Author: Anela Dokso

Germany has awarded contracts worth approximately €12 billion over 15 years for 11 gas fired power projects with a combined tender capacity of 5.16 GW.

South Korea has opened its 2026 hydrogen power auction with 500 GWh of annual procurement for clean hydrogen electricity, down from 3,000 GWh in 2025 and 6,500 GWh in 2024.

Oman plans to add 1 GW of battery energy storage capacity through a partnership between Nama Holding and China’s State Grid International Development, as the country prepares to integrate more than 7 GW of planned solar and wind capacity into its electricity system.

Benin solar gets 30 million euros of financing for four plants totalling 62 MWp, the first independent power project of its kind in the country.

The Sharjah grid plan aims to cut losses by 25 percent and faults by 40 percent as SEWA announces AED 5.2 billion of energy and water projects.

The PJM market monitor says data centers caused 6.3 billion dollars of the latest 16.4 billion dollar capacity bill. A separate auction could change who pays.

The African Development Bank will back four hydrogen projects with 20 million dollars of grants. They pay for studies, not plants, and offtake is still the open question.

IRENA’s director general says 2026 will add less clean power than 2025’s record 692 GW, blaming a mismatch with grid capacity.

China’s southern power market entered formal operation on 24 October, covering five provinces and about 290,000 participants.

A simulation study finds that adding AI inference demand lowers a renewable hydrogen data center load supply ratio from 71.42% to 54.73%.