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India’s solar PLI scheme draws strong interest but faces implementation

India’s solar PLI scheme draws strong interest but faces implementation

A new JMK Research and Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) study says India’s solar production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme is spurring upstream manufacturing but remains constrained by policy gaps, capital intensity and volatile global supply chains… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/indias-solar-pli-scheme-draws-strong-interest-but-faces-implementation/

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Small islands, big impact: the role of solar PV for the tropics

Small islands, big impact: the role of solar PV for the tropics

Low-cost renewables provide an opportunity for tropical islands to drive a sustainable, secure and self-sufficient economy. Solar PV emerges as the bulk energy provider, driven by excellent resource conditions and fast-improving economic attractiveness. The anticipated momentum of solar PV in tropical islands can best be characterised as a Solar-to-X Economy… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/small-islands-big-impact-the-role-of-solar-pv-for-the-tropics/

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BIC Deepens Investment In Inclusive Education With New Solar-powered Classrooms

BIC Deepens Investment In Inclusive Education With New Solar-powered Classrooms

BIC has strengthened its commitment to inclusive education in Nigeria with the renovation of three solar-powered classrooms at Sari-Iganmu Inclusive School in Lagos in commemoration of the Global Education Week (GEW). Delivered in partnership with the Raising Star Africa Foundation (RSAF), the project was carried out as part of BIC’s Global Education Week (GEW) 2025

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Queensland Unveils Solar Program for Renters | Mirage News

Queensland Unveils Solar Program for Renters | Mirage News

A collection of social service, faith and environmental groups have welcomed the launch of the Queensland Government’s Supercharged Solar for Renters scheme. The Power Together coalition, including the Queensland Conservation Council, Parents for Climate and Energetic Communities, have long called on the Queensland Government to help all Queenslanders, particularly renters and social housing tenants, access

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Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms

You can’t generate solar power at night unless your panels are in space. A startup that wants to beam orbital sunlight straight into existing solar farms has just emerged from stealth, claiming a world-first power-beaming demo, but with a lot of critical information left unreported.  Overview Energy announced on Wednesday that, after three years developing

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How technology is changing modern solar O&M

How technology is changing modern solar O&M

The speed at which Europe’s PV buildout has taken place over the last few decades is creating challenges for the solar industry around utility-scale O&M, as attendees of pv magazine’s Week Europe virtual conference session on leveraging technology for O&M heard… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/11/pv-week-europe-2025-operations-maintenance-solar-conference-session-recording/

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US space solar startup proves wireless power system works in motion

US space solar startup proves wireless power system works in motion

Overview Energy has proven its solar power beaming satellite system works in motion, which it claims is a world first for high-power wireless energy transmission. The company is targeting megawatt transmission from space in 2030… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/11/overview-energy-united-states-space-solar-power-beaming-satellite-system/

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Europe’s solar boom hits brakes, slowing market could be ‘self-destructive’, says SolarPower Europe

Europe’s solar boom hits brakes, slowing market could be ‘self-destructive’, says SolarPower Europe

The new report shows that 2025 will be the first time in a decade that Europe adds less new solar energy capacity than the previous year. SolarPower Europe forecasts 65.1GW of new solar capacity this year, compared with 65.6GW in 2024. This decline follows a decade that has seen annual EU solar additions increase by

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The Download: solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued

The Download: solar geoengineering’s future, and OpenAI is being sued

Plus: ICE is tracking pregnant immigrants through smartwatches This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease

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