Markets & Policy
In highly regulated energy markets, policy decisions can make or break new technologies, strategies, and even entire industries.
Support from policymakers, in the form of procurement exercises, priority dispatch, tax incentives and a wealth of other instruments, has been vital to the global solar industry’s success, and new mechanisms to support growth in energy storage are an increasingly important part of the story today.
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Impacts of the EU inverter ban
The European Commission (EC) is restricting European Union funding to solar projects using Chinese-made inverters, due to the perceived risks of cyberattacks and blackouts. But are European suppliers ready to scale up production and challenge China’s monopoly? Andreas Walstad reports.
Jun 25, 2026
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The Leadership Lens: Highlighting the double standards shaping leadership in the energy transition
This week, Women in Solar+ Europe (WiSEu) shares key insights from its flagship breakfast workshop at Intersolar Europe 2026, where professionals across the solar and storage sectors explored the double standards that continue to shape women’s careers. From visibility and credibility to motherhood, networking, and organisational culture, the discussion highlighted the barriers still in place — and the leadership behaviours, allyship, and structural changes needed to build a fairer, stronger energy transition.
East Asia’s sunny May lifts coastal irradiance above average as El Niño builds
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that clear skies driven by a persistent high-pressure system pushed May solar irradiance well above average across coastal East Asia, including Japan, Korea, eastern China, Taiwan, and the northern Philippines, with Japan seeing some of the strongest gains.
GHG Protocol uncertainty is cooling solar corporate PPA market, says Renewabl CEO
Corporate PPA volumes fell 10% in 2025, and Renewabl CEO JP Cerda says uncertainty around pending scope 2 accounting changes are causing some buyers to hold off. A shift to hourly matching should see battery storage center stage.
Inside Nextpower’s acquisition-driven expansion strategy
At The smarter E Europe in Munich, NextPower CEO Dan Shugar discussed with pv magazine the company’s transformation from a solar tracker specialist into a broader clean energy technology provider, explaining how recent acquisitions in inverters, battery storage and mounting systems fit into a customer-driven strategy.
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Lux Research expects a healthy and profitable return of solar industry
Due to converging supply and demand, the solar industry is all set for a quick rebound. According to the new findings released by Lux Research, the global module capacity will fall to about 58 GW in 2015 and module margins will increase to 10% from the current near-zero averages.
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Trina Solar's first quarter results: domestic sales down
Photovoltaic module manufacturer Trina Solar Limited has announced their first quarter results for 2013. Module shipments saw a sequential decrease and Europe continued to bring the largest revenue slice for Trina Solar. Domestic sales saw a fall.
Photovoltaic storage still not competitive in Germany
From a cost perspective it does not really matter whether wind and photovoltaic systems are probably better erected where it is particularly inexpensive to generate electricity, or instead where the electricity is actually consumed. The overall costs for the change in energy policy in Germany can be reduced in particular through less development of offshore wind power.
Yingli losses more than double in first quarter
Yingli Green Energy’s net loss more than doubled in the first quarter of the year to CNY 611.8 million ($98.5 million, €75.6 million) as PV module shipments declined, resulting in a 15% drop in revenue to CNY 2.68 billion ($431.4 million). The group also announced a new finance chief as well as major deal in South Africa for 96 MW of PV modules for a new solar plant.
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In U.S., mid-size project momentum "puts solar where the sun doesn't shine"
Momentum for municipal/mid-size solar installations is growing in the United States, says NPD Solarbuzz. The research firm’s analysts announced on Wednesday that solar projects in the range from 100 kW to 2 MW account for over 60% of the current U.S. project pipelines.
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