The European Commission has announced that it has approved a €1.1 billion French state aid scheme aimed at supporting strategic investments in clean technology manufacturing capacity in line with the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal objectives.
India has added over 52 GW of new power generation capacity during the first ten months of the 2026 financial year, a new record.
Zimbabwe has announced plans to build a solar power panel manufacturing plant, marking a shift in its energy and industrialisation strategy. The plan hopes to attract foreign investment into renewable energy and clean technologies while building domestic clean energy production capacity.
Ed Miliband, UK’s Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, has reduced a green energy subsidy after deciding it had overcompensated solar panel owners. He said that the Government would change the payments that people who installed solar panels under the Feed-In-Tariffs (FIT) scheme between 2010 and 2019 would receive.
China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) has won a contract to build a 7 MW floating solar power station for the University of Lagos (UNILAG) in Nigeria.
EDP of Portugal has commissioned a hybrid generation project that combines a 48 MW solar power plant with the existing 41 MW Pracana Hydropower Plant in Portugal. This is the first of its type for the company.
A report by Carbon Brief indicates that coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, the first year that this has happened since 1973.
Japan has announced it will invest $1.34 billion to encourage companies to use clean electricity, supporting industry and regions that switch to zero carbon power.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems reported that in 2025, the share of renewables in Germany’s net public electricity generation amounted to 55.9 per cent.
China has commissioned the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar power plant, a 1 GW installation off the coast of Dongying in Shandong province.