Highlights

More than half of the first phase of the 3.5 GW solar and 4.5 GWh battery storage MTerra Solar project in the Philippines is now complete, eight months after its groundbreaking. The 778 MW of solar installed so far makes it the largest solar installation in the country.

The Dutch government said it remains vigilant on potential cybersecurity threats coming from solar inverters. It minimized, however, the risk of hidden hardware components in inverters and said these devices would be “easily detectable” by the Dutch authorities.

Italy’s first solar auction under the transitional FER X incentive scheme drew 17.5 GW in project proposals and an additional 2.87 GW in wind bids, according to state-run energy agency Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE).

The European Commission has told pv magazine that it will unlikely prioritize operating expenditure (opex) support for solar and clean technology manufacturers, citing concerns about potential market distortion, even as insolvencies rise across the European PV sector.

India added 17.4 GW of utility-scale solar and 5.15 GW of rooftop PV capacity in fiscal 2025, according to JMK Research. Rajasthan led new installations with 6.5 GW, followed by Gujarat with 3.6 GW and Maharashtra with 2.3 GW.

Brazil’s solar imports fell 33% to $722 million in the first four months of 2025 amid project delays and oversupply, as new trade routes began cutting costs and freight times to the country’s North and Northeast regions.

Saatvik Solar has broken ground on a 4.8 GW solar cell and 4 GW module manufacturing plant in eastern India, with module production set to begin by the end of fiscal 2026 and cell output by fiscal 2027.

Netherlands based PV module testing equipment supplier Eternal Sun today announced that it has acquired German company Wavelabs, which also supplies flash testing equipment to the solar industry. The acquisition creates a new company, Wavelabs Eternal Sun Gmbh, headquartered in Leipzig, Germany and operating as a 100% subsidiary of Eternal Sun Group. The new owner plans to continue operating the two companies under their respective brand names, with Eternal Sun focused on testing PV modules and Wavelabs on cells.

A Danish trade group has ruled out any link between suspicious components found in local energy equipment and recent reports of compromised solar inverters in the United States, narrowing the scope of an ongoing cybersecurity investigation.

Larks and other bird species are flourishing in Germany’s solar parks, where breeding success exceeds that of many other habitats. These PV project sites are becoming valuable refuges, benefiting both wildlife and the surrounding environment.