Articles written by Brian Publicover

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Research & Development
Prices drive Pakistan’s metered solar, outages drive hidden uptake A new study finds that Pakistan’s net-metering capacity is concentrated in the best-served, higher-income utility areas, while much of the country’s solar sits unregistered, off-grid and behind the meter where outages are worst.
Brian Publicover
Oct 09, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Canada offers heat pump rebates of up to CAD 10,000 Canada’s federal government has announced a CAD 2 billion ($1.4 billion) package to support 1 million home retrofits, including a national heat pump rebate for up to 820,000 households.
Brian Publicover
Oct 09, 2026
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Markets & Policy
EU expert group urges curbs on high-risk solar suppliers Cybersecurity experts advising the European Commission say PV components and software from high-risk third-country suppliers should be restricted in all market segments, including plug-in systems, and that inverters should face third-party certification under the Cyber Resilience Act.
Brian Publicover
Oct 08, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Hungary extends deadline for troubled EU-funded residential solar scheme The Hungarian government has given households in its 2021 EU-funded rooftop solar program until Oct. 31 to finish their projects, and will let complex installations close once two of their components are complete.
Brian Publicover
Oct 08, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Thousands of European solar park systems exposed online, say researchers Dutch firm Modat and the Netherlands’ cybersecurity agency have identified 8,547 exposed systems at solar and wind sites in 35 European countries, with Spain accounting for more than one-third of the solar total.
Brian Publicover
Oct 07, 2026
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Research & Development
Plant diversity under PV modules rivals grassland at Japanese solar park Researchers surveying a 55 MW solar plant on a former golf course in central Japan found that plant diversity under the panels was statistically indistinguishable from open grassland, with communities resembling forest edges, after five years of only twice-yearly mowing.
Brian Publicover
Oct 07, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Japan proposes four categories for priority commercial solar support Japan wants to prioritize future subsidies for new commercial solar projects it considers compatible with local communities, as ground-mounted plants lose feed-in tariff (FIT) and feed-in premium (FIP) support from April 2027.
Brian Publicover
Oct 06, 2026
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Applications & Installations
Flooded solar plant in Japan catches fire after typhoon A solar plant east of Tokyo caught fire in late September after typhoon floodwater submerged its electrical equipment – a post-flood risk the Japanese government has warned about since 2018.
Brian Publicover
Oct 05, 2026
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Research & Development
Perovskite may leak less lead than lead-solder silicon, say scientists A model of perovskite deployment in China to 2060 finds that lead is no barrier to commercialization if properly managed, but warns that exported modules could shift a disproportionate share of leakage to tropical developing countries.
Brian Publicover
Oct 05, 2026