Above the air-cooled condensers at the TotalEnergies power plant in Toul, France.

Group14 Technologies, a start-up, slowed the construction of a battery materials factory in Moses Lake, Wash., after its customers in China balked at paying higher tariffs.

Solar panels at the Sao Mai power plant in An Giang Province, Vietnam, last year. The country has been awarded $15.5 billion in grants and loans in exchange for a commitment to renewable energy.

Archip Lobo, a founder of a Congolese microgrid company.