Global solar demand on track for first annual decline in two decades
At the SNEC 2026 conference in Shanghai, BloombergNEF (BNEF) lead solar analyst Jenny Chase re-iterated a sobering projection: solar deployment will slow this year before returning to a much more conservative growth trajectory. The defining question facing the industry now is clear: what trends will step up to pull solar growth back upward?
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Bangladesh introduces 0% tax rate for solar power sector
Bangladesh has announced a major solar energy incentive package, including a 0% tax rate for the solar power sector until 2035 and a 5% rebate on consumer solar electricity payments. The policy also removes import and other duties on key solar components to boost investment and support the country’s renewable energy targets for 2030 and 2050.
13 hours ago
Solar-powered floating shellfish farming tested in French lagoon
The SolarinThau project, which combines photovoltaic power generation with oyster farming, aims to test a new model that balances the energy transition, the preservation of maritime activities, and the sustainable development of the shellfish farming sector.
13 hours ago
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Oil in turmoil, solar stays stable
Soaring energy costs have grabbed headlines around the world the past two months, but prices across the solar supply chain are marching to their own beat, writes Hanwei Wu of OPIS. Oversupply in Asia continues to distort markets, with either sharp price falls or tepid price gains.
May 25, 2026
What new redispatching rules and negative prices mean for German renewable asset management
Germany’s renewable power market is shifting from stable feed-in support to a more volatile system with frequent negative prices, 15-minute trading, and growing grid congestion. For asset and fund managers, performance now depends on time-specific production, curtailment, pricing, and redispatch effects, making granular operational and settlement data essential beyond monthly revenue reporting.
Jun 10, 2026
Abu Dhabi’s solar self-supply framework marks shift to energy intelligence
The Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA) recently convened an industry discussion examining how Abu Dhabi’s self-supply framework will impact distributed solar deployment, storage integration and future market design.
Jun 09, 2026
From ‘crazy vision’ to 698 GW: How a bold solar forecast became too conservative
In 2012, our “300 GW/a PV initiative” set out a vision of a very ambitious annual global PV market by 2025. At the time, many dismissed the target as “crazy.” Instead, reality has gone far beyond that ambition: according to the latest figures from the IEA PVPS, the world installed 698 GW of new PV capacity in 2025, which is more than double our original vision.
Jun 09, 2026
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Dutch solar owners asked to switch off during peak periods to ease distribution crisis
The Dutch market regulator is set to introduce new rules for grid connections starting 1 July which will see householders and business owners slip down the priority queue. Grid operators have been urging people to change their consumption and generation behaviors.
Jun 05, 2026
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India floats tenders for 1.2 GW of renewables with storage to ensure reliable peak power supply
Solar Energy Corp. of India (SECI) has invited bids for the development of 1.2 GW of interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected renewable energy projects coupled with energy storage systems (ESS), aimed at delivering 4,800 MWh (1200 MW x 4 hours) of assured peak power daily.
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Lithuania’s grid operators can now disconnect solar plants without cybersecurity measures
While Lithuania’s heightened cybersecurity laws are helping solar plants larger than 100 kW become more secure, some owners have faced increased costs and a waiting list to fully implement the new measures.
Jun 05, 2026
Cybersecurity concerns put focus on India’s solar inverter supplies
While growing cybersecurity concerns have prompted the EU to consider restrictions on funding for PV projects using inverters supplied by high-risk vendors like China, experts say India may need a more calibrated approach that strengthens security oversight without disrupting solar deployment.
Jun 04, 2026
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Oil in turmoil, solar stays stable
Soaring energy costs have grabbed headlines around the world the past two months, but prices across the solar supply chain are marching to their own beat, writes Hanwei Wu of OPIS. Oversupply in Asia continues to distort markets, with either sharp price falls or tepid price gains.
May 25, 2026
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GoodWe launches PV-driven residential air-to-water heat pumps
The systems are designed to maximize solar self-consumption by routing DC power directly to the unit’s internal DC bus, avoiding losses and extra costs from AC/DC conversions. They offer a 6–34.15 kW capacity range with COP up to 4.70,
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Tongwei debuts BIFIMAX module for projects requiring high-bifaciality
With 90±5% bifaciality, TNC BIFIMAX 670 W can reduce CAPEX by 0.87 euro cents per Watt. The new solution, designed for high-latitude, high-albedo markets, will be showcased by Tongwei at this year’s Intersolar Europe in Munich.
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Silver drives PV recycling economics as module waste wave approaches
With Europe and Australia facing a significant wave of end-of-life solar panels, researchers point to silver recovery as the most important lever for improving unit economics, but technical barriers and the absence of industry-wide purity standards are slowing progress.
20 hours ago
UNSW research solves critical electrolyzer bottleneck in green hydrogen production
UNSW researchers have used 3D imaging to see how trapped bubbles affect the efficacy of electrolysers in the production of green hydrogen, smoothing the way for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors such as steelmaking and heavy-duty transport.
20 hours ago
Production not politics, capex not capacity – the new metrics defining U.S. solar manufacturing
The landscape for solar PV manufacturing in the United States is set to move from bystander-curiosity to manufacturing-scrutiny. Finlay Coville explores how this transition has come about, why the existing analysis of the manufacturing space has been largely superficial until now, and what tracking a capital expenditure (capex) heavy manufacturing sector looks like in practice.
Jun 10, 2026
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Oil in turmoil, solar stays stable
Soaring energy costs have grabbed headlines around the world the past two months, but prices across the solar supply chain are marching to their own beat, writes Hanwei Wu of OPIS. Oversupply in Asia continues to distort markets, with either sharp price falls or tepid price gains.
May 25, 2026
Global solar demand on track for first annual decline in two decades
At the SNEC 2026 conference in Shanghai, BloombergNEF (BNEF) lead solar analyst Jenny Chase re-iterated a sobering projection: solar deployment will slow this year before returning to a much more conservative growth trajectory. The defining question facing the industry now is clear: what trends will step up to pull solar growth back upward?
13 hours ago
Bangladesh introduces 0% tax rate for solar power sector
Bangladesh has announced a major solar energy incentive package, including a 0% tax rate for the solar power sector until 2035 and a 5% rebate on consumer solar electricity payments. The policy also removes import and other duties on key solar components to boost investment and support the country’s renewable energy targets for 2030 and 2050.
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The battery cost disconnect
For years, the battery energy storage (BESS) story has followed a familiar script: costs fall, deployment accelerates, economics improve. Even when cell costs rose and system prices briefly flattened during the 2021-22 lithium price spike, the narrative largely held. Paola Perez Peña, senior principal analyst at S&P Global Energy, examines why the latest jump in lithium prices has only had limited impacts on overall BESS costs so far.
Apr 02, 2026
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Solar-powered floating shellfish farming tested in French lagoon
The SolarinThau project, which combines photovoltaic power generation with oyster farming, aims to test a new model that balances the energy transition, the preservation of maritime activities, and the sustainable development of the shellfish farming sector.
13 hours ago
India floats tenders for 1.2 GW of renewables with storage to ensure reliable peak power supply
Solar Energy Corp. of India (SECI) has invited bids for the development of 1.2 GW of interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected renewable energy projects coupled with energy storage systems (ESS), aimed at delivering 4,800 MWh (1200 MW x 4 hours) of assured peak power daily.
20 hours ago
Solar-plus-storage microgrids now delivering competitive baseload power
Wood Mackenzie presented modelling for Ukraine, Ghana, and the Netherlands showing that 300 MW solar-plus-storage systems can deliver competitive, baseload-like power across very different grid contexts. Across all three countries, hybrid PV-plus-storage consistently outperforms conventional coal and gas in LCOE terms, highlighting faster deployability, strong cost declines, and superior resilience versus long-lead-time fossil infrastructure.
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Solar key to space-based AI
Elon Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, raised some eyebrows at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, when he predicted “that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space and that will be true within two to three years, three at the latest.” pv magazine reported on Musk’s vision on our global website www.pv-magazine.com on Jan. 26, 2026, and exactly one week later SpaceX announced that it was acquiring xAI “to form the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications, and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform.”
Mar 23, 2026
One-year outdoor testing reveals degradation paths in perovskite tandem solar cells
Researchers from TNO and Fraunhofer ISE ran a 1-year outdoor test of perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells and found a clear efficiency decline from 17–18% to 13–14% driven by multi-stage degradation. The main failure mechanisms were voltage loss, encapsulation delamination, and UV/thermal-induced interface and transport-layer degradation rather than intrinsic absorber instability.
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Solar module cooling tech based on perforated fins
Researchers in Algeria simulated perforated hexagonal-fin heat sinks to improve PV cooling performance using CFD analysis. The best design reduced cell temperature by up to 20.93% and increased efficiency while maintaining high thermal performance under forced convection.
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Study finds tandem PV has 30% lower environmental impact than crystalline silicon
A Spanish research team conducted a cradle-to-gate LCA of eight PV technologies across three generations, finding that tandem solar cells can outperform silicon-based systems in environmental terms due to higher efficiencies. However, cadmium telluride thin-film technologies still show the lowest overall impacts, while tandem systems require long lifetimes and improved stability to deliver clear sustainability advantages over established PV technologies.
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UNSW research solves critical electrolyzer bottleneck in green hydrogen production
UNSW researchers have used 3D imaging to see how trapped bubbles affect the efficacy of electrolysers in the production of green hydrogen, smoothing the way for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors such as steelmaking and heavy-duty transport.
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Tongwei debuts BIFIMAX module for projects requiring high-bifaciality
With 90±5% bifaciality, TNC BIFIMAX 670 W can reduce CAPEX by 0.87 euro cents per Watt. The new solution, designed for high-latitude, high-albedo markets, will be showcased by Tongwei at this year’s Intersolar Europe in Munich.
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JA to showcase new utility-scale battery and latest-generation TOPCon modules at Intersolar 2026
JA, a global leader in photovoltaic products and integrated energy solutions, will introduce its latest advancements in battery energy storage systems and high-efficiency solar modules at Intersolar Europe 2026, alongside a dedicated sustainability and ESG event.
Jun 10, 2026
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SVOLT showcases comprehensive energy storage solutions at SNEC 2026
The portfolio features two new variants of SVOLT’s 122 Ah stacked-electrode residential energy storage cell: a Fast-Charging Edition and a Low-Temperature, Long-Life Edition. This expansion marks the evolution of products from a single cell into a platform-based offering.
Jun 08, 2026
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Natural ester fluids beat mineral oil for use in renewable energy applications
Compared with mineral oil, natural ester fluid enables the design of more compact, lighter, and thermally efficient transformers, helping photovoltaic applications reduce footprint, installation complexity, and overall project CAPEX compared with conventional mineral oil solutions.
Jun 03, 2026