Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Global offshore wind capacity stood at 92.5 GW at the end of 2025 and is projected to reach 420 GW by 2035, according to GWEC Market Intelligence cited by Offshore Magazine.

GWEC Market Intelligence reports that 9.3 GW of new offshore wind capacity was connected to the grid worldwide during 2025, up 16% on 2024 and making it the third-highest year on record for annual installation.

The installed base remains concentrated in two markets. China accounted for 52.3% of global installed offshore wind capacity at the end of 2025, and Europe for 41.9%, per the same reporting.

Offshore Magazine highlights movement in emerging markets. In the Philippines, the Board of Investments committed USD 18.9 billion to financing offshore wind, with a 3.3 GW target for the country's first auction.

Vietnam's government has announced plans to install 6 to 17 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035, rising to 113.5 to 139 GW by 2050.

In Brazil, a new offshore wind legal framework was adopted in 2025, supported by the Global Wind Energy Council. The World Bank has forecast that Brazil's offshore wind sector could create more than 516,000 jobs by 2050 and contribute at least USD 178.5 billion to the Brazilian economy.

Solar photovoltaic performance in polar latitudes is stronger than commonly assumed, according to PV Magazine. Horizontal single-axis tracking (HSAT) systems in the Arctic deliver between 770 and 2,170 full-load hours per year, with the range depending on location.

PV Magazine reports that the highest single-day solar PV yield per installed capacity has been recorded in Antarctica, where the sun stays above the horizon for 24 hours at the summer solstice.

Orientation choices also shift project economics in the far north. According to PV Magazine, switching to a fully east-west vertical portfolio cuts the levelized cost of electricity by 1.4% to 14% in the high Arctic compared with a reference mix.

At Nunat, Greenland (77.4°N, 67.9°W), east-west vertical systems generate the same annual output as HSAT systems, PV Magazine reports.

Cold-storage operator Lineage, Inc. has filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Altus Power, Inc., its project subsidiary Los Palos Street Operating, LLC, and maintenance contractor Pearce Services LLC over a June 17 fire that destroyed Lineage's Boyle Heights facility, according to PV Magazine.

The complaint seeks more than $1 billion in damages on counts of negligence, negligent supervision, breach of contract, and violations of state health and safety codes, PV Magazine reported.

Lineage alleges the blaze began in the rooftop solar array while Pearce Services crews were testing and working on the energized system. According to the complaint cited by PV Magazine, Altus and Pearce re-energized the array despite written instructions from Lineage on June 11 to keep the system off until safety and voltage checks were completed.

Internal inspection records referenced in the filing indicate that by May 2026 inspectors had logged more than 200 PV connector failures across the array, including mismatched jumper connections and loose bolts in the same quadrant where the June 17 fire started, per PV Magazine.

The fire burned for eight days, and Lineage says it has spent over $100 million on site remediation, environmental cleanup, and neighborhood relief, according to PV Magazine.

The Los Angeles Fire Department has not yet issued its final findings on the official cause of the fire.

Montauk Renewables opened its Turkey, North Carolina facility in Sampson County, with Chief Executive Sean McClain and members of the board joining local leaders at the event, according to a GlobeNewswire release.

The site represents a USD 200 million capital investment in rural North Carolina, the company said. It was built by converting the former Bay Valley Foods Distribution Center, and uses technology developed by Montauk to turn swine waste into electricity.

For its first phase, Montauk has signed long-term agreements with more than 80 farming locations, giving it access to over 415,000 hog spaces, the company said.

Daimler Truck, the Volvo Group, Toyota, Bosch, Air Liquide, TotalEnergies, TEAL Mobility, and MB Energy used the IAA Transportation to lay out plans for accelerating the ramp-up of hydrogen-powered vehicles in Europe, according to electrive.

The alliance's stated aim is to build a German ecosystem meeting the prerequisites for scalable deployment of hydrogen trucks by 2030, electrive reported. Among its targets is the rollout of hydrogen refuelling stations capable of fuelling up to 100 hydrogen trucks per day.

On the vehicle side, Daimler Truck plans to place a small series of 100 units of the Mercedes-Benz NextGenH2 Truck, a hydrogen-powered tractor unit, into customer operations by the end of 2026, according to electrive. The manufacturer has secured 226 million euros in funding from the German federal government and the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg to support the effort.

The alliance's plans sit alongside a broader German funding push. In January the federal government published a call to support the construction of hydrogen refuelling stations and trucks with fuel cell or hydrogen combustion engines with 220 million euros, electrive reported. Demand outstripped the envelope: the so-called hydrogen initial network call was oversubscribed, with a requested funding volume of 455 million euros. A total of 71 applications were submitted for hydrogen refuelling stations and 455 for vehicles and vehicle fleets.

Generate Capital closed a USD 117 million term debt facility with MUFG on September 15 to finance a portfolio of community solar projects, according to Power Magazine.

Power Magazine described Generate Capital as an investor, owner and operator of critical infrastructure. The outlet reported that the transaction is Generate Capital's first community solar financing with MUFG.

The United Kingdom's Secretary of State has discharged Requirement 13 of the Norfolk Vanguard Offshore Wind Farm Development Consent Order, which relates to the project's Air Defence Radar Mitigation Scheme, according to UK DESNZ.

The decision was issued on 15 September 2026 on an application submitted by Norfolk Vanguard East Limited and Norfolk Vanguard West Limited, per the DESNZ notice.

The project sits 47 kilometres off the Norfolk coastline, according to the same filing. Maximum output is set at up to 1,800 MW, DESNZ stated.

Canada is directing CAD 4 million to two clean fuels projects in the Greater Toronto Area under Natural Resources Canada's Energy Innovation Program Clean Fuels Call for Proposals, according to Natural Resources Canada.

Next Hydrogen receives half of the funding, CAD 2 million, to develop a scalable fabrication process aimed at improving the efficiency, performance and cost of its electrolyzer modules, Natural Resources Canada said. The company estimates its low-carbon hydrogen production technology can cut emissions by up to 95 percent versus conventional hydrogen made through unabated steam methane reforming when powered by low-carbon energy.

CERT Systems receives the other CAD 2 million to advance a direct air-to-ethylene conversion process, turning captured carbon dioxide into ethylene as a chemical building block for sustainable aviation fuel, according to Natural Resources Canada. The department said the process could deliver an estimated 93.8% reduction in lifecycle emissions compared with conventional jet fuel.

Spain installed 10,105 MW of new solar capacity in 2025, according to the annual report of Spanish PV association UNEF cited by pv magazine.

Ground-mounted projects delivered the bulk of the additions at 8,966 MW, a 31% increase on 2024, pv magazine reported. Self-consumption installations moved the other way, adding 1,139 MW over the year, down 4% year on year.

By the end of 2025, cumulative PV capacity reached 46,286 MW for ground-mounted systems and 9,276 MW for self-consumption, according to pv magazine. Solar accounted for nearly 23% of the country's electricity mix, making it Spain's leading power-generation technology.

The build-out has pressured wholesale returns. The average price captured by solar fell from EUR 42.28/MWh in 2024 to EUR 36.39/MWh in 2025, and to EUR 29.68/MWh in the first half of 2026, pv magazine reported citing UNEF. Spain also recorded 797 hours with electricity prices at or below EUR 0/MWh during periods of significant PV generation in 2025.

Behind-the-meter storage picked up in response. Installations rose 65% in 2025 to 540 MWh, bringing cumulative capacity installed since 2022 to 2,745 MWh, according to pv magazine.