This week, Women in Solar Europe (WiSEu) gives voice to María del Puy Ayerra, Head of Business Development Iberia at Spain’s Zelestra. She encountered isolated experiences that reflected subtle gender bias – particularly the assumption that women in leadership must adopt a “tough” character to survive in a male-dominated environment. “These stereotypes can be limiting and disheartening, especially for women who lead with empathy, collaboration, and strength of vision,” she states.

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.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, writes that while findings from the The European State of the Climate 2024 report align with its own solar analysis covering last year, differences in anomaly magnitude between the two datasets stem from the climatology periods used.

In a new monthly column for pv magazine, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) reveals that Sweden, Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark are the leading countries for per capita solar and wind generation capacity. Furthermore, it explains that global solar capacity has been doubling every 3 years, and wind every 6 years, whereas fossil and nuclear capacity and generation have been almost static in recent years.

Since 1993, the World Energy Outlook (WEO) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been an authoritative report on energy statistics and guiding future energy supply and demand developments. An examination of these reports, however, indicates that even the most progressive of WEO scenarios has vastly underestimated the growth of renewable energy technologies, especially solar PV.

CleanMax has commissioned a 92.1 MW wind-solar hybrid plant in Bengaluru, India, to power US tech giant Cisco’s India campus – one of its largest hubs outside the United States.

Construction of the Aldoga Solar Farm on Australia’s central Queensland coast has been completed seven months ahead of schedule. The 380 MW PV plant has already exported its first 850 kW of clean electricity into the main national grid.

France installed 1.4 GW of solar in the first quarter of 2025, bringing its cumulative PV capacity to 23.5 GW by the end of March.

China installed 59.71 GW of new solar in the first quarter of 2025, with 20.24 GW in March alone. National power generation capacity reached 3.43 TW, with solar accounting for 950 GW of the total.

Spain’s grid ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time on April 16, with wind, solar, and hydro meeting all peninsular electricity demand during a weekday. Five days later, solar set a new record, generating 20,120 MW of instantaneous power – covering 78.6% of demand and 61.5% of the grid mix.

Software company Solarstream provides a project management tool for installation teams, including traditional PV installers and electricians serving the solar market. The software is suitable for projects of all sizes, from large-sized commercial and industrial to residential installations.

Conceived for industrial applications, the novel heat pumps can reportedly deliver hot water at 65 C from -10 C up to 35 C of external air, and hot water at 55 C down to -20 C of external air. Their coefficient of performance reaches up to 3.60.

The Indian manufacturer said its new TOPCon solar panel is based on rectangular bifacial solar cells and is certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

The recent 50 States of Solar report from NC Clean Energy Technology Center identifies three trends in state policy activities and the top five distributed solar actions in Q1 2025.

Over one million California homes that invested in rooftop solar may have their net metering contracts rescinded under the proposed bill AB 942.

1Komma5° has launched PowerHarvester, a lithium iron phosphate battery system for residential customers without solar. It is offering six power classes and storage capacities from 7.7 kWh to 27.2 kWh.

An international research team has developed a method to economically synthesize and stabilize conductive colloidal quantum dot inks for solar applications. When used to make quantum dot films in large area PV devices they enabled a certified efficiency of 10%, with lab-sized cells based on the ink material achieving 13.40% efficiency.

The Chinese manufacturer has designed a new high-density 400 kW power conversion system (PCS) and 6.25 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to cut costs and boost deployment speed.

Coalition trade lawyer says the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final tariffs on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are among the highest rates he’s ever seen.

New research from UNSW shows that EVA-encapsulated TOPCon solar modules under damp-heat testing can suffer significant power losses and fill factor drops. The study describes metallization degradation mechanisms driven by EVA-generated contaminants and demonstrates the effectiveness of metallization adjustments in reducing EVA-induced degradation rates

Avery Dennison has introduced a line of UV-resistant, pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes for PV modules. The new products support applications such as frame mounting, cell fixation, busbar bonding, and junction box installation.

Levante, an Italian carbon fiber solar PV design and engineering company, has introduced 110 W and 55 W panels for offgrid recreational applications. The modules are lightweight, semi-rigid and made with recycled carbon fiber material.

Teledyne Flir, a US-based sensing solutions company, has launched new PV inspection tools – including a clamp meter, irradiance meter, and I-V curve tracer – alongside two product kits targeting solar installers, utilities, and PV manufacturers.

Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a 2D/3D tin halide perovskite (THP) solar cell with a certified efficiency of 16.65% and peak performance of 17.13%, maintaining stable output under continuous illumination for over 1,500 hours.

Scientists in China have developed a novel PV-powered cooling and heating system that combines a water-cooled gas cooler and an air-cooled gas cooler. The system went through a series of simulations and showed it can potentially achieve a coefficient of performance of up to 7.34.

E.ON is now working with a UK-based battery tech firm to advance more environmentally friendly energy storage for households.

Optimus Energy has announced a virtual power plant for renewables trading on the Greek wholesale electricity and balancing market. Work is already underway, with Germany-based emsys VPP connecting over 3,500 solar and wind power plants in Greece to its software suite.

The Africa Solar Industry Association (AFSIA) says utility-scale solar projects are under development in 45 of Africa’s 54 countries, with more projects pairing solar and storage and emerging from direct negotiations between private developers and host governments.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have patented a grid-forming inverter algorithm that stabilizes frequency while protecting devices from damage by independently controlling frequency, voltage, and current.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) says the fifth edition of its ANSI/CAN/UL 9540A standard addresses technology such as sodium-ion batteries and new use-cases including rooftop installations.