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ODESSA – Odessa School District has been awarded a $2.1 million solar grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce for a renewable energy project that district officials say will save money, support school programs and create a hands-on learning opportunity for a local student.
Superintendent Steve Fisk said the district was awarded the grant in February 2026. The project is expected to begin in September 2026 and will be installed at the district’s transportation facility.
The district is partnering with ATS Energy Systems, Ellensburg Solar and the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services. Fisk said the Department of Enterprise Services will provide support to the district during construction.
The project will include ground-mounted solar panels from Ellensburg Solar, along with a battery storage system that will allow the district to charge its electric school bus. The system is expected to power the transportation facility, the district’s football field lights and the electric bus.
Any additional energy produced by the system can be sold back to Avista to help offset the district’s utility costs.
Fisk said one of the major benefits of the project is the long-term savings it can create for the district.
“I like that this will save the district dollars and this revenue can go back into school programs,” Fisk said.
The project also includes an educational component for Odessa students. Fisk said ATS Energy will provide a paid internship for one Odessa High School student to learn about solar energy and the project process.
The solar panels will be ground mounted, fenced in and designed to make the best use of space at the transportation facility.
The district is inviting community members to learn more about the project during a Solar Project Information Night from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at the Odessa Transportation Barn.
Community members will have an opportunity to hear about the project, ask questions and learn how district officials expect the investment to benefit Odessa students and taxpayers for years to come.
 
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Solar panels installed at public buildings in Leamington and Kenilworth  WarwickshireWorld
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KINGSTON, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. Josh Riley has joined a chorus of objections to a planned solar installation on Columbia County farmland.
Riley’s push follows one launched by Sen. Michelle Hinchey, both Democratic lawmakers who support measures to combat climate change and are objecting to plans for the solar installation in Copake.
“The whole community pulled together–residents, farmers, small business owners, community leaders, Democrats, Republicans–everyone is trying to stop this thing,” Riley said in a speech during a House Agriculture Committee hearing this week. “But a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Albany are letting the project plow ahead. They’re overruling our neighbors and handing beautiful Upstate farmland to an out-of-state corporate developer so they can pave it over and install Chinese solar panels.”

Proposed by Chicago-based Hecate Energy, the Shepherd’s Run project would convert roughly 215 acres of productive farmland in Copake into a 42-megawatt industrial solar facility, officials said.
The New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) issued draft permit conditions in November 2025, allowing the project to move ahead despite 17 local zoning violations and overwhelming opposition from the Town of Copake, the Columbia County Board of Supervisors, and local residents, Riley’s office said.
At the hearing, Riley pressed U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to work together at the federal level to protect farmland and towns like Copake.
Riley’s advocacy is part of his broader work to protect Upstate agriculture, his office said, adding that he has sponsored legislation to stop foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party from buying up American farmland.
Hinchey has pushed against the Copake project, citing agricultural and environmental concerns.
Following a site visit in early August  2023, Hinchey and state Sen. Pete Harckham sent a letter to the Executive Director of the New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES), “underscoring the potential adverse environmental and agricultural impacts of Shepherd’s Run, a proposed 60-megawatt solar development seeking approval in the Town of Copake in rural Columbia County by Chicago-based Hecate Energy LLC,” Hinchey’s office has said.
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TEHRAN- The Ministry of Energy announced that the construction and operation of the 2-megawatt solar power plant at the Tehran Permanent International Fairground has been completed, with full connection to the national electricity grid.
According to Mehr News Agency, citing the Ministry of Energy, the construction and operation of the 2-megawatt solar power plant at the Tehran Permanent International Fairground has been finalized with its full integration into the national grid.
This project, defined in line with the legal obligation of government agencies to supply 20% of their electricity consumption from renewable energy sources, has been executed in two operational phases.
The first phase of the plant, with a capacity of 1.1 megawatts, was inaugurated in November 2025 on the sidelines of the 15th International Renewable Energy Exhibition, in the presence of the Ministers of Energy and Industry, Mine and Trade. Subsequently, the second phase of the facility, with a capacity of 825 kilowatts, was completed and its generated power was connected to the national grid.
With the commissioning of this new capacity, the Tehran International Exhibition Center solar power plant—now with a final capacity of 2 megawatts—has earned the title of the largest rooftop solar power plant in Tehran Province.
* Renewable power plant capacity quadrupled in 14th government
The Deputy for Planning and Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Energy announced a more than fourfold increase in the country’s renewable power plant capacity since the beginning of the 14th government, stating that the development of this sector, along with increasing electricity generation capacity and demand-side management, is among the main pillars of the Ministry’s program to manage the summer peak demand.
Yazdan Rezaei said that there is currently over 100,000 megawatts of installed power generation capacity in the country, adding: “Significant measures have also been taken in the development of clean energy, and the capacity of the country’s renewable power plants has increased more than fourfold compared to the beginning of the 14th government.”
* Three percent reduction in electricity consumption
Emphasizing the role of the people in energy demand management, he said: “In past decades, an average annual growth of about 5.8% in electricity consumption was recorded in the country, but last year, for the first time, not only did consumption growth stop, but a roughly three percent reduction in electricity consumption was also recorded.”
Rezaei added: “This achievement is the result of the people’s cooperation with demand management programs, and we hope that this cooperation continues this summer so that water and electricity supply conditions can be managed more smoothly.”
The Deputy for Planning and Economic Affairs further commented on the country’s electricity supply situation: “Planning to successfully navigate the peak water and electricity demand in the summer of 1405 (2026) began after last year’s peak season starting in Mehr (September-October), and these plans are being implemented carefully.”
Rezaei continued: “In the middle of implementing these plans, we faced the Zionist enemy’s aggression, but even under those conditions, none of the summer preparation projects were halted, and activities continued with full force.”
The deputy minister also referred to incentive programs for reducing consumption and said: “According to a directive from the Ministry of Energy, any citizen who reduces their water consumption by 10% compared to the same period last year will be eligible for a 20% discount on their water bill.”
Rezaei added: “In the electricity sector, if subscribers reduce their consumption by 10% compared to the same period last year, a 30% discount on their electricity bill has been considered.”
He expressed hope that with the implementation of these incentives and the sense of responsibility among the Iranian people, the culture of saving and efficient consumption will be strengthened more than ever, and the upcoming summer will be spent with the least stress in water and electricity supply.
* Iran launches plan to equip 12,000 schools with solar power plants
Meanwhile, in a major step toward expanding renewable energy infrastructure, Iran has officially begun a nationwide project to install solar power systems in 12,000 schools. The initiative, with a total capacity of 60 megawatts, aims to reduce pressure on the national grid, promote clean energy, and enhance energy security in the education sector.
The head of the Small‑Scale Power Plants Development and Monitoring Group at the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization of Iran (SATBA), Robabeh Abdollahi, announced that each of the 12,000 schools will receive a 5‑kilowatt solar system, including solar panels, inverters and mounting structures. SATBA will supply the main equipment, which will then be delivered to the Organization for Development, Renovation and Equipping of Schools of Iran.
According to Abdollahi, implementation coordination at the provincial level will be carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, provincial governor’s offices and regional electricity distribution companies. Once target schools are selected, the required equipment will be transported to the respective provinces.
Mohsen Tarztalab, Deputy Minister of Energy and head of SATBA, reiterated that developing rooftop solar power plants is a key priority for the ministry. “Efforts are being made to facilitate the construction process of these power plants by providing financial facilities to applicants,” he said. He also noted that plans for domestic production of necessary equipment are on the agenda to accelerate the development of the sector.
In a related development, Iran inaugurated its largest rooftop solar power plant last September in the Chenaran industrial town of Khorasan Razavi Province. The 4.5‑megawatt facility, built by Alis Company, covers 90,000 square meters and was completed in just six months.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Javad Khodaei, senior adviser to the provincial governor and deputy head of the renewable energy task force, said the project underscores the province’s leading role in Iran’s solar sector. “This project marks a new record in the scale and capacity of rooftop solar power plants in the country,” he stated, adding that Khorasan Razavi had previously hosted record‑setting rooftop facilities with capacities exceeding two megawatts.
Officials say solar energy, particularly in sunny provinces like Khorasan Razavi, is central to Iran’s strategy to diversify its power mix and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
* Tehran province schools lead the way
Meanwhile, in early November 2025, Majid Parsa, head of the Tehran Education Department, announced that 1,200 schools across Tehran province were set to be equipped with rooftop solar panel systems by the end of the past Iranian calendar year (20 March 2026). The initiative followed an agreement with the Tehran Governor’s Office to install five‑kilowatt systems on each participating school.
Parsa noted that the project would initially be implemented on a trial basis to assess performance, maintenance and grid integration. “The Education Department has already equipped five schools with pilot solar systems, which have shown promising results,” he said at the time. He added that solar‑powered schools could play a vital role in energy conservation, providing clean electricity for their own use and potentially supplying surplus power to the national grid.
Akbar Hasan Beklou, managing director of Tehran Province Electricity Distribution Company, earlier stated that the project aims to generate about six megawatts of solar power through these school installations, with the first phase expected to connect to the grid within three months.
The first school equipped with solar panels was inaugurated in Tehran’s District 12 in mid‑November 2025. During the opening ceremony, it was announced that any school wishing to install solar panels would receive 50 percent support from the district municipality.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. — Crook County leaders are moving forward with plans for a potential moratorium on new solar farms.
The current solar farms in the county are mostly clustered along George Millican Road, south of Highway 126 and the Prineville Airport. 
Community members have been raising concerns about the pace and scale of new solar developments. One concern is the impact on wildlife migration.
The Crook County Board of Commissioners voted this week to hold public meetings and prepare documents for a potential moratorium. The measure passed 2-1.
County leaders say the ordinance could begin to take shape this summer.
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Ganesh Green Bharat Ltd (GGBL), a renewable energy and infrastructure company, has secured a significant 1 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) EPC project order from NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd (NTPC REL). The order marks a significant step in the company’s strategic expansion into energy storage.
Under the project, the BESS will be supplied by Ganesh Green Bharat Ltd, which will also undertake the engineering, procurement, and execution of the project.
Ganesh Green reported revenue of INR 1,064.26 crore in FY26, registering significant growth from INR 321.76 crore in FY25, while Profit After Tax (PAT) increased to INR 75.18 crore from INR 30.22 crore during the same period. The company currently maintains an order book of around INR 2,212 crore, providing strong visibility for future growth.
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Stellantis Expands Decarbonized Energy Across Europe, with Solar Installations Covering Two-Thirds of Manufacturing Plants  WebWire
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Inside Delft University of Technology’s solar labs, where the panel of the future is already on the table.
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Solar energy is undoubtedly the enabler of the global green transition, given its extremely low cost — as little as €0.023 per kilowatt-hour. "Last year, the world added the equivalent of roughly a thousand nuclear power plants' worth of solar capacity. Building a nuclear power plant takes up to fifteen years and requires major government commitment. With solar panels, we add each year an amount of energy capacity comparable to a thousand nuclear power plants,” says Professor Olindo Isabella. 
He leads the Photovoltaic Materials and Devices (PVMD) group at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The group focuses on the full solar energy chain, from the atomic physics of a single thin-film layer of solar material to the kilometer-scale modeling of floating solar farms. 
During a press tour organized by the university attended by IO+, the researchers opened their labs to show the status of their research. The message that resonated throughout the day is clear: the solar revolution is already here. The hard part is everything that comes next.
Isabella’s group is working on three main challenges: materials, intelligence, and circularity. Standard solar cells contain silver for electrical contacts and indium in their transparent layers. These materials are scarce and, in some cases, environmentally problematic.  
The professor shows an alternative solar cell with an orange hue: copper, which the group has successfully substituted for silver without any loss of efficiency. "We need to move towards materials that are more abundant and less toxic," Isabella says. "And this is what is being done here."
As per intelligence, the Delft group is trying to go beyond the conception of the solar panel as a passive device: light in, electricity out, with no possibility of responding to what is happening around it. Researchers developed a junction box — a plastic component that attaches to the back of a solar module – which dynamically reconfigures how each cell is connected depending on shading conditions. 
On a rooftop where a tree casts a moving shadow, for instance, the box keeps the solar panel operating optimally at all times. In essence, the box continuously monitors how much electricity each cell in the panel is producing. When it detects a mismatch — because part of the panel is in shadow — it physically reroutes the connections between cells to get the best possible output from what is available. 
In this way, the system also prevents so-called thermal hotspots. These heat concentrations on a specific spot of the panel can shorten a panel’s life and, in extreme cases, lead to a fire. "By design," Isabella says, "the module never enters the situation where a hotspot can occur."
As the price of solar panels keeps dropping, what is the value of pushing the costs of module manufacturing further down? According to the professor,  the real problem is elsewhere, not in the costs of generating electricity but in the grid.
Europe’s electricity infrastructure was designed for power to flow in one direction — from power plants to consumers. Yet, the rise of renewables means that production is widely distributed. "The technology is ready," Isabella underlines. "What is needed is a strong government commitment to adapt the grid."
This commitment means a clear strategy to couple renewables deployment with storage, as well as integration of software to make the grid smarter. The professor acknowledges that more investments are needed to increase capacity on the electricity grid – something that grid operator Tennet is already doing, he says — but that the scale is immense and that takes time. 
The growth in solar electricity generation that the Netherlands experienced in recent years was almost entirely economic, according to the professor. Solar panels became cheaper, and deployment was rapid and widespread. Batteries, he predicts, are on the same trajectory. A 3 kWh home battery already costs around €2,500–3,000. "Both technologies are ready. The question now is just making sure every new photovoltaic system comes with a battery."
Among the researchers Isabella introduces is PhD Katarina Kovačević, whose work addresses one of the more counterintuitive problems in solar cell design. The metal contacts on the front of a conventional silicon cell are, by necessity, blocking the very thing the cell is trying to capture. Every silver busbar printed across the illuminated surface casts a small shadow, and across millions of cells, that adds up.
Her research thus focuses on back-contact solar cells, where electrical contacts are placed on the rear. The result is a more efficient and more visually appealing solar panel. Without metallic gridlines, the cells take on a smooth, near-black appearance that integrates far more naturally into roofs and facades than the blue, grid-lined panels most people picture. This technology has existed since the 1970s, but has yet to see broad application. 
The group has pushed this further by introducing nanoscale surface roughness on the front that makes the cells even darker — a trick, Kovačević notes, that certain bird species use on their feathers for exactly the same optical effect. The designed solar cell achieved a 24% efficiency — close to that of conventional solar panels. 
Katarina Kovačević in her lab coat – © Delft University of Technology
Electrification of society calls for qualified engineers to design tomorrow's solar parks, batteries, and grids. In addition to their research, the academics are teaching the next generation of engineers at the university. After the presentations, the tour moves downstairs to the PV Education Lab. 
Lecturer Robin Vismara illustrated the facility, where students get a full understanding of solar technology. From the single solar cell to the interconnected rooftop systems with batteries and inverters. 
Outdoors, next to the lab, there is also an array of solar panels that, despite the overcast sky, continue to produce electricity, Vismara notes. “It is not a coincidence that the Netherlands is the country with the highest solar watt capacity per capita. It works, even on a day like this,” he adds. 
Back upstairs, Isabella is asked what the Netherlands might look like energetically in ten years. He doesn't hesitate. Solar will be everywhere — on roofs, facades, water surfaces, farmland — paired with batteries, feeding a grid that has finally caught up with the generation it needs to absorb. The technology, he repeats, is not the constraint. It never really was. "The sun," he says, "is not going anywhere." 


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Researchers unveil an adaptive agrivoltaic solution for greenhouses that boosts both crop production and solar energy, improving sustainable food supply and security.
Agrivoltaics(opens in new window) describes integrated systems that enable land to be used simultaneously for agricultural production and solar energy generation. “While photovoltaic systems offer a promising mutually beneficial relationship between food, water and renewable energy, if not properly designed they can jeopardise crop productivity,” says Ibrahim Yehia, coordinator of the REGACE(opens in new window) project. To mitigate this, contributing to a trend for more sustainable cropping, REGACE developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted adaptive agrivoltaic system for greenhouses capable of producing solar energy, while maintaining favourable crop growing conditions. “By addressing challenges of dynamic light and shading, greenhouse climate stability and land-use efficiency, our system minimises the need for costly additional land and dedicated energy infrastructure,” remarks Yehia.
Benefiting from wide-ranging expertise – across agronomy, renewable energy, greenhouse engineering, climate analysis and digital monitoring systems – REGACE designed, installed and piloted six agrivoltaic greenhouse systems in Austria, Germany, Greece, Israel and Italy. At the core of the project’s greenhouse-integrated photovoltaic (PV) concept is an adaptive control strategy. Unlike conventional static greenhouse PV installations, assisted by AI-based predictive models and environmental monitoring, REGACE’s solution dynamically tracks and responds to crop requirements, greenhouse conditions and location, precisely positioning semi-transparent PV modules to better manage sunlight and shading conditions. Users access the monitoring and operational interface through a digital control platform, with real-time visualisation of environmental conditions, PV positioning and system performance. The platform can also be adapted for remote access. Experimental greenhouse trials monitored different scenarios under real agricultural conditions, offering insights into what worked best for different crops (including tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants), climatic conditions and PV configurations. Computer simulations, including those for: crop growth; radiation, transport and airflow; and greenhouse microclimate analysis; were also undertaken, complemented by a digital twin(opens in new window) using machine learning to support operational optimisation under changing climatic conditions. “Combined field measurements and simulations demonstrated the technical feasibility and operational potential of our adaptive greenhouse-integrated photovoltaic design,” adds Yehia. “Given the range of pilot scenarios tested, we are still analysing our validation activities.” REGACE also tested strategies to maintain favourable CO2 levels for crop photosynthesis – including ventilation, thermal and radiation management – under varying climatic conditions, particularly Mediterranean. “We demonstrated that controlled CO2 enrichment can contribute to improved greenhouse environmental stability and enhanced plant photosynthesis, particularly under conditions where light availability and temperature remain within optimal ranges,” explains Yehia.
Demonstrating how renewable energy production can be integrated into agricultural systems without additional land requirements helps preserve productive agricultural landscapes, while supporting decarbonisation goals, resource efficiency and climate stress resilience. These benefits in turn directly support several key European priorities, including the European Green Deal(opens in new window), climate resilience strategies and the renewable energy transition. As the REGACE system is a suspended lightweight modular design, it can be installed within existing greenhouses as the primary load-bearing framework, simplifying retrofits. Additionally, the project pilots, mostly running for over two years, confirmed the system’s ability to offer stable long-term operation with minimal maintenance beyond routine PV cleaning. “The adaptable and modular design also supports scalability, making it of interest not only for commercial greenhouses, but more widely for high-value crop production, climate-adaptive protected agriculture, water-efficient farming systems and integrated rural renewable energy infrastructure,” adds Yehia. To progress to broader industrial-scale deployment, the team is now focused on further system optimisation – improving their adaptive control strategies and validating them across additional crop types and greenhouse typologies.
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Outside the Allen King Power Plant in Oak Park Heights Minn., which Xcel plans to close and replace with a solar farm project in St. Croix County. Photo: Jack White/Star-Observer.
St. Croix County and Xcel Energy had been in talks over a joint development agreement in light of the energy company’s proposed Ten Mile Creek Solar Project in the region. Now, those talks have fallen through, according to representatives of both parties.
County Administrator Ken Witt announced in a St. Croix County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday that the energy company has declined to negotiate a JDA further before filing a proposal with the Public Service Commission. Witt said at the meeting: “Their response is ‘no JDA. We plan to file at the end of the year with the PSC, and maybe we’ll talk again after that.’”
Chris Ouellette, a spokesperson for Xcel, confirmed in a statement Thursday that Xcel would be “open to restarting discussions” after the energy company has sent a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to the state’s PSC. Xcel states on its website that the company’s plan is to file in 2026.
Ouellette said of the talks with the county, “After much discussion about working collaboratively toward mutually beneficial outcomes, we were incredibly surprised by the County’s decision to not meet or communicate with us over the past seven months.”
“The final document recently shared with our attorneys differs materially from the last version we reviewed in November 2025, as well as the version we started with, which was based on an actual Joint Development Agreement executed by a nearby county for a solar-battery project that Xcel Energy will own and operate,” Ouellette’s statement continued.
Witt did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Xcel’s assertions. However, Director of Community Development Jason Kjeseth told the Community Development Committee in February that legal counsel and Xcel had not met since November 2025, which would align with the seven-month timeline.
Witt said at the meeting Tuesday that the subject will be taken up at the next Community Development Committee meeting, June 11. As it stands, the development committee has a resolution on the agenda that will address at a future date whether “to proceed with intervening in the Public Service Commission,” once Xcel files its application. If the committee decides to approve that resolution, it will go to the county board for a final vote.
“It takes two to negotiate, so there’s not really action that you can take to force them to, but that’s the status of that and the next step in the process will be to the committee for action,” Witt said at the meeting this week.
Xcel looks to deliver approximately 300 megawatts of solar energy and 300 megawatts of battery energy storage with the solar farm, replacing the Allen S. King Plant, which it plans to close, the company said on its website. If approved, Xcel plans to build on 2,980 acres spanning the towns of Erin Prairie and Hammond in St. Croix County.
While proponents of the project say that solar energy provides benefits for the environment, a Change.org petition that includes over 5,300 signatures argues that the solar farm would harm local properties and the essence of rural culture. 
Xcel said on its website, “solar projects can disrupt wildlife habitats, especially during construction. However, all the land leased for the solar project is existing farmland, which means less disruption than if a forest were cleared.”
In September of 2025, the county board voted to serve as an intervenor at the PSC level, while discussing a joint development agreement with Xcel. The board hired legal representation to discuss the JDA, a potential agreement between the two parties on aspects of the plan such as setbacks and community investment. But in terms of local governments contesting the PSC, there’s not a track record of success, Witt said in June 2025.
“You’re not going to be successful,” Witt said of contesting the state agency responsible for regulating public utilities. He added: “So that’s why we’re pursuing the JDA.”
Asked about what led to negotiations failing, Ouellette said that the document sent to Xcel “goes well beyond the original intent and includes more than 40 entirely new substantive paragraphs that were added without any discussion with Xcel Energy.”
The spokesperson added that the document shared with her company would result in significant added costs to Xcel Energy’s customers — including ones in St. Croix County — and that the costs were “in excess of existing state requirements and outside of the County’s authority.”
“The document also now includes provisions that are solely within the purview of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW), not St. Croix County,” Ouellette said in a statement.
The Community Development Committee approved sending the JDA with updated comments from the public and committee members to Xcel in February. Ryan Sherley, a committee member at the time, voted to add a detail to the proposal: for the county’s legal representation to reach out to Xcel about where the two parties were on a timeline. Legal representation incorporated those changes and sent the updated plan to Xcel on April 10, according to the resolution on the docket June 11.
Before the vote, some residents advocated against sending over the plan, because they believed too many compromises were reached based on the proposal’s details. Board member Kerry Reis said she had concerns about submitting the plan without hearing what Xcel thought. 
“We don’t know if Xcel will accept or reject anything in here,” Reis said.
This week, the county found out Xcel’s answer.
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed HB 5340, a sweeping energy policy bill that extends the state’s long-running Renewable Energy Solutions programs through 2035, launches a successor community solar program, requires automated residential solar permitting and establishes new rules to allow for residential use of portable, plug-in solar panels.
Alongside the bill’s solar-enabling policies are two provisions that would limit new solar installations. One part of the new law immediately places a moratorium on certain large-scale solar development, and another will limit the total annual funding and capacity available to new solar installations in the state.
Advocates have expressed concerns about the solar-limiting provisions. In a statement on its website, advocacy group Environment Connecticut said the two provisions would “erect new barriers to solar,” calling the latter policy “an unprecedented cap” that “creates the potential that homeowners in future years could be forced to delay plans to go solar while they wait in line for permission from regulators.”
However, despite its position on the two controversial clauses, the group said it ended up working with legislators to advance the bill on the merits of the other important provisions.
Implementation of HB 5340’s newly-enacted policies is set to take effect across various milestone dates in the comping years. 
Notably, balcony solar rules go into effect on October 1, 2026, tariffs under the Renewable Energy Solutions programs and community solar project solicitations will begin January 1, 2028, and a statewide automated residential permitting solution must be implemented by July 1, 2028.
More details are included in an earlier article about Connecticut HB 5340.
The Connecticut solar landscape
As state solar markets go, Connecticut generally lands in the middle of the pack. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the state ranks 27th in a nationwide ranking of installed solar capacity, and gets 5.53% of its electricity from solar, which is about the nationwide total of 6% outlined in a recent Hitachi Energy Market Insights report. 
As of March 2026, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration indicates Connecticut had nearly 1.4 GW of installed small-scale solar capacity (systems less than 1 MW) and 495 MW of utility-scale solar photovoltaic installations. Those numbers place the state 11th highest for small-scale capacity and 37th highest for utility-scale capacity. 
HB 5340 would set a limit of 180 MW for utility clean energy procurement targets from residential, non-residential and community solar programs, limited by a total available budget of $85 million. 
The limits would take effect starting in 2028, and likely become immediately relevant. In 2025, EIA data shows the state added 129 MW of small scale capacity and 46.7 MW of capacity in installations greater than 1 MW and up to 5 MW in size. That’s a total of 175.7 MW — incredibly close to the new statutory limits.
However, the law exempts from the new caps those residential solar installations that include energy storage, leaving room for the industry to adapt by prioritizing solar-plus-battery residential installations.
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French utility Engie will invest close to €100 million (US$114 million) in a 155MW solar PV project at its Castelnou power station. 
Engie will develop the solar plant alongside its power station in the Aragon region, creating a hybrid facility that combines PV generation with existing dispatchable power capacity. 
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“The Castelnou plant is an example of the value generated by collaboration between industry and institutions for the economic and social development of our region. This project has been a driver of employment and progress, and today it also represents Aragon’s ability to position itself as a benchmark in innovation and energy competitiveness in the current context of global transition,” Yolanda Valles, director general of energy and mines of Aragon, said. 
Engie said the solar addition will enable greater integration of renewable electricity into the grid by leveraging the complementary operating profiles of solar generation and flexible thermal capacity. The company added that the hybrid configuration is intended to support grid stability while increasing the share of renewable energy supplied from the site. 
The 155MW project will add to Engie’s growing solar portfolio in Spain, where the company operates around 1.8GW of renewable energy capacity and has a further 3.5GW under development.  
The utility is pursuing an accelerated global renewables buildout, with solar accounting for 9.3GW of its current installed renewable capacity as it works towards a target of 95GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030. 

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Energy load growth in the U.S. is distributed across many sectors beyond data center requirements, EV charging and onshoring manufacturing. A recent report from Alberta-based Enverus Intelligence Research projects that the transitions from fuel-based technologies for many industrial and residential applications, such as space heating, will add 24 GW of load in the continental U.S. and 78 GW by 2050. 
According to Enverus, electrification will account for about 4.1% of the total domestic load in the lower 48 states by 2035, however this will not be evenly distributed. About 69% of new loads will fall in the PJM, MISO and NYISO service areas. 
Industrial electrification represents the largest share of new demand, the report said, accounting for 11.4 GW (47%) of total load growth. Commercial and residential sectors are expected to add 6.8 GW (29%) and 5.7 GW (24%), respectively. 
Kevin Kang, report author and senior analyst at Enverus Intelligence Research, told pv magazine USA that key drivers of electrification load increase are a combination of new heat pump technologies and state policy directives mandating their adoption, such as the NY State All-Electric Buildings Act. His report projects load growth of 27% in ISO New England and 21% in New York ISO by 2035. 
“With the adoption of heat pumps in the next five years, you could see loads change significantly,” Kang said. “When you have a really cold winter and all these heat pumps come on at the same time will spike that winter peak much higher than the grid is prepared for today.” 
Ideally, the load increases from electrification could be met my increasing installations of solar and storage. Kang points out that many grid operators in the Northeast, such as PJM, NYISO and New England ISO, have a lot of solar in their queues being built right now. Moreover, there are a number of well-funded state solar incentive programs throughout the region.  
At the same time, Kang cautions that without significant planning, winter load spikes could undermine future electrification efforts. State-level electrification mandates, particularly in colder regions, are expected to drive significant relative load increases, he said. These are likely to increase winter weather sensitivity and contribute to greater market volatility. 
“It’s actually ironic because when you run the economics for how heat pumps work – they move heat, they don’t generate heat – they become much less efficient in the winter while they’re very efficient in the summer,” Kang said. “Solar, particularly in the Northeast, is also less efficient in the winter, when you will be seeing the seasonal spike in load demand.” 
Extreme cold weather events in the region, such as Winter Storm Fern in January, can cause widespread disruption of solar generation leading to temporarily increased reliance on fossil fuels. Given regional constraints on natural gas supplies, this has meant more oil burning.  
“All types of electrification, not just heating, are time sensitive,” Kang said. “You have things like electric vehicles that need to charge overnight, you have data centers coming online, and now you add the heating and electrification portions, so it becomes a very challenging policy-driven task to plan for this.” 
Retail power prices will increase depending on the infrastructure that’s being built by these utilities, he concluded. Solar generation could help address load demand and price volatility if projects proceed along with electrification trends. Otherwise, grid operating will be scrambling to meet projected load increases.  
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AYN WARDO, Turkey — Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) organizations across Europe have urged the Turkish government to halt ongoing fieldwork related to the G25-Mardin Solar Power Plant project in the historic village of Ayn Wardo (Gülgöze), located in Medyad (Midyat) district of southeastern Turkey, warning of its potential impact on the region’s cultural and environmental heritage.
In a joint letter addressed to Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, the Syriac organizations stated that field operations for the solar energy project in Ayn Wardo have already begun, raising concerns that the village’s natural environment and historical landscape could suffer irreversible damage.
The signatories stressed that Ayn Wardo is one of the most prominent historic Syriac settlements in the Tur Abdin region and is home to churches, religious landmarks, and heritage sites of exceptional significance. As such, they argued, it forms an integral part of the diverse cultural legacy of Mesopotamia (Beth Nahrin).
They added that the planned large-scale project could negatively affect agricultural land, grazing areas, and tourism activities linked to the region’s religious and cultural heritage, while also threatening its historical identity.
The letter further noted that the lands included in the project were previously owned or used by Syriac families before large portions were registered under the Turkish Treasury during cadastral surveys conducted in the early 2000s. The organizations warned that implementation of the project could further complicate future efforts to resolve outstanding property ownership disputes.
While emphasizing that they do not oppose renewable energy projects in principle, the organizations stressed the importance of balancing development needs with the protection of cultural and historical heritage, as well as the rights of local communities.
They called on Turkish authorities to immediately halt the ongoing works, suspend the project in its current form, and relocate it to an alternative site that would not affect culturally or agriculturally sensitive areas. They also urged a comprehensive reassessment of the project, with the participation of Syriac community representatives, local residents, and independent experts at every stage of evaluation and decision-making.
Among the European Syriac organizations and associations that signed the letter are the European Syriac Union (ESU), the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO), the Union of Tur Abdin Development Associations (DETA), the Syriac Federation of Sweden (SRF), the Syriac Union in Germany (HSA), the Central Association of Assyrian Organizations in Germany (ZAVD) and its European branches, and the Kano Suryoyo Foundation.
The appeal by the Syriac organizations came nearly a week after the Ayn Wardo Union submitted an official objection to the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. In its submission, the union stated that “the public interest — if it is to be genuinely achieved — must be assessed alongside environmental, cultural, agricultural, historical, and social considerations.” The Union also called on the authorities to reconsider and re-evaluate the project.
Ayn Wardo is widely regarded as one of the most important historic Syriac settlements in the Tur Abdin region, distinguished by a civilizational heritage spanning thousands of years. The village is home to several historic churches, including the Church of Mor Barsawmo (Mor Barsavmo) and the Church of Mar Had Bshabo, as well as traditional stone architecture and a unique cultural landscape.
Ayn Wardo was also listed among the endangered heritage sites requiring protection in the report Endangered Syriac Architectural Heritage in Tur Abdin, published by the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (KMKD).
Moreover, Ayn Wardo is not the only area facing such controversy. A similar case occurred in the village of Midin (Öğündük), in the İdil district of Şırnak Province, where land on which solar panels were installed was expropriated despite being subject to a lease agreement between the energy company and local villagers.
The expropriation was carried out under an “urgent expropriation” decree issued by the Turkish Presidency, with compensation reportedly set at a very low level.
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Siemens Energy plans to acquire grid monitoring, analytics and asset digitalization software company Camlin Group to ensure renewables can be properly integrated into the world’s electricity grids.
“Grid constraints are one of the key bottlenecks for renewable growth overall, so strengthening the grid will, by definition, enable further wind and solar deployment,” a spokesperson for Siemens Energy told pv magazine.
They added that Camlin Group’s advanced sensor-based monitoring technology for transformers is essential for wind and solar farms, as transformers are critical assets connecting generation to the grid.
“Enhanced, real-time monitoring enables predictive maintenance, reduces unplanned downtime, and ultimately improves the reliability and availability of power,” the spokesperson said. “This kind of digitalization and proactive grid management will become increasingly important as higher shares of variable renewables are integrated into the system.”
In September 2025, Siemens Energy invested around €220 million to expand its transformer factory in Nuremberg, Germany. It said at the time it was responding to the increased demand for transformers to stabilize power grids and connect solar and wind infrastructure to the grid. The two companies will support utilities in managing complex power flows across electricity grids.
A spokesperson for Camlin Group told pv magazine the company already works with international renewable energy companies across solar, offshore and onshore wind, and battery energy storage, helping them to strengthen their portfolio performance.
“Our technology enables earlier detection of emerging risks and supports predictive, condition‑based maintenance at scale, essential for maximising renewable asset availability and grid hosting capacity.
“With Siemens Energy’s investment and reach, we can now move faster, helping utilities and network operators strengthen system resilience, reduce unplanned outages and integrate larger volumes of renewable energy with confidence,” the Camlin Group representative added.
The Northern Irish company is headquartered in Lisburn, Belfast, and operates across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. If Siemens Energy’s acquisition receives full regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close before the end of this year. The larger company plans to wholly own Camlin Group, but management will remain independent. Financial details were not disclosed.
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Even though over 70% of the Earth is covered in water, only an extremely small percentage of our planet’s water is drinkable; the rest is too salty to drink. If we want to make more, there is a process called desalination which can remove salt from seawater and make it potable, but the issue comes down to scalability. However, some people believe specialized solar panels could be the solution.
Recently, researchers from the University of Rochester in New York published a study in Light: Science & Applications that outlined a new desalination technique. The technique revolves around an aluminum panel etched using femtosecond lasers (lasers that pulse so fast they can only be measured in one-quadrillionth of a second). Thanks to the laser etching, the aluminum panel not only absorbs light but also becomes superwicked: It attracts water to an almost supernatural degree.
When the panel comes into contact with salt water, a thin film of water is pulled up, completely defiant of gravity, and evaporates using solar energy, leaving behind crystallized salt and other minerals. While the evaporated gas is recollected as salt-free water, the superwicked surface also moves salt crystals onto the edge of the panel, keeping the main surface clean and efficient. Not only is the process self-sufficient, but it also solves the problem of other desalination projects: It doesn’t discharge brine (a highly saline water that is poisonous to sea life). Normally, brine pools in at the bottom of the ocean and forms underwater lakes that kill anything that enters, so you can imagine the threat a sudden stream of brine in open waters can pose.
Contrary to popular belief, saltwater doesn’t contain only salt and water. Oceans also house tons of minerals (figuratively and literally), many of which have commercial applications. If only we could safely and effectively extract them. That’s where superwicking comes in.
After the University of Rochester’s specialized panel is done desalinating seawater into drinkable water, it is still left with crystallized salt. People can harvest this leftover material and turn it into something useful, like table salt, and this is also true of other dissolved minerals, including lithium. The researchers at the University of Rochester touch on the potential for using superwicked panels to collect valuable elements such as lithium and uranium.
Utilizing superwicked panels to “mine” for minerals has several potential advantages over traditional mining operations. For starters, the University of Rochester’s process would require far less energy and water. Plus, we could mine more of these materials from the ocean than we ever could from dry land — it’s all there, just mixed in with the water. And then there’s the fact that superwicking lithium and other materials out of the ocean is more environmentally friendly than standard mining. With enough superwicked solar panels, we could get all the lithium for batteries we would ever need. That is, unless emerging battery innovations remove the need for lithium in batteries, at least.

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China's major solar panel manufacturers are ramping up higher-margin battery exports to boost revenue as growth in photovoltaic (PV) sales slows, betting on rising global demand for renewable energy storage to cut reliance on fossil fuels.
The sector has been hit by weaker domestic installations, slowing exports and record-low prices, with executives expecting global demand to decline in 2026.
That has pushed players including JinkoSolar, Solar, LONGi Green Energy and Trina Solar to accelerate expansion into battery storage, company executives told Reuters.
JinkoSolar plans to nearly triple its battery manufacturing capacity from 5 gigawatt-hours (GWh) to 13-14 GWh by the end of this year, as developers seek to address the intermittency of renewables, a company official said at SNEC – a solar industry gathering attended by over half a million people.
"We are seeing some goodwill from our company's directors' point of view, in that we are having massive investments," Titus Koech, a regional technical head for energy storage systems, told Reuters.
Countries with high renewable penetration – including Japan, Vietnam and India, as well as Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and Australia – were among the largest importers of batteries from China in 2025, according to energy think tank Ember.
At JA Solar's booth, energy storage products took centre stage, marking a shift from PV-focused displays in previous conferences, said Gloria Gao, marketing director of its storage unit.
"If you only own a solar business, it's not helping your business grow because the margins are really small. That's why we started our energy storage business, because we foresee the future," Gao told Reuters.
Solar panels exports, which typically carry better margins than domestic sales, grew 4.7% in 2025 – the slowest pace since 2018, Ember data showed. Growth from May to December is expected to lag that seen in the first four months of the year, Rystad Energy analyst Fei Chen said.
By contrast, battery exports for energy storage are forecast to jump 30% to 150 GWh in 2026, Rystad said.
China's solar manufacturers are entering a market dominated by battery giants such as CATL and BYD, but are betting on their supply-chain expertise and ability to offer integrated solar-plus-storage solutions.
Such integration has made energy storage "the second growth curve" after photovoltaics, a Trina Solar official said.
The company's energy storage shipments in the March quarter – about 90% exported – more than quadrupled year-on-year, added the official, who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
CATL, the world's biggest battery maker, expects energy storage to account for half of its global sales by 2030, up from 25% now, driven by the need to support intermittent renewable power.
LONGi's solar-plus-storage integration initiative was advertised on a giant, curved LED screen that cut across the breadth of nearly its entire stall, taking precedence over standalone PV products at SNEC.
Consultancy Wood Mackenzie said the trend reflects a shift in buying patterns.
"When you're buying solar and storage, you're getting married to these companies for the next 20 years," said Yana Hryshko, head of solar supply chain research.
"LONGi and JA just joined (the energy storage business) because you don't buy your solar from one manufacturer and your storage from another. In the next two years, we're not going to talk about solar without storage."
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ACME Solar Holdings Ltd (ACME Solar) has successfully concluded its INR 2,800 crore qualified institutions placement (QIP), its first equity capital raise since listing in 2024. The proceeds from the QIP will be used to reduce leverage and enhance the overall balance sheet strength.
“The transaction garnered strong participation from a well-diversified mix of existing and new marquee investors, including leading domestic mutual funds, major insurance companies and foreign institutional investors including SBI Mutual Fund (MF), Nippon MF, HDFC MF, ICICI Prudential MF, Kotak MF, SBI Life Insurance, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, BlackRock, Amundi, Goldman Sachs, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Pictet, among others,” said the company.
“This reflects deep investor conviction in the company’s execution capabilities and visible capacity expansion pipeline.”
ICICI Securities and IIFL Capital Services acted as the book running lead managers to the QIP. Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co was the Legal Counsel to the Company while Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Hogan Lovells were the Legal Counsels to the Book Running Lead Managers.
ACME Solar Holdings is an integrated renewable energy player with an aggregated contracted capacity of 8,070 MW. It develops, builds, owns, operates and maintains utility-scale renewable energy projects through its in-house engineering, procurement and construction division and operation and maintenance team, and generates long-term revenue through fixed-tariff power purchase agreements for the sale of electricity to various off-takers, including central and state government-backed entities.
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After helping solar power evolve from a niche technology into one of the world’s cheapest sources of electricity, UNSW’s Professor Martin Green is preparing for the next era as silicon cells near their limits.
On a patch of land near Sydney’s northern beaches, a new generation of solar panels are sitting out in the salt air, heat, humidity and rain. They are facing the harsh tests of nature and time. They may fail quickly – but that could be quite useful.
For UNSW Sydney's Scientia Professor Martin Green – who is often described as the father of modern photovoltaics – the future of solar power now depends not on an efficiency world record but on whether the next generation of solar cells can survive outside the lab.
Prof. Green has spent more than five decades helping solar power become a cheap source of electricity, with the technology he developed today underpinning 90% of the world's solar technology.
Now, he is helping establish an independent field-testing facility at UNSW’s Water Research Laboratory in Manly Vale, where the newest solar tech – perovskite solar modules – will be subjected to durability testing under real-world conditions.
Green says while these modules are already on the market, the expectation is that failed modules can simply be replaced as production scales and costs continue to fall.
“Silicon modules are routinely sold with warranties of 25 to 40 years,” Prof. Green says.
“While the perovskite modules offer similar warranties, the likelihood of a module surviving for that long is very small.”
Perovskites are a class of crystalline materials that can be stacked on top of silicon solar cells to harvest more sunlight and push solar performance further – the next generation of solar technology.
The new technology performs impressively in lab but is yet to survive for decades in the real world.
In the latest international solar cell efficiency tables – published last week in Joule –  Prof. Green records a large-area silicon cell reaching 28.1% efficiency and a tiny perovskite cell – not a full-size commercial module – reaching 28.0%. This is the first time the best single-junction perovskite result has effectively matched the highest silicon result.
The same report includes a 35.2% efficiency result for a perovskite-on-silicon tandem cell.
In a solar cell, a few percentage points make a massive difference. Higher efficiency means more electricity from the same rooftop, less land required for solar farms, with lower installation and infrastructure costs across entire energy systems.
The report’s latest numbers suggest solar is edging towards another technological shift – if the cells can last.
“Silicon, the workhorse of the global solar revolution, is now very efficient, but increasingly close to its limits,” Prof. Green says.
“And anyone who’s made a perovskite cell knows how unstable they are.”
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Can perovskites make the same leap silicon did from promising technology to reliable infrastructure?
This question is what shapes the field-testing facility.
Prof. Green says perovskite-on-silicon tandem cells are the most likely large-scale commercial pathway for next-gen solar technology.
“All the silicon manufacturers have their own perovskite-on-silicon programs,” he says.
When his group first began setting records with silicon cells, he insisted any claims be certified by recognised testing laboratories.
“If you’re claiming a record, you’ve got to have it independently certified,” he says.
That insistence on verification became a foundation of the modern solar industry. And it persists today through the independent field-testing facility Prof. Green is helping establish alongside his former student, UNSW’s Dr Jessica Jiang.
The facility will be able to install up to 160 modules, catering to all manufacturers and generations of products.
Many perovskite manufacturers are part of China’s rapidly expanding solar industry – and Prof. Green’s former students.
One of the largest perovskite manufacturers, Microquanta, was started by two former students.
Another former student is the founder of Suntech, Dr Zhengrong Shi, whose commercialisation of modern solar technology helped catalyse China’s rise as a global solar manufacturing powerhouse.
“Jessica has really good contacts within the Chinese industry, largely because they’re former students who now have important jobs in the industry,” Prof. Green says.
“She can WeChat them and the next day they’ll put a module in the mail.”
By comparing modules from different companies, the UNSW team hopes to identify which failure mechanisms are widespread and which are specific to individual designs.
“We’ll be able to provide an authoritative opinion about just how good the commercial ones are,” Prof. Green says.
“Once they fail in the field, we’ll find out why and provide that information back to the manufacturer,” he says.
“We really think we can push things along a bit.”
When Prof. Green began working on solar cells in the early 1970s, photovoltaics were niche and expensive.
The cost didn’t matter so much in the space industry, which had been using solar cells in spacecraft since the late 1950s. But back down on Earth, they were too expensive to be taken seriously as an everyday power source.
Then, the oil crises of that decade forced governments to think seriously about energy security – particularly after embargoes disrupted fuel supplies across the Western world.
“There were queues at service stations, cars running out of petrol – in a world suddenly worried about oil dependence,” Prof. Green says.
He says solar then “got a guernsey” in efforts to reduce dependence on imported oil.
“They had to bring the cost down by a factor of a thousand or more from what they cost to put on satellites,” he says.
At the time, nuclear power dominated much of the energy imagination. Prof. Green says one nuclear advocate dismissed solar as likely to have “all the impact of a flea on an elephant’s back”.
But, he says, the political and scientific mood began to shift. A US program helped set the international tone. Japan launched its Sunshine Project. Europe followed with its own efforts. And Australia began its own solar program in 1978.
Prof. Green joined UNSW as an academic in 1974 and set up a solar research group soon after. By the early 1980s, his group was known internationally.
In 1983, he and his team invented Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) technology. This led to them then producing the world’s first officially confirmed 18% efficient silicon solar cell, beating the previous record of 16.5%.
That result pushed UNSW to the front of a field that included major US companies, NASA-linked programs, Japanese laboratories and other universities – with Prof. Green’s research team holding the record for silicon solar cell efficiency for much of the past four decades.
And last year, solar generated more electricity worldwide than nuclear for the first time, with the gap rapidly increasing.
The role of solar today has expanded to being a resource that combats climate change. But its appeal still sits with its 1970s roots – as a technology tied to energy security, economic resilience and independence from volatile fossil fuel markets.
In Australia, solar already supplies a substantial share of electricity. Prof. Green says the contribution from solar is now doubling every few years and could become the dominant source of electricity far sooner than many expect.
“We’ll be generating most of our electricity from solar by about 2032,” he says.
He says conservative energy forecasts have repeatedly underestimated renewable deployment. Even projections that now speak positively about renewables, he says, often still assume they will play a smaller role than growth trends suggest.
For someone who has spent more than five decades not just watching, but helping solar outperform expectations, he is reluctant to underestimate what comes next.
“Things have exceeded even my projections as an optimistic person in the field.”
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What makes for a good solar module? A few things are obvious: high energy yield, low cost, and reliable in the field.
Reliability plays a huge role in the lifetime costs and performance of solar modules and systems. These high-tech semiconductor devices must continue generating electricity for 30 to 40 years of sun, wind, hail, snow, and heat.
We expect modules to slowly degrade and produce slightly less electricity over time as they are exposed to outdoor conditions over the years. A major question in the solar energy industry is exactly how much we should expect solar modules to degrade each year (generally 0.5%–1%) and when they will eventually degrade so much that they no longer produce adequate power (often about 20% loss from their original output) or become unsafe. 
For modules built today, it is probably 30 years. Each additional year makes the cost of electricity from that module cheaper and means we will need to mine or recycle fewer raw materials to reach our clean energy goals. Could research push that age of retirement to 50 years?
 
 
Launched in November 2016 with funding from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO), the Durable Module Materials (DuraMAT) Consortium is a multi-laboratory consortium led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), with Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as core research labs. Additional researchers from multiple universities, solar companies, other national laboratories, and an industry advisory board provide perspectives from across the solar energy community.
After five years of researching solar module reliability and awarding $30 million in high-impact projects, DuraMAT was awarded an additional $36 million by SETO for six more years of funding starting in 2021.
Photovoltaic (PV)—meaning they convert light to electricity—modules have existed in their modern form since the middle of the 20^th century, but the technology has seen explosive growth over the last two decades. And the next two decades promise even greater growth for solar technologies.
“If solar is going to expand and become this ubiquitous technology that we have across our power system, on our houses—and be responsible for 40% of our electricity generation—old technologies are not enough,” said Teresa Barnes, a senior researcher at NREL and director of DuraMAT. “PV modules need to be made more efficient, less expensive, and more sustainably at much larger scale. But we also need to know that these new modules—whether they’re new module designs or new cell technologies like bifacial or tandem cells—will perform predictably in the field.”
DuraMAT is exploring ideas that could extend solar module lifetime up to 50 years. And it is looking at new variations of module and cell technologies, such as bifacial modules that also collect reflected light on their backsides, or new, high-efficiency cells that require advanced packaging to survive for longer than 30 years.
 
 
To better understand how modules fail, DuraMAT has developed accelerated stress tests based on the environmental conditions seen in different climates. These tests are paired with powerful materials science forensics (think CSI but for degraded PV modules) and detailed physics modeling of those failures to better understand what causes module degradation, with the ultimate goal of predicting when they will fail. To top it all off, DuraMAT collects the resulting data in a central, shared data repository and applies its insights to develop new, creative approaches to improve module durability.
The ultimate goal is to better predict how new materials and module designs will perform, building confidence that they will last for more than 30 years in the field, despite our lack of long-term field data for new technologies. Field data shows that older PV technologies are durable. DuraMAT is applying that knowledge to make more accurate predictions about newer technologies.
One of DuraMAT’s most celebrated successes is its application of combined, accelerated stress testing. Traditional stress testing subjects solar modules to a range of stressors—such as heat, humidity, or sunlight—but only one, or perhaps two, at a time. However, some of the failures seen in fielded modules are not easy to reproduce in these traditional stress tests, possibly because outdoor conditions stress modules in combination—heat, light, and voltage often occur together on sunny days, or wind and rain during a storm. DuraMAT researchers have found that stressors often need to be applied in combination to get field-relevant results more quickly.
 
 
While combined stress testing is not an entirely new idea, DuraMAT has taken it to a new level. In controlled chambers at NREL’s Outdoor Test Facility, PV modules are subjected to multiple stressors, such as extreme temperatures (both hot and cold), being drenched in water, and ultraviolet light exposure to simulate in a few weeks or months what happens outside over years.
Other tests are meant to simulate other stresses, such as how years of wind exposure could expand cracks in PV cells (see video below). DuraMAT then pairs that information with computer modeling and microscopic materials analysis from solar modules that failed in the field to better understand the mechanisms that drive these failures.
One such effort was led by a team of early-career scientists—DuraMAT places an emphasis on opportunities for early-career researchers. The team combined expertise and strengths from several national laboratories to develop a method to predict which backsheet materials would crack in the field based on accelerated testing. The industry experienced a fairly large batch of module failures (approximately 10 gigawatts) due to a new backsheet material that was widely used between about 2010 and 2015. This material started cracking after a few years in the field, despite passing all of the industry’s standard qualification tests.
A backsheet is the bottom layer of a solar module that encloses the back of the module and is often made from polymer (plastic) materials. This layer provides critical electrical insulation and mechanical integrity to a module, and the material’s failure forced PV developers to replace modules with the “bad” backsheet. (The PV industry also has several well-established “good” backsheet materials that have lasted for decades.)
Using the known good and bad backsheets enabled the DuraMAT team to develop a procedure to validate new test sequences. Combining that sequence with advanced materials analysis techniques, the team was able to understand why backsheets of the “bad” material were failing on both a chemical and mechanical level. By comparing the samples that failed under combined stress tests with failed modules from the field, the team of early-career researchers validated that the stress-test failures match this type of field failure. Now the team is examining other types of module materials and designs, including the screening procedures for new backsheet material development and studies of modules with glass backsheets.
“DuraMAT, in the way that it’s structured, incubates early-career scientists in a unique way,” said Laura Schelhas, who participated on the team as an early-career researcher at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and has since moved to NREL as executive director for the second phase of DuraMAT. “DuraMAT allows early-career researchers to try their hand as the principal investigator on projects, and it gives them a taste of reporting, project management, staffing, and budgeting that really speaks to career development for less-experienced researchers. The backsheet project was a great example of how that works—we got a lot of highly collaborative publications. The early-career researchers were invited to conferences to present their work, and some have transitioned to staff positions within NREL and other labs.”
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After starting from scratch five years ago, the next, six-year phase of DuraMAT is off to a strong start. Many projects having already been awarded from the $36 million in total funding available for the consortium’s work in the second phase.
“A lot of our research continues to focus on reliability and durability in the commercial technology portfolio,” said Barnes, when asked where DuraMAT is headed. “We are now shifting our emphasis towards predictive testing and modeling methods that will enable us to assess reliability more quickly and more accurately in new technologies. Solar needs to keep improving, and product development cycles can be a lot faster than reliability testing cycles. We need to find a way to assess reliability and durability at the speed of product development as the industry scales up rapidly.”
It is a challenging goal, but the DuraMAT community is now aiming to begin predicting module lifetime and how that could shape the materials supply chain for solar modules. Driven by physics of failure and physics of degradation mechanisms, there will be more focus on predictive lifetime modeling, allowing for further research and possible commercialization of modules with 50-year lifetimes.
“We are trying to shift into a reliability research mode where we’re directly targeting modules that last 50 years,” Barnes said. “We’re very focused on high-energy-yield modules and making those in a sustainable way. We know there are going to be big material and energy impacts from ramping up deployment as fast as we need for the energy transition. But our question is, ‘How can we do that in a way that’s environmentally sustainable and in a way that our supply chain can keep up?’”
“We’re aiming for the same high quality of research but at a greater quantity in this phase,” Schelhas said.
For more information on DuraMAT, visit their website or browse their most recent annual report.
This article has been updated to reflect editorial changes made after its original publication.
Last Updated April 28, 2026
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French energy company Engie is committing roughly EUR100 million (US$114 million) to construct a 155MW solar photovoltaic installation at its Castelnou facility. The solar array will be developed adjacent to the existing power station in Spain’s Aragon region, forming a hybrid setup that pairs PV output with available dispatchable generation.
Located in Teruel province, the initiative is anticipated to incorporate over 284,000 solar panels spread across about 360 hectares. Yolanda Valles, director general of energy and mines for Aragon, noted that the Castelnou site exemplifies the benefits arising from cooperation between business and government for regional economic and social advancement. She remarked that the venture has spurred employment and growth, and now highlights Aragon’s capacity to establish itself as a leader in innovation and energy competitiveness during the worldwide energy shift.
Engie indicated that the photovoltaic addition will facilitate greater absorption of renewable power into the electrical network by capitalizing on the contrasting operational patterns of solar generation and adaptable thermal capacity. The firm further stated that the hybrid design aims to bolster grid reliability while raising the proportion of renewable energy delivered from the location.
The 155MW project will expand Engie’s expanding solar footprint in Spain, where the firm manages roughly 1.8GW of renewable energy assets and has an additional 3.5GW in the pipeline. The utility is advancing a rapid global renewable energy expansion, with solar representing 9.3GW of its present installed renewable capacity as it progresses toward a goal of 95GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
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Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 584 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 14 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 3.6 million defined daily doses of medication
Medications and supplies shipped this week included treatments for infectious and chronic diseases, diagnostic and diabetes management supplies, personal protective equipment, and more.
Direct Relief has partnered with the Habib Alrahman Charity Foundation, or HACF, to install a $185,000 solar and battery microgrid at its kidney center in Omdurman, Sudan. The system is designed to provide more reliable power for dialysis treatments and other essential health services at a facility where electricity disruptions have become a routine challenge amid ongoing violence and instability since 2023.
HACF was founded by Dr. Hatim Hassan, a Sudanese-born nephrologist and Mayo Clinic physician-scientist, with the mission of expanding access to free dialysis, transplant, and kidney care services in Sudan. The organization operates specialized renal care centers in Omdurman and Port Sudan. At least 6,000 people in Sudan are estimated to have end-stage renal disease and require regular dialysis to survive, though Dr. Hassan believes the true number may be significantly higher. For these patients, reliable electricity is essential to maintaining uninterrupted access to lifesaving treatment.
Located adjacent to Khartoum, Omdurman has experienced repeated disruptions to power and healthcare infrastructure throughout the conflict. Direct Relief’s Power for Health initiative has supported HACF with more than $240,000 in grant funding, including the installation of the microgrid, the provision of hemodialysis supplies, and the purchase of transplant medications. Since 2023, Direct Relief’s support for health response efforts across Sudan has totaled more than $31 million.
As recovery efforts continue following Hurricane Melissa, a shipment of emergency medical supplies departs Direct Relief’s headquarters for Les Cayes, Haiti.
The shipment will support two longtime health partners serving communities in southern Haiti: Hope for Haiti and Maison de Naissance, which will both receive field medic packs. The backpacks are designed for use by emergency response personnel and healthcare workers providing triage care outside of clinic walls.
In addition to the packs, the shipment includes women’s hygiene products, mosquito repellent, stethoscopes, and medications used to treat chronic and complex health conditions, including diabetes, heart failure, cancer, and autoimmune diseases, to support healthcare in areas that continue to recover from Hurricane Melissa.
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Direct Relief delivered 554 shipments containing 3.2 million doses of medication this past week to organizations, including the following:
Globally, Direct Relief shipped over 1.1 million defined daily doses of medication, totaling 32,943 lbs., to countries including the following:
Since January 1, 2026, Direct Relief has delivered 9,707 shipments to 2,017 partner organizations in 53 U.S. states and territories and 72 countries.
These shipments contained 134.5M defined daily doses of medication valued at $829.1M (wholesale) and totaled 1.5M lbs.
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Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 584 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 14 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 3.6 million defined daily doses of medication
Medications and supplies shipped this week included treatments for infectious and chronic diseases, diagnostic and diabetes management supplies, personal protective equipment, and more.
Direct Relief has partnered with the Habib Alrahman Charity Foundation, or HACF, to install a $185,000 solar and battery microgrid at its kidney center in Omdurman, Sudan. The system is designed to provide more reliable power for dialysis treatments and other essential health services at a facility where electricity disruptions have become a routine challenge amid ongoing violence and instability since 2023.
HACF was founded by Dr. Hatim Hassan, a Sudanese-born nephrologist and Mayo Clinic physician-scientist, with the mission of expanding access to free dialysis, transplant, and kidney care services in Sudan. The organization operates specialized renal care centers in Omdurman and Port Sudan. At least 6,000 people in Sudan are estimated to have end-stage renal disease and require regular dialysis to survive, though Dr. Hassan believes the true number may be significantly higher. For these patients, reliable electricity is essential to maintaining uninterrupted access to lifesaving treatment.
Located adjacent to Khartoum, Omdurman has experienced repeated disruptions to power and healthcare infrastructure throughout the conflict. Direct Relief’s Power for Health initiative has supported HACF with more than $240,000 in grant funding, including the installation of the microgrid, the provision of hemodialysis supplies, and the purchase of transplant medications. Since 2023, Direct Relief’s support for health response efforts across Sudan has totaled more than $31 million.
As recovery efforts continue following Hurricane Melissa, a shipment of emergency medical supplies departs Direct Relief’s headquarters for Les Cayes, Haiti.
The shipment will support two longtime health partners serving communities in southern Haiti: Hope for Haiti and Maison de Naissance, which will both receive field medic packs. The backpacks are designed for use by emergency response personnel and healthcare workers providing triage care outside of clinic walls.
In addition to the packs, the shipment includes women’s hygiene products, mosquito repellent, stethoscopes, and medications used to treat chronic and complex health conditions, including diabetes, heart failure, cancer, and autoimmune diseases, to support healthcare in areas that continue to recover from Hurricane Melissa.
UNITED STATES
Direct Relief delivered 554 shipments containing 3.2 million doses of medication this past week to organizations, including the following:
Globally, Direct Relief shipped over 1.1 million defined daily doses of medication, totaling 32,943 lbs., to countries including the following:
Since January 1, 2026, Direct Relief has delivered 9,707 shipments to 2,017 partner organizations in 53 U.S. states and territories and 72 countries.
These shipments contained 134.5M defined daily doses of medication valued at $829.1M (wholesale) and totaled 1.5M lbs.
Direct Relief Sending $2.5 Million in Medical Aid to Congo for Deadly Ebola Outbreak – The Santa Barbara Independent
Direct Relief Responds to Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
Direct Relief Responds to Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa | News Channel 3-12
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Enexis, a Dutch grid operator, will invite about 55,000 households with rooftop solar panels to join a program that pays them to temporarily reduce or switch off their systems during peak sunlight hours in order to prevent overload on the electricity grid.
Households that participate will be compensated 25 euro cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity not generated while their systems are dimmed. For example, Enexis said that temporarily limiting ten solar panels for two hours would typically result in a payment of about 1 to 2 euros.
The invitations will be sent in the coming days to households in parts of Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Noord-Brabant, and Limburg, NU.nl reported. Enexis said it selects households based on where their homes connect to the grid, which means neighboring streets in the same municipality may receive different notices.
“We are using this measure because we want to manage peaks on our electricity grid,” said Thijs Derksen, manager of network and capacity management for low- and medium-voltage systems at Enexis. “In the summer, we expect peaks in some areas that we want to limit to prevent overload.”
The program is run through a company called Zonnedimmer, which can—only with the homeowner’s permission—remotely reduce or fully pause solar production by controlling inverters, the devices that convert solar power for home use and grid export. The system works with most major inverter manufacturers.
Enexis cautioned that participation is unlikely to generate large annual earnings because the number of curtailment events will be limited and other grid management measures will also be used.
“This is not an emergency measure we only use at the last minute,” Guus Derksen, product manager for small-scale consumers at Enexis, told NU.nl. “We act based on the expectation that we will need so-called flexible capacity the next day.”
The utility previously tested the approach in a smaller pilot with Zonnedimmer, in which about 5 percent of invited households signed up. It is now expanding the program across a larger area in an effort to secure more flexible capacity from residential solar systems.
The measure responds to growing pressure on the Dutch electricity grid caused by rapid expansion of rooftop solar. On sunny afternoons, local generation can exceed what cables and transformer stations can safely handle.
Grid operators already use similar agreements to limit output from large solar and wind farms, but applying the same approach to households is new at this scale.
The company also encouraged households to use more of their solar power directly during daylight hours, such as by running appliances or charging electric vehicles, though it said this alone will not always solve the issue because many people are away during peak production times.
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Inox Clean Energy Ltd. (Inox Clean) has signed an agreement to acquire the 6 GW renewable energy portfolio of Vena Energy India, in a deal estimated at around ₹6,000 crore. 
The acquisition is expected to significantly expand Inox Clean’s renewable energy footprint and support its plans to build a large-scale integrated clean energy platform. With the group having four listed entities namely Gujarat Fluorochemicals, Inox Wind, Inox Wind Energy (currently merging into Inox Wind), and Inox Green, and IPO for Inox Clean Energy is a clear possibility this year as the firm expands.  
The portfolio being acquired comprises 1.2 GW of operational renewable energy assets, 1.8 GW of projects that are at an advanced stage of development and nearing commissioning, and another 3 GW of projects in earlier stages of development.
According to the company, the assets are backed by long-term power purchase and offtake agreements with a mix of central and state agencies as well as commercial and industrial consumers. Key counterparties include the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. (GUVNL), state distribution companies, and corporate customers.
The acquisition marks a step in Inox Clean’s strategy to expand its renewable energy generation business. The company is targeting 10 GW of installed renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) capacity and 11 GW of integrated solar manufacturing capacity by FY28.
Through its subsidiary Inox Neo, the company operates renewable energy generation assets, while Inox Solar Ltd. serves as its solar manufacturing arm. The latest acquisition is expected to strengthen both its domestic presence and its ambitions to expand into international markets.
Commenting on the transaction, Devansh Jain, Executive Director, INOXGFL Group, said, “This acquisition will be yet another important step in our strategy of building a deeply integrated clean energy platform at scale.”
The Vena Energy India transaction follows a series of acquisitions completed by Inox Clean Energy over the past ten months as it seeks to build an integrated renewable energy platform across the value chain.
Among its notable acquisitions are the manufacturing assets of US-based Boviet Solar for USD 750 million, Macquarie-owned Vibrant Energy, the Indian assets of SunSource Energy, and CalPERS-backed SkyPower, including its Africa business.
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A look at the golf links behind the main building of the Guam International Country Club in Dededo, as seen on June 13, 2024.
Signs are displayed in support and opposition during a public hearing on Bill 135-38 at the Guam Congress Building in Hagåtña on July 22, 2025. Bill 135-38, a measure being revisited by lawmakers to allow the CHamoru Land Trust Commission the ability to authorize the Guam International Country Club in Dededo to convert from the municipal golf course to a power-generating solar farm during a public hearing held before lawmakers.

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A look at the golf links behind the main building of the Guam International Country Club in Dededo, as seen on June 13, 2024.
Signs are displayed in support and opposition during a public hearing on Bill 135-38 at the Guam Congress Building in Hagåtña on July 22, 2025. Bill 135-38, a measure being revisited by lawmakers to allow the CHamoru Land Trust Commission the ability to authorize the Guam International Country Club in Dededo to convert from the municipal golf course to a power-generating solar farm during a public hearing held before lawmakers.
Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to correctly reflect that the Guam International Country Club sits on over 200 acres of land. A previous version of the story contained other information. 
The old Guam International Country Club golf course in Dededo is a step closer to becoming a 57.4-megawatt solar farm.
Members of the Consolidated Commission on Utilities voted unanimously on Wednesday to let the Guam Power Authority award deals to buy energy from the planned solar facilities.
It’s a major step towards converting the old  Dededo golf course, which sits on over 200 acres of CHamoru Land Trust property, into a solar farm.
Final approval is still needed from the Public Utilities Commission, Guam’s rate-setting authority, before the deals can move forward.
If the PUC approves the deals, GPA will purchase energy from the solar facilities and then sell it to power customers for 25 years, with the option for a 5-year extension.
Energy sold to the power authority will come in under GPA’s price-cap of 17.9 cents per kilowatt hour for new solar capacity, according to a presentation to the CCU.
Alongside the 57.4 MW capacity at the old Dededo golf course, another solar site by Andersen Air Force Base in Yigo will provide almost 5 MW of capacity, as part of the deals.
Construction is expected to start before July 4, if the PUC agrees to the energy purchase, GPA leadership has said.
GPA wants the matter before the PUC by their June meeting, authority General Manager John Benavente has said.
That meeting date has yet to be announced.
There will actually be four different companies that get contracts to sell GPA energy, power authority legal counsel Marianne Woloschuk explained on Wednesday.
The over 200-acre Dededo golf course will be split into three separate solar sites, she said. Those sites, along with fourth site in Yigo, will each be owned by a different company, all named Sun Energy, LLC 1, 2, 3, or 4.
Each one would get a contract with GPA.
Woloschuk said the four companies are owned by Sun Energy Holdings.
That holding company, in turn, is owned by Power Solutions, the company that bought out Guam International Country Club, according to Woloschuk.
GICC is the holder of the lease for the over 200-acre Land Trust property. The lease expires in 2042.
The country club faced hardship in the post-pandemic years, and was at one time around $988,000 behind on rent to the Land Trust.
A golf course-to-solar farm switch is meant to keep the lease going and money flowing to the Land Trust and has been estimated to generate around $8 million to $15 million for the trust, Pacific Daily News files show.
Despite opposition from multiple Dededo residents, the conversion has approval from the Land Trust and the Legislature.
Woloschuk on Wednesday said the Land Trust also approved an easement agreement that will let GPA use just under an acre of the Dededo property for a power substation.
The planned Dededo solar facility will come with a 35-MW battery that can be used to store energy generated during daylight hours for distribution in the evening, GPA’s Benavente said Wednesday.
An underground line from the facility will feed into the Dededo substation, Benavente said.
“The Dededo substation is tied into an underground transmission line, so as long as after the storm, the solar facility can generate power immediately, it can come out to the grid,” he said.
The addition of about 62 MW of solar generation capacity from the golf course facility would come on top of other solar projects GPA plans to have online by 2028.
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Plans are part of GPA’s larger “Phase IV” solar project, which has a goal of delivering 330 MW of additional solar generation capacity to the electrical grid by 2028.
Reach reporter Joe Taitano II at JTaitano@guampdn.com.
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ib vogt has signed an Omnibus Loan and Security Agreement (OLSA) for its 99 MWp Project Luca in Barangay Luca, Ajuy, Iloilo, securing a $75m (₱4.5b) senior debt facility from Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), with RCBC Capital Corporation as lead arranger.
Project Luca is a solar-plus-storage hybrid consisting of 99 MWp solar PV and a 4 MW / 16 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS)—ib vogt’s first such project in the Visayas.
Construction began with early EPC works in early 2026, with completion targeted for Q2 2027.
Once operational, the plant is expected to generate over 160 GWh annually, powering more than 85,000 households and reducing around 70,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions per year.
The BESS component will improve grid stability and dispatchability across the Visayas grid.
Financial close confirms the project’s bankability under the Philippines’ Green Energy Auction (GEA) framework and supports expansion of hybrid renewable energy development in the country.
ib vogt said the project strengthens its pipeline of over 1,000 MWp in the Philippines, whilsr RCBC said the deal reflects continued confidence in sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy financing.
“This is our first power plant in the Visayas – a market with significant demand fundamentals and strong potential for renewable growth,” said David Ludwig, CEO of APAC, ib vog. “RCBC’s commitment reflects confidence in the project’s structure and in ib vogt’s track record of delivery in the Philippines.”
 
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Google, AirTrunk, and European Energy Australia will soon connect the 25-megawatt Mulwala Solar Farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia to the National Electricity Market of the country.
In a joint statement in early June, the three parties said the project is nearing completion. First announced as a corporate power purchase agreement in 2023, the project will inject new clean energy capacity into Australia’s national grid. The project can demonstrate how digital infrastructure can serve as a catalyst for broader grid decarbonization.
Bikash Koley, Vice President of Global Infrastructure at Google, said the project is an example of how AI and digital infrastructure can be built responsibly, with clear community benefits, as part of Google’s Digital Future Initiative in Australia.
Damien Spillane, Chief Customer and Innovation Officer at AirTrunk, emphasized hyperscale data centres can help accelerate Australia’s energy transition by supporting investment in new renewable energy and strengthening long-term energy security.
Catriona McLeod, Managing Director of European Energy Australia, noted the partnerships of this kind can give the renewables industry confidence as it develops more solar and wind farms and brings more clean energy online.
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World Environment Day: Can India reach a day when it sustains purely on solar or green energy? Experts say the problem lies in the Duck curve, which needs to be fixed by changing how and when we use solar energy. WION Decodes
India has witnessed a major expansion in solar energy in the past few years, and it is one of the fastest and most massive infrastructure transitions in global history. In the last 10 years, the country’s solar capacity has scaled over 50 times. India is the world’s 3rd largest solar power producer and the 2nd largest contributor to annual new solar capacity. Its cumulative installed solar capacity has surged past 150 Gigawatts. India added 44.61 GW of solar capacity in a single fiscal year, way more than the targeted 34 GW. The growth means that non-fossil fuel sources now account for over 50 per cent of India’s total installed power capacity. But the country is facing major hurdles in achieving its goal of 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030. Experts say that merely increasing installed gigawatts won’t solve the problem.
“The future of solar in India is promising – but it will be determined less by how many gigawatts we install and more by how intelligently we manage the demand that those gigawatts have to serve. India has made remarkable progress in installed solar power generation, yet installing more solar panels alone won’t solve the demand problem, not when the grid can’t absorb the power cleanly,” Prof Teevrat Garg, Associate Professor of Economics at UC San Diego, told WION News.
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Pointing to the problem, Garg adds, “The culprit is the duck curve: solar drops to zero every evening just as demand hits its second daily peak.” The sun is dialled fully up, and solar panels produce a massive surplus of clean energy, during which time the grid’s reliance on traditional power plants plummets. But as evening sets in, solar production falls to zero, but at the same time, when people reach their homes, they switch on their air conditioners, and run appliances, and the demand spikes.
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However, Garg says that we have energy sponges in our homes that fix this problem without having to build massive utility batteries or run dirty backup plants. “Think of every air conditioner and water heater in our homes as an untapped buffer — one that can shift when it runs, easing pressure on the grid precisely when renewable energy is scarce,” he says. Water heaters and air conditioners can hold onto temperature. A smart grid can signal your AC to run at 3 pm when solar energy is abundant and cheap, cooling your house down a few extra degrees. It can safely shut off or dial back for an hour at 6 pm. If millions of homes can do the same, the evening energy demand would flatten.
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“Early evidence from research with Tata Power found automated appliance switch-offs cut household peak demand by up to 15%, with a net CO₂ mitigation cost that was negative for 75% of participants,” Garg stated, adding that the SARWA initiative at J-PAL South Asia is trying to ascertain whether this method can be scaled up.
“To maximise green energy use on India’s grid, we need to stop thinking about the problem as purely a supply challenge,” Garg said. India is already generating more clean power than ever. But there is a demand-supply mismatch, since the times we need it most are precisely the moments it isn’t available. “To use more of the clean energy we’re already generating, we need the demand side to flex: shifting consumption away from those peak hours through smart devices, financial incentives, and better-designed tariffs,” Garg said. So what India needs is a change in when and how the energy is used.
India is maintaining a balance at the moment, with a dual approach to ensure energy security. So it invests three dollars into renewable energy for every dollar spent on fossil fuel power generation.
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E.On has submitted planning applications for solar panels on three schools as part of a wider programme
A new solar power plan for Coventry schools has been confirmed by the city council.
Applications have been put forward relating to three schools adopting the tech and the authority said these were the first of fifteen amid wider ambition involving all schools in the city.
The programme would be delivered through a strategic energy partnership between the authority and energy company E.On, which has submitted the plans.
The council hopes the move away from traditional fossil fuels will cut energy bills and reduce reliance on gas and oil.
The three initial schools where applications have been submitted are Grange Farm Primary School, Manor Park Primary School and Tiverton School.
Deputy council leader and cabinet member for jobs, regeneration and climate change Lynnette Kelly said there was "solar on lots of buildings across the city".
The Labour member added: "With £2.3m of Government funding secured, this is just the start of a wider programme to support schools with more sustainable, energy-efficient buildings."
The partnership between the council and E.On aims to support residents and businesses to switch to greener power, enabling homes and places of education or employment to be heated for less.
Meanwhile, separate plans relating to demolition and construction work at another school have been given the go-ahead by the council.
Details have been green lit for Spon Gate Primary School relating to demolishing two existing buildings and an associated boiler house and constructing a new one and a two-storey school building.
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