Australia's grid hit 80.5% renewables while curtailing 8.4GW
Two records in two days on the NEM, and the same weekend set a curtailment record of 11.1GW. Both numbers describe the same system.
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India's largest cell plant opens at 7GW, built for $343 million
Premier Energies takes its cell capacity to 10.6GW with an n-type TOPCon line in Andhra Pradesh designed to turn out 88,000 cells an hour.
ACER tells Ireland to reclassify the Corrib Linkline before December
The tariff methodology passes on cost-reflectivity and non-discrimination. Two things do not: how one pipeline is classified, and forecasts built on a 2024 plan.
Panels cut crop water loss by a fifth in French agrivoltaic trials
Barley under the canopy reached 90-96% of the control plot, air at crop level ran 4.1C cooler at midday, and maize yielded 19.6% more in a hot dry season.
Brazil's utility-scale module imports fall 82% as curtailment bites
Total imports halved to 5.48GW in the first half. The centralised segment collapsed from 2.3GW to 430MW, and prices went up 12.9% while volumes fell.
Investment-grade notes now sit behind operating batteries in Texas
Jupiter Power closed $1.4bn across four deals for 1,500MW/3,600MWh — including a BBB− rated private placement secured on three plants already running.
Virginia makes direct-connect data centres pay for their own lines
The state commission ordered a mandatory construction contribution for the substations and lines that serve large loads. Microsoft has filed to keep its options open.
Slovenia's second reactor needs a 195m tower and 112 road works
GEN energija published two studies before the referendum: a cooling tower choice and a transport route from Koper that needs clearance work in 112 places.
The discount rate sets the price of low-carbon electricity
Slovenia's own figures put the same reactor at €65 or €103 a MWh. Nothing about the plant changes between those two numbers — only who lends the money, and at what rate.
A 76.5MWh battery in Brandenburg can charge only from its own solar
Import capacity agreed at the connection stage was withdrawn after the plant was built, and the storage business case went with it.