US engineer Jacobs will help build a $3.3bn, 3.5GW solar farm and a 4.5GW battery system in the Philippines to help it cut its dependence on coal for power generation.…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…

China Energy Investments today connected the first instalment of its 1GW offshore solar farm to the grid. Lying some 8km off the coast of Kenli District in Shandong Province, northeast…

Solar panels on an office building in the centre of Brussels caught fire on Tuesday, according to the city’s fire brigade and local media. The fire happened around 2pm in…

French banks have agreed to loan a German renewables company more than €50m towards to cost of building Europe’s largest floating solar power plant. Berlin-based Q Energy is planning to…

Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul and Australian mining company Fortescue have pledged to lay a 1,000km subsea transmission line to carry solar power from Africa to Europe. The agreement…

Singaporean renewable energy company Aslan Energy Capital plans to build a massive green hydrogen scheme in the northeast Mexican state of Sonora. According to website Mexico Business, the company, which…

The Vatican City is planning to fit enough solar panels to provide all of its 526 citizens and 5 million annual visitors with renewable energy. The plan, reported by Vatican…

Cimic Group company Pacific Partnerships has acquired the development rights for what will be one of Australia’s biggest solar farms, the 700MWac Cobbora Solar Farm on 3,000 hectares near Dubbo…

A Chinese company has connected the world’s biggest solar plant to the grid in northwestern Xinjiang, Reuters reports. The 3.5GW, 32,947-acre farm is in a desert area near the capital…

Texan solar energy company Recurrent Energy has secured €1.3bn in finance for a programme of solar and battery schemes in Europe. The company, a subsidiary of Ontario-based Canadian Solar, signed…

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) started building China’s biggest offshore solar farm on Sunday at Haibin harbour in Lianyungang city in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, Global Times reports. Costing $1.39bn,…

The Croatian arm of Mexican materials company Cemex has announced plans to fit solar panels to some of its plants. Cemex will cover the roofs of the Sv Juraj cement…

US start-up Solarcycle has announced plans to invest $344m in a factory to make glass for solar panels in Cedartown, Georgia. The aim is to make the solar industry more…

A green hydrogen project worth $2.5bn has been submitted for environmental review in Chile. Mejillones Ammonia Energy (MAE) aims to develop the Volta production plant in the Atacama Desert, which…

The small municipality of Utajärvi in central Finland has teamed up with the University of Oulu to work out how to make its own hydrogen to fuel vehicles and industry.…

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has announced plans to install solar panels on 10 million homes in the country. Writing on X, Modi said: “The people of India should have…

Indian conglomerate Adani has secured a loan of $1.36bn from a consortium of banks to build the world’s largest solar and wind park at Khavda in the western state of…