Renewable Energy & Cleantech

Osnabrück – November 12, 2026 -- Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Christian Meyer of the Green Party has called Federal Economics Minister Katharina Reiche's absence from the Energy Ministers' Conference in Göttingen an affront to the federal states.

Meyer links federal uncertainty to slower energy transition

Meyer told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the states want the energy transition to succeed jointly. In his view, current uncertainty is eroding trust and slowing the expansion of the energy transition.

Five agenda items left without federal input

Meyer had wanted Reiche, a member of the CDU, or her state secretary to attend. He listed five topics for discussion:

MUSCAT – – November 12, 2026 -- Oman has awarded two integrated green hydrogen projects in Duqm with combined planned output of about 121,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2032, and has opened a fourth auction round that ties hydrogen production to data centre power demand. Hydrom, the national orchestrator of Oman's green hydrogen strategy, announced the third-round awards during COP31.

Petrogas and Bio3Energy target 625,000 tonnes of green ammonium nitrate

Oman's Petrogas E&P and Italy's Bio3Energy Srl will introduce green ammonium nitrate as a new downstream product in Oman, aimed at the fertiliser and mining sectors. The project targets 625,000 tonnes annually by 2032.

It will use about 50,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year, produced from 1.16 GW of renewable capacity on a 100-square-kilometre site. The agreement includes a proposed reservation of another 100 square kilometres for expansion.

PITTSBURGH – November 12, 2026 -- Exus Renewables North America has closed $345 million in senior secured holding company financing led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to fund construction and new project development across its U.S. wind, solar and battery storage portfolio.

Exus adds $345M to a year of heavy financing activity

The holding company deal follows a $400 million senior secured corporate credit facility closed in December. In July, Exus also secured approximately $356 million in project-level construction financing for its Highland North and Cambria wind projects in Pennsylvania.

Exus reports more than 800 MW operating or under construction within a total portfolio exceeding 6 GW. The company is advancing its pipeline as U.S. electricity demand rises.

BEIJING – November 12, 2026 -- JA has been selected as the exclusive photovoltaic module supplier for Teraco's 120MW Sediba solar project in Parys, in South Africa's Free State province. The plant is expected to generate more than 354,000MWh of renewable electricity annually, with operations scheduled to begin by the end of 2026.

Teraco will route Sediba power to its data centres through wheeling

Teraco, a provider of carrier-, cloud- and vendor-neutral data centre environments for colocation services, owns the project. Sediba will feed electricity into the national grid. The corresponding renewable allocation will reach Teraco's data centre operations through a power-wheeling arrangement with local municipalities and Eskom.

Antalya – November 12, 2026 -- Countries that depend less on oil imports reduce the GDP impact of oil supply shocks by around 0.25 percentage points, according to a new S&P Global report released during COP31. Higher import dependence is associated with an extra 0.25-point GDP loss two years after a shock.

The report, Adopting Clean Technologies: The Energy Resilience Dividend, combines analysis from S&P Global Energy and S&P Global Ratings under the S&P Global Institute. It covers nine advanced economies, with case studies of Europe and China.

Europe's renewables build-out reduces exposure to energy shocks

EU non-hydro renewable generation is up nearly 340 terawatt-hours since 2021. That is 70% more than the 2016-2021 increase. European clean tech investment in 2026 is expected to more than double 2021 levels.