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US solar developers are getting creative—and risky—ahead of the safe harbour deadline

US solar developers are getting creative—and risky—ahead of the safe harbour deadline

A District of Columbia judge also recently reintroduced the long-standing “5% safe harbour” rule, where credits can be secured by committing 5% of a project’s planned investment. The Treasury had removed the 5% safe harbour permission in its guidance following President Trump’s changes to clean energy tax credits last year. PV Tech Premium sat down

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Why Solarbox is building Senegal’s EV ecosystem around the sun

Why Solarbox is building Senegal’s EV ecosystem around the sun

Hello 👋, Welcome back to Francophone Weekly by TechCabal , your weekly deep dive into the tech ecosystem across French-speaking Africa. For readers who want to understand Francophone Africa beyond headlines—through markets, startups, and systems. New editions of the newsletter will land directly in your inbox every Tuesday at 12 PM WAT. By default, this

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Inside PV manufacturing: Solarge’s module factory in Netherlands

Inside PV manufacturing: Solarge’s module factory in Netherlands

Solarge is a Dutch manufacturer that produces ultra-lightweight, fully recyclable solar modules at an automated plant in Weert, in the southern Netherlands. The post Inside PV manufacturing: Solarge’s module factory in Netherlands appeared first on pv magazine Global… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/16/inside-pv-manufacturing-solarges-module-factory-in-netherlands/

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Solar cold storage helps African farmers cut losses and reach global markets

Solar cold storage helps African farmers cut losses and reach global markets

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan farmer Yvonne Anyonyi Mumiah walks in the early morning between rows of rosemary, basil and other crops destined for European supermarkets. She once worried that transport delays or extreme heat could spoil much of her harvest, but now relies on a solar-powered cool storage service to keep her produce fresh.

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5GW Bogunda wind project in Australia reconfigured as 1.85GW hybrid with 500MW solar and 2GWh of battery capacity

5GW Bogunda wind project in Australia reconfigured as 1.85GW hybrid with 500MW solar and 2GWh of battery capacity

REP has launched a dedicated community consultation website for the project, with ecology surveys and grid connection options studies now commencing. Construction is expected to create around 300 jobs in the Flinders Shire region, with 20 or more ongoing operational roles following commissioning. The development phase is expected to run through to 2029, followed by

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South Korea’s Shinan turns solar profits into resident pensions

South Korea’s Shinan turns solar profits into resident pensions

Solar panels stand at the Anjwa Solar City power plant in Shinan County, South Jeolla Province, on Friday. The county distributes part of the projects profits to residents through local cooperatives under its Sunlight Pension program. Photo by Asia Today June 15 (Asia Today) — Salt-damaged farmland once unsuitable for either agriculture or aquaculture has

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Austria allocates €12 million for solar-plus-storage rebates

Austria allocates €12 million for solar-plus-storage rebates

Austria will open its second 2026 PV funding round on June 17 with a total budget of €12 million, while continuing incentives for battery storage and European-made components. The first funding round showed strong demand and a clear shift toward PV-plus-storage systems, with around 90% of applications including batteries. From pv magazine Germany The Austrian

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Scientists find strange changes on sun hours before a powerful X9 solar flare: ‘I was not expecting what I found’

Scientists find strange changes on sun hours before a powerful X9 solar flare: ‘I was not expecting what I found’

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an X9.0 solar flare — as seen in the bright flash in the center — on Oct. 03, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) Scientists may have finally seen the sun telegraph an eruption hours before it happened — and the one caught was one of our star’s most

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Contact Energy completes solar module installation at 150MW solar PV power plant in New Zealand

Contact Energy completes solar module installation at 150MW solar PV power plant in New Zealand

The facility is expected to generate over 275GWh of renewable energy per year and will connect to electricity distribution company Orion New Zealand’s 66kV distribution network. The module installation milestone follows a construction programme that began in late 2024. The project hit its Golden Row milestone in August 2025, when the first row of modules

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