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Pakistan installed 27 gigawatts of distributed solar between 2023 and 2025, heralding a consumer-led energy revolution that exceeded the capacity of all the operating coal-, gas-, and oil-fired power plants the country has ever built and saved billions of dollars in fossil fuel imports, Islamabad-based Renewables First and UK energy think tank Ember conclude in a new report.
By more than tripling between 2023 and 2025, from 15 to 51 terawatt-hours, distributed solar transformed the way the country energy, the report states.
“Official statistics largely ignore distributed solar,” Ember said in a media notice this week. “This is the first time Pakistan’s energy statistics have been rebased” to reflect the country’s “transformative distributed solar boom,” and the results are stark: The increase in distributed solar was more than enough to absorb a 33-TWh increase in demand as the country posted 5.2% growth in economic activity, the report says.
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Beyond the national grid, where distributed solar rose from 10 to 28% of total supply, Pakistan also shifted a share of its wider energy use from fuels to electricity. “While electricity demand surged by 21%, non-electricity energy use increased by just 2%,” the authors add. “As distributed solar supplied nearly all of this additional electricity demand growth, it is also meeting almost all the energy demand growth.”
“Distributed solar is providing millions of Pakistani homes, farms, and businesses with affordable, reliable electricity,” said lead author Nabiya Imran, Associate-Energy Insights at Renewables First. “Empowered by the widespread adoption of solar PV tech, consumers are playing a central role in Pakistan’s electrification and energy transition.”
“Pakistan has a thirst for energy, and solar is providing it,” added Ember Chief Analyst Dave Jones. “Distributed solar is so fast and cheap to build that it is actually driving up electricity demand” by replacing some of the fuels the country previously burned.
As a result, the share of Pakistan’s energy supplied by electricity rose five percentage points to 21.7% in just two years, just shy of the global average of 22%.
The rapid shift “has had effects far beyond the power sector. Rather than simply replacing grid electricity, distributed solar has enabled a surge in electricity consumption,” the report says. “By lowering costs and improving access to electricity, distributed solar is unlocking demand that high prices and unreliable supply had long constrained, thereby bringing benefits to Pakistani consumers.”
Renewables First and Ember maintain that no other electricity source could have delivered such a profound change in such a short time.
“Distributed solar was faster,” the authors say. “Distributed solar was cheaper,” at half the cost of grid electricity. And “distributed solar was better—it has eliminated daytime load shedding, avoided more than US$12 billion in oil and gas imports by February 2026, reduced CO2 and air pollution, and saved transmission and distribution losses.”
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Pakistan installed 27 gigawatts of distributed solar between 2023 and 2025, heralding a consumer-led energy revolution that exceeded the capacity of all the operating coal-, gas-, and oil-fired power plants the country has ever built and saved billions of dollars in fossil fuel imports, Islamabad-based Renewables First and UK energy think tank Ember conclude in a new report.
By more than tripling between 2023 and 2025, from 15 to 51 terawatt-hours, distributed solar transformed the way the country energy, the report states.
“Official statistics largely ignore distributed solar,” Ember said in a media notice this week. “This is the first time Pakistan’s energy statistics have been rebased” to reflect the country’s “transformative distributed solar boom,” and the results are stark: The increase in distributed solar was more than enough to absorb a 33-TWh increase in demand as the country posted 5.2% growth in economic activity, the report says.
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Beyond the national grid, where distributed solar rose from 10 to 28% of total supply, Pakistan also shifted a share of its wider energy use from fuels to electricity. “While electricity demand surged by 21%, non-electricity energy use increased by just 2%,” the authors add. “As distributed solar supplied nearly all of this additional electricity demand growth, it is also meeting almost all the energy demand growth.”
“Distributed solar is providing millions of Pakistani homes, farms, and businesses with affordable, reliable electricity,” said lead author Nabiya Imran, Associate-Energy Insights at Renewables First. “Empowered by the widespread adoption of solar PV tech, consumers are playing a central role in Pakistan’s electrification and energy transition.”
“Pakistan has a thirst for energy, and solar is providing it,” added Ember Chief Analyst Dave Jones. “Distributed solar is so fast and cheap to build that it is actually driving up electricity demand” by replacing some of the fuels the country previously burned.
As a result, the share of Pakistan’s energy supplied by electricity rose five percentage points to 21.7% in just two years, just shy of the global average of 22%.
The rapid shift “has had effects far beyond the power sector. Rather than simply replacing grid electricity, distributed solar has enabled a surge in electricity consumption,” the report says. “By lowering costs and improving access to electricity, distributed solar is unlocking demand that high prices and unreliable supply had long constrained, thereby bringing benefits to Pakistani consumers.”
Renewables First and Ember maintain that no other electricity source could have delivered such a profound change in such a short time.
“Distributed solar was faster,” the authors say. “Distributed solar was cheaper,” at half the cost of grid electricity. And “distributed solar was better—it has eliminated daytime load shedding, avoided more than US$12 billion in oil and gas imports by February 2026, reduced CO2 and air pollution, and saved transmission and distribution losses.”
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Europe will not be able to produce a “disruption” in the solar manufacturing industry, but will instead need to focus on innovation and strategic areas of development, according to Peter Fath, CEO of RCT Solutions.
Speaking at Intersolar Europe 2026 in Munich yesterday, Fath explained that the next decade of solar technology evolution would unfold on a reliable path—from the domination of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) and replacement of passivated emitter rear contact (PERC) today, to the growing market share of back contact (BC), along with some heterojunction (HJT) and silicon-perovskite tandem products by 2035.
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Those technologies are likely to meet the projected growth in global solar demand over the next decade, leaving no room for what Fath called a “European disruption” to the industry’s tech roadmap.
However, Fath and his fellow speakers in the ‘Made in EU’ session at yesterday’s show all emphasised the strategic importance of a credible European solar manufacturing base.
The EU should rely on “innovation” and specific market segments to establish and retain the “security and resilience” of meaningful solar manufacturing, Fath said. The continent already has a bulk of domestic solar inverter production capacity, but should look to equipment manufacturing, complex cell processes like coatings and advanced solar cell technologies, and “high-precision” machinery to secure its competitive edge, he explained.
A March study by solar research bodies Fraunhofer ISE and ISC Konstanz found that Europe had the potential to supply high-quality PV manufacturing equipment to major emerging markets like India and the US in the coming years, as the equipment sector enters a period of unprecedented growth. The move towards newer, higher-efficiency technologies like BC could give the continent a strategic advantage, given the quality of its machinery production, but success will rely on supportive structures.
“We need market protection [alongside] brave people who are deploying CAPEX,” Fath said.
In an announcement today, Austrian inverter producer Fronius said that it could scale up its operational European manufacturing capacity to 17GW “within six to 12 months”, if the EU issues “clear and reliable framework conditions from European policymakers.”
The company would back Europe-wide restrictions on Chinese inverters and digital power infrastructure, a spokesperson has confirmed to PV Tech, expanding on the European Commission’s earlier decision to withhold its funding from any projects that use Chinese inverters.
Inverters have been the central component in efforts to support European manufacturing, due to both their strategic importance and the existing manufacturing base. PV Tech Research recently estimated that the EU had surpassed 100GW of inverter production capacity.
Brussels’ recent policy moves have put some legislative heft behind EU-made and non-Chinese products, such as the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) and Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA). As it stands, these laws mandate non-Chinese products in public auctions, but do not extend to the wider market.
A Europe-wide restriction on Chinese inverters would be a big change for Europe—a big move towards protectionism and away from the EU’s free market underpinnings. But Fronius, and others, argue that the issue of solar inverters is bigger than market dynamics and economic competition, as the influx of Chinese products into Europe after 2022 increases the cybersecurity risks to the continent’s grid. Fath said that excluding Chinese-made inverters from the European grid is a “must”.
“Every inverter manufacturer can control its products remotely,” Fronius said in its statement. “This has direct implications for data sovereignty, system integrity and control over software updates.”
PV Tech has covered the EU’s changing stance on inverter cybersecurity extensively, which you can find here.
It may be unlikely that a broad limit on Chinese access to the inverter market is in the works, but Dries Acke, deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, said yesterday that his organisation “does not like” the fact that the IAA’s definition of “made in Europe” includes markets with which the bloc has free trade agreements and customs unions. Crucially, this includes India and Turkey, where solar products are manufactured in greater quantities than mainland Europe, and would affect both inverters and solar cells, the two “resilience” components outlined in the EU’s legislation.
Speaking at Intersolar yesterday, Fath said that technological innovation and cell technologies could still prove a fruitful area for European manufacturers.
He shared the stage with David Ward, CEO of perovskite-silicon tandem specialist Oxford PV. Ward said he expected the start of “gigawatt scale” tandem production in 2028, describing the technology as a potential “hidden disruptor”, as it could theoretically transform existing silicon manufacturing lines without needing fundamentally new capacity or facilities, as perovskite thin films are laid on top of silicon base cells.
Laurent Bodin, CCO of French PV manufacturing startup HoloSolis, said that the EU had “one chance” to capitalise on the future of PV manufacturing through tandem technology, as the expertise for perovskites is still largely in Europe, through firms like Oxford PV, research institutes like Fraunhofer and other projects. The argument that Europe could pursue innovation as a means for global PV manufacturing relevance isn’t new; Ward himself made it in conversation with PV Tech Premium in 2024.
However, in May, Alex Barrows, head of PV at CRU, contributed to a guest blog for PV Tech that pointed to the sheer scale of R&D power in big Chinese manufacturers. The time required to bring tandem products to market may lessen Europe’s strategic advantage for next-generation solar.
Conversation yesterday turned to joint ventures (JV) with Chinese companies, of which HoloSolis itself serves as an example, having inked a deal with Trina Solar. “We must be humble,” Bodin said, and accept JVs with Chinese companies to facilitate manufacturing in Europe at scale. He said European companies could “learn from” their Chinese counterparts, before expanding more independent capacity.
This notion raises some eyebrows, as the involvement of the major Chinese manufacturers in supposedly “European” projects muddies the waters. The IAA does impose a 49% cap on ownership of EU solar projects by dominant supplier nations, which effectively means China.
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Japanese solar manufacturer Toyo Solar has agreed to sell over 4.5 million of its ordinary shares to raise around US$50 million to finance the expansion of the company’s cell manufacturing work in Houston, Texas.
The financing takes the form of a registered direct offering of 4,545,456 shares, with a purchase price of US$11 per share. While this would put the total price of the shares at just over US$50 million, placement fees for Roth Capital Partners and H.C. Wainwright & Co., which are operating as placement agents for the transaction, will be deducted from this total, alongside “offering expenses” payable by Toyo.
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However, Toyo said that it had entered into “definitive agreements” for the sale of these shares, and expects the deals to be completed tomorrow, marking the first “concrete financing” step for its Houston expansion work, which the company expects to cost US$357 million in total.
Toyo first announced the expansion work on 8 June, which will see the addition of 1.5GW of new heterojunction (HJT) cell manufacturing capacity to a 2.5GW module manufacturing plant that the company acquired in 2024. The company expects to start commercial operations at the cell facility in early 2028, “within 20 months” of the initial announcement made on 8 June.
As reported by PV Tech when Toyo first announced the facility two weeks ago, the company’s plans come as US manufacturers have brought lawsuits against tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) products being brought into the US, and Toyo’s manufacturing work in particular in Ethiopia.
The company’s shift to producing HJT cells in the US, which it plans to use in HJT-perovskite tandem cells, is likely in response to these events. Earlier this month, Moustafa Ramadan, head of market research at PV Tech Research, told PV Tech that expanding HJT manufacturing capacity in the US is a “smart choice” for Toyo. Manufacturers selecting HJT as the technology of choice for building solar cell and module capacity in the US has been one of the key topics at last week’s PV ModuleTech USA (subscription required) Conference in Napa, California.
Navigating this policy and legal landscape is a key challenge for the US solar industry as a whole, and the cell sector in particular. Solar Media’s PV CellTech USA Conference in San Francisco, on 13-14 October 2026, will include sessions on securing cell supply chains, global trends in cell research and design and innovative manufacturing practices, among other topics. Read the full agenda here and book tickets on the event website.
Skyworth PV, the solar business unit of Skyworth Group, has signed a cooperation agreement with JD.com’s cross-border e-commerce platform Joybuy to jointly promote balcony PV products in overseas markets, beginning with Europe.
The partnership combines Skyworth PV’s product development, manufacturing, and system integration capabilities with Joybuy’s strengths in digital retail, cross-border logistics, and localized services. The companies aim to expand sales of balcony PV systems through online channels and local service networks across European residential energy markets.
At SNEC 2026, in an interview with TaiyangNews Managing Director Michael Schmela, SKYWORTH Solar’s Executive President & General Manager of Overseas Business Division, Wanfei Qu, discussed the company’s growth strategy and product roadmap (see SKYWORTH Group: From A TV Brand To A Global Solar Company).
China Resources Power (CR Power) has issued a tender for 5.4 GW of PV modules for projects scheduled between 2026 and 2027.
The procurement is divided into 3 packages. Package 1 covers 3 GW of n-type TOPCon bifacial dual-glass monocrystalline modules rated at 620 Wp and above.
Package 2 includes 2 GW of TOPCon bifacial dual-glass modules with a power output of 710 W or higher.
Package 3 covers 400 MW of n-type bifacial dual-glass modules, comprising 155 MW and 245 MW lots, both of which require module power ratings of at least 725 W. Deliveries are scheduled between August 2026 and July 2027.
In May, China Resources New Energy, the new energy development arm of CR Power, received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for its Shenzhen main-board IPO (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has officially implemented revised Guidelines for Assessing the Hosting Capacity of Distributed Generation Connected to the Power Grid.
The updated rules remove the previous 80% reverse-load ratio restriction for transformers hosting distributed PV projects and replace it with a dynamic assessment mechanism combining system-level and equipment-level evaluations.
The guidelines introduce a green-yellow-red zoning framework for grid connection management and shorten grid-access approval timelines to within 3 working days.
The new framework also expands eligibility to include industrial and commercial distributed PV projects connected at voltage levels up to 110 kV and with installed capacities of up to 50 MW. Energy storage is identified as a key tool for improving hosting capacity, further supporting deployment of PV-plus-storage systems.
Researchers from Peking University, Alibaba DAMO Academy, and partner institutions have developed China’s first national-scale database of wind and solar facilities using high-resolution satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, and cloud-computing technologies.
Published in Nature under the title Advancing solar and wind penetration in China through energy complementarity, the study identified 91,609 wind turbines and 319,972 solar PV facilities operating in 2022.
Based on the dataset, the researchers found that renewable-energy complementarity improves as coordination expands geographically. Under a highly flexible power-system scenario, nationwide inter-provincial coordination could enable approximately 100 TWh of additional renewable electricity consumption by reducing curtailment and improving utilization of existing wind and solar assets.
The study highlights the growing role of geospatial intelligence in renewable energy planning, cross-regional power dispatch, and power system optimization.
Shanxi Province has released its Implementation Plan for High-Quality Development of New Energy Storage, targeting more than 8 GW of energy storage capacity by 2027 and over RMB 10 billion in direct investment.
The plan requires newly connected renewable energy projects to install storage equivalent to at least 15% of installed capacity with a minimum duration of 4 hours.
Integrated solar-plus-storage demonstration projects are encouraged to deploy storage systems equal to 100% of PV capacity with discharge durations exceeding 3 hours. The province also supports virtual power plants (VPPs) that aggregate distributed storage resources for participation in spot and ancillary services markets.
Shanxi will prioritize deployment of lithium-ion, vanadium redox flow, compressed-air, and flywheel storage technologies while supporting demonstrations of sodium-ion batteries, semi-solid-state lithium batteries, gravity storage, and grid-forming energy storage systems.
Shanxi plans to add 20 GW of wind and solar capacity annually during China’s 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), totaling 100 GW (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
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India added almost 38 gigawatt (GW) to its solar energy capacity in 2025, according to a recent analysis of the global energy sector by think tank Ember. As our infographic shows, this means that, for the first time, India installed more solar capacity than the United States last year. India’s capacity additions increased by 54 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, where it reached 24.5 GW.
According to Ember, India achieved the third-largest increase in solar generation in 2025: +53 TWh, or a 37 percent growth compared to the previous year. This is in part due to an initiative launched in 2024 which offers subsidies of up to 40 percent of the cost to households to install rooftop solar panels. Furthermore, while India’s power demand grew by 49 TWh last year, the country’s renewable energy generation represented double that amount (98 TWh in total). This follows a global trend: in 2025, clean power sources fully covered the world’s growing electricity demand.
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The Czech solar sector is entering a period of structural change shaped by shifting political priorities, evolving subsidy mechanisms and growing uncertainty around potential EU restrictions on solar inverters. While residential deployment has been temporarily distorted by funding transitions, commercial and utility-scale pipelines remain more active, supported by regulatory reforms under discussion.
“The market is currently navigating a fragmented policy environment, with differing approaches between ministries responsible for environmental funding and broader energy strategy,” Jan Krcmar, Director of the Czech Solar Association, told pv magazine at the Smarter E event in Munich, Germany.
Krcmar said recent political shifts have created uncertainty in the residential PV segment, particularly after the abrupt end of funding for key renovation and solar subsidy programmes at the end of last year.
The resulting pause created a temporary slowdown and prompted a broader debate within the industry about long-term subsidy dependence.
In response to the funding gap, the government is preparing a new support scheme based on zero-interest loans, expected to begin in September. However, the transition has led to a short-term delay in residential decision-making as consumers wait for the new framework to take effect.
Beyond domestic policy changes, the industry is also monitoring discussions at EU level around possible restrictions on Chinese-manufactured inverters in subsidised projects. Krcmar told pv magazine such a move could have significant implications for deployment rates in smaller European markets.
“Four out of the five dominant inverter brands in the Czech Republic are Chinese. The remaining major player, SolarEdge, recently closed its local offices because our market is deemed too small,” Krcmar said.
He warned that removing these supply chains without equivalent local capacity could slow deployment significantly, particularly in smaller markets where European manufacturers have limited commercial infrastructure.
Industry stakeholders in Czechia are also pointing to the importance of local technical support and service networks, which are often provided by manufacturers with established regional teams.
While residential activity has been affected by policy transitions, the commercial and industrial (C&I) segment continues to represent Czechia’s most stable market segment. Developers are currently advancing a wave of rooftop PV projects supported by recently available capital subsidy programmes. “We expect a wave of these utility-scale rooftop installations to break ground throughout the remainder of this year and early next year,” Krcmar stated.
At the same time, attention is shifting toward a major overhaul of the national building code, which is currently progressing through parliament. If approved, the reform is expected to help reshapesite permitting and development conditions for larger renewable energy projects.
Key proposed changes include measures to prevent double charging of network tariffs for storage systems, streamlined land-use conversion procedures for agricultural land, and simplified permitting for large-scale infrastructure projects. The reform also seeks to limit local-level restrictions on renewable energy developments above certain thresholds.
Industry groups in Czechia are also working with regulators on a broader reform of network tariff structures aimed at accelerating the deployment of standalone battery storage systems. The proposed changes are intended to support front-of-the-meter storage investment and provide grid operators with additional flexibility to manage congestion and unlock constrained capacity.
Krcmar said the combination of evolving subsidy mechanisms, potential CfD-style support instruments and storage-focused tariff reform indicates a gradual maturing of the Czech regulatory framework. “This reform will heavily incentivize the deployment of front-of-the-meter, standalone battery systems and provide grid operators with the economic tools needed to unblock artificially restricted grid capacity,” he said.
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Jinko Solar Co., one of the top five solar manufacturers in China, is looking to recoup expenses this year, as government measures alleviate the chronic overcapacity that has plunged the sector into more than two years of deep losses.
“This year is going to be pivotal to return to breakeven,” Dany Qian, the company’s global vice president, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday.
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Solar PV and energy storage developer Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has secured a €100 million (£86 million) convertible bond investment that will accelerate its ongoing construction of UK clean energy assets.
Secured through INFRAGREEN V, an infrastructure fund managed by investment management company RGREEN INVEST, this investment builds on a previous partnership between the two companies in June 2025.
The investment will support PACE’s transition into an owner and operator of clean infrastructure and help finance the construction of a nearly 400MW solar PV and more than 200MW battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio, while advancing its development pipeline, including clean data centre projects.
Among the developer's clean energy pipeline are eight projects for a combined 250MWp that have secured Contracts for Difference (CfDs) through the latest Allocation Round 7 (AR7a).
The portfolio is built under a co-location strategy to combine solar PV with BESS, with the proceeds of the financing primarily dedicated to the construction of these assets over the next two years.
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Beyond its ready-to-build portfolio, PACE has a total of 3GW of development pipeline across the UK and international markets. The company’s pipeline of projects will be carried out by its in-house engineering and asset management team.
Rob Denman, Managing Director at PACE said: “The UK’s clean infrastructure ambitions are substantial, and PACE’s permitted pipeline, experienced team and extensive construction programme puts us in an exceptional position to navigate delivery. Our UK and international developments put PACE at the forefront of the exciting and innovative clean infrastructure sector where the energy and digital sectors meet.”
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Slovenia’s photovoltaic market is entering a new phase, marked by the introduction of a nationwide energy sharing mechanism, growing adoption of battery storage, and a recovery in the residential segment following two years of slower growth.
“The recently launched energy-sharing framework has attracted strong initial interest, with more than 1,000 registrations recorded,” Nina Hojnik, General Manager of the Slovenian Photovoltaic Association (ZSFV) told pv magazine.
The energy sharing mechanism will allow electricity producers and consumers to allocate solar generation between different metering points through a centralized platform. Participants will be able to determine their own arrangements, including sharing electricity at market prices, symbolic prices, or without charge.
Hojnik told pv magazine the new framework could expand access to solar energy for consumers who do not have suitable rooftops for their own installations. “Because the mechanism is available nationwide, generation and consumption do not need to occur at the same location,” she explained.
Hojnik explained that the initial registration period has also brought challenges related to consumer understanding. The energy sharing mechanism will operate on 15-minute settlement intervals and requires users to define allocation keys in advance, either on a monthly or annual basis.
The first wave of registrations are mainly from existing prosumers transitioning from Slovenia’s previous net-metering framework, particularly those with relatively large rooftop systems. Industry observers expect broader participation over time, Hojnik said, as consumers become more familiar with the mechanism.
The launch comes as Slovenia continues its gradual transition away from net metering, a policy that played a central role in accelerating residential PV deployment over the past decade. Existing net-metering installations will continue to retain their rights under current legislation for the operational lifetime of the system, which can extend up to 25 years.
The residential segment has shown signs of recovery in 2026 after a slowdown that followed the energy-price crisis and subsequent policy changes.
Hojnik told pv magazine residential installation volumes have already exceeded 2025 levels. Grid connection approvals have also stabilized compared with recent years.
The recovery is being supported by declining system costs and incentives for battery storage. Hojnik said rebate programs have significantly improved the economics of residential solar-plus-storage systems, contributing to payback periods that are typically estimated at between five and seven years.
Commercial and industrial (C&I) installations continue to account for the majority of new activity in Slovenia’s PV sector.
Companies are investing in behind-the-meter solar systems to reduce electricity costs and support corporate sustainability objectives, Hojnik said. Storage retrofits are also becoming more common as businesses seek greater operational flexibility and resilience.
Hojnik estimates that rooftop systems account for more than 95% of Slovenia’s installed solar capacity, while utility-scale projects represent less than 5% of the market, with grid constraints and land-use considerations continuing to present challenges for larger projects.
As Slovenia’s solar market matures, battery storage and digital energy-management tools are expected to become increasingly important.
The shift reflects broader changes taking place across European solar markets, where self-consumption, flexibility, and distributed energy resources are becoming more important as traditional net-metering schemes are phased out.
“The only stable thing we’ve experienced in the last five years is instability,” Hojnik said said. “If you want to buffer your home or business against future economic and grid-related pressures, decentralized solar combined with storage is becoming an increasingly attractive option.”
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Researchers from Jordan have evaluated the performance of a battery energy storage system (BESS) using grid-forming (GFM) control to enhance stability in solar PV plants. Grid-forming controls emulate synchronous generators and provide fast frequency and voltage support during grid outages, large PV fluctuations, load changes, and fault events.
“The novelty of this research lies in the comprehensive evaluation of a GFM-BESS integrated with utility-scale solar PV plants under a wide range of operating conditions,” corresponding author Lina Alhmoud told pv magazine. “While previous studies have largely focused on either theoretical analyses or limited case studies, our work systematically investigates the capability of GFM-BESS to enhance frequency stability, voltage regulation, and system resilience during grid disturbances.”
Alhmoud said the study provides quantitative evidence that grid-forming control strategies can support the transition to inverter-dominated power systems with high renewable energy penetration. She added that follow-up research will focus on coordinated operation of multiple grid-forming resources in large-scale renewable systems, optimization of control parameters under varying grid strengths, interactions between grid-forming battery systems and other renewable technologies such as wind power and hybrid plants, and techno-economic assessments of real-world deployment.
The researchers modeled a utility-scale renewable energy system consisting of a 100 MW solar PV plant and a 35 MW / 60 MWh BESS. The PV plant was connected to a 4.16 kV distribution network via a 4.16/24.9 kV transformer, while the medium-voltage network was linked to a 230 kV transmission grid through a 24.9/230 kV transformer. The BESS was equipped with a grid-forming inverter based on a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) controller, enabling synthetic inertia, voltage regulation, and frequency support. The system also included a local three-phase load and an equivalent external grid, with grid strength varied using the short-circuit ratio (SCR).
To assess stability, the researchers simulated a range of operating scenarios, including a grid outage disconnecting the PV plant and BESS from the external grid, a 50% reduction in PV output, a 45% increase in load demand, a 100 ms temporary three-phase fault, and a permanent three-phase fault. They also varied SCR values from 0.42 to 4.5 to evaluate performance under weak- and strong-grid conditions.
“One of the most interesting findings was the significant improvement in system stability achieved with grid-forming control, particularly during severe disturbances and weak-grid conditions,” Alhmoud said. “The results demonstrated that the GFM-BESS could rapidly support frequency and voltage recovery while maintaining stable operation of the solar PV plant. The extent of the stability enhancement exceeded initial expectations, highlighting the strong potential of grid-forming technology in future renewable-rich power networks.”
According to the simulation results, during a 50% reduction in PV output, total plant power temporarily dropped from about 92–93 MW to 70–72 MW, while frequency deviation remained limited to approximately 0.8–1.0 Hz and settled within 0.5 s. Following a 45% load increase, power fell to 75–77 MW and frequency deviated by 1.3–1.5 Hz, before recovering in less than 0.4 s.
In the most severe temporary fault scenario, voltage at the point of interconnection dropped to 0.25–0.30 pu before rapidly recovering after fault clearance. Under a permanent fault, the system remained stable despite voltage falling to 0.7–0.8 pu, reactive power peaking at 45–48 MVAR, and frequency deviations of up to 2.5 Hz.
The results have appeared in “Performance evaluation of grid-forming battery energy storage systems for stability enhancement in solar PV plants,” published in Scientific Reports. Researchers from Jordan’s Yarmouk University and Al-Ahliyya Amman University have participated in the research.
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According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Hot-Melt Glass Adhesives market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture.
The world Hot-Melt Glass Adhesives market is entering a phase of sustained expansion, with demand projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 6.2% from 2026 to 2035, reaching a market index of 185 relative to the 2025 baseline. This growth is underpinned by the increasing integration of glass substrates in electronic displays, sensor modules, semiconductor packaging, and optical systems, where hot-melt adhesives offer rapid curing, high bond strength, and optical clarity. Asia-Pacific remains the dominant consumption hub, accounting for an estimated 58% of global demand, with China, South Korea, and Taiwan serving as primary manufacturing and assembly centers. Premium optical-grade formulations now represent approximately 40% of total market value, growing 1.5 times faster than standard industrial grades due to stringent requirements for clarity, thermal cycling resistance, and durability in display and optical applications. The market is also benefiting from the transition toward low-temperature curing and UV-initiated hot-melt systems, which enable bonding of thermally sensitive electronic components and widen the addressable application scope in compact camera modules, fingerprint sensors, and augmented reality optics. Supply chain localization initiatives in North America and Europe are spurring new compounding and formulation capacity for electronic-grade hot-melt adhesives, reducing historical dependence on Asian-sourced specialty materials. However, raw material cost volatility, lengthy qualification cycles, and regulatory divergence across major markets pose challenges to growth. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of market size, demand structure, supply capability, trade flows, pricing, competitive landscape, and forecast to 2035, offering a data-
The baseline scenario for the Hot-Melt Glass Adhesives market from 2026 to 2035 assumes steady global economic growth, continued expansion of electronics manufacturing, and increasing glass content in automotive and architectural applications. Under this scenario, world consumption is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.2%, driven by structural demand from the electronics sector, which accounts for the largest share of end-use. The automotive glazing segment is projected to grow at 5.5% annually, supported by trends toward larger windshields, panoramic roofs, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) that require reliable bonding. The architectural glass segment is forecast to expand at 4.8% per year, fueled by urbanization and demand for energy-efficient curtain walls and structural glazing. Solar panel assembly, while smaller in volume, is the fastest-growing segment at 8.0% CAGR, driven by global renewable energy targets and the need for durable, UV-resistant adhesives in photovoltaic modules. The specialty glass fabrication segment, including optical and medical devices, is expected to grow at 6.5% CAGR, benefiting from innovation in augmented reality, wearable devices, and precision instrumentation. Supply-side dynamics are characterized by capacity expansions in North America and Europe, as well as ongoing raw material price volatility for high-purity thermoplastic elastomers, tackifying resins, and specialty waxes. The market is moderately concentrated, with the top ten players holding approximately 55% of global revenue. Pricing is expected to remain stable in real terms, with slight upward pressure from premium formulations. Trade flows are dominated by intra-Asia shipments, with China as the largest exporter and the United States as the largest importer. The b
The electronics and optical systems segment is the largest and fastest-growing end-use sector for hot-melt glass adhesives, accounting for 42% of global demand. These adhesives are used to bond glass substrates to metal frames, polymer housings, and semiconductor packages in devices such as smartphone displays, tablet screens, laptop panels, and wearable optics. The shift toward thinner, lighter, and more durable devices is driving demand for adhesives that offer optical clarity, thermal cycling resistance, and rapid curing. Key demand-side indicators include global smartphone production volumes, display panel shipments, and AR/VR headset sales. By 2035, the segment is expected to benefit from the proliferation of augmented reality glasses, in-vehicle displays, and foldable screens, which require precise bonding of multiple glass layers. The transition to low-temperature and UV-initiated hot-melt systems is enabling bonding of heat-sensitive components, widening the application scope. Major trends include miniaturization, higher resolution displays, and integration of sensors directly onto glass surfaces. The competitive landscape is dominated by specialty adhesive formulators that offer integrated material-equipment-process validation packages. Current trend: Strong growth driven by display modules, camera sensors, and AR/VR optics.
Major trends: Miniaturization of electronic components driving need for precise, low-stress bonding, Adoption of UV-initiated hot-melt systems for heat-sensitive substrates, Integration of optical sensors and cameras into display modules, and Growth of foldable and flexible displays requiring durable glass-polymer bonds.
Representative participants: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, 3M Company, DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA, Dymax Corporation, and Mitsubishi Chemical Group.
The automotive glazing segment represents 25% of the hot-melt glass adhesives market, driven by the increasing use of glass in vehicle design, including larger windshields, panoramic roofs, rear windows, and side glazing. Hot-melt adhesives are used to bond glass to vehicle frames, providing structural integrity, vibration damping, and weather sealing. The rise of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) has created additional demand for adhesives that bond camera modules, LiDAR sensors, and radar units to windshields and other glass surfaces. Key demand-side indicators include global vehicle production volumes, the penetration of ADAS features, and the adoption of panoramic glass roofs. By 2035, the segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.5%, supported by trends toward electric vehicles (EVs), which often feature larger glass areas for aerodynamics and aesthetics. The shift toward autonomous driving will further increase the number of sensors bonded to glass. Major trends include the use of low-temperature curing adhesives to avoid thermal stress on sensitive electronics, and the development of adhesives that can withstand higher temperatures from EV battery systems. The competitive landscape includes both global adhesive suppliers and automotive tier-1 integrators. Current trend: Steady growth supported by larger glass areas and ADAS sensor bonding.
Major trends: Larger panoramic roofs and fixed glazing in EVs, Integration of ADAS sensors and cameras into windshields, Demand for adhesives with high thermal resistance for EV battery proximity, and Low-temperature curing to protect sensitive electronic components.
Representative participants: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Sika AG, H.B. Fuller Company, 3M Company, and Bostik (Arkema).
The architectural glass segment accounts for 18% of global hot-melt glass adhesives demand, driven by the use of glass in building facades, curtain walls, windows, and interior partitions. Hot-melt adhesives are employed in structural glazing applications where rapid setting and high bond strength are required to secure glass panels to metal frames. The segment is supported by global urbanization, commercial construction activity, and stricter energy efficiency regulations that favor double- and triple-glazed units. Key demand-side indicators include construction spending, floor space additions, and green building certifications. By 2035, the segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.8%, with particular strength in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, where large-scale infrastructure projects are underway. Trends include the use of larger glass panels, demand for adhesives with UV resistance and weatherability, and the adoption of automated dispensing systems for curtain wall assembly. Major companies in this segment offer adhesives that meet fire safety standards and building codes. The competitive landscape includes both global adhesive manufacturers and regional suppliers serving local construction markets. Current trend: Moderate growth from urbanization and energy-efficient building trends.
Major trends: Larger glass panels and complex curtain wall designs, Energy-efficient glazing systems with multiple glass layers, Automated adhesive dispensing for faster on-site assembly, and Fire-resistant and weatherable adhesive formulations.
Representative participants: Sika AG, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Bostik (Arkema), H.B. Fuller Company, and Jowat SE.
The solar panel assembly segment, while currently the smallest at 10% of demand, is the fastest-growing end-use sector for hot-melt glass adhesives, with a projected CAGR of 8.0% through 2035. These adhesives are used in the lamination of photovoltaic (PV) modules, bonding glass covers to solar cells and backsheets, and sealing edges to protect against moisture ingress. The growth is driven by global renewable energy targets, declining solar panel costs, and the expansion of utility-scale and rooftop solar installations. Key demand-side indicators include annual PV installation capacity, solar module production volumes, and government subsidies for clean energy. By 2035, the segment is expected to benefit from the development of bifacial modules, which require transparent adhesives on both sides, and building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), where glass adhesives must meet architectural standards. Trends include the use of UV-resistant and thermally stable hot-melt formulations, as well as the adoption of automated lamination lines. Major companies in this segment include both adhesive suppliers and PV module manufacturers that develop in-house bonding solutions. Current trend: Fastest-growing segment driven by renewable energy targets.
Major trends: Growth of bifacial solar modules requiring transparent adhesives, Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) combining glass and solar functions, Automated lamination processes for higher throughput, and UV-resistant and thermally stable adhesive formulations.
Representative participants: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, H.B. Fuller Company, 3M Company, Mitsubishi Chemical Group, and Tex Year Industries.
The specialty glass fabrication segment accounts for 5% of the market but represents a high-value niche, driven by demand for precision bonding in medical devices, optical instruments, and industrial equipment. Hot-melt adhesives are used to assemble glass components in endoscopes, microscope lenses, laboratory glassware, and optical sensors, where clarity, biocompatibility, and chemical resistance are critical. Key demand-side indicators include medical device production, R&D spending on optical systems, and industrial automation investments. By 2035, the segment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.5%, supported by innovation in minimally invasive surgical tools, augmented reality optics, and precision measurement equipment. Trends include the development of low-outgassing adhesives for vacuum and cleanroom environments, and the use of hot-melt systems that allow rework during assembly. Major companies in this segment are specialty chemical firms that offer customized formulations for specific applications. The competitive landscape is fragmented, with many small and medium-sized players serving regional markets. Current trend: Niche but high-value growth from precision instrumentation and medical devices.
Major trends: Miniaturization of medical devices requiring precise glass bonding, Low-outgassing adhesives for vacuum and cleanroom applications, Reworkable hot-melt systems for complex assembly processes, and Growth of augmented reality optics and precision instrumentation.
Representative participants: DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA, Dymax Corporation, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, 3M Company, and Jowat SE.
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Asia-Pacific is the largest market, driven by electronics manufacturing in China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Demand is supported by display panel production, semiconductor packaging, and automotive assembly. The region is also a major production hub for hot-melt adhesives, with significant capacity expansions in China and Southeast Asia. Direction: Dominant and growing.
North America accounts for 18% of demand, led by the United States. Growth is supported by automotive glazing, solar panel assembly, and electronics manufacturing. Supply chain localization initiatives are spurring new compounding capacity, reducing reliance on Asian imports. The region is also a key market for premium optical-grade adhesives. Direction: Stable with localized growth.
Europe holds a 15% share, with demand concentrated in Germany, France, and Italy. The market is driven by automotive glazing, architectural glass, and specialty optics. Stringent REACH regulations influence formulation choices, favoring low-VOC and sustainable products. The region is also a hub for adhesive R&D and high-value applications. Direction: Moderate growth.
Latin America represents 5% of global demand, with Brazil and Mexico as key markets. Growth is driven by automotive assembly and construction activity. The region is a net importer of hot-melt glass adhesives, with limited local production. Economic volatility and infrastructure gaps pose challenges, but urbanization supports gradual expansion. Direction: Emerging growth.
The Middle East & Africa region accounts for 4% of demand, with growth concentrated in the Gulf states and South Africa. Demand is driven by architectural glass for large-scale construction projects and solar panel installations. The region relies heavily on imports, and political instability can disrupt supply chains. However, renewable energy investments offer growth potential. Direction: Niche but expanding.
In the baseline scenario, IndexBox estimates a 6.2% compound annual growth rate for the global hot-melt glass adhesives market over 2026-2035, bringing the market index to roughly 185 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 Hot-Melt Glass Adhesives market report.
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the Hot-Melt Glass Adhesives market in the world, covering market size, growth trajectory, demand structure, supply capability, trade flows, pricing, competitive landscape, and forecast to 2035.
The study is designed for manufacturers, distributors, importers, exporters, investors, procurement teams, advisors, and strategy teams that need a consistent, data-driven view of market dynamics and a transparent analytical definition of the product scope.
This report covers the market for hot-melt glass adhesives, which are thermoplastic adhesives applied in a molten state to bond glass substrates to themselves or to other materials. The scope includes adhesives used in automotive glazing, architectural glass, solar panel assembly, and specialty glass fabrication, where rapid setting and high bond strength are required.
The report combines the standard market-statistics backbone with strategic chapters that are useful for commercial planning, sourcing decisions, market entry, competitor monitoring, and portfolio prioritization.
The market is segmented into decision-relevant buckets so that demand drivers, pricing logic, supply constraints, and competitive positions can be compared across the same analytical frame.
The classification coverage encompasses hot-melt glass adhesives categorized by product type, including base adhesives, components and modules, integrated systems, and consumables/replacement parts. The report segments the market by application into industrial automation and instrumentation, electronics and optical systems, semiconductor and precision manufacturing, and OEM integration and maintenance. Additionally, the value chain is analyzed across upstream inputs and critical components, manufacturing/assembly/quality control, distribution/integration/channel partners, and after-sales service/replacement/lifecycle support.
Coverage includes global totals, major demand markets, production and sourcing hubs, leading exporters and importers, and country profiles for the top national markets.
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Key player in automotive and construction glass adhesives
Strong in specialty hot-melt formulations
Focus on building envelope and automotive glass
Diverse portfolio including glass bonding tapes
Bostik brand is key in glass adhesive solutions
Strong in automotive and architectural glass
Specialty silicones for high-performance glass bonding
Key supplier for photovoltaic glass assembly
Specialist in reactive hot-melts for glass
Focus on high-temperature resistant glass adhesives
Pressure-sensitive hot-melt solutions for glass
Known for construction and DIY glass adhesives
Strong in European construction glass market
Major supplier in Asia-Pacific glass assembly
Growing presence in solar glass bonding
Specialist in glass container adhesives
Focus on high-purity glass bonding for optics
Innovator in light-curing glass adhesives
Custom formulations for high-tech glass bonding
Niche in rapid-curing glass adhesives
Focus on low-temperature hot-melts for glass
Strong in automotive interior glass bonding
UK-based specialist in EVA hot-melts
Major Asian producer of hot-melt sticks and granules
Diversified into glass bonding applications
Italian specialist in decorative glass adhesives
Focus on aerospace and automotive glass
Tremco brand serves construction glass market
Construction-focused adhesive solutions
Fevicol brand includes glass adhesives
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APPLETON (NBC 26) — The city of Appleton is adding solar panels to the roof of its library, a project expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The library, built in 2025, already uses a geothermal system that heats and cools the building by exchanging energy with the earth underneath it. The solar panels will be built on that foundation.
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Steven Schrage, Appleton’s project and resiliency manager, has spent a decade working to make the city more environmentally friendly. He said the geothermal system already eliminated the building’s emissions.
Now, the city is taking the next step.
“And now we’re taking the sun to power that system,” Schrage said.
The solar panel installation carries a $700,000 price tag, but through the Inflation Reduction Act, the city expects to pay around $475,000. Within seven years, the energy generated is projected to pay for the system entirely. The panels will produce 30% of the library’s electricity and save the city $70,000 a year.
Schrage said the approach to sustainability extends beyond the library.
“By going electric, we’re transferring those emissions right back to the power plant, so we’re taking that out of the community,” Schrage said.
NBC 26 toured the only other Appleton city building currently equipped with solar panels alongside Schrage, who described what the library roof could soon look like.
“Our municipal service building for the city of Appleton has a very large solar array,” Schrage said.
Neighbors near the library said they support the investment. Lily Elbe said renewable energy is always a welcome addition.
“I think it’s great, renewable energy anyway you can get it is great,” Elbe said.
Katie DeRuyter, who visits the library regularly as a parent, said the project reflects smart stewardship.
“The way the library is able to implement things and help serve patrons a little bit better by saving a little bit of money is fantastic,” DeRuyter said.
Designs for the project are still being finalized. The city hopes to have the solar panels installed on the library roof by the end of the year.
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A Professor of Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Prof. Christian Kwaku Amuzuvi, has called on the government to remove the 20 per cent tax on solar PV systems to encourage wider adoption of solar energy and accelerate Ghana’s transition to cleaner energy sources.
Prof. Amuzuvi made the call while delivering UMaT’s 13th Professorial Inaugural Lecture on the topic, “Driving the Green Energy Transition: Translating Ghana’s LPG Adoption Model to Residential Rooftop Solar PV Systems.”
Speaking to Citi News and Channel One TV after the lecture on Wednesday, June 24, Prof. Amuzuvi noted that Ghana’s efforts toward energy transition have been progressing slowly, making it necessary for the government to introduce targeted incentives to boost solar energy uptake.
He explained that removing taxes on solar PV systems would make the technology more affordable for households and businesses, similar to the incentives that supported the widespread adoption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Ghana.
According to him, the government should prioritise increasing access to solar energy through tax reliefs and other supportive policies before considering any future taxation of solar PV systems.
“If we don’t go for it, nothing happens. We have nothing to lose if we go for it now. Just as we did for the LPG national programme, and now today every home has several cylinders, not one, not two. We have been attracted to use it, and now, even if we increase the price, we will still go for it. Because we know how good it is.
“So what I’m saying is that, look, we can do the same thing for residential rooftop solar PV systems. And so, the government should remove all the taxes. Remove it for a start. Just remove it. Within five or seven years, remove it. Once you get people to buy into it, you can gradually increase it to now make some money.
“But for now, let’s just remove the taxes. And you will see how many Ghanaians will go for this system,” he said.
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The global shift towards clean energy is no longer confined to large power stations and utility-scale renewable projects. Across the world, citizens, housing societies, farmers, businesses, and local institutions are increasingly becoming active participants in producing their own electricity.
This transformation is giving rise to a new concept known as solar communities—a model that democratises energy generation and empowers people to become producers as well as consumers of clean power.
Solar communities are collaborative arrangements in which multiple individuals or organisations share the benefits of electricity generated from a common solar installation. These installations may be located on residential rooftops, community buildings, agricultural land, industrial estates, or public institutions.
Unlike conventional power systems that rely on centralised generation and long-distance transmission, solar communities bring electricity production closer to consumers. This localised approach:
The fundamental principles of solar communities include:
A solar cooperative society typically consists of housing society residents, farmers, small businesses, and local institutions pooling their financial resources or land to establish shared solar power systems.
Such collective arrangements substantially reduce installation costs while allowing members to share electricity savings and earn income from surplus power supplied to the grid.
Government-supported financing through institutions such as the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), the State Bank of India (SBI), and other financial institutions can further strengthen these initiatives through concessional loans and renewable energy financing schemes. Members may also serve as mutual guarantors, making financing more accessible and affordable.
Electricity generated from community solar installations can be:
Typically, solar panels are installed on residential buildings, schools, industrial facilities, agricultural structures, and community spaces. Energy generated is allocated among participants based on their investment or subscription share.
Excess electricity can be exported to the grid, generating credits or additional revenue.
Several countries have demonstrated the enormous potential of community-based solar energy.
Vietnam stunned the world by adding nearly 6 gigawatts of rooftop solar capacity within a single month when supportive policies and incentives were introduced.
Germany, the United States, Japan, and Australia have also become global leaders in promoting solar cooperatives and community-owned renewable energy systems.
Studies indicate that if rooftops worldwide were effectively utilised, they could generate nearly 27 petawatt-hours of electricity annually—enough to transform global energy systems.
This transition is also creating thousands of green jobs in manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and energy management.
One of the most significant advantages of solar communities is resilience.
Neighbourhoods equipped with rooftop solar systems and battery storage can continue to function during grid failures, natural disasters, and extreme weather events.
As climate-related disruptions become more frequent, decentralised energy systems offer greater reliability and energy independence for households and communities.
Many residential societies are installing rooftop solar systems on apartment buildings, parking structures, and common facilities.
The electricity generated powers:
This reduces maintenance costs and lowers residents’ electricity bills.
Farmer groups are jointly developing solar installations to operate:
Surplus electricity is sold to distribution companies, creating an additional source of income for farming communities.
Large solar parks increasingly involve local communities through:
Such participation ensures that renewable energy development also contributes to local economic growth.
Remote villages are establishing solar microgrids to provide reliable electricity for:
These systems reduce dependence on diesel generators and unreliable grid supply.
Universities, schools, hospitals, and public institutions are increasingly adopting shared solar systems to reduce operational costs while demonstrating environmental responsibility.
India has immense potential to develop dedicated Solar Cooperative Societies.
These cooperatives could undertake:
Such an approach would make solar power accessible even to low-income communities that may otherwise struggle to invest individually.
India has one of the world’s largest rooftop solar potentials, yet only a small fraction has been utilised.
A national “Right to Solar” policy could become a game-changing reform by guaranteeing every eligible building owner the ability to install solar systems without unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles.
Countries such as Spain, Vietnam, and Brazil have already demonstrated how supportive regulatory frameworks can rapidly expand rooftop solar adoption.
India can achieve similar success through clear and predictable policies.
Three factors are particularly important:
Citizens should have a legally protected right to install rooftop solar systems without unnecessary restrictions.
A transparent and stable tariff for surplus electricity exported to the grid encourages investment and improves financial viability.
Local governments can facilitate community solar projects combined with battery storage systems, enabling residents to access affordable electricity and share financial benefits through a “solar dividend.”
Solar communities reduce electricity costs through collective investment and bulk procurement.
They also create employment opportunities in:
In many Indian states, the growth of solar power is encouraging the establishment of small-scale industries in suburban and rural areas.
Access to affordable green electricity attracts enterprises such as:
Panchayats and local bodies can play an important role in facilitating these connections, thereby creating additional employment and strengthening rural economies.
India’s solar expansion is creating a new generation of green jobs.
The sector requires trained:
As solar cooperatives expand across urban and rural areas, demand for specialised skills will continue to grow, creating sustainable employment opportunities for young professionals and technical workers.
By replacing fossil-fuel-based electricity with renewable solar energy, communities can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
Solar communities contribute directly to national climate goals while improving local environmental quality.
Equally important are the social benefits. Community-owned energy systems:
Solar communities represent far more than an energy solution. They offer a pathway to:
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Although the efficiency of organic solar cells has now risen to over 20 percent, there are physical limits that make it difficult to further increase their performance.
A research team of Linköping University in Sweden, University of Potsdam, Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin and other collaborators has now been able to demonstrate which physical processes limit a key parameter for the performance of organic solar cells. This opens up the possibility of overcoming the long-standing efficiency limits of organic solar cells.
The efficiency of solar cells is essentially determined by three parameters: short-circuit current, open-circuit voltage, and fill factor, which describe their performance in a current-voltage curve. All three parameters need to be further optimized so that organic solar cells can truly compete with established solar cell technologies.
However, recent publications show that an improvement in the open-circuit voltage often leads to a simultaneous deterioration in the fill factor—and vice versa. This challenge has now been addressed through a close collaboration between the research groups of Prof. Feng Gao (Linköping University, Sweden), Prof. Dieter Neher (University of Potsdam) and Prof. Safa Shoaee (Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Berlin) together with other participants. The team was able to demonstrate that, under certain conditions, the generation of free electric charges in the active layer of the solar cell depends heavily on the electric field in the organic semiconductor material. “This results in a previously poorly understood limitation on the fill factor, which becomes particularly relevant when voltage losses need to be minimized,” explains Dieter Neher.
In organic solar cells, light excites certain states known as excitons. An exciton consists of a negatively charged electron that is bound to a positively charged hole on the same molecule and therefore cannot move freely. The separation of these electron-hole pairs into free electric charges is achieved through a charge transfer that has been the subject of intensive research by the groups of Dieter Neher and Safa Shoaee in recent years. In the actual publication, the concepts developed in this work were incorporated into simulations of the entire solar cell. The results showed that the lifetime of the excitons and the energy released by charge transfer are the most important parameters determining the fill factor at low voltage losses.
“We were able to trace the trade-off between fill factor and open-circuit voltage back to a few physical quantities and simulate how this limitation can be significantly mitigated by increasing the exciton lifetime,” says Dieter Neher. Experimental and theoretical results confirm that a longer exciton lifetime is a crucial factor in further increasing efficiency. To test this approach, the team developed new material combinations. The organic solar cells produced using these combinations achieved both high fill factors and high total power output. The model provides general guidelines for material development and the optimization of solar cell components. It thus opens up new possibilities for overcoming long-standing efficiency limits in organic solar cells and further increasing their performance.
Link to Publication: Zhang, H., Yuan, J., Wang, T. et al. Overcoming the fill-factor limit of organic solar cells. Nat. Photon. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-026-01946-8
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Picture a modest house on a street where electricity bills arrive every month like a small emergency. The roof holds no solar panels, even though the sun beats down just as hard here as it does across town on the bigger homes that already have them. For a few years, a federal program set out to change that picture for nearly a million American families. Then, just as it was working, it stopped.
Clean energy has never been distributed equally. Disadvantaged communities have far fewer solar panels on their rooftops than higher-income areas, even when they face the highest energy burdens.
For Native American tribes, the gap is especially stark. Indigenous families face a significantly higher energy burden on average than other households, according to the Department of Energy.
The reason is straightforward: the upfront cost of going solar has always been a wall. Renters, tribal households and low-income homeowners were simply left out of a technology that was supposed to belong to everyone.
That was precisely the problem one sweeping federal program was designed to fix, and for a while, it genuinely looked like it was going to.
The EPA announced 60 organizations that would receive a combined $7 billion in grants to bring residential solar to low-income neighborhoods across the country.
By funding programs that provide rooftop solar panels, batteries to store solar energy, and community solar farms, the EPA expected to help more than 900,000 low-income households reduce pollution and reduce bills.
All told, the program was expected to prevent over 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from ever entering the atmosphere while also creating 200,000 jobs.
Harris County, Texas, which encompasses Houston, was awarded $249 million to provide distributed solar and battery storage to disadvantaged communities. The award included workforce training for low-income residents and minority and women-owned businesses, making it one of the biggest single awards in the country.
Here is the part that surprises almost everyone: alongside the push to make solar affordable on land, researchers are pursuing something happening far beneath the surface of the sea.
Researchers are now studying how to power underwater robots with solar energy, specifically, how to make solar cells viable for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles. Scientists at NYU Tandon School of Engineering are developing alternative power solutions for these vehicles, with the goal of enabling unrestricted diving patterns and eliminating the need to resurface to recharge.
Solar power is a potential solution: sunlight can penetrate surprisingly deeply into the oceans. Visible light, particularly in the green to blue part of the spectrum, can reach waters up to 50 metres deep. However, the silicon photovoltaic cells used on land are optimised for the red part of the spectrum, which means underwater solar requires purpose-built technology rather than a simple transfer of rooftop hardware.
Improved understanding of marine ecosystems is one of the goals driving this research, and continuous solar-powered monitoring stations represent a promising tool for long-term environmental observation.
The program, officially called Solar for All, had already survived one near-death experience when federal funding was frozen in early 2025. A federal court ruled in April 2025 that the EPA could not freeze existing Solar for All contracts, and new and existing solar programs were expected to resume as planned.
That relief did not last. The Environmental Protection Agency announced it was terminating the program entirely, cutting off renewable and affordable energy access for low-income communities mid-stride.
On August 7, 2025, Administrator Zeldin announced the agency would no longer implement the program. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025, repealed the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Zeldin cited as removing the EPA’s statutory authority to administer Solar for All and its remaining funds. That termination is now being contested in court: multiple grant recipients and advocacy groups have sued the EPA, arguing the rescission was unlawful because Congress had already obligated the funds.
For tribal communities already a year into their projects, the timing felt like a particular betrayal. “Tribes have always endured broken promises for many generations at the federal level, and this is just another broken promise,” Cody Two Bears told CBS News.
The program had delivered genuine early results too. Indigenized Energy had completed one of the first Solar for All projects in the country earlier in 2025, despite setbacks when funding had been frozen.
Solar energy itself has not retreated. Costs keep falling, and the technology keeps finding new places to go, from offshore wind and solar infrastructure reshaping marine ecosystems, to the rooftops of homes that have never had access before.
Researchers tracking wildlife drawn to solar farms after dark have found that these installations create unexpected living corridors in places once written off as wasteland.
State-level programs and nonprofits are working to fill the gap left by the federal withdrawal, and community solar models let renters subscribe to a shared array without ever touching a rooftop.
The story of Solar for All is genuinely unresolved, and different observers draw opposite conclusions about why it ended. What is harder to dispute is what the program actually did while it ran: it pointed the sun at streets that had been in the shade for too long, and it showed that the technology works just as well there as anywhere else.
The light did not disappear. It just needs a new path to the people who need it most.
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US-based metals company Comstock, through its subsidiary Comstock Metals, in collaboration with non-profit economic development firm JobsOhio and its southeastern regional network partner OhioSE will establish an industrial-scale solar panel recycling plant, production facility, and logistics hub in Cambridge, Ohio.
The project is expected to create around 20 jobs locally and includes a 21,570 square-foot facility with an adjacent laydown yard. The project is being supported by a US$75,000 grant from JobsOhio.
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OhioSE assisted Comstock Metals in securing the incentive and establishing the site in Cambridge.
“Our new Cambridge facility in Ohio is an integral part of our growing national capacity of logistics, storage and recycling of end-of-life solar materials that are decommissioning across the country,” said Corrado De Gasperis, CEO of Comstock Inc.
The expansion is aimed at scaling Comstock Metals’ circular recycling operations, reducing logistics costs that account for an estimated 30–50% of total recycling expenses, and improving service to its growing Midwest and Eastern US customer base.
Comstock Metals currently operates a recycling facility in Silver Springs, Nevada, where it is scaling capacity to 100,000 tons of end-of-life solar panels annually with reported 100% material recovery. The Ohio facility will expand downstream output of recovered aluminium, copper, silver, and glass for resale into regional industrial supply chains, while reducing long-haul transportation requirements.
“The central Ohio location provides a cost-effective, logistical solution for our growing Midwest and Northeast US customer base, supporting the company’s goal to set the standard for solar recycling here in the United States,” added Fortunato Villamagna, president of Comstock Metals.
“Our team has developed a strong network of relationships in the eastern US with solar power producers, O&M groups, and manufacturers. The support from JobsOhio and OhioSE is an important step in our nation’s recognition and prioritisation of these critical recycling activities that best serve our communities.”
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Nevada, Comstock Metals operates across the Southwest, Midwest, and Eastern US. In February 2026, the company received certification from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to recycle universal waste and process photovoltaic (PV) modules at its California facility.
At the time of the announcement, Comstock said the approval comes amid rising volumes of decommissioned solar panels across the country (subscription required), which is increasing demand for dedicated PV recycling capacity.
THE Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) has renewed key airline contracts while expanding into solar cargo exports.
NAHCO announced extensions with Qatar Airways, Saudia Airlines and ASKY Airlines. The aviation handling firm also secured a fresh three-year agreement with FlyGabon.
NAHCO’s Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Olumuyiwa Olumekun, disclosed this in statement in Lagos on Wednesday.
He said the renewed partnerships reflected continued confidence in NAHCO’s service delivery capabilities.
“Leading international and regional airlines continue to place confidence in our operations,” Olumekun said.
Under the new arrangements, Qatar Airways extended its partnership with NAHCO for another three years.
Saudia Airlines also renewed its contract with the company for five years.
ASKY Airlines agreed to continue its relationship with NAHCO for an additional three years.
Olumekun said FlyGabon’s new agreement would run until September 2027.
He said the deal would support FlyGabon’s expanding operations across West, Central and Southern Africa.
The NAHCO chief executive said the agreements strengthened the company’s position within Africa’s aviation services sector.
He added that the latest deals followed several contracts secured earlier this year. Those agreements involved Air France, KLM and Virgin Atlantic.
Others included RwandAir, Sky 7, Pioneer, Avia Green, Benani and the Aviation Clearing House.
NAHCO also announced the start of solar cell exports from Nigeria to the United States.
The company said the exports began through its cargo handling facilities in Lagos.
Olumekun revealed that BGE (Nigeria) Solar FZE started the shipments in January.
He said carriers involved included Lufthansa, Ethiopian Airlines, Turkish Airlines and DHL.
According to him, consignments ranging between 20 and 50 tonnes have been processed.
He said freight forwarding partners included Access Freight and Ideal Royal, attributing NAHCO’s growth to innovation, operational discipline and customer satisfaction.
He noted that technology deployment would continue improving service delivery standards.
“The aviation sector requires increasingly sophisticated solutions to meet customer expectations,” he said.
Olumekun said NAHCO remained committed to safety, reliability and efficiency, adding that the company would continue creating value for clients and shareholders.
The latest developments, he said, reinforced NAHCO’s ambition to diversify beyond ground handling.
He said the company was strengthening its influence in West Africa’s aviation services industry.
The Group Executive Director, Commercial and Business Development, Mr Saheed Lasisi, also praised the achievements.
Lasisi said the renewals and partnerships demonstrated NAHCO’s reputation as a leading provider.
“We are fully prepared to exceed the expectations of these new partners,” he said, adding that NAHCO would rely on more than 47 years of service experience.
The executive said the company would maintain its reputation for operational excellence.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NAHCO is providing complete cargo handling services for the solar export project.
The services include cargo acceptance, warehousing, export processing and aircraft handling operations. (NAN)
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The world installed a record 664 GW of solar PV capacity in 2025, marking another record year for solar PV deployment according to SolarPower Europe’s Global Solar Market Outlook 2026-2030.
After extraordinary growth peaks in recent years, market growth slowed to 12% last year, signalling a shift in market dynamics. As solar continues to expand globally, the report also forecasts a temporary decline in installations in 2026, before growth is expected to resume in 2027.
The report also highlights solar’s central role in reinforcing energy security in a context of renewed geopolitical tensions and a second fossil fuel crisis in less than four years, offering a domestic and affordable solution to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and shield economies from price volatility. In 2025, the electricity generated by solar was equivalent to nearly five years of LNG flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Walburga Hemetsberger, CEO of SolarPower Europe (she/her) said: “The solar age is firmly established. With another record year in capacity additions in 2025, solar continues to outperform all other energy technologies.”
However, the slowdown in growth we observed in 2025 and the expected dip in 2026 are important signals highlighting a new reality: scaling solar is no longer just about deploying more capacity but about how well it can be integrated into the system.
In a growing number of markets, deployment is increasingly constrained by system integration challenges, from grid congestion to curtailment and negative price signals. We urgently need to invest in grids, battery storage, and other non-fossil flexibility solutions to continue integrating large volumes of renewables into our grids. If policymakers address these challenges, solar will continue to lead the energy transition and remain the most powerful tool to deliver energy security, competitiveness, and decarbonisation.”
Solar PV remained the backbone of global renewable energy expansion in 2025, accounting for 77% of all renewable capacity additions, while solar electricity generation reached 2,778 TWh, covering around 9% of global demand. The total global solar fleet crossed the 3 TW milestone in early 2026, tripling in just four years.
The global solar market continues to be heavily concentrated in a small number of countries. China installed 382 GW in 2025, accounting for 57% of global installations. At the same time, India became the world’s second-largest solar market, installing 45.7 GW (+49% year-on-year), surpassing the United States. As a single market, the EU-27 would rank second, with 67.2 GW installed and a 1% annual growth.
After years of uninterrupted expansion, global solar installations are expected to decline by 8% in 2026, reaching 612 GW under our Medium Scenario.
This first contraction in over 20 years is largely driven by China, where a 24% drop in installations is expected following policy changes. The decline outweighs continued growth in all other regions, highlighting China’s influence on global installations.
Sonia Dunlop, CEO of the Global Solar Council (she/her) said: “The global solar market reached new heights in 2025, with record installations and important markets such as India, France and Saudi Arabia making significant strides in solar + storage adoption.
This report demonstrates the vital role solar + storage has to play in an increasingly volatile world. Solar’s long-term trend of record-breaking growth remains unchanged, despite policy adjustments in some of our biggest markets, and the industry is on track to more than double its capacity by 2030.
As we continue to expand into new markets, we need policymakers to support our growth and cut the red tape holding solar back. Stable policy frameworks, faster permitting, grid modernisation and stronger investment environments will be what unlocks the next chapter of solar’s growth across both established and emerging markets.”
Markus Elsässer, CEO of Solar Promotion GmbH (he/him) said: “While 2025 marked another record-breaking year in global solar deployment, the focus is now shifting to how to efficiently integrate solar into the wider energy system, where the rapid deployment of storage, smarter infrastructure and stronger grids are much needed.
Events like The smarter E Europe are essential to bringing together the full solar value chain but also actors in the battery storage as well as e-mobility industries and policymakers, creating the space for exchange, collaboration, and alignment on the solutions needed to address solar’s opportunities and challenges.”
Despite the expected dip in 2026, the long-term outlook for solar remains robust. Annual installations are projected to reach around 864 GW by 2030, while total global capacity is expected to grow to 6.6 TW, with upward potential to 7.6 GW in the High scenario.
Solar will continue to be the main pillar of the energy transition, also in the short-term delivering around 60% of the renewable capacity needed to meet global 2030 targets.
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Japanese solar manufacturer Toyo Solar has announced agreements for a $50 million registered direct offering to help fund its strategic expansion into U.S. cell manufacturing.
The transaction involves the issuance and sale of roughly 4.5 million ordinary shares and warrants to purchase up to an additional 4.5 million shares, for a price of $11 per share and associated warrant.
The warrants feature an exercise price of $13.20 per share and will expire in five years, but may be exercised immediately if the buyer so chooses.
The offering, which will be overseen by co-placement agents Roth Capital Partners and H.C. Wainwright & Co., is expected to close on or about June 25, 2026.
Toyo originally announced its intention to build a 1.5 GW solar cell facility in Texas in early June, co-located with its existing solar module assembly plant, which produces modules under the VSUN brand name acquired by the company in 2025. The module plant began commercial operation in October, 2025.
At the time, the company said it would use a mixture of internal cash flow, non-dilutive project financing, potential strategic partnerships, and selective equity financing to fund the facility’s construction.
In another recent financial announcement, the company said it had inked two major supply agreements with U.S. buyers who placed purchase orders for finished solar modules from the Texas plant totaling $185.6 million. The announcement did not name the buyers, instead referring to the parties as “two major U.S. renewable energy players.”
Toyo currently manufactures cells at two global plants, in Vietnam and Ethiopia. The latter is the subject of some controversy and a complaint filed by eight other U.S. solar manufacturing companies alleging that Toyo is circumventing tariffs on Chinese solar cells by using the Ethiopia facility to finish wafers from China and then shipping them to the U.S. for use in modules.
The company has denied the claims, with Toyo Chief Strategy Officer Rhone Resch saying that the complaint “fundamentally mischaracterizes our operations and business model and is riddled with misinformation.” Instead, the company asserts, all of the solar cells manufactured in its Ethiopia facility use polysilicon supplied exclusively from the United States and Malaysia, with wafers processed in non-China countries.
Even so, the company has continued to carry out its shift toward domestic cell production, in part as a hedge against trade litigation, but also to move to next-generation heterojunction (HJT) cell technology.
“Expanding into domestic cell manufacturing is the natural next step in our commitment to creating an integrated onshore solar supply chain from polysilicon to panels,” said Toyo CEO Takahiko Onozuka at the time of the cell facility announcement. “Co-locating 1.5 GW of HJT cell capacity at our Houston module site significantly optimizes our capital allocation and infrastructure spend.”
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Vesper Energy has commenced construction on the Nazareth Solar project, a 201-megawatt facility located on approximately 1,000 acres of private land in Swisher County, Texas, according to a June 24, 2026, news item from the company.
The project is anticipated to reach commercial operation by fall 2027 and is expected to produce enough electricity to supply more than 53,000 Texas homes each year. Nazareth Solar is projected to generate $34 million in tax revenue for Swisher County, which will support schools, roads, emergency services, and county operations. The development is also forecast to create over 200 construction jobs.
Vesper Energy co-CEO Juan Suarez stated that breaking ground on Nazareth Solar represents another milestone for the firm. He noted the company’s established track record in the area, a team capable of delivering at this scale, and capital partners who have invested in the company and in energy for Texas’s growing electricity demand. Suarez described Nazareth Solar as the next step in that commitment.
The project team plans to remain engaged with Swisher County throughout construction and operations, hiring from the local workforce. Vesper Energy previously completed the 600-megawatt Hornet Solar project in Swisher County in April 2025. As Nazareth Solar progresses toward its commercial operation date, it will join Vesper’s operating solar portfolio in Texas.
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This summary has been prepared by the WTO Secretariat’s Information and External Relations Division to help public understanding about developments in WTO disputes. It is not a legal interpretation of the issues, and it is not intended as a complete account of the issues. These can be found in the reports themselves and in the minutes of the Dispute Settlement Body’s meetings.
China submitted its second request for the establishment of a dispute panel to determine whether tariffs applied by India to certain imported high-tech goods, as well as certain incentive measures for solar energy products that China say are contingent upon the use of domestic over imported goods, are consistent with India’s WTO commitments. India had said it was not ready to accept China’s first request for a panel at a DSB meeting on 22 May.
China said that its concerns over India’s measures remain unresolved despite bilateral consultations. China said it believes the measures are inconsistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures.
India said it regretted that China requested the establishment of a panel for the second time. India said it had already demonstrated the measures’ compliance with WTO rules during consultations.
The DSB agreed to the establishment of the panel.
Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Singapore, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and the United States reserved their third-party rights to participate in the proceedings.
Under “Other business,” Malaysia and Indonesia raised concerns about the European Union’s compliance with respective rulings in DS600 “European Union and Certain Member States – Certain Measures Concerning Palm Oil and Oil Palm Crop-Based Biofuels” and in DS593 “European Union – Certain Measures Concerning Palm Oil and Oil Palm Crop-Based Biofuels.”
The EU informed members that it had finalized a sequencing agreement with Indonesia for DS 593, providing a structured procedure which includes appeal arbitration as needed. As a result of this agreement, the EU stated that ongoing arbitration related to Indonesia’s request for sanctions arbitration under Article 22.6 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) would need to be suspended. The EU also expressed willingness to engage bilaterally with Malaysia.
Colombia, speaking on behalf of 130 members, introduced for the 98th time the group’s proposal to start the selection processes for filling vacancies on the Appellate Body (AB). The extensive number of members submitting the proposal reflects a common interest in the functioning of the Appellate Body and, more generally, in the functioning of the WTO’s dispute settlement system, Colombia said.
The United States said that it does not support the proposed decision. The US reiterated that it has set out its fundamental concerns on WTO dispute settlement and that the proposal does not address those concerns. The US said a well-functioning dispute settlement system requires reform efforts and the proposal does not contribute to any reform objective.
Over 20 members then took the floor and reiterated their support for the joint proposal and for the urgent need to restore a fully functioning dispute settlement system. Several of the members that took the floor encouraged others to consider taking part in the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA), which provides the possibility of resorting to arbitration under Article 25 of the DSU in case of an appeal in disputes between any two or more participating members. The list of current members of the MPIA is available here.
Colombia, on behalf of the 130 members, said it regretted that for the 98th occasion members have not been able to launch the selection processes. Ongoing conversations about reform of the dispute settlement system should not prevent the Appellate Body from continuing to operate fully, and members shall comply with their obligations under the DSU to fill the vacancies as they arise, Colombia said for the group.
The Chair convened an informal meeting after the regular DSB meeting to take stock of members’ positions on dispute settlement reform, particularly on their views on the technical work done previously. Before the informal meeting, the Chair said he held consultations with 20 delegations.
Around 40 delegations, including those representing groups of members, took the floor at the meeting. The Chair, closing the meeting, noted that members provided a wealth of information on both substantive and procedural issues. He said he is continuing to monitor the situation to ensure the issue of dispute settlement reform is not overlooked, particularly during a period when the system is not fully operational.
The Chair said he will provide a report on the informal meeting and other consultations at the next DSB meeting.
At the regular DSB meeting, the United States presented status reports with regard to DS184, “US – Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Products from Japan”, DS160, “United States – Section 110(5) of US Copyright Act”, DS464, “United States – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Large Residential Washers from Korea”, and DS471, “United States – Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China.”
The EU presented it status report with regard to DS291, “EC – Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products”.
Indonesia presented its status reports in DS477 and DS478, “Indonesia – Importation of Horticultural Products, Animals and Animal Products.”
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Solar sales and design company Aurora Solar has announced the addition of integrated storage modeling into its HelioScope software for commercial solar projects.
The new functionality allows users to model the physical and financial performance of a battery energy storage system (BESS) within the software, allowing for immediate recalculations when performing sizing analysis.
“The solar market is being tested right now, and the companies that come out ahead will be the ones that make their teams faster and their numbers more defensible,” said Aurora COO Sudeep Deshpande in a statement. “Storage is becoming the heart of the commercial deal, and we’re bringing design, storage, and financials into one place so developers can move at the speed this market demands.”
Aurora says the new integrated storage modeling is part of its “new shape of solar” vision, providing efficiency through consolidated workflows and bringing features that address the trend of using battery storage to add economic flexibility in areas with changing demand charges and high-differentiated time-of-use rates.
Prior to the addition of the new features, users had to manually export solar production data from HelioScope and cross-reference this data with detailed utility rate tariff information and battery performance simulations using an external tool.
The company will preview the integrated storage modeling in HelioScope live at Intersolar Europe 2026, June 23–25, 2026.
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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has commissioned a 200-kilowatt Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power system at its laboratory complex in Lagos.
The project is expected to save the agency about N15 million in monthly energy costs.
The initiative which was implemented under the Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP III), funded by the European Union and the German Government is aimed at enhancing energy reliability and promoting sustainable operations within the organisation.
In his remarks, Director General of SON, Mr. Ifeanyi Okeke, said the agency currently spends about N8 million monthly on diesel and N6.2 million on electricity, bringing total energy costs to about N14 million to N15 million every month.
According to him, the adoption of renewable energy will significantly reduce operational expenses and allow the organisation to channel resources into other critical activities.
Okeke described the project as a demonstration of SON’s commitment to sustainability, innovation and responsible institutional leadership, noting that it aligns with Nigeria’s energy transition agenda and efforts to promote energy efficiency and environmental sustainability.
He explained that the solar power system forms part of the “Development of Sustainable Solar PV Systems for Productive Use Opportunities in the Laboratory Complex of SON and Selected Small and Medium Enterprises” project.
The SON boss noted that the organisation’s collaboration with NESP began in 2015 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between SON and the German development agency, GIZ, for the development and implementation of renewable energy and energy-efficiency standards.
“Since then, the partnership has expanded from standards development to laboratory infrastructure, conformity assessment, capacity building and support for emerging sectors such as electric mobility,” he said.
Okeke highlighted several achievements of the collaboration, including the establishment of a calorimetric testing chamber for air conditioners at the SON laboratory complex. When fully operational, he said, the facility will be the first of its kind in Nigeria and a reference testing centre for the West African sub-region.
He added that the newly commissioned solar power system will provide the reliable and sustainable electricity required to power the specialised testing facilities while reducing dependence on diesel generators and other costly energy sources.
“Our goal is to ensure that all air-conditioning units within our laboratory facilities have access to alternative power sources, thereby improving efficiency and reducing operational costs,” he said.
Head of Programme, NESP III, Duke Benjamin, said the solar installation would provide reliable power to the bioclimatic testing chamber for air conditioners and other heat-processing equipment within the SON laboratory complex.
According to him, the project underscores the commitment of the European Union and German Government to advancing renewable energy solutions, strengthening institutional capacity and supporting Nigeria’s transition to a low-carbon economy.
Benjamin said NESP’s partnership with SON since 2013 has focused on strengthening Nigeria’s quality infrastructure for renewable energy and energy-efficiency initiatives.
He noted that the programme has supported the development and adoption of Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for air conditioners and provided technical assistance for the development of 13 standards for photovoltaic components.
Implementing Partner at the International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED), Dr. Segun Adaju, described the project as a strategic investment in energy security, sustainability, innovation and institutional leadership.
He noted that SON, like many organisations in Nigeria, faces challenges including unreliable grid power, rising diesel costs, increasing energy expenditure and the need for uninterrupted electricity supply for laboratory operations.
Adaju revealed that some laboratory testing processes can run continuously for up to 72 hours, making reliable power supply essential for testing, certification, calibration and research activities.
He said the project was designed to improve energy reliability and reduce operating costs through the deployment of clean and sustainable energy solutions.
The Director-General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Segun Ajayi-Kadir, represented by the association’s Director of Sectoral Division, Oluchi Odumuko, described the project as a strategic investment in standards development, quality assurance and industrial competitiveness.
He said reliable and affordable energy remains critical to industrial growth but noted that manufacturers continue to struggle with unreliable public electricity supply and rising self-generation costs.
According to him, SON’s adoption of renewable energy technologies sends a strong signal that Nigeria is committed to building a modern, energy-resilient regulatory environment driven by innovation and sustainability.
He added that the initiative reinforces SON’s leadership in promoting energy-efficiency standards, supporting environmental sustainability and enhancing the competitiveness of Nigerian products in global markets.
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XI'AN, China, June 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On June 2, Wood Mackenzie, one of the world's most authoritative energy consultancies, officially released its 2026 Global Solar PV Module Manufacturer Ranking (based on 2025 operational data) and Supplier Qualification Program results. Driven by its leading technological innovation and deep global market recognition, LONGi claimed the No. 1 position among 48 manufacturers from 10 countries, while simultaneously achieving the highest "Grade A" rating in the Supplier Qualification Program.
LONGi Tops Wood Mackenzie's Global Solar PV Module Manufacturer Ranking, Earns "Grade A" Highest Rating
Behind this achievement lies Wood Mackenzie's exceptionally rigorous evaluation framework. The assessment spans ten core dimensions, including capacity utilization, technology maturity, financial health, supply chain resilience, ESG, reliability standards, and R&D investment – regarded by major global investors and financial institutions as a credit-grade benchmark for procurement and financing decisions.
Notably, Wood Mackenzie's Grade A rating is the highest level in its Supplier Qualification Program, providing an independent reference for procurement teams, project developers, and asset owners. Manufacturers must meet at least five benchmark criteria established by Wood Mackenzie, which reflect best practices among leading global suppliers. LONGi's achievement of the Grade A rating means it has reached the industry's pinnacle in risk resilience, long-term reliability, and technology leadership – according to Wood Mackenzie's assessment methodology, LONGi is recognized as a low-risk, high-reliability strategic partner worthy of global market trust.
Yana Hryshko, Head of Solar Supply Chain Research at Wood Mackenzie, noted: "Chinese manufacturers continue to lead globally on manufacturing scale, technology advancement and operational efficiency." Among the top ten manufacturers, nine are headquartered in China, further consolidating the country's continued dominance across the global solar supply chain. As a frontrunner among them, LONGi's No. 1 ranking once again proves that sustained technological innovation is the decisive force shaping the competitive landscape – and the source of that force lies in LONGi's dual leadership in both R&D and mass production.
LONGi's independently developed HIBC solar cell, certified by Germany's Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), achieved a record-breaking 28.13% conversion efficiency for single-crystalline silicon cells. Meanwhile, in the April 2026 edition of TaiyangNews' commercial module efficiency rankings, LONGi's EcoLife series – built on HIBC technology – claimed the top spot with a mass production efficiency of 25%. With record-breaking advances in the lab and reliable value delivery at scale, LONGi's BC technology is reshaping the technology benchmark of the module market through a powerful dual engine.
Technological heights ultimately translate into product breadth. Centered on safety, reliability, ultimate efficiency, and pure black aesthetics, LONGi's BC technology has formed a comprehensive, all-scenario BC product portfolio. The company has taken the lead in developing and launching functional products such as anti-dust, anti-glare, lightweight, and specialized fire-resistant modules, as well as scenario-specific modules designed for extreme environments including sandy and barren land, offshore applications, and hail‑prone regions. LONGi's differentiated product matrix built around BC technology is enabling users across different scenarios and with diverse needs to benefit from this leading technology.
Customer-value-driven technological innovation is translating into the market competitiveness to navigate industry cycles. Being ranked No. 1 in Wood Mackenzie's global ranking and earning the Grade A Supplier Qualification reaffirms a simple yet profound truth: in an era of growing uncertainty, commitment to technological innovation is the most reliable strategic anchor – and the very foundation for earning the enduring trust of global customers.
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MICANOPY, Fla. – Alachua County Parks & Open Space has completed a solar site lighting project at Cuscowilla Nature and Retreat Center (210 SE 134th Ave., Micanopy).
At the direction of the County Manager to use solar site lighting where feasible, the department spent several months researching manufacturers to identify a system that met standards for features, quality, and cost for County parks. After selecting a vendor, Parks staff worked with the manufacturer to tailor photometric plans for the Cuscowilla site, and equipment was ordered. Precast concrete bases were manufactured locally once the lighting components arrived.
The project includes 11 poles and bases with a total of 15 DarkSky-approved LED overhead fixtures. Each pole includes one or two fixtures, a nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery, and a photovoltaic module. The system operates independently of the electrical grid and requires no underground or overhead wiring. Batteries are rated for 10 to 12 years, LED fixtures for 20 years, and photovoltaic modules for 30 years.
The lighting system can be programmed to turn on at sunset, operate at full brightness for several hours, then dim to 50% overnight before returning to full power prior to sunrise. At Cuscowilla, staff can also turn off the lights for scheduled stargazing events. Using LoRa technology, the manufacturer’s remote management application enables remote control, fixture geolocation, real-time diagnostics, and performance optimization.
Alachua County Public Works assisted with installation, completing the work in-house in six working days.
“We’re excited about this installation, our first solar lighting project,” said Parks Capital Projects Manager Ed Williams. “We want to give a heartfelt thanks to our colleagues in Public Works for their help with this project.”
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American solar panel manufacturers have added South Korea to the list of nations they are urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to probe for evading antidumping and countervailing duty orders, as reported by Kelly Pickerel on June 23, 2026.
Heliene of Minnesota, SEG Solar of Texas, and Canadian Solar‘s cell production facility in Indiana have united under the banner American Manufacturers for Energy Resilience to submit the investigation request. The three firms assert that South Korea has emerged as the leading source of solar cell imports into the United States, primarily due to conglomerate Hanwha and its solar arm Qcells. They contend that Hanwha is bypassing Chinese AD/CVD orders by conducting what they term minimal operations in South Korea.
AD/CVD orders on solar cells and panels from China date back to 2012, following a U.S. government finding that China was selling solar panel products in the American market at prices that hindered domestic manufacturers from competing. Further AD/CVD orders have been imposed on countries that the United States found were performing minimal processing of Chinese inputs, thereby evading the original tariffs. These countries included Taiwan first, followed by Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Department of Commerce is currently determining what tariffs to apply to solar products from India, Indonesia, and Laos.
The Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade, a coalition of American solar panel manufacturers that typically spearheads AD/CVD investigation requests, filed a new petition last month targeting Ethiopia. The Department of Commerce is still deliberating whether to launch that investigation. The Alliance, which includes major firms First Solar and Qcells, is not involved in this latest filing regarding South Korea.
The American Manufacturers for Energy Resilience, represented by law firm Lighthill PC, states that Hanwha uses Chinese wafers in its solar cells produced in South Korea, a practice the Department of Commerce has deemed a minor or insignificant process that circumvents the original Chinese AD/CVD orders. AMER notes that other Korean cell exporters may include HD Hyundai Energy Solutions and Shinsung E&G, but Hanwha remains the dominant Korean exporter of solar cells.
Based on U.S. International Trade Commission data, South Korea has been the top country of origin for solar cell imports over the most recent three months of available data. The Department of Commerce has 30 days to decide whether to initiate an investigation.
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Customers may notice increasing fixed or supply charges, but some are arguing that most will be better off. (ABC News: Kylie Silvester)
Electricity retailers have issued notices of rate increases to customers, despite the default offer falling in many markets.
A comparison service says some retailers appear to be raising their cheapest prices to claw back profit.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has asked the regulator to investigate whether the price hikes and how they have been communicated to customers breach rules.
Like millions of Australians, Russell Smith took heart last month when he heard the news that benchmark electricity prices would be falling.
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) had just announced that after years of increases, so-called default market offers would be decreasing in many areas, including south-east Queensland.
It was good news for the retired army intelligence officer, who had bought solar panels, a battery and an electric vehicle for his place in Maroochydore, 130 kilometres north of Brisbane.
"We're now trying to live as much as we can off-grid, but you obviously still have to be connected to the grid," Mr Smith said.
Alinta Energy customer Russell Smith was surprised to see his power charges increase. (ABC News: Olivia Sanders)
But last week, Mr Smith received an email from his retailer saying that his charges would be going up from the beginning of next month.
Usage charges would be higher across the day — albeit to a minor degree — but it was a different matter for the fixed component of his bill.
The daily supply charge, Mr Smith was informed, would be jumping 13 per cent.
At the same time, he would be getting even less for his solar exports, the prices for which would fall from 4 cents a unit to 2 cents.
Russel Smith received conflicting messages about power prices within the space of 24 hours. (ABC News: Rhiannon Shine)
In a statement to the ABC, Alinta Energy said the provider aims to provide "competitive, good value offers" across all markets.
"We're also transparent about changes, writing to customers in advance with details of their new rates, how they compare to the reference price, and other options available," a spokesperson said.
To Mr Smith's bemusement, a day after the notice of the increased rates he received a newsletter from his local state MP advertising the Queensland government's role in lowering prices.
"[Energy companies] have got to run a business, I understand all that," Mr Smith said.
"But then for the government to come out and say that they're going to be reducing the price by 10.7 per cent … that's clearly not the case."
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has asked the AER to look into whether retailers may have breached regulations with the increases, and how they were communicated to customers.
The minister said household energy bills were coming down due to the DMO, and the message to energy retailers was: "If your costs are coming down, your customers' bills should be too."
The regulator confirmed Mr Bowen sent a letter on Friday seeking advice on the changes to retailers' pricing structures.
Many customers expected lower power bills after the default market offer was announced. (Supplied)
"We are currently looking at how retailers are both structuring their energy plans and explaining prices to customers," the AER said.
"We will continue to monitor compliance with the energy rules to ensure customers are receiving accurate and useful information in line with the regulatory requirements."
The price rises are not confined to one or two retailers, but appear to be across most major power providers.
ABC News has seen price increase notices for customers from five of the largest electricity providers, plus a couple of popular smaller retailers.
Across big parts of Australia — from Queensland to Victoria and South Australia — thousands of electricity customers have been getting similar notices.
In some cases, householders are being whacked with hikes to their daily supply charge of more than 60 per cent.
The hikes have left many of those consumers angry at what they say is a contradictory and confusing market.
Surging levels of renewable energy and better reliability from coal-fired generators are set to give consumers a break, with benchmark power prices to fall up to 10 per cent for consumers and more for small businesses.
But Richard Foxworthy, who runs subscription-based power price comparison service Bill Hero, says there is a method to the apparent madness.
He said the default offers set by the Australian Energy Regulator in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia are supposed to act as a ceiling price.
Mr Foxworthy said they were there to protect consumers who were unable or unwilling to engage with the market.
But they are also the reference by which most other prices in the market are set, typically at a discount.
"Default offer prices tend to get a lot of media attention because it's one of the few easily digestible price signals that happens every year," Mr Foxworthy told The Business.
"There's an official announcement, and that sets expectation across the industry about what should be happening with retail prices."
Richard Foxworthy says it is entirely understandable that consumers are confused by the system. (ABC News: Darryl Torpy)
Mr Foxworthy explained that a decrease in the benchmark price gave retailers less room to discount their competitive offers.
As a result, he said they appeared to be raising their cheapest prices in a bid to claw back some of the lower profits likely to flow their way.
What's more, far more customers are on market offers than default ones, which affect less than 10 per cent of households, according to the AER.
"There is quite a wide spread between the highest price in the market, which is the default offer price, and the best available price in the market," Mr Foxworthy said.
"The price spread right now is over $1,000 a year between best available price and the worst available price."
Amid the noise, Mr Foxworthy can understand why many consumers might find the market inexplicable.
"I think it's completely understandable, and it speaks to the confusion inherent in the retail energy market," Mr Foxworthy said.
He said the national electricity market spanning Australia's eastern seaboard was almost incomprehensible to the layperson and that the default price was one of the few "coherent signals" consumers could use to understand it.
To that end, last month the AER said default prices would fall up to 10 per cent from July because of declines in the underlying cost of producing power.
The regulator noted that pressure on wholesale generation costs was finally easing as the hit from Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 began to fade.
Equally, output from Australia's rising share of renewable energy and batteries was also helping to put downward pressure on historically high wholesale costs, the AER noted.
Louisa Kinnear from the Australian Energy Council, which represents power retailers, says far more customers are likely to see decreases rather than rises to their bills this year.
But many consumers will be affected by a shake-up to the way power bills are typically charged.
Louisa Kinnear says bills may appear to be increasing due to a "rebalancing" of charges. (Supplied)
Under changes approved by the regulator, energy companies will now be able to recover more of their costs via fixed — or daily supply — charges.
Offsetting this will be proportionally lower usage charges.
"Some customers may think that, as a result of that change, their electricity bill is actually going up," Ms Kinnear told The Business.
Millions of Australians have been often unwittingly moved to complex and variable power tariffs. An energy watchdog says bills must be simplified.
The Business contacted a number of energy retailers after customers reported increased rates.
In a statement, Origin Energy said it would deliver "an overall reduction in electricity prices" for the majority of its customers.
"Many customers will see increased supply charges and lower usage rates. The majority of these customers, based on an average Origin customer usage profile, will see lower electricity bills," it said.
Another retailer, Globird, said the outcome for customers would vary depending on their starting point.
"Once the annual price change season settles, we are confident our rates, when benchmarked against industry peers, will be seen as very fair and competitive."
Ms Kinnear said the over-complexity of power pricing was a problem facing the energy industry and one it needed to tackle.
Last week, the body that makes the rules in the national electricity market called for an overhaul of bills to take away the complexity for consumers.
Ms Kinnear said the industry agreed with the argument.
"We're very supportive of any measures that are taken, I think, to simplify the process for customers and to make it easier to ensure that customers are on the best deal for them," she said.
In a statement, the AER said default offers were merely a safety net for consumers and that it was up to retailers to set their own prices.
The regulator urged people to shop around, saying they were free to change their energy plan at any time.
"Retailers are responsible for determining the structure of energy plans in the competitive market, including how they balance fixed and variable components," a spokeswoman said.
In a nod to the concerns that have been raised, however, the regulator said it would monitor energy retailers to see whether they were complying with the energy rules.
On the Sunshine Coast, Mr Smith is unimpressed by the whole affair.
While he understands energy companies have a commercial imperative, he says the public posturing of politicians and others about falling prices rings hollow.
"It seems to me that retailers are taking no notice of their claims," Mr Smith said.
"It's more about the principle of the matter.
"Governments are making claims that there's going to be a reduction, and retailers are clearly not listening to what the government and the regulator are saying."
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The new paper offers a roadmap to overcome the limitation.
An international team of researchers has uncovered the hidden mechanism that limits the performance of organic solar cells and could help them exceed the 20 percent efficiency barrier.
The study, led by scientists from Linköping University in Sweden, the University of Potsdam in Germany, and the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin, sheds light on a long-standing challenge in the development of organic photovoltaics (OPV).
Organic photovoltaic solar cells offer an Earth-abundant, low-energy alternative to conventional photovoltaics. They also have the potential to generate electricity at a lower cost than first- and second-generation solar technologies.
According to the team, the findings could provide a roadmap for the creation of more efficient solar cells that would be able to compete with already established silicon-based technologies.
Solar cell performance is determined by three factors. These include short-circuit current, open-circuit voltage, and fill factor. While all three influence how much electricity a device can generate, improving one often comes at the expense of another.
Hence, researchers have struggled with a persistent trade-off in organic solar cells for years. Attempts to increase the open-circuit voltage frequently led to lower fill factors. At the same time, improvements in fill factor often reduced voltage.
As organic solar cell efficiencies climb beyond 20 percent, this trade-off becomes increasingly difficult to overcome. To tackle the challenge, Dieter Neher, PhD, of the University of Potsdam, Feng Gao, PhD, of Linköping University, as well as Safa Shoaee, PhD, of the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics, teamed up to investigate its root cause.
Working with other experts in the field, the team examined why efficiency gains in organic solar cells begin to slow at higher performance levels. The results showed that under specific conditions, the generation of free electric charges in the active layer of the solar cell depends heavily on the electric field in the organic semiconductor material.
“This results in a previously poorly understood limitation on the fill factor, which becomes particularly relevant when voltage losses need to be minimized,” Neher, a physics professor at the University of Potsdam, pointed out.
When sunlight hits an organic solar cell, it creates excitons, which are bound pairs of negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes. Because these pairs cannot move freely, they must first be split into free charges that can generate electricity.
Using simulations of an entire solar cell, the team found that two factors play a critical role in this process: how long excitons survive and how much energy is released during charge transfer. Both parameters were identified as the most important determinants of the fill factor at low voltage losses.
“We were able to trace the trade-off between fill factor and open-circuit voltage back to a few physical quantities and simulate how this limitation can be significantly mitigated by increasing the exciton lifetime,” Neher concluded in a press release.
The team demonstrated that extending exciton lifetimes can significantly reduce the problem. To validate the concept, they also developed new combinations of organic materials and used them to produce solar cells. The devices delivered both high fill factors and strong overall power output.
According to the researchers, the findings provide general design principles that could guide the development of future organic photovoltaic materials and device architectures.
The study has been published in the journal Nature Photonics.
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The Department of Environmental Protection held a public hearing at Jim Thorpe High School Tuesday for Mora Solar LLC proposed 60 megawatt solar farm on 390 acres in Kidder Township.
The solar farm would require clear cutting the 390 acres and affect three cold water fisheries and streams and 97 wetlands among other disturbances to the environment. Open space surrounds the site near Moseywood Girl Scout Camp.
DEP held the hearing regarding a stormwater permit application to receive public comment about the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, which prevents pollution and eliminates runoff from non-pervious surfaces and protects erosion from rain water.
Representatives from the DEP were Patti Monahan, Regional Communications Manager, Pam Kania, Waterways and Wetlands Program Manager and Joe Buczynski, Northeast Regional Manager.
Monahan explained that the hearing was scheduled following residents expressing concerns about the solar farm and the hearing is for testimony only, not questions.
Residents were well prepared, reading their comments about the effect of the project on watersheds, water ways, wetlands, clear cutting, fishing, storm water management, the landscape, erosion and wildlife.
President of Save Carbon County, Linda Christman, stated, “We have to oppose this, it’s a highly inappropriate place.” There are 97 wetlands and 3 cold water fisheries that would be affected.”
Christman explained that due to the steep slopes on the property there is an issue with runoff.
Cutting down the trees will cause erosion and silt to be picked up, which is bad for the trout, Christman said.
She explained, “We need to be careful about streams. We’re not as conscious as we should be about water resources and the fact that they are limited.”
Pat Bach who attended Camp Moseywood as a child, spoke about the solar farm “permanently altering the character of the area.”
Bach questioned, “What will be lost for future generations?”
Vince Spaits from the Lehigh River Stocking Association spoke about people investing decades of time and money to protect the aquatic system. The LRSA aims to protect the water quality of the Lehigh River Watershed and promote healthy tributaries and a solar farm would impact the water and fish.
Brigette Myer of Penn Future, said the goal is to “improve and protect water sources.”
She urged the developers and DEP to require inspections and talk to the Monroe County conservation district so they do not repeat the failures of Swiftwater’s solar farm,” which amassed massive fines.
The common theme was about the effects a solar farm in this location would have on the waterways and the wildlife, which in turn affects the ecosystem.
“This site is not suitable for this kind of disturbance.” noted Donald E. Miller, which sums up the consensus of the audience.
Comments and concerns will be accepted by the DEP until July 8 by email at pkina@pa.gov
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Updated: June 24, 2026 @ 2:28 pm
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