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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Argentina’s next era
Argentina’s solar sector is entering a new phase, writes pv magazine’s Luis Ini. As the country’s installed PV capacity nears 2.6 GW, demand is growing. This stems from the mining sector, projects connected to distribution grids, the upturn in self-consumption following tariff rises, and the first national tenders for large-scale battery storage. However, the market remains constrained by two structural limitations: transmission capacity and access to finance.
Aug 26, 2026
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Battery boom brings round-the-clock solar closer, Ember says
Solar PV supplied more than 10% of global electricity in the first half of 2026, but generation remains heavily concentrated around midday. Ember says rapidly expanding, cheaper battery storage could shift 34% of new daily solar generation to non-solar hours in 2026, bringing round-the-clock solar closer.
Executive order bans foreign-produced transformers, inverters, and circuit breakers for U.S. power grid
President Donald Trump issued an emergency executive order banning the acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation of foreign-produced electrical grid equipment from designated foreign countries, according to a legal analysis published by law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.
Albania’s solar market shifts toward storage, market integration
Albania’s solar market is continuing to develop with a growing project pipeline alongside new regulations that are reshaping its electricity market, setting the groundwork for storage deployments and improving conditions for self-producers.
California plug-in solar bill earns approval of both legislative houses
The California state Assembly has passed SB 868, known as the Plug and Play Solar Act. Pending Senate concurrence in amendments made to the bill by the Assembly, California is one step away from passing its highly-anticipated plug-in solar legislation.
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PV Legal launches new database highlighting "bureaucratic barriers" to PV development
The PV Legal consortium has launched an online database containing quantitative and qualitative data on project development processes and bureaucratic barriers that, they say, are hampering the set-up of photovoltaic (PV) systems.
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