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Pembangkit listrik tenaga surya di Portugal mencapai rekor puncak sekitar 3,85 GW pada bulan Agustus, didukung oleh pertumbuhan kapasitas yang berkelanjutan, dengan penambahan tenaga surya sebesar 372 MW antara Desember 2025 dan Mei 2026 sehingga kapasitas kumulatif mencapai sekitar 7,3 GW. PLTS menjadi sumber pembangkit listrik terbesar di Portugal untuk pertama kalinya pada bulan Juli, mencakup 19% konsumsi nasional, melampaui pembangkit listrik tenaga air sebesar 16% dan tenaga angin sebesar 13%, sementara energi terbarukan memasok 52% konsumsi pada bulan Agustus. Selama delapan bulan pertama tahun ini, energi terbarukan mencakup 66% konsumsi listrik Portugal, dengan tenaga air sebesar 25%, tenaga angin sebesar 23%, dan tenaga surya sebesar 13%. Impor listrik bersih juga mencapai puncak baru di atas 5,2 GW setelah penguatan kapasitas interkoneksi dengan Spanyol.

Brazil's Federal Senate has approved Bill 278/2026 establishing the Redata special tax regime for data centers, suspending import duties, IPI and PIS/Cofins federal taxes on equipment and components for five years. Among the conditions for accessing the benefits, data centers must meet their entire contracted electricity demand through supply agreements or self-generation using renewable or low-emission sources. Eleven long-term renewable contracts between generators and data centers totaling 330 MW and about BRL 7.7 billion ($1.4 billion) were signed from 2021 to 2024, and the new regime is expected to further expand demand for solar and wind projects and PPAs as Brazil's data center market grows. The bill now goes to the president for sanction.

India's Central Electricity Authority has published draft amendments to its technical standards requiring ground-mounted solar and onshore wind projects commissioned after July 1, 2027 to install co-located energy storage equal to at least 10% of installed capacity with a minimum two-hour duration, rising to four hours for projects commissioned from July 2029 through June 2031. The draft also mandates that at least 15% of inverters in renewable plants have grid-forming control, while all power conversion systems of battery storage must be grid-forming, with stakeholder comments open until October 4. More than 8,133 GWh of solar was curtailed in the first quarter of the fiscal year as the grid could not absorb daytime surplus, and the new rules aim to address mounting curtailment and grid stability concerns.