The Hydrogen Stream: France, Germany back nuclear H2, Southwestern Corridor
France and Germany have pledged support for the Southwestern Hydrogen Corridor and have agreed to collaborate on nuclear-based hydrogen support and joint research.
Solar production falls in US Midwest, Southeast amid wildfires and hurricanes
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that fire and storm activity across North America shaped solar conditions during August, with irradiance down in central and eastern regions but above average in the northeast.
Nextracker unveils NX PowerMerge trunk eBOS for utility-scale solar
Nextracker has introduced NX PowerMerge, a 2 kV trunk connector-based eBOS solution for utility-scale solar projects, designed to cut connection points, simplify layouts, and lower project costs.
US installs 14.5 GW of large-scale solar in H1
Solar represented 75% of US grid-capacity additions in the first half of 2025, followed by wind and natural gas, according to new data from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
SEIA unveils policy agenda to expand US solar, storage and grid reforms
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has unveiled a new policy agenda calling for US grid reforms, domestic supply chain investment, and wider solar and storage deployment to meet surging US power demand.
US residential solar hits record-low $29,000 before incentives
US residential solar averaged a record-low $29,000 before incentives in the first half of 2025, while loan rates rose to 7.5% as demand softened, says EnergySage.
All back-contact perovskite solar cell designs at a glance
Scientists from Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States have investigated existing back-contact perovskite solar cell architectures and have proposed a strategy to help reach commercial production.
New hail test aims to more accurately measure solar panel resilience
A new test curve for determining solar panels’ breaking point from hail uses a broader spectrum of impact energies and testing products.
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.
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%.
