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Ciel & Terre bets on honeycomb design for large-scale floating solar

Ciel & Terre bets on honeycomb design for large-scale floating solar

Home Floating Solar Ciel & Terre bets on honeycomb design for large-scale floating solar October 14, 2025, by Zerina Maksumić French floating solar developer Ciel & Terre has rolled out its new floating solar technology, Fusio, designed to boost performance, scalability, and operational efficiency in large-scale floating photovoltaic (FPV) projects. Source: Ciel & Terre (Screenshot) […]

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Levanta Renewables to build 166MWp solar-plus-storage project in Philippines

Levanta Renewables to build 166MWp solar-plus-storage project in Philippines

Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads The project, spanning around 155 hectares, will integrate a battery energy storage system (BESS) and is planned to deliver 175 MWac. Image: Levanta Renewables. Southeast Asian independent power producer (IPP) Levanta Renewables will develop a 166MWp ground-mounted solar and storage project in the Visayas Islands as part of the Philippines’

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India adds 4.9GW residential rooftop solar in H1

India adds 4.9GW residential rooftop solar in H1

Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Applications for residential rooftop solar installations surged nearly fourfold between March 2024 and July 2025, reaching over 5.79 million. Image: RMI. India installed 4.9GW of residential rooftop solar capacity in the first half of 2025, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial

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OCI Holdings eyeing US market with 65% stake in 2.7GW Vietnamese solar wafer plant

OCI Holdings eyeing US market with 65% stake in 2.7GW Vietnamese solar wafer plant

Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads The site is expected to be operational by the end of October and commercially producing wafers in “early 2026”. Image: Smallman12q/Wikimedia Commons Korean chemical production firm OCI Holdings has acquired a 65% stake in a Vietnamese solar wafer production plant, intending to export solar wafers to the

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Solar power’s ‘meteoric’ rise, growth of distributed solar and battery co-location among key DNV energy trends

Solar power’s ‘meteoric’ rise, growth of distributed solar and battery co-location among key DNV energy trends

Chief among these is the forecast that, by 2060, solar power will account for 47% of the world’s electricity generation, increasing five-fold from last year. The report attributes solar’s “meteoric” rise to the shift of the world’s solar manufacturing bases from Europe to China during the 2010s, but that China’s dominance of global PV installations

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The Space Solar Power Revolution Is Well Underway

The Space Solar Power Revolution Is Well Underway

Felicity Bradstock Felicity Bradstock is a freelance writer specialising in Energy and Finance. She has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Birmingham, UK. More Info Premium Content By Felicity Bradstock – Oct 11, 2025, 2:00 PM CDT A King’s College London study found that space-based solar power could cut Europe’s land-based renewable

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Solar PV needs more nuanced assumptions in energy system modelling

Solar PV needs more nuanced assumptions in energy system modelling

Solar PV currently evolves as the most important source of energy. Many energy system models still do not consider technologies that are already standard in today’s solar PV market. This article provides a call to energy system modelers to better reflect real-world developments in scenarios aimed at giving an outlook to the energy transition by

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Solestial to provide Endurosat with space solar modules

Solestial to provide Endurosat with space solar modules

The U.S.-based manufacturer announced it will provide solar power modules to satellite manufacturer Endurosat starting this year. October 10, 2025 Valerie Thompson Image: Solestial Solestial, a U.S.-based manufacturer of solar PV technology for space applications, announced it is supplying its radiation-hardened ultra-thin silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar modules to Bulgarian satellite bus manufacturer Endurosat in 2025. The

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