Indonesia and Singapore have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a solar manufacturing supply chain in Indonesia’s Riau Islands province, as part of broader plans to enable cross-border clean energy trading… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/indonesia-singapore-partner-on-solar-supply-chain-in-riau-islands/
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Ensuring financial mechanisms are fit for purpose are particularly important, considering the massive investments being made into the global solar sector, which are pushing equally record-breaking deployments. A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that the world invested US$503 billion into solar PV in 2024, more than the US$426 billion invested into all
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Looming cuts to solar grants are ‘not in the interests of climate targets’, the industry has claimed. Currently, people in Ireland installing solar panels receive a grant of up to €1,800 from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). As the cost of solar technology declines, the Government has signalled the grant will be reduced
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German researchers developed a novel pocket-sized instrument to rapidly identify the composition of solar panel polymer backsheets and encapsulants in the field. The hardware is near-infrared absorption spectroscopy (NIRA) sensor-based… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/pocket-sized-tool-to-identify-composition-of-solar-panel-polymer-backsheets-encapsulants/
The federal government confirmed that the approval process for this project took just 20 days. It will be located 9km north of Bothwell in the centre of the state and near the River Clyde. It will be connected to the National Electricity Market (NEM) and within the T3 Tasmania Midlands proposed Renewable Energy Zone (REZ).
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The two spacecraft of Proba-3 fly in precise formation about 150 m apart to form an external coronagraph in space, one spacecraft eclipsing the Sun to allow the second to study the otherwise invisible solar corona. Credit: ESA-P. Carril ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic
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A total solar eclipse festival is scheduled for August 12-15, 2026, at Hellissandur on Iceland’s … More Snæfellsnes Peninsula — just a short walk from Ingjaldsholl church. getty Famed for its volcanoes, waterfalls and displays of the northern lights, Iceland will, on Aug. 12, 2026, host another wonder of nature — its first total solar
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Solar energy has become the largest source of electricity in Pakistan, contributing 25.3 percent of the countrys utility-supplied power during the first four months of 2025. This update was shared by Ember and reported through Reuters. In 2023, solar energy ranked as the fifth-largest source of electricity in the country. But in just two years,
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Latest Features , Editors’ Blog , Long Reads The150MW solar plant in Tarouca, northern Portugal, is the company’s largest European plant to date. Image: Sonnedix. Spanish independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix has begun operations at the Project Douro, a 150MW solar PV plant in Tarouca, northern Portugal. It is the company’s largest European plant to
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Latest Turkey’s 25 existing hybrid solar power plants added 14% to the generation of their co-located wind and hydroelectric plants. Image: Talesun. The addition of solar panels to existing wind and hydroelectric plants in Turkey could help sidestep growing grid capacity issues, and add 8GW of new capacity to the country’s energy mix. This is
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