Agrivoltaics for arboriculture
Swiss company Insolight inaugurated a 250 kW agrivoltaic installation on apple, pear, and apricot orchards in Conthey, producing 300 MWh per year for the grid, in collaboration with Agroscope, Romande Energie, and the canton of Valais.
EU policies could cut cost gap between European and Chinese solar modules
A report by SolarPower Europe and Fraunhofer ISE finds EU-made solar modules cost €0.103 ($0.12)/W more than Chinese imports, but targeted policies could close the gap and help reach the EU’s 30 GW annual manufacturing target by 2030.
REC leads US residential solar panels as Tesla loses storage share
REC led the US residential solar panel market in the first half of 2025, while Tesla lost share in home batteries and inverters amid supply and policy pressures, according to EnergySage.
One-year testing shows ground-mounted PV achieves ‘superior’ performance ratio in Sahara
A 12-month testing of a 1.1 MW pilot PV facility built in 2016 in Algeria’s desert has shown that tracking-equipped ground-mounted PV can reach high performance ratio values under Saharan conditions. The plant was built with a variety of PV module technologies.
Perovskite solar cells with laminated carbon electrodes reach 20.4% efficiency
Scientists in Germany report a method to boost performance of perovskite solar cells made with laminated carbon electrodes that are compatible with typical hole transport layers.
World Green Energy to build 2 GW solar cell, 1.2 GW module plant in India
World Green Energy signed a land sublease with Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Ltd for 50 acres in Odisha, India, to build a 2 GW tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cell and 1.2 GW module factory.
Boviet Solar to expand to 3 GW of annual US module production capacity
Announcements from Vietnamese solar manufacturing company show its progress towards 3 gigawatts of capacity in each solar module assembly and cell fabrication
Ireland allocates over 860 MW of solar in fifth renewables auction
Ireland’s fifth onshore renewable energy auction provisionally allocated 860 MW of solar with the final average price for PV coming in at €0.10063/kWh. ($0.12/kWh).
Thieves steal 50 km of cable from 11 MW solar farm in Germany
Thieves stole 50 km of cable worth about €100,000 ($117,400) from an 11 MW solar project in southern Germany, with repair costs expected to exceed the material loss, according to police.
The impact of sunlight spectral shifts on bifacial perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells
Experts from the International Solar Energy Society explains how regional spectral shifts of the standard spectral distribution of sunlight bring new insights into the performance of bifacial perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells.
