projects in the Red Sea Governorate and the Gulf of Suez, totalling 1.8 GW.
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Renewable EnergyRenewable energy supplied 28.1% of US electricity in January-August 2026, up from 26.2% a year earlier, as wind and solar together beat coal and nuclear, EIA data shows.
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Renewable EnergyChina's combined wind and solar capacity reached 2.01 terawatts at the end of September 2026, the first time above 2 TW, with wind and solar covering 64 percent of the growth in electricity consumption.
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Renewable EnergyIRENA chief Francesco La Camera warns the world will add less clean energy capacity in 2026 than in 2025, for the first time in five years, as grids fail to keep pace with wind and solar.
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Renewable EnergyTürkiye’s renewable capacity passed 80,315 MW at end-September 2026, 63.1% of total capacity, with renewables generating 56.9% of September electricity.
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Renewable EnergyGujarat will now cover most of the cost of a rooftop solar system for hundreds of thousands of homes, after the state cabinet approved around 1,000 crore rupees in extra subsidy on 21 October 2026. Under the decision, a general-category household will pay only 10% of the benchmar
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Renewable EnergyChina Huaneng has fully grid-connected a 960 MW wind-solar-storage project in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, in a new step for combining wind, solar and battery storage into a single plant that can also help an existing coal-fired power station run more flexibly. The project was developed by a subsidiary of China Huaneng, one of China's largest
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Renewable EnergyFourth Partner Energy secures ₹750 crore for a Maharashtra hybrid project combining solar, wind and 750 MWh battery storage.
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Renewable EnergyThe NextEra renewables backlog reached approximately 36.7 gigawatts (GW) after NextEra Energy Resources added about 3.7 GW of new renewables and storage projects in the third quarter of 2026, the company reported on 21 October. Battery storage made up most of the new additions, at 2.4 GW, alongside 0.6 GW of solar and 0.7 GW
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Bangladesh will press developed countries at COP31 in Antalya to provide climate finance as grants rather than loans, State Minister Shama Obaed Islam said at a Dhaka briefing on 2 November.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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Green JournalismToxic Ground, a cross-border investigation into hidden landfill sites across Europe, has been shortlisted in the Environment and Energy category of the British Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismTürkiye's communications chief Burhanettin Duran urges solutions-focused climate reporting ahead of COP31 in Antalya, warning against 'green fatigue', as 1,400 of about 3,000 press accreditations are completed.
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Green JournalismThe Society of Environmental Journalists has opened book entries for its 25th annual awards for reporting on the environment. Books published in 2025 or 2026 are eligible, with the standard deadline on 21 December 2026.
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