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Texas Solar Surpasses Coal as Batteries Rewire ERCOT
Sun beats coal in Texas: ERCOT’s 2025 grid turns solar-led, battery-boosted and evening-shaped—cheaper middays, sharper dusk ramps, and developers racing to deliver dependable nightfall megawatts.
Dec 10, 2025 // Storage, Grids, USA, Texas, North America, ERCOT, coal decline, solar milestone, grid storage
China Solar Stocks Jump as Rebates Axed
Beijing scraps VAT rebates on solar exports from April 1, sparking Chinese solar stock rally and speeding consolidation—boosting Trina, Jinko, JA Solar and LONGi.
Jan 12, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Jinko Solar, China, Asia, Trina Solar, LONGi
NSW Court Clears Hunter Solar-Battery Project, Trimming Risk
NSW court greenlights contested Hunter solar-plus-storage, setting a permitting precedent as coal retires. Legal certainty de-risks finance, speeds evening-peak batteries—and spotlights smarter mitigation and community engagement.
Feb 3, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, new south wales, permitting, court ruling
Equinix, ENEOS Sign 121 MW Japan Solar VPPA
Equinix inks Japan’s largest VPPA with ENEOS: a 15-year, 121‑MW solar deal delivering Non-FIT certificates from 2027, powering data-center growth and decarbonization while securing long-term revenues for developers.
Feb 17, 2026 // Plants, Japan, Asia, virtual ppa, data centres, Eneos, Equinix
CIP Backs Novar Push to 1.4GW by 2027
Novar powers up with €160m CIP loan—expandable to €260m—to fast-track Dutch solar, storage, acquisitions, and grid works on the path to 1.4 GW by 2027.
Mar 5, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Europe, Netherlands, Novar
Qair Signs 192-MW Brazil Solar PPA With LPG Distributor
Qair inks a 192MW Brazil solar PPA with an LPG distributor—bankable, long-term, traceable clean power that strengthens budgeting and boosts renewables delivery amid grid constraints.
Mar 26, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PPA, South america, Brazil, Qair, corporate offtake
Sunview, Cypark Plan 595-MW Floating Solar With Storage
Sunview and Cypark target Malaysia’s 595-MW floating solar with battery storage—boosting SEA PV scale while easing land pressure and leveraging cooler water, if monsoon engineering proves viable.
Apr 6, 2026 // Plants, Storage, Floating PV, Malaysia, Battery Storage, Asia, Floating solar, Cypark, Sunview
Graphic Packaging Locks Texas 250-MW Solar VPPA
Graphic Packaging locks in renewable attributes and hedges Texas power costs with a 250MW solar VPPA—no electricity delivered—using financial off-take to boost bankability and cut ERCOT volatility.
Apr 29, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, vppa, corporate renewables, Graphic Packaging
Innovative software modules for efficient excess thermal energy recovery
After nearly two years of data collection as well as software advancement, EU-funded project, EMB3Rs, is nearly all set to expose the best manner ins which sector can re-use excess thermal energy.
Nov 3, 2021 // Technology, Software, Thermal, Portugal, Europe, European Science Communication Institute, ESCI, EMB3Rs, Information Systems business, PDMFC, David Fernandes
Canadian 400 MWac merchant solar plant protects funding
The project will operate at a profit in part thanks to an emissions plan introduced by the province of Alberta on January 1. The plant will have the ability to sell its carbon certificates.
Feb 4, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, North America, Dan Balaban, Christian Skakkebaek
Canadian pension huge launches UK renewables business
Renewable Power Capital will certainly buy solar, onshore wind and also battery storage space
Dec 10, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, canada pension plan investment board, Bruce Hogg, Mark Hanson, Mariano Berges, Steve Hunter, Renewable Power Capital, CPP
Pexapark: European PPAs to exceed 10GW capacity in 2021
Power acquisition contracts (PPAs) in Europe can go beyond 10GW of renewable energy capability this year as bargains have already started to rebound after a COVID-19 stagnation.
Jan 23, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Power Purchase Agreements, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, PPA, Iberdrola, AIIB, solar ppa, european solar, spanish solar, spain solar, amtech europe, Luca Pedretti
India needs US$ 500bn financial investment to get to 2030 targets
India's renewables market will require to amass investments of around US$ 500 billion in order to meet its target of 450GW of tidy energy capacity by the end of the years.
Feb 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, India, Asia, IEA, Tim Buckley, Saurabh Trivedi
California firm contracts ‘astoundingly’ cheap solar-plus-storage pipeline
The US state of California has witnessed yet another claim of ultra-low solar prices, recorded in the context of a major contracting exercise by a community energy group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tariffs, California, USA, Nick Chaset, EBCE, sPower, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, 8minutenergy, terra-gen, 8minute Solar Energy
Why Solar Energy Stocks Are Dropping Like a Rock
Investors are afraid of solar energy right now, but the long-term prospects of the industry are improving.
Oct 2, 2019 // Inverters, USA, SunPower, China, First Solar, Enphase Energy, Europe, JinkoSolar, Asia, solaredge technologies, North America