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Researchers analyzing Northern Hemisphere cold spells since 1980 found that cold spells became less frequent and intense across the region, with distinct persistent declines in northern North America.

In 2026, CREA and PACS reported that China had cancelled 61.5 GW of coal projects planned abroad, while 20.5 GW remained planned across overseas project locations.

In 2025, ViaEuropa is developing solar-and-battery microgrids for housing in Lund, Sweden, to improve local energy sharing and electricity-system resilience.

Bulgarian energy developers expanded battery storage to a reported 5.4-5.7 GW by 2026, using EU-supported and private investment to balance solar power and export electricity.

By mid-2025, agrivoltaic projects worldwide paired solar generation with crops or livestock, reaching 18.4 gigawatts while facing regional yield and cost constraints.

Across the 2020s, Nigeria and Ghana are working to convert climate and energy policies into affordable, reliable electricity while pursuing emissions reductions and energy access.

Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines introduced 73 energy policies from February through August 2026, combining fuel relief with longer-term clean energy measures.

On 23 June during a UK heatwave, NESO warned of a possible 1.9 GW electricity shortfall as heat-related generation losses, low wind and reduced gas availability tightened grid margins.

During laboratory testing at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, researchers led by Maxime van der Heijden demonstrated 3D-printed redox flow battery electrodes that improved performance by 52 percent.

In 2026, US policymakers and energy advocates face an energy trust gap nationwide as rising utility costs, grid constraints, and unfulfilled energy-policy promises erode public confidence.

During a national consultation in Pakistan ahead of the 2040 transition, power-sector stakeholders outlined grid, market and plant-assessment measures for integrating renewable electricity.

Fervo Energy brought the first 33-MW GeoBlock at Cape Station to first power in 2026 in Beaver County, Utah.

In 2025, Bulgaria used rapidly expanded battery storage to absorb solar surpluses and support electricity exports during drought-related disruption across Eastern Europe.

Kendall Dilling said the Pathways Alliance carbon capture project would begin with six million tonnes of annual capture at the September 14-17 Carbon Capture Canada conference in Edmonton.

On September 24, Climate Central's Climate Shift Index: Ocean indicated that human-caused climate change made unusually warm Atlantic waters along the U.S. East Coast 10-50 times more likely, increasing moisture and coastal flood risks as a nor'easter moved toward the Northeast.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that Antarctic sea ice reached a preliminary winter peak of 17.59 million square kilometres on 14 September 2026, the third-smallest maximum in the satellite record.

On September 17, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Clean Air Task Force asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the EPA's repeal of power plant carbon capture standards.

Using Brazilian municipal data from 2008 to 2019, Sustentarea at the University of Sao Paulo developed a dashboard mapping child nutrition concerns alongside greenhouse gas emissions.

Qcells began expanding its solar factory in Cartersville, Georgia, in June as U.S. incentive changes and proposed polysilicon tariffs reshape domestic manufacturing.

National Oceanography Centre researchers project that Somali upwelling and regional fish biomass will decline by century's end, with offshore fisheries most exposed and a northern coastal zone potentially less affected.