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Namibia approves 3 GW of solar for hydrogen production

The Namibian government has granted an environmental approval for a 3 GW solar farm. The energy generated is set to be used for green hydrogen and green ammonia production.
Energy Storage

The Hydrogen Stream: Japanese researchers develop green rust catalyst

Japanese researchers have developed a green rust–based catalyst for sodium borohydride, while South Korean scientists have created a framework to assess liquid hydrogen storage tanks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Manufacturing

Chinese PV Industry Brief: New PV additions for August total only 7.3 GW

China installed 7.36 GW of new solar in August, bringing year-to-date capacity additions to 230.61 GW and total power generation capacity to 3.69 TW.
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EU PVSEC 2025: Key takeaways

As the last of more than 1,100 scientific presentations wrap up today at the Bilbao Exhibition Center, pv magazine shares a few takeaways from an event that puts the latest solar technologies under the spotlight, and creates important connections ...
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Slovenia plans 140 MW floating solar plant

Slovenian energy company HSE is developing a 140 MW floating solar project, with work currently underway on spatial planning activities. The solar plant is set to become Slovenia’s largest solar project and Europe’s largest floating solar array to ...
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Markets & Policy

AI platform compiles data on Spain’s renewable energy projects

Orka Energía has unveiled an artificial intelligence platform that compiles and updates data on more than 4,000 renewable energy projects under development in Spain, including capacity, status, substations, and developers.
Markets & Policy

Silver price surge drives PV makers to cut silver usage further

The price of silver rose above $44 per ounce this week after gaining more than 30% in six months, with silver expert Philip Newman telling pv magazine it could exceed $50 per ounce next year, raising pressure on PV module makers to curb silver use.
Energy Storage

Peak Energy announces operation of first large-scale sodium ion battery in US

Denver-based Peak Energy claims its sodium-ion battery system offers the lowest operating cost of any energy storage technology on the market today.

Press Releases

TÜV Rheinland’s 11th “All Quality Matters” Solar & Storage Congress Held in Changzhou: Innovation Driving High-Quality Development

TÜV Rheinland successfully hosted its 11th “All Quality Matters” Solar & Storage Congress in Changzhou, uniting industry leaders to advance innovation, quality, and sustainable growth.

The EU PVSEC 2025 Concludes with Groundbreaking Innovations in PV and Sets the Stage for Rotterdam 2026

The European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) successfully concluded at the BEC Bilbao Exhibition Centre, hosting over 1,600 participants from 61 countries between 22 and 26 September 2025. The event showcased more than 1,000 scientific presentations on the latest innovations, reinforcing its status as the premier platform for photovoltaic research and collaboration.

LONGi’s BC Technology Shines at TÜV Rheinland’s “All Quality Matters Solar & ESS Congress 2025”

We are proud to announce that LONGi’s BC modules have been honored with top accolades at the prestigious 2025 “All Quality Matters” event, hosted by TÜV Rheinland!

The Race for Europe’s Battery Passports: How Hydra DPP is Powering Change

From February 2027, all industrial and EV batteries sold in the EU must include a digital passport detailing material origins, carbon footprint, and recyclability. To meet this challenge, a team in Málaga (Spain), has developed Hydra DPP, a platform designed to help companies comply with new regulations while turning transparency into a competitive advantage.

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Inclusive leadership emerges as a key factor in accelerating the energy transition

This week, during EU PVSEC 2025, Women in Solar+ Europe (WiSEu), in collaboration with PVSEC, hosted the workshop "Leading with Inclusion: Exploring the Six Traits of Inclusive Leadership," creating a dynamic forum for dialogue and co-creation. Drawing on Deloitte’s framework, six industry leaders and experts guided participants through the traits of commitment, courage, cognisance of bias, curiosity, cultural intelligence, and collaboration. What emerged was a collective recognition that inclusive leadership cannot be reduced to a single quality, but must be consciously nurtured through the interplay of all six traits.

Record heat, rain fail to prevent solar gains across Asia

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Japan, Thailand, South Korea, eastern China and Taiwan all recorded solar irradiance above seasonal norms in August, while Indonesia and Malaysia experienced declines.

China TOPCon solar module market awaits Q4 policy signals

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

The impact of sunlight spectral shifts on bifacial perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells

Experts from the International Solar Energy Society explains how regional spectral shifts of the standard spectral distribution of sunlight bring new insights into the performance of bifacial perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells.

US steel crunch puts solar deployment plans at risk

With US domestic steel mills booked solid through 2025, a sudden doubling of tariffs on imported steel has created a critical bottleneck for American industries. The move, which hits specialized Indian steel particularly hard, is now delaying projects for builders and renewable energy developers who rely on steady, affordable supply.

‘Progress is happening, but it remains slow’

This week Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Maria Gil, Business Development EU at Spain’s Solargrade. She says that real change in the energy industry only comes when companies and institutions move beyond statements and consistently turn policies into sustained action. “As the sector grows and requires more workers, it must bring in talent with equity at its core, ensuring inclusion moves from policy documents into everyday practice,” she states.

Markets & Policy

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French startup offers water heater control to boost PV self-consumption

French startup Ecojoko has introduced a contactor that controls electric water heaters to raise solar self-consumption, with field tests underway since the summer.

China’s Datang launches testing facility for PV with 2,000 V system voltage

China Datang Corp. says its 2,000 V solar testing base in China’s Hainan province will validate high-voltage modules under tropical coastal conditions.

Czechia amends electricity generation licence threshold

An amendment to Czechia’s Energy Act has increased the limit for mandatory electricity generation licences from 50 kW to 100 kW. The change applies to solar installations that produce electricity for direct consumption.

EcoFlow launches energy management system providing whole-home backup

Global energy company EcoFlow’s latest product, Gateway, is a wall mounted hardware system that can be installed indoors or outdoors and is compatible with third-party inverters and diesel generators as well as EcoFlow’s own extensive product suite.

New model to optimize desert PV plant cleaning schedule

Scientists have used a CPLEX-based MIP model and tested it on a section of the 10 MW Masdar City Solar Photovoltaic Plant. In their simulation, they assume the use of two robotic cleaners to operate over a 90-day horizon. Total cleaning costs were estimated at $7,987.

BASF begins building 50 MW industrial heat pump

Germany’s BASF has begun constructing an industrial-scale heat pump that will use electricity from renewables to produce up to 500,000 MT of CO2-free steam each year. Commissioning is scheduled for mid-2027.

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Cypriot startup unveils new device to reduce solar curtailment

Cyprus-based Enerthon has developed a smart zero-export control device that prevents PV export losses from curtailment by directing generation to self-consumption. Certification is expected soon.

Clickcon launches solar PV fence for residential, commercial sites

The German mounting system specialist has developed a new vertical ground-mounted system compatible with commercially available framed PV modules.

China Three Gorges commissions world’s largest PV-CSP solar plant

Hybrid project pairs a 100 MW linear Fresnel concentrated solar power (CSP) with a 900 MW PV facility, delivering 24-hour output and demonstrating large-scale storage integration.

Solar can boost Mauritania’s artisanal fishing sector, says IRENA

A report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says transitioning to solar-powered energy sources could help lower energy costs and bring more resilience to Mauritania’s artisanal fishing value chain.

Ukrainian city switches on solar arrays for local water utility

Solar systems with a combined capacity of 340 kW have been switched on at three water supply and wasterwater facilites in the west Ukrainian city of Chortkiv, designed to provide residents with uninterrupted water supply.

Lebanon inks three PPAs for 45 MW of solar 

Lebanon’s Ministry of Energy has entered into power purchase agreements with France’s CMA CGM for three solar projects each with a capacity of 15 MW.

Technology

Scientists report experimental breach of Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit for silicon solar cell

A Chinese-US research group claims to have achieved a power conversion efficiency of over 50% in an n-type single-junction solar cell by inhibiting light conversion to heat at extremely low temperatures. The result was achieved at temperatures of 30-50 Kelvin, which are a few tens of degrees above absolute zero.

Europe’s largest sodium-ion battery installation goes live

Switzerland’s Phenogy has launched a megawatt-hour-scale sodium ion energy storage system at a commercial site near Bremen Airport in northern Germany. With this project, the Swiss manufacturer is making its debut on the European energy storage scene, backed by ambitions to develop fully vertically integrated local manufacturing.

EU policies could cut cost gap between European and Chinese solar modules

A report by SolarPower Europe and Fraunhofer ISE finds EU-made solar modules cost €0.103 ($0.12)/W more than Chinese imports, but targeted policies could close the gap and help reach the EU’s 30 GW annual manufacturing target by 2030.

Agrivoltaics for arboriculture

Swiss company Insolight inaugurated a 250 kW agrivoltaic installation on apple, pear, and apricot orchards in Conthey, producing 300 MWh per year for the grid, in collaboration with Agroscope, Romande Energie, and the canton of Valais.

Perovskite solar cells with laminated carbon electrodes reach 20.4% efficiency

Scientists in Germany report a method to boost performance of perovskite solar cells made with laminated carbon electrodes that are compatible with typical hole transport layers.

Thieves steal 50 km of cable from 11 MW solar farm in Germany

Thieves stole 50 km of cable worth about €100,000 ($117,400) from an 11 MW solar project in southern Germany, with repair costs expected to exceed the material loss, according to police.

Manufacturing

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Mexico launches tender for 300 MW solar plant

Mexican state-owned utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is seeking proposals for the Puerto Peñasco Secuencia III solar plant, which will also include 103 MW of battery capacity.

REC leads US residential solar panels as Tesla loses storage share

REC led the US residential solar panel market in the first half of 2025, while Tesla lost share in home batteries and inverters amid supply and policy pressures, according to EnergySage.

World Green Energy to build 2 GW solar cell, 1.2 GW module plant in India

World Green Energy signed a land sublease with Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Ltd for 50 acres in Odisha, India, to build a 2 GW tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cell and 1.2 GW module factory.

Inox Solar starts production at first 1.2 GW phase of module plant in India

Inox Solar has commissioned the initial 1.2 GW phase of its 3 GW solar module factory in India, advancing its plan for full-scale domestic production.

New open-access simulation software for solar cell modeling

Developed by a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Soley software is claimed to enable precise optoelectronic modeling of photovoltaic devices and accurately reproduce the behavior of photodiodes under illumination.

World’s largest vertical rooftop solar installation deployed in Norway

Vertical solar specialist Over Easy Solar has broke its own record for the world’s largest rooftop vertical solar array with a 320 kW system in the north Norwegian city of Tromsø.

Energy Storage

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Global Solar Council launches global trade association for battery storage

The Global Solar Council has launched what it calls the first global trade association for battery storage to drive manufacturing, deployment, recycling, and adoption of new technologies.

Oman selects developers for 500 MW solar-plus-storage project 

A consortium including Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. (Masdar), Al Khadra Partners, Korea Midland Power Co. and OQ Alternative Energy have been chosen to build a 500 MW solar project in Oman, integrated with a 100 MWh battery energy storage system.

Renewables overbuilding, proactive curtailment can reduce Europe’s energy system costs

New research from the Netherlands showed that renewables and short-term storage can meet around 92.5% of Europe’s electricity demand in future energy scenarios, with the remaining 7.5% being satisfied by green hydrogen. The scientists considered Europe as fully self-sufficient with zero import-export of power or hydrogen, with each of the 37 countries included in the modeling having a self-sufficiency rate of at least 80%.

Arbitrage remains leading use case for US grid-scale batteries

Arbitrage has remained the dominant use case for utility-scale batteries in the United States through 2024. However, the share of the cumulative fleet reporting it as their primary application has stayed roughly the same percentage-wise.

Spanish startup offers portable solar-plus-storage generators for irrigation

Spanish startup Nomad Solar Energy and Full&fast have deployed a portable solar-plus-storage system at a Madrid farm to provide off-grid power for irrigation.

Optimization strategy for PV-powered EV charging stations relying on V2G

Scientists in China have created an optimization technique for an electric vehicle charging station that uses PV, battery storage, and a vehicle-to-grid operation. Considering the uncertainty of PV generation and the randomness of EV load, the system uses two-level optimization, day-ahead and intra-day.

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