Record high power prices in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany are setting record intraday electricity prices amid the ongoing European heat wave, as elevated temperatures curb solar output and reduce the efficiency of combined-cycle gas turbines (CCGTs).
4 hours ago
Moonwatt showcases sodium-ion storage solutions for utility-scale applications
Moonwatt unveiled a modular sodium-ion battery storage system for utility-scale PV plants at The Smarter E trade show in Munich, designed as distributed units placed across solar arrays instead of containerised blocks. The system uses passively cooled NFPP sodium-ion cells in DC- or AC-coupled configurations, targeting 93–94% solar-to-grid efficiency, lower balance-of-plant costs, and highly scalable, low-maintenance deployment without lithium, cobalt, or active cooling.
7 hours ago
Jupiter International starts production at 1.25 GW TOPCon solar cell factory in India
Jupiter International has begun production at its 1.25 GW TOPCon solar cell manufacturing line in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. The site also houses 2 GW of monocrystalline PERC solar cell manufacturing capacity.
8 hours ago
Phenogy unveils modular sodium-ion storage solution
Swiss sodium-ion battery company Phenogy has launched the modular Phenogy 1.1 energy storage system for commercial and industrial applications at The Smarter E Europe in Munich. The 50 kW, 100 Ah system offers scalable storage, air-cooled thermal management and integrated safety features,
10 hours ago
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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
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?
13 hours ago
Solar everywhere: The infrastructure opportunity
As Europe’s most attractive rooftops and most favourable sites fill up with solar, a new logic is taking hold: the dual use of land. After agrivoltaics, floating PV and building-integrated solar, it is now the turn of infrastructure such as roads, railways, canals and dikes to become a solar resource.
14 hours ago
Very low cost rooftop solar slashes domestic energy cost – Part 2: South American Countries
As photovoltaics continues getting cheaper, an increasing number of countries are adapting their regulatory frameworks to facilitate its integration into electricity markets. Brazil is currently adding more than 1 GW of new PV capacity each month, with the majority coming from small-scale, distributed rooftop installations. In this regard, Brazil stands out as an exception in South America. The country’s rapid solar expansion is not primarily driven by lower solar module prices compared with neighboring Latin American countries. Instead, it is largely the result of high conventional electricity prices, accessible financing, supportive regulations, tax incentives, and the scale of its energy market.
14 hours ago
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June 23-25, 2026 | MUNICH, GERMANY
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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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Jupiter International starts production at 1.25 GW TOPCon solar cell factory in India
Jupiter International has begun production at its 1.25 GW TOPCon solar cell manufacturing line in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. The site also houses 2 GW of monocrystalline PERC solar cell manufacturing capacity.
8 hours ago
Australia’s hybrid projects serving as blueprint for global energy transition
As Australia’s energy mix continues to evolve, hybrid projects combining solar generation and large-scale battery storage have emerged as a core asset class and renewable energy technology giant Fluence says the market is now serving as a global pioneer for the energy transition.
15 hours ago
Energy Start-up Map: From project development and battery hardware to battery diagnostics and flexibility marketing
As part of our “Start-up of the Month” series—published by pv magazine in collaboration with Vireo Ventures—we invited start-ups to submit information about their companies. Ninety-one responded. We have categorized them and provide an overview of their fields of activity, target audiences, and business models in a market overview.
Jun 22, 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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Moonwatt showcases sodium-ion storage solutions for utility-scale applications
Moonwatt unveiled a modular sodium-ion battery storage system for utility-scale PV plants at The Smarter E trade show in Munich, designed as distributed units placed across solar arrays instead of containerised blocks. The system uses passively cooled NFPP sodium-ion cells in DC- or AC-coupled configurations, targeting 93–94% solar-to-grid efficiency, lower balance-of-plant costs, and highly scalable, low-maintenance deployment without lithium, cobalt, or active cooling.
7 hours ago
Jupiter International starts production at 1.25 GW TOPCon solar cell factory in India
Jupiter International has begun production at its 1.25 GW TOPCon solar cell manufacturing line in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. The site also houses 2 GW of monocrystalline PERC solar cell manufacturing capacity.
8 hours ago
Phenogy unveils modular sodium-ion storage solution
Swiss sodium-ion battery company Phenogy has launched the modular Phenogy 1.1 energy storage system for commercial and industrial applications at The Smarter E Europe in Munich. The 50 kW, 100 Ah system offers scalable storage, air-cooled thermal management and integrated safety features,
10 hours ago
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.
11 hours ago
Researchers build 22.36%-efficient 3D/2D solar modules based on stabilized hybrid perovskite
An international research team has developed perovskite solar cells and mini-modules with a 2D/3D heterojunction architecture using a room-temperature selective iodoplumbate cold casting process that controls precursor chemistry to enable kinetically stabilized phases. The approach yields uniform 2D layers that enhance vertical charge transport and device stability.
11 hours ago
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Running out of gas
Europe is hooked on gas, but another geopolitical crisis makes the case for accelerated solar and energy storage deployment even stronger. As policymakers mull potential methods for decoupling electricity markets from volatile gas prices, renewable generators and energy storage developers stand ready to break the link in the most direct way possible.
16 hours ago
Record high power prices in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany are setting record intraday electricity prices amid the ongoing European heat wave, as elevated temperatures curb solar output and reduce the efficiency of combined-cycle gas turbines (CCGTs).
4 hours ago
Very low cost rooftop solar slashes domestic energy cost – Part 2: South American Countries
As photovoltaics continues getting cheaper, an increasing number of countries are adapting their regulatory frameworks to facilitate its integration into electricity markets. Brazil is currently adding more than 1 GW of new PV capacity each month, with the majority coming from small-scale, distributed rooftop installations. In this regard, Brazil stands out as an exception in South America. The country’s rapid solar expansion is not primarily driven by lower solar module prices compared with neighboring Latin American countries. Instead, it is largely the result of high conventional electricity prices, accessible financing, supportive regulations, tax incentives, and the scale of its energy market.
14 hours ago
Europe’s storage capacity passes 100 GW, overtakes nuclear
Europe’s installed energy storage capacity surpassed 100 GW for the first time in 2025, overtaking the region’s nuclear fleet, according to the 10th edition of the European Market Monitor on Energy Storage (EMMES), published by LCP Delta and Energy Storage Europe.
15 hours ago
Australia’s hybrid projects serving as blueprint for global energy transition
As Australia’s energy mix continues to evolve, hybrid projects combining solar generation and large-scale battery storage have emerged as a core asset class and renewable energy technology giant Fluence says the market is now serving as a global pioneer for the energy transition.
15 hours ago
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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.
11 hours ago
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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?
13 hours ago
Nextpower to acquire Zimmermann PV Steel in $378 million transaction
US company Nextpower has announced plans to acquire German PV mounting systems supplier Zimmermann PV Steel, in a transaction worth around €330 million ($378 million) in cash and stocks. The deal is subject to closing conditions and regulatory review, expected to close in fiscal 2027.
Jun 22, 2026
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.
Jun 19, 2026
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Penumbra-aware irradiance modeling for agrivoltaic orchards
A Delft University of Technology team has improved agrivoltaic light-simulation methods by making atmospheric and canopy representations more realistic and computationally efficient. Their work enhances the accuracy of predictions for crop growth and solar energy yield in shared land-use systems, supporting better system design and optimization.
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Solar everywhere: The infrastructure opportunity
As Europe’s most attractive rooftops and most favourable sites fill up with solar, a new logic is taking hold: the dual use of land. After agrivoltaics, floating PV and building-integrated solar, it is now the turn of infrastructure such as roads, railways, canals and dikes to become a solar resource.
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Boron nitride nanotubes move lithium ions 31 times faster than expected
Researchers at Rutgers University, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory have found that boron nitride nanotube membranes transport lithium ions far faster than expected, pointing to potential applications in lithium recovery from spent batteries and blue energy generation.
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Improving perovskite solar cell efficiency with random textured interfaces
A simulation study of MAPbI₃ perovskite solar cells shows that quasi-sinusoidal interface texturing outperforms pyramidal and bumpy morphologies by achieving the best balance between light absorption and charge transport.
Jun 22, 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.
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Huawei’s FusionSolar9.0 solution aims to redefine optimal LCOE for utility-scale solar projects
The company’s new FusionSolar9.0 solution boosts yield and reduces LCOE for the full lifecycle of large-scale power plants, according to Zhang Xingzhong, President of Utility, Commercial & Industrial Solar Business, Huawei Digital Power.
Jun 19, 2026
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GameChange Energy integrates platforms to simplify utility-scale solar
Managing multiple suppliers across trackers, eBOS, transformers, and O&M adds cost and risk to every utility-scale project. A more integrated approach from manufacturers – most recently, GameChange Energy – streamlines both procurement and construction, reducing risk for developers and EPCs, according to the company’s CEO, Phillip Vyhanek.
Jun 18, 2026
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