Battery storage & grid flexibility: PVFARM launched RE STACK, a commercial platform to speed utility-scale BESS layout design and compare vendor equipment, from containers to PCS and MV collection topologies. Hawaii climate accountability: Hawaii faces a major climate-change lawsuit over its continued reliance on oil, as the state targets fossil-fuel cuts but progress remains slow. Renewables policy with land rules: Rajasthan approved changes requiring renewable developers to reserve 10% of project land for tree plantation, alongside updated land allotment norms for solar, wind and hybrid parks. Hydropower stress from heat: Austria’s Verbund says Danube water levels are at record lows, cutting hydropower output and highlighting limits even for water-rich systems. Clean power in practice: Global South Utilities inaugurated a 50MW solar PV plant in the Central African Republic with 15MWh storage, boosting capacity and serving hundreds of thousands of households. Solar growth on the ground: Uttarakhand reported 1,132 solar plants under MSSY, reaching 210MW and creating thousands of jobs. Energy transition governance: Nebraska’s LB1261 limits eminent domain for certain privately owned electric generation facilities, shaping how new renewable projects can be secured. Renewables awards: Malaysia’s National Energy Awards 2026 recognized projects delivering RM48.82m in annual savings and cutting millions of tonnes of CO2.