Big Moves
Eskom launches 6 GW renewables tender
Eskom Holdings has launched a request-for-qualification process (RFQ) to select renewable energy partners for its Eskom Green phase 1 programme. The programme will cover up to 6 GW of utility-scale renewable energy and energy storage projects, including solar photovoltaic (PV), battery energy storage systems (BESS), wind and other renewable technologies.
News
Leader Energy begins construction of 400 MWh BESS in Malaysia
Malaysia-based Leader Energy Group Berhad has commenced construction of a 100 MW/400 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Pajam, Negeri Sembilan, with commissioning scheduled for 2027. The project is being developed under Malaysia’s Battery Energy Storage System bidding programme (MyBeST). Administered by Malaysia’s Energy Commission, MyBeST comprises four grid-connected BESS projects, each with 100 MW of power capacity and 400 MWh of storage capacity.
Interviews
The shift to clean energy is now irreversible: United Nations’ Simon Steill
The Action Agenda is a vital part of the work ahead. It's where business, investors, governments, cities and regions, and many more, come together to deliver real economy actions. In other words, it’s the fast lane to more implementation. Key to helping countries to put their national climate plans into practice. And there is value in strengthening it within the international process, to complement negotiations, which will remain front and centre. Getting almost 200 countries to agree on every word is incredibly hard but incredibly important. No single COP can fix this global crisis, but each takes meaningful steps forward.
Opinion & Perspective
Western US Electricity Markets and Affordable Power
The western U.S. grid is entering a historic period of transformation. Today, moving low-cost power across the region is often complicated by a maze of separate trading agreements among grid managers, known as balancing authorities (BA). New day-ahead markets are designed to change that by making it easier to share power across BAs, helping reduce electricity costs, strengthen grid reliability, and accelerate clean energy deployment across the West. However, the success of these benefits depends on the rules that govern how day-ahead markets operate and coordinate with one another.
Mega Trends & Analysis
SEA’s Energy Transition, Investments and Infrastructure Imperative
Southeast Asia is entering a decisive phase in its economic and energy development. Rapid industrialisation, urbanisation, rising incomes and the expansion of manufacturing and services are driving strong growth in energy demand, while the region’s increasing integration into global supply chains is creating new requirements for reliable and affordable power. At the same time, recent geopolitical disruptions have exposed the vulnerabilities of an energy system that remains heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels. The region must expand its energy system at scale while simultaneously making it more secure and diversified, and also reducing the sector’s carbon emissions.
Policy Watch
EU Priorities for COP31
COP31 must be a COP of implementation. The EU should use its political and economic weight to help translate the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake into concrete action: a just transition away from fossil fuels, scaled-up and accessible climate finance, strengthened adaptation and loss and damage support, and an accountable implementation framework grounded in equity, CBDR-RC, science, justice and human rights. This requires coherence between the EU’s domestic policies, its international climate diplomacy and its approach to finance, trade and economic governance.
Tech Talk
Enhancing Europe’s Grid Stability: Forced oscillation guidance on draft NC RfG 2.0
The ENTSO-E and WindEurope, jointly released the Technical Group on Forced Oscillations Report, to provide technical guidance on the proposed forced oscillation requirements introduced in the draft NC RfG 2.0. Although the report is non-binding, it is intended to form the technical basis for a future implementation guidance document after the EC formally adopts the revised network code. The report primarily focuses on wind power plants, although future requirements will also apply to other inverter-based power park modules, including solar photovoltaic plants and battery energy storage systems. As Europe moves towards an increasingly inverter-based power system, the report provides a practical framework for managing forced oscillations while highlighting the need for continued research and collaboration.
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Webinars & Videos
Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions: Webinar
The renewable energy transition is one of the most important development transformations of our time. If carefully planned and sustainably managed, renewable energy technologies present unique opportunities to generate positive outcomes - increased access to clean energy, climate change mitigation and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity. However, without effective governance systems and safeguards, it can also introduce environmental and social challenges and aggravate climate and disaster risks.
Knowledge Centre
Making California’s Electricity Cheaper: Report
Affordability is at the heart of almost every policy conversation across the nation, and California is facing a particularly acute energy affordability crisis — the state’s electricity rates are now the second highest in the nation and double the country’s average. Between 2000 and 2024, California’s electricity rates rose faster than inflation and became the highest in the contiguous United States, more than 50% higher than the US average. These prices are untenable, straining household budgets, and threatening the state’s electrification path to a climate-neutral economy. More than 80% of Californians rank lowering bills as a top or important priority for state leaders, and the state’s elected officials have a duty to address these intertwined problems for their constituents.
Finance
Green Hydrogen Under OBBBA: What Still Clears an Investment Committee
Roughly 60 clean-hydrogen projects, more than 4.9 million tonnes a year of planned capacity, were cancelled in 2025. The technology did not stop working. The economics only ever closed on a single subsidy, the demand never showed up at the price, and OBBBA just lit a fuse under the subsidy. Here is the arithmetic a 2026 investment committee actually needs. These were not fringe ventures. Air Products walked away from a multi-billion-dollar project; BP and Statkraft retrenched; S&P Global counts around 60 clean-hydrogen projects shelved in 2025. Every post-mortem lands on the same three causes: no bankable offtake, cost inflation through construction, and policy uncertainty. Two of those three are economic, and they are quantifiable. So let us quantify them, on June-2026 cost inputs rather than 2021 ambition.
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