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Germany grants Northvolt $750m subsidy for battery plant despite budget freeze

'Nuclear can both complement and compete with renewable energy in the race to net zero'

CIP sets up 'world's largest fund' to finance 10GW renewables in booming middle-income countries

Germany's biggest solar manufacturer threatens to shift production to US

China's Goldwind claims shipping industry's 'first major green methanol supply deal' with Maersk

European Parliament beefs up EU's answer to US and Chinese clean tech competition

Northvolt eyes global storage markets with 'cost-effective' sodium-ion battery

'Industrial fairy tale' | Siemens Energy opens hydrogen electrolyser gigafactory in Berlin

Enel sells Chilean solar portfolio to Sonnedix for $556m

Corporate Renewables

Wave energy power plant will be 'one of world's first' to use fossil free steel

Shanghai plans offshore wind-powered green hydrogen pilot by 2026

Algeria eyes pipeline under Mediterranean to supply 10% of Europe’s hydrogen

Chicken feathers can help generate clean energy, say researchers

EU energy ministers agree on CfDs as norm for future wind and solar support

Integrated energy storage to become standard at all future EnBW solar farms

Masdar plans to develop 10GW of renewable capacity in Malaysia

Europe's largest producer of green power looking for new CEO

EU adopts renewables target hike and eased permitting

Q Energy starts building Europe's largest floating solar plant

Europe's top wind and power groups ring alarm bells on lack of grid space for renewables

Spanish investment firm plans to turn German coal major into relevant green power player

Scholz pledges 10 times more geothermal heating by 2030

ANALYSIS

Has the time come for wind and solar manufacturing subsidies in Europe?

'Solar Autobahn' | Projects on farmland and next to motorways sweep German auction

A YEAR OF IRA

Meyer Burger strengthens US expansion backed by billions of IRA subsidies

German cabinet passes solar package to boost additions to 22GW per year

'Largest in Europe' | Shell's Sonnen eyes 1GWh virtual solar storage to stabilise power grid

Massive new wind farms could help power Europe's biggest LNG plant – but will Greta Thunberg be back to protest?

Germany adds record 8GW of new solar and wind capacity in H1

Renewables meet record 52% of German power needs but 'expansion must take place faster'

'Using all options' | German grids agency sees power line permitting speeding up

Germany asks solar manufacturers to signal interest in subsidies; indicates aid also for wind sector

'Not on track' | Renewables additions must triple to reach Paris pathway: Irena

Oman in 'leap forward' with Europeans and Koreans to use multi-GW wind and solar for green hydrogen

Baltic offshore wind power from Iberdrola 'big step towards climate-neutral steel'

'Producing green hydrogen only when wind and solar power is available would be cheaper than 24/7 operation': study

'Distortion of level playing field' | Energy ministers at odds on EU power market reform

EU countries approve renewables target hike and cement eased permitting

Coal giant plans 'Europe's largest green hub' at 14GW with wind, solar, hydrogen and new battery tech

Meyer Burger may halt German expansion and instead boost US solar plant

'All signs point to growth' | German solar additions may top 10GW this year: BSW

Iberdrola firms sale of Mexican gas power business

'Central for offshore wind' | German TSOs apply speedy permitting for first HVDC line

Germany plans 'climate CfDs' to support industry's green transformation

RWE builds one of Germany's largest battery storage systems

Norway's oil fund, Iberdrola may add a further 500MW to joint renewables portfolio

Oxford PV pushes commercial-sized solar cell to 'world-record' efficiency

'Much light, little shadow': Germany launches PV strategy to speed up solar boom

Ikea to help Meyer Burger boost gigascale US solar panel output

EDPR $20bn plan sets massive new renewable expansion goals

RWE buys 'very advanced' 6.1GW UK solar and battery storage project pipeline

Iberdrola backs solar panel manufacturer setting up 'industrial scale' factory in Spain

BayWa builds central Europe's largest floating PV plant on former gravel pit

Thirty-billion-dollar bill from ailing nuclear fleet pushes EDF into massive loss

Green power loses competitiveness in Asia-Pacific on inflation and interest rates

Gasunie plans to pipe hydrogen from Norway and offshore wind to Germany

Crucial EU renewable energy policy talks halted as Brussels squabbles over hydrogen rules

CIP, Amberside Energy team for solar and storage 'portfolio of scale' in UK

'Leading green hub' | OX2 plans to link gigascale Finnish offshore wind to 3GW hydrogen output

Iberdrola to build debut French floating solar plant on gravel pit basin

Norway's oil fund and Iberdrola invest in 1.3GW of Spanish solar and wind

Germany's first megabattery installed linked to Moselle hydro plant

Wind sector warns of changes to French renewables law that is about 'keeping the lights on'

Renewables meet nearly half of German power needs as prices soar on 'Russian escalation'

'New dynamic in expansion' | Germany adds nearly 10GW of wind and solar in 2022

'Better starting position' | German regulator raises price cap for wind and solar tenders

Renewables nearly half of Germany's power as sector pushes for 'hydrogen law'

'Lifeline amid energy and climate crises' | EU solar additions jump by nearly 50% this year

'Standard for global climate policy' | EU agrees on carbon border tax, widening ETS

Germany enacts renewables revenue skimming to pay for power subsidies

EU to ease state aid rules for green energy as US 'IRA could lead to unfair competition'

New Danish government to set up energy crisis team to speed up solar and wind expansion

'Way we have to go' | EU advances on carbon border tax, stalls action to boost renewables

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