By Charles Kennedy – May 19, 2026, 10:30 AM CDT India’s electricity grid is expanding at a slower pace than the boom in renewable energy installations, leading to increased share of clean energy curtailments and threatening to slow the solar and wind boom in the world’s most populous country. Grid and transmission constraints accounted for […]
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Can micro hydropower be a solution for remote energy access, especially in developing countries? And what standards are required… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/19/how-small-hydropower-can-compete-with-solar-pv/
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Carbon’s gigafactory project in Fos-sur-Mer, designed to build a 5 GW integrated solar manufacturing chain in France, has been abandoned due to insufficient regulatory visibility and investor guarantees. Despite attempts to scale down and pursue partnerships, including with Chinese manufacturer Longi, the project collapsed amid uncertainty over EU industrial policy and market preference mechanisms… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/19/carbon-scraps-solar-module-gigafactory-project-in-france/
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Hardip Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Grew Solar Solar module maker Grew Solar has completed the land acquisition process to set up a 8 gigawatt (GW) ingot and wafer manufacturing facility in Madhya Pradesh, expected to be operational by March of 2028. Hardip Singh, Chief Operating Officer, told businessline that the facility will be located in
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Researchers in Italy have developed a Pd/Si catalyst for upcycling silicon from end-of-life PV panels. The system showed performance comparable to commercial-silicon catalysts and stable recycling over six cycles… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/16/upcycling-silicon-from-end-of-life-solar-modules-with-palladiuma-research-team-from-italy-has-proposed-a-method-for-upcycling-silicon-si-from-end-of-life-eol-pv-panels-by-developing-a-pd-si-cataly/
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The complementarity between Spanish photovoltaics and Danish offshore wind power could underpin a European green hydrogen market by enabling renewable hydrogen production and exports at costs close to €2/kg… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/16/spain-denmark-could-develop-european-green-hydrogen-corridor-for-e2-kg-by-combining-solar-and-offshore-wind/
Regional differences The researchers note that aerosols can also contribute to cloud formation, which also causes further losses. But the degree of that contribution is much harder to estimate, so the researchers focus on aerosols for much of the analysis. Some of those aerosols occur naturally, typically from dust kicked up by winds in desert
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Once commissioned in Q3 2026, ISC Konstanz said it will be capable of carrying out the full range of cleanroom processes for solar cell development in-house for the first time. The expanded pilot line includes a batch wet bench from RENA Technologies, PVD equipment from Von Ardenne, high-temperature and fast-firing furnaces from centrotherm, an extended ASYS
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Mars as a bright crescent as seen by the Psyche spacecraft as it heads for a Red Planet rendezvous (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Is it an eclipse? An oddly angled crescent moon, perhaps? Nope. This stunning silver arc is actually Mars. The breathtaking new image of the Red Planet was captured by the NASA spacecraft Psyche
India installed 15.3 GW of solar capacity in the first quarter of 2026 – the highest quarterly addition on record – representing a 143% year-on-year increase, according to Mercom India… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/14/india-installs-15-3-gw-of-solar-capacity-in-q1/
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