Power Plants

April 2026 delivered a continuation of Australia's seasonal solar contraction as the NEM moved deeper into autumn.

Australia's surging solar adoption has driven battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the National Electricity Market (NEM) to more than triple their daytime-to-evening energy shifting in the first quarter of 2026, according to AEMO's latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.

TotalEnergies and Nextnorth have reached financial close on, and started construction at, a 440MW solar PV project in the Philippines.

Pantheon Atlas will build a €50 billion (US$58.5 billion) AI data centre in Croatia, to be powered by a 500MW solar-plus-storage facility.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the development of the 300MW/1200MWh Soda Mountain solar project in San Bernardino County, California.

US utility Georgia Power filed a request with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) seeking 2,000MW – 6,000MW of new dispatchable capacity resources in the state.

Data centres have emerged as the primary driver of electricity demand growth for utility Origin Energy in Australia.

Social media tech giant Meta has signed an agreement to procure power from space-based solar power startup, Overview Energy.

South African renewables developer Pele Green Energy and French firm Engie have inaugurated a 75MW solar PV project in the Northern Cape region.

Reforms to the UK’s grid connection process for renewable energy projects are underway, aimed at easing the logjam of applications.