pv magazine test: August 2025 results
George Touloupas, vice president of ESG and new services at Clean Energy Associates (CEA), and Huatian Xu, director of technology and quality, analyze the August 2025 results from the pv magazine test outdoor installations in Yinchuan, China, and Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Scaling storage in India
India is demonstrating real ambition when it comes to building out energy storage capacity sufficient to support hundreds of gigawatts of solar before 2030. Establishing a domestic battery supply chain is another long-term goal for the country, but India’s energy storage industry should focus on fundamentals like pack assembly and energy management systems before moving into upstream manufacturing, Vision Mechatronics Managing Director Rashi Gupta told pv magazine.
Bankrolling C&I solar deployment
UK distributor Segen has European ambitions and a global banking partnership that gives it scope to offer solar financing to commercial and industrial (C&I) consumers in international markets. The distributor’s Head of Solar Financing EMEA James Walker explains what its partnership with BNP Paribas has to offer for installers and C&I customers.
On the road with pv magazine
Key industry events in October 2025, and your chance to meet with the pv magazine team around the world.
New obligations for solar and storage
As renewable energy deployment accelerates, the industry falls under an intensifying spotlight. Developers and financiers face mounting pressure to prove credible environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance across the solar and battery storage value chains.
The power of policy
Debmalya Sen, President, India Energy Storage Alliance
