In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that solar irradiance fell by up to 30% in India’s northern regions during the southwest monsoon season, while central areas of the country made solar gains.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that August 2025 marked one of the most productive months for European PV this decade, particularly across the western half of the continent.

This week Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Fran Button, Deputy CEO at British Solar Renewables (BSR). She says mentorship and inspiring female leaders can help young women clearly visualise their own career path. “That visibility is vital,” she states. “When I started out, such pathways were far less obvious.”

Australian energy storage company Green Gravity and mining business Wollongong Resources have signed an agreement to deploy gravitational energy storage trials at a decommissioned coal mine.

AleaSoft Energy Forecasting’s latest analysis finds a rise in gas and CO2 emission prices and increase in electricity demand had an upward influence on electricity prices across most major European markets last week. Meanwhile, Portugal and Spain set new records for solar produced during a day in September.

RP Sanjiv Goenka Group will invest INR 30 billion ($360 million) in a 3 GW solar cell facility with a 60 MW captive solar and storage system in Uttar Pradesh, India.

AI startup 257 offers targeted market intelligence to cut costs in the $20 billion residential solar and electrification market.

A Japanese research team has evaluated the affordability of photovoltaic-battery systems featuring heat-pump water heaters and air conditioning units across nine regions of Japan. They analyzed three price policies and two loan types, identifiying a tradeoff between net demand and cost according to the capacity of the solar-plus-storage system.

The Chinese storage manufacturer said its new energy storage system has a capacity of 261 kWh per cabinet. It can be expanded up to 50 units in parallel, scaling to multi-MWh projects.

South Africa’s cumulative solar capacity surpassed 9.4 GW by mid-2025, according to figures from the South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA). The country also has a solar project pipeline in excess of 10 GW.

EverWatt, a French solar developer, entered receivership this summer after investors withdrew support, leading to layoffs and the sale of its assets while the company seeks buyers for regional solar projects.

Chinese conglomerate CRRC has commissioned a 1 GW hybrid project in Qinghai, combining 700 MW of solar, 300 MW of wind, and 100 MW/400 MWh of storage with Trinasolar’s Vertex tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) modules.

Cologne-Bonn Airport has installed 80 adhesive photovoltaic panels on the 27-meter chimney of its cogeneration plant in a pilot project using Heliatek modules.

A research team based in China and the United States has developed electroactive polymer zwitterions to modify zinc oxide interlayers in organic solar cells. Their work was found to passivate defects in organic solar cells, helping to improve device performance and stability.

The efficiency result was confirmed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The module was fabricated with 13.4%-efficient kesterite cells designed with high film porosity and uniformity.

Scientists in Hungary have built a prototype of a thermal distillation device, supported by PV power. The PV panels use an IoT component that self-cleans when dust is detected and cools itself when the temperatures are too high. The system achieved a daily freshwater yield of 6.1 L/m2⋅day.

The stackable battery ranges 4.9 kWh to 19.6 kWh per unit while the inverter is available in ranges from 3.8 kW to 13 kW. The company also introduced a meter socket adapter to avoid triggering costly main panel upgrades.

A research team from the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory has analyzed n-type modules deployed in a 3 MW commercial PV project in an effort to assess the high degradation rate reported by the plant owner. The scientists found that ultraviolet-induced degradation (UVID) was a major factor affecting the facility’s performance.

Sales of module and cell production equipment to, respectively, Waaree Solar Americas and Babacomari North Solar further thin chances of any Meyer Burger revival of its domestic production.

Three US manufacturers actively working to commercialize their respective perovskite-silicon tandem technologies make the case for tandem modules. CubicPV, Caelux and Swift Solar argue a commercial future for perovskites is inevitable, and they tell pv magazine the current policy environment could work in the technology’s favor.

Researches in China have sought to assess how lateral vibration in diamond wire sawing can increase kerf losses in solar wafer manufacturing and have developed a predictive model than can reportedly help reduce them. Their analysis showed that, with constant sawing parameters, smaller wafers suffer from greater excess kerf loss.

Polycab has launched its UT Series 350 kW three-phase string inverter for utility-scale solar projects in southern India. The series offers 15/12 maximum power point trackers (MPPTs) and supports bifacial 182 mm/210 mm modules with a maximum 15 A/20 A DC input current per string.

Scientists in China have investigated the hydrodynamic performance of a novel modular floating photovoltaic system. They did so using a novel hybrid approach, which integrates viscous-flow effects from computational fluid dynamics into a potential-flow solver. They analyzed the new system with varying numbers of panels, either in a single chain or a parallel configuration.

Hydrostor, a Canadian long-duration energy storage developer, has secured AUD 82.6 million ($54.7 million) in funding to support its 200 MW Silver City Energy Storage Centre project in Australia.

Czechia’s largest electricity distributor, ČEZ Distribuce, says 9,084 solar power plants were connected across its network during the first half of the year, 86% of which were equipped with an energy storage system.

Norwegian renewables company Scatec is developing a series of projects in Egypt under the country’s flagship climate action program, including two gigawatt-scale solar-plus-storage sites.

A hands-on with the Apex 300 reveals it has unique strengths for those looking for portable power in a design that is made to expand through accessories.

A tender is open in Micronesia for the engineering, procurement and construction of hybrid solar minigrid systems at three villages on the Fefen Islands. The closing date for applications is October 27.