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China’s solar capacity tops coal for first time: Where does India stand?  Business Standard
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China’s installed solar capacity has overtaken coal for the first time, reaching 1,288 GW at the end of July compared with 1,285 GW of coal capacity, according to energy administration data reported by state media.
Although coal remains more important for actual electricity generation, the shift marks a major milestone in China’s energy transition. Wind and solar supplied 24.6% of power in the first half of the year, while coal’s share fell below 50% for the first time, to 49.7%.
The shift reflects years of rapid investment in renewable energy, with China deploying solar and wind capacity at a scale far exceeding that of other major economies.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted small refineries exemptions covering 1.76 billion renewable fuel credits (RINs) for the 2025 compliance year, nearly twice the amount it had previously expected to waive.
The EPA granted full exemptions to 18 refineries and 50% exemptions to 11. To maintain overall production targets, the agency plans to propose shifting 100% of the waived obligations onto larger refiners in 2026 and 2027. 
Biofuel producers welcomed the planned reallocation, while the American Petroleum Institute warned that shifting the obligations would “inject uncertainty into the fuels marketplace.”
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Geothermal developer Fervo Energy has signed a deal to supply 396 MW of power to Google from its Cape Station project in Utah, sending Fervo shares nearly 14% higher in premarket trading.
The agreement includes an option for Google to purchase an additional 600 MW, potentially bringing total capacity under the deal to almost 1 GW by June 2030. Cape Station is expected to begin operations in 2028.
The deal reflects growing demand from data centers for reliable, around-the-clock clean power as U.S. electricity consumption rises. It builds on Fervo’s existing partnership with Google, including a 115-MW power purchase agreement signed in 2024.

A U.S. federal judge has blocked New York from enforcing its $75 billion Climate Change Superfund Act, ruling that the 2024 law is preempted by federal law. The scheme would have required fossil fuel companies to help fund infrastructure needed to address climate-related damage.
Judge Brenda Sannes said the federal Clean Air Act does not authorize states to impose emissions compensation schemes. She warned that addressing global warming requires “national standards and global participation” and that the law could conflict with federal policy.
The law would have raised $3 billion annually from 2028, with payments based on companies’ greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2018. It applied to companies linked to at least 1 billion tonnes of emissions, with funds earmarked for roads, water systems, sewage infrastructure and coastal protection.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s office said it was reviewing the ruling. New York was the second state to adopt such a climate “superfund”; Vermont’s similar law is also facing legal challenges.
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Africa officially added about 4.5 GW of solar in 2025. It also imported about 18.2 GW of solar modules. Those numbers cannot simply be substituted for one another — panels sitting in warehouses or ports are not operating solar systems — but the gap is too large to dismiss as accounting noise. By the first half of 2026, another 12.53 GW of finished Chinese modules had been shipped to African markets. The question is increasingly not whether official capacity statistics are missing something, but where all of that hardware is going.
At the beginning of 2026 I made an aggressive prediction on Redefining Energy: Africa would absorb roughly 20 GW of solar this year. That was never a forecast based on announced utility projects. It was a market-structure call. Chinese module prices were low, batteries were getting cheaper, diesel remained expensive and unreliable grids gave mines, malls, factories, telecom operators, warehouses, farms and households compelling reasons to buy their own electricity infrastructure. The import data subsequently strengthened that thesis, but imports alone could not establish deployment.
Now some of the missing solar is becoming visible from above. The full TFIE Strategy Briefing combines the hardware flows with satellite evidence, behind-the-meter estimates and African market channels to test whether the import surge is turning into operating customer-side power — and whether Africa is following the same pattern as other import-led solar booms or developing a different one.
The strongest public aerial evidence so far comes from South Africa. DataDesk and The Outlier examined satellite imagery for 209 shopping malls in Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni and found rooftop solar on 76% of them. That is exactly the sort of customer where an invisible solar market should emerge first. Malls have large roofs, large daytime electricity demand, owners capable of financing equipment and direct economic exposure to unreliable or expensive grid power. A solar-covered shopping centre is not a government target or a project announcement. Someone wrote the cheque and put the panels on the roof.
This does not mean Africa is simply repeating Pakistan’s enormous rooftop-solar surge. Pakistan’s boom became visible across residential and commercial neighbourhoods after extraordinary Chinese module imports. The African evidence so far looks more concentrated in commercial, industrial and institutional applications. That is consistent with the underlying economics: businesses protecting themselves from outages, diesel costs and poor power quality rather than households collectively covering whole cities in panels.
Satellite evidence also has limits. Large, clean commercial roofs are easier to identify than small houses, rural systems, telecom installations, pumps, clinics, mini-grids or panels obscured by trees. Image dates and resolution matter, and a panel visible from above is not proof that the inverter, battery and electrical system are operating. The aerial evidence is therefore another measurement layer rather than a replacement for installation statistics.
What makes the new evidence useful is that independent signals are starting to converge. Customs data shows much more hardware entering African markets than official capacity additions can explain. Rooftop imagery shows some of it physically installed on precisely the kinds of customers the market-structure thesis predicted. Official statistics remain strongest for utility projects and weakest for customer-side, behind-the-meter, off-grid and fragmented distributed systems.
That distinction has consequences beyond deciding whether my 20 GW prediction was right. Large commercial and industrial customers adding solar and batteries change grid demand, diesel consumption, distribution-company revenues, power quality requirements and industrial competitiveness. Africa’s solar transition may be advancing fastest in precisely the parts of the electricity system that conventional capacity statistics observe last.
The evidence is still incomplete, and imported watts should not be relabelled installed watts. But the burden of proof has shifted.
The full analysis in TFIE Strategy Briefing examines the aerial evidence, the behind-the-meter estimates, the contrast with Pakistan and the combination of imports, batteries, satellite mapping, commissioning data and diesel displacement needed to determine how much of Africa’s hidden solar layer is already operating while official statistics catch up.
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Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Technology Advances Toward Commercial-Scale Solar  SolarQuarter
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Solar PV penetration: ISMO seeks national study update from PPMC  Business Recorder
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BYD has been laying out the photovoltaic sector for nearly two decades, and it is leveraging photovoltaic business in Brazil to further boost the development of energy storage.
According to Foresee Energy, BYD recently launched a new move in Brazil: 233 of its auto dealers have started selling photovoltaic solar kits.
A 4.8kWp device set contains 8 600W modules, inverters, brackets and cables, covering installation, grid certification and one-year insurance. The total price is about 26,000 RMB, which can be paid in 36 installments. There is no requirement that buyers own a BYD vehicle, and users of any car brand can purchase it. If you buy the new BYD Song Pro Flex, the photovoltaic kit is eligible for zero-down-payment and zero-interest installment plans.
If you think this is just an automaker casually selling some solar panels as a side business, you are oversimplifying this matter.
The first reaction of many people after seeing this news is: When did BYD start to do photovoltaic business?
The answer is: 2007.
In that year, BYD had already gained a firm foothold in the three major markets of rechargeable batteries, mobile phone OEM manufacturing and automobiles. Wang Chuanfu had a new energy dream in mind — in the future, people would live in houses powered by photovoltaic and energy storage systems, and drive BYD’s electric vehicles. He asked Vice President He Long to lead a R&D team composed of more than a dozen technicians, to transplant the technology of automobile body panels to solar photovoltaics.
In 2008, BYD Solar was established. In December of the same year, it invested 500 million RMB in Shangluo, Shaanxi to build a polysilicon and solar cell project. In 2009, BYD also built the world’s first lithium iron phosphate energy storage power station, and launched the world’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle F3DM. In that year, BYD placed bets on three things at the same time: photovoltaics, energy storage and electric vehicles.
In 2010, Wang Chuanfu officially designated new energy vehicles, solar power stations and energy storage power stations as the three major new energy directions of the company.
That is to say, long before many people first heard that “BYD does photovoltaic business”, this company has been running on this track for nearly two decades. Its photovoltaic products have been exported to more than 100 countries and regions around the world from China.
In September 2020, BYD took a stake in Canadian Solar, one of the world’s top five photovoltaic module shippers. In early 2022, it made a strategic investment in Fujian Jinshi Energy — this company focuses on heterojunction cell equipment, and took the lead in establishing the first national engineering research center in China’s photovoltaic industry. Such a photovoltaic equipment manufacturer has received capital contributions from CATL, BYD and state-owned capital, and successively signed cooperation agreements with leading module enterprises such as LONGi, JA Solar and Tongwei. Such a lineup is really luxurious.
Nowadays, BYD has mastered the full industrial chain technologies of silicon ingots, silicon wafers, cells and modules. The photovoltaic base in Shangluo, Shaanxi has a designed annual production capacity of 1000 MW, with a total investment of 4.5 billion RMB. The production capacity of photovoltaic module production line at the Campinas plant in Brazil has reached 0.5 GW, and the cumulative output exceeded 2 million units as early as 2022.
A company that has been laying out in the photovoltaic field for nearly two decades, mastered the full industrial chain and built production bases around the world, selling solar panels through 233 dealers in Brazil — this is not cross-border expansion, but a breakthrough after long-term accumulation.
Why Brazil?
BYD opened a photovoltaic module plant in Campinas, Brazil in 2017, with an investment of about 47.79 million US dollars. In April 2022, it opened a new production line. By October 2022, the cumulative output of photovoltaic modules at the Brazilian plant exceeded 2 million units.
After five years of operation in Brazil, it just placed solar panels in auto dealerships. This is not a reckless decision, but a step-by-step deployment.
Brazil has its particularities. 80% of its land area is located in tropical regions, with an average annual sunshine volume of 1700 to 1800 kWh per square meter. The Brazilian government introduced the net metering policy as early as 2012, opening the door for residential photovoltaics. Between 2014 and 2019, multiple rounds of photovoltaic tenders were completed, with a total tender volume of about 4.4 GW.
How big is the market? In the first quarter of 2026, Brazil’s new photovoltaic installed capacity reached 4.4 GW, of which distributed photovoltaics contributed 2.2 GW. The new distributed photovoltaic installed capacity in the first quarter was 2177 MW, corresponding to more than 245,000 new systems, and the average size of a single distributed generation system was 8.8 kW. Some institutions predict that the new installed capacity of distributed photovoltaics in Brazil in 2026 is expected to reach 8.7 GW.
245,000 residential photovoltaic systems in one quarter, and the potential annual installed capacity may be close to 9 GW — this market is large enough and scattered enough. Whoever spreads the channels first can grab the most customers.
BYD does not only sell photovoltaics in Brazil. The Camacari plant in Bahia took only 15 months from groundbreaking to the roll-off of the first vehicle, with a planned production capacity of 150,000 vehicles. The 100,000th new energy vehicle has rolled off the production line. Shortly after, it announced an additional investment of 500 million reais (about 660 million RMB) to build an energy storage battery production base. The three lines of vehicles, photovoltaics and energy storage are being deployed simultaneously in Brazil.
233 dealers are distributed in all states and federal districts across Brazil. The number will reach 300 within the year, and the 2027 target is 400. BYD Brazil itself says that this is already the largest solar panel sales network in Brazil.
Essentially, putting solar panels into dealerships connects the manufacturing capacity, channel network and brand awareness accumulated over five years.
There is a detail in this 4.8kWp photovoltaic system: it is not equipped with energy storage.
It generates electricity for self-use during the day, and the excess electricity is sold to the grid. What to do at night? Buy electricity from the grid.
Why not equip it with energy storage? Because energy storage is the thing that is really valuable, and it is also BYD’s real hidden card.
In the global energy storage system shipment ranking in the first half of 2026, BYD Energy Storage jumped from third to first, surpassing Sungrow Power, Huawei and Tesla. The global energy storage market has officially entered a stage of competition among the top four players, with BYD Energy Storage ranking first in the world and Tesla falling to fourth. In terms of energy storage cell shipments, the shipment volume of each top enterprise exceeded 30GWh in the first half of the year.
BYD is making full efforts in overseas markets. BYD first won the 12.5GWh global largest grid-side energy storage project in Saudi Arabia, and then signed a 11.275GWh cooperation agreement with the UAE energy giant Masdar to provide energy storage solutions for the Abu Dhabi RTC all-weather renewable energy project. This is the world’s first GW-level all-weather renewable energy project. Its energy storage orders have been scheduled to 2028.
A household that has installed photovoltaics will most likely be equipped with energy storage in the next step — and energy storage is exactly BYD’s strongest advantage that ranks first in the world. Photovoltaics is the entry point, and energy storage is the profit pool. Spreading this logic in Brazil means using photovoltaics to acquire customers and making profits through energy storage.
BYD does not hide its intentions. The Brazilian side has stated that it will also provide batteries and other energy solutions at these sales points in the future. Letting users install solar panels first, and then equip them with energy storage batteries, this is a well-laid plan.
In 2007, when Wang Chuanfu led more than a dozen technicians to carry out photovoltaic R&D, he might not have expected that this road would take so long.
It took a stake in Canadian Solar in 2020, invested in Jinshi Energy in 2022, and deployed solar panels through 233 Brazilian dealers in 2026. Nearly two decades have passed in between.
In the past two decades, BYD has done three things: mastering full industrial chain technologies, building global production bases, and realizing the closed loop of “photovoltaics – energy storage – electric vehicles”.
In the first half of 2026, BYD’s operating revenue reached 344.8 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 7.13%; the attributable net profit reached 12.3 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 20.54%. However, its R&D investment reached 28.9 billion RMB, and the cumulative R&D investment exceeded 2700 billion RMB. Its cash reserve reached 167.4 billion RMB.
The net profit is declining, while the R&D investment is surging. With 167.4 billion RMB in cash on the account and 28.9 billion RMB invested in R&D — this is not a sign of contraction, but a sign of accumulating strength.
BYD exported 792,000 vehicles in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 67.8%. Its overseas revenue reached 181.268 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of nearly 34%, accounting for 52.57% of the total revenue. For the first time, overseas revenue exceeded domestic revenue.
The solar panels sold at 233 stores in Brazil are produced at the Campinas plant. The energy storage batteries are produced at the newly built production line in Brazil. Electric vehicles roll off the production line at the Camacari plant. The 233 dealers are shared by all three businesses. The three businesses share one set of network, one brand and one group of customers.
Competitors are still competing for the range and price of the next vehicle. What BYD is doing is: photovoltaic power generation, energy storage peak shaving, and electric vehicle power consumption — all three links are self-developed and self-produced, with shared channels and bundled sales.
You buy my car, install my photovoltaics, and use my energy storage, and your entire energy life is in my system.
This is the real moat.
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Territory Generation, which is responsible for the production and supply of electricity across the Northern Territory, is inviting expressions of interest to deliver a solar power plant of up to 15 MW to support system reliability and reduce reliance on thermal generation in Alice Springs.
The Alice Springs Power System is an isolated electricity network that currently has a peak load of about 54 MW, an average load of 23 MW, and a minimum load of 6 MW. This is supplied by the gas-powered generation plant at Owen Springs Power Station (OSPS), the 4.1 MW Uterne solar power plant, and other distributed commercial and residential solar, with the diesel-fuelled Ron Goodin Power Station providing peaking support.
A 12 MW / 48 MWh battery energy storage system is also being installed at OSPS with remote and off-grid power specialist Pacific Energy has also been contracted to deliver the system.
Territory Generation is now seeking to develop a utility-scale solar farm in the range of approximately 5 to 15 MW, with or without battery energy storage, to support a more resilient energy supply for Alice Springs and meet increasing demand with renewable energy.
“In combination with existing thermal generation assets and the forthcoming BESS at OSPS, the integration of additional solar generation within the ASPS is expected to support system reliability, optimise utilisation of existing assets, and reduce reliance on thermal generation,” Territory Generation in its notice to the market.
The utility said the EOI process will allow it to identify commercially sound and technically viable approaches for delivering the solar plant, adding that the commercial delivery models for the PV facility could include leased asset, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) and power purchase agreement (PPA) structures.
Expressions of Interest will close on 22 September 2026.
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Frontier Energy announced it has executed all major contracts for stage one of its Waroona Renewable Energy Project being developed in Western Australia’s southwest. The first phase of the project comprises a 132 MW solar facility paired with an 81.5 MW / 565 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), designed to capture solar energy during the day and dispatch electricity into the grid during periods of high-value demand.
“We are fully funded, fully contracted and ready to build,” Frontier Executive Chairman Jamie Cullen said. “We have now secured the full suite of contracts required to deliver stage one at our Waroona Project and position the company as Western Australia’s largest solar-BESS hybrid power producer.”
The Perth-headquartered developer said construction on stage one is set to commence this month with first generation scheduled for 2028.
Infrastructure specialist Monford Group has been contracted to oversee construction and commissioning of the solar and battery facility, while Western Australia-based construction company Global Power Services will undertake the substation works.
Chinese PV manufacturer Longi has been contracted to supply more than 200,000 PV panels rated at 650 W and 655 W for the first stage solar farm, with the first delivery scheduled to arrive in January 2027.
United States-headquartered Nextpower will provide the tracking system, with first delivery expected in November 2026.
China-headquartered Trinasolar will supply the battery units under arrangements that include a 20-year warranty and long-term services agreement, while SMA Australia, through its German parent company, will provide the inverters.
Frontier said it has also secured an unconditional Western Power connection allowing export of up to 99 MW at the nearby Landwehr Terminal and import of up to 95 MW to charge the BESS when solar generation is low or unavailable.
The company said all major equipment and construction contracts are fixed price and in line with its expectations and account for the majority of the $310 million project budget.
Cullen said having signed off on the contracts for the initial stage, Frontier will now look to advance its expansion plans, which include delivering up to 1 GW of solar and 660 MW of battery energy storage capacity by 2031.
“With only 300 of our 830 hectares of grid-adjacent freehold land committed to stage one, the team is already advancing stage two,” Cullen said. “The state needs new generation to support the targeted retirement of ageing fossil fuel plants while meeting rising demand from data centres and population growth. Stage one is our first step in delivering exactly that.”
The contract milestone follows the recent announcement that the first stage of the Waroona project was among the winners of the Western Australia’s first Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) tender. Frontier has also been assigned capacity credits for stage one of the Waroona project as part of by the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Reserve Capacity Mechanism (RCM).
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BYD has been laying out the photovoltaic sector for nearly two decades, and it is leveraging photovoltaic business in Brazil to further boost the development of energy storage.
According to Foresee Energy, BYD recently launched a new move in Brazil: 233 of its auto dealers have started selling photovoltaic solar kits.
A 4.8kWp device set contains 8 600W modules, inverters, brackets and cables, covering installation, grid certification and one-year insurance. The total price is about 26,000 RMB, which can be paid in 36 installments. There is no requirement that buyers own a BYD vehicle, and users of any car brand can purchase it. If you buy the new BYD Song Pro Flex, the photovoltaic kit is eligible for zero-down-payment and zero-interest installment plans.
If you think this is just an automaker casually selling some solar panels as a side business, you are oversimplifying this matter.
The first reaction of many people after seeing this news is: When did BYD start to do photovoltaic business?
The answer is: 2007.
In that year, BYD had already gained a firm foothold in the three major markets of rechargeable batteries, mobile phone OEM manufacturing and automobiles. Wang Chuanfu had a new energy dream in mind — in the future, people would live in houses powered by photovoltaic and energy storage systems, and drive BYD’s electric vehicles. He asked Vice President He Long to lead a R&D team composed of more than a dozen technicians, to transplant the technology of automobile body panels to solar photovoltaics.
In 2008, BYD Solar was established. In December of the same year, it invested 500 million RMB in Shangluo, Shaanxi to build a polysilicon and solar cell project. In 2009, BYD also built the world’s first lithium iron phosphate energy storage power station, and launched the world’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle F3DM. In that year, BYD placed bets on three things at the same time: photovoltaics, energy storage and electric vehicles.
In 2010, Wang Chuanfu officially designated new energy vehicles, solar power stations and energy storage power stations as the three major new energy directions of the company.
That is to say, long before many people first heard that “BYD does photovoltaic business”, this company has been running on this track for nearly two decades. Its photovoltaic products have been exported to more than 100 countries and regions around the world from China.
In September 2020, BYD took a stake in Canadian Solar, one of the world’s top five photovoltaic module shippers. In early 2022, it made a strategic investment in Fujian Jinshi Energy — this company focuses on heterojunction cell equipment, and took the lead in establishing the first national engineering research center in China’s photovoltaic industry. Such a photovoltaic equipment manufacturer has received capital contributions from CATL, BYD and state-owned capital, and successively signed cooperation agreements with leading module enterprises such as LONGi, JA Solar and Tongwei. Such a lineup is really luxurious.
Nowadays, BYD has mastered the full industrial chain technologies of silicon ingots, silicon wafers, cells and modules. The photovoltaic base in Shangluo, Shaanxi has a designed annual production capacity of 1000 MW, with a total investment of 4.5 billion RMB. The production capacity of photovoltaic module production line at the Campinas plant in Brazil has reached 0.5 GW, and the cumulative output exceeded 2 million units as early as 2022.
A company that has been laying out in the photovoltaic field for nearly two decades, mastered the full industrial chain and built production bases around the world, selling solar panels through 233 dealers in Brazil — this is not cross-border expansion, but a breakthrough after long-term accumulation.
Why Brazil?
BYD opened a photovoltaic module plant in Campinas, Brazil in 2017, with an investment of about 47.79 million US dollars. In April 2022, it opened a new production line. By October 2022, the cumulative output of photovoltaic modules at the Brazilian plant exceeded 2 million units.
After five years of operation in Brazil, it just placed solar panels in auto dealerships. This is not a reckless decision, but a step-by-step deployment.
Brazil has its particularities. 80% of its land area is located in tropical regions, with an average annual sunshine volume of 1700 to 1800 kWh per square meter. The Brazilian government introduced the net metering policy as early as 2012, opening the door for residential photovoltaics. Between 2014 and 2019, multiple rounds of photovoltaic tenders were completed, with a total tender volume of about 4.4 GW.
How big is the market? In the first quarter of 2026, Brazil’s new photovoltaic installed capacity reached 4.4 GW, of which distributed photovoltaics contributed 2.2 GW. The new distributed photovoltaic installed capacity in the first quarter was 2177 MW, corresponding to more than 245,000 new systems, and the average size of a single distributed generation system was 8.8 kW. Some institutions predict that the new installed capacity of distributed photovoltaics in Brazil in 2026 is expected to reach 8.7 GW.
245,000 residential photovoltaic systems in one quarter, and the potential annual installed capacity may be close to 9 GW — this market is large enough and scattered enough. Whoever spreads the channels first can grab the most customers.
BYD does not only sell photovoltaics in Brazil. The Camacari plant in Bahia took only 15 months from groundbreaking to the roll-off of the first vehicle, with a planned production capacity of 150,000 vehicles. The 100,000th new energy vehicle has rolled off the production line. Shortly after, it announced an additional investment of 500 million reais (about 660 million RMB) to build an energy storage battery production base. The three lines of vehicles, photovoltaics and energy storage are being deployed simultaneously in Brazil.
233 dealers are distributed in all states and federal districts across Brazil. The number will reach 300 within the year, and the 2027 target is 400. BYD Brazil itself says that this is already the largest solar panel sales network in Brazil.
Essentially, putting solar panels into dealerships connects the manufacturing capacity, channel network and brand awareness accumulated over five years.
There is a detail in this 4.8kWp photovoltaic system: it is not equipped with energy storage.
It generates electricity for self-use during the day, and the excess electricity is sold to the grid. What to do at night? Buy electricity from the grid.
Why not equip it with energy storage? Because energy storage is the thing that is really valuable, and it is also BYD’s real hidden card.
In the global energy storage system shipment ranking in the first half of 2026, BYD Energy Storage jumped from third to first, surpassing Sungrow Power, Huawei and Tesla. The global energy storage market has officially entered a stage of competition among the top four players, with BYD Energy Storage ranking first in the world and Tesla falling to fourth. In terms of energy storage cell shipments, the shipment volume of each top enterprise exceeded 30GWh in the first half of the year.
BYD is making full efforts in overseas markets. BYD first won the 12.5GWh global largest grid-side energy storage project in Saudi Arabia, and then signed a 11.275GWh cooperation agreement with the UAE energy giant Masdar to provide energy storage solutions for the Abu Dhabi RTC all-weather renewable energy project. This is the world’s first GW-level all-weather renewable energy project. Its energy storage orders have been scheduled to 2028.
A household that has installed photovoltaics will most likely be equipped with energy storage in the next step — and energy storage is exactly BYD’s strongest advantage that ranks first in the world. Photovoltaics is the entry point, and energy storage is the profit pool. Spreading this logic in Brazil means using photovoltaics to acquire customers and making profits through energy storage.
BYD does not hide its intentions. The Brazilian side has stated that it will also provide batteries and other energy solutions at these sales points in the future. Letting users install solar panels first, and then equip them with energy storage batteries, this is a well-laid plan.
In 2007, when Wang Chuanfu led more than a dozen technicians to carry out photovoltaic R&D, he might not have expected that this road would take so long.
It took a stake in Canadian Solar in 2020, invested in Jinshi Energy in 2022, and deployed solar panels through 233 Brazilian dealers in 2026. Nearly two decades have passed in between.
In the past two decades, BYD has done three things: mastering full industrial chain technologies, building global production bases, and realizing the closed loop of “photovoltaics – energy storage – electric vehicles”.
In the first half of 2026, BYD’s operating revenue reached 344.8 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 7.13%; the attributable net profit reached 12.3 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 20.54%. However, its R&D investment reached 28.9 billion RMB, and the cumulative R&D investment exceeded 2700 billion RMB. Its cash reserve reached 167.4 billion RMB.
The net profit is declining, while the R&D investment is surging. With 167.4 billion RMB in cash on the account and 28.9 billion RMB invested in R&D — this is not a sign of contraction, but a sign of accumulating strength.
BYD exported 792,000 vehicles in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 67.8%. Its overseas revenue reached 181.268 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of nearly 34%, accounting for 52.57% of the total revenue. For the first time, overseas revenue exceeded domestic revenue.
The solar panels sold at 233 stores in Brazil are produced at the Campinas plant. The energy storage batteries are produced at the newly built production line in Brazil. Electric vehicles roll off the production line at the Camacari plant. The 233 dealers are shared by all three businesses. The three businesses share one set of network, one brand and one group of customers.
Competitors are still competing for the range and price of the next vehicle. What BYD is doing is: photovoltaic power generation, energy storage peak shaving, and electric vehicle power consumption — all three links are self-developed and self-produced, with shared channels and bundled sales.
You buy my car, install my photovoltaics, and use my energy storage, and your entire energy life is in my system.
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The government of Bangladesh has introduced a tariff of BDT 10.50 ($0.086)/kWh for surplus electricity from eligible rooftop solar systems operating under the country’s net-metering regime.
The government’s Power Division announced the incentive package on Tuesday.
“To ensure sustainable energy security, the government has taken extensive initiatives to promote renewable energy. As part of this, a special incentive package has been announced for installing rooftop solar power systems with batteries,” the Power Division said.
It said the maximum generation cost for rooftop solar systems with battery storage has been set at BDT 8 ($0.065)/kWh, based on current market prices and bids submitted in recent tenders.
Under the incentive scheme, the government will add a 20% profit margin and an 11.25% premium to the benchmark generation cost. “If any consumer can produce solar power at lower than the said cost, the saved amount will be considered as the consumer’s profit,” the Power Division said.
Consumers that install rooftop solar systems by Feb. 28, 2027, and supply surplus electricity to the grid under Bangladesh’s Net Metering Guidelines 2025 will qualify for the incentive tariff for three years, through Feb. 28, 2030.
Power distribution utilities will maintain records of participating consumers, the amount of electricity supplied to the national grid, and payment data, including incentive payments. The payments will be transferred to consumers’ bank accounts every three months.
The government has said it wants to install at least 5 GW of solar capacity through net metering by next summer to help address electricity shortages. Daily power shortages have exceeded 3 GW during periods of high summer demand, resulting in widespread power cuts in urban and rural areas.
Mostafa Al Mahmud, president of the Bangladesh Sustainable and Renewable Energy Association (BSREA), said the government appears increasingly committed to expanding renewable energy generation as the country faces disruptions to oil and gas supplies.
He said the government held discussions with private-sector renewable energy producers in late August, during which industry representatives proposed incentives to encourage consumers to install rooftop solar systems.
“Within a week, the government announced the incentive, which is a welcome move,” Mahmud said.
According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Bangladesh’s rooftop solar capacity has exceeded 1 GW.

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If Part 1 of this series established that the United States is not short of PV manufacturing capacity announcements, the second article asks a narrower and more useful question: where in the chain does that capacity exist, and where are the gaps? The answer is a domestic supply chain that gets stronger the closer it sits to the end customer and less established the further upstream you look. 
Module assembly is, by a wide margin, the most mature segment of the US domestic supply chain. PV Tech Research estimates US module capacity at 77.3GW (including thin film) and 61GW on a crystalline-only basis, with production reaching 51.5GW and 37.5GW, respectively. Current capacity is sufficient to meet total domestic module demand. For developers sourcing modules today, the “Made in USA” question is largely resolved. The critical question now is the supply chain feeding those modules. 
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Cell capacity tells a different story. Including First Solar’s thin-film lines, US cell capacity stands at 26.5GW against 19GW of production; on a crystalline-only basis, capacity drops to just 10GW with production at 5.2GW. Set against a module capacity of 61-77 GW, the mismatch is stark: even at full utilisation, domestic cell production covers only one-third to just over 40% of what domestic module lines can assemble. In practice, the module industry’s primary input, the cell itself, remains substantially import-dependent and will stay that way until cell capacity under construction (see Day 1’s 55.9GW pipeline figure) converts into shipped product. 
The wafer stage reveals the greatest imbalance. US wafer capacity is just 5GW, against production of 3.2GW, which currently covers less than 63% of the crystalline-only cell segment it feeds, and utilises only 20% of the polysilicon capacity sitting above it. More importantly, it will be insufficient to support the more than 40GW of additional cell capacity coming online in the next 18 months. The practical consequence is one of the more counterintuitive facts in the domestic supply chain today: with wafer capacity this constrained, a US-produced polysilicon ingot often must be shipped abroad to be sliced into wafers, then returned to the country for processing into a cell. Domestic wafering capacity, not domestic polysilicon or cell capacity, is the tightest bottleneck in the chain, and it is the stage that has attracted the least investment relative to the gap it needs to close. 
Polysilicon sits at the top of the chain and has drawn some of the most significant capital commitments in the sector, with 36GW of capacity against 15.5GW of PV-allocated production. As covered in Day 1 of the series, part of that gap reflects capacity shared with semiconductor-grade output rather than genuine idle capacity, but even accounting for that, the shortfall relative to downstream demand remains substantial. Polysilicon is the one segment where the investment case is clearly being made; the question is whether it converts into PV-allocated tonnage fast enough to fill the gap. 
For manufacturers, the picture is one of uneven opportunity. Module producers are operating in a market that is close to domestic saturation, while cell and, especially, wafer producers are sitting on some of the least-contested capacity gaps in the industry. For equipment suppliers, the wafer and cell stages represent the clearest near-term demand signal, since this is where the largest build-out is still needed to match existing downstream capacity.  
For developers, the import dependency at the cell and wafer stages means full supply-chain traceability, and FEOC compliance in particular, will remain challenging to guarantee for several more years, regardless of how domestic the final module assembly is. For investors, the wafer stage in particular looks underpriced relative to its strategic importance: it is the smallest segment in absolute capacity terms, the most exposed to offshore round-tripping. 
The investment pattern raises a question: if domesticating the entire value chain is the policy priority, why does most of the capital under construction still sit at the cell and module stages rather than upstream, where the gaps identified above are largest? Should the policy go further to incentivise build-out specifically targeted at these gaps?  
Section 232’s polysilicon investigation and the broader push toward domestic content suggest intent, but the signal is muddied by the accelerated phasing out of the 45Y production tax credit and the 48E investment tax credit, both of which had underpinned deployment-side economics for renewables more broadly. Removing that in December 2027 raises legitimate questions about how committed policymakers are to the deployment side of the equation, even as they tighten the screws on component sourcing. 
What has survived, and what matters most for the manufacturers this series is focused on, is the 45X manufacturing production credit, which remains intact. Section 232 reinforces it directly through the Minimum Import Price, which will function as a price floor across solar components and insulate domestic producers from the kind of import-driven price collapse that has undercut manufacturing investment in the past. Taken together, this is not a coherent industrial strategy so much as a set of overlapping instruments that happen to favour manufacturers even as they leave deployment economics more uncertain. But for the manufacturers themselves, particularly at the cell and wafer stages, where competition has been most directly curtailed, the opportunity to scale into a protected, still-underbuilt market is real. 
The next article in this series will map the capital commitments behind this build-out: which segments are attracting investment, where the money is coming from and whether the announced capacity additions are sufficient to close the gaps identified here. The opportunity is real, but execution will determine whether domestic manufacturing scales fast enough to meet both policy ambitions and market demand. 
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The University of Pretoria’s major solar PV project at its Persequor Park campus in Pretoria is nearing completion, marking a significant expansion of renewable energy generation for the South African higher education sector.
Developed by AttSolar, the 12.7 MWp fixed tilt, ground mounted solar farm is the largest commercial and industrial solar PV plant developed for a university in South Africa.
The project covers 21.4 hectares and includes 20,332 solar modules and 36 Huawei string inverters. A new substation has also been constructed, together with a 3.9 km connection to the main grid tie point.
Once operational, the solar farm is expected to produce approximately 22,225 MWh of clean electricity each year. The generation is forecast to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 21 million kg annually, equivalent to the electricity consumption of about 3,700 South African households.
The project has also progressed at an unusually rapid pace. Environmental authorisation was secured in October 2025, followed by the signing of a 25 year private power purchase agreement between the University of Pretoria and the project in December 2025.
Construction officially began in May 2026 following a sod turning ceremony. Final module installation is now taking place, with full commissioning and commercial operations expected in December 2026.
AttSolar is delivering the project through a consortium comprising Atterbury Property, Fledge Capital and MPower Energy, the renewable energy subsidiary of the Moolman Group.
Once commissioned, electricity generated by the solar farm will be supplied through the Lynnwood Substation, supporting the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield and Hillcrest campuses and reducing its reliance on conventional grid electricity.
The project forms part of the growing shift among large South African institutions towards privately developed renewable energy as organisations seek greater energy security, lower electricity costs and reduced carbon emissions.
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GBP will exhibit at All Energy Australia 2026, taking place on 28–29 October at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), showcasing a broad range of solutions for solar, electrical and energy infrastructure applications.
The exhibition will give customers, EPCs, installers, asset owners and industry partners the opportunity to see selected GBP products in person and discuss project-specific requirements directly with the team.
A key focus of GBP’s exhibition will be its Replacement Panels, developed to support existing PV systems when original modules have been discontinued or are no longer readily available.
GBP provides replacement panels tailored to project-specific requirements, including module dimensions, electrical characteristics and installation compatibility. This allows asset owners to replace damaged or unavailable modules while reducing unnecessary system modifications, downtime and replacement costs.
Alongside replacement panels, GBP will showcase a range of products across solar, cable, electrical equipment, energy storage and system maintenance applications.
Products on display will include:
Replacement Panels
Twin-Core Solar PV Cable
IEC DC Cable 4 mm²
IEC Solar Branch Cable
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Power, Distribution & Special Transformers
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BESS Acoustic Panel
Foldable PV Station
Drainage Clip
Optimizer
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At All Energy Australia, we look forward to showing customers our products in person and discussing how we can support their requirements across existing PV assets, new installations and wider energy infrastructure projects.”
The exhibition will also provide an opportunity for visitors to connect with the GBP team and discuss requirements across solar modules, cables and accessories, transformers, energy storage and other energy infrastructure applications.
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a US$12 million research and development (R&D) fund that will support projects that will lower the cost, and expand domestic manufacturing, of solar panels for use in space.
Led by the DOE’s Integrated Energy Systems Office (IESO), the Space Photovoltaics Research and Development Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) is open to university and industry research laboratories developing “advanced” space-based solar PV projects, initiatives that focus on “PV characterisation and stress testing” or “near-commercial pilot-scale space PV solutions”.
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The PIA is split into two “topic areas”. The first, dubbed ‘Next-generation Cell Innovation’, will focus on the advancement of manufacturing methods and improvements in performance of durability of solar cells, while ‘Rapid Production and Demonstration’ will focus on manufacturing processes capable of scaling to “high-volume production” of module prototypes for space or near-space environments. Individual applicants can win up to US$1.5 million for projects in the first area and up to US$2 million for projects in the second area.
Applications are open immediately, and will close on 8 October. The DOE will also host a webinar in collaboration with TECHWERX, a hub that aims to connect researchers, industry and energy leaders, on 15 September to provide more information about the fund. The organisers expect to select winning applicants in December, and complete negotiations for fund awards between January and February next year.
While direct federal support for a relatively early stage clean energy sector like space-based solar power might be something of a surprise from the second Trump administration, the government has made it clear that investing in energy security, regardless of the generation technology used, has been a key priority. Assistant secretary of energy Audrey Robertson said, upon the launch of the funding, that “bolstering our national security” was a goal of the funding.
“The next frontier for solar PV power generation is in space,” said Robertson. “As demand for space-grade PV skyrockets, this investment will establish American leadership in next-generation, space-based PV, bolster our national security and enhance our economic competitiveness.”
Last month, PV Tech Premium heard from Hasan Nazar, head of policy at Crux, about how many of the current policy initiatives align under the priority of improving US energy security, and reducing reliance on parts and components made overseas.
Indeed, a report from Clean Tomorrow, published last year, found that the DOE would need to invest US$25 billion across a number of energy sectors in order to deliver greater energy security for the US, and while the US$12 million for the PIA is a small part of this total, it is nonetheless part of the government’s spending to strengthen energy security.
Space-based solar power has also attracted interest from the private sector this year. In April, tech giant Meta signed an agreement with space-based solar power startup Overview Energy to gain “early access” to a 1GW fleet of space-based solar panels that Overview plans to launch in 2030.
Space-based solar power will be a topic of conversation at this year’s PV CellTech USA conference. Hosted by PV Tech publisher Solar Media in San Francisco, US, on 13-14 October, the final day of the conference will include a presentation from Timothy Siegler, technology manager at the IESO, about how space-based solar power is driving the next generation of PV innovation. Read the full event agenda on the official website.

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JAKARTA: Central Java has started the construction of Gajah Mungkur floating solar farm in Wonogiri regency worth Rp 1.6 trillion (US$9.03 million), with a capacity of 134.2 megawatts peak (MWp), or 100 megawatts alternating current (MWac).
The Gajah Mungkur floating photovoltaic (FPV) system is one of the strategic projects in a national programme to develop 100 GWp in three years. Targeted to start operations in 2027, the floating solar farm is projected to produce some 218 gigawatt-hour (GWh) per year.
The solar farm development was designed with consideration for Gajah Mungkur Dam’s functions and nearby public activities.
The total area of the solar cells will be less than 5 per cent of the dam’s total area of 5,600 hectares.
Solar cell placement is also prepared by calculating changes in water level and preserving residents’ and fishermen’s transport routes. Gas-fired power plant operations director at PT PLN Indonesia Power, Daniel Eliawardhana, said currently preparation and construction technical aspects were ongoing.
“The floating solar farm is expected to be operational by the end of 2027 producing 134 MWp,” he said.
The Gajah Mungkur FPV system is not the only solar power project being carried out in Central Java. The government also plans to construct a floating solar farm in Kedung Ombo Dam with a capacity of 100 MWac while Karimunjawa Islands is preparing a floating solar farm with a capacity of about 7.4 MW.
The groundbreaking for Gajah Mungkur floating solar farm was held together with the launch of the 100GWp solar farm program led by President Prabowo Subianto in Bali on Aug 25.
In Wonogiri, the ceremony was attended by Central Java Governor Ahmad Luthfi, regional officials, state utility PLN, the water resource manager and project developer.
“For Central Java, the project marks a shift from fossil fuel to clean energy while at the same time strengthening electricity supply for industries, households and economic activities in the province,” Luthfi said.
With a production of 218 GWh per year, Gajah Mungkur floating solar farm will supply some 37 per cent of Wonogiri regency’s yearly electricity needs. PLN main distribution unit general manager for Central Java Bramantyo Anggun Pambudi said electricity from the floating solar farm would be distributed through the 150-kilovolt transmission network to Nguntoronadi main power station, some 11.7km away.
“Once the electricity enters the Java-Madura-Bali interconnection system, the electricity can be sent to various areas connected to the network,” he said.
“The electricity can be channeled to all areas inside the interconnection system.”
This means solar energy collected on the surface of Gajah Mungkur Dam will support numerous economic activities in various regions in Java and Bali. Construction requires between 150 and 250 workers, which will be recruited from the local community through contractors. – The Jakarta Post/ANN
 
 
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Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Technology Advances Toward Commercial-Scale Solar  solarquarter.com
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Romain Zissler, Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy Institute
19 May 2026
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) continues to make significant progress worldwide. Its success is driven primarily by its strong cost competitiveness. Other key factors include its contribution to energy security and the decarbonization of economies. At the distributed level, solar PV is also valued for the energy independence it provides. In 2025, solar PV set new annual growth records for both installed capacity (510 GW) and electricity generation (636 TWh). This remarkable expansion has also brought economic and technical challenges, including negative wholesale electricity prices and increased curtailment. At the same time, it has accelerated the development of solutions such as battery storage systems and innovative retail electricity plans.
In 2025, global solar PV capacity increased by a record 510 GW [Figure 1], bringing total cumulative installed capacity to 2,383 GW.
Figure 1. World – Annual Solar PV Capacity Additions, 2010–2025
China alone accounted for 62% of the global increase, adding 314 GW [Figure 2]. The European Union (EU) and India completed the top three with additions of 56 GW and 37 GW, respectively, while the United States (US) ranked fourth with 34 GW. Japan lagged far behind these leading markets, with only 3 GW of new capacity added.
Figure 2. Selected Countries – Annual Installed Solar PV Capacity, 2025
Each country faces unique circumstances, and the growth of solar PV depends on specific domestic developments.
For example, in China, a key factor behind the accelerated growth of solar PV in 2025 (314 GW, compared with 277 GW in 2024) was the introduction, on June 1, 2025, of a less favorable contract-for-difference mechanism. The implementation of this new policy triggered a surge in installations between January and May, with 63% of the annual capacity increase achieved during the first five months of the year.
In the EU, electricity prices on power exchanges remain high by global standards, particularly in member states where fossil fuels and carbon pricing continue to play a significant role in price formation.
In Germany, despite renewable energy (RE) accounting for 59% of the electricity mix in 2025, high gas and carbon prices pushed the annual average power exchange price to $101/MWh.¹ This was nearly twice the generation cost of new solar PV in the country ($54/MWh).² As a result, Germany added 15 GW of new solar PV capacity last year.
In France, where decarbonized nuclear power plays a major role in electricity price formation, power exchange prices are lower than in Germany, averaging $69/MWh in 2025.³ The generation cost of new solar PV in France is similar to that in Germany. As a result, the economic incentive to add new solar capacity is less pronounced than in Germany, although it remains attractive. France added 6 GW of new solar PV capacity last year.
In India, coal-fired power generation remains competitive ($30/MWh) due to low fuel costs and the absence of carbon pricing. However, solar PV is even more cost-competitive ($25/MWh), supported by low capital expenditures and high capacity factors (typically 19%). In addition, electricity demand in India is growing rapidly, having increased by one-third since 2020.⁴ Solar PV also offers a significant advantage in deployment speed: a solar project typically takes only two years to develop and construct, compared with seven years for a coal-fired power plant.⁵
In the US, solar PV additions remained robust in 2025 despite President Trump beginning to scale back clean energy incentives, such as tax credits, and imposing high import tariffs. Annual capacity additions declined only slightly compared with 2024, reaching 34 GW versus 38 GW the previous year. It is important to note that, unlike in China, the EU, or India, solar PV is not the most cost-competitive generation technology in the US. At around $30/MWh, the generation cost of existing combined-cycle gas turbines (CCGTs) is roughly half that of new solar PV. This helps explain the continued importance of policy incentives for solar PV deployment in the country.⁶
Finally, in Japan, solar PV expansion remains modest, with annual additions of around 3 GW in both 2024 and 2025. At $69/MWh, the generation cost of new solar PV is slightly higher than that of existing coal-fired power plants ($54/MWh), but significantly lower than that of existing CCGTs ($92/MWh). Solar PV is also likely to be cost-competitive with existing nuclear reactors, although only limited and incomplete cost data are publicly available for the latter. Therefore, the main barriers to solar PV deployment in Japan are not economic, but rather regulatory (such as priority dispatch rules that exacerbate curtailment), societal (including coexistence with local communities), and geopolitical (notably the reluctance to rely on imported Chinese equipment).
In line with record capacity additions, electricity generation from solar power (almost entirely solar PV, as concentrated solar power remains negligible) increased by a record 636 TWh in 2025 [Figure 3]. This represented the second-largest annual increase ever recorded among all electricity generation technologies. Only the rebound in coal-fired generation in 2021 was larger (+719 TWh), following the sharp decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Figure 3. World – Annual Growth in Solar Power Generation, 2010–2025
In 2025, global electricity demand increased by 849 TWh, with solar meeting 75% of this growth.
As a result, the share of solar in the global electricity mix rose to 8.7% [Figure 4], up from just 0.2% in 2010.
Figure 4. World – Electricity Generation Mix, 2025
In 2025, electricity generation from solar power surpassed that from wind. In 2026, it is expected to overtake nuclear generation as well. According to the International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook, solar PV is projected to become the world’s leading electricity generation technology by 2040, with a share of approximately 25–40% depending on the scenario.⁷
The main reason behind this inexorable rise is the outstanding cost competitiveness of solar PV. The industry initially expanded thanks to strong policy support, which enabled technological progress and economies of scale to develop over time. In addition, the recurring oversupply in the solar PV supply chain continues to put pressure on manufacturers to further reduce costs.
Against this backdrop, solar PV has become the most cost-competitive among new electricity generation technologies [Figure 5].
Figure 5. World – Power Generation Costs for New Power Plants, 2025
Another major advantage of solar PV is its exceptional versatility: it can be deployed at almost any scale and in a wide variety of locations, from residential rooftops and commercial buildings to utility-scale solar farms, parking lots, and even floating installations. This flexibility gives solar PV enormous global deployment potential.
Solar PV is characterized not only by low generation costs, but also by near-zero marginal costs. Under the merit-order principle, it is therefore dispatched first in electricity markets (as is the case for wind power).
Solar PV generation is concentrated around midday. In many power systems, solar PV now supplies such large volumes of electricity during these hours that power exchange prices frequently turn negative.
In Western Europe, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain each recorded between 650 and 800 hours of zero or negative electricity prices in 2025.⁸
Another challenge is curtailment. For example, in Chile, where solar accounted for 25% of total electricity generation in 2025, solar curtailment reached 17%.⁹
On the positive side, these challenging conditions are creating opportunities for new solutions, particularly battery storage systems and innovative retail electricity plans.
In 2025, the world recorded a new high in battery capacity additions, with 247 GWh installed [Figure 6].
Figure 6. World – Annual Installed Battery Storage Capacity, 2016–2025
Like solar PV, batteries benefit from mass production, with costs declining by 84% between 2016 and 2025 due to learning effects, technological improvements, and intense competition—particularly among Chinese manufacturers.
Batteries have moved beyond their initial niche role in providing grid stability services and have become essential infrastructure for storing excess electricity generated during the day and releasing it in the evening and at night.
Because utility-scale solar PV is particularly exposed to price cannibalization, the co-location of solar PV and batteries is emerging as a mainstream development model across global power markets. In 2025, one-quarter of all utility-scale solar plants were built with battery storage.¹⁰ Storage systems can maximize the use of grid connections, create new bankable revenue streams, and shift solar generation to higher-value hours.
Finding ways to encourage the consumption of low-cost electricity generated by solar PV is also important. In this regard, two noteworthy initiatives deserve to be highlighted.
First, the Australian government’s “Solar Sharer Offer.”¹¹ Starting on July 1, 2026, electricity retailers will be required to offer households in New South Wales, South Australia, and Southeast Queensland a tariff that includes at least three hours of free electricity during the daytime, typically around midday. Households in these regions are expected to save between $0.20 and $0.28 per kilowatt-hour consumed during these periods.¹²
Second, the French distribution system operator Enedis has begun implementing a nationwide reform of peak and off-peak electricity hours, effective from November 1, 2025, to better align electricity consumption with solar PV generation.¹³ Consumers will continue to benefit from eight off-peak hours per day, including at least five consecutive hours overnight. During the summer, up to three of these off-peak hours will be shifted to daytime periods. In France, under regulated residential tariffs, electricity consumed during off-peak hours is approximately $0.05/kWh cheaper than electricity consumed during peak hours.¹⁴
Solar PV is profoundly transforming the global power sector. This transformation is largely positive, as the technology is delivering on its promise to provide affordable and decarbonized electricity while strengthening energy security and resilience. The economic and technical integration of solar PV remains a challenge, but one that can be addressed through a range of solutions, including smarter and more adaptive market rules.
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By Kelly Pickerel | July 24, 2026
The United States is producing heterojunction technology (HJT) solar cells for the first time, after Canadian Solar announced the official opening of the first 2.1-GW phase of its cell manufacturing facility in Jefferson, Indiana. The site, working under the CS PowerTech subsidiary name, will produce HJT cells that will be sent to Canadian Solar’s module assembly plant in Mesquite, Texas.
At full capacity, the facility is expected to produce more than 6 GW annually, support more than 1,200 jobs and represent nearly $1 billion in local investment.
“Jeffersonville is a cornerstone of our strategy to build one of North America’s most advanced energy manufacturing supply chains,” said Rusty Schmit, President of CS PowerTech. “This facility will produce next-generation HJT solar cells, support domestic manufacturing and ultimately strengthen grid reliability as our customers deploy the products. We are proud to invest in Indiana’s workforce and work with regional partners to build a long-term center of excellence for solar technology and advanced manufacturing.”
The Jeffersonville facility will ramp production to full capacity for phase one over the next few months and CS PowerTech expects to begin work on phase two expansion before the end of the year. Canadian Solar also plans to boost its Texas panel assembly capacity to 10 GW annually.
Canadian Solar is the first manufacturer operating in the United States to produce HJT cells. All other domestic cell manufacturers (Suniva, ES Foundry, Qcells) are producing n-type (either PERC or TOPCon) designs. A few panel assemblers say they are making HJT designs, but the cells are not domestic.
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Korea Institute of Energy Research develops perovskite–CIGS tandem solar cell
The next-generation perovskite/copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell developed by the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has achieved an energy conversion efficiency of 26.7%, breaking the world record for the highest certified efficiency. This achievement follows last year’s result by a joint team from Seoul National University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), which set the previous world-best efficiency at 26.3%, and once again a Korean research team has set a new global benchmark.

KIER announced on the 1st that the power conversion efficiency record of its perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cell, developed by the Photovoltaics Research Center, has been officially certified by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) in Germany and listed as the world’s highest record in the solar cell efficiency tables by type published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States.

The most widely used silicon solar cells today have a theoretical maximum efficiency of about 29%, which means there is a limit to further improvements when relying on a single material. This is why tandem solar cells, which stack solar cells with different characteristics in multiple layers to utilize a broader range of sunlight, are attracting attention.

In the perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cell developed by KIER, a perovskite solar cell is placed on the top and a CIGS solar cell on the bottom. This structure divides and absorbs sunlight in different wavelength ranges to maximize power generation efficiency. However, during the process of combining the two solar cells, the perovskite light-absorbing layer tends to degrade and absorb unnecessary light, which leads to performance losses and has been a major challenge.

The research team developed interfacial layer materials and processing technologies that can reduce damage to the perovskite, and optimized the structure of the top transparent electrode and charge transport layers to cut unnecessary light absorption and minimize photogenerated current losses. As a result, they achieved a 27% efficiency under laboratory conditions and obtained certification from Fraunhofer ISE for an official efficiency of 26.7%.

Perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cells can be fabricated in a lightweight, flexible thin-film structure, which makes them highly promising as power sources not only for buildings and vehicles but also for small satellites and space data centers, where weight and installation area are critical. For example, if the solar panels are rolled up and launched into space, the available payload volume of the launch vehicle can be maximized.

Jung In-young, senior researcher at KIER who led the study, said, “We simultaneously reduced interfacial and optical losses that occur during the process of integrating perovskite and CIGS, thereby improving both efficiency and stability,” adding, “Having our efficiency verified by a world-class certification body and listed as the top efficiency is an objective recognition of the competitiveness of our technology.”

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Most FPV systems deployed today are limited to sheltered reservoirs, lakes, and low-wave environments, restricting where floating solar can be scaled. BRIZO aims to bridge the gap between conventional inland FPV and more exposed marine conditions, combining increased wave tolerance with high reliability.
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“Floating solar is entering a new phase of maturity, where the industry must move beyond sheltered waters to unlock meaningful scale,” said Prajeev Rasiah, Senior Vice President and Regional Director for Northern Europe, Energy Systems at DNV. “Technologies capable of operating in more exposed environments could significantly expand the addressable market for FPV, particularly in regions facing land constraints, competing land use, or growing pressure on grid infrastructure. Independent technical assurance is essential to demonstrating that these systems can withstand demanding environmental conditions over their full operational lifetime and give developers and investors confidence as the market evolves.”
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Solar photovoltaic is expected to become the world’s largest source of electricity over the coming decades. DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook 2025 forecasts continued rapid growth in solar deployment, driven by falling technology costs and accelerating electrification. As deployment scales further, constraints linked to land availability, permitting, grid congestion, and siting are becoming increasingly significant in many markets.
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After the expansion, Waaree’s manufacturing capacity will rise to 4.8 GW
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Solar module manufacturer Waaree Energies is increasing the capacity of its solar module manufacturing plant in Arizona in the U.S. from 1 GW to 1.6 GW by investing $37 million.
Following the expansion, the company’s aggregate manufacturing capacity in the U.S. will increase to 4.8 GW. This will comprise 3.2 GW of manufacturing capacity in Texas and 1.6 GW in Arizona.
The revamp will involve replacing the Arizona facility’s existing module manufacturing lines with new high-efficiency module production lines.
Waaree said the investment will be funded through a combination of debt and internal accruals.
The board also approved consolidating Waaree’s manufacturing facilities in Gujarat. The company will relocate plant and machinery from its 1 GW Tumb facility and 1.11 GW Nandigram facility to its existing manufacturing facility at Chikhli, Gujarat.
Waaree said the consolidation is being undertaken for operational efficiency and is expected to be completed on or before December 31, 2026. The Tumb and Nandigram facilities together contributed approximately 14% of the company’s standalone turnover during the previous financial year.
Mercom had reported that during the first quarter of the financial year 2026, Waaree’s total solar module production increased 41.5% year-over-year to 3.24 GW, while module sales reached 3.6 GW. The company had 25.8 GW of installed solar module manufacturing capacity and 5.4 GW of solar cell capacity. Capacity utilization at its U.S. module manufacturing facility stood at 59%.
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Recently, Waaree Energies added 98 MW of G12R monocrystalline TOPCon (n-type) bifacial cells measuring 210 mm × 182.3 mm, compliant with the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers List II. The cells will have an average solar cell efficiency of 25.39% and a wattage of 9.73 W.
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Chandigarh Power Distribution Limited (CPDL) has signed a power purchase agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for 50 MW of solar power, backed by a battery storage system.

The pact will help Chandigarh access cleaner power, supplying around 135 million units (MUs) of electricity annually, while reducing more than 96 tons of CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions each year, said a CPDL official.

Under the arrangement, solar power will primarily help meet Chandigarh’s electricity demand during the day, while the battery storage system will store electricity and supply it during the night and other periods when solar power is not available.

This will help CPDL better manage the city’s fluctuating electricity demand.
The agreement was signed by CPDL CEO Brajesh Kumar with SECI MD Akash Tripathi for 25 years under the inter-state transmission system that enables electricity generated in one part of the country to be supplied to another through the national power transmission network.

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has come out every day over the last 145 years. THE TRIBUNE was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist of the time. The newspaper is run by a five-member Trust, which is chaired by Shri N N Vohra, former Governor of J&K State (2008-2018); as well as Justice S S Sodhi, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court; Shri Gurbachan Jagat, former Governor of Manipur; Lt Gen. Shamsher Singh Mehta, former Western Army Commander; Shri Paramjit Singh Patwalia, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court.

THE TRIBUNE is free, objective, and independent. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language, are the hallmarks of the paper.

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China’s installed solar power capacity has surpassed coal for the first time to become the country’s largest single power source, a historic milestone that fundamentally reshapes the nation’s energy supply landscape and accelerates its ongoing green, carbon-cutting transition.
As of the end of July, China’s total installed solar capacity reached 1.286 billion kilowatts, narrowly edging past the 1.285 billion kW of coal-fired capacity, said the National Energy Administration.
This massive footprint firmly secures China’s position as the world’s largest photovoltaic energy market. The country’s solar power capacity now far exceeds that of the United States, India and Germany, and is significantly higher than the total installed photovoltaic capacity of the entire European Union, said the China Electricity Council.
Liu Zhiqiang, deputy director of the CEC’s planning and development department, said this eclipsing achievement is a landmark event that lays a solid supply-side foundation for the nation’s dual-carbon goals.
“With China rapidly building a new power system dominated by renewable energy, this structural adjustment on the generation side will drastically reduce the power sector’s overall carbon emissions. The vast domestic market has fortified the resilience of China’s photovoltaic supply chain, unleashing economies of scale that drive rapid technological iterations. This, in turn, consolidates the nation’s global leadership in solar manufacturing, technical standards and engineering construction,” Liu said.
Consequently, the role of coal-fired power is undergoing a profound structural shift. Rather than pursuing continuous output growth, coal is accelerating its transition from a foundational baseload provider to a flexible, more auxiliary supportive power source.
During midday peaks in frequent sunshine intensity, coal units now actively throttle down their output to make room for renewable energy absorption, Liu added.
Conversely, at night or during cloudy weather when solar generation plummets, coal plants rely on their rapid adjustability to swiftly ramp up and fill in grid gaps.
“While the average annual utilization hours of coal plants are trending downward to accommodate more renewables, their value in ensuring system security — such as providing rotational inertia and frequency support — has become even more prominent. Coal remains the ‘ballast stone’ of our power system’s safe operation.”
Despite surpassing the historic capacity threshold, experts caution that installed capacity does not necessarily directly translate into actual power generation. Because solar is inherently intermittent and its utilization hours remain much lower than fossil fuels, coal will temporarily remain the primary backbone for grid reliability.
To successfully convert this massive renewable capacity into steady, reliable electricity supplies, Liu suggests that China should scale up flexible grid resources, including pumped hydro, novel long-duration energy storage and next-generation upgrades for coal plants. Smart grid platforms — integrating main grids, distribution networks and micro-grids — are necessary to boost cross-regional and cross-seasonal power-sharing capabilities, he said, adding that through technical innovation, the nation should push solar power from being “weather-dependent” to being highly executable and predictable.
The CEC official also highlighted the critical need to refine and enhance electricity market mechanisms.
Hao Yingjie, secretary-general of the CEC, said this capacity milestone cements the foundation for China’s dual-carbon goals of peaking carbon emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.
“The continued expansion of solar power is steadily lowering the carbon intensity of the power sector, expanding the supply of green electricity and providing robust clean energy support for the electrification of industries and transportation,” Hao said.
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If you design it right, a primarily solar-powered car is very much a possibility. That's exactly what a team from Clemson University, which runs an automotive engineering graduate program, did. Better yet, they claim that their invention, developed with the aid of BMW, ends most days with more energy than it started with. The car is a product of Clemson's Deep Orange program and bears the name Luminetta, a nod to what the car runs on: sunlight.
At first glance, it doesn't immediately look like a solar-powered car. That's because, unlike the handful of electric cars with solar panel roofs, the Luminetta's solar cells are part of the outer body panels. These panels contain more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells that basically cover the whole outside of the car. The cells are co-engineered by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, a solar research lab. They've been specially designed to keep producing even when a tree or a garage pillar shades part of them.
The car can generate as much as 5.7 kWh over the course of a day. According to the team's estimates, the energy generated is enough for roughly 31 extra miles of range on average, assuming a standard commute of 12 miles daily. The team came up with this estimate based on models of sunlight in Greenville, South Carolina; Frankfurt, Germany; Madrid, Spain; and Mumbai, India.
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The Luminetta isn't just clever; it's also light. It weighs just 1,212 pounds, which is around a quarter of a similarly-sized production car. That odd shape contributes to its energy efficiency, too. The students drew inspiration from the boxfish, which has a blocky body that allows it to move through water with surprisingly little drag. The flat sides also give the solar cells far more room than any curved body would. None of this comes at the cost of safety; occupants are protected by structural steel, with aluminum, carbon fiber, and 3D-printed metal joints, also used for their lightweight and stiff nature.
While the numbers are impressive, it's important to note that the Luminetta's energy-positive claim rests mostly on Clemson's modeling. For them to prove the energy figures survive in the real world, they'd have to log miles of real commuting, spread across the full year. Things like parking the car underground or the weather staying gray for a week or longer could very well wreck the math.
Regardless, Clemson will be showcasing the Luminetta at CES Las Vegas in 2027. While we may never see this specific project hit the streets, it'll be interesting to see whether any of it will end up featuring on a future BMW EV. Something to rival Aptera's solar-powered three-wheeler, perhaps?
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AESOLAR, a photovoltaic module manufacturer headquartered in Germany, has been named a Tier 1 PV Module Manufacturer in BloombergNEF’s 3Q 2026 Global PV Market Outlook. This marks the company’s 19th inclusion in the ranking since its first appearance in 2021. It is also AESOLAR’s 6th consecutive year on the list. Tier 1 status is based on self-branded modules, supplied from the manufacturer’s own facilities, to bank-financed projects. The criteria require qualifying projects to be financed through non-recourse debt by different commercial banks. The minimum project size is 10 MW. AESOLAR’s product range includes Perc, TOPCon, HJT, and BC cell technologies. The company also offers modules for agriculture, carports, and building-integrated PV. The company has also expanded into residential and small commercial energy storage, including inverters and batteries. 
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If your solar installer says they’re waiting on stock, you’ll probably accept it. If they ask for a few more weeks, you’ll give them a few more weeks.
But when does patience stop being reasonable?
That’s the question NSW homeowner Mark Barnes eventually found himself asking after seven months of delays, a missed installation date and, after cancelling his battery order, still waiting for the return of his $6,500 deposit.
Barnes and his neighbour, John Smeros, signed separate but otherwise identical contracts with Macarthur Solar in late 2025 for solar and battery systems at their respective villas in Revesby.
The original advice was straightforward. Installation was expected within 9 to 12 weeks. When that didn’t happen, the explanations sounded reasonable as well.
In late January, Barnes was still expecting his installation to proceed on schedule. Macarthur Solar sent customers an update explaining the turmoil affecting the battery industry. It said changes to government battery incentives had triggered unprecedented demand. Suppliers were struggling to keep up, and installation timeframes could “change dramatically in both directions” depending on stock, weather, and staffing.
At the same time, the company sought to reassure customers.
“Just to confirm, this is not suggesting that there will be a delay…”
At the time, Barnes had little reason to doubt it. But the original 9 to 12 week timeframe passed without an installation.
Barnes says he struggled to get clear answers. Numerous emails to the company yielded little more than assurances that the matter was still under review.
Then, on 9 April, came the first concrete setback.
Macarthur Solar advised that the installation would not be completed before the 1 May change to the federal battery rebate due to nationwide shortages of solar panels, inverters, and batteries. It also promised to honour the original contract pricing despite the delay.
Barnes waited. A month later, another email arrived.
Macarthur Solar apologised again, saying supply chain issues were finally beginning to ease and that secure installation dates would soon be issued.
They weren’t.
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Later that month came another update. The company expected to clear its backlog within eight to ten weeks and again thanked customers for their continued patience.
Each update brought another explanation. And another reason to wait.
By mid-May, Barnes had become frustrated enough to contact the owner, Mathew Cox, directly. Barnes says Cox assured him the installation would be completed before the end of June.
Around the same time, Macarthur Solar offered both neighbours upgraded battery systems due to ongoing supplier issues. They accepted revised contracts.
“We signed a contract in good faith, waited patiently and agreed to the modifications they requested,” Barnes later wrote.
Even then, he wasn’t asking for his money back. After another conversation with his salesperson, Barnes says he was “still prepared to have that faith” if the company could simply commit to an installation date.
Eventually, it did. The installation was confirmed for 3 July. Here’s the timeline thus far:
At one point, Macarthur Solar received five star reviews, but it’s been a while. Please note: Macarthur Solar is not in our vetted installer network, and doesn’t qualify for our Good Installer Guarantee. 
The long-awaited installation date finally arrived, but the installers didn’t.
By 9.30 am, Barnes was texting Macarthur Solar asking where they were. He contacted the owner, Mathew Cox, and his salesperson. Only one reply came back.
“Looking into it for you.”
The morning slipped away. Barnes sent more messages. By 10.53 am, he had warned that if nothing happened that day, he would seek a refund and consider action through Fair Trading and the media.
At 12.01 pm, Cox called. Barnes says Cox told him the installation crew had worked until 10 pm the previous night.
Barnes replied there had been plenty of time to let him know that, and asked where the installers were now, but Cox didn’t know. He then asked for another installation date.
According to Barnes, Cox told him that because of supplier issues, the company was no longer making money on their contracts and could not give him one.
It’s a telling moment.
The conversation had begun with an explanation for why the installers hadn’t arrived that morning. It ended with Barnes being told the company was no longer making money on the contracts and could not offer another installation date.
After seven months of waiting, Barnes and Smeros asked to cancel their contracts. Macarthur Solar agreed to refund them.
Nearly six weeks later, the agreed refunds still hadn’t been paid.
Barnes has since lodged complaints with the ACCC and NSW Fair Trading, and says NCAT is his next step if the refunds are not paid.
Barnes’ experience reflects concerns raised recently by the ACCC, which warned that poor consumer experiences could undermine confidence in Australia’s growing home battery market.
Recent one-star reviews for Macarthur Solar across several review websites describe customers waiting months for installations or refunds. Public Facebook discussion threads have also attracted dozens of comments describing missed installations and outstanding refunds.
Barnes says he is now part of a Messenger group of over 50 Macarthur Solar customers, many of whom report that they are pursuing legal action or seeking to recover money owed to them.
SolarQuotes has not independently verified those individual claims. Macarthur Solar was, however, given an opportunity to respond to the broader concerns about delays and outstanding refunds.
In its response, owner Mathew Cox acknowledged the delays:
“Firstly, I acknowledge that both customers experienced delays that were well beyond what either they or Macarthur Solar expected. I understand their frustration and do not dispute that the process took considerably longer than originally anticipated.”
Macarthur Solar said the delays resulted from a combination of changes to government incentive programs, product availability, compliance requirements, and unexpectedly strong demand.
The company also said it offered both customers upgraded battery systems at no additional cost due to ongoing supply issues, and that both customers accepted revised contracts before later cancelling their orders. It acknowledged that both refunds remain outstanding.
SolarQuotes subsequently asked what was preventing the refunds from being completed, and when they would be paid.
No response had been received by the time of publication.
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Repeated no shows are annoying enough, it is when they don’t even bother to contact you before, at, or after the agreed time and date that it becomes completely unacceptable.
I think this is more prevalent when companies use subcontractors because they are juggling their own installations, they make more money from, with the subcontracted work. It is not just the no shows, they simply put your job to the bottom of their list.
From my experience with 5 different solar installers / subcontractors there is only one I could recommend to friend. A much higher strike rate than any other trade I have dealt with in the past.
When the installation company takes a 25% deposit and then you have to wait months for stock and then the subcontractor makes you wait as well?
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Pivot Energy is looking to build a solar farm on 18 acres of land just off of Ohio 14 on West Calla Road in Smith Township.
This comes after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency approved their notice of intention to build the facility.
The owners of the land, who have lived there since 1966 tell 21 News that they were approached by Pivot Energy with the plans to build the facility a number of years ago. Due to old age, the couple can no longer work the farmland, so upon hearing the pitch from Pivot Energy they were on board.
Currently the project’s construction is estimated to be completed by September of 2027, however the work has not started quite yet.
Before they begin work, Smith Township Trustee Larry Barnett told 21 News that some questions still need answered before they begin construction.
Barnett said that the township’s main concern is with West Calla Road, which would need to be three feet wider on each side to ensure that the trucks can pass safely during construction.
Because of this, Barnett explained that the project is still technically still in the negotiation stage until approved by the township and Mahoning County.
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South Korean researchers have set a new world record in perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cells—widely regarded as the next generation of thin-film photovoltaics—achieving a 26.7% energy conversion efficiency. The Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) announced on the 1st that the cell developed by its Photovoltaics Research Department has passed official certification by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and has been listed on the best research-cell efficiency chart published by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
The new record improves upon the 26.3% efficiency achieved last year by a joint research team from Seoul National University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) by 0.4 percentage points. By surpassing competing teams from China and Germany and breaking its own record within a single year, South Korea has reaffirmed its leadership in next-generation thin-film solar technology.
The current solar power market is dominated by silicon single-junction solar cells, which offer low production costs and advantages in mass manufacturing. However, silicon’s theoretical efficiency limit of approximately 29% has made tandem architectures—which split and absorb different wavelength bands of light—a focal point for next-generation technology.
The cell developed by the research team places a perovskite layer on top and a copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) layer underneath. Both materials can be fabricated as thin films, giving the cell lightweight and flexible properties unlike conventional silicon cells. This is what enables application to curved building facades, automobile roofs, and aircraft fuselages.
A key barrier to commercialization has been performance degradation caused by damage to the perovskite light-absorbing layer during the cell bonding process, as well as unnecessary light absorption by certain constituent layers. The KIER research team analyzed the sources of these losses and developed interfacial layer materials and processing techniques that reduce perovskite damage, while also optimizing the upper transparent electrode and charge transport layer structures to minimize photocurrent loss.
As a result, the team achieved 27% efficiency under laboratory conditions and received a certified efficiency of 26.7% from Fraunhofer ISE, an external certification body.
Perovskite/CIGS tandem cells are expected to expand the range of solar power applications by generating more electricity from the same surface area. In particular, because thin films can be rolled up and loaded onto launch vehicles, the technology is highly promising as a power source for future space industries—including small satellites and space-based data centers—where weight and installation footprint are critical variables.
Jeong In-young, a senior researcher at KIER’s Photovoltaics Research Department who led the study, said, “The significance lies in simultaneously reducing both interface losses and optical losses that occur in the process of combining perovskite and CIGS, thereby improving efficiency and stability at the same time.” Jeong added, “Having our efficiency verified by a world-class certification body and listed as the highest efficiency is a result that objectively validates the competitiveness of our technology.”
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FILE – Workers walk through a swamp to install electric transmission towers for the Adani Renewable Energy Park near Khavda, Bhuj district, near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Sept. 21, 2023.
FILE – Workers install solar panels at the under-construction Adani Green Energy Limited’s Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Sept. 21, 2023.
FILE – A motorcyclist ride past wind turbines, an Adani Group project, near Sadla village in Surendranagar district of Gujarat state, India, March 20, 2023.
FILE – Team leader K. Sridhar, center, closes the doors after a routine check of lithium-ion batteries of 500-kilowatt battery energy storage system in Thiruvallur District, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, July16, 2024.

FILE – Workers walk through a swamp to install electric transmission towers for the Adani Renewable Energy Park near Khavda, Bhuj district, near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Sept. 21, 2023.
FILE – Workers install solar panels at the under-construction Adani Green Energy Limited’s Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Sept. 21, 2023.
FILE – A motorcyclist ride past wind turbines, an Adani Group project, near Sadla village in Surendranagar district of Gujarat state, India, March 20, 2023.
FILE – Team leader K. Sridhar, center, closes the doors after a routine check of lithium-ion batteries of 500-kilowatt battery energy storage system in Thiruvallur District, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, July16, 2024.
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In the last 15 months, India curtailed nearly 11 terawatt-hours of solar generation — enough electricity to power about 10 million homes, according to government data and research by energy think tank Ember. That solar power went unused even as extreme heat and poor monsoon rains drove up demand for power in India for cooling and pumping groundwater for agriculture.
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Waaree Energies has received a letter of award (LOA) from Solar Energy Corp. of India (SECI) to develop a 700 MW solar power project paired with a 700 MW/2,800 MWh energy storage system (ESS) in Solapur, Maharashtra. The project will supply power under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA).
Separately, the company’s board of directors has approved the consolidation of its manufacturing facilities in India through the relocation of plant and machinery from its 1 GW Tumb facility and 1.11 GW Nandigram facility to its existing manufacturing plant in Chikhli, Gujarat.
The board also approved approximately $37 million in capital expenditure by Waaree Solar Americas Inc. (WSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Waaree Energies, to revamp its module manufacturing facility in Arizona, United States.
The revamp will involve replacing the existing module manufacturing lines with new high-efficiency production lines, increasing WSA’s manufacturing capacity in Arizona from 1 GW to 1.6 GW.
Following the expansion, Waaree Energies’ total manufacturing capacity in the United States will increase to 4.8 GW, comprising 3.2 GW in Texas and 1.6 GW in Arizona.
The company said the Arizona capital expenditure will be funded through a combination of debt and internal accruals.
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Wavelength-dependent transparency, in particular, is a major strength of organic photovoltaics. Researchers at the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have now succeeded in building 14.5 by 14.5- centimeter organic PV modules with an average transparency of 43.2 percent and an efficiency of up to 9.26 percent. To achieve this, they used a combination of sputtering and slot-die coating – both processes that are industrially proven and highly scalable to large module areas.
“Scaling up to larger areas is one of the major challenges in organic photovoltaics,” explains Dr. Uli Würfel, head of the Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics Department at Fraunhofer ISE. Good laboratory results with small, hand-made solar cells often cannot be transferred to industrial production because their manufacturing process does not work on larger areas.
“The fact that we have now, for the first time, successfully and with virtually no loss applied all the layers of the solar cells using the slot-die process is a major breakthrough for us.” The back electrodes of the solar cells are applied in the preceding process step using a sputtering process, which is also an established manufacturing method.
In the development of semi-transparent organic photovoltaics, a trade-off is always made between light transmittance and the inevitable loss of efficiency associated with it, expressed as light utilization efficiency (LUE). With the 210.25-square-centimeter semi-transparent organic photovoltaic modules, the researchers achieved an efficiency of up to 9.26 percent with an average visible-light transmittance of 43.2 percent. This corresponds to a LUE of up to 4.0 percent. The project’s results were published in the leading journal “Joule” in early August.
“Now that we have the manufacturing process under control, we are optimistic that we can significantly increase transparency without compromising efficiency,” adds Uli Würfel. 
Organic solar modules with light transmittance well over 50 percent could be used in place of window glass in building facades or greenhouses. In contexts where tinted glass is desirable – for example, in car roofs and façade elements – lower transparency can even be an advantage.
In each module, more than 100 solar cells were interconnected using laser structuring. The solar cells consist of a back electrode that reflects near-infrared light, which was deposited onto a glass substrate via sputtering; an absorber layer made of organic semiconductors; and a metal-free top electrode made of the polymer PEDOT:PSS, which was applied in multiple layers using a slot die. Heraeus Epurio developed a new PEDOT:PSS formulation for this top electrode, which helped the PV modules achieve higher transparency.
Slot-die coating is compatible with roll-to-roll processes and is therefore also suitable for the production of solar modules on film. “As part of the project, we have already produced the first flexible, organic PV modules that retain 100 percent of their original efficiency after 1,274 bending cycles over a rod with a diameter of 15 millimeters,” explains Dr. Mathias List, research associate for organic and perovskite photovoltaics at Fraunhofer ISE. The company ROWO Coating manufactured the films for this purpose. “The next step is to achieve larger module areas here as well.”
The research findings are part of the project “Transparent PV – Development of Organic Solar Modules with High Visual Transparency,” supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate (BMWK, BMWE). Projects partners included Heraeus Epurio, ROWO Coating, ASCA, and the University of Freiburg.
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FILE – Workers walk through a swamp to install electric transmission towers for the Adani Renewable Energy Park near Khavda, Bhuj district, near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
BENGALURU – When India’s power demand surged at the height of summer, the country struggled to meet evening needs as air conditioners ran longer amid hotter nights. Despite this demand, some renewable energy providers were told to limit their output because the country had more clean electricity available than its grid could safely handle.
In the last 15 months, India curtailed nearly 11 terawatt-hours of solar generation — enough electricity to power about 10 million homes, according to government data and research by energy think tank Ember. That solar power went unused even as extreme heat and poor monsoon rains drove up demand for power in India for cooling and pumping groundwater for agriculture.
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India, the world’s most populous country and one of the largest emitters of climate-polluting gases, is rapidly adding clean energy, especially solar, to its power mix. However, it can’t use all the clean power it could generate because of insufficient transmission and storage capacity and the technical difficulty of shifting between fossil power and renewables.
Energy experts say that contradiction points to the next big challenge for India’s energy transition. Building solar and wind farms is no longer enough. India also needs more transmission lines to move electricity across the country, batteries to store renewable power until it is needed and a more flexible power system that can quickly adjust as wind and solar output rises or falls.
“We’re in a stage where some of the biggest hurdles in renewables are starting to hit us,” said Neshwin Rodrigues, an energy analyst at Ember.
Clean power gets switched off despite record demand
India has more than 300 gigawatts of clean power capacity, more than half its total installed electricity capacity. But coal still produces most of the country’s electricity.
Experts said the main reason for this is curtailment — when a wind or solar plant could produce electricity but is ordered to reduce or stop generation as the grid cannot take the power.
Rodrigues said that when solar generation surges in the afternoon, it’s difficult for coal units to reduce their output because they are relatively inflexible and cannot ramp down quickly without compromising efficiency, increasing costs or risking operational problems.
Trying to make thermal power plants flexible and adapt to increasing supply from clean energy sources “is like asking an elephant to dance,” said Vinay Pabba, CEO of Hyderabad-based renewable energy company Vibrant Energy.
Pabba said curtailment results in losses for clean power developers. “We get paid only for what we put on the grid,” he said.
The high concentration of renewable generation in western India has also meant that transmission lines in that part of the country get congested quickly. The western states of Gujarat and Rajasthan account for nearly 50% of India’s solar power capacity.
“When solar peaks, usually in the afternoon, there is a limited pipe to evacuate it,” said Pabba.
Another risk of not building storage quickly is that dirty fuels get used more. “Without enough storage, India risks keeping coal plants running even when cheap renewable power is available,” said Vibhuti Garg, South Asia director at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
While a solar or wind farm can sometimes be completed within two years, building new power lines can take a minimum of three years, according to energy experts.
India has achieved only about 80% of its annual transmission construction targets over the past five years, research by Ember has found.
Spreading more renewable development across other parts of the country, while adding more wind and smaller local solar projects, could reduce pressure on crowded transmission corridors and make the electricity supply more balanced throughout the day, said Disha Agarwal, an energy analyst at the New Delhi-based Council on Energy, Environment and Water.
Agarwal said the challenge is likely to become more difficult as renewable capacity keeps rising.
India is aiming for 500 gigawatts of clean electricity capacity by 2030. Also, Indian policymakers expect nearly 70% of India’s installed power capacity to come from nonfossil sources by 2036.
Batteries could help save power for when it is needed
A study released earlier this month by the India Energy and Climate Center at the University of California, Berkeley, found that renewable power backed by batteries can provide electricity with reliability approaching that of conventional power plants at a price researchers said is lower than the price of power from new coal-fired plants.
Batteries make it possible to store solar electricity when it is abundant in the afternoon and discharge it after sunset, when demand remains high.
But India’s storage sector remains far smaller than what planners said will eventually be required.
“If we try to increase the solar installations without solving for energy storage, it is only going to lead to curtailment,” said Ankit Mittal, CEO of battery storage company Ingro Energy.
Mittal said India is trying to transform several parts of its electricity system simultaneously as power demand rises. “Things that were supposed to happen over decades” are now happening at once, he said.
The government said in July that it had about 3 gigawatts of battery storage and 7.4 gigawatts of operational pumped-storage capacity. It expects India’s storage needs to reach about 74 gigawatts by 2032.
“If high quality energy storage projects are not built, we could be adding an additional layer of risk to grid operations while also decelerating our nation’s ability to achieve our energy transition targets,” said Avinash Rao, CEO of Mahindra Susten, a leading renewable energy company in India.
Rodrigues, the energy analyst, said batteries can be built much more quickly than major transmission infrastructure, making them one of the fastest options for easing some immediate constraints.
Industry stakeholders said that few, if any, foresaw the incredible increase in demand happening as the country’s transportation and other major sectors electrify and data centers are built.
“None of us saw it coming. If we had seen it coming, we would have probably planned our way around it,” said Pabba of Vibrant Energy.
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New Jersey residents have a new option to save on their electric bills.
Portable solar panels that meet safety standards are now legal to buy online or at local home improvement stores, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.
The law exempts these plug-in energy generators under 1,200 watts from utility interconnection and metering requirements. Depending on wattage, models can range in price between a few hundred dollars and $1,500.
"These units cost a fraction as much as rooftop solar, but they can still shave up to $50 off the typical monthly bill," Sherrill said. That's savings of $600 a year. She said there are more than 1 million of these panels in Germany alone.
Often placed on balconies or backyards, most portable solar panels have attached microinverters that go out to a regular plug. They plug into standard 120-volt wall outlets, allowing other appliances and devices in the home to draw from that power.
Under the new law, residents who use balcony solar panels don't have to notify or get approval from their power companies. The law also stops landlords and homeowner associations from banning them. Municipalities can't ban or require permits for them either.
The change gives New Jersey homeowners and renters a new option for generating some of their own electricity without taking on the cost and complexity of a traditional rooftop solar installation.
It also removes several potential roadblocks that could otherwise prevent residents from using the systems.
Only six months passed between when the bill (S2368) was introduced and its signing on Tuesday, a relatively speedy journey in Trenton. It passed unanimously. This makes New Jersey the 9th state to legalize balcony solar, according to PlugInSolarUS.
The Garden State Balcony Solar Act is one of several laws the Sherrill administration has passed to counter the spike in New Jersey energy bills, which was the highest increase in the nation last year.
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Professor Kwon Tae-hyuk's Team and University of Cambridge Swap Solar Cell Modules to Match Light Levels Fast Charge to 70% in 10 Minutes Points to Maintenance-Free IoT Power Source
ULSAN — A modular battery technology that switches between sunlight and indoor lighting to charge around the clock has been developed. The advance is expected to accelerate commercialization of standalone power sources for Internet of Things (IoT) sensors that require neither external power lines nor periodic battery replacement.
The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) said on the 2nd that a research team led by Professor Kwon Tae-hyuk of the Department of Chemistry, working with Professor Michael De Volder's team at the University of Cambridge, has developed a modular photo-rechargeable battery architecture whose configuration can be changed according to light intensity.
Photo-rechargeable batteries combine the power-generating function of solar cells and the energy-storage function of batteries into a single device. Existing photo-charging systems had a limitation: when light intensity changed, the voltage produced by the solar cells no longer matched the battery's charging requirement, halting the charge or sharply cutting efficiency.
The team devised an approach that keeps the battery body fixed while swapping only the solar cell modules to suit light intensity. Solar cells that add voltage are wired in series next to a battery cell containing a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode, allowing the voltage of one, three or five segments to be selected depending on light conditions. When charging a lithium metal battery that requires higher voltage, all five segments are connected to secure sufficient driving force for the charge.
The battery materials were also overhauled to raise energy density. In the conventional approach using an iodine-based liquid cathode electrolyte, the separator needed to prevent side reactions increased internal resistance and slowed charging and discharging. The team applied a solid LFP cathode requiring no separator, together with a lithium metal anode, sharply raising volumetric energy density. It also adopted a solid polymer (PEDOT) as the charge transport material under sunlight and a copper complex electrolyte under weak indoor lighting, maximizing generation efficiency.
In performance testing, the lithium metal battery fitted with the sunlight module charged rapidly to 70% in 10 minutes under standard solar conditions and recorded a discharge energy density of 327.8 mWh/g. Complete charging and discharging was also achieved using light alone at 1,000 lux, the illumination level of a typical office. The researchers also observed that available battery capacity increased when light was shone on the device while power was being drawn.
The technology is expected to find broad use in indoor energy harvesting, recovering lighting energy otherwise wasted inside buildings to power wireless sensors and IoT devices indefinitely. On a European basis in 2016, annual energy consumption by buildings accounted for roughly 40% of total energy consumption, and about 20% of the energy consumed in buildings went to lighting.
"By making the number of solar cell segments and the materials variable, we secured optimal driving force matched to the charging voltage of each battery material," said Kim Byung-man, a UNIST researcher and the paper's first author. "This will serve as a design strategy applicable to the various battery materials now in commercial use."
"By establishing a structure capable of stable charging under both indoor and outdoor light conditions, we have cleared a major obstacle to commercializing photo-rechargeable secondary batteries," said Professor Kwon of UNIST. "This can fundamentally resolve the maintenance cost problem of IoT devices in which battery replacement is difficult."
The findings were published in the August issue of Energy Storage Materials, an international journal in the field of energy storage. The research was supported by KEPCO and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Both small- and grid-scale solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS) will be dominant in achieving Australia’s least cost energy transition to 2050, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) 2026 Integrated System Plan (ISP).
Targeting a total generation and storage capacity increase from 99 GW in 2026 to 308 GW over the next 24 years to 2050, would require from grid-scale wind and solar, a  5-fold increase from 23 GW in 2026, to 117 GW in 2050, or 3.9 GW per year.
Similarly, distributed solar would need to increase 20 GW to 87 GW, and dispatchable storage capacity from batteries, virtual power plants (VPP) and pumped hydro, would need an 11-fold increase from 6 GW to 64 GW, or an average of 2.6 GW per year to 2050.
The 117 GW of wind and solar will replace vanishing coal fleet capacity, which is projected to be 0 GW by 2049, when all plants are scheduled to be retired.
It will also be needed to meet rising demand, which the ISP forecasts will nearly double from 205 TWh in 2026 to 390 TWh in 2050.
Investment by consumers is forecast to contribute 87 GW of rooftop and other small-scale solar by 2050, and 35 GW of BESS.
In the 2050 Step Change scenario AEMO least-cost forecast, rooftop and other small-scale solar would have a 28% share of total National Electricity Market (NEM) capacity and, supported by consumer batteries and distribution networks, deliver a similar share of annual generation.
Similarly, in 2050, grid-scale solar would have a 21% share of NEM capacity and, supported by grid-scale batteries, deliver 29% of annual generation.
“This ISP projects a higher share of grid-scale solar and battery storage in the NEM capacity than previously, as their relative costs decline and battery connections increase,” the ISP says.
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Under the Step Change scenario, the plan forecasts around $106 billion (USD 73 billion) in annualised capital investment to 2050 (in today’s dollars) in transmission projects to connect to renewable energy generation and distribution sources.
“Around $6 billion of this is for transmission, which would deliver significant benefits, saving consumers $30 billion in avoided capital, operating and fuel costs compared to a pathway without these transmission investments,” the ISP says.
“Transmission is a relatively small share of overall system investment but delivers substantial benefits for consumers by unlocking lower-cost energy across the National Electricity Market,” Westerman said.
“The direction for Australia’s energy future remains clear, it’s renewable energy, supported by storage, connected by transmission and distribution, and backed up by gas.”
Smart Energy Council Chief Executive Officer David McElrea said “the more we delay, the more we pay”. 
“That’s almost $30 billion Australians stand to lose if we prolong our reliance on expensive, unreliable, ageing, and polluting fossil fuels like coal and gas.”
“Without a continued, rapid rollout of new transmission, grid-scale investment costs will balloon by $17 billion and system operating costs will shoot up by $12 billion. This infrastructure isn’t just about generating clean energy; it’s about moving it to where it is needed most – our regional manufacturing hubs, mining centers, cities, and electrified transport networks,” McElrea said.
AEMO Group System Planning Group Manager Eli Pack asked on LinkedIn what if the transition keeps moving, but delivery is harder, slower and more expensive than we’d like?
“That matters because this transition is happening in the real world, with real people, and not in a perfect model or giant spreadsheet. Even in that tougher world, there would still be around 45 GW of renewables and 31 GW of storage needing to connect by 2030, making transmission even more important across the NEM,” Pack said.

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SA Power Networks, the electricity distribution network operating in the state of South Australia, has announced its annual curtailment test will take place next Tuesday (August 25).
A statement published on the network’s website describes the annual test as “like a fire drill for the grid” that ensures its ability to temporarily curtail rooftop solar generation.
“[The test] simulates a rare but urgent situation so we can confirm that all systems and people are ready to respond if an actual emergency occurs,” the statement adds.
Around 100,000 customers are expected to be impacted on the day, with the curtailment expected to last less than an hour. SA Power Networks says solar systems will ramp down to 0 kW before ramping back up, with customers expected to miss around 1.5 kWh of generation on average.
The network’s update explains that the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) can direct it to use curtailment to help keep the electricity system stable during a system security emergency. 
“AEMO monitors grid stability nationally and works to maintain system security – balancing electricity supply with demand,” the statement continues. “In South Australia, that balance can be challenging because we have more rooftop solar per capita than almost anywhere in the world.”
The government of South Australia passed legislation in 2020 requiring all solar systems installed after September that year to be able to be remotely disconnected during a system security emergency.
Curtailment is considered as one of the biggest challenges facing the development of Australia’s solar market, across all market segments. Analysis from February found South Australia typically sees relatively moderate curtailment through autumn and winter followed by a sharp escalation in spring and early summer.
Earlier this year, the Australian Energy Market Commission unveiled plans to modernize its distribution network planning, which it says will help to lower curtailment of rooftop solar.
According to figures shared by the International Solar Energy Society, the number of dwellings with rooftop PV in South Australia has now passed 50%.
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