Sungrow’s Brazilian business heating up for batteries as solar demand cools
At Intersolar 2025, Sungrow’s Brazil country manager, Rafael Ribeiro, told pv magazine Brasil the company submitted more than 80 proposals to supply battery energy storage systems (BESS) between January and June alone, to projects interested in participating in the Leilão de Reserva de Capacidade na Forma de Potência (LRCAP) auction for battery storage.
Chinese manufacturer plans solar glass factory in Algeria
China’s Kibing Group is looking to develop a solar glass manufacturing facility in Algeria with an annual production capacity of 1.53 million tonnes.
Holosolis signs TOPCon patent licensing agreement with Trina Solar
HoloSolis is currently planning to open a 5 GW PV cell and panel factory in Hambach, France.
Finetuning 2D Dion-Jacobson perovskites for photovoltaic applications
Canadian and U.S. researchers have investigated applying pressure to a 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite to tune the optical and electronic properties to suit photovoltaic applications, light emitting diodes or other semiconductor devices.
Central-West Orana renewable zone draws community backlash in Australia
An Australian state parliamentary report says residents near the Central-West Orana renewable energy zone in New South Wales face negative social and economic impacts, despite a AUD 128 million ($83 million) community benefit program.
Huasun achieves 34.02% efficiency for perovskite-heterojunction solar cell
The Chinese manufacturer said the result was achieved thanks to new perovskite crystallization additives and high-mobility carrier transport layer materials.
New deep learning tech for PV inverter fault diagnosis
A team of scientists in the United States has combined both spatial and temporal attention mechanisms to develop a new approach for PV inverter fault detection. Training the new method on a dataset created in MATLAB/Simulink, the group has compared it to a series of other data-driven and statistical-based methods and has found accuracy reached 97.35%.
Americans back solar tax credits as civic duty, carbon pricing tool
The American public has shown a strong willingness to fund solar and other renewable energy projects through tax credits, largely because voters trust directed infrastructure funding more than open-ended government revenue pools.
Navigating One Big Beautiful Bill and tariffs in U.S. solar PV and storage
Turning challenges into opportunities as the U.S. solar and storage sectors enter a phase of major policy and market realignment.
kWh Analytics launches excess natural catastrophe insurance for solar projects
The new coverage will provide up to $20 million in additional expanded capacity, covering damage from severe storms in non-coastal regions.
