Renewable Energy covers the generation that is being built out: onshore and
offshore wind, solar from utility-scale projects down to rooftop installations,
auction results and strike prices. Grid-scale storage and battery factories
belong here too, because they are what makes that generation dispatchable, along
with hydrogen across the whole chain — electrolysers, import schemes, transport
and storage.
This category runs on figures that are easy to confuse: installed capacity is
not generated energy, an auction award is not a construction start, and an
announcement is not a commissioning. Where a report quotes such numbers, the
reference period and the source belong with them, and both are in the article.
Grids and connections, without which no farm feeds anything in, are covered
under Energy & Grid; offshore installation vessels and
ports sit under Shipping & Offshore.
A startup's deeper well has brought a struggling New Mexico geothermal plant back to full output, a milestone for an industry now drawing record investment.
France has selected five ports for nearly €260 million in funding to prepare infrastructure for its 6 GW floating offshore wind target, complementing a €63 billion CfD scheme cleared by the EU Commission.
Denmark's flagship Bornholm Energy Island project has seen its onshore building costs balloon by 1.7 billion kroner, an 85% overrun, raising questions about cost control.
FIC buys a 1.15 GW Texas solar-plus-storage platform, Plentify and Deye plan a 2.7 GWh VPP in South Africa, MaxSolar picks Sungrow for 125 MWh in Germany, and Eku Energy acquires a 600 MWh UK battery project.