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.
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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.
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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.
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Oil in turmoil, solar stays stable
Soaring energy costs have grabbed headlines around the world the past two months, but prices across the solar supply chain are marching to their own beat, writes Hanwei Wu of OPIS. Oversupply in Asia continues to distort markets, with either sharp price falls or tepid price gains.
May 25, 2026
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.
1 hour ago
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.
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Longi launches 680 W back contact solar module with 25.17% efficiency
Longi has unveiled the Hi-MO 9 Prime, a new back-contact module based on HPBC technology that delivers up to 680 W of output and 25.2% efficiency through a redesigned stacked-cell architecture that eliminates inter-cell gaps and conceals busbars to maximize active area.
The dual-glass module also features improved shading tolerance and enhanced reliability through LONGi’s STAC interconnection technology.
Dinto Solar launches 775 W heterojunction PV module with 25.0% efficiency
Chinese manufacturer Dinto Solar will debut its new DT198G-FZ HJT solar module for utility-scale applications at the Intersolar tradeshow in Munich. The zero-barbus (0BB), 1/3-cut cell panel delivers up to 775 W of power with 25.05% efficiency, featuring a 98% bifaciality rate and 90.3% power retention after 30 years.
Developing El Niño set to reshape global solar resource
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that a developing El Niño is expected to strengthen through 2026, shifting global solar irradiance patterns with regional gains in India, eastern Australia, and parts of Africa and Central America, and losses in South America and East Asia. These impacts reflect established historical patterns from past strong events, where circulation changes redistribute cloud cover and rainfall rather than uniformly increasing or decreasing solar resource.
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Romania on course for another record solar year
Irene Mihai, Policy Director of the Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association, tells pv magazine Romania’s solar and storage markets continue to develop at pace thanks to favourable market conditions and supportive regulatory environments.
Jun 25, 2026
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Oil in turmoil, solar stays stable
Soaring energy costs have grabbed headlines around the world the past two months, but prices across the solar supply chain are marching to their own beat, writes Hanwei Wu of OPIS. Oversupply in Asia continues to distort markets, with either sharp price falls or tepid price gains.
May 25, 2026
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Longi showcases portable containerized photovoltaic station
Longi’s containerized Block PV station integrates modules, structure and GoodWe GT Series inverters into a rapidly deployable off-grid system. It reportedly achieves an LCOE of around €0.0413–€0.045/kWh in European markets such as Ukraine and Poland.
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Who will be the U.S. solar cell technology leaders in 2030?
As the U.S. solar PV sector scales up domestic cell manufacturing, long-term competitiveness will depend on whether American producers can move beyond turn-key foreign equipment to secure independent technology roadmaps and domestic material supply chains.
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Sungrow releases its first all-in-one battery inverter for residential use
Sungrow’s new PowerHarbor residential all-in-one hybrid inverter system offers 10–30 kW inverter power, 6–10 kWh modular LFP battery blocks, 1.6× PV-to-battery fast charging, AI-driven energy optimization, and up to 150% phase unbalance output.
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Spanish start-up launches power optimizer that acts as a load equalizer
Murcia-based engineering firm Ebooster Solar Solutions told pv magazine that the device optimizes energy capture and output without changing the installed surface area or the generator’s structural configuration. It achieves this by modifying the electrical behavior of a PV installation, operating between each panel and the string.
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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
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.
1 hour ago
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.
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Solar skills shortage intensifies
Solar plays an outsized role in skills and employment, as the largest growing employer in the energy sector worldwide. pv magazine looks at an investigative report into a European skills provider and digs further into the challenges of training workers for the solar industry.
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Feeding Europe’s AI energy demand
On one hand, European policymakers are aiming for climate neutrality by 2050. On the other, they’re aiming to at least triple the region’s data center market by the mid-2030s to conserve European digital sovereignty and economic competitiveness. Is it possible to do both? Not without demand-side flexibility, cross-border electricity trading, and smarter integration of renewable energy assets.
Jun 24, 2026
Grids, solar and BESS – Balancing the buildout
Solar installations in Europe have begun to slow, as markets struggle with high levels of variable generation. Batteries and grid infrastructure need time to catch up, and Bernhard Suchland, CEO at energy infrastructure developer Sunotec, sees the need for a more integrated approach to developing energy systems and networks across Europe.
Jun 23, 2026
Solar PV can return Greater Cairo to become the city of the sun once more
Greater Cairo is Africa’s largest megacity and one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban regions in the world. One of the earliest names of the city, Heliopolis, means the “City of the Sun”. Today, as the city faces rapid population growth and rising energy demand, that ancient connection with the sun takes on a new meaning. Could solar PV revive this connection, but this time as a cornerstone of Greater Cairo’s energy transition?
Jun 23, 2026
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Solar skills shortage intensifies
Solar plays an outsized role in skills and employment, as the largest growing employer in the energy sector worldwide. pv magazine looks at an investigative report into a European skills provider and digs further into the challenges of training workers for the solar industry.
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Virtual home-energy trading study lowers costs, boosts access to clean power
Deakin University has released findings from a large-scale randomised control trial exploring a new technology that enables households and small businesses to buy and sell solar and battery power, and which lowered electricity prices, while boosting access to solar and battery power.
Jun 25, 2026
Grid-forming BESS to enhance stability in utility-scale PV
Scientists have simulated a 100 MW solar PV plant and a 35 MW / 60 MWh BESS with grid-forming control. In all cases, the grid-forming control provided immediate active/reactive support. Research: we provide quantitative evidence that grid-forming control strategies can support the transition to inverter-dominated power systems.
Jun 24, 2026
Paving the way for lithium–nitrogen batteries, one hurdle at a time
Researchers from Belgium and China have proposed a roadmap to advance lithium–nitrogen (Li–N₂) batteries, identifying key barriers such as poor reversibility, slow nitrogen activation, and unstable cell components. They suggest improved electrolytes, catalysts, separators, and cell designs, alongside standardized testing and flow-type architectures, to enable both energy storage and nitrogen-based chemical production.
Jun 24, 2026
Solar industry’s shift from silver presents potential barrier for panel recycling
Efforts among leading manufacturers to produce solar cells using base metals instead of silver in a bid to reduce costs could pose a threat to the future economic viability of recycling end-of-life panels.
Jun 24, 2026
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Sunwoda Energy launches SunESS H Series and deepens European partnerships
At Intersolar and ees Europe 2026, Sunwoda Energy launched its upgraded SunESS H Series under the theme “One Core, All Scenes” and signed agreements with BayWa r.e., CEF, and IBC Solar to support European expansion.
Jun 25, 2026
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HiTHIUM launches ARKVOLT residential energy storage products in Europe
Building on its GWh-scale expertise in utility-scale energy storage, HiTHIUM has brought its industrial-grade safety standards and system reliability into residential applications with the new ARKVOLT product series, which made its official debut at The smarter E Europe in Munich this week. ARKVOLT is HiTHIUM’s premium residential energy storage brand, developed specifically for mature markets including Europe, North America and Australia.
Jun 24, 2026
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AlphaESS introducing AlphaConnect connectivity platform for energy storage projects
The manufacturer is expanding into utility-scale storage and integrated energy solutions to meet the evolving needs of the European market, according to Thomas Yuan, Chairman of AlphaESS.
Jun 24, 2026
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Jackery showcases SolarVault 3 home energy storage solutions at The smarter E Europe 2026
At the Munich trade show, the company debuted Jackery Ark and three plug-in residential energy storage models, along with a range of smart accessories and a Solar Gazebo, highlighting the company’s evolution from portable power solutions to home energy ecosystems.
Jun 23, 2026
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