The EU wants to combine faster deployment of renewables, greater energy savings, diversification of supplies from international partners and new tools to accelerate investment in a bid to replace coal, oil and natural gas from Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The bloc should have at least 1,000 gigawatts of photovoltaics installed in the region by 2030 -- equivalent to roughly the world’s current capacity -- according to a joint letter signed by Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Spain to the bloc’s climate chief Frans Timmermans and Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson.

I believe we are in fact in the first global energy crisis, and this is affecting the oil markets, gas markets, electricity markets and coal markets. The world has never seen such an energy crisis.

India plans to set up 30,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power capacity alongside 50,000 MW of solar capacity

The Norwegian company Deep Wind Offshore has initiated a consultation on a 6 GW floating offshore wind project in the Swedish Baltic Sea comprising 240 x 25 MW or 300 x 20 MW turbines.

The Portuguese energy group Galp has reached an agreement with SER Energia and Casa dos Ventos to acquire upon maturity up to 4.8 GW of solar and wind projects spread through nine Brazilian states.

19 GW of new wind projects were financed in the European Union, well below the required rate of 32 GW/year to meet the current 40% renewable energy targets by 2030.

The last few generating units of southwest China's Baihetan Hydropower Station are being installed and tested.

Complete removal of fossil fuels from the global economy removes three quarters of global greenhouse emissions.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3.1 billion in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to make more batteries and components in America, bolster domestic supply chains, create good-paying jobs, and help lower costs for families.

The draft Power Master Plan VIII expects the installed power capacity in Vietnam to more than double between 2020 (around 70 GW) and 2030, when it should reach 146 GW.

To win the tender for Site VI the bidding parties have to include ecological measures in their concept, whereas Site VII requires investments and innovations which are beneficial for the Dutch Energy System.

Masdar and Hassan Allam Utilities have signed preliminary agreements with several parastatals in Egypt to set up a strategic platform that targets an electrolyser capacity of 4 GW in Egypt by 2030

The Swiss investment company Smartenergy and the Spanish multinational Grupo Prodiel have closed an agreement to set up Greenfield PV, a joint venture focused on developing more than 4 GW of solar PV projects in Spain.

The increase in U.S. electric power sector renewable generation during 2021 came mainly from more wind and solar generation as a result of more wind turbines and utility-scale solar power plants coming online.