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US market, slow residential demand impact SMA Solar H1 2025 results

US market, slow residential demand impact SMA Solar H1 2025 results

SMA Solar’s sales reached €684.9 million (US$797.5 million) in the first six months of 2025, of which the residential sector fulfilled just €54.0 million (US$63 million) and the C&I sector €62.1 million (US$72.3 million). In the first half of 2024, sales in those two sectors reached €109.9 million (US$128.1 million) and €113.6 million (US$132.5 million)

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This Yoruba king’s palace is fully solar powered; now he wants to electrify his community

This Yoruba king’s palace is fully solar powered; now he wants to electrify his community

In 2024, Nigeria’s national grid collapsed 12 times, thrice in October alone. Across the country, the resulting blackouts plunged homes and businesses into prolonged blackouts, crippling critical health services among others. So far in 2025, the grid, which supplies power to nearly 200 million residents, has experienced two disturbances but no outright collapse.  The Transmission

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US to kill US$7 billion Solar For All support for low-income households

US to kill US$7 billion Solar For All support for low-income households

Latest EPA head Lee Zeldin posted a video to X announcing the fund’s cancellation. Image: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Solar PV is likely to become less accessible to low-income Americans after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cancels the US$7 billion Solar For All scheme. The EPA plans to end the Solar For All Programme in

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Genneia commissions 180MW solar PV in Argentina

Genneia commissions 180MW solar PV in Argentina

Latest The Parque Solar Anchoris, pictured above, brings Genneia’s operational solar PV portfolio to 490MW in Argentina. Image: Genneia. Argentinian renewables developer Genneia has reached commercial operations at its 180MW Parque Solar Anchoris in Argentina. Located in the western province of Mendoza, it is the second solar PV plant operational in the region after the

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SolarEdge ships more than 1GW of inverters for second consecutive quarter

SolarEdge ships more than 1GW of inverters for second consecutive quarter

Latest Both the company’s revenues and gross margin increased between the first and second quarters of the year. Image: SolarEdge. Israeli-headquartered inverter manufacturer SolarEdge posted inverter shipments of 1.19GW in the second quarter of this year, marking the second consecutive quarter that the company’s inverter shipments exceeded 1GW. These positive sales figures drove strong financial

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D3Energy breaks ground on 6MW floating solar farm in Ohio

D3Energy breaks ground on 6MW floating solar farm in Ohio

Latest Once operational, the project will generate over 7,500MWh annually, more than doubling the village’s current clean energy capacity. Image: D3Energy. US-based floating PV (FPV) developer D3Energy has started construction at a 6MW floating solar system in Monroeville, a village in Huron County, Ohio.  According to the firm, once operational, the project will generate over 7,500MWh annually,

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Arevon powers 758MW/1.2GWh solar-plus-storage plant in California

Arevon powers 758MW/1.2GWh solar-plus-storage plant in California

Latest Built in two phases, the Eland project comprises 758MW of solar PV and 300MW/1.2GWh of BESS. Image: Arevon. Independent power producer (IPP) Arevon Energy has powered the second phase of the Eland solar-plus-storage Center in Los Angeles, California. The project comprises 758MW of solar PV and a 1.2GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) and

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Infinity Power to build two 80MW solar projects in Côte d’Ivoire

Infinity Power to build two 80MW solar projects in Côte d’Ivoire

Latest The projects are in Touba and Laboa and include the construction of 17 km of power transmission lines. Image: Unsplash African renewable energy company Infinity Power has signed two concession agreements with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire for PV projects with a total capacity of 80MWac.  As part of the World Bank’s Scaling Solar

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How China Made an Antarctic Station Run on Majority Clean Energy

How China Made an Antarctic Station Run on Majority Clean Energy

Five years ago electrical engineer Sun Hongbin was given what many would consider an impossible task: build a full-fledged clean-energy system amid some of the coldest temperatures on Earth, screaming winds and half-year darkness. China was then building its fifth Antarctic research station, called Qinling, on Inexpressible Island in Terra Nova Bay. And the nation’s

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