As the leaders of the world’s two largest economies meet in Beijing this week, a new analysis underscores a growing divergence between China and the United States in shaping the global energy system. While Chinese companies continue to expand their dominance of clean energy industries, the data shows, their American counterparts are withdrawing from those…
A record surge in clean power met all global electricity demand growth in 2025, preventing any increase in fossil fuel generation, according to energy think tank Ember. Solar led the expansion, recording its fastest growth rate in eight years and meeting around 75% of new electricity demand alone. Together with wind, hydropower and other low-carbon…
When Gary Dirks arrived in China in 1995, the country’s government was looking to source more of its energy at home. Dirks was the incoming country head for BP, but efforts to find more oil and gas in the country had largely fizzled. So government leaders pivoted, Dirks said. China invested heavily in its domestic…
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with journalist Isabel Hilton. As the United States fully withdrew from the United Nations climate negotiations in the fall of 2025, China stepped forward with an absolute emissions-reduction target of at least 7 percent by 2035. While…
The government announced it has awarded contracts to a record supply of renewables projects, including 157 solar developments across England, Scotland and Wales Lee Bell 13/02/2026 12:00 4 min Solar farms are suddenly everywhere, it seems, and that’s thanks to the UK’s clean power plans, which are turning into actual projects, in fields, with neighbours…
GigaWatt Inc. is making its next phase of growth available to public investors as the residential solar market faces a critical inflection point. With federal tax credits phasing down and residential electricity costs up nearly 40% since 2021, homeowners are caught between expensive turnkey installers and bare-bones DIY kits that leave them stranded. GigaWatt has…
Groundbreaking on the Lucy Solar Project. Credit: Hyundai E&C/KOMIPO/Business Wire. Construction has begun on the $524m (Won750.26bn) Lucy Solar Project, a Korean-led utility-scale investment in Texas being developed by a consortium of South Korean and US partners. The 350MW solar farm in Concho County is expected to generate 926 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity a year….
As the United States retreats from climate policy, China signaled its rising intent to lead a transition away from fossil fuels and toward Chinese-made renewable energy technologies in remarks to world leaders on Tuesday. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng cast China as a beacon of stability…
Air travellers making the descent into Islamabad, Nairobi or São Paulo may be struck by the sight of solar panels scattered liberally over the rooftops. Regular visitors to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, will probably have detected a marked improvement in air quality and traffic noise of late, owing to the shift from combustion engines towards…
Power shifts begin in places most people never see – on assembly lines making batteries and robots, along transmission lines feeding data centre clusters, in local offices selling land and in labs training artificial intelligence models. The United States and China are using these quiet levers to construct different futures. The contest will be decided…