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Managing Editor, Clean Energy
Lars van der Meer specializes in large-scale renewable energy projects, focusing on global wind and solar expansion. He monitors the development of offshore and onshore clean energy hubs.
lars.vandermeer@theenergybrief.orgBased on Ember data, analyze the key milestones in the global energy transition in 2025, including solar and wind power surpassing demand growth, the rise of emerging markets, declining battery costs, and the electrotech revolution.
Based on the Corporate Knights annual report, this analysis examines five major predictions for sustainable finance in 2026, covering ESG funds, LNG financing, renewable energy investment, and European regulation, revealing new trends in capital for the energy transition.
Based on the latest research from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the global deployment potential, cost decline trends, and policy pathways of next-generation geothermal energy technologies (enhanced geothermal systems and closed-loop geothermal systems), exploring how geothermal energy can become a key force in the clean energy transition.
The U.S. self-directed IRA platform has added an investment package for Energea's community solar projects in Brazil, enabling retirement funds to participate in Latin America's distributed solar power. This innovative tool is driving cross-border clean energy capital flows and reshaping the way retail investors engage in the global energy transition.
Turkish steel producer Tosyali has secured a bank loan to build a 261 MW self-consumption photovoltaic power plant. The project is one of Turkey's largest industrial self-consumption solar projects, highlighting the increasingly important role of the manufacturing sector in the energy transition.
A latest MIT study shows that despite the "Package of Beautiful Bills" gradually phasing out some tax credits, 74% of the clean electricity capacity brought by the US Inflation Reduction Act is still expected to come online. Among them, solar and energy storage are less affected, but the retention rate for onshore wind is less than half.
As the global energy transition accelerates, sustainability investments in physical assets are shifting from promises to measurable outcomes. Using CapitaLand Investment as an example, this article analyzes how building energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy deployment, and sustainable finance drive the low-carbon transition.
Hydrogen energy is shifting from a universal decarbonization solution to precise applications, playing a complementary role in heavy industry, long-distance transportation, and extreme climate conditions. Localized production and low-carbon transformation are reshaping the energy system.
In 2025, the world's top 65 banks provided $906 billion in financing to fossil fuel companies, an 8% increase year-on-year, of which $508 billion was used directly to expand oil, gas, and coal production capacity. The report accused Trump's anti-climate agenda of weakening banks' incentives to shift to clean energy.
New South Wales has announced an investment of AUD 225 million to support the manufacturing of low-carbon products and renewable energy components, with a focus on areas such as solar modules, wind towers, batteries, and transmission cables. This policy is intended not only to strengthen local supply chains, but also reflects Australia’s strategic considerations in the context of the energy transition: promoting manufacturing reshoring, regional employment, and the upgrading of grid infrastructure.
Based on a CleanTechnica report, this article analyzes U.S. energy storage startup Volt Harbor’s $2 million seed funding, its modular software-defined energy storage platform for second-life batteries, and the significance of this technological approach for data centers, distribution grids, and the energy storage industry chain.
Based on the latest E2 project tracking data, the U.S. clean energy market in the first quarter of 2026 showed a split pattern in which “accelerated construction” and “project withdrawals” coexisted. Solar, wind, and storage projects accelerated amid rising power demand and a narrowing window for tax incentives, but manufacturing investment—especially in the electric vehicle and battery segments—has clearly slowed. Policy changes are simultaneously affecting power supply, supply chain布局, and capital allocation.
INA Solar disclosed its FY2025-26 consolidated financial results for the year ended March 31, 2026, with revenue rising to ₹2,163.52 crore, a significant increase from the previous fiscal year, and net profit up 59.34% year over year. The results to some extent reflect the continued growth of India’s solar manufacturing industry, supported by policy backing, expanding demand, and the development of local supply chains.
Cities are important settings for deploying clean energy, energy storage, and climate adaptation solutions. However, to turn scattered projects into replicable, financeable, and scalable system capabilities, financing structures, technical standards, and implementation mechanisms all need to be upgraded in parallel.