Renewable Energy
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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Renewable EnergyIRENA reports a record 693 GW of renewables added in 2025 — but annual installations must roughly double to hit the 11.2 TW COP28 tripling target by 2030.
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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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