Month: October 2026

Asia’s Energy Security & RE Ambitions: E3G Webinar

Asia’s Energy Security & RE Ambitions: E3G Webinar

October 9, 2026 |

In this webinar titled “Toward the next phase of AZEC – Aligning energy security and clean energy ambitions”, experts from E3G, Climate Integrate, the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) explore the future of the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) as it enters its next phase. Ahead of the fourth AZEC Ministerial meeting in the Philippines, the discussion considers how AZEC’s direction aligns with Southeast Asia’s evolving energy security priorities and clean energy ambitions.

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Generate Capital and KeyState close community solar fund

Generate Capital and KeyState close community solar fund

October 9, 2026 | , ,

Generate Capital has closed a $154.5 million tax equity fund with SOLCAP, KeyState’s tax equity investment platform, to finance 10 community solar projects across New York and Illinois, with a combined capacity of 43 MWac. This marks the sixth tax equity fund by Generate Capital and KeyState. The latest fund follows an $85 million community solar tax equity fund announced in October 2025, which is nearing final funding.

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Grenergy secures $457 million for solar and storage projects in Chile

Grenergy secures $457 million for solar and storage projects in Chile

October 9, 2026 | , , ,

Grenergy has secured $457 million in non-recourse senior financing for a portfolio of projects in Chile with a total solar capacity of 446 MW and energy storage capacity of 1.8 GWh. The financing covers Algarrobal, the fifth phase of the Oasis de Atacama project, which has 242 MW of solar capacity and 1,480 MWh of energy storage, and the Palmas cluster, comprising 21 distributed generation solar projects with a combined capacity of 204 MW and 289 MWh of storage.

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Making California’s Electricity Cheaper: Report

Making California’s Electricity Cheaper: Report

October 9, 2026 | , ,

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.

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EU Mid-Year Solar Market Update: Report

EU Mid-Year Solar Market Update: Report

October 9, 2026 | , , ,

The report highlights that, the first half of 2026 has shown a more resilient EU solar market than anticipated, but not an improvement in its underlying fundamentals. The renewed fossil fuel crisis has strengthened the economic and energy-security case for solar and supported demand in several markets, helping compensate for weakening support schemes and continued regulatory and grid constraints. Against this backdrop, preliminary country data indicate that the EU solar market grew slightly in H1. At the same time, the EU’s solar fleet once again demonstrated its strategic value, shielding consumers and businesses from fossil fuel price spikes and supporting Europe’s power system during a summer.

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Financing ASEAN’s Energy Transition: Report

Financing ASEAN’s Energy Transition: Report

October 9, 2026 | , ,

ASEAN has seen some success in getting capital to flow to utility-scale renewable energy projects. But that success does not extend downwards or outwards. Returns fall away sharply as project sizes shrink, storage sits at less than a third of the pipeline the region needs by 2030, and transmission earns single-digit returns that keep private capital away. Market design, more than capital or technology, is now the constraint for financing the region’s energy transition. This analysis finds that what complicates matters more is that ASEAN’s next phase of energy transition will move beyond utility-scale generation projects towards thousands of smaller distributed systems rather than a handful of large plants, on storage to absorb variable output, and on transmission to move power to where it is needed.

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Enery and Coca-Cola sign hybrid PPA in Bulgaria

Enery and Coca-Cola sign hybrid PPA in Bulgaria

October 8, 2026 | , , ,

Enery and Coca-Cola HBC Bulgaria EAD have signed a long-term physical power purchase agreement (PPA) for the supply of renewable electricity from the Knizhovnik hybrid power plant in southern Bulgaria. Under the agreement, Enery will supply clean electricity generated locally from renewable sources to Coca-Cola HBC Bulgaria every year, based on a fixed solar generation profile.

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Greenvolt bags financing for 253.1 MW wind project in Romania

Greenvolt bags financing for 253.1 MW wind project in Romania

October 8, 2026 | , ,

Greenvolt Power has raised € 284 million in project financing for its 253.1 MW wind project in Gurbănești, located east of Bucharest, Romania. The project is currently under construction and is expected to begin commercial operations by the end of 2027. It will comprise 42 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 6.1 MW. The financing has been arranged through a syndicate of eight financial institutions.

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Clearway begins construction of 650 MW Swan Energy Center in Missouri

Clearway begins construction of 650 MW Swan Energy Center in Missouri

October 7, 2026 | ,

Clearway Energy Group has closed financing and started construction of the 650 MW Swan Energy Center in Bates County, Missouri. The project is backed by a 20-year power purchase agreement and is expected to begin commercial operations in 2028. Clearway secured financing for the $1.5 billion project through a bank consortium led by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, DNB Bank ASA, and National Australia Bank Limited.

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tesa and EWE sign green hydrogen supply agreement 

tesa and EWE sign green hydrogen supply agreement 

October 7, 2026 | , ,

tesa has signed an agreement with EWE HYDROGEN GmbH to receive 500 tonnes of green hydrogen annually for its plant in Hamburg from 2028 in Emden, Germany. The hydrogen will be used for steam generation and is expected to replace fossil fuels, reducing emissions at the plant by around 6,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. EWE plans to produce the hydrogen at its 320 MW hydrogen production plant in Emden, which is scheduled to start operations by the end of 2027.

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Cargill signs wind VPPA in US

Cargill signs wind VPPA in US

October 7, 2026 | , ,

Cargill is expanding its renewable electricity portfolio in the US through solar and wind projects in Oklahoma and South Dakota. It has signed a 12.6-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for 87 MW of wind power from the Sweetland wind project in South Dakota. The project is expected to generate about 392,000 MWh of renewable electricity annually and support a reduction of around 162,000 metric tonnes of carbon emissions each year from Cargill’s operations.

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Scatec and EDF begin construction of 900 MW wind project in Egypt

Scatec and EDF begin construction of 900 MW wind project in Egypt

October 6, 2026 | , ,

Scatec, in partnership with EDF Power Solutions, has commenced construction of the 900 MW Shadwan onshore wind project in Egypt. The project has a total capital expenditure of $716 million and is expected to generate around 4 TWh of electricity annually. Additionally, Scatec has signed a 3-year equity bridge loan agreement worth $150 million with The Arab Energy Fund, including $50 million for Shadwan and $100 million for the 1,950 MW solar and 3,935 MWh battery energy storage system Energy Valley project.

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CIP refinances MaxSolar’s 1.3 GW clean energy portfolio

CIP refinances MaxSolar’s 1.3 GW clean energy portfolio

October 6, 2026 | , , ,

MaxSolar has secured €155 million HoldCo debt financing from funds managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The facility will refinance MaxSolar’s existing HoldCo debt and provide additional capital for the development of its solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio in Germany. The financing will support an approximately 1.3 GW portfolio, of which 465 MW is already operational.

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UK launches Great British Grid to accelerate clean power connections

UK launches Great British Grid to accelerate clean power connections

October 5, 2026 | ,

The UK government has announced the creation of the Great British Grid (GBG), a new publicly owned body within the Great British Energy (GBE) that will invest in electricity network infrastructure and support faster delivery of grid projects needed to connect clean power and meet rising electricity demand. GBG will bring together public and private investment to support critical network infrastructure, working alongside existing network operators to accelerate projects and increase competition.

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Linea Energy closes financing for 500 MWh BESS in Texas

Linea Energy closes financing for 500 MWh BESS in Texas

October 5, 2026 | , ,

Linea Energy has closed project debt financing and secured a preferred equity commitment for the 250 MW/500 MWh Mesa View standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) in Upton County, Texas. The debt financing includes a construction-to-term loan, a tax equity bridge loan and a letter of credit facility. Furthermore, D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments provided the preferred equity commitment.

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Wärtsilä and RCT launch Valo in Australia

Wärtsilä and RCT launch Valo in Australia

October 5, 2026 | , ,

Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions GmbH have launched Valo, a new global battery energy storage system (BESS) integrator with 7.5 GWh of projects in Australia. The joint venture will provide end-to-end solutions for utility-scale battery energy storage projects. Wärtsilä’s Energy Storage business will contribute utility-scale storage technology, controls and optimisation software, system integration expertise and lifecycle services.

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Eightfold Growth in European EV Public Chargers since 2020: ICCT

Eightfold Growth in European EV Public Chargers since 2020: ICCT

October 5, 2026 | , ,

Manufacturers of cars and trucks are largely on track to meet the EU’s carbon dioxide (CO2) standards for new vehicles, provided there are continued investments in the transition. For passenger cars, as of June 2026, auto manufacturers were less than 2 g CO2/km short of the average target of 93 g CO2/km for the 2025–2027 period. Electric vehicles are a large part of the compliance strategy. Battery electric passenger cars reached a 22% share among new vehicle registrations in the first half (H1) of 2026, with strong performance in large passenger car markets like France (28% of new registrations) and Germany (26%), as well as several smaller markets like Belgium (36%) and Denmark (80%). Adoption has also picked up in Italy (8%) and Spain.

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Green Hydrogen Under OBBBA: What Still Clears an Investment Committee

Green Hydrogen Under OBBBA: What Still Clears an Investment Committee

October 5, 2026 | ,

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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