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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.

Korea offshore wind gets a second 2026 tender of about 2.2 GW, with ceilings of 168,937 and 174,003 won per MWh, slightly below the first round.

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 Glenrowan battery adds 102 MW of storage to a 130 MW solar farm after Victoria SEC rewrote its 10 year power purchase deal.

South Korea won the first SMR design approval in 2012 but has no small modular reactor running. Data center demand and the IAEA meeting in Incheon raise the pressure.

Brazil first battery auctions are set for 2 and 4 December. More than 6,000 projects registered, but the volume to be bought has not been published.

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.

A new CREA estimate says China clean tech exports in 2026 avert about 450 million tonnes of CO2 a year. The number is large, and the caveats matter.

Spain has had 681 hours of negative power prices this year, more than all of 2025. The cause is not too much solar but too little storage and grid.