Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Interviews , Long Reads The Q3 edition of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download. In our cover story, we step into the new normal in the US market, under the shadow of an administration increasingly hostile to renewables. Taking
ROME (AP) — Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world’s first carbon-neutral state.
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UK energy trader BB Energy has commissioned a 25 MW merchant solar plant in Zambia, marking the first such facility to join the South African Power Pool market. A 35 MW expansion is planned for completion later this year as part of a 118 MW target by 2027… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/01/first-merchant-solar-plant-enters-south-african-power-pool-trading/
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African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has committed $4.4 million to finance bankability and feasibility studies for a proposed 1 GW hybrid floating solar project on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/01/afreximbank-backs-1-gw-floating-solar-project-in-zimbabwe/
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In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that reduced atmospheric haze helped solar irradiance surge to around 40% above the July average in Northeast China. August 1, 2025 Solcast Asia in July delivered a mixed bag for solar producers, with extremes at both ends of the irradiance spectrum. The
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It’s no secret that prices throughout the solar supply chain have been at rock bottom over the past 18 months. Alex Barrows and Molly Morgan of CRU Group explore how the market reached the imbalance that caused PV prices to crash, what this has meant for innovation… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/01/non-stop-solar-innovation-despite-module-oversupply/
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Home Green Marine Eco Marine Power begins onboard trials of updated marine solar power system August 1, 2025, by Aida Čučuk Japan-based technology company Eco Marine Power has commenced onboard evaluation trials of its updated solar power system, known as Aquarius Marine Solar Power, along with the first of several photovoltaic (PV) module technologies. Courtesy
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Most U.S. households could reduce their electricity costs and endure power outages by installing rooftop solar panels and battery packs, according to a new Stanford University study, though people may need to buy the equipment by Dec. 31. About 60% of families could reduce their electricity costs by 15% on average by installing a solar-battery
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German utility RWE has secured environmental approval for its Los Durmientes project in Chile’s Antofagasta region, which combines a 243.6 MW solar plant with a 255.4 MW/1,277 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/01/rwe-secures-environmental-approval-for-1277-mwh-solar-storage-project-in-chile/
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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Interviews , Long Reads The two new projects are located in northern Hungary. Image: Goldenpeak Capital Independent power producer GoldenPeaks Capital has reached commercial operations on a 92MW solar PV portfolio in Hungary. Consisting of two PV projects – Zemplén Solar Park in Bodroghalom and Nyékládháza
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