Figures from the International Renewable Energy Agency state that Vietnam’s cumulative solar capacity reached 19,252 MW by the end of last year, indicating a 586 MW increase in 2025… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/16/vietnams-solar-capacity-surpasses-19-gw/
Vietnam’s solar capacity surpasses 19 GW Read More »
The government’s electrification plan, presented last week, includes a goal to double heat pump deployment in France by 2030, potentially benefiting the residential photovoltaic sector… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/16/heat-pumps-may-help-boost-residential-solar-in-france/
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According to the report, the dip in 2025 was due to a slowdown in mature markets such as New York and Maine. “Overall, we expect national installed community solar capacity will contract by an average of 5% annually through 2030 in existing state-level programmes,” said Caitlin Connelly, senior analyst and lead author of the report.
US community solar capacity passes 10GW despite 2025 slowdown Read More »
That includes growing global tensions that put strain on supply chains, increased regulations around environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) procurement, ethical traceability and transparency concerns for solar and energy storage products, and mounting cybersecurity risk, which Yaneva said can “turn your power plant into someone else’s weapon”. These factors could expose project owners or developers
Solar procurement is changing as geopolitics ‘redefines risk’ Read More »
New research from Rice University suggests sulfur keeps Mercury’s interior molten at lower temperatures, offering new clues to how the planet’s strange crust and mantle evolved. Yishen Zhang & Rajdeep Dasgupta provide new insights into the role of sulfur in shaping the thermochemical evolution of Mercury and other similarly reduced rocky planetary systems. Image credit:
Mercury’s Sulfur-Rich Magma May Rewrite How Solar System’s Innermost Planet Formed Read More »
RWE has scrapped its 99.9 MW Butterfly solar‑plus‑storage project in Wales after determining that grid connection availability made it unviable, in a move that comes amid sharply rising connection demand and mounting pressure on the United Kingdom’s queue reform process… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/15/rwe-drops-99-9-mw-solar-project-in-wales-on-grid-constraints/
RWE drops 99.9 MW solar project in Wales on grid constraints Read More »
When Abakar Mahamat was completing his Master’s in Information Technology (IT) engineering at ISGA (Institut Supérieur des Génies et des Affaires), Morocco, in 2021, he did not think he would end up building medical kiosks. At first, he tried to build an app that would connect patients to doctors in his home country, Chad, because
The solar-powered medical kiosks bringing doctors to remote Chadians Read More »
The government of Togo is running a tender for the construction of solar minigrids in 27 rural localities. The deadline for applications is May 26… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/15/togo-opens-solar-minigrid-tender/
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Axel Thiemann, CEO of IPP Sonnedix, said that his firm has learned to “embrace volatility on all different levels,” including macroeconomic change, fast regulatory shifts and “really, really volatile” power prices. This volatility is “not necessarily something we need to mitigate and try to avoid, but it has to be a source of value. Not
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Latest Modules from the Jupiter/Ampin Energy Transition facility will be used for Ampin’s own projects and sold to third-party developers in India. Image: Jupiter International. Solar equipment manufacturer Jupiter International and Indian independent power producer Ampin Energy Transition have commissioned a 1.3GW solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The facility has been
Jupiter, Ampin open 1.3GW solar cell and module facility in Odisha Read More »
