Love Planet Earth covers the green-energy mega-projects actually getting built — solar seas in deserts, wind forests at sea — plus an honest look at what's slowing them down. Optimism, with receipts.
These aren't renders or press releases. They're steel in the ground, panels in the sun, turbines in the water — the largest clean-energy builds on the planet.
One of the world's largest concentrated solar complexes — 580 MW of mirrors and molten salt that keep generating power after sunset, on the edge of the Sahara.
Hornsea 1 and 2 form the largest offshore wind farm on Earth — over 2.6 GW, enough for well over two million UK homes, spinning 120 km out at sea.
A solar farm the size of a small country in the Northern Territory, wired to Singapore by a 4,300 km subsea cable — sunshine as an export commodity.
Solar is now the cheapest source of new electricity in most of the world. Wind isn't far behind. Batteries fell ~90% in cost in a decade. The economics flipped — the build-out is a logistics problem now, not a physics problem.
That's why we cover the projects and the bottlenecks with equal weight: the future is arriving, and it's stuck in traffic. Both stories matter.
"We have the technology. We have the money. What we need now is wire, permits, and patience."
— Our unofficial newsroom mottoSix mega-builds in detail: capacity, cost, status bars, and what's genuinely impressive about each one.
Four honest explainers on what's slowing the transition: queues, permits, minerals, and wire.