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MANILA – Training funds of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) are set to increase through savings on electricity costs after the installation of a 40-kilowatt peak (kWp) solar photovoltaic (PV) system at its Taguig City complex.
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday that the turnover of the solar PV system on Monday coincided with the groundbreaking of the Regional TVET Innovation Center.
Energy Secretary Sharon Garin, represented at the event by DOE Undersecretary Mario Marasigan, said the project demonstrates the government’s commitment to advancing clean energy.
“This is proof that the country’s clean energy ambitions are taking shape in government institutions, training centers, and communities,” Garin said in a news release.
“Through this 40-kWp solar PV system, we are showing that the government must lead by example. We are not waiting — the government is going first.”
The project forms part of the Government Energy Management Program (GEMP), promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy adoption across public facilities.
Through GEMP, the DOE aims to transform government buildings into models of responsible energy use, delivering clean power, reducing reliance on the grid, and generating savings for public institutions.
According to the DOE, beyond cost savings, the solar facility will also serve as a learning platform for TESDA trainees.
“Students at the TESDA Complex will be able to see renewable energy in action within the same environment where they learn and train,” it said.
Garin said TESDA and similar institutions play a key role in preparing the workforce for opportunities in the clean energy sector, in line with the government’s targets of achieving 35 percent renewable energy by 2030 and 50 percent by 2040. (Joann Santiago-Villanueva/PNA)
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According to the latest IndexBox report on the global On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture.
The global market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter is entering a phase of structural expansion, driven by the accelerating deployment of utility-scale and commercial solar installations and the growing need for grid-stabilizing power electronics. As solar penetration rises, grid operators increasingly require inverters that provide reactive power support, voltage regulation, and fault ride-through capabilities, transforming the inverter from a simple DC-AC converter into a critical grid asset. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market from 2026 to 2035, covering historical data from 2012 to 2025 and forward-looking scenarios.
The market is bifurcating into cost-optimized platforms for predictable installations and premium, feature-rich systems for grid-critical applications. Demand is increasingly shaped by regulatory mandates, cybersecurity requirements, and the integration of energy storage. The supply chain is shifting toward wide bandgap semiconductors, particularly silicon carbide, to achieve higher efficiency and power density. Competitive dynamics are influenced by control over critical components, qualification cycles, and lifecycle service offerings.
This study segments the market by end-use sectors, including utility-scale, commercial and industrial, residential, microgrid, and utility-owned assets, and provides regional outlooks for Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. Key companies profiled include Sungrow, Huawei, SMA Solar Technology, SolarEdge, Fronius, ABB, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Enphase Energy, Delta Electronics, and KACO New Energy. The report is designed for component manufacturers, system suppliers, OEMs, distributors, investors, and strategic entrants seeking a grounded view of demand architecture, qualification logic, pricing, and competitive positioning.
The baseline scenario for the On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter market anticipates a compound annual growth rate of 7.2% from 2026 to 2035, with the market index reaching 200 by 2035 (2025=100). This outlook is supported by the global push for renewable energy targets, declining solar levelized cost of electricity, and the increasing necessity for grid-supportive inverters. Utility-scale solar projects remain the primary volume driver, particularly in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, where large tenders often mandate advanced grid features.
In North America and Europe, repowering and grid modernization efforts are expected to sustain demand for high-performance inverters with cybersecurity and grid-forming capabilities. The commercial and industrial segment is poised for accelerated adoption as businesses seek energy independence and resilience, often pairing inverters with battery storage. Residential three-phase demand is growing in regions with three-phase power distribution, such as Europe and parts of Asia, but remains a smaller share.
Supply-side factors include the transition to silicon carbide semiconductors, which improves efficiency and reduces cooling requirements, and the modularization of inverter designs to simplify maintenance and scalability. Pricing pressure persists in commoditized segments, while premium features command higher margins. The market is also witnessing a shift toward integrated lifecycle services, including monitoring and predictive maintenance, which enhances customer stickiness. Key risks include policy uncertainty, supply chain disruptions for semiconductors, and the emergence of alternative technologies such as string inverters with higher power ratings.
Overall, the baseline scenario assumes steady policy support, continued cost reductions, and gradual grid code harmonization, leading to robust but not explosive growth.
Utility-scale solar remains the dominant end-use sector for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverters, accounting for the majority of global demand. This segment is characterized by large-scale projects, often exceeding 100 MW, where inverters must meet stringent grid code requirements including voltage regulation, frequency response, and reactive power support. The shift toward bifacial modules and trackers increases energy yield, but also demands inverters with higher power ratings and advanced monitoring. As solar penetration rises, grid operators increasingly require grid-forming capabilities, which allow inverters to stabilize the grid without synchronous generation.
This is particularly critical in regions with weak grids or high renewable penetration. The procurement process is dominated by EPC firms and IPPs, who prioritize proven reliability, comprehensive service contracts, and seamless grid interconnection. Through 2035, the segment will be driven by auctions and tenders in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America, where solar is often the cheapest source of new power. Demand-side indicators include auction volumes, PPA prices, and grid interconnection queues. The trend toward larger project sizes and higher DC/AC ratios will favor inverters with higher power density and modular designs. Major companies in this sector include Sungrow, Huawei, SMA, and TMEIC. Current trend: Growing.
Major trends: Increasing adoption of grid-forming inverters for weak grid support, Shift toward higher power ratings (1500V and above) to reduce balance-of-system costs, Integration of energy storage with utility-scale PV to provide dispatchability, Growing use of silicon carbide semiconductors for higher efficiency, and Rise of digital monitoring and predictive maintenance services.
Representative participants: Sungrow Power Supply, Huawei Technologies, SMA Solar Technology, TMEIC, and ABB.
The Commercial and Industrial (C&I) sector is a rapidly growing end-use market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverters, driven by businesses seeking to reduce energy costs, meet sustainability goals, and enhance energy resilience. C&I installations typically range from 100 kW to several MW and often involve rooftop, carport, or ground-mounted systems. Three-phase inverters are essential for these applications due to their compatibility with commercial electrical systems and their ability to handle higher loads. A key trend is the integration of battery storage, enabling peak shaving, demand charge management, and backup power.
This hybrid approach requires inverters with advanced energy management capabilities and seamless switching between grid-tied and off-grid modes. The C&I segment is also seeing increased adoption of microgrids, particularly in regions with unreliable grid infrastructure. Demand-side indicators include commercial electricity prices, corporate sustainability commitments, and government incentives for self-consumption. Through 2035, the segment will benefit from falling battery costs and the growing popularity of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for C&I solar. However, financing and technical complexity remain barriers. Major companies active in this sector include SolarEdge, Fronius, Schneider Electric, and Delta Electronics.
Current trend: Accelerating.
Major trends: Rising adoption of hybrid inverters with battery storage for peak shaving and backup, Growth of solar-plus-storage microgrids for resilience, Increasing use of three-phase inverters in commercial rooftops and carports, Digitalization of energy management with IoT and AI, and Emergence of energy-as-a-service business models.
Representative participants: SolarEdge Technologies, Fronius International, Schneider Electric, Delta Electronics, and SMA Solar Technology.
The residential three-phase segment represents a smaller but stable share of the On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter market, primarily concentrated in regions where three-phase power is common in homes, such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Asia. These inverters are used in larger residential systems, often exceeding 10 kW, and are increasingly paired with battery storage. Homeowners are motivated by rising electricity prices, feed-in tariffs, and the desire for energy independence. The segment is characterized by a higher degree of consumer choice, with aesthetics, noise levels, and ease of installation being important factors.
Technological trends include the integration of smart home energy management systems, allowing homeowners to optimize self-consumption and participate in demand response programs. The shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) is also creating new demand for three-phase inverters that can manage EV charging. Through 2035, the segment will grow modestly, driven by retrofits and new build installations in Europe and Japan. However, the trend toward single-phase inverters in some markets and the availability of cheaper string inverters may limit growth. Major companies include Enphase Energy, SolarEdge, Fronius, and SMA. Current trend: Steady.
Major trends: Integration with home energy management systems and smart home platforms, Growing adoption of three-phase inverters for EV charging integration, Increasing use of battery storage for self-consumption optimization, Modular and compact designs for easier installation, and Rise of virtual power plants (VPPs) aggregating residential systems.
Representative participants: Enphase Energy, SolarEdge Technologies, Fronius International, SMA Solar Technology, and Huawei Technologies.
Microgrids and off-grid applications represent a niche but growing end-use sector for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverters, particularly in remote areas, islands, and regions with unreliable grid infrastructure. These systems often combine solar PV with battery storage and diesel generators, requiring inverters that can operate in grid-tied and off-grid modes, and seamlessly transition between them. Three-phase inverters are essential for powering commercial and industrial loads in microgrids, such as in mining, agriculture, and telecommunications. The demand is driven by the need for energy access, resilience, and cost savings compared to diesel generation.
Technological trends include the use of grid-forming inverters to establish and maintain grid voltage and frequency, and the integration of advanced control systems for optimal dispatch. Through 2035, the segment will benefit from declining battery costs and the increasing adoption of renewable microgrids for rural electrification and critical infrastructure. However, challenges include high upfront costs, complex permitting, and lack of standardized designs. Major companies active in this sector include SMA, Schneider Electric, ABB, and KACO New Energy. Current trend: Growing.
Major trends: Rising deployment of grid-forming inverters for microgrid stability, Integration of solar-plus-storage with diesel generators for hybrid systems, Growth of remote microgrids for mining, islands, and rural electrification, Standardization of microgrid controllers and communication protocols, and Increasing use of three-phase inverters in mobile and temporary power applications.
Representative participants: SMA Solar Technology, Schneider Electric, ABB, KACO New Energy, and Siemens.
Utility-owned assets, including utility-scale solar farms owned and operated by utilities, represent a distinct end-use sector for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverters. These projects are often developed to meet renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and to gain experience with solar technology. Utilities prioritize reliability, long-term service agreements, and grid support capabilities. Inverters used in these assets must comply with stringent utility interconnection requirements, including advanced grid functions like volt-VAR control and frequency-watt control. The segment is characterized by a conservative approach to technology adoption, with a preference for proven, bankable products.
However, utilities are increasingly exploring grid-forming inverters to support grid stability as they retire synchronous generation. Through 2035, utility-owned assets will grow in regions with supportive policies, such as the United States and Europe, but may face competition from third-party owned projects. Demand-side indicators include utility capital expenditure plans, integrated resource plans, and regulatory mandates. Major companies supplying this sector include SMA, Sungrow, Huawei, and TMEIC. Current trend: Steady.
Major trends: Adoption of grid-forming inverters for synchronous inertia support, Increasing focus on cybersecurity and compliance with NERC CIP standards, Integration of storage with utility-owned solar for dispatchability, Use of digital twins and advanced analytics for asset management, and Growing preference for modular inverters for easier maintenance.
Representative participants: SMA Solar Technology, Sungrow Power Supply, Huawei Technologies, TMEIC, and ABB.
Interactive table based on the Store Companies dataset for this report.
Asia-Pacific dominates the On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter market, driven by massive utility-scale solar deployments in China, India, and Australia. China alone accounts for a significant share of global demand, supported by aggressive renewable energy targets and domestic manufacturing. India’s solar auctions and Australia’s rooftop solar boom further propel growth. The region is also a major supply hub, with companies like Sungrow and Huawei leading globally. Through 2035, demand will be sustained by declining costs, policy support, and grid modernization. Direction: Leading.
North America is a key market for three-phase PV inverters, driven by utility-scale projects in the United States and Canada, as well as commercial and industrial installations. The Inflation Reduction Act and state-level renewable portfolio standards provide strong policy support. The region is also witnessing a shift toward grid-forming inverters and cybersecurity compliance. However, supply chain constraints and trade policies may impact growth. Through 2035, demand will be bolstered by repowering of older projects and the integration of storage. Direction: Growing.
Europe represents a mature but stable market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverters, with strong demand from utility-scale and commercial installations in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. The region is at the forefront of grid code evolution, requiring advanced grid-support functions and cybersecurity. The REPowerEU plan and national targets drive deployment. Through 2035, growth will be moderate, with opportunities in repowering, hybrid systems, and microgrids. Local manufacturing initiatives may reduce import dependence. Direction: Steady.
Latin America is an emerging market for three-phase PV inverters, with Brazil, Chile, and Mexico leading deployments. Auctions and PPAs drive utility-scale projects, while commercial and industrial segments grow due to high electricity costs. The region benefits from abundant solar resources and declining technology costs. However, economic volatility and financing challenges may hinder growth. Through 2035, demand will be supported by grid modernization and renewable targets, with increasing adoption of hybrid systems. Direction: Accelerating.
The Middle East & Africa region is a growing market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverters, driven by large-scale solar tenders in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. The region’s high solar irradiance and declining costs make solar competitive with fossil fuels. Off-grid and microgrid applications are also expanding, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Through 2035, demand will be fueled by energy diversification goals and rural electrification, though political and economic instability may pose risks. Direction: Growing.
In the baseline scenario, IndexBox estimates a 7.2% compound annual growth rate for the global on grid three phase pv inverter market over 2026-2035, bringing the market index to roughly 200 by 2035 (2025=100).
Note: indexed curves are used to compare medium-term scenario trajectories when full absolute volumes are not publicly disclosed.
For full methodological details and benchmark tables, see the latest IndexBox On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter market report.
This report is an independent strategic market study that provides a structured, commercially grounded analysis of the global market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter. It is designed for component manufacturers, system suppliers, OEM and ODM teams, distributors, investors, and strategic entrants that need a clear view of end-use demand, design-in dynamics, manufacturing exposure, qualification burden, pricing architecture, and competitive positioning.
The analytical framework is designed to work both for a single specialized component class and for a broader power electronics / energy conversion system, where market structure is shaped by product architecture, performance requirements, standards compliance, design-in cycles, component dependencies, lead times, and channel control rather than by one narrow customs heading alone. It defines On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter as A power electronics device that converts direct current (DC) from photovoltaic (PV) solar arrays into three-phase alternating current (AC) synchronized with the utility grid, enabling large-scale solar energy injection into commercial, industrial, and utility power networks and examines the market through end-use demand, BOM and subsystem logic, fabrication and assembly stages, qualification and reliability requirements, procurement pathways, pricing layers, and country capability differences. Historical analysis typically covers 2012 to 2025, with forward-looking scenarios through 2035.
This report is designed to answer the questions that matter most to decision-makers evaluating an electronics, electrical, component, interconnect, or power-system market.
At its core, this report explains how the market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter actually functions. It identifies where demand originates, how supply is organized, which technological and regulatory barriers influence adoption, and how value is distributed across the value chain. Rather than describing the market only in broad terms, the study breaks it into analytically meaningful layers: product scope, segmentation, end uses, customer types, production economics, outsourcing structure, country roles, and company archetypes.
The report is particularly useful in markets where buyers are highly specialized, suppliers differ significantly in technical depth and regulatory readiness, and the commercial landscape cannot be understood only through top-line market size figures. In this context, the study is designed not only to estimate the size of the market, but to explain why the market has that size, what drives its growth, which subsegments are the most attractive, and what it takes to compete successfully within it.
The report is based on an independent analytical methodology that combines deep secondary research, structured evidence review, market reconstruction, and multi-level triangulation. The methodology is designed to support products for which there is no single clean official dataset capturing the full market in a directly usable form.
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First, a scope model defines what is included in the market and what is excluded, ensuring that adjacent products, downstream finished goods, unrelated instruments, or broader chemical categories do not distort the market boundary.
Second, a demand model reconstructs the market from the perspective of consuming sectors, workflow stages, and applications. Depending on the product, this may include Large-scale solar power plants, Factory/warehouse rooftop solar, Solar carports and canopies, Solar for water treatment/pumping, and Grid stability and ancillary services across Energy & Utilities, Industrial Manufacturing, Commercial Real Estate, Agriculture, and Public Sector / Municipalities and System design & yield simulation, Grid compliance & interconnection approval, Installation & commissioning, Grid integration testing, and O&M monitoring & firmware updates. Demand is then allocated across end users, development stages, and geographic markets.
Third, a supply model evaluates how the market is served. This includes IGBT / MOSFET power modules, DC-link capacitors, Gate driver boards, Digital signal processors (DSPs) / MCUs, Cooling systems (fans, heat sinks), Magnetics (transformers, chokes), and Enclosures & connectors, manufacturing technologies such as Silicon Carbide (SiC) / Gallium Nitride (GaN) power semiconductors, Advanced MPPT algorithms for partial shading, Grid-forming inverter capabilities, Cybersecurity for grid communication, and Predictive maintenance via AI/ML, quality control requirements, outsourcing and contract-manufacturing participation, distribution structure, and supply-chain concentration risks.
Fourth, a country capability model maps where the market is consumed, where production is materially feasible, where manufacturing capability is limited or emerging, and which countries function primarily as innovation hubs, supply nodes, demand centers, or import-reliant markets.
Fifth, a pricing and economics layer evaluates price corridors, cost drivers, complexity premiums, outsourcing logic, margin structure, and switching barriers. This is especially relevant in markets where product grade, purity, customization, regulatory burden, or service model materially influence economics.
Finally, a competitive intelligence layer profiles the leading company types active in the market and explains how strategic roles differ across upstream material and component suppliers, OEM and ODM partners, contract manufacturers, integrated platform players, distributors, and engineering-support providers.
This report covers the market for On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter in its commercially relevant and technologically meaningful form. The scope typically includes the product itself, its major product configurations or variants, the critical technologies used to produce or deliver it, the core input categories required for manufacturing, and the services directly associated with its commercial supply, quality control, or integration into end-user workflows.
Included within scope are the product forms, use cases, inputs, and services that are necessary to understand the actual addressable market around On Grid Three Phase Pv Inverter. This usually includes:
Excluded from scope are categories that may be technologically adjacent but do not belong to the core economic market being measured. These usually include:
The exact inclusion and exclusion logic is always a critical part of the study, because the quality of the market estimate depends directly on disciplined scope boundaries.
The report provides global coverage. It evaluates the world market as a whole and then breaks it down by region and country, with particular focus on the geographies that matter most for design-in demand, electronics manufacturing capability, component sourcing, standards compliance, and distribution reach.
The geographic analysis is designed not simply to rank countries by nominal market size, but to classify them by role in the market. Depending on the product, countries may function as:
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In many high-technology, electronics, electrical, industrial, and component-driven markets, official trade and production statistics are not sufficient on their own to describe the true market. Product boundaries may cut across multiple tariff codes, several product categories may be bundled into the same official classification, and a meaningful share of activity may take place through customized services, captive supply, platform relationships, or technically specialized channels that are not directly visible in standard statistical datasets.
For this reason, the report is designed as a modeled strategic market study. It uses official and public evidence wherever it is reliable and scope-compatible, but it does not force the market into a purely statistical framework when doing so would reduce analytical quality. Instead, it reconstructs the market through the logic of demand, supply, technology, country roles, and company behavior.
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A floating solar system installed at a tomato farm in Suffolk is already notching up considerable savings – 10 months after it was installed.
Family-run green energy firm East Green Energy fitted the array at Suffolk Fresh’s water reservoir at Blakenham Nursery, Bramford, near Ipswich, in November last year.
The 1,250 panel structure – built over a few weeks – was the fourth installed in the UK and one of the largest.
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Robbie Gawthrop, centre, with sons George, left, and Jack at East Green Energy
So far, it has produced around 500 megawatt hours of energy.
Based on its performance to date, it is on course to cut imported energy to the producer’s glasshouses by more than a fifth.
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The amount of energy produced equates to around the yearly consumption of 45 to 50 average UK homes.
East Green Energy is owned by the Gawthrop family – which was involved in pig farming over generations before launching the green energy business around 20 years ago.
It now employs around 20 people from its base in Melton, near Woodbridge, and specialises in solar PV, battery storage, heat pumps and EV charging.
East Green Energy installing a floating solar array at Suffolk Fresh tomato growers at Blakenham Nursery, Brantham, Ipswich
The firm is run by managing director Robbie Gawthrop supported by his sons George and Jack who are commercial director and commercial manager respectively.
Jack Gawthrop said the concept of the floating solar array was already popular in Europe as it has a dual use in stopping evaporation and erosion as well as producing energy.
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The company designed, installed and now maintains the array, having imported the parts from a manufacturer in Germany.
“East Green Energy’s floating solar project at Suffolk Fresh has now been running for 10 months, and it’s already proving its worth,” he said.
“The system has generated 499,015 kWh of clean energy, making good use of the reservoir and giving the site a steady, low-carbon power supply.
“Floating solar performs well thanks to the natural cooling effect of the water, and this project shows how well it can work for a busy rural site.
East Green Energy installing a floating solar array at Suffolk Fresh tomato growers at Blakenham Nursery, Brantham, Ipswich
“Around 95% of the energy produced has been used directly on site, which means the system is closely matched to Suffolk Fresh’s daily demand.
“Based on the way it’s performing, we are expecting it to cut their import rates by at least 20%, helping to keep costs down while reducing their environmental impact.”
Over a 10-month period, the new installation generated 499,015 kWh of electricity, 95% of which was used on site and the rest was exported to the grid.
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Mark Pearson of tomato growers Suffolk Fresh said: “The floating solar system is already delivering clear benefits, from cutting our energy bills to giving us far more control over our power use during peak periods.
“For a site like ours, where refrigeration, irrigation and processing equipment run constantly, the savings and stability this project brings are hugely valuable.”
East Green Energy partnered with National Pontoon on the 750 kWp project, one of the UK’s largest floating solar schemes.
East Green Energy installing a floating solar array at Suffolk Fresh tomato growers at Blakenham Nursery, Brantham, Ipswich
The vast nursery it serves is one of the UK’s first semi-closed hydroponic glasshouses and covers 8.4 hectares.
The energy produced is used mainly for Suffolk Fresh’s refrigeration systems.
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The solar panels are mounted on floating pontoons which are anchored to the reservoir bund and fixed at an optimum angle for solar generation.
East Green Energy specialists in commercial and utility‑scale work and has several multi‑megawatt schemes progressing through development.
Floating solar is gaining interest in the UK because reservoirs, lakes and lagoons are seen as having practical advantages.
These include that it’s space-efficient and panels tend to run cooler over water which helps with output.
Many water bodies already sit close to grid connections or industrial areas.
If the UK keeps pace with international development, studies suggest floating solar could reach more than 40 gigawatts of capacity by 2050 – and around 3.6 gigawatts by 2030, said the firm.
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A team of scientists has demonstrated that underwater solar cells can generate electricity at a depth of 10 meters. The tests, conducted in the South China Sea, show a potential way to power equipment operating far from land.


The study, published in the scientific journal Joule , involved researchers from China and Switzerland. The work focused on perovskite solar cells designed to harness the light spectrum available underwater.


Until now, most experimental studies on this type of underwater photovoltaic energy had focused on depths of two meters or less. The new work extended the testing to 10 meters and subsequently verified the system’s performance under real-world conditions.




The researchers had to face one of the main problems in producing electricity using underwater solar panels: the loss of solar radiation as depth increases.


Water absorbs certain parts of the light spectrum; consequently, the radiation available several meters below the surface is different from that received by a solar cell installed on land.


To overcome this limitation, the team used lead halide perovskites with a band gap of around 1.96 eV. Their absorption capacity was matched to the spectrum that remains available between 5 and 10 meters deep, dominated mainly by wavelengths between 400 and 600 nanometers.


Thus, the photovoltaic cells were able to make better use of the light that manages to penetrate to those areas.




Furthermore, the researchers developed a laboratory system with specific optical filters. The goal was to reproduce the lighting conditions that cells would encounter at different depths.


Tests showed a conversion efficiency of 34.71% under a simulated spectrum corresponding to a depth of 10 meters. Under standard AM 1.5G sunlight conditions , the cells achieved a maximum efficiency of 17.08%.


This difference does not mean that the cells produce more energy at the bottom of the sea than under conventional sunlight. Efficiency is calculated based on the light energy that actually reaches the device. At 10 meters, there is less radiation available, and its spectral composition also changes.


The design seeks precisely to make the most of that limited light through a material adapted to underwater conditions.




In addition, stability was another aspect studied before transferring the cells to the sea.


After being stored for 300 days at room temperature in a nitrogen chamber, the devices retained about 96% of their initial efficiency.


Subsequently, the cells were subjected to 1,160 hours of continuous operation under conditions simulating the lighting present at 10 meters. The researchers did not observe significant degradation during that period.


Accelerated testing allowed for an estimated T80 lifetime of 48,094 hours at 25°C under simulated conditions. This equates to approximately 5.49 years until performance drops to 80% of the initial level.


However, that figure comes from an estimate based on accelerated trials. Therefore, it will still be necessary to verify the behavior of the cells over extended periods under real marine conditions.




After the controlled trials, the team took the technology to the environment for which it had been designed.


Scientists fabricated larger perovskite modules and integrated them into underwater robots. They then conducted tests off the Weizhou Islands in the South China Sea.


The modules were tested at depths of 2, 6, and 10 meters. At the greatest depth, an active surface of 115 square centimeters produced 324 mWh of electricity during two hours of exposure to underwater sunlight.


The energy obtained allowed for the charging of lithium-ion batteries and subsequently the powering of LED lights. In this way, the experiment demonstrated that underwater solar cells could be scaled from small laboratory units to modules capable of performing a practical task at sea.


At shallower depths, production was higher. The modules charged the batteries with 1,416 mWh at 2 meters and 752 mWh at 6 meters during the tests described by the researchers.




Based on these results, one of the main implications lies in the power supply of autonomous devices installed underwater.


Sensors used to monitor ocean conditions, underwater cameras, and communication equipment need electricity to operate. In areas far from land, providing them with power for extended periods may require batteries or external power systems.


Underwater photovoltaic energy presents another possibility: producing some of that electricity directly at the location where the devices operate.


Monitoring aquaculture facilities is among the potential applications. Autonomous marine observation and communication systems could also benefit.


In this scenario, solar panels designed for underwater environments would have different requirements than terrestrial photovoltaic systems. The amount of available light, the wavelengths that penetrate water, and the operating depth all influence the cell design.




Finally, the experiment at 10 meters opens a new question: how far can this system go.


The team led by Wen-Hua Zhang intends to conduct tests at greater depths to determine the operating limit of perovskite solar cells. They also aim to develop standardized protocols for evaluating and comparing future photovoltaic systems designed to operate underwater.


Depth will be one of the main obstacles; as it increases, the amount of available solar radiation decreases and changes the spectrum that a photovoltaic cell can harness.


For now, research shows that underwater solar cells can produce electricity under real-world conditions at a depth of 10 meters. The next step will be to determine how long they can maintain that performance in the ocean and at what depth it is practical to use this technology.







Saipem has completed the sale of its Saudi Arabian shallow-water drilling business to ADES Saudi Limited Company. The transaction includes five high-end jack-up rigs and outstanding contracts worth approximately 3.7 billion Saudi riyals, equivalent to $987 million. Following the necessary approvals, the Italian firm transferred its entire stake in Saudi Arabian Saipem.


With this acquisition, ADES increases its global fleet to 128 units and strengthens its operations in Saudi Arabia. It also enters the Mexican market through an agreement that will allow Saipem to continue operating the Perro Negro 10 platform in that country. Meanwhile, Saipem is advancing its strategy of focusing on deepwater and harsh environment drilling, segments of greater technical complexity and value.




Financing new wind and solar projects is facing significant challenges in Australia, particularly in New South Wales. Rising interest rates and construction costs have made developing these plants more expensive. According to the analysis, each additional percentage point in bond yields can increase the levelized cost of energy in that state by approximately AU$10 per MWh.


The problem also lies in how these projects are financed. Australian pension funds have billions of dollars to invest in infrastructure, but wind and solar farms exposed to volatile prices are less attractive. Long-term PPAs with buyers of high credit quality could reduce that risk. For wind power, the analysis estimates costs of between AU$120 and AU$140 per MWh and calculates that long-term contracts could cut costs by around AU$20 per MWh in New South Wales.




MODEC and Eld Energy are making progress in developing a system to generate electricity with lower emissions from FPSO units. The companies have completed the feasibility and verification of concept phase of the ABS qualification process for their solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. The system aims to utilize the gas produced at these facilities to generate energy more efficiently.


The project involves installing a 40 kW Eld Energy module on an operational FPSO for testing with real gas under marine conditions. Before proceeding, it must pass the next phase of validation and ABS engineering reviews. The companies estimate the complete system could achieve an efficiency of around 70%. Following testing, the plan is to move to a 120 kW module compatible with carbon capture and subsequently develop multi-megawatt systems.




Petrobras has contracted Strohm and its Brazilian subsidiary to supply and test thermoplastic composite pipes (TCPs) in deep waters off Brazil. The technology will be evaluated at depths of up to 1,500 meters for water injection and gas lift operations in post-salt fields. The agreement also includes engineering, qualification testing, and support during offshore installation.


The pipelines will be subjected to real operating conditions and will be installed from vessels regularly used by Petrobras. Manufactured with carbon fiber or glass fiber reinforced materials, the TCP pipelines are lighter than conventional flexible and rigid pipelines. They can also be coiled and are corrosion-resistant, features designed to facilitate installation and reduce maintenance needs throughout their service life.

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A 15% Section 232 tariff on polysilicon imports, administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is scheduled to begin on December 4, giving solar and energy storage developers a shrinking opportunity to obtain cheaper supply, according to pv magazine.
Anza, which provides data and analytics for solar and energy storage, suggests developers give priority to stock already held in the United States and determine which further shipments can pass customs before the December 4 cutoff. The company also recommends securing domestic-content supply, including weighing whether mixing domestic and imported goods might cut total capital expenditure.
Anza further advises developers to examine how their contracts distribute exposure to retroactive tariffs and stockpiling risks, and, when feasible, to obtain written assurances from suppliers that those risks will be absorbed.
Set to start roughly ten weeks after the source publication date, the tariff will push up prices for polysilicon along with solar ingots, wafers, cells and modules. According to Anza, the median price of imported modules stood at $0.27 per watt before the August 7 proclamation and has reached $0.38 per watt for delivery after December 4 among suppliers that have adjusted prices, a rise exceeding 40%.
The tariff stems from a determination by the Secretary of Commerce in a Section 232 investigation that the volumes and conditions of polysilicon imports pose a threat to U.S. national security.
Anza says developers face the difficulty of acting swiftly to lock in lower costs before minimum pricing starts. The choices it outlines are obtaining modules already in the United States, speeding up imports, or changing procurement approaches to protect project economics.
Anza reports that by September 9, 55% of active suppliers on its platform had pricing that included Section 232, accounting for 65% of modules on the platform. The company says it can access lower-cost supply available before the deadline, though it calls the window shrinking. For quotes where Anza can match the same SKU and contract terms, prices have risen by roughly 15%.
The Solar Energy Industries Association reports that the United States now has 75.3 GW of module manufacturing capacity, which it says is sufficient to meet current market demand. Higher up the supply chain, present capacity is smaller, and the association projects a surge in ingot and cell manufacturing within the next year and in polysilicon and wafer by 2028.
Aaron Hall, president of Anza, said in a statement that developers currently in procurement are entering the most critical procurement window. He added that developers cannot delay until December 4 to decide on procurement, since modules require time to ship and clear U.S. customs before the deadline.
Hall also said developers must grasp what is available now, at what price and under what terms, and act quickly on the strategy best suited to their project.
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Third, a supply model evaluates how the market is served. This includes Metallurgical Grade Silicon (MG-Si), Trichlorosilane (TCS) / Silane, High-purity graphite components, Significant electrical power, and Specialty chemical gases, manufacturing technologies such as Siemens Process (TCS-based), Fluidized Bed Reactor (FBR) Process, Upgraded Metallurgical Silicon (UMG) refining, and Monocrystalline vs. Multicrystalline growth, quality control requirements, outsourcing and contract-manufacturing participation, distribution structure, and supply-chain concentration risks.
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Major U.S. producer, joint venture of Dow Corning
Operates one of the largest U.S. polysilicon plants
Subsidiary of Wacker Chemie, U.S. headquarters
U.S. subsidiary of Mitsubishi Materials
Bankrupt but legacy U.S. producer, still relevant in market history
Norwegian parent, but U.S. HQ for North American ops
Parent of Hemlock Semiconductor
Equipment supplier, not direct producer
Niche processor in U.S. market
Produces silicon feedstock for polysilicon
Separate entity from Hemlock Semiconductor, same location
Subsidiary of REC Silicon
U.S. subsidiary of South Korean OCI
U.S. office of Chinese GCL-Poly
U.S. subsidiary of Chinese LDK
U.S. trading arm of Chinese company
U.S. subsidiary of Trina Solar
U.S. office of Chinese manufacturer
U.S. subsidiary of Canadian Solar
Major U.S. solar manufacturer, uses polysilicon indirectly
U.S. solar company, significant polysilicon demand
Indirectly involved via solar supply chain
U.S. subsidiary of German SolarWorld, now defunct
U.S. division of Japanese conglomerate
U.S. subsidiary of Sharp Corporation
U.S. division of Panasonic
U.S. subsidiary of LG
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The volunteer commission grappled with the decision remaining silent for several minutes before proceeding with the vote
QUINCY–A silence took over the Quincy Plan Commission Tuesday night.
When Chair Julie Brink asked for a motion on a solar farm proposal at 36th and Payson, none of the commissioners said a thing. Nobody raised their hand. The silence continued.
“No guts,” somebody murmured from the audience in the city council chambers.
Just moments earlier, the city’s planning director informed them that new, more restrictive solar zoning rules on the agenda did not apply to the proposal because the application had already been filed.
Talking in the audience grew louder as nobody would make the motion.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s in your hands now,” Brink said. “We need a motion.”
The silence persisted.
Finally, Jason Traeder spoke up.
“I’m still struggling about whether it’s an appropriate use,” Traeder said. “Staff tells us it’s appropriate and I have no reason to think they’re wrong. I’m to determine if this is right or wrong, correct?”
At issue, the proposal met the requirements for a special use permit for planned development. Commissioners would have to provide evidence to refute the city staff’s assessment to vote no.
Once again, they were reminded that the new rules in the next agenda item could not be applied to this project.
“It’s the chicken and the egg. This is what happened prior to that, so I don’t think you can use that as a basis.” Brink said.
Again, a long silence.
“Based on the facts that were presented, all the items have been met, I make a motion to approve,” Traeder said.
After three minutes of waiting for someone to make a motion, when Traeder eventually did, it was quickly seconded and, on a voice vote, received unanimous approval.
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This was the first time anyone recalls the city council sent an item back to the commission, after the solar project’s attorneys contacted the city’s counsel.
However, the details of those conversations were not provided to commissioners who asked for more information.
Brink instructed them not to factor in the prior 4-3 vote from back in June when the commission recommended the council reject the special permit for planned development.
Tuesday’s hearing was intended to be a fresh start for Payson Solar, LLC, a subsidiary of Nexamp, founded by two military veterans, with dual headquarters in Boston and Chicago.
During their presentation, members of Payson Solar discussed changes in the new proposal, namely that battery storage was removed from the location. That means there would be 3,000 fewer panels for a total of 9,000, and those panels would have a lower profile.
Kyle Dixon, who lives 1,300 feet away and was also deemed an interested party for Tuesday’s hearing, had several questions for the reps, including proof of direct benefit to residents.
The lawyer’s answers: the electrical grid will support everyone universally, even if they don’t choose to subscribe, and tax dollars will go into roads and the school district.
Dixon said he remained opposed to the solar project, and it wasn’t because he was against solar power.
“People purchase their homes in this area because they want to live in an established residential development. A utility-scale solar facility means acres of panels, ongoing industrial activity. Calling it a solar farm does not change the impact of its use.
“This decision is bigger than one parcel. Respect the City of Quincy’s planned development objectives.”
Alderman Glen Ebbing was also among the handful of opponents to speak against the project, presenting the commission with a petition from Ward 5 constituents he said he was obligated to represent.
“The people and residents of Ward 5 do not want anything commercial,” Ebbing said. “This is nothing against solar energy.”
When Seth Uphoff, from Peoria, legal representative for the solar company, pointed out that this was outside of Ward 5, Ebbing seemed to smile in disbelief (it is near his ward), as he leaned over to another audience member who shook their head. The area in question is within the city’s 1.5- mile jurisdictional buffer zone.
Uphoff also showed photos from their Peoria County facility from about 1,000 feet away, close to the same distance as the homeowners near 36th and Payson.
“As you can see, the solar project blends in with the horizon,” Uphoff said. “It’s hard to make out. I understand everyone wants to keep saying this is industrial and utility scale, but it’s not. This is a small community solar project.”
All the more galling to opponents, after the vote to approve the 36th and Payson solar project, the same commissioners voted unanimously to send a new zoning ordinance to the city council that restricts solar projects within a mile of schools or within 1,000 feet of areas with more than 50 homes.
The solar farm proposed near their neighborhood would never meet those requirements.
“It appears to me the city’s finally getting their ducks in a row and setting a standard,” Dixon said.
It’s just too late for him and his neighbors. Because the Payson application was submitted before these changes, the new parameters cannot be applied.
The Payson solar project and the new ordinance are expected to go before the full city council in a couple of weeks.
Aldermen will have to vote to draft an ordinance that will then be subject to three readings before a vote, which probably won’t happen until the end of October.
City hall observers say it’s a long shot that anyone on council will come up with a reason and evidence that the developer has not met the requirement to move forward with the project, with construction planned to start in fall 2027 and last about six months.
Opponents say they’ll be watching and attending council meetings moving forward.
“City council has the final say. We’ll be at every meeting,” opponent Amber Dixon said.

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Newly designed submergible devices are predicted to operate continuously underwater for over 5 years
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Researchers have developed solar cells that function underwater even when submerged to a depth of 10 m and that produce enough power to charge lithium-ion batteries. Such devices could be used to power submerged sensors, cameras, and communication systems. Water dulls the intensity of sunlight even over short distances. To make light-harvesting devices that work underwater, the researchers tuned the electronic properties of perovskite solar cells, endowing them with wider-than-usual band gaps. That customization enables the devices to absorb the spectrum of light that extends beneath the sea surface (Joule 2026, DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2026.102672).
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are a relatively new but well-studied class of low-cost photovoltaic devices. They are made with a variety of light-absorbing materials that share the stoichiometry and crystal structure of the naturally occurring perovskite mineral. The properties of the light-absorbing material in these cells can be modified easily, and it absorbs light strongly. As a result, even very thin layers can absorb sunlight efficiently, which makes perovskite cells promising for lightweight and potentially flexible marine applications.
“With perovskite solar cells the key advantage for underwater usage is we can tune the bandgap by adjusting the material composition,” says Lin Xie, referring to the materials property that quantifies the energy (or wavelengths) of light the material can absorb. Xie is a materials researcher at Yunnan University who works with Wen-Hua Zhang, one of the study’s leaders.
Xie explains that the team designed the light-absorbing material to have a bandgap of around 1.96 eV to be compatible with the underwater solar spectrum, which is strongly altered by water. The researchers found that the new devices achieved a power conversion efficiency—the ratio of light energy in to electrical energy out—of almost 35%. Tests suggest that the cells can operate continuously 10 m underwater for more than 5 years.
In this study, the team used lead halide PSCs modified with polyhexamethylene guanidine hydrochloride. The additive controls the crystallization of perovskite films and reduces defects. It also helps reduce ion migration, which is key to making the devices stable under light.
To test the new cells, the researchers built an underwater solar simulator to accurately reproduce the light spectrum and intensities at various water depths. “We tested our devices under simulated seawater for around 1,000 h and found no significant reduction of device performance,” Xie says. The cells generated 324 mW h of electricity—enough to charge various types of Li-ion batteries—in less than 2 h.
In another test, the team sealed the cells in a nitrogen environment, and found that after 300 days they retained 96% of their power-producing efficiency. On the basis of accelerated aging tests, the researchers predict that the cells will have an operational lifetime of 5.5 years at 25 ºC in submerged conditions. The researchers also successfully tested their submersible PSCs integrated with underwater robots at a 10 m depth in the South China Sea to demonstrate real-world performance.
Nelson Dzade, an energy researcher at Pennsylvania State University who wasn’t part of the study, says the work brings several significant advances to underwater solar harvesting, including demonstration of good efficiency at a depth of 10 m and unprecedented projected lifespan. “The technology translates exceptionally well to real-world applications,” Dzade says, “[bridging] the gap between basic materials science and real-world engineering through several practical validations.”
There are still challenges the researchers are working on. “The biggest one is long-term reliability in real seawater [for which] we need better encapsulation,” Xie says. “Another issue is environmental safety, because perovskite devices contain lead.”
Ivy Asuo, a materials scientist at Penn State who also was not involved in the study, says “halide perovskites are low cost, easily processable, and have a tunable optical bandgap, making them a promising semiconductor for underwater solar harvesting.” She adds that the durability of the device is promising for real-world applications.
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The average cost of photovoltaic systems in Brazil increased by 7% between January and June 2026 for projects of up to 300 kW, according to a strategic study by Greeners on distributed energy solutions. The study examined final system prices, which combine the equipment kit with integration services, drawing kit costs from price mapping and distributor inquiries while collecting final system prices from integrators across the country.
For 2 kW systems, the average price reached BRL 3.62 per watt in June, compared with BRL 3.44 per watt in January, corresponding to a total system price of roughly BRL 7,200. The lowest per-watt prices among the surveyed sizes were recorded for 30 kW and 50 kW systems at BRL 2.02 per watt, equivalent to total system prices of approximately BRL 60,600 and BRL 101,000 respectively.
Larger projects carried a lower price per watt but demanded a higher overall investment. A 300 kW system averaged BRL 2.40 per watt, or around BRL 720,000, while a ground-mounted system of the same capacity averaged approximately BRL 834,000.
The rise in final system prices occurred alongside a sharper increase in equipment costs. Average kit prices for 4 kW systems climbed 18.3% between January and June 2026, from BRL 1.42 per watt to BRL 1.68 per watt. The increase varied by system size: 300 kW kits rose 2.0%, from BRL 1.02 per watt to BRL 1.04 per watt, and 50 kW kits rose 8.8%, from BRL 1.14 per watt to BRL 1.24 per watt.
Historical data from Greeners indicates that current prices remain well below levels seen in the earlier stages of Brazil’s distributed solar market. The average price of a 4 kW residential system declined from BRL 7.74 per watt in January 2017 to BRL 2.91 per watt in June 2026, while a 50 kW commercial system fell from BRL 6.06 per watt to BRL 2.02 per watt over the same period.
The price trends emerged as Brazil’s distributed generation market slowed in the first half of 2026. New connections declined 16% year on year, from 488,000 to 411,000, and the number of new consumer units receiving credits dropped 43%, from 951,000 to 541,000.
Residential systems meanwhile accounted for a growing share of new installations, representing 65% of added capacity in the first half of 2026, up from 39% in 2019, while the commercial segment’s share fell to 19%.
The concentration of sales in smaller systems highlights the importance of pricing for residential consumers. In a survey of system integrators, 80% identified residential systems of up to 12 kW as their best-selling category. Commercial systems from 12 kW to 75 kW accounted for 16%, while systems above 75 kW represented 4%.
Financing may also influence purchasing decisions. Only 33% of integrators’ sales involved financing in the first half of 2026, down eight percentage points from 2025 and the lowest share recorded during the period analyzed.
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This week, the latest report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that the world’s renewable energy capacity must double, but that the strong growth potential of solar PV makes this target  “feasible”; other top stories include figures from Anza that show how US solar module prices are up more than 40% since the updates made to the Section 232 rules and Abu Dhabi’s targeting of 14GW of operational solar PV by 2030, up from an earlier target of 10GW, and more than 35GW five years later.
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Annual global renewable energy capacity additions will need to almost double to 1.2TW between 2026 and 2030 if the world is to meet the energy transition targets set out at the COP28 summit in 2023.
This is the headline takeaway from ‘Delivering on the UAE Consensus: Tracking progress toward tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency by 2030’, the latest report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA); the ‘UAE Consensus’ is the group of targets agreed upon at COP28 that include, among other goals, tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030.
The report notes that the world added 693GW of new renewable energy capacity in 2025, bringing cumulative operational capacity to 5.15TW, which equals a 15.5% growth rate over capacity additions in 2024.
IRENA also argues that solar PV is well-positioned for future growth, saying that the industry could drive new renewable energy capacity additions and make the achievement of the 2030 goals “feasible”.
Read more about the latest IRENA report here.
The median price for solar PV modules imported to the US has increased by more than 40% since the imposition of tariffs set under Section 232 by the Trump administration in August.
This is according to the latest data from Anza, which compares average price data for imported modules prior to the new Section 232 rules and prices for modules purchased since 7 August, which are expected to be delivered after 4 December, the date at which the minimum import prices introduced in the new Section 232 rules will take effect.
Anza notes that, between these periods, the average price of a module imported to the US has increased from US$0.27/W to US$0.38/W. Anza president Aaron Hall confirmed to PV Tech that the average price of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) modules sat at US$0.38/W, the price of passivated emitter rear cell (PERC) modules was US$0.385/W and the price of heterojunction (HJT) modules was a low of US$.39/W but that much higher prices have been reported.
Read more about the latest US module prices here.
Abu Dhabi’s utility, Emirates Water and Electricity (EWEC), is targeting more than 35GW of solar capacity by 2035.
The utility has set an interim target of 14GW of PV by 2030, up from an earlier target of 10GW, as it scales its installed capacity to beyond 35GW by the middle of the next decade. The planned PV deployment will be backed by 15GW of battery storage capacity, enabling ‘round-the-clock’ provision of solar-generated power.
In this latest statement of intent, Mohamed Almarzooqi, chief assets officer of EWEC, said: “We are actively procuring the utility-scale solar photovoltaic, battery storage and reverse osmosis desalination capacity required to deliver this outcome, structurally reducing the reliance of the system on gas-fired generation. Through this transformation, EWEC is enabling the UAE and Abu Dhabi to build a highly diversified, resilient, and low-carbon system that seamlessly meets rising demand while strengthening water and energy security.”
Read more about the new Abu Dhabi targets here.
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (ITT) has terminated anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) on certain solar PV modules and laminates from China. The Canada Border Services Agency will therefore no longer impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar panels and laminates.
The order was originally made on 25 March 2021 and the expiry review ( RR‑2020‑001) – continuing, without amendment, its finding made on 3 July 2015, in inquiry NQ‑2014‑003 – has not been renewed and used to cover PV modules consisting of crystalline silicon PV cells, thin-film PV products produced from amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe) or copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS). Modules with a power output not exceeding 100W were already excluded from the order.
According to the Canadian ITT, the expiry review lacked the support of domestic producers, and for this reason, it terminated the order.
Read more about the latest change to Canadian duties here.
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unlawfully terminated the US$7 billion Solar for All programme, which was designed to expand solar access and reduce electricity costs for low- and moderate-income households.
US District Judge Mary McElroy granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs and vacated the EPA’s termination of the programme. The court found that Congress intended the agency to continue administering grants that had already been obligated.
“The court ruled the Trump Administration never should have terminated Solar for All because Congress intended it to continue, and EPA broke the law when it killed the programme and pocketed the money,” said Southern Environmental Law Center, senior attorney Nick Torrey.
Read more about the ruling here.
Indian solar manufacturer Premier Energies has commissioned a 7GW n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) G12R solar cell manufacturing facility in Naidupeta, Andhra Pradesh, taking its total solar cell manufacturing capacity to 10.6GW.
The facility, spread across 101 acres, was developed with a capital expenditure of INR 32.93 billion (US$343.6 million). It has a production capacity of approximately 88,000 solar cells per hour. The company said the facility has entered trial production and is India’s largest solar cell manufacturing plant.
Chiranjeev Saluja, managing director at Premier Energies, said: “The timing of this 7GW capacity addition is therefore significant: as the line stabilises and ramps up, it gives us the scale to serve that demand with greater supply reliability and operating efficiency. Together with our planned backward integration into ingots and wafers, this strengthens our strategy of building a fully integrated and globally competitive solar manufacturing platform while supporting India’s clean energy transition.”
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This Sunday, a Bay Area church won’t just be blessing the congregation – they’ll be blessing 21 new solar panels as part of their commitment to caring for the environment.
Grace Episcopal Church in Martinez, Calif., wants to reduce strain on the grid with renewable energy, which helps in the fight against climate change because it lessens the need to rely on fossil fuel-burning power plants.
The Very Rev. Dr. Deborah White, who serves as rector of the church, points to “care for creation” as part of its mission statement.
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“Jesus said, ‘Love one another.’ And so our mission, as we see it, is to love one another in concrete way,” White explained. “And so, it’s important that we take care of all of God’s creation.”
The church worked with RE-volv Solar, which specializes in helping nonprofit organizations secure low-cost loans. That’s how they were able to fix the roof and install solar panels and a battery backup.
Donna Columbo, assistant warden at the church, said their new battery backup to the solar panels means they can also become the third emergency resiliency center in the city of Martinez.
“It’s a first step to enable us to be a place of safety during an emergency where we can provide Wi-Fi, we can provide heating and cooling, and just a safe place to be,” Columbo said.
Grace Episcopal is one of six churches being honored in October with the 2026 “California Cool Climate” award from the group California Interfaith Power and Light.
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Seven deals in, Meta and Apex Clean Energy have settled into a rhythm.
The tech giant behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has signed yet another power purchase agreement, or PPA, with the Virginia-based provider.
This deal, announced last week on 16 September, is for a project named Starling Solar, a 144MW solar farm located in Texas’ Gonzales County.
The PPA will give Meta the exclusive rights to the renewable energy credits that come with solar generation at Starling as the firm looks to wrangle its ever-growing carbon footprint.
Rather than being the main offtaker of the energy, the electricity will be fed into the local grid. Meta, though, will be able to use the clean energy produced at Starling in its net zero reporting.
In plain terms, Meta gets to claim the green credentials of the output, while Apex secures a committed customer for a project it says would not have been built without Meta’s commitment.
The companies have not disclosed the amount Meta has paid Apex, the contract length or the amount of the resultant electricity Meta will use – if any – though the deal is reported to be long-term.

The Starling Solar is the seventh deal Meta has struck with Apex. Today, their joint energy portfolio spans Texas, Virginia, Illinois, Kansas and Iowa and is worth about 1.2GW of energy.
Ken Young, the CEO of Apex, says the working relationship the companies share is founded on common values. 
"Seven projects over nearly as many years speaks to a partnership built on shared principles of responsible building and disciplined execution," he says.
Starling Solar's place in Texas' energy ecosystem
Starling will feed the grid run by ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages most of the state's power system and operates largely apart from the wider US network.
Apex says the project reflects its focus on delivering capacity that has a grid connection and is ready to build, on timelines large-load customers demand.
Large-load customers is industry shorthand for users such as data centres, whose demand can rival that of a small city.
"Starling brings new capacity to Texas and lasting value to Gonzales County long after construction wraps," he adds.
On that note, commercial operations at Starling are expected to begin in 2027.
Apex puts the local benefit at approximately US$27m in tax revenue over the project's lifetime, US$15.6m of it earmarked for local schools.
It also cites more than US$26.3m in landowner payments and nearly US$400,000 in local grants.
Construction is expected to employ 400 to 450 people, though only for the length of the build.
Those figures come from Apex and have not been independently verified.
Amanda Yang, Head of Clean & Renewable Energy at Meta, believes the ripple effects of the project will be great.
"The best clean energy projects are the ones the surrounding community feels the benefit of directly – in school funding, in landowner payments, in local hiring," she says.
"Starling brings all of that to Gonzales County, along with new solar generation for a Texas grid."
In recent years, Meta has stepped up its pursuit of deals such as this, especially since it began investing heavily in AI and data centres. 
The firm agreed a PPA with German energy heavyweight RWE in June for the 298MW Rabbit's Foot Solar project in Bowie County, Texas. That was Meta's fourth deal with RWE since 2024.
Lightsource bp followed in July with Mowata Solar, a 172MWdc project in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, after a 2022 deal for the 134MWdc Arche Solar in Ohio.
Elsewhere, Meta agreed a deal with Zelestra this summer for the 180MWdc Palmera Solar Plant in Freestone County, Texas.
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The government of Albert is introducing a new recycling system for end-of-life solar panels.
Beginning October 1, the province will apply an environmental fee of CAN 14 to each new solar panel supplied in Alberta. The fee will not be applied retroactively to already-installed panels.
According to details on the government’s website, a typical residential installation of 20 panels would raise a fee of CAN 280, equivalent to less than 1.5% of the overall installation cost.
The fee will go towards ensuring money is available to collect, transport and recycle panels once they reach end of life. The provincial government has committed to working with the Alberta Recycling Management Authority and wider industry to build reuse and recycling capacity in Alberta as volumes of recycled panels increase.
Additional figures on the government’s website says Alberta has the second-largest installed solar capacity in Canada, with 95% of currently-installed panels expected to reach their end of life by 2045, generating as much as 72,700 tonnes of material.
The province says its solar panel recycling program is the first of its kind in North America.
Grant Hunter, Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Protected Areas, said the region is putting the system in place now to recover valuable materials, attract private investment and build a new recycling industry here in Alberta.
“Alberta has never been afraid to lead,” Hunter said. “We will not wait until mountains of dead solar panels are piling up in our landfills before acting.”
RJ Sigurdson, Alberta’s Minister of Affordability and Utilities, added that the program will protect taxpayers from future clean up costs.
Writing on LinkedIn, Radha Rajagopalan, Director of Policy for Alberta at the Canadian Renewable Energy Association, noted that the CAN 14 fee is more than five times the highest fee charged under Alberta’s electronics recycling program and more than three times the cost indicated by the association’s independent analysis.
“Alberta needs stable, predictable policy to attract investment and build the affordable, reliable electricity the province needs,” Rajagopalan commented. “Adding unnecessary costs to new renewable energy projects sends the wrong signal at a time when Alberta needs more electricity in the system.”
Alberta’s latest update says it is also ruling out solar panels being sent to landfill sites across the province. Research published earlier this year found recycling a utility-scale solar module in the United States currently costs between $15 and $45, while sending it to landfill costs between $1 and $5.
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Websol Energy is consolidating its expansion plans in West Bengal after being allotted 54.2 acres at Falta Industrial Park. The company will establish an integrated 4 GW solar cell and module facility in two distinct phases of 2 GW each. Relocating the project from its previously planned location in Andhra Pradesh allows Websol to leverage its three decades of local expertise, minimize land expenditures, and optimize its existing supplier and logistics networks.
Market snapshot: Websol Energy System Limited has secured a 54.2-acre land allotment at the Falta Industrial Park in West Bengal for its proposed greenfield manufacturing facility. The state-backed land allotment clears the way for the company's integrated expansion project of 4 GW solar cell and 4 GW solar module capacity. This critical development shifts the location of the planned greenfield plant from Andhra Pradesh back to Websol's home region, driving substantial operational synergies.
The relocation of the 4 GW solar manufacturing project to West Bengal is a highly pragmatic step by Websol's management. Building a greenfield facility in Andhra Pradesh would have required duplicative administrative structures and higher logistics overheads. Operating within their home ecosystem of West Bengal, where they have been active since the mid-1990s, dramatically de-risks project execution. With a massive Q1 FY27 order book of ₹1,278 cr, getting this capacity online efficiently is paramount to meeting domestic content requirement demand.
The resolution of the land allotment details eliminates the locational uncertainty that had emerged during recent investor calls. Having the 54.2-acre parcel fully approved ensures that preliminary construction can start promptly. This preserves the overall project timeline and provides a clear trajectory to scale Websol's annual manufacturing output from the current 1.2 GW cell capacity to a prominent domestic position, securing its competitive edge under key government solar initiatives.
Market Bias: Bullish
The formal allotment of 54.2 acres at Falta Industrial Park eliminates land-related uncertainties and secures the operational base for Websol's 4 GW solar expansion. Supported by zero outstanding term debt after the full prepayment of its ₹110 cr IREDA loan and a robust ₹1,278 cr order book, the company exhibits strong financial health and near-term execution visibility.
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India's solar sector faces a structural supply gap with solar cell manufacturing trailing behind module assembly capacity. As one of only 14 ALMM-approved solar cell manufacturers in India and the sole operator in the eastern region, Websol holds a unique advantage. The 4 GW integrated expansion directly addresses this supply gap, enabling domestic developers to satisfy strict sourcing guidelines under national schemes like PM-Surya Ghar.
In Q1 FY27, Websol reported a 70.33% YoY revenue increase to ₹372.6 cr and a 15.79% YoY PAT growth to ₹77.79 cr. On August 4, 2026, the company successfully prepaid its entire ₹110 cr IREDA term loan from internal cash accruals. This debt clearance led to the release of 9,51,72,110 pledged shares, representing 21.92% of total share capital, which drastically reduced promoter pledge levels.
Websol's localized consolidation in West Bengal represents a highly efficient capital strategy. By choosing synergistic expansion over geographical expansion, the company has de-risked its capacity targets. Backed by a clean balance sheet, strong liquidity, and a rising order book, Websol is fundamentally aligned to capture a leading share of India's clean energy infrastructure spend.
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Senators are looking toward the Capitol doors as they prepare to head home and campaign for the midterms. Meanwhile, a group of them has been scrambling to reach a deal that some analysts believe is critical to meet the country’s energy needs. 
A bipartisan group of senators says it has come closer than ever before to reaching a long-desired permitting reform bill, which would make it easier to build new energy projects. Many consider the issue urgent as electricity demand surges across the country, partly because of the tech industry’s massive build-out of data centers. 

“America’s energy demand is surging due to advanced technology and manufacturing, but our outdated federal permitting process remains a massive barrier to building the infrastructure we need to stay competitive,” said Marsha Blackburn, a Republican senator from Tennessee, in an August press release.
But the bill’s reception among the public is uncertain due in part to a PR problem: Data centers are a “toxic” subject for voters, according to Alex Lundry, president of D.C.-based public opinion research firm Redbud Consulting. In recent polls, Democrats, Republicans, and independents strongly oppose data centers being built in their communities. 
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“If you phrase permitting reform as serving data centers, the polling results get way worse,” Lundry said. This is putting legislators, many of whom are up for reelection in November, in a bind: They want to make it easier to build more electrical infrastructure, which facilitates the data center boom, but don’t want voters to think it’s about data centers. 
The potential bill represents one of the few points of agreement for Republicans and Democrats in Washington, which is that energy permitting is broken.
Complicated studies on project impacts, lengthy reviews by different federal agencies, and legal battles from environmental groups and project opponents constantly delay all kinds of energy projects, industry leaders say.
Lawmakers have tried for years to reform the permitting process, most recently with the failed Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, which made it out of committee but never got a full Senate vote. Now, lawmakers from both parties say growing power demand has given the new attempt more momentum than any previous effort. The highest-ranking members of both parties in the Senate’s two energy-related committees are negotiating the bill’s language.
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President Donald Trump has signaled he would stop blocking renewable energy projects in order to entice Democrats toward a deal on the bill. Democrats have worried that even if they make it easier to build renewables in law, the White House could continue making it impossible in practice, with some Democrats indicating that these worries have stalled the bill’s progress. 
“I appreciate very much what the Trump administration has done to move in this direction, but in order to brief colleagues on what this really means, we need just a bit more clarity on exactly what return to regular order for wind and solar projects looks like,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told reporters this week. “So that’s still to be done, but that I think can happen in fairly short order.” 
Politico reported that the senators intend to finish hammering out the bill after the midterm elections, when it could compete with other legislation for attention, especially if Republicans lose control of Congress.
The draft bill’s contents are not public, but stakeholders expect it would make building energy projects easier by reducing the potential environmental and social effects of a project that government agencies must consider when issuing a permit; loosening Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act requirements that slow down transmission line and pipeline permits; and making successfully obtained permits less vulnerable to lawsuits after they’re issued. 
Such a bill would ease the path to construction for renewable and fossil fuel projects alike — especially solar and natural gas, the power sources with the most momentum. Solar power and batteries account for almost 80 percent of the new power generation expected to be built in the United States in 2026, while natural gas was the largest single source of electricity used in 2025, with projections for continued growth. Natural gas in particular has become a go-to power source for data centers, which are projected to use a lot of it in the next decade. 
Unsurprisingly, both the solar and the gas industries support permitting reform. Tim Pawlenty, president of the Solar Energy Industry Association, has said the country would be “constipated” without it.
A colossal surge in electricity demand has long been expected in the United States, even before Big Tech started its data center build-out. Americans are “electrifying” their lives with heat pumps, electrical appliances, and electric vehicles, all important for reducing emissions. The country has also squeezed most of the benefits out of energy-saving lightbulbs and other fixtures, which had kept electricity use flat by reducing power needs as they spread during the 2010s. Added to all that, the United States aims to draw more manufacturing to its shores, which requires electricity if successful. But data centers are accelerating and intensifying the power-demand spike, and straining grids and supply chains. Data center developers like Google have helped lobby for permitting reform.
Environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council want to speed up renewable energy development without weakening bedrock environmental laws; NRDC executives have called for land-use plans that make it easier to site renewable energy projects while protecting local ecosystems. But Democratic legislators are considering compromising on environmental protections to support renewable energy and keep grids reliable. Meanwhile, Republicans, many of whom deny the severity of climate change, want to power new economic growth.
There is another reason legislators in both parties are keen to build, build, build: Many are anxious that hobbling data centers, and the AI systems they enable, will allow China to become economically and militarily stronger than the United States. Trump administration officials, legislators from both parties, and energy industry leaders speaking at the Clean Energy Week conference in Washington, D.C., in mid-September called on America to be “competitive” and “dominant” through energy build-out. 
“While Communist China cuts corners to get ahead, a mountain of red tape has America fighting the energy war with one hand tied behind our backs,” said Senator Rick Scott, a Republican, in a statement last month.
But Lundry, the pollster, warned that these sentiments are losing popularity among voters. “Being competitive with China used to be an effective message, but it isn’t anymore,” Lundry said. 
Instead, Lundry recommended framing permitting reform as a boost for clean power. Lundry’s firm, Redbud, found in a September poll that 71 percent of respondents agreed that “making renewable energy a bigger part of the country’s energy supply is the right move.” Bringing down energy costs is also likely a big win with voters, the survey showed, with 70 percent of respondents saying their energy bills have gone up in the last year.
Action in the other house of Congress makes it clear that lawmakers are well aware of the public’s antipathy toward data centers and fear about rising energy costs. A few days before senators said they were nearly finished with their permitting draft, the House of Representatives passed a bill calling on states (but not requiring them) to force data centers to pay for their own electricity generation. The bill is meant to help shield regular people from rising bills as data centers gobble up power. That bill is now stalled in the Senate, where some Democrats say it’s too soft-handed.

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The use of land for solar farms is coming under scrutiny, with calls for it to serve more than one purpose.
Energy Fiji Limited is exploring options that could allow crops or livestock to be kept beneath raised solar panels.
EFL CEO Fatiaki Gibson said the company was already exploring agro-PV technology in Ovalau. The solar panels are raised higher from the ground, allowing farming or livestock activities to continue underneath.
“The designs we intend to put into the solar farms basically it’ll be in the panel area because it covers such a vast area.”
The issue was raised by Committee Member Premila Kumar, who says EFL needs to consider multiple uses for land rather than using it only for energy generation.
Gibson explained that agro-PV is more expensive because of the raised foundations and structure. He says the added cost could eventually be reflected in the feed-in tariff paid to EFL.
Most independent power producers, according to Gibson are currently proposing conventional ground-mounted solar farms. He says EFL will consider agro-PV as another option.
The discussion also covered the risk of cyclones damaging solar farms and battery storage facilities.
Gibson states that solar farm designs will be built to withstand Category Five cyclones. He says battery systems will be housed in container-type structures, while the panels will be designed to withstand harsh weather conditions.
He adds that EFL is also requiring Tier One manufacturers and international standards for equipment used in its solar developments.
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Companies considering increased imports of polysilicon and certain solar-related products before new Section 232 tariffs and minimum import prices take effect on December 4 should carefully evaluate a recently issued Department of Commerce rule addressing potential stockpiling.
On September 22, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security issued a temporary final rule implementing President Trump’s directive in Proclamation 11052.  The rule establishes a framework through which Commerce and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may restrict certain imports that Commerce determines constitute stockpiling in advance of the December 4 implementation date.
The rule applies to both existing and newly established importers of record (IORs).  It also outlines compliance considerations for customs brokers involved in entries of covered merchandise.
Review of Increased Imports by Existing IORs
Commerce is monitoring imports of covered polysilicon and solar-related products and may determine that an existing IOR is engaged in stockpiling if its import volumes significantly exceed historical levels.
In evaluating an importer’s activity, Commerce may consider:
If Commerce determines that an IOR has engaged in stockpiling, it may direct CBP to prohibit that importer from making additional entries of covered products before December 4, unless Commerce grants a waiver.
CBP has clarified that an importer subject to such a restriction may continue to move covered merchandise into a bonded warehouse.  The merchandise, however, may not be entered for consumption before December 4.
Weekly Limits for Newly Established IORs
The rule also establishes weekly import limits for IORs registered with CBP on or after August 6.
Unless Commerce grants prior approval, these IORs are subject to the following limits:
A newly established IOR that exceeds the applicable weekly limit without Commerce approval may be prohibited from making further entries of covered merchandise before December 4.
Commerce states that these limits are based on historical import patterns.  According to Commerce, the limits are intended to allow legitimate new market participants to continue importing while reducing the possibility that newly established entities will be used to circumvent the stockpiling restrictions.
Compliance Considerations for Customs Brokers
The rule also addresses the potential use of multiple IORs, affiliated entities, or related parties to avoid applicable import restrictions.
Commerce and CBP have indicated that customs brokers may face enforcement consequences if they facilitate circumvention arrangements.  Brokers handling entries of covered merchandise therefore may need to consider:
CBP has indicated that brokers involved in circumvention schemes may be subject to enforcement measures, including monetary penalties and the potential suspension or revocation of broker licenses.
The rule therefore may require brokers to conduct additional diligence concerning ownership, affiliation, and end-user relationships when processing entries involving covered products.
Waiver Process
The rule establishes a waiver process for both existing and newly established IORs.
Commerce states that it intends to respond to waiver requests within 14 days.  The waiver process includes specified submission, certification, and information requirements.  Companies that anticipate seeking a waiver should review those requirements and allow sufficient time to prepare the necessary supporting information.
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Brazil’s distributed generation assets have the potential to play a larger role in balancing electricity supply and demand, but the regulatory environment has not kept pace with deployment, according to pv magazine. As of early 2026, approximately 67 GW of cumulative installed solar capacity was connected to Brazil’s grids, with roughly 47 GW of that total consisting of distributed generation capacity connected to distribution networks.
The scale of distributed generation on Brazilian distribution networks highlights both the opportunity and the challenge facing the country’s power system. While these assets could contribute more to smoothing supply and demand curves, the rules governing their operation and coordination have yet to catch up with the pace at which they have been deployed.
The source material does not specify the particular regulatory changes under consideration or the mechanisms by which distributed generation might be better integrated into system operations. It also does not detail the specific impacts of adding the full volume of distributed generation capacity to the grid.
The figures indicate that distributed generation represents the majority of Brazil’s installed solar capacity, underscoring the importance of distribution-connected resources in the country’s overall solar picture. The source does not provide a breakdown of how that capacity is distributed across regions or among different types of installations.
No timeline is given for when regulatory adjustments might be expected or how quickly coordination improvements could be implemented. The source likewise does not identify which authorities or market participants would be responsible for closing the gap between deployment and regulation.
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Hydro‑Québec is focusing on photovoltaic solar power development to strengthen Québec’s energy self‑sufficiency based on an evolving, rigorous and affordable approach.
As an energy source that is complementary to hydropower and wind power, solar power plays a role in the energy transition by helping us diversify the solutions we adopt to ensure Québec’s energy self‑sufficiency.
Although more than 99% of the electricity Hydro‑Québec generates is from renewable sources and therefore advantageous with regard to the resulting carbon footprint, solar power remains an interesting option because it helps reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
It is nevertheless important to note that the carbon footprint associated with solar panels depends largely on where the components are manufactured and which energy source is used in the manufacturing process.
Solar power is expected to experience strong growth globally by 2050 and represent up to 40% of the world’s renewable energy generation, surpassing both hydropower and wind power.
This growth is due, in particular, to technological advances of new materials that make solar panels increasingly efficient while lowering manufacturing costs. As a result, in 2024, countries such as Germany, Japan and Denmark used the sun to generate between 10% and 12% of their electricity. In the state of Massachusetts, solar power generation was as high as 16%.
The cost of implementing solar power in Québec is comparable to that of countries such as Germany and France and remains competitive when compared with the implementation costs of renewable natural gas facilities.
Given the increasingly rapid pace of solar power integration, Hydro‑Québec must stay abreast of the changes in order to adapt and remain at the forefront of the energy transition.
Solar power has many advantages and can play a more important role in the energy transition alongside Québec’s existing energy sources.
Solar power complements hydropower, with our hydroelectric reservoirs storing energy while the sun’s variable energy outputs meets demand.
As part of procurement projects, solar panels are easy to install near consumption areas within relatively short timeframes (18 months to 5 years). For solar self‑generation projects, timelines may vary from a few weeks to a few months, depending on the installed capacity.
Solar power helps reduce fuel consumption related to powering remote off‑grid systems.
Generation costs have decreased worldwide in the past 15 years, making solar power increasingly affordable.
When it comes to equivalent sun hours, Québec’s solar potential is favourable to the development of solar power given that the amount of sunlight is greater than in certain countries, such as Germany, that have already integrated solar power.
What’s more, cold temperatures and the reflective quality of snow improve the performance of solar panels.
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Hydro‑Québec has commissioned two solar farms located in La Prairie and in Varennes, which generate close to 16 GWh of solar power per year. This is equivalent to the electricity used by 1,000 households. These solar farms have shown that solar power is well suited to Québec’s climate and the transmission system.
The knowledge gained from this experience will enable us to move forward with our plan to develop larger‑scale solar farm projects.
By integrating solar panels and battery storage systems, the town of Lac‑Mégantic can meet the energy needs of its population.
With this approach, Hydro‑Québec is able to track technological advances, optimize costs and gain a better understanding of the solar power yield while maximizing economic spinoffs for Québec and host communities, including First Nations and Inuit communities.
This step will help us develop Québec’s new solar ecosystem in the short term while gathering additional market data with a view to more extensive development in the future.
For solar farms with capacities greater than 25 MW, Hydro‑Québec aims to develop projects in collaboration with industry developers, host communities and First Nations and Inuit communities.
Through a new grant, Hydro‑Québec wants to encourage residential and business customers to have solar panels installed on their buildings.
Learn more about the gradual rollout of Québec’s solar power sector
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The state board that regulates energy infrastructure has given final approval to a Madison County solar project that is set to be Ohio’s largest to date.
Oak Run Solar will be built on about 6,000 acres north of London, near Plumwood. Project developers say the 800 megawatt plant could power up to 170,000 Ohio households. Sheep are expected to graze among solar panels on a large swath of the land.
The Ohio Power Siting Board initially approved Oak Run in March 2024, about two years after receiving the project application.
Madison County Board of Commissioners and the boards of trustees for Deercreek, Monroe and Somerford townships filed an appeal of that approval. They argued that the siting board accepted an incomplete application that also didn’t do enough to address its potential harm to wildlife and soil or the risk of fires from battery storage.
The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments in October 2025 before ruling earlier this year that the state board must better address the visual impacts of the site.
The Ohio Power Siting Board decided on Sept. 17 that the developer fulfilled the court’s requirements.

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Ten metres beneath the South China Sea, scientists have found an unlikely place to generate power from the sun.
Last week, researchers announced that they had successfully tested solar panels at underwater depths previously considered impractical for the technology.
Designed to capture the wavelengths of sunlight that can pass through seawater, the panels could eventually keep underwater equipment running for longer without relying just on batteries, they argue.
During a two-hour trial near the Weizhou Islands, off the southern coast of mainland China, the panels generated power from sunlight at a depth of 10 metres. Lab tests suggest that they could operate continuously for years, too.
The research, published in the science journal Joule, takes underwater solar well beyond previous studies, which have focused on depths of just two metres or less.
One of the biggest obstacles to generating solar power underwater is that sunlight fades below the surface – and fast.
By a depth of 10 metres, much of the sun’s energy has already been absorbed or scattered by the water. But some types of light can reach deeper than others.
According to the researchers, enough blue and green light reaches these depths to generate electricity, so the team developed solar cells designed to make the most of it.
They used what are known as perovskites, an alternative to the silicon found in most solar panels, which can be adjusted to absorb different wavelengths of light.
In laboratory tests recreating conditions 10 metres underwater, the cells turned around 35 per cent of the sunlight that reached them into electricity.
The researchers then put bigger versions to the test in the South China Sea. At two metres deep, their 115 square centimetres of solar panels generated 1,416 milliwatt-hours over two hours, or about half the capacity of a rechargeable AA battery.
At 10 metres, they generated 324 milliwatt-hours over two hours – a small amount but still far beyond what the researchers expected.
Their panels also showed almost no loss in performance after 1,160 hours under simulated underwater conditions. Based on their tests, the researchers estimate they could operate continuously at 10 metres below the sea for around five and a half years.
“This work presents the first functional validation of submerged solar cells practically operating at a water depth of up to about 10 meters, greatly broadening their application scope,” says study author Wen-Hua Zhang, from China’s Yunnan University and Southwest United Graduate School in Kunming.
Once the sole domain of rooftops and wide open spaces, solar power continues to appear in places where electricity and fuel can be difficult to access.
Earlier this year, Dutch researchers unveiled the world’s first solar-powered ambulancein rural Kenya, designed to bring healthcare and medical equipment to hard-to-reach communities that lack reliable access to electricity or fuel.
In Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, solar has also begun to help power a remote former radio station, a site accessible only by boat or helicopter that previously relied on diesel-fuelled generators.
Other projects have found space for solar in existing infrastructure. In Switzerland, solar panels installed between railway tracks are generating electricity without taking up more land. The panels can also be removed for track maintenance, allowing railways to double as solar farms without disrupting services.
Underwater solar power could solve a different problem.
Ocean sensors, cameras and communication equipment can operate far from power supplies, but they must eventually be retrieved when their batteries run out.
The researchers believe the technology they studied could provide a lasting source of power for this kind of equipment.
First, however, they need to find out how well their solar panels work deeper undersea. They say their next step is to do just that and establish how far beneath the waves solar power can go.


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Scientists have managed to produce electricity from solar panels at a depth of 10 meters under the sea, opening up new possibilities for powering underwater devices.
The researchers tested the technology in the South China Sea, near the Weizhou Islands, where the panels managed to generate energy from sunlight even at depths where light is significantly weaker.
The secret lies in the use of perovskite, an alternative material to silicon, which can be tailored to absorb certain wavelengths of light. Although water absorbs and scatters most of the solar radiation, blue and green light can penetrate to greater depths.
In laboratory tests, the solar cells managed to convert about 35 percent of the light reaching them into electricity under simulated conditions 10 meters underwater.
Sea tests also showed measurable energy production. At a depth of two meters, a 115 square centimeter panel produced 1,416 milliwatt-hours over two hours. At 10 meters, the output was 324 milliwatt-hours in the same time.
The researchers also tested the durability of the cells in simulated underwater conditions. After 1,160 hours of testing, the panels showed almost no loss of performance. Based on these results, the team estimates that the technology could operate continuously for about five and a half years at a depth of 10 meters.
However, this figure is an estimate based on laboratory tests, and not the result of a real trial that lasted five and a half years at sea.
According to researchers, one of the most promising uses of this technology is to power ocean sensors, cameras, and communication devices that are located far from traditional power sources.
Currently, many of these devices rely on batteries and must be periodically pulled out of the water for maintenance or replacement. Underwater solar panels could help extend their operating time.
The researchers plan to test the technology at different depths in the next stages and determine how far below the sea surface solar energy can be effectively used.
If the results are confirmed in long-term tests in real marine conditions, this technology could create a new way to supply power to devices operating underwater./ CNA
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This development creates significant business opportunities for international EPC contractors with experience in delivering complex turnkey projects. However, it is important to be familiar with the relevant regulatory framework and to prepare accordingly.
A key issue for EPC contractors in Italy is health and safety. The relevant legislation, Legislative Decree 81/2008, applies to all employers operating in Italy, regardless of their nationality. The obligations that remain directly with the employer (and thus also with the EPC) and cannot be delegated include carrying out a formal risk assessment and appointing a person responsible for the occupational health and safety service (RSPP).
On construction sites where several companies are operating, the client – or, if appointed, the person responsible for the works – must appoint a safety coordinator for the planning phase (CSP) and a safety coordinator for the execution phase (CSE). These are responsible for drawing up, updating and monitoring the safety and coordination plan (PSC). The contractor or EPC contractor is obliged to draw up its own operational safety plan (POS) and to implement the instructions and coordination guidelines issued by the CSE. Responsibility for compliance with health and safety regulations remains entirely with the contractor’s own operational organisation.
International EPC contractors often opt for a model in which many construction works are subcontracted to local subcontractors and the EPC – acting as the general contractor – does not deploy its own personnel on site. However, this model does not reduce the EPC’s responsibility. Rather, the focus of its duties shifts to coordination, inspection and monitoring tasks. The EPC remains obliged to verify the technical and organisational suitability of the subcontractors, to ensure that safety costs are correctly itemised in the contracts, and to coordinate the cooperation between the various companies on site. Liability risks, for example in connection with accidents at work, can also be passed upwards along the entire contractual chain.
Since October 2024, under Decree-Law No. 19/2024, a so-called points-based construction site licence (patente a crediti) has generally applied in Italy to companies physically operating on construction sites. Its rules of application, as well as the control and sanction mechanisms, were most recently further clarified and, in some respects, tightened in 2025 by the so-called DL Sicurezza (Decree-Law No. 159/2025, converted into Law No. 198/2025).
The licence is issued in digital form by the Ispettorato Nazionale del Lavoro (INL) and operates on a points-based system. It starts with an initial balance of 30 points. In order to be permitted to operate on construction sites, the company must maintain a minimum of 15 points at all times. Points are deducted in the event of established breaches of labour and safety regulations, whilst it is possible to rebuild the points balance through compliant behaviour and certain preventive measures.
The obligation to hold the licence is expressly linked to a company or self-employed person carrying out physical work on the construction site. Companies that provide exclusively non-operational services – such as purely coordination, management or other activities of a predominantly intellectual nature – are therefore not subject to the licensing requirement, provided they do not themselves carry out any operational work on the construction site.
However, it is particularly relevant for international EPC contractors that the new regulation does not result in any reduction of responsibility within the supply chain. Even if the EPC acts as a general contractor without its own site personnel and is therefore not itself obliged to hold the ‘patente a crediti’, it remains legally bound to ensure, prior to the commencement of works, that all subcontractors and self-employed contractors deployed on the construction site hold either a valid construction site licence with at least 15 points or an equivalent qualification. In particular, an SOA qualification certificate of Class III or higher is considered such a substitute.
Failure to carry out this check constitutes a separate breach and may be punished with an administrative penalty.
Environmental law, and in particular the Italian Environmental Code (Legislative Decree 152/2006), is also a central element of project implementation. Construction works generate waste that must be documented, recorded and disposed of in a traceable manner. The EPC contractor is often regarded as the waste producer in this context, even if transport or disposal is carried out by third parties.
A particular issue concerns photovoltaic modules. Companies that import PV modules into Italy from abroad as contractors under a works contract are legally regarded as manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment. They are therefore obliged to register with the national WEEE system, join a take-back consortium and pay the relevant environmental contributions.
These obligations arise even before the plant is commissioned and should be integrated into the project preparation at an early stage. In the case of revamping and repowering projects, it is also important that the disposal of old modules is clearly regulated between the operator, the EPC contractor and, where applicable, the O&M service provider.
The legal framework for the authorisation of the construction and operation of PV systems was most recently further harmonised by the Testo Unico Rinnovabili (Decree Law 190/2024). Depending on the size, location and type of PV system (ground-mounted systems, agrivoltaics, rooftop systems, etc.), different approval procedures apply, ranging from free construction (edilizia libera) to the certified notice of commencement of works (SCIA, segnalazione certificata di inizio attività) to the well-known single authorisation (Autorizzazione Unica), which is issued in a centralised procedure by the relevant competent authority – the region or the Ministry of Economy.
From the perspective of a contractor in a construction services agreement, a principle developed through case law in Italian construction law is relevant: the contractor has an independent duty to verify the existence, validity, and scope of the required permits before starting construction work. If construction work is carried out without a valid permit or in significant deviation from it, this can lead to independent criminal and administrative liability for the EPC contractor as well – regardless of the project owner’s responsibility.
As the main contractor, the EPC is responsible to the client for the proper execution of the works, including defects attributable to subcontractors. Italian civil law provides for liability for ordinary defects – for which, pursuant to Article 1667 of the Italian Civil Code, a liability period of 2 years from acceptance applies – as well as a stricter liability regime for serious structural defects, which can be invoked for up to 10 years from acceptance.
In parallel, EPC contracts in the photovoltaic sector provide for specific performance and availability guarantees, which are verified during the provisional and final acceptance (PAC and FAC). These contractual performance guarantees constitute a central component of international EPC standards and operate in addition to statutory liability for defects, without replacing it.
In addition to the contractor’s civil liability, Legislative Decree No. 276/2003 imposes joint and several liability for employees’ wages and social security contributions throughout the contractual chain. This liability applies for a period of two years from the termination of the relevant contractual relationship and is addressed in practice through the careful selection of subcontractors, ongoing compliance checks and contractual recourse clauses.
European regulations such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which will be fully applicable from the start of 2026, are also becoming increasingly relevant. EPC companies sourcing steel or aluminium-containing components from non-EU countries must fulfil the relevant reporting and documentation obligations and also ensure these requirements are contractually secured throughout the supply chain.
The Italian photovoltaic market currently offers international EPC contractors a highly favourable environment. The combination of a growing number of approved new construction projects and additional impetus in the areas of revamping and repowering is creating many business opportunities in terms of renewable energy construction contracts. At the same time, the regulatory framework is demanding and requires careful legal and organisational preparation.
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Solar energy and power backup solutions provider Fujiyama Power Systems is setting up a 1.2 GW solar cell manufacturing facility in Madhya Pradesh as part of its 2030 vision to become an integrated renewable energy player, its MD Pawan Garg said.
The greenfield project is expected to start solar cell production using advanced TopCon technology by the end of the ongoing fiscal year, the official told PTI in an interaction.
Post start of the commercial operations, the company's total cell capacity will reach 2.3 GW. Fujiyama operates a 1.1 GW cell plant in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh.
Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCon) technology is more efficient than conventional solar cell architectures, specifically Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC).
"We are setting up a new 1.2 GW solar cell manufacturing plant at Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh. This backward integration project will strengthen our value chain, reducing dependence on the open market," Garg said.
The project is being set up with an investment of around Rs 350- 400 crore as part of the company's 2030 vision, which also includes setting up ingot and wafer lines going forward in line with government ALMM initiatives to promote the local solar value chain, he said, adding the move will help the company reduce input cost for solar module making, he said.
Fujiyama operates a total of 3.6 GW module capacity – 2 GW in Ratlam, 1.2 GW at Dadri, and 0.4 GW at Noida. Manufacturing of modules requires solar cells. Cell making requires wafers and ingots.
The Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) Order, 2019 is a quality-and-reliability framework that ensures solar equipment used in the country's solar projects meets domestic manufacturing standards.
While ALMM I was for modules, ALMM II included cells and ALMM III, which is planned for 2028, has been extended to ingot and wafers as well to boost domestic production, reduce import dependence and enhance quality across the solar value chain, positioning India as a strong global player in renewable energy.
Fujiyama Power Systems is one of India's leading providers of rooftop solar solutions, offering an extensive portfolio across solar panels, solar inverters, lithium-ion and tubular batteries.
In FY26, the company reported a topline of Rs 2,654 crore, while EBITDA stood at Rs 490 crore and profit after tax was Rs 304 crore.
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GREELEY — Weld County will get a $1.67 billion wind and solar energy facility in the region surrounding the Chalk Bluffs after county commissioners voted 3-2 to approve it following several hours of heated public comment Wednesday. 
The project, expected to begin construction in 2027 and be completed by 2029, will employ 2,200 acres of solar panels and 79 wind turbines to generate 805 megawatts of energy, enough to power 600,000 homes. It will span 25,000 acres between U.S. Highway 85 and Colorado State Highway 390 and extend from Weld County into southern Laramie County in Wyoming.  
Commissioners Kevin Ross, Lynette Peppler and Perry Buck voted for the facility and Scott James, chair of the commission, and Jason Maxey, chair pro-tem, voted against it. 
Enyo Energy, the developer, presented its plan to commissioners Wednesday. 
Enyo representatives have touted the project’s economic, infrastructural and regional advantages, including increased power generation and grid reliability. They’re taking an “all-of-the-above approach” to electricity generation, they said, and cited a $47 million property tax payout over the project’s 30-year timeline as well as a boost in construction jobs during the three years the facility is under construction. 
Enyo Energy says 97% of the project area is secured through long-term private land leases with local landowners. The remaining 3% consists of publicly owned state, federal or municipal land or easements, Enyo states. The developer also states current ranching and agricultural land uses can largely continue around the planned infrastructure. 
But the majority of people who gave public comments at the meeting were against the facility. 
They included several multigenerational ranching families whose properties fall just outside the project boundary, like Robert Wagner, who owns and manages a 6,000-acre ranch with his wife that shares a border with it on three sides. 
Enyo representatives told the commissioners they’d done extensive public outreach with residents who might be affected. But Wagner said “we’ve had virtually no contact from Chalk Bluffs Energy or anyone else, except early on in the process they wanted a lease across a corner.” 
“I’m a scientist,” he added. “I have a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology. And I’m also a fan of wind and solar.” 
But he asked commissioners not to approve the project because the turbines will block vistas around the Chalk Bluffs, a rare geological escarpment lined with ancient fossils, unique trees found in mountain environments and important bird habitat. Remnants of past energy projects had been abandoned on his property, he added. 
The topsoil in the region, which will be impacted by heavy machinery, “doesn’t recover quickly,” he said. “Maybe not for decades. 
“That’s a huge loss of grazing land, and I think that matters.” 
The one ranch entirely contained within the project boundary had a different take. 
The Salo family started ranching and farming in northern Weld County in 2014 after running a farm and feedlot in Wyoming for 15 years. According to Scott Salo they’d spent nearly a decade watching their neighbors collect oil checks from wells drilled from pads on his ranch. 
Over the years, ranching has become harder and more unpredictable, with drought, low cattle supply and fluctuating markets shaped by political decisions, like what happened when President Donald Trump announced in August he was easing tariffs on imported beef, which ranchers say flooded the market. 
One of the Salos’ daughters told commissioners Wednesday that she hopes to continue farming and ranching into adulthood. Rather than changing her family’s way of life, she said the project “represents an opportunity to strengthen the financial foundation of a ranch and create more certainty as we plan for the years ahead. 

“For me personally, that means the possibility of coming home to live alongside my parents, learning from them while I still have the opportunity, and preparing one day to leave our ranch with the same dedication they have shown throughout their lives.”
James Trosper, an Eastern Shoshone tribe member and Eastern Shoshone Sun Dance chief, asked the commissioners to deny the permit on a cultural basis, saying an archeological study conducted by Colorado State University “confirms our oral history and evidence that this is a sacred place and an important place to our people.” 
Commissioner Kevin Ross responded by asking how far from the project Trosper lived (a question he asked all speakers. Trosper said Fort Collins, around 50 miles away).  
On Sept. 9, Weld County commissioners unanimously voted to approve a permit for Global AI to build what could become the largest data center operation in Colorado. 
Republican state senator Byron Pelton, whose district includes Weld County, was neutral on the decision. 
“Local governments have to walk a fine line between private property rights and what’s best for the county as a whole!” he wrote in a text to The Colorado Sun Friday. “Land use decisions should always stay with the local governments because it’s the government closest to the people.” 
Wagner, the landowner adjacent to the project, said he believes “the die was cast before that meeting ever occurred.” 

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Work to build a 43,000 panel solar farm is to begin in November, after a contract was signed with a carbon-neutral developer.
The farm will power 9,400 homes, and will be built on farmland to the south of Barkham, Berkshire, owned by Wokingham Borough Council.
The facility is expected to go live and start generating electricity in September 2027, with full connectivity expected by 2029.
Imogen Shepherd-DuBey, the council's executive member for finance and governance, said signing the contract with Equans was an "important step forward for the council".
She said the the project would also "bring new walking and cycling links, increased biodiversity and hundreds of new trees, creating a lasting legacy for local communities".
The farm is also set to generate more than £1m income for the council every year, according to the authority.
The authority has worked with local charity Freely Fruity to plant about 1,000 fruit trees on the site.
In January, the council said it expected the farm to be built 10 years ahead of schedule.
In 2021, a tenant cattle farmer who worked on the land was told to leave to make way for the solar farm.
Andrew Lake rented High Barn Farm from the council and kept 360 cows at the site.
The authority previously said the land would be returned to agricultural use after 25 years, at the end of the farm's lifecycle.
West Berkshire Council expects the solar farm to generate enough power for about 6,000 homes.
MPs and councillors among those objecting to solar farm spanning Rotherham and Doncaster.
Dan McGrail says the state-owned renewables investment firm is directly recruiting two people a week, and its funding is benefitting thousands more.
Texas is now the country's biggest producer of solar-farmed electricity.
A new pipeline along the Thames will use heat from industry and redistribute it to homes across London.
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The U.S. energy transition runs through rural America: As of last year, 87% of U.S. clean energy generation happened in areas far outside the country’s urban centers, per a Rural Climate Partnership analysis. That makes sense — wind, solar, and battery installations need a lot of open land.
But not everyone is welcoming new clean energy development with open arms. The number of counties with some kind of ban, moratorium, or barrier on renewable energy projects is growing nationwide. More than 60% of the counties that have such restrictions are rural, according to a Daily Yonder and Canary Media analysis of data from USA Today and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.
Meanwhile, at the federal level, rural clean energy development is under attack. The Trump administration has gutted the Rural Energy for America Program, which for more than a decade helped farmers pay for solar panels that slashed their power bills. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has crusaded against ​“subsidizing solar projects on prime farmland,” and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has painted wind and solar as ​“environmentally damaging” and an inefficient use of land.
In reality, despite being by far the fastest-growing energy source in America, utility-scale solar takes up just 0.07% of the country’s farmland. The footprint of golf courses is almost three times bigger.
And these opponents miss — or ignore — an even more important point. Clean energy projects present a massive opportunity for rural America. By bringing in new tax dollars, they can be an economic lifeline for struggling rural communities as well as for farmers, who can earn a profit leasing their land to counter soaring operating costs and the impacts of climate change.
Many people in rural communities know this. Half of all Americans support solar and wind projects in their area, according to an April survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Jeff Hough, a Republican county commissioner in Idaho, is one of them. He’s organizing to overturn a ban on solar and wind that he helped put into place a few short years ago. Dorothy Macy, a resident of Coles County, Illinois, is another. She spoke out in favor of a 300-megawatt wind development in her area that’s expected to generate $81 million in taxes over its 30-year lifetime.
The benefits of clean energy development bridge ideological divides. That’s a point Republican Tim Pawlenty made onstage at Canary Media’s Climate Week NYC summit on the energy transition in rural America.
A former two-term governor of Minnesota and now head of the Solar Energy Industry Association, Pawlenty is committed to building enduring bipartisan support for clean energy policies. In particular, he believes the solar industry can position itself as a defender of private property rights, advocating for letting farmers develop their own land as they see fit.
“I’m from a farm state — I’ve spent a lot of time in farm areas and with farmers,” he said. ​“From a conservative standpoint, land rights are pretty important.” 

A federal windfall for advanced grid technology
For more than a year and a half now, the Trump administration has been systemically dismantling as many Biden-era energy policies as it can (and a bunch that it can’t, at least not legally). Jeff St. John reports, however, that Thursday brought us a rare moment of alignment between the two administrations with the announcement that the U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $1.9 billion in grants to support deployment of advanced transmission technologies in 26 states.
Why advanced transmission technologies? Because building new grid infrastructure is difficult, rife with financial, regulatory, and logistical challenges. Advanced transmission technologies mitigate this problem with devices, strategies, software solutions, and materials that can help squeeze more out of the existing overburdened grid.
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The grant-winning projects, for example, include plans to replace transmission cables with higher-conductivity versions that can carry more energy, as well as to add devices and software that can route power more intelligently around the grid.
Fighting for the future of offshore wind
Last week, we reported that Revolution Wind, off the Rhode Island coast, completed installation of all 65 of its turbines, and will soon join South Fork Wind and Vineyard Wind in commercial operations. Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind are both in progress off New York.
This week, Maria Gallucci tells us, nine states took steps to preserve the momentum. A coalition of eight eastern states filed a lawsuit attempting to block two deals in which the U.S. Department of the Interior agreed to pay out almost $4 billion to developers who gave up their offshore wind leases. California is pushing its own suit. These legal challenges come on top of cases filed earlier this year against what California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the ​“blatantly unlawful” buyout plans.
Meanwhile, the case for offshore remains strong. It showed up big during winter storms, helped stave off power outages during a New England heat wave this summer, and could have important national security implications.
Solar for All reinstated: A Trump-appointed judge rules that the administration acted illegally when it terminated the $7 billion Solar for All program meant to support solar projects serving lower-income communities. (Canary Media)

Electric school buses hit NYC: Fifty new plug-in electric school buses in New York City are slated to transport students and store energy to share with the grid. (Canary Media)

New York’s big battery battle: New York utility Con Edison and battery developers are locked in conflict over how community-scale storage projects should be managed and who should reap the financial benefits. (Canary Media)

Cleaner cooking: Induction-stove startup Copper partners with appliance giant Miele to produce a more versatile and powerful version of its superefficient, fume-free range. (Canary Media)

Solar set free: After years of delay, Ohio regulators green-light a project that will be the state’s largest solar and battery installation — and provide grazing land for some 1,000 sheep. (Canary Media)

Dirtier than ever: Many major U.S. utilities are making less progress cleaning up their power supply than in past years, with several taking steps backward, the Sierra Club’s annual report finds. (Canary Media)

Gas plant sidelined: North Carolina regulators reject plans for a gas-fired power plant, saying the risk to consumers is too great when it’s unclear if data center demand will actually surge in coming years. (Canary Media)

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L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena approves installation of 500KWp Solar Photovoltaic Plant at NDS Ice Hockey Rink in Leh L-G says project will strengthen Ladakh’s green energy goals and support development of world-class winter sports infrastructure.
Leh, May 10: The UT of Ladakh is all set to achieve a unique fusion of renewable energy generation and modern sporting infrastructure, with Lt. Governor, Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, giving approval for the installation of a solar plant atop the famous Ice-Hockey Rink in Leh.
The 500 KWp on-grid Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Plant on the rooftop of the NDS Ice Hockey Rink in Leh will be installed at an estimated cost of Rs 2.38 crore. It is a significant step towards promoting renewable energy and sustainable sports infrastructure in Ladakh. The project will be developed under the Special Development Package (SDP) of the Youth Services and Sports Department, UT Ladakh.
The project will serve as a model for integrating renewable energy solutions into public infrastructure projects across the Union Territory. Under the guidance of Lieutenant Governor Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, efforts are ongoing to actively promote solar energy and other sustainable initiatives in line with its broader objective of environmental protection, clean energy transition and sustainable development in Ladakh.
“The installation of the rooftop solar plant at the NDS Ice Hockey Rink is an important step towards integrating clean energy solutions with modern sports infrastructure. As Ladakh moves towards becoming a carbon-neutral and environmentally sustainable region, such initiatives will help reduce the carbon footprint while promoting green and energy-efficient development. At the same time, the project reflects our commitment to strengthening sports infrastructure and creating world-class facilities for the youth of Ladakh,” said Lieutenant Governor Shri Saxena.
Ladakh, being an ecologically sensitive Himalayan region, requires sustainable and climate-responsive infrastructure development. The installation of the Solar Photovoltaic Plant at the NDS Ice Hockey Rink, apart from harnessing the abundance of sunlight, would also contribute towards reducing carbon emissions and further strengthen Ladakh’s efforts to emerge as a carbon-neutral region.
The initiative forms part of the UT Administration’s broader vision to develop environmentally sustainable and modern infrastructure in Ladakh while reducing dependence on conventional energy sources. The rooftop SPV plant is expected to significantly reduce electricity consumption costs and promote clean energy usage at the state-of-the-art ice hockey facility.
The Ice Hockey Rink at Leh has already emerged as a major venue for national-level winter sporting events and has successfully hosted the prestigious Khelo India Winter Games for three consecutive years. Plans are afoot to make this facility operational round-the-year.
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Solar electric power generation offers the strongest career outlook in the United States, according to an August 2026 analysis attributed to software talent marketplace Lemon.io. The findings point to a labour market increasingly shaped by renewable energy, digital technologies and the care requirements of an ageing population.
For Canadians looking across the border, the research provides a useful picture of the economic forces likely to influence employment throughout North America. Renewable power is expanding rapidly, digital services continue to require specialist skills, and the number of older people worldwide is increasing. The World Health Organization says that every country is experiencing growth in both the number and proportion of older people.
The Lemon.io research assessed up to 40 US industries using employment growth between 2022 and 2024, projected job creation through 2034, anticipated percentage growth and median annual wages. It combined these measures into a Career Outlook Score intended to show which industries offer the most attractive balance of job availability and remuneration.
The resulting top 10 comprises solar electric power generation, computer systems design, software publishing, wind electric power generation, scientific research and development, cloud computing and data hosting, management consulting, assisted-living facilities, elderly and disability services, and corporate management. These are recognised industry categories within the US Bureau of Labor Statistics National Employment Matrix, which includes separate entries for solar and wind electric power generation.
In the Lemon.io analysis, solar electric power generation receives a Career Outlook Score of 99, the highest result among the industries examined. The study reports that employment in the sector increased by 78.89 per cent between 2022 and 2024. It projects the creation of 30,300 additional positions by 2034 and an overall employment increase of 179.29 per cent between 2024 and 2034. According to the supplied dataset, this would take the industry’s workforce to approximately 47,200 people by the end of the projection period. The reported median annual wage is US$77,630, or 56.83 per cent above the US median used in the analysis.
Separate occupational projections from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics support the conclusion that solar skills will remain in demand. The agency ranks solar photovoltaic installers as the second-fastest-growing US occupation for 2025 to 2035, projecting employment growth of 37 per cent and listing median pay of US$53,140 in 2025.
Industry expansion is also visible in generating capacity. In September 2026, the SEIA reported that operating US solar capacity had become sufficient to power more than 50 million American homes, equivalent to more than one-third of US households.  Public research remains part of this development. The US Department of Energy’s Integrated Energy Systems Office supports work on advanced photovoltaics, energy-system integration, grid resilience and lower-cost solar thermal systems.
Computer systems design ranks second in the Lemon.io table with a Career Outlook Score of 73. Although the dataset records a 1.62 per cent reduction in employment between 2022 and 2024, it projects 386,800 additional jobs by 2034 and employment growth of 15.82 per cent.
The industry also offers relatively high remuneration. Its reported median annual wage is US$109,990, which the study calculates as 122.20 per cent above the national median used for comparison. Software publishing occupies third place with a score of 72. The research records recent employment growth of 2.15 per cent and projects 124,600 additional positions by 2034, representing growth of 19.30 per cent. At US$131,390, software publishing has the highest median annual wage among the 10 industries in the supplied ranking. This is 165.43 per cent above the US median applied by the researchers.
Cloud computing and data hosting ranks sixth. The study reports recent employment growth of 2.25 per cent, a possible 97,900 new positions by 2034 and projected expansion of 20.29 per cent. Its median annual wage is listed as US$107,510.
The occupational picture also indicates continuing demand for digital expertise. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 35 per cent growth for data scientists, 22 per cent for computer and information research scientists and 21 per cent for information security analysts between 2025 and 2035.
Wind electric power generation ranks fourth in the Lemon.io study, receiving a Career Outlook Score of 67. Employment reportedly rose by 34.97 per cent between 2022 and 2024. The researchers anticipate another 9,200 positions by 2034, together with industry-wide employment growth of 82.14 per cent. The sector’s reported median annual wage is US$80,010, or 61.64 per cent higher than the American median used in the comparison.
Occupational data provide a separate indicator of demand. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks wind turbine service technicians as the fourth-fastest-growing occupation for 2025 to 2035, with projected growth of 30 per cent and 2025 median pay of US$64,120.
The distinction between occupational and industry figures is important. A projection for wind turbine technicians covers one occupation, whereas the Lemon.io figure concerns employment across the wind electric power generation industry. The figures therefore describe related, but not identical, sections of the labour market.
Scientific research and development completes the top five, achieving a Career Outlook Score of 64 in the supplied study. The sector experienced a reported employment contraction of 4.40 per cent between 2022 and 2024. Nevertheless, the analysis projects 75,800 new positions and employment growth of 8.75 per cent by 2034.
Its median annual wage is listed as US$127,250. This places earnings 157.07 per cent above the national median used by the researchers and makes scientific research and development the second-highest-paid industry in the top 10, behind software publishing. The juxtaposition of recent contraction and projected expansion shows why short-term hiring figures should not be considered in isolation. In the Lemon.io methodology, recent performance is assessed alongside future job creation, projected percentage growth and pay.
The healthcare and social-assistance results reveal a different type of employment opportunity. Assisted-living facilities rank eighth, while elderly and disability services take ninth place. According to the Lemon.io dataset, assisted-living employment increased by 121.54 per cent between 2022 and 2024. The industry is projected to add 103,900 positions by 2034, with employment growing by 10.51 per cent. However, its median annual wage of US$38,690 is 21.84 per cent below the study’s US benchmark.
Elderly and disability services could generate a much larger number of positions. The analysis projects 528,500 additional jobs by 2034 and employment growth of 21.04 per cent. Its median annual wage is reported as US$35,630, or 28.02 per cent below the comparative median.
The demographic basis for this demand is considerable. The World Health Organization projects that, by 2030, one person in six worldwide will be aged 60 or older. It expects the global population in this age group to increase from one billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion in 2030, before reaching 2.1 billion in 2050.   The organisation also states that health and social systems in every country face substantial challenges in preparing for this demographic transition. Common conditions associated with older age include hearing loss, osteoarthritis, diabetes, depression and dementia, while some older people experience several conditions simultaneously.  
The Lemon.io ranking applies to the United States, so its numerical projections should not be treated as Canadian forecasts. However, the forces captured by the research are not confined to one country.
For Canadian workers and educators, the results identify skills areas worth monitoring: photovoltaic installation, electrical engineering, wind-system maintenance, software development, data science, cybersecurity, scientific research and personal care.
The clearest conclusion is that rapid employment growth will not necessarily produce similar financial outcomes in every sector. Renewable energy, software and scientific research combine projected expansion with above-median wages in the supplied analysis. Care services promise far greater job volumes, but their reported wages remain below the national benchmark.
America’s emerging employment map consequently tells two parallel stories. The transition to cleaner energy and more advanced digital systems is creating technically specialised, comparatively well-paid work. At the same time, population ageing is generating an urgent requirement for care workers whose economic value is not yet reflected in equivalent wage levels.

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Winifred Sylvah picked a handful of plump cucumbers on a cold, wet September morning as raindrops trickled off rows of solar panels in the background.
They’ve been a productive plant for Sylvah on a new plot of land at a solar farm in Big Lake, Minn. She’s already harvested about 140 pounds of cucumbers, with rows more waiting to be picked. Sylvah is one of three farmers working the land in between and outside the rows of a 1-megawatt solar array in Big Lake.
The Big Lake Farm is an example of agrivoltaics, a technique of mixing farming and solar power generation. The two interests are often pitted against each other in rural areas, but the rows of flourishing crops between rows of solar panels shows there’s enough sun to go around.
The farm is a partnership between The Food Group — a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization that helps emerging farmers and fights hunger — U.S. Solar and Conexus Energy. It allows farmers like Sylvah to affordably lease farmland while providing an additional use for land that would otherwise be fenced-in rows of panels.
The project started as a pilot in 2023, but this year was made permanent with Sylvah and two other farmers entering 10-year leases on the land. She wasn’t sure what to make of farming between panels, but after hearing from pilot project farmers and seeing new infrastructure like irrigation systems and a walk-in cooler to store freshly picked produce come to the land, Sylvah was up for the challenge.
“I decided to take a chance,” Sylvah said.
The program expansion comes as federal officials slash support for emerging farmers. In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $300 million in cuts for a grant program focused on supporting land and market access for new farmers, defunding three programs aimed at helping farmers of color in Minnesota, MPR News reported. The cuts are part of the Trump administration’s eradication of federal spending aimed at diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
“Because racial equity is a core value for our organization and how we’ve set up our programming, we aren’t going to actively pursue federal grants for the next couple years,” Food Group Executive Director Sophia Lenarz-Coy told Sahan Journal.
Accessing land is a challenge for emerging farmers. The Food Group’s Big River Farms in Marine on St. Croix, Minn., is a popular incubator program for emerging farmers, many of whom are immigrants. But once they leave, farmers who can’t afford to buy land often lease plots for a year at a time, which doesn’t allow them the certainty to become certified organic or the chance to adapt to the soil over the years.
“What’s nice about people having longer term leases is they’ll have a little more time to experiment,” Lenarz-Coy said.
Growing between rows of solar panels offers similar yields to standard farming, according to Iowa State University Professor Ajay Nair. Nair has helped lead research on agrivoltaics in Ames, where a partnership with utility firm Alliant Energy led to a 10-acre solar garden lined with rows of crops.
Iowa State researchers have tried various fruits and vegetables in the solar garden, and for the most part are seeing the same yield as in comparison plots.
“Any grower can commercially grow their produce within an agrivoltaic system,” Nair told Sahan Journal.
There’s more space between solar rows than many assume, Nair said. Wires are deep underground and typically don’t prohibit tilling the land, and some plants benefit from rotating shade. As long as irrigation is in place, it’s a perfectly viable place to farm, he said.
There are co-benefits between farmers and solar firms, Nair said. Solar companies build large fences around their projects, which is useful for farmers. Farmers are on the land consistently and can tell the company right away if a panel has been damaged in a storm or if anything is amiss on the property. It also helps ease rural land politics by allowing solar and agriculture to co-exist.
“Having some sort of an agriculture system in there gives them the social license to operate,” Nair said.
Most agrivoltaic projects in the United States focus on livestock grazing, not produce farming. In western Minnesota, researchers at the University of Minnesota-Morris have run a successful cattle agrivoltaics plot for the past eight years.
Some 275 cows munch grass in between rows of a 500-kilowatt solar array in Morris, Minn., said animal science Professor Brad Heins. The cows benefit from the solar panels’ shade, with researchers finding less heat stress in the herd. That helps keep the cows healthier and more productive, Heins said.
“I think it’s garnered a lot of interest in Minnesota and around the world,” Heins said.
Sylvah came to Minnesota from Sierra Leone as a student in the 1980s. She worked in banking for more than 30 years before retirement. But she always loved growing food and has fond memories of tending the family vegetable garden with her grandmother.
She grew vegetables at home and got involved in a community garden, but when she retired she decided to make farming her profession. She got involved with The Food Group and worked a plot at Big River Farms.
The Big Lake farm is much closer to her home in Otsego. And it gives her the chance to get to know the land. She has about an acre and a half total: one acre in the solar garden and half an acre in an adjacent plot.
Sylvah has a large mix of crops. In the solar garden she planted vegetables that benefit from shade: onions, collard greens, green beans and scallions. They all did well, she said.
She’s learned from this season. She didn’t put down fabric to discourage weeds, but she will next year after spending too much time maintaining her beds.
Her banking background shines through: Sylvah is always thinking about the market for anything she grows. She’s developed a following for her West African crops. Her okra, sweet potato greens, collard greens and eggplant are in high demand, she said.
“I make sure I know people are interested in what I’m growing,” Sylvah said.
She has some bitter balls, a West African eggplant that Sylvah said is popular in Minnesota’s Liberian community, but she’s not selling any this year and instead hopes to get seeds for a larger haul next season. In late August, she put down new rows of green beans, planning a late fall harvest.
“I always will do my last harvest for Thanksgiving,” she said.
Sylvah sells her food through a Community Support Agriculture program and to local public school districts in Albertville, Minn., and Buffalo, Minn., harvesting and delivering to the schools herself this fall.

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A disabled Florida Army veteran says a solar purchase marketed as a way to cut her utility costs ended up adding another monthly payment — and made it difficult to sell her home.
Her story is also fueling concern about a separate solar-financing problem: borrowers may still owe money even after the lender behind the deal goes bankrupt, according to WKMG.
Kia Love, a disabled Army veteran and Florida homeowner, agreed to install solar panels in 2016 after a door-to-door salesperson told her the system could reduce her electric bill to zero.
Love said the promise never materialized.
“After I got the panels on the roof, there was no drop in the bill,” Love explained. “The bill was exactly the same … I went from a high electricity bill to paying a high electricity bill plus the $175 for the solar panels.”
She recalled that the sales pitch depended on a federal tax benefit that she later learned she could not use because her income as a disabled veteran did not qualify.
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“The salesman said, first two years it will be $80 a month, and that would give me two years to apply the government kickback. But in actuality, that was false; I found out I was ineligible because my disabled veteran income didn’t qualify,” she told WKMG.
Love said it took paying to have the panels cleaned before a technician found the system had been installed improperly and wasn’t working correctly. 
Her loan jumped to more than $24,000 from about $16,000 after the first two years, and her monthly payment climbed to $175.
Attorney Joshua Horton said the problem often involves more than the solar equipment itself.
“They’re selling not just the panels; they’re selling a financial product. It’s two different agreements, but it’s all the same iPad [and] nobody reads the disclaimers,” Horton observed.
Love’s debt was transferred from Mosaic Solar to Solar Servicing, which Horton said commonly happens when lenders bundle and sell debt portfolios before filing for bankruptcy.
“The debt is then sold to third-party investors who will continue to collect on the debt, despite getting none of the benefits that they were promised,” he noted.
Horton cited another concern involving the UCC-1 filing attached to some solar loans.
While it is not a traditional lien, he said: “It operates as a lien. They can prevent you from refinancing, from selling your home; it clouds the title.”
Love believes that filing may be one reason her house has remained on the market.
Love felt that the best first step was to slow down. 
WKMG’s consumer checklist advised readers not to sign anything the same day, to ask for system-sizing details in writing, to compare multiple companies, and to have a qualified tax professional verify whether you can truly claim any advertised federal credit.
The checklist also recommended looking into whether the agreement is a loan, a lease, or another type of contract — and whether a UCC-1 filing will be placed on the property. 
Homeowners should also get warranty and service terms in writing, including what happens if the installer goes out of business.
Horton said consumers can file complaints with the Florida Attorney General’s Office Consumer Division.
He also pointed out that veterans like Love may have help available through a military consumer protection organization at the Department of Agriculture, and that some homeowners may need to dispute the debt or pursue legal action.
Love’s advice was direct.
“Definitely don’t believe everything that the salesperson is telling you. Read up on regulations, tax credits, figure out if you’re eligible, read all of the fine print and don’t let them rush you.”
For more on solar sales pitches, contract terms, and bill surprises like the ones in Love’s case, start with these articles. They look at zero-cost lease claims, financing misinformation, and net-metering shortfalls.
• A homeowner considering a zero-cost solar lease was warned it looked too good to be true.
• A solar expert challenged misinformation about leasing panels as homeowners sorted through savings claims.
• An Ohio homeowner learned net metering may leave much of the electric bill behind.
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