Mozambique is taking a major step to expand electricity access with the $6 billion Mphanda Nkuwa hydroelectric plant, the largest such project in southern Africa in 50 years.
Lebanon experienced a nationwide power outage from midnight on Sunday, officials reported, as authorities work to restore electricity across the country.
Syria is set to boost its daily electricity supply from around four hours to nearly ten, as natural gas from Azerbaijan begins flowing through a newly restored pipeline via Türkiye, according to a senior official from the Syrian Ministry of Energy.
China has begun building a $170 billion hydropower complex on the Yarlung Zangbo river in Tibet, a project that is meant to outsize the Three Gorges Dam but one that downstream India and Bangladesh fear could throttle the Brahmaputra river that sustains tens of millions.
In 19 EU countries, the share of renewable energy sources in net electricity generation decreased in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the first quarter of 2024. The largest drops were recorded in Greece (-12.4%), Lithuania (-12.0%) and Slovakia (-10.6%).
Intruders forced Haiti’s Peligre Dam offline, slicing its 54 MW output and plunging central regions into blackout. EDH condemns the breach and urges rapid security measures as communities, already hit by gang blockades, contend with total power loss.
Uzbekistan’s sharp increase in recycling fees for imported electric vehicles signals a shift toward local production and battery recycling, but consumers and dealers are feeling the strain.
On April 28, 2025, Spain experienced one of the most severe electrical failures in modern European history, with effects cascading across the Iberian Peninsula.
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