https://terrawatt.news/ Independent news on solar, storage, hydrogen, charging and data-center power projects worldwide — financing, developers, offtake and supply chains, with deep coverage of emerging markets. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:14:54 GMT https://terrawatt.news/22-google-entergy-prepayment https://terrawatt.news/22-google-entergy-prepayment Disclosed records show Google contributing $526 million toward a 600 MW solar and 350 MW battery plant, with Entergy putting the 20-year value at $2.1 billion. Inside the structure and the disclosure fight around it. Data Centers Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/21-malaysia-cress-datacenter https://terrawatt.news/21-malaysia-cress-datacenter Gamuda, SD Guthrie and Gentari sign a 21-year supply contract for a Perak solar-plus-storage plant feeding US data centers under CRESS, where a 14 sen access charge and a 2028 deadline set the terms. Data Centers Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/20-hunterston-uk-bess https://terrawatt.news/20-hunterston-uk-bess Financial close on Revera's 400 MW / 800 MWh Scottish battery reveals the counterparty stack, with Sungrow on hardware and service, bp on tolling and Danske Commodities on the floor, that made four lenders comfortable. Storage Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/19-india-storage-corridor https://terrawatt.news/19-india-storage-corridor Green Energy Corridor Phase-III commits Rs 50,000 crore to 50 GWh of batteries, while a Haryana tender lifts capacity charges 19%: what India's storage market now pays, and where the risk sits. Storage Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/18-china-storage-mena-factories https://terrawatt.news/18-china-storage-mena-factories Hithium's 4 GWh SEC order, CATL's Riyadh facilities and Sungrow's planned Egyptian factory mark the shift from Chinese storage exports to Chinese storage manufacturing in MENA. Storage Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/17-johor-ai-datacenter-power https://terrawatt.news/17-johor-ai-datacenter-power TM Nxera secures 280 MW from TNB for its Iskandar Puteri AI campus, the latest in a string of gigawatt-scale power deals that decide who gets to build AI capacity in Johor. Data Centers Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/16-oman-acme-green-ammonia https://terrawatt.news/16-oman-acme-green-ammonia Phases 2 and 3 of ACME's Duqm green hydrogen and ammonia project enter Oman's national framework, with phase 1 due by end-2026 backed by offtake from Yara International. Hydrogen Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/15-sea-charging-consolidation https://terrawatt.news/15-sea-charging-consolidation Thailand tightens charger certification, VinFast's V-Green chases 150,000 ports and Indonesia chases 30,000 stations — Southeast Asia's EV charging market is consolidating around standards and utility-scale operators. E-Mobility Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/14-africa-emoto-swap https://terrawatt.news/14-africa-emoto-swap Africa Go Green Fund doubles its commitment to Spiro to $36 million as Africa's electric two-wheeler market moves from pilots to asset-backed infrastructure — with China supplying the bikes. E-Mobility Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/13-saudi-bess-tender https://terrawatt.news/13-saudi-bess-tender SPPC's second BESS procurement round puts six 500 MW/2,000 MWh independent storage projects up for bid under a build-own-operate model — the largest storage program outside China. Storage Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/12-australia-cis-batteries https://terrawatt.news/12-australia-cis-batteries Australia selected 4.2 GW / 16.1 GWh of battery projects under Tender 8 of the Capacity Investment Scheme. The full award list — developer, owner, state, construction, financing and commissioning dates. Storage Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/11-europe-storage-financing-wave https://terrawatt.news/11-europe-storage-financing-wave Spain logged 397 hours of negative day-ahead prices in Q1 2026, against 48 a year earlier. That arithmetic, not policy, is driving Europe's storage wave — the financings, the lenders and the economics. Storage Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/10-us-ercot-storage-template https://terrawatt.news/10-us-ercot-storage-template Three Texas financings show standalone US storage becoming an infrastructure product rather than a merchant bet: four-hour batteries, investment-grade tax equity, contracted revenue. Why the pattern travels. Storage Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/09-solar-storage-charging https://terrawatt.news/09-solar-storage-charging Solar-storage-charging hubs are crossing from pilots to standard infrastructure in Africa and Southeast Asia, driven by weak grids and storage mandates. Configurations, costs, and who is supplying them. E-Mobility Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/08-datacenter-btm-energy https://terrawatt.news/08-datacenter-btm-energy As AI load outruns grid capacity, data center developers in Africa and the Gulf are engineering their own generation. What the largest operators are ordering, and how much of it sits behind the meter. Data Centers Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/07-aqaba-green-ammonia https://terrawatt.news/07-aqaba-green-ammonia Jordan signed a $1 billion agreement with Jordan Green Ammonia for an off-grid hydrogen and ammonia complex at Aqaba — the country's first approved green ammonia project, and one of the region's most advanced. Hydrogen Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/06-china-epc-storage-mena https://terrawatt.news/06-china-epc-storage-mena From Noor Midelt I to Gulf tenders, Chinese EPCs and battery makers are taking the MENA storage build-out contract by contract — capacity, suppliers and contractors compiled in one place. Storage Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/05-mterra-philippines https://terrawatt.news/05-mterra-philippines Phase I of MTerra Solar has been energised at 1,373 MW alongside 3.3 GWh of storage, on the way to 3.5 GW and 4.5 GWh. What it took for the Philippines to build the world's largest integrated solar-and-battery project. Solar & Wind Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/04-qair-chad-hybrid https://terrawatt.news/04-qair-chad-hybrid Qair drew first disbursement on €37.9 million for Chad's first utility-scale solar-plus-storage plants: 30 MWp with 8 MWh across two N'Djamena sites, financed through DFI-blended capital. Solar & Wind Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/03-dandara-corporate-ppa https://terrawatt.news/03-dandara-corporate-ppa The AfDB's $66 million package for the 500 MW Dandara project backs Egypt's largest private corporate PPA — an aluminum smelter buying solar and storage directly, with EU carbon costs as the commercial driver. Solar & Wind Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/02-egypt-hybrid-template https://terrawatt.news/02-egypt-hybrid-template Egypt's 1.1 GW Obelisk solar-plus-storage project has become the template the EBRD is applying across the region: a sovereign-backed hybrid structure that made a battery financeable inside a utility-scale solar deal. Solar & Wind Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://terrawatt.news/01-masdar-rtc-financial-close https://terrawatt.news/01-masdar-rtc-financial-close Masdar reached financial close on a 5.2 GW solar plant paired with 19 GWh of storage in Abu Dhabi — a $6.1 billion project contracted to deliver round-the-clock power. Who supplied it, and why the line-up changed. Solar & Wind Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT