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New South Wales (NSW) has released a Data Centre Policy Framework that ties streamlined planning approval for new data centres to commitments on renewable energy, water use and cost recovery, becoming the first state to translate Australia's national data centre policy direction into detailed operating rules.

Anza figures show that the median price for a solar PV module assembled in the US held steady at US$0.3/W in July 2026.

Australia's Clean Energy Investor Group has urged the federal government to accelerate the implementation of the reformed Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

'Home market strength plus Middle Eastern demand' has driven a surge in solar PV capacity in India, according to RenewAtlas and Wiki-Solar.

The European Commission has released its final Electrification Action Plan to “make Europe the world’s first ‘electro-continent’.”

New Jersey’s legislature has passed a bill to enable plug-in solar in the state, becoming the tenth state to advance such a bill.

The UK renewable energy investment landscape is 'quite good', according to Anastasios Christakis, COO at Queequeg Renewables.

Colorado has legalised plug-in solar devices and permitted the use of meter collar adapters for customer-sited distributed energy resources.

Republican congressmen have introduced a bill to remove the accelerated deadlines for the ITC and PTC introduced by Trump last year.

Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger has signed four bills into law that will add 625MW of new community solar capacity by 2028.