Using 2024-benchmarked prices, the solar strike price was £64.09/MWh in AR4, £65.49/MWh in AR5, and then, of course, £72.92/MWh in AR6, which awarded contracts to 3.3GW of solar PV. Factoring in a “healthy” solar project pipeline and the £310 million budget allocated (this is for all technologies that are not offshore wind), SEUK predicts a 9-16% discount
Solar eclipses have been shown to confuse animals and disrupt their typical routines, but how do trees respond to this phenomenon? A Royal Society Open Science study published in April 2025 asserted that trees can anticipate a solar eclipse before it takes place, but some scientists have taken issue with this idea. A new paper
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In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that January 2026 began with relatively mild, solar-favorable conditions across much of the eastern U.S., but ended with Winter Storm Fern, as a polar vortex disruption triggered widespread cold, clouds, and sharply reduced solar generation. A rare S4-level solar radiation storm was
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Public interest in clean technologies is widespread, but the path to large‑scale adoption remains rocky. According to a recent survey by Trellis data partner GlobeScan, in conjunction with Chatham House, interest in clean tech such as solar panels and electric vehicles is robust. In emerging markets in Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin
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Hoshine, Risen Energy, Jolywood, and Irico have all issued forecasts for net losses in 2025, as rising raw material costs and weak industrial silicon prices squeeze margins across the solar manufacturing sector. February 6, 2026 Vincent Shaw and Valerie Thompson Image: , Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Hoshine Silicon Industry said it expects a full-year
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Researchers in the Netherlands developed a model to identify tolerable degradation rates of the top cell in perovskite-silicon tandem modules. Simulations showed that an increase in tandem module efficiency from 28.0% to 32.9% could raise the tolerable degradation rate by approximately 50%… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/06/modelling-subcell-degradation-rates-in-perovskite-silicon-tandem-modules/
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Chief among these are Morocco, with 204MW of new capacity added in 2025, and Zambia, with 139MW of new capacity. Indeed, eight countries added at least 100MW of new capacity in 2025, compared to just four in the previous year, suggesting that Africa’s solar sector is perhaps not as reliant on a few leading players
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The report said that the cost of raw materials in the US sits between Australia and Germany, though it did not provide a precise domestic module cost, potentially because the capability is currently lacking in the US. IRENA said the main drivers of module manufacturing cost are electricity prices and labour. This is the primary
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This will start with a first phase of 2GW solar PV portfolio in the central province of Sivas and the southern province of Karaman. “We consider these investments, which are among the most important examples of direct foreign investment in our energy sector, to be entirely financed through external financing,” said Alparslan Bayraktar, Turkish Minister
What’s the latest? In a newly published paper in the journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells , researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) explored the role of different encapsulants in TOPCon performance. They discovered that TOPCon modules exhibit power losses of 6-16% when exposed to 2,000 hours of humid, “damp heat”
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