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Australia’s cumulative rooftop solar capacity in its National Electricity Mark (NEM) increased from 25.7 GW as of the first quarter of 2026 to 26.4 GW by the end of the June quarter (Q2 2026), according to a report published by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). The total covers 3.9 million installations.
AEMO’s latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report also shows household battery energy storage capacity across the NEM grew by almost 3.3 GWh or 41% during Q2 2026.
The report also notes 14 new grid-scale generation and storage projects totalling 3.9 GW of capacity reached full output during Q2 2026, double the previous quarterly record. This comprised 2.7 GW of battery capacity, 0.5 GW of solar-plus-battery capacity, 0.4 GW of solar capacity and 0.2 GW of wind capacity.
These supply changes lifted the renewable share of NEM generation to a new Q2 high of 42.1%, up from 37.1% in the same period last year.
Distributed PV output reached a record Q2 average of 2,520 MW, up 6.9% year-on-year, increasing its share of the energy mix to 10.3% for the quarter. Grid-scale solar generation increased by 12% to average 1,860 MW, with its share increasing to 7.6% from 6.8%, while wind output increased by 20% to 4,198 MW.
Coal generation fell 5% year-on-year to 13,158 MW, while gas-powered generation dropped 30% to its lowest Q2 average since 2003, at 1,050 MW, 30% lower than in Q2 2025.
AEMO said the record share of renewables drove average wholesale electricity prices in the NEM to their lowest June quarter average since 2020, down 47% from the same period last year to an average of AUD 74 ($51.58)/MWh.
AEMO Executive General Manager Policy and Corporate Affairs, Violette Mouchaileh, said continued investment in renewables and storage is reshaping the market. “These technologies are changing demand patterns, supporting system reliability and increasing the amount of lower-cost energy available across the market,” she said.
The same was not true for Western Australia, where the renewable share of generation declined from 33.6% to 32% for the quarter. Rooftop solar output in the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) increased by 3.4% but wind generation decreased by 13% due in part to lower wind speeds, while coal-fired generation fell by 17% reflecting planned and forced outages.
AEMO said these reductions increased reliance on gas-fired generation, which rose by 27%, driving average real-time wholesale electricity prices up 30% year-on-year to AUD 118/MWh.
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Eureka Gold Mine, located in the Mashonaland Central province, about 150 kilometers north of Harare, has commissioned a 5.4 megawatt (MW) solar power plant as part of an energy project estimated to cost between 12 and 15 million dollars. The announcement was made on July 23, 2026, on the company’s X account.
The project is being developed by Dallaglio Investments, a subsidiary of Padenga Holdings. Eventually, the solar installation is expected to reach a capacity of 16.4 MW. According to the company, around 8.2 MW is expected to be fed into the national electricity grid under Zimbabwe’s current net metering mechanism.
The first phase includes 42 rows of solar panels, seven inverters, and a 5.5 MW transformer station designed to directly power the mine’s facilities. The project is based on solar tracking technology, which, according to the company, allows for electricity production for 10 to 11 hours per day, compared to around six hours for fixed solar systems.
According to the company, this infrastructure is expected to enhance the mine’s energy supply, particularly for ore processing facilities that require continuous power supply. It should also help reduce reliance on diesel generators, often used during disruptions in the national grid.
For Eureka Mine, this investment is expected to improve operational continuity, enhance production efficiency, and reduce costs associated with power outages.
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First Solar, Inc., a solar technology company, provides photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions in the United States, France, Japan, Chile, and internationally. The company manufactures and sells PV solar modules with a thin film semiconductor technology that provides a lower-carbon alternative to conventional crystalline silicon PV solar modules.
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Nextpower, formerly known as Nextracker, an energy solutions company, provides solar trackers and software solutions for utility-scale and distributed generation solar projects in the United States and internationally. The company offers tracking solutions, which includes NX Horizon, a solar tracking solution; and NX Horizon-XTR, a terrain-following tracker designed to expand the addressable market for trackers on sites with sloped, uneven, and challenging terrain.
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Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the manufacture of patented mobile proppant management systems that unload, store, and deliver proppant to oil and natural gas well sites. Its products include Mobile Proppant and Mobile Chemical Management Systems, and Inventory Management Software.
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T1 Energy Inc. is an energy solutions provider building an integrated supply chain for solar and batteries. T1 Energy Inc. , formerly known as FREYR Battery, is based in NEW YORK.
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Enphase Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells home energy solutions for the solar photovoltaic industry in the United States and internationally. The company offers semiconductor-based microinverter, which converts energy at the individual solar module level and combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies to provide energy monitoring and control.
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SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells direct current (DC) optimized inverter systems for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Solar and Energy Storage.
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A Texas homeowner in the Austin area preparing to add solar panels and a battery ran into a common obstacle before committing. On the r/solar subreddit, they revealed they had no idea who to trust and how to start. 
In a post on Reddit, an Austin-area homeowner said his family was “ready to go for solar and we also are going to do a battery of some kind.” 
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Tesla has signed a long-term deal to buy 90% of the output of Project Sterling, a big solar and battery plant going up in Arizona.
The project pairs 509 MW of solar with a 360 MW battery, and it’s being built by ContourGlobal, the power producer owned by private equity firm KKR. It’s expected online in 2028.
Neither company disclosed financial terms. ContourGlobal will keep and trade the remaining 10% of the output itself. Deals like this usually run 10 to 15 years, so Tesla is locking in Arizona clean power well into the 2030s. It’s the first agreement between the two companies, and ContourGlobal, which picked up the project in late 2024, calls Project Sterling the largest renewable asset in its portfolio.
The plant connects to the Western Area Power Administration grid, which gives it access to California markets. The 360 MW battery is a four-hour system, roughly 1,440 MWh of storage, enough to keep pushing solar power onto the grid after the sun goes down.
This is the second large solar PPA Tesla signed today. Earlier, Tesla and Spanish developer Zelestra confirmed a deal for the entire output of a 140 MW solar farm in Texas. Put the two together, and Tesla contracted more than 640 MW of third-party solar, plus 360 MW of battery storage, in a single day.
The reason is the same one driving every hyperscaler right now. Electricity demand is climbing fast, AI data centers are tightening US power markets, and Tesla has its own growing load to feed, from Gigafactory Texas to its expanding AI compute. It needs cheap, clean power, and it needs it locked in.
Here’s the part that stands out. Tesla builds the Megapack, the best-selling grid battery in the world, and it already has one of Arizona’s largest Megapack installations online. It sells solar panels and is building a 100-GW solar panel factory in Texas.
Yet for Project Sterling, Tesla is buying both the solar and the storage from a KKR-owned developer rather than building it. Neither company said whose batteries the plant will use.
That’s the tradeoff of being a power buyer instead of a power builder. Tesla makes the hardware, but it doesn’t develop and operate utility-scale solar-plus-storage plants at the speed it now needs. So it signs PPAs, the same as Meta and Google.
Two solar PPAs in one day tells you how seriously Tesla is taking its own power problem. Its electricity needs are growing (factories, and now AI compute that eats megawatts), and it can’t wait. Locking in more than 640 MW of solar and a big battery for the late 2020s is a smart, unglamorous move.
But the irony from this morning’s Texas deal is even sharper here. Tesla doesn’t just sell solar panels. It makes some of the best grid battery on the market, and it’s buying a 360 MW battery’s worth of stored solar from someone else – though I. wouldn’t be surprised if the projects ends up using Megapacks, which would mean Tesla would be buying back battery capacity that it manufactured.
There’s a version of Tesla that builds Project Sterling itself, with its own panels and its own Megapacks, and books the whole thing as a win for its energy business. That’s not the Tesla we have. It gutted its solar arm years ago and is only now rebuilding.
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Leading solar manufacturer and solution provider JA (previously JA Solar) has signed an ecosystem partnership memorandum with Medisheng Technology to develop solar-powered desalination solutions for coastal and island applications.
Under the agreement, JA will provide integrated solar PV, energy storage, and smart energy solutions, while Medisheng will contribute seawater desalination and brine treatment technologies. The partners aim to develop renewable energy-powered desalination systems for coastal and offshore regions.
JA said the collaboration is intended to reduce the high energy consumption, carbon emissions, and operating costs associated with conventional seawater desalination.
China recently issued an action plan calling for greater use of renewable energy in seawater desalination (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
Perovskite solar technology developer SunFlex New Energy and its research partners have published two studies in Nature addressing efficiency and stability challenges in perovskite solar cells.
The first study introduced a TDB light-conversion additive to suppress halogen segregation in perovskite-organic tandem cells, achieving a certified steady-state efficiency of 28.04% and retaining 90% of initial performance after 625 hours under ISOS-L-1 testing.
The second study developed a D-A-D electronic resonance molecular structure (FMTPA-CPA) to improve the stability of self-assembled monolayer interfaces. The technology achieved efficiencies of 27.69% for rigid devices, 26.64% for flexible devices, and 23.63% for a 15.64 cm² module. The devices retained more than 98% of their initial efficiency after 720 thermal cycles between -40°C and 85°C.
SunFlex recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Nayuta Space to jointly develop a 400 m² rollable flexible perovskite solar sail for satellites (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
The China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA) has released a new group standard, titled General Principles of Cost Accounting Models for the Photovoltaic Industry, which establishes a unified cost-calculation framework across the PV supply chain.
It standardizes cost accounting methods, calculation scopes, and coefficients for polysilicon, wafers, cells, and modules to improve consistency across the industry.
CPIA said the framework is intended to support more rational pricing and complement existing energy consumption and safety standards as the industry continues to address pricing pressure.
China is set to enforce revised national energy efficiency standards covering polysilicon, monocrystalline silicon, PV modules, and inverters from next year (see China Tightens Energy Standards For Solar Manufacturing).
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has launched a national program to develop zero-carbon factories, outlining decarbonization targets for manufacturing facilities and data centers.
The initiative requires participating factories to achieve a minimum non-fossil energy consumption ratio of 30%, with a long-term target of at least 95%. Facilities consuming more than 5 million kWh of electricity annually must source at least 35% of their electricity from physical non-fossil power.
The program also targets reducing carbon intensity from 1.8 tons of CO₂ per ton of standard coal to 0.2 tons or less. Provincial authorities are required to submit their first batch of project recommendations by August 15, 2026.
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has launched the China Green Electricity Certificate (GEC) Price Index to provide a national pricing benchmark for the green certificate market.
Using January 2025 as the base period, the index is calculated from nationwide GEC transaction data. It will be updated monthly to improve market transparency and price discovery.
According to the NEA, the index is intended to support more transparent certificate trading and strengthen links among the electricity, green certificate, and carbon markets. It also aims to provide a clearer reference for accounting of renewable energy investment and non-fossil energy consumption.
The NEA recently expanded the GEC system to include off-grid renewable energy projects (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
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MPC Energy Solutions NV (“MPCES”, “The Company”) today announced that it has concluded the sale of two solar PV plants in El Salvador and Guatemala, respectively. The agreement to sell the two projects – referred to as Project Merlin – was signed in November of last year and the sale was approved by the Company’s shareholders in December 2025.
Following the successful start of operations of the plant in Guatemala in mid-July and the fulfilment of other pre-closing conditions, MPCES was now able to conclude the transaction. The total divestment proceeds, including preliminary closing adjustments, amount to USD 28.3 million. An amount of USD 2.2 million of these proceeds related to post-closing milestones and the finalization of the transaction closing accounts was deposited in escrow and will possibly be collected by MPCES later this year.
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Panamint Capital’s $1.7 billion Big Rooter project will combine solar, coal, battery storage, and data center infrastructure at a single Texas energy hub.
Construction has begun on one of North America’s largest solar developments at an existing coal mining site, with the solar farm project set to expand Texas’ power generation without shutting down the coal plant already operating there.
Panamint Capital recently broke ground on the Big Rooter Power project at its Twin Oaks power station in Robertson County, located roughly midway between Dallas and Houston. The $1.7 billion development will add 1.2 gigawatts (GWdc) of solar capacity to the site. According to the company, it will become the largest solar farm built at an active coal mining site in North America.
Despite the large renewable energy investment, the project is not replacing Twin Oaks’ existing 310-megawatt (MW) lignite-fired power plant near Bremond. The coal facility remains operational, and Panamint has not announced any plans to retire it.
The solar farm project will be developed in two stages over the next several years. Construction has already started on Big Rooter West, a 491 MWdc solar facility scheduled to begin operations in August 2028. The second phase, Big Rooter East, will add another 658 MWdc. Groundbreaking for that section is planned for December 2026, with commercial operations expected in August 2029.
Panamint estimates that the combined project will create more than 800 construction jobs. The company also expects Big Rooter West to contribute more than $66 million to the regional economy during its operating life by prioritizing local hiring and regional suppliers.
Once completed, the approximately 10,000-acre (about 15.6-square-mile) Twin Oaks energy complex will include nearly 1.5 GW of combined coal and solar generation. Panamint is also building more than 20 miles (32 kilometers) of new 345-kilovolt transmission lines, 1.6 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery energy storage, and infrastructure capable of supporting 790 MW of data center capacity.
“Big Rooter Power represents our vision for getting more out of America’s energy infrastructure and ensuring America’s energy dominance,” said Panamint CEO Apolka Totth.
SOLV Energy has been selected to manage engineering, procurement, and construction for the project. Its responsibilities include installing the solar arrays, building the substation, and developing the transmission infrastructure.
First Solar will supply approximately 2 million solar panels manufactured at its facilities in Ohio, Louisiana, and Alabama. The project will also use NX Horizon solar trackers from Nextpower, allowing the panels to follow the sun throughout the day to improve electricity generation.
According to Panamint, construction will require more than 34,000 tons of U.S.-made steel. The company has also signed a long-term power purchase agreement with what it described as a single investment-grade offtaker, although it has not identified the customer. The agreement is expected to remain in effect into the 2050s.
Rather than replacing coal generation, Panamint is expanding the site’s energy mix by combining coal, solar, battery storage, transmission infrastructure, and future data center capacity within the same property.
The strategy comes as electricity demand in Texas continues to rise, driven partly by rapid data center expansion.
According to JLL’s data center outlook, Texas has become one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the United States, with much of the development centered around the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The report identifies electricity availability on the ERCOT grid as one of the biggest constraints on future data center growth across the state.
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Tata Power’s solar manufacturing arm, TP Solar, reported its highest-ever quarterly production in the April-June quarter (Q1 FY2027), manufacturing 1,001 MW of solar modules and 862 MW of solar cells.
The company said its module and cell manufacturing facility achieved plant yields of 96.3% and 87%, respectively.
Revenue from the solar manufacturing business increased 53% year-on-year to INR 2,462 crore. Profit after tax (PAT) surged 287% to INR 371 crore, supported by input cost efficiencies and a diversified sales mix.
Tata Power said 63% of its module sales during the quarter were to external customers, including the rooftop solar segment, while more than 50% of its cell production was sold externally.
As part of its expansion across the solar value chain, the company is progressing with the development of a 10 GW photovoltaic ingot and wafer manufacturing facility (to be implemented in two phases of 5 GW each). The company has signed an MoU with Gopalpur SEZ for 128 acres of land, while land development and environmental clearance activities are currently underway.
Tata Power’s rooftop solar business installed 371 MWp during the quarter, up 37% from the same period last year, generating revenue of INR 1,350 crore. The segment reported a PAT of INR 145 crore, representing 1.7-times year-on-year growth, driven by pan India execution and increased adoption across consumer segments.
The company also launched integrated solar-plus-battery solutions to expand its addressable market. Tata Power Solaroof’s cumulative installed capacity has now reached 5.2 GWp, serving more than 480,000 customers.
Tata Power said its total renewable energy portfolio now stands at 12 GW, including under construction capacity of 5.3 GW.
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Regulatory complexities are thwarting innovation and keeping electricity bills for the majority of Californians far too high, writes Ardi Arian, CEO of Renewable America.
Ardi Arian is founder and CEO of Renewable America, a developer of solar and energy storage projects in California.
In one of the wealthiest states in the country, it is unacceptable that millions are struggling with their utility bills. The average overdue utility balance in California is $1,120. The good news? Policymakers have a solution sitting on their desks. 
Community solar plus storage gives the majority of Californians who rent or lack suitable roof space the ability to subscribe to small-scale solar projects. To date, Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA, has been one of the only options for these Golden State residents to access clean energy.
With CCAs, a locality buys power from greener electricity sources for its residents. Low-income residents get a 20% discount on their electricity bills, everyone else pays the same rate, and more clean energy gets developed. The greatest long-term growth opportunity for clean power resources in California is these CCA programs. 
Today, 25 CCAs serve over a third of the state’s electricity consumers, including the majority of communities closer to the coast. But it is egregious that nearly two out of three Californians lack access to a CCA. Regulatory complexities are thwarting innovation and keeping electricity bills for the majority of Californians far too high. California desperately needs more functional, affordable energy policies.
New community solar and storage legislation, AB 1813, would go a long way toward bridging California’s energy affordability gap, opening community-scale clean energy access to all Californians.
With a workable community solar policy in place, Californians in every part of the state could choose to subscribe to a local solar project and receive a credit on their utility bill. On average, community solar subscribers save $200 a year on their utility bills, with higher savings for low-income households. No roof or equipment is required, and no commitment or long-term contract is needed. And over half of new solar projects developed at the community level would be required to serve low-income customers. 
A statewide community solar and storage program is good for our aging grid, too. Instead of connecting to giant transmission lines that require costly upgrades on lengthy timelines, these projects plug into the local energy infrastructure near homes and businesses — the distribution grid. 
The distribution grid is significantly underutilized, and many distribution circuits already offer immediate hosting capacity. A recent study found that adding community solar and storage projects to California’s distribution grid would obviate the need for a staggering $2 billion in transmission and distribution upgrades. With a sizable community solar and storage program, Californians would save $6.5 billion on energy costs.
AB 1813 is designed to save all ratepayers money, even if they don’t subscribe to a community solar project. It includes smart guardrails with individual project deployment caps, as well as an overall deployment cap. A recent poll found that 80% of Californians support community solar, alongside a broad coalition of stakeholders — from the homebuilders’ association, to environmental justice groups, to ratepayer advocates, to developers like me. 
Community solar and storage legislation is broadly supported because it’s common sense and serves all Californians. AB 1813 passed the Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee on June 16. The full Senate should pass this bill on its next floor vote, and Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign it, to give Californians access to clean energy that we deserve.
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OCI Holdings, a leading South Korean chemical manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, has unveiled plans to double its annual polysilicon production capacity from 35,000 metric tons to 70,000 metric tons by 2029. The expansion reflects the company’s strategy to capitalize on the rapidly growing demand for high-purity polysilicon from the U.S. artificial intelligence, semiconductor, solar, and space sectors.
The investment is aimed at strengthening OCI’s position in the global polysilicon supply chain, particularly as the United States continues to expand AI infrastructure and renewable energy deployment. Increasing demand for AI data centers has accelerated the need for reliable electricity generation, creating additional opportunities for solar energy projects that rely heavily on polysilicon-based photovoltaic components.
Earlier this year, reports indicated that OCI TerraSus, the company’s Malaysia-based subsidiary, was engaged in discussions with SpaceX regarding a long-term agreement to supply polysilicon. Such a partnership would support the growing material requirements of the aerospace industry while reinforcing OCI’s role as a strategic supplier of advanced materials.
OCI also announced that it has established a U.S.-focused non-prohibited foreign entity (PFE) solar supply chain. This supply network connects OCI TerraSus with NeoSilicon Technology (NST), a wafer manufacturer based in Vietnam. The initiative is designed to provide a compliant and secure supply chain for customers in the U.S., helping the company navigate evolving trade policies and sourcing regulations.
The company strengthened this strategy by acquiring a 65% stake in NeoSilicon Technology in October 2025, making OCI the majority shareholder and principal supplier of raw materials. NST currently operates wafer manufacturing capacity of approximately 2.7 GW and intends to expand it to 11.5 GW by 2029. Commercial shipments to customers in the U.S. are expected to commence next year, supporting the country’s expanding renewable energy market.
OCI Holdings Chairman Lee Woo-hyun stated that the continued growth of AI data centers is reinforcing the momentum of solar energy adoption in the U.S. energy sector. He added that the company’s differentiated non-PFE supply chain provides a competitive advantage, enabling OCI to increase investments across the solar value chain while adapting to changes in global supply networks.
In another significant development, OCI TerraSus recently secured a $125 million loan from the International Finance Corporation to establish a semiconductor-grade polysilicon manufacturing facility in Sarawak, Malaysia. The project is expected to become Southeast Asia’s first facility dedicated to producing semiconductor-grade polysilicon, further strengthening OCI’s presence in high-value materials and supporting future demand from semiconductor, electronics, renewable energy, and advanced technology industries.
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The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a Government of India enterprise responsible for implementing renewable energy programmes, has issued a Request for Selection (RfS) for 5.29 MW ( 5,290 kW) of grid-connected rooftop solar PV projects under the RESCO mode. The tender is part of RTSPV Tranche XII and seeks eligible solar project developers. The tender was published on 27 July 2026. A pre-bid meeting has been scheduled for 7 August 2026. Online bid submissions will close on 31 August 2026, while offline submissions will end on 2 September 2026. The bids are scheduled to be opened on 3 September 2026.
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Solar panels generally have a life span of 25 to 30 years; although systems may continue operating, be upgraded or be repowered. A new state law will ensure that when facilities are ultimately retired, landowners are not left with the cost of removing them.
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Tongwei showcased its new TNC 3.0 module series at The smarter E 2026 in Munich, along with a new module variant that boosts the bifaciality of the company’s modules close to 90%. In an interview at the event, the company’s Director of Product & Technology, Zander Yuan, said peak power of the TNC 3.0 module can reach up to 770 W, with maximum efficiency close to 24.8%. He says the modules also offer clients the flexibility to upgrade their systems from 1500 V to 2000 V.
At the event, Tongwei offered demonstrations of how the BIFIMAX module variant improves bifaciality compared with standard modules. Yuan explained the cell level and module level technological developments in the variant that contribute to the overall gains in bifaciality.
The BIFIMAX versions of the TNC 3.0 modules are already in mass production. Yuan says clients using this flagship product are already seeing generation gains of 1.5-2%, which translates to better LCOE. He adds that the new technologies will also help client significantly reduce their capital expenditures.
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India curtailed 8,133 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of solar power during the April–June quarter this year, according to Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy Shripad Yesso Naik.
The curtailment and restriction were instituted to “maintain grid security” and “due to mismatch between commissioning of transmission lines and renewable energy projects, he informed parliament, quoting figures from the Grid Controller of India.
Curtailment is when power-grid operators limit the power output from generating sources to maintain grid stability. A total of 2,417 GWh of solar energy curtailment was carried out in April this year, 3,235 GWh in May and 2,481 GWh in June.
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The Department of Energy is drafting a policy to simplify the installation of home solar panels and battery storage systems, supporting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s proposed Sariling Kuryente Act, Energy Secretary Sharon Garin said on Tuesday.
During his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA 2026) on Monday, Marcos called on lawmakers to pass the Sariling Kuryente Act to further reduce the cost of electricity for Filipino consumers.
Further, DOE said that it will soon issue a policy similar to the proposed measure by the President.
“There’s a new policy that we’re finishing na, there are households na they want solar and battery na panggamit lang nila without the intent of selling it to the distribution utility,” said Garin.
(There’s a new policy that we’re finishing already, there are households that they want solar and battery just for their own use without the intent of selling it to the distribution utility.)
In his annual report to the country, Marcos said, “Upang maging simple, madali, at abot-kaya ang pagpapakabit ng solar panel at battery storage systems sa kanilang mga bahay, hinihiling ko ang tulong ng Kongreso na maipasa na ang Sariling Kuryente Act,” Marcos said.
(To make the installation of solar panels and battery storage systems in their homes simple, easy, and affordable, I am asking Congress for help to pass the Sariling Kuryente Act.)
“With that policy, we want to simplify the requirements, lessen the bureaucracy para mas mabilis siya. So we will be issuing this siguro in a month or so. Pero yun po yung basic na objective ng Sariling Kuryente Act na people can put it up with less hassle sa permits nila at mabilis ang pag-install,” Garin said.
(With that policy, we want to simplify the requirements, lessen the bureaucracy so that it will be faster. So we will be issuing this maybe in a month or so. But that is the basic objective of the Sariling Kuryente Act, that people can put it up with less hassle on their permits and quick installation.) –NB, GMA News

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A proposed solar farm in Telford and Wrekin is unlikely to have a significant effect on the landscape it could sit on, Natural England has said.
The approximate 58 hectare (143 acre) site would sit on land between The Incline and New House Farm in Lilleshall.
The land was not within, or partly within, sites of special scientific interest, areas of conservation, special protection areas or wetland areas, Natural England, the government's environmental adviser, said.
Telford and Wrekin Council is consulting on whether developers Greenvolt Power will have to submit a full environmental impact assessment alongside the planning application later this year.
However, Natural England told the authority's planners that the developer must provide information to assess the effect on protected species and plans to deal with that.
The plans have been met with concerns, with Andrew Eade, councillor for the area saying they would "have a massive and detrimental impact on Lilleshall's natural landscape", and lead to a loss of much-needed agricultural land.
A petition against the solar farm also reached more than 460 signatures.
Consultants for the developer said the land had not been listed as a part of the Shropshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy "suggesting no current data indicating ecological significance."
Greenvolt said the development would meet the annual electricity needs of "approximately 11,000 homes", and that solar farms could "significantly improve biodiversity compared with intensive agriculture".
It added that the land would be returned to farmland at the end of the life of the site.
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Tesla has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to buy the entire output of a 140-MWac solar farm being built in northeast Texas.
The plant, called Lumen Farm, is being developed by Zelestra, an EQT-backed renewable developer. Construction is expected to start in 2027, with the farm going online in 2029.
Neither company disclosed pricing or what the electricity will power. Zelestra confirmed only that Tesla is taking “the entire output” of the plant. In practice, a 140-MW solar farm in Texas is the kind of clean-power supply a company uses to match a big, growing electricity load — and Tesla has plenty of those in the state, from Gigafactory Texas to its rapidly expanding AI compute.
It’s the second deal between the two companies. In 2024, Zelestra signed a 57-MWac PPA with Tesla covering three solar plants in Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha region. This is their first in the US.
“As a trusted global partner, we can deliver bespoke solutions for clients in multiple geographies,” said Zelestra US CEO Phil North. “As such, we are excited to expand our relationship with Tesla to the US.”
Zelestra isn’t a household name, but it’s become one of the busiest solar developers in Texas. The company runs a portfolio of more than 16 GW of renewable projects and was recently ranked by BloombergNEF among the top 10 corporate clean energy sellers in the world.
Its other big Texas customer is Meta. Over the past year, Zelestra has signed a string of solar PPAs with Meta to feed data centers, including the 180-MWdc Palmera project and the 176-MWdc Skull Creek plant. It also locked in $600 million in green financing for a 440-MW Texas portfolio backed by those Meta contracts.
So Tesla is now buying from the same developer that’s powering Meta’s data centers, in the same grid (ERCOT), for the same reason: a fast-growing electricity load that needs cheap, clean supply. The competition for solar power in Texas is heating up, and Tesla is now on the buyer side of it.
What makes this deal odd is that Tesla is a solar company. It bought SolarCity in 2016, the largest residential solar installer in the US at the time. It sells solar panels and the Solar Roof. It makes the Powerwall and the Megapack, the best-selling grid battery on the market. And it’s now building a 100-GW solar panel factory near Houston, in the same state where this Zelestra farm will go up.
And yet, to green its own Texas operations, Tesla is buying power from someone else’s solar farm.
That’s the legacy of Tesla spending years gutting the solar business it paid $2.6 billion for. After the SolarCity deal, deployments collapsed, falling from SolarCity’s peak of roughly 870 MW a year to a fraction of that, as Tesla shut down sales channels and let the business wither. For years, solar was an afterthought while the company poured everything into vehicles and Megapack.
Only recently has Tesla started rebuilding. It brought back solar leasing in late 2025, launched a US-made solar panel in January, and is now standing up that giant Houston factory. But rebuilding takes time, and Tesla clearly can’t wait for its own utility-scale supply. So it’s buying.
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A fire at a photovoltaic plant located in the municipality of Puertollano, central Spain, affected around 90 hectares and forced the deployment of a large firefighting operation.
According to the mayor of Puertollano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz, the fire originated in one of the large photovoltaic installations located next to the N-420 highway. The first warning was issued by the company operating the plant itself.
The fire broke out around 13:00 last Wednesday (July 22). At the time, three workers were on site and attempted to contain the fire. A 51-year old man suffered burns and required initial treatment from a mobile intensive care unit before being airlifted by helicopter to Getafe Hospital.
The cause of the fire has not yet been reported. The relevant authorities will need to determine whether it originated from electrical equipment, components of the photovoltaic plant, or other external factors.
Minister of Sustainable Development for the region of Castilla-La Mancha, Mercedes Gómez, explained that the fire was already contained and under control by Thursday morning and stressed that one of the main objectives of the intervention was to prevent the flames from reaching nearby industrial facilities and to guarantee the safety of the surrounding area.
The flames did not significantly reach the forest mass of the Dehesa Boyal park, one of the main natural areas near the city.
A total eight aircrafts and up to 24 ground vehicles participated in the firefighting efforts, mobilizing up to 129 people, including forest firefighters, environmental agents and support personnel.
Throughout Thursday, several ground teams remained in the area carrying out cooling operations to prevent possible flare-ups of the fire.

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A 72,5 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, designed to accommodate continuing ground settlement, will be built on about 100 ha of rehabilitated mining land at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen mine.
The project reached financial close last week. 
Developer Envusa Energy describes the development as South Africa’s first embedded PV project to be built on a rehabilitated mine waste rock dump within an operating mine.
The Sishen Solar PV project will have an installed DC capacity of 72,5 MWp and an AC export capacity of 63 MW. It will occupy approximately 100 ha on the rehabilitated G80 waste rock dump, which Envusa describes as about 20 storeys high.
The plant will use fixed-tilt PV mounting structures fitted with adjustable legs to accommodate movement as the dump continues to settle. The project will also incorporate what the developer describes as a “mobile adjustable substation”.
“This innovative design allows for precise modifications, ensuring optimal alignment and stability even as the dump settles or shifts over time,” says Envusa Energy CEO Nicole Mason.
The plant is expected to generate approximately 150 GWh of electricity a year. All the electricity produced will be sold to Sishen mine with Envusa acting as the electricity trader.
Envusa estimates that replacing electricity drawn from the Eskom network with the plant’s generation will reduce the mine’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 140 000 tonnes a year.
The project is owned by Envusa and the Sishen Iron Ore Company-Community Development Trust, which will hold a 10% interest. Envusa is a joint venture between Anglo American and EDF Power Solutions.
According to Envusa Energy, Sishen is the first embedded renewable energy project in its development programme to reach financial close. The company says it previously delivered the 520 MW Koruson 2 renewable energy cluster in the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.

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A team of recent graduates from the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Monterrey Institute of Technology have developed a novel agrivoltaic proposal.
Known as SolarRoot, their system combines photovoltaic modules installed above the crops with rainwater harvesting and an underground drip irrigation network. Soil moisture sensors determine when irrigation is necessary and allow only the required volume of water to be supplied to the plants.
The proposal also seeks to utilize the shade cast by solar panels to reduce heat stress on crops and minimize water loss. According to its developers, the goal of SolarRoot is to produce electricity and food without dedicating separate areas to each activity.
The institute has not disclosed the planned photovoltaic power output, the type or number of modules, the required surface area, the crops that would be used, or the amount of water that could be recovered. The project remains a engineering proposal under evaluation, with any planned construction of a pilot project yet to be announced.
SolarRoot won first place in an international competition, Invent for the Planet, promoted by the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. The competition involves 48-hour workshops in which university teams develop solutions to challenges related to energy, the environment, resource equity, and social development.
The project will now represent the graduates’ Mexico City campus in the next stage of the competition. Projects that pass that stage will advance to the final phase of the competition, scheduled to take place in Qatar.
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A solar farm planned on almost 1,200 acres in four Erie County townships is moving through the municipal approval process.
French Creek Energy is planning a $263 million utility-grade solar farm in Union, LeBoeuf, Amity and Waterford townships. The project developer is Ampliform, a Pennsylvania-based renewable energy company.
Union, Amity and LeBoeuf townships have approved the solar project, granting special exceptions to their zoning ordinances for the development. Waterford Township supervisors will consider the plans on Aug. 5.
The French Creek Energy solar project would install an estimated 289,776 solar panels and related equipment on 686 acres, mostly in Union Township.
The project, including buffer areas and access roads, would encompass about 1,168 acres.
The estimated $263 million cost includes engineering, materials, construction and grid connection updates.
The 150-megawatt solar farm would provide electricity to the PJM Interconnection grid serving Pennsylvania and 12 other states.
Construction could begin as early as next year and be completed in 12 to 18 months.
French Creek Energy is required to provide a bond or other financial assurance to cover decommissioning costs — or the cost to remove equipment and plant new trees after the solar farm ends operations.
The total decommissioning cost currently is estimated at $44.7 million. That cost will be re-evaluated in 2032 and then at five-year intervals.
The majority of the solar panels and related equipment will be in Union Township, on properties along Kimball Hill, Murray, Cross, Inman, Union-Amity, Old Wattsburg and Hanlin roads and Route 8 north, in the northwestern part of the township.
The Amity portion of the solar farm will be located in the southwestern part of township, along Middleton, Kimball Hill and Union-Amity roads.
The LeBoeuf portion of the development will be located in the northeastern part of the township, primarily along Route 97 and Middleton and Wheelertown roads.
In Waterford Township, the development would be on two parcels totaling 117 acres along Route 97, near Hare Road. Solar panels would be installed on 56 acres.
French Creek Energy has applied to Waterford Township for conditional use approval for the Waterford portion of the project.
The solar development would be located in a district zoned for agriculture. Solar energy systems are permitted in the district as a conditional use, providing the development meets township requirements.
Those requirements include a 250-foot setback from neighboring homes and other occupied buildings; a noise management plan; lighting restrictions; buffer areas; and a decommissioning plan.
Waterford Township supervisors will consider the conditional use application during a public hearing on Aug. 5.
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Floating solar deployed on Moroccan dams can act as dual-purpose infrastructure by generating electricity while preventing water loss through evaporation, according to new research.
A research team from the Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez, Morocco, assessed the techno-economic and water-saving potential of a floating solar installation deployed at the Hassan Addakhil Dam in Morocco. Their findings are presented in the research paper Unlocking the potential of floating PV in water-stressed regions: A techno-economic analysis for the Hassan Addakhil Dam, Morocco, available in the journal Scientific African.
The dam is located in southeastern Morocco in a region the paper describes as “a semi-arid site affected by high solar irradiation and significant water stress.” It adds that land constraints facing ground-mounted solar plants in Morocco and the country’s structural water stress, exacerbated by high evaporation rates in its hydroelectric reservoirs, makes floating PV on dam reservoirs relevant from both energy and water perspectives.
The team assessed the techno-economic potentail of the floating PV installation by combining a thermo-electrical model, FAO-56 Penman-Monteith evaporation calculation and a discounted cash-flow analysis within a single framework. The model assessed three reservoir coverage ratios, of 5%, 10% and 15%.
Khalid Ezzaza, corresponding author of the research paper, told pv magazine that the deployment was found to be economically viable, achieving a real levelized cost of electricity of $0.045/kWh and an internal rate of return of 7.36%.
“By covering 15% of the reservoir surface, the system can suppress 70% of the evaporation over that area, representing water savings of up to 4.18 million cubic meters per year,” he explained. 
First-year electricity generation ranged from 316.2 GWh to 948.6 GWh, depending on the coverage scenario.
Ezzaza added that floating photovoltaic modules operate at temperatures approximately 5 to 7 degrees lower than ground-mounted systems during the summer period, offering a natural cooling effect that results in an annual energy gain of 10.6% compared to conventional-land based installations.
The primary barriers to profitability of such projects lies in the initial capital expenditure, Ezzaza explained, with the high costs largely attributed to the floating structures, anchoring systems and need for corrosion-resistant materials in floating PV installations.
“Our analysis reveals that a 10% to 15% decrease in capital expenditure would result in a significant increase in the internal rate of return,” he told pv magazine. “To overcome this obstacle, we recommend driving technological innovation and leveraging economies of scale to reduce structural costs, which will enhance the attractiveness of these projects to private investors.”
The research paper adds that floating solar technology is both technically feasible and strategically important to overcome the challenge of facing the region.
Ezzaza explained that floating PV can directly addresses Morocco’s dual challenge of increasing renewable electricity production while mitigating water stress in semi-arid regions, while also avoiding the need for vast land acquisition and thereby limiting land-use conflicts with agricultural activities or ecological conservation.
“Our simulations across 5%, 10%, and 15% coverage scenarios demonstrate that large-scale deployment introduces no additional technical penalties, proving the strong scalability of the model for national infrastructures,” he explained.
According to the research paper, the study addresses the lack of an integrated, site-specific methodology for Moroccan dam reservoirs that jointly evaluates the thermal, electrical, economic and water-saving performance of floating PV systems under real semi-arid environmental conditions.
Ezzaza added that the results of the study are highly relevant to support water and energy planning across North Africa and similar regions. “Our integrated assessment framework is entirely transferable and can serve as a reference to justify floating PV deployment on reservoirs facing comparable climatic constraints,” he told pv magazine.
Morocco deployed 204 MW of new utility-scale solar capacity in 2025, taking cumulative utility-scale capacity to 1.29 GW. Work began on the 305 MW Noor Atlas solar program in March.
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Bhubaneswar: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous system capable of monitoring and cleaning solar panels only when required, a breakthrough that could significantly improve the efficiency of solar power plants while reducing maintenance costs and water consumption.
The innovation, titled “Federated Learning Based Autonomous System and Method for Monitoring and Cleaning Solar Plant,” has been granted an Indian patent.
The patented technology was developed by Prof. Arun Kumar, Prof. Bibhudatta Sahoo, and research graduates Dr. Lopamudra Hota and Dr. Biraja Prasad Nayak from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Rourkela.
The system is powered by Federated Learning (FL), an advanced AI technique that enables intelligent monitoring of solar panels while ensuring data privacy. Unlike conventional monitoring systems that send raw operational data to central servers, the new technology shares only encrypted information, thereby reducing cybersecurity risks, lowering bandwidth consumption and protecting sensitive data.
According to the research team, the accumulation of dust, bird droppings and industrial pollutants can reduce the efficiency of solar panels by up to 40 per cent, particularly in large solar farms located in arid regions. Existing maintenance methods are often labour-intensive, consume large amounts of water and follow fixed cleaning schedules rather than responding to the actual condition of the panels.
The newly developed AI system addresses these challenges by automatically detecting dirt accumulation, identifying panels that require maintenance and carrying out selective cleaning only where necessary. It also incorporates edge computing, predictive maintenance and autonomous fault detection to improve the overall operational efficiency of solar power plants.
The technology has currently been validated through simulations at Technology Readiness Level (TRL)-3. The research team plans to develop a hardware prototype integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and conduct pilot deployments in collaboration with government agencies and industry partners.
Researchers said the innovation can be deployed across a wide range of applications, including utility-scale solar parks, floating solar farms, rooftop photovoltaic systems, industrial solar facilities, smart city infrastructure, defence establishments and remote off-grid renewable energy projects.
The team estimates that once commercialised, the AI-powered system could provide advanced monitoring and maintenance capabilities at nearly 10 per cent of the cost of comparable existing solutions.
The innovation is expected to contribute to India’s National Solar Mission and support the country’s net-zero emissions goals by enabling smarter, more efficient and sustainable maintenance of solar energy infrastructure.
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Chile could install between 27 GW and 58 GW of new photovoltaic capacity over the next 30 years, according to the Ministry of Energy’s Preliminary Report of the Long-Term Energy Planning (PELP) 2028-2032.
The range covers five different scenarios featured in the report that are influenced by differing trajectories of economic growth, fuel costs, technological evolution, and energy policies. The model is based on an existing solar capacity of 12,015 MW, covering both large-scale plants and small distributed generation facilities. An additional 490 MW of installations under the net billing scheme are also included, directly deducted from the demand in the modeling.
The projections included in the report will serve as input toward the annual transmission expansion plans prepared by the country’s National Energy Commission. The document also projects an expansion of between 16 GW and 27 GW of onshore wind energy.
Northern solar power is expanding along with batteries
Across all five scenarios, the optimal expansion of the National Electric System relies primarily on new photovoltaic solar energy in the north of the country and on land-based wind farms in the Maule and Biobío regions in central-southern Chile.
Photovoltaic development appears to be associated with the incorporation of battery energy storage systems, especially in scenarios that contemplate higher fossil fuel prices, the retirement of coal-fired power plants and the inclusion of a carbon dioxide tax in the variable costs of generation.
The model uses as a starting point 4,078 MW of BESS systems installed or under construction by the end of 2026, with an average storage duration of 4.3 hours. Most of this capacity is located in the north: 56% in Antofagasta, 15% in Atacama and another 15% in Tarapacá.
The report identifies a need for longer-lasting storage systems for new investments. Several scenarios in the report include six- and eight-hour solutions as a significant portion of the expansion, due to the need to shift solar generation to nighttime hours and provide flexibility during periods of lower solar irradiance.
Batteries are the only storage technology that the model incorporates as new capacity during the planning horizon, with no expansion of pumped hydro storage, thermal storage, or other emerging technologies included.
The report also analyzes offshore wind energy for the first time. This technology is developed in three of the five scenarios, provided its costs register a medium or favorable reduction. Its earliest implementation occurs in 2041, while in other scenarios it appears from 2048 onwards.
Towards the end of the projected timeframe, at least 83% of annual electricity generation would come from solar photovoltaic or wind power. Renewable curtailments would account for between 9% and 12% of generation, compared to the 7% used as a baseline for the current situation.
Transmission reinforcements at 500 kV and 220 kV
The expansion of renewable energy will require new investments in transmission. The report identifies the need to increase the capacity of the Charrúa-Ancoa-Alto Jahuel-Lo Aguirre corridor by at least 1,750 MVA, at 500 kV. This reinforcement would allow wind power generation to be transported from the south-central region to the main consumption areas and to the north, via the future Kimal-Lo Aguirre line.
The plan also includes expansions of Chile’s 220 kV networks. Some lines would need to increase their current capacity up to six times in all the scenarios studied. The greatest needs are concentrated in the Antofagasta and Maule regions in north-central Chile.
Energy demand increases by up to 47.8%
The scenarios project national energy demand growth of between 4.1% and 47.8% during the analyzed period. The outcome depends primarily on the evolution of the gross domestic product and the degree of electrification of the economy.
Transportation remains the largest energy consumer, while regulatory scenarios anticipate increased adoption of electric cars, taxis, and buses, as well as the use of hydrogen in heavy transport.
Mining and industry are also increasing their electricity consumption, while data centers are emerging as a new structural source of demand. The report estimates data center capacity at 198 MW in 2024, which could reach approximately 594 MW in 2030 and 900 MW in 2057.
Individuals and institutions registered in the PELP process may submit comments on the report until August 24. The ministry will then prepare a final report and, after a further review, the corresponding energy planning decree.
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Indiana lands first US factory for high-efficiency bifacial solar cells, creating 1,200 jobs  Yahoo Finance
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Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy have developed a carborane-based electron transport material that raises perovskite cell efficiency by up to 2.4 percentage points, addressing a longstanding stability weakness in the process.
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have developed a new electron transport material for perovskite solar cells that improves efficiency, reduces manufacturing energy requirements and addresses a long-standing stability problem. The material, designated mCB-FMN, is based on a carborane molecule and has been patented and brought to market by Swedish company Dyenamo.
Germany – Fraunhofer’s Pero-Si-SCALE gets perovskite tandems wafer-ready
To date, perovskite cells have relied on a layer of fullerenes, specifically C60, to extract electrons from the absorber. The drawbacks are well established, however. Significant charge carrier losses at the C60-perovskite interface, relatively high material costs and a tendency to delaminate over time, undermining cell stability. It was against this backdrop that the HZB team, working with partners at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, set out to replace it.
The mCB-FMN layer can be deposited from the gas phase at lower temperatures than C60, reducing both energy consumption and thermal stress on manufacturing equipment. Measurements confirm that it extracts electrons efficiently, with lower interface losses than its predecessor. Density functional theory calculations suggest that surface defects are passivated, which may account for the improvement. Mechanical tests show stronger interfacial adhesion and better overall stability within the perovskite cell stack.
Fraunhofer ISE pushes tandem efficiency beyond 34 percent
It was found that substituting mCB-FMN for C60 in a p-i-n perovskite single-junction cell raises conversion efficiency by 1.5 percentage points in absolute terms. In perovskite-silicon tandem cells the gain reaches 2.4 percentage points, partly because the new material’s lower parasitic absorption allows more light to reach the photoactive layers.
“We have developed a high-performance fullerene substitute for perovskite solar cells and used a wide range of measurements to demonstrate its advantages,” says Lea Zimmermann, lead author of the study. Professor Steve Albrecht, who led the research group, noted that Dyenamo has now commercialised the material, making it broadly available. The team is also pursuing similar advances on the hole-transport side of the cell. “We are working at full speed on further new materials in this class and believe they could also transform tandem solar cells,” says Albrecht.
Oxford PV recognised for advancing perovskite-silicon solar
In a parallel study published in Joule on 9 July, the Albrecht team reported a 27.3 percent efficiency result for an all-perovskite triple-junction cell, achieved by replacing a conventional PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer with a graphene oxide/SAM double layer – an approach that also retained more than 90 percent of initial efficiency after 770 hours of continuous operation.
The carborane electron transport was published in Energy and Environmental Science, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The patent application covers mCB-FMN, its derivatives and their use in solar cells (EP 25175871.0). (TF)
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By Kelly Pickerel | July 28, 2026
T1 Energy announced it has acquired solar patents and other intellectual property from Evervolt Green Energy Holding for $135 million. The patents relate to TOPCon solar cells and modules.
“Owning the intellectual property rights to leading silicon-based solar technologies is an important step to differentiate T1’s competitive position as a vertically integrated crystalline silicon U.S. solar manufacturer,” commented Dan Barcelo, Chairman and CEO of T1 Energy. “We also believe that this intellectual property will be accretive to T1 economically in addition to yielding significant commercial and strategic benefits.”
Evervolt, a holding company that registered in Singapore in 2022 originally as “Elite Solar Holding,” had purchased the TOPCon patents and other solar IP from Trina Solar in 2025, and T1 Energy was licensing the technology from both companies. Now, T1 owns the patents and could license the technology in the future.
Portions of two of the TOPCon patents assumed to be sold to T1 were deemed “unpatentable” by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) earlier this year after Trina claimed Runergy, Adani Green Energy (Mundra) and Canadian Solar were infringing.

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Algeria’s solar story is often described through its resource potential: strong irradiation, large land availability, and proximity to Europe. Those fundamentals matter, but they are no longer the most useful way to assess the market. Most North African countries have good solar resources. The real question is whether those resources can be converted into bankable, grid-ready, and locally executable projects.
That was the central point emerging from MESIA’s recent discussion on Algeria’s solar market. Algeria is not facing the same transition logic as some of its neighbours. Morocco moved early partly because imported energy created a direct economic vulnerability. Tunisia is trying to split the burden between private generation and utility-led grid readiness. Algeria’s driver is different. Its gas is domestic, deeply linked to export value, and still central to the power system.
Boukhalfa Yaici, Director of Algeria Green Energy Cluster, framed the renewable transition as a question of energy sovereignty and economic logic rather than environmental preference alone. In his presentation, he noted that every megawatt-hour generated from solar or wind is a megawatt-hour of gas that can be preserved for export or higher-value industrial use. That distinction matters. Solar in Algeria is not simply a climate tool. It is a way to manage demand growth, protect gas value, diversify the power mix, and prepare for a more carbon-conscious export environment.
The scale of the challenge is clear. Algeria has set a 15 GW solar PV programme, with around 3.2 GW under implementation in southern and high-plateau provinces. The panel also noted that roughly 99% of electricity generation still comes from natural gas, while domestic electricity consumption continues to rise. This makes solar deployment less a question of ambition and more a question of pace, financing, and execution capacity.
The current market has largely developed through an EPC-led model, with Sonelgaz owning and financing projects before tendering construction. That approach can help move an initial pipeline, but it also places much of the financing burden on the public sector. If Algeria wants to move from gigawatts announced to gigawatts financed, independent power producer structures, long-term PPAs, and clearer offtake arrangements may become increasingly important. In other markets, private capital has moved faster where policy visibility, bankable contracts, competitive procurement, and credible counterparties reduced risk.
This is where Algeria’s solar opportunity becomes more complex. The issue is not whether modules are efficient enough or whether developers are interested. The issue is whether the enabling environment can support projects over 20- to 30-year lifetimes. Permitting, land access, grid connection approvals, transparent tenders, and local partnerships may sound procedural, but they are often the difference between a target and an investable market.
Grid readiness is another defining test. Large-scale solar cannot be planned separately from transmission, substations, storage, system monitoring, and demand-side flexibility. If grid infrastructure arrives late, renewable generation risks curtailment, and consumers ultimately pay through inefficiencies and delays. For Algeria, where some of the strongest resources are located far from major load centres, the grid is not a background issue. It is part of the project economics.
Battery storage is likely to move closer to the centre of the conversation. Panelists described storage not as an accessory, but as core infrastructure for higher solar penetration. Batteries can shift generation into periods of demand, provide voltage and frequency support, and help stabilise a system that will need more flexibility as variable renewables grow. In Algeria’s case, storage could also support industrial clean-energy zones, remote sites, and future PV-plus-storage applications in desert regions.
Technology selection will also need to be viewed through the full project lifecycle. In high-temperature, dusty, and in some areas humid conditions, module choice cannot be based only on peak efficiency. Degradation rates, temperature coefficients, bifacial performance, trackers, cleaning strategies, and long-term yield all feed into levelised cost of energy. The winners will not necessarily be those offering the lowest upfront cost, but those able to deliver reliable generation over decades.
Localization should be treated with the same discipline. Yaici’s presentation highlighted a 35% local content requirement and growing involvement from Algerian EPCs and suppliers in the current programme. But local content is not automatically industrial development. It becomes valuable when it builds repeatable capability: engineering know-how, workforce skills, component supply chains, manufacturing potential, and partnerships that survive beyond a single tender cycle.
Green hydrogen adds a longer-term strategic layer. GECA presented a future pathway in which renewable capacity could expand well beyond the 15 GW solar programme, with solar PV expected to remain the dominant technology. Yet hydrogen will not shortcut the early execution challenge. It depends on exactly the same foundations: low-cost renewable power, bankable structures, grid and export infrastructure, and sustained international cooperation.
Algeria’s solar market is therefore entering a more serious phase. The question is no longer whether the country has potential. It is whether that potential can be organised into a disciplined market. The next phase of solar in Algeria will not be defined by sunlight alone. It will be defined by whether projects are bankable, grid-aligned, storage-aware, and anchored in a local industrial base that can scale with the ambition.
Sol Soufan is Content and Digital Marketing Associate at the Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA).
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Zambian state-owned power company ZESCO has commissioned the second phase of the Chisamba solar power plant, doubling the complex’s generation capacity to 200 MW.
The first phase of the Chisamba project was completed by May 2025. It was developed by ZESCO’s subsidiary Kariba North Bank Extension Power Corp, with Powerchina working as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor. The first phase was priced at $100 million. 
Speaking during an inauguration ceremony for the second phase, Zambia’s President, Hakainde Hichilema, said the additional 100 MW took seven months to construct and created more than 1,400 jobs. The expansion cost $70 million instead of an initially estimated $100 million.
The President added that the government’s strategic investments in the energy sector have effectively ended electricity load shedding in Zambia. The country suffered a drought in 2024, exposing an over dependence on hydropower and forcing power outages.
“The commissioning of Chisamba II marked another milestone in transforming Zambia’s electricity sector through increased diversification of the country’s energy mix in response to the realities of climate change,” added ZESCO Managing Director Justin Loongo.
The Chisamba complex forms part of the Zambian government’s plan to deploy 1 GW of utility-scale solar by the end of the year as part of a broader target of increasing Zambia’s installed electricity generation capacity to 10 GW by 2030. The country’s largest operational solar asset to date, the 136 MW Itimpi II solar plant, was switched on in May.
The Africa Solar Industry Association (AFSIA) has tracked 1.15 GW of operational solar in Zambia, according to figures available in its project database. It adds a further 1.64 GW are currently under construction.
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Electricity generated from solar energy reached 4.99 TWh last month, marking the highest monthly solar output ever recorded in the country. This surge allowed solar power to meet 16.4% of Turkey’s total electricity generation in June.
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar stressed the growing role of solar energy in the national energy mix, stating that the country continues to convert Anatolia’s abundant sunshine into economic welfare.
Total electricity output in June hit 30.35 TWh, representing the highest June production on record
Total electricity output in June hit 30.35 TWh, representing the highest June production on record. Of that total, domestic energy sources accounted for 24.22 TWh, while the remainder was generated using imported fuels.
Overall, renewable sources contributed 20.65 TWh of the electricity generated. Hydropower continued to hold the lion’s share, generating 10.54 TWh – equivalent to 34.7% of total monthly electricity.
According to data from the ministry and the country’s transmission system operator (TSO) TEİAŞ, the new solar output of 4.99 TWh broke the previous monthly record of 4.27 TWh set in May 2024.
Furthermore, total monthly generation reached 30.35 TWh, surpassing the previous June record of 28.61 TWh recorded in 2021.
The positive trend extends across the first half of the year, with generation volumes across key sources reaching all-time highs for the period.
Hydropower led generation with 57 TWh, followed by wind power at 21.5 TWh and solar power at 19.2 TWh — all period records. In total, electricity output from domestic energy sources reached a record 130.9 TWh in the first six months of the year, while renewable generation contributed a record 108.7 TWh.
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Seoul-headquartered chemicals company OCI Holdings says it is planning to expand its annual polysilicon production capacity from 35,000 metric tons to 70,000 by 2029.
The company says the planned expansion is geared towards meeting demand from the US artificial intelligence infrastructure and space industries. In April this year, it was reported that Malaysia’s OCI TerraSus, a subsidiary of OCI Holdings, was in talks with SpaceX over a multi-year polysilicon supply contract.
OCI’s latest update adds that it has established and is operating a US-bound non-prohibited foreign entity (PFE) solar supply chain that links OCI TerraSus and Vietnam wafer manufacturer NeoSilicon Technology (NST).
OCI Holdings is the majority shareholder and primary material supplier of NST, having acquired a 65% stake in the company in October 2025. NST is planning to expand its production capacity from around 2.7 GW today to 11.5 GW by 2029, with supply to the U.S. market anticipated to begin next year.
“With the expansion of AI data centers, the growth momentum of solar power in the US energy market is further strengthening,” commented OCI Holdings chairman Lee Woo-hyun. “Based on our differentiated non-PFE competitiveness, we will expand investment in the solar value chain and proactively respond to changes in the global supply chain.”
Earlier this year, OCI TerraSus secured a $125 million A Loan from the International Finance Corporation for a semiconductor-grade polysilicon production facility in Sarawak, Malaysia, billed as the first of its kind in southeast Asia.
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Waaree Renewable Technologies Limited (WRTL), a subsidiary of Waaree Energies Limited, has signed an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) Agreement for the development of a utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) project integrated with a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in New Zealand, marking its entry into the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) renewable energy market.
The agreement, received by WRTL on July 27, 2026, has been signed with a special purpose vehicle (SPV) of a leading global Independent Power Producer (IPP). WRTL will undertake the project in a consortium with two experienced local companies.
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The ECI Agreement covers preliminary development work and will remain valid for approximately four months. Following successful completion of this phase, the principal may award the full Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract to the consortium. If awarded, execution of the project is expected to span 24 months.
The EPC contract has not yet been signed, and consideration for the full project will therefore depend on the subsequent contract award. The project combines utility-scale solar PV generation with BESS capacity, extending WRTL’s project development activities into the ANZ market.
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Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (POWERGRID) has awarded a Rs 9.63 crore contract to Topsun Energy Limited for a pilot project combining solar power and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) solutions. The project will meet the construction-phase power requirements at the Pang High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) station. The contract was finalised on 19 January…
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Inox Green Energy Services Limited (IGESL) has approved a proposal to raise up to Rs 600 crore through the issuance of securities, according to a regulatory filing dated July 22, 2026. The fundraising will provide the company with financial flexibility and may be undertaken through multiple routes, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. The proposal…
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GP Eco Solutions India Limited has secured a Letter of Intent (LoI) worth Rs 655.2 million from Synergy Wave System LLP. The order is for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) works for setting up 12.6 MW/16.38 MWp grid-connected solar power plants under the RESCO (Renewable Energy Service Company) model in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. The LoI…
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Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) has launched the bidding process for the development of the Zarraf Solar PV independent power producer (IPP) project, aiming to enhance Abu Dhabi’s solar capacity to at least 10GW by 2030.  Located in the Al Zarraf area of the Al Dhafra Region, the project will have a capacity of…
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ACME Solar has placed an order for 2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery energy storage systems (BESS) with Chuzhou Lishen New Energy Technology Co. Ltd. The order was routed through POSCO International Corporation and China FAW Group Import and Export Co. Ltd. According to ACME Solar, deliveries will take place in phases over the next six…
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KEC International has clarified that a recent communication from Power Grid Corporation of India will not affect ongoing contracts or materially impact its financial position. The company said the restriction bars it from participating in Power Grid tenders for nine months, but this will not influence the execution of existing transmission projects. In a press…
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