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Reliability risks emerge across BIPV, floating PV and agrivoltaics
A new IEA PVPS Task 13 report identifies distinct reliability risks across BIPV, floating PV and agrivoltaics, from heat and partial shading to wave loads, ammonia exposure and soiling. It argues that existing PV qualification standards do not fully capture these application-specific stresses, requiring adapted testing, design practices and performance metrics.
Sep 09, 2026
‘Do not wait until you feel completely ready’
This week, Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Angelica Almi, Head of Legal at Kataclima and co-founder of Italia Rinnovabile. Her message is clear: approach every professional relationship with curiosity, respect and authenticity, turn challenges into strengths, and embrace unexpected opportunities with courage and enthusiasm.
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El Niño transition and a subtropical shift reshape Asia’s summer solar resource
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Summer 2026 brought sharply contrasting solar conditions across Asia, as a northward-shifted Western Pacific Subtropical High reduced irradiance in Northeast China while boosting it across central China. Farther south, developing El Niño conditions and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole suppressed cloud across eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, driving irradiance up to 25% above average.
Data Centres and the clean energy imperative: Powering India’s digital economy sustainably
India’s digital economy will ultimately be supported by physical systems: substations, transmission lines, renewable plants, batteries and control platforms. If these systems are planned with the same precision and urgency as the computing infrastructure they serve, data-centre growth can strengthen both economic competitiveness and the clean-energy transition.
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Europe’s solar resource surplus continues before late-August cloud shift
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Europe’s solar irradiance averaged 5% above the 2007–2025 norm in August 2026, with nearly three-quarters of the continent seeing above-average levels due to persistent high pressure and clear skies. Conditions shifted later in the month as cooler, cloudier weather reduced gains in western Europe, while central and eastern regions retained much of their irradiance surplus.
‘Inclusion means judging ideas on their merits’
This week Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Janine Wirth, Founder and Managing Director of Germany’s Ilanco GmbH. As a woman in a male-dominated, engineering-driven industry, she has faced questions about how she could develop a technical solution without the “expected” background.
She argues that inclusion means judging ideas by their potential and results—not gender, credentials, or who is traditionally expected to solve the problem.
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