In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that large parts of South America recorded slight net increases in solar irradiance this winter despite sharp month-to-month contrasts in June and July… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/29/record-cold-dust-storms-shape-complex-winter-for-south-american-solar/
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Home Marine Energy First US floating solar tracker under construction in Colorado August 29, 2025, by Zerina Maksumić U.S.-based solar developer Noria Energy has begun construction of a tracker for a 50 kW floating solar pilot project at Fairmount Reservoir in Golden, Colorado. The Aurea Solar project, developed for the Consolidated Mutual Water Company (CMWC),
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France will cut value-added tax (VAT) to 5.5% on residential PV systems up to 9 kW starting in October 2025… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/29/france-to-cut-vat-to-5-5-for-residential-solar-under-9-kw-from-october/
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In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/29/solar-panel-prices-increase-nearly-5-as-china-tightens-oversight/
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India added 18 GW of new solar power capacity in the first half of 2025, with over 11 GW installed in the second quarter alone… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/29/india-installs-18-gw-solar-in-h1-of-2025-says-mercom/
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Interconnection agreements grew 33% year-over-year in 2024 and are sustaining momentum through 2025, said Wood Mackenzie… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/29/solar-leads-as-us-grid-interconnection-agreements-grow-33/
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Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Wednesday witnessed the signing of a land usufruct contract for a $220m (EGP 11bn) industrial complex to produce solar cells, panels, and energy storage systems in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE). The “Atom Solar Egypt” project is a partnership between Egyptian, Emirati, Bahraini, and Chinese investors. The integrated
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Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2 (TYC 5709-354-1), a 5-million-year-old solar analog located 133 parsecs (434 light-years) on the constellation of Aquila. This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, is the
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The Inouye Solar Telescope captured this image of a solar flare on August 8, 2024. (Image credit: NSF/NSO/AURA, CC-BY) The world’s largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they’re spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on the final stages of a powerful
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Latest The transaction is expected to close in autumn 2025. Image: Statkraft. Norwegian energy company Statkraft has sold its Netherlands solar portfolio of 120MWp to Dutch renewable energy supplier Greenchoice. Statkraft has signed a share purchase agreement with Greenchoice to divest its renewable energy development activities in the Netherlands. The deal includes 120MWp of operating
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