⚡ Energy Week in Review: 30 Top Stories
⚡ Megawatt News Weekly
Dec 28, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026
📊 This Week's Top Stories
30 curated articles from 13 trusted sources
☀️ Solar Power
The GUVNL-awarded project combines 75.2 MWp of solar and 16.95 MW of wind capacity, with early commissioning expected to
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The global perovskite solar cell market is projected to grow at a remarkable CAGR of 38.05% from 2025 and 2034. This exp
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In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that early 2026 will bring mixed solar condition
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💨 Wind Energy
<p>Europe’s biggest offshore wind developer seeking to overturn White House decision to suspend work on a $5bn wind farm
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The developers of Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Empire Wind off New York are the latest to sue the Trump administ
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⚛️ Nuclear
<p>Ukraine would receive 50% of the electricity output from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station under a 20-point peac
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
Hyundai and Kia gained an edge over surging Chinese brands like BYD after South Korea raised subsidies and introduced ad
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Volkswagen is preparing to launch its new family of entry-level EVs, starting with the ID. Polo. With its official debut
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Volkswagen has decided to throw a lot more buttons and dials back in front of driver's eyes for its upcoming cheap EV. T
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BYD is the new global EV sales champion, as Tesla has fallen to second place. BYD expects sales growth to continue in 20
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🔦 Energy Storage
Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her
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⚡ Grid & Transmission
The $285 million acquisition of utility-scale assets follows a Chapter 11 filing by the major North Carolina developer a
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Google is set to acquire the solar and storage developer, arming itself with the tools to bypass grid bottlenecks and bu
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The fertiliser sector led consumption, followed by city gas distribution. Cumulative consumption for April-November 2025
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💧 Hydrogen
Texas has emerged as a hotbed of green hydrogen activity in the US, supported in part by know-how borrowed from the oil
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🌊 Hydropower
Professor Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug and postdoctoral fellow Wolf Ludwig Kuhn at the Norwegian University of Science and Techno
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🌍 Climate & Policy
<p>Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried
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New EU carbon tax and large clean energy projects are on the horizon
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Levy on steel, electricity and other imports aims to shield bloc’s industry from higher-emission competitors
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US retreat much worse and faster than expected in second Trump administration
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📋 Policy & Regulation
The review took place during the prime minister’s quarterly sectoral meeting of the Ministry of Mines.
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
India was once a major processor of Venezuelan heavy crude, importing more than 4 lakh barrels per day at peak levels, u
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In the oil and gas segment, Vedanta s average daily gross operated production dropped 15% during the quarter to 84,900 b
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Clean energy is no longer an alternative — it’s becoming the backbone of the global power system. Renewables are overtak
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Venezuela claims to have more than 300 billion barrels in the ground, but it is only producing about one million barrels
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After spending nearly $50 billion to expand the country’s Tengiz oil field, Chevron and its partners encounter more unce
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🏭 Carbon Capture
I could be easily accused of recency bias for this choice, but here goes anyway. The Zeekr 7X gets my The post Bruce New
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📰 Other News
A new catalyst design could transform how acetaldehyde is made from renewable bioethanol. Researchers found that a caref
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The equipment experts at Vermeer are jumping into the electric landscaping and forestry markets with both feet following
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Investors including D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to purchase $1bn in equity
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