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Editor, Green Investment
Sophia Sterling analyzes ESG capital flows and the evolution of green financing for energy projects. She tracks institutional investments in renewable infrastructure worldwide.
sophia.sterling@theenergybrief.orgThis article is based on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's July 2025 report, interpreting the commercialization progress, global potential, and system value of next-generation geothermal technologies (EGS, closed-loop systems).
As the share of renewable energy continues to rise, Europe's power system faces flexibility challenges. Poland is strengthening grid stability by deploying large-scale energy storage systems and launching financial support schemes. This article, drawing on perspectives from LG Energy Solution experts, analyzes the key role of energy storage systems in Poland's and Europe's energy transition.
Global green industrial policy is accelerating the reshaping of supply chain layouts for clean energy technologies, critical minerals, and manufacturing. From government subsidies to carbon tariffs, and from localized production to regionalized procurement, the supply chain landscape is being redrawn. This article combines market data and policy dynamics to analyze the profound impact of this trend on the energy transition.
This article is based on the renewable energy market research report by Straits Research, analyzing the development trends, key technologies, and regional landscape of the global renewable energy industry, as well as its profound impact on the transformation of energy systems.
The 2025 sustainable investment report shows that clean technology scaling coexists with political resistance, with economic forces and policy directions pulling in opposite ways. Based on the Generation report, this article analyzes energy investment, green hydrogen, electric vehicles, and the global decarbonization landscape.
The global ESG investment market size is expected to grow from USD 39.08 trillion in 2025 to USD 180.78 trillion in 2034, at a compound annual growth rate of 18.80%, becoming the core capital force driving clean energy and decarbonization projects.
A Global Energy Monitor report shows that in 2025, the global wind and utility-scale solar pipeline grew by 11% to nearly 5 terawatts, but the pipeline in G7 countries has nearly stalled. China is far ahead with over 1.6 terawatts of operating capacity.
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is driving China to accelerate the improvement of its carbon governance system and is profoundly influencing its energy transition path.
Based on data from Germany from 1995 to 2022, this study examines how green finance and corporate governance synergistically drive sustainable development, offering governance and capital perspectives for the energy transition.
The US self-directed IRA platform has included Energea's community solar project portfolio in Brazil as an investment option, marking retirement funds entering the distributed photovoltaic field in emerging markets. This move provides new capital channels for the global energy transition while highlighting the potential and challenges of community solar in developing markets.
This article, based on the latest Nature commentary, explores how to integrate ex-ante risk prevention and ex-post recovery in loss and damage policies to break the vicious cycle of loss and recovery, and analyzes its implications for the resilience of energy infrastructure, climate finance, and the global energy transition.
According to the latest data from the Energy Research Institute, renewable energy will become the largest source of global energy supply growth in 2025, but the expansion of fossil fuels and policy regression in the United States pose challenges to the global decarbonization process.
Europe's solar installed capacity continues to climb, but the mismatch between peak generation and electricity demand has led to falling electricity prices and increasing curtailment, with structural pressures on the electricity market becoming increasingly apparent.
The latest report from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) shows that the global green economy market value exceeded $10 trillion for the first time in 2025, with green revenue growth hitting a new high since 2022, driven primarily by electrification and energy security.
Revera Energy has made a final investment decision on the 400MW/800MWh Hunterston battery energy storage project, located in North Ayrshire, Scotland, with construction expected to start in the third quarter of 2026. This investment is the latest example of the accelerated expansion of the UK energy storage market, marking the key role that large-scale battery storage plays in grid flexibility.
Based on the latest research from Nature Climate Change, this analysis examines how the EU CBAM transition period prompts high-emission Indian steel enterprises to reduce exports to Europe, while low-emission enterprises maintain competitiveness, revealing the early impact of the carbon border adjustment mechanism on global steel trade and the decarbonization process.
In the first quarter of 2026, driven by grid modernization and clean energy construction, Europe accounted for seven of the top ten private equity deals in the global architecture and engineering sector, setting new quarterly highs in both deal count and value.
PitchBook believes that volatility in oil and gas prices and geopolitical risks are strengthening the near-term economics of clean energy and are driving capital to pay more attention to energy startups with existing assets, energy storage integration, and localized supply chain capabilities.