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The week in 120 words Governments have written down 822 GW of 2030 energy storage targets, almost three times the level at COP29, according to Ember. That is still 45% short of the 1,500 GW pledge, but the direction is set, and the hardware is arriving. China's Huadian connected a 100 MW / 1,000 MWh compressed CO2 plant in Xinjiang on 30 September, one of the largest long-duration storage units anywhere. Germany broke ground on a 840 MWh battery and cleared two more, 3.2 GWh

The week in 120 words Australia's rooftop panels pushed a national record of 17,488 MW on 11 October. India's POWERGRID put a 2,500 MW transmission scheme for the Bidar solar zone into commercial operation on 5 October. A regulator in Chhattisgarh approved a ₹2.98 per kWh price for a 125 MW/500 MWh battery. China finished starting up a 700 MW salt-cavern air storage plant. The hard part this week: India's battery pipeline has a long record of tenders that never get built. Pak

Renewable energy snapshot Week of September 21–28, 2026 The week in 120 words The most consequential move this week happened in Karnataka: Exide Energy commissioned the first phase of a 6 GWh lithium-ion cell plant, India's first at commercial gigawatt-hour scale, replacing cells that until now were entirely imported. In the US, cumulative domestic solar module production crossed 100 GW, a threshold three decades in the making and mostly built in the last four years. China's

A formal US rollback, a new coal plant in Assam, and a widening cell-to-module gap in India cut against an otherwise routine week of capacity additions. Rupee figures below are converted at ₹96 = $1 (Trading Economics, Sept 18, 2026). The week in 120 words The US EPA formally repealed Biden-era carbon limits for coal and gas power plants on September 14 — the biggest single deregulatory step yet for the US power sector, and a reminder that policy gains are reversible in a way

Coal Hits a Record High While India's Grid Batteries Grow 84-Fold A Strait of Hormuz standoff is dragging the world back toward coal even as India's storage build-out, China's EV exports and a first-of-kind solar cell all post record numbers. The week in 120 words The IEA now expects global coal demand to hit a record 8.94 billion tonnes in 2026, reversing a decline it forecast just nine months ago, as Strait of Hormuz disruptions choke LNG supply and push Europe, Japan and S