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Developers plan to bring approximately 44.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of new pipeline capacity online in the United States in 2026 and 2027, according to our latest Natural Gas Pipeline Projects Tracker. Approximately 70% (31.6 Bcf/d) of this new capacity is already under construction. More than 66% (29.7 Bcf/d) of the capacity additions originate in Texas. Louisiana is second with 19% (8.4 Bcf/d) of total capacity additions.

<p>Canada’s solar and storage industry is growing by leaps and bounds, projected to expand by a third or more over the coming year. Training enough solar installers to keep pace... <a class="view-article" href="https://solarbuildermag.com/canada/canadian-programs-aim-train-more-solar-installers/">View Article</a></p> <p>-- Solar Builder magazine</p>

<p>Utility-scale solar and storage company RES has opened a warehouse facility in Houston, Texas, to provide support to its growing solar and storage O&#38;M business. RES manages a growing portfolio of solar, BESS and wind assets across North America, and the Houston facility will play a direct role in supporting those assets. As RES&#8217; primary U.S.&#8230;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/05/res-opens-om-warehouse-facility-in-texas/">RES opens O&#038;M warehouse facility in Texas</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com">Solar Power World</a>.</p>

<p>Solar energy now accounts for most new generation capacity added to the U.S. grid, solar and storage accounted for a majority of the capacity growth coming from renewables last year and a variety of solar-adjacent home energy technologies have become staples of residential energy systems. Concurrently, installation is taking longer, systems are harder to get&#8230;</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/05/passive-solar-commissioning-is-dead/">Op-ed: Passive solar commissioning is dead &lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&#039;color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;&#039;&gt;Long live active solar commissioning&lt;/span&gt;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com">Solar Power World</a>.</p>

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While Germany is often described as the 'hottest' energy storage market in Europe, growing uncertainty on multiple policy and regulatory topics has led to a 'cooling' of investor interest.

CATL will supply the BESS units for Grenergy's two large-scale energy storage projects in Spain, both of which have decade-long tolls.

Solar-plus-storage projects are proliferating across the globe and necessitate a choice between DC and AC coupling. In this piece we look at the differences and pros and cons of each.

It’s set to be an abnormally hot summer this year — but the U.S. grid appears to be in decent shape to handle the heat. The credit goes to a boatload of new solar and storage and a handful of new gas plants. That’s the upshot of the new summer reliability assessment from the North American Electric Reliability…

Forrest Bagley was eager to dive into Illinois’ community solar market. The solar company he owns with his father and brother had successfully developed arrays in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, and generous state incentives for community solar plus ample open land made Illinois seem an ideal new frontier. Now,…

India is seeing its first major grid-scale battery storage deployments, but efforts to domesticate the upstream supply chain are still at an early stage.

Gujarat Industries Power Co Ltd (GIPCL) is holding a competitive solicitation for a large-scale vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage project in western India.

Mining giant Fortescue has commenced construction on a 650MWh battery energy storage system at Cloudbreak in Western Australia's Pilbara region, alongside the 690MW Turner River solar PV power plant.

Queensland's Swanbank battery energy storage system (BESS) earned AU$743,000 (US$532,608) in dispatch revenue last month, more than double the AU$306,000 generated by the Victorian Big Battery over the same period in Australia.

<p>A major change in the way that China measures its core climate goal has effectively...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-new-carbon-metric-leaves-germany-sized-gap-in-its-emissions/">Analysis: China’s new carbon metric leaves Germany-sized gap in its emissions</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org">Carbon Brief</a>.</p>

<p>At Perth&#8217;s Curtin University in Western Australia, Lina Hockaday is leading a team researching the use of waste brine to upgrade iron ore in a different way, so it can be used to make green steel. Right now, most of Western Australia’s Pilbara region iron ore is simply ground and crushed. That works for coal-powered [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.solarpaces.org/could-waste-brine-from-desalination-plants-help-make-steel-greener/">Could waste brine from desalination plants help make steel greener?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.solarpaces.org">SolarPACES</a>.</p>

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El listado preliminar de la segunda convocatoria del programa REPOTEN 2 de ayudas a la renovación de parques eólicos antiguos e instalaciones hidroeléctricas de hasta 50 MW incluye 149 proyectos seleccionados.

SolarPower Europe estima que la generación solar en la UE está considerablemente infravalorada, y afirma que la producción fotovoltaica real en 2025 alcanzó los 410 TWh, frente a los 275 TWh que figuran en las estadísticas oficiales. La organización atribuye esta diferencia al registro incompleto de las instalaciones fotovoltaicas en tejados, a los retrasos en la transferencia de datos y a la dificultad de cuantificar la electricidad solar autoconsumida.

Researchers from UNSW and DAS Solar developed a zero-busbar metal grid optimization approach for tunnel oxide passivated back-contact (TBC) silicon solar cells, enabling more efficient current collection at the rear surface while reducing silver consumption by 3–4 mg/W. The first TBC cells produced in mass manufacturing using this technique have demonstrated efficiencies exceeding 27%.

Naturgy señaló que este encuentro "refuerza la importancia de Nuevo León como uno de los principales polos industriales y energéticos de México".

el precio del barril West Intermediate Texas (WTI), de referencia en EEUU, caía un 5,5% antes de la apertura de los mercados europeos, hasta situarse en 91,2 dólares por barril.

French advisory firm Finergreen has sold its African operations to local management teams and will refocus its strategy on Europe and Asia, where it says its main growth opportunities lie.

Research from the UK finds aerosols reduced global solar output by 5.8% in 2023, equivalent to 111 TWh. While China accounted for over half the global total in 2023, the country is the only major solar-producing region found to be demonstrating a decline in annual losses.

California-based Inlyte Energy plans pilot projects in Switzerland and the United States this year to demonstrate its iron-sodium battery technology for data centers and utility-scale energy storage applications.