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Research & Development
Home cooling panel based on PV and waste cooking oil Researchers have designed a system that incorporates PV power generation, thermoelectric cooling, and latent heat storage using waste cooking oil. They have simulated an optimized it using an array of models. Results suggest that a single panel can deliver approximately 6–15 kWh/day of cooling.
Lior Kahana
16 hours ago
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Technology & Products
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First 9-in-1 heat pump transforms load into an energy hub Differ Power and Tesla veteran Drew Baglino’s Sadi are treating the heat pump as the home’s energy core by pairing AI data center cooling with automotive-grade thermal tech.
Differ Power
17 hours ago
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Applications & Installations
Fire strikes another German home with solar roof tiles A house fire in Kleve, Germany involving integrated photovoltaic roof tiles required about 65 firefighters and lasted nearly five hours, with the blaze mainly confined to the roof and no injuries reported. Fire crews faced difficulties due to hidden hotspots and energized solar tiles that can continue generating voltage in sunlight.
Pilar Sánchez Molina
20 hours ago
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Applications & Installations
UK heat pump installations stall despite subsidy boost Grant funding continues but total number of retrofit heat pumps in first quarter of 2026 18% down on same period in 2025. Pace of deployment remains significantly below government’s 2030 target of 450,000 per year.
Matthew Lynas
Jun 11, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Residential PV costs fell 7% year over year in Brazil Residential solar PV costs in Brazil fell 7% year on year to BRL 2.45/W, driven by lower equipment prices amid global oversupply, with several states offering below-average installation costs.
Alessandra Neris
Jun 11, 2026
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Applications & Installations
U.S. deploys 7.8 GW of solar in Q1 Despite the decline, solar accounted for 60% of all new electricity generating capacity in Q1 2026. Energy storage and solar combined represented 91% of new capacity, found the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie.
Ryan Kennedy
Jun 11, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Poland’s new energy strategy envisages sharp increase in renewables Poland’s new National Energy and Climate Plan (KPEiK) sets out an accelerated energy transition through 2040, with a strong focus on expanding renewables, grid capacity, and energy affordability.
Emiliano Bellini
Jun 10, 2026
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Markets & Policy
Abu Dhabi’s solar self-supply framework marks shift to energy intelligence The Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA) recently convened an industry discussion examining how Abu Dhabi’s self-supply framework will impact distributed solar deployment, storage integration and future market design.
Sol Soufan, MESIA
Jun 09, 2026
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Markets & Policy
From ‘crazy vision’ to 698 GW: How a bold solar forecast became too conservative In 2012, our “300 GW/a PV initiative” set out a vision of a very ambitious annual global PV market by 2025. At the time, many dismissed the target as “crazy.” Instead, reality has gone far beyond that ambition: according to the latest figures from the IEA PVPS, the world installed 698 GW of new PV capacity in 2025, which is more than double our original vision.
Karl-Heinz Remmers
Jun 09, 2026