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Battery storage scale-up: global milestone, NSW contracting, China’s 12.8 GWh cluster
A set of updates across major markets underscores accelerating scale in battery energy storage. Rystad Energy data reported by pv magazine says global operational BESS capacity has surpassed 250 GW—overtaking pumped hydropower storage for the first time—and projects global additions exceeding 130 GW/350 GWh in 2026.
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- Rystad-linked reporting frames 2025 as a capacity inflection point
- NSW contracting and approvals indicate near-term buildout momentum
- China’s grid connection of a 12.8 GWh cluster provides a high-visibility milestone
Court rulings allow US offshore wind projects to proceed despite stop-work order
US offshore wind projects are moving forward again after federal court rulings weakened the Trump administration’s stop-work order. Canary Media reports a judge cleared the 924-MW Sunrise Wind project to proceed, while other coverage says multiple projects have resumed construction or received the green light to do so.
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- A judge ruling on Sunrise Wind adds to a string of decisions affecting multiple projects
- Outlets report construction resuming or approvals to proceed after the December halt
- The story is developing as legal challenges play out in real time
Reports warn climate-economics models may understate systemic climate risk
A Guardian report and a CleanTechnica analysis both argue that commonly used climate-economics models can understate real-world risk.
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- A new study has reopened debate over how climate risk is modelled
- Coverage highlights concern about extreme-weather shocks and tipping points being omitted
- Fresh warnings frame climate impacts as potentially systemic, not incremental
Carbon Brief: China’s clean energy drove 2025 growth as renewables overtook coal capacity
Carbon Brief reports that clean-energy technologies—including solar power, EVs and other sectors—accounted for more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 and more than 90% of the rise in investment, with clean-energy sectors contributing 15.4tn yuan (11.4% of GDP).
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- New Carbon Brief analysis quantifies 2025 clean-energy contribution to GDP and investment
- China Briefing surfaces 2025 capacity and storage milestones from recent data releases
- Both updates land as China’s 2025 power and economic outcomes come into focus
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