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Solar

Close up of floating solar panel at Urrá Dam

5/7/2023 News

World’s largest hydro-solar power plant begins operation

The world’s largest hydro-solar power plant has begun operation in China. Meanwhile, floating solar plants in Columbia and France have also opened, with solar energy demand set to rise by 40% by 2023.

Green hydrogen

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30/7/2025 News

Two major manufacturers invest in green hydrogen transition in the UK, as hydrogen storage demonstration project publishes findings

Petrochemical producer INEOS and tissue paper manufacturer Kimberly-Clark have made significant investments to convert their UK production facilities from natural gas to green hydrogen. Meanwhile, Exolum reports that a trial at its Immingham terminal has successfully demonstrated how existing energy infrastructure can store hydrogen.

Energy transition

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9/6/2026 Comment / Malcolm Turnbull

Why renewables make sense for Australia and the world

From rooftop solar and home batteries to energy storage and grid reliability, Australia has become a testing ground for many of the opportunities and challenges shaping the global energy transition. In these edited extracts from remarks delivered during a recent visit to the Energy Institute (EI), former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull HonFEI shares lessons from Australia’s experience and explains why the next challenge is not renewable generation itself, but the infrastructure needed to support it.

Energy policy

US President Donald Trump at desk surrounded by group of people

9/7/2025 News

Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ blows big hole in US emissions target

President Donald Trump’s attack on US climate policy continued in earnest with his signature into law of the so called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ on 4 July 2025. Among hundreds of tax and spending provisions, the Bill is to phase-out a significant tranche of clean energy tax credits.

Wind

Parts of wind turbines on deck of vessel being pushed into port by tugs

15/11/2023 News

World’s largest green hydrogen project takes delivery of first wind turbines

The first set of wind turbines due to power what is claimed will be the ‘world’s largest’ green hydrogen project has been delivered to the port of NEOM in north-west Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, plans have been unveiled for a new large-scale integrated renewable energy system in Åland, Finland.

Renewables

An engineer installing solar PVs

1/5/2024 News

India sets new record for monthly renewables installation

Renewable energy installations in India surged to a record 7.1 GW in March this year, more than doubling the previous record of 3.5 GW set in March 2022, according to new data from Rystad Energy.

Electricity

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27/7/2022 News

UK launches biggest electricity market reform in a generation

The UK government has launched a review of the country’s electricity market design in a bid to radically reduce the UK’s exposure to volatile global gas markets and cut energy costs for consumers.

Carbon emissions

Smoke from three chimneys

6/3/2024 News

Major clean energy growth limited the rise in global emissions in 2023, says IEA

Global energy-related CO₂ emissions increased in 2023 as exceptional droughts hit hydropower. However, the rise was lower than in 2022 even as total energy demand growth accelerated, thanks to the expansion of technologies such as solar photovoltaics (PV), wind, nuclear and electric vehicles (EVs), according to the latest report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

EI Statistical Review of World Energy

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20/6/2024 News

New Energy Institute data highlights year of global records

The Energy Institute has today published the Statistical Review of World Energy, providing the first complete set of data on energy production, consumption and emissions for all energy types around the world for the calendar year 2023. The Review is available as a free downloadable report and dataset.

Solar

Solar farm in Algerian desert

23/11/2022 News

Big solar plans unveiled

A new solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in Romania will be the largest to date in Europe, according to its developers, while a planned hybrid offshore floating solar power plant in the Netherlands will reportedly be the largest in the world. Meanwhile, a new solar test facility has opened in Algeria.

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