Sep 7, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Wind
A contract for difference fixes the price a wind or solar farm is paid for its power, and it does it in both directions. When electricity sells below that agreed “strike price”, the generator is topped up to it. When it sells above, the generator pays the...
Aug 31, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Wind
Victoria has opened Australia’s first offshore wind auction, seeking bids for 2 gigawatts of capacity off the Gippsland coast — enough, the government says, to power around 1.5 million homes. Contracts will not be awarded until 2028, and the first turbines are...
Aug 27, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar, Wind
US wind and solar generated roughly 420 terawatt-hours in the first half of 2026 — about a fifth of the country’s electricity, and marginally more than its nuclear fleet’s 390 TWh, on Energy Information Administration figures. Their combined share climbed...
Aug 26, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Wind
Australia connected a record 9.1 gigawatts of new clean generation and storage in the year to June 2026, more than double the year before. Just 0.2 GW of it was wind. That one number is why the country’s target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030 — a target...
Aug 24, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Wind
In 2023 the German state sold four patches of North Sea and Baltic seabed to BP and TotalEnergies for €12.6 billion, and called it proof that offshore wind had outgrown subsidy. In August 2025 the same kind of auction drew zero bids. The zero-subsidy era did not...
Aug 22, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind
In the first half of 2026, US wind and solar generated about 420 terawatt-hours — 20% of the country’s electricity, up from 18.6% a year earlier — and passed both coal and nuclear for the first time in a comparable six months, according to federal generation...
