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Submarine link to connect island solar to South Korea’s grid

Taihan Cable & Solution says it has secured a contract to supply and install 154 kV submarine cables linking island‑based PV arrays and floating solar sites to the South Korean grid, in its first fully integrated project with its marine installation subsidiary.
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Myanmar commissions two 40 MW solar plants in Mandalay region

The government of Myanmar has opened two 40 MW solar power plants in Mandalay region, adding approximately 202 million kWh of annual generation capacity as the country faces ongoing grid constraints and power rationing.
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TotalEnergies, Nextnorth close financing for 440 MW Philippines solar

TotalEnergies and Philippines-based developer Nextnorth have started construction of a 440 MWp solar plant in Isabela province after reaching financial close on $300 million of international bank financing.
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Bangladesh’s PV capacity to reach 8.5 GW by 2035, says GlobalData

Bangladesh's solar capacity is forecast to increase more than sixfold over the next decade, driven by a shift from off-grid rural deployment toward grid-connected and distributed generation, according to a new GlobalData report.
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Montenegro developer signs grid deal for 385 MW solar plant

M Energy d.o.o. has signed a grid-connection agreement with Montenegro's transmission operator for a 385 MW solar project, which would be the largest in a country with around 30 MW of installed PV capacity.
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20-month field tests show tracker-based bifacial PV outpeforms fixed tilt counterparts with 13.5% higher ouput in desert enviroments

Qatari researchers found that bifacial 2P horizontal single-axis tracking PV systems in desert conditions produced up to 13.5% more electricity than fixed-tilt systems over long-term field testing in Qatar. The study also showed strong seasonal and techn...
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Inorganic perovskite solar cell based on tetraphenyl-porphine zinc interlayer achieves 82% fill factor

An international research team has proposed a perovskite solar cell architecture incorporating a thin tetraphenyl-porphine zinc interfacial layer to enhance surface potential, passivate defect states, and improve charge transport. The strategy leads to i...
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Australian researchers develop vapour-based manufacturing process for lead-free perovskite solar

Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a scalable, lead-free perovskite solar cell manufacturing process that achieves record indoor-light efficiency while avoiding toxic materials and enabling flexible consumer electronics applicatio...

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SolaX Power Marks Five Consecutive Years of EUPD Top Brand PV Recognition in the UK

SolaX Power has received the 2026 EUPD Research Top Brand PV Awards for the United Kingdom in both inverters and energy storage, with the awards presented at Solar & Storage Live London. The latest recognition extends the company’s track record in the UK to five consecutive years.

Delivering Practical Innovation: Felicitysolar Concludes Successful New Product Launch at the Canton Fair

The 139th Canton Fair recently drew to a successful close. As a premier gateway for global trade, this edition highlighted the collective rise of China’s renewable energy sector.

HyperBlock M Awarded Certifications from TÜV Rheinland, Accelerating its Global Expansion

At the 14th Energy Storage International Conference and Expo (ESIE 2026), which concluded in Beijing at the beginning of April, HyperStrong announced that the HyperBlock M modular energy storage system has been awarded seven certifications by TÜV Rheinland, including TÜV Bauart Mark and CE certifications.

Jinko ESS and SEPE Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Advance New Power System Ecosystem

Jinko ESS has officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Electric Power -Electronics Co. , Ltd.

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People, purpose and systems thinking: The leadership layer of the energy transition

Women in Solar+ Europe highlights this week the insights shared by industry leaders during the panel “Impact Leadership in Solar & Storage: securing the energy transition through people, purpose and systems thinking,” organised by the leadership ecosystem Solar+ Leaders at Solar & Storage Live London. Bringing together voices from across the value chain, the discussion explored how leadership is evolving in response to growing system complexity, skills gaps, and the need for greater alignment across the industry.

April ENSO shift lifts northern coastal irradiance while suppressing Brazil and northern Argentina

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that April 2026 brought mixed solar irradiance conditions across South America, with above-average GHI along Colombia’s Pacific and Caribbean coasts and parts of southern Argentina, while eastern and northern temperate regions — including Buenos Aires to Bolivia — saw reduced irradiance due to persistent cloud cover and wetter-than-average conditions.

Europe’s solar and storage development: Selectivity amid rising global supply and returning energy shocks

Escalating Middle East tensions and global energy supply risks are accelerating Europe’s shift toward solar and storage, particularly in commercial, industrial, and utility-scale segments where energy security, resilience, and price stability are becoming central investment drivers. At the same time, expanding manufacturing capacity in China and India is redirecting surplus solar and storage supply toward Europe, creating a highly competitive and increasingly selective market where long-term success depends on quality, reliability, ESG alignment, and strategic market positioning.

Solar Manufacturing USA 2026 – production and technology at the heart of US solar

The upcoming Solar Manufacturing USA 2026 conference in Austin will focus on real U.S. solar manufacturing progress, shifting attention from capacity announcements to actual production, costs, yields, and technology choices across the full value chain. It will also examine how policy changes and tariffs are driving domestic expansion in ingots, wafers, cells, and modules, while highlighting competing technologies like back contact, heterojunction and TOPCon.

Resisting rust in solar

Over a 30-year asset life, corrosion can evolve into a structural, electrical, and fire safety issue. Corrosion drives up operations and maintenance (O&M) costs, reduces resilience to extreme events, and in some cases, can force premature decommissioning or complete structural replacement Intertek CEA’s Nicholas Hudson and Ankil Sanghvi advise on best practices.

The battery cost disconnect

For years, the battery energy storage (BESS) story has followed a familiar script: costs fall, deployment accelerates, economics improve. Even when cell costs rose and system prices briefly flattened during the 2021-22 lithium price spike, the narrative largely held. Paola Perez Peña, senior principal analyst at S&P Global Energy, examines why the latest jump in lithium prices has only had limited impacts on overall BESS costs so far.

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California sets precedent by overriding local blockade for massive solar-plus-storage project

California is asserting state authority to revive the $700 million Soda Mountain project, marking a new era where Sacramento can reclaim authority from local counties to force stalled utility-scale solar and storage across the finish line.

Italy probes PV companies over €60 million tax evasion and €33 million subsidy fraud

The Italian authorities have dentified seven Trentino-based photovoltaic companies, controlled by an unspecified German operator, accused of allegedly evading over €60 million in taxes and improperly obtaining €33 million in incentives from the state energy agency GSE.

German solar module maker Soluxtec files for insolvency

Soluxtec has entered provisional insolvency proceedings as declining module prices and international competition continue to pressure European solar manufacturers. The company said it plans to restructure operations, maintain module deliveries, and preserve jobs while seeking investors.

Mozambique relaunches 30 MW solar tender in EU-backed program

Mozambique’s energy regulator has reopened pre-qualification for a 30 MW solar project in Sofala province, after a previous award to Total Eren under the same program in 2022.

Solar-assisted air-source heat pump for radiant floor heating

Researchers in Canada designed an air-source heat pump integrated with an air-based solar collector and radiant floor heating for cold climates, showing that the proposed system configuratuon could improve the coefficient of performance from 2–4 to 2–6 and reduce significantly annual energy consumption.

ESS Tech to add 8.5 GWh of US-made sodium‑ion batteries to its portfolio

ESS Tech is complementing its iron flow storage offering, which is engeeneered for the 8–24 hour long-duration segment, with sodium-ion battery products aimed at short and medium-duration applications.

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Anker Solix launches 7 kWh modular battery with 5 kWh bidirectional inverter

The system features AI-driven energy management, 10,000-cycle battery life, and scalable expansion up to 126 kWh.

Renewables growth cut Spain’s electricity bills by 24.2% over the past two years

Spain and Portugal are 53% less exposed to gas price volatility than they were three years ago, according to a new report from Positive Money.

New irrigation tech helps reduce water use in agrivoltaics

Spanish researchers found that combining agrivoltaics with regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) can cut tomato irrigation water use by about 50%, while improving land-use efficiency through simultaneous crop and solar energy production.

Solar break quarterly generation records in Australia in Q1

In Q1 2026, grid-scale solar generation jumped 648 MW compared to the same period in 2025, recording an all-time quarterly high of 2,706 MW output, according to new figures released by the Australian Energy Market Operator.

South Korea plans 3 GW of reservoir floating solar by 2030

Korea Rural Community Corp. (KRC) says it plans to increase floating solar capacity on agricultural reservoirs to 3 GW by 2030, from 105 MW currently in operation.

Low-power ride-through tech keeps green hydrogen flowing in standalone PV–electrolyzers

A UNSW-led research team proposed two low-power ride-through strategies for standalone PV–electrolyzer systems to maintain stability during sudden solar power fluctuations without using battery storage.

Technology

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Scientists discover why lead-halide solar perovskites work efficiently despite being structurally ‘messy’

Researchers in Austria found that unusually high photovoltaic efficiency in lead-halide perovskites can be explained by internal electric fields generated at strain-induced domain walls, which separate charge carriers and enable long-range transport. Their experiments indicated that these effects arise from mesoscopic structural inhomogeneities rather than a uniform crystal structure, providing a general mechanism for charge separation in these materials.

Gotion unveils 5 MW/18.8 MWh ensclosed battery storage system

While the exact specifications of the new product, such as dimensions and weight, haven’t been disclosed, available imagery suggests potential transportation challenges.

Enphase unveils distributed solid-state transformer for AI data centers

The announcement of the company’s latest module power electronics project came alongside Q1 2026 earnings that showed a 20.6% decrease in year-over-year revenue numbers amid a steep decline in domestic demand.

New partnership advances sodium-ion manufacturing in Spain

In a week marked by the largest sodium-ion battery order to date, widely seen as a watershed moment for the technology’s commercialization at scale, one of Europe’s emerging players, Spain’s Bihar Batteries, is strengthening the outlook for European-made sodium-ion batteries.

Indium oxide promises to increase CIS solar cell efficiency to unprecedented levels

Indian scientists developed a cadmium-free CIS thin-film solar cell using indium oxide as an electron transport layer, achieving a simulated efficiency of 29.79% with SCAPS-1D modeling. Through sensitivity analysis, they showed that low defect density, optimized absorber thickness, and effective thermal management are critical for minimizing recombination losses and enabling high-performance, scalable devices.

China tightens carbon accountability framework, strengthening structural push for renewables

Beijing has introduced a stricter national carbon evaluation system that formally holds provincial governments accountable for emissions reduction and energy transition targets.

Manufacturing

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Boviet Solar sells U.S. PV module factory to Indian manufacturer Inox Solar

The divestment, already partially secured via escrow, reflects regulatory pressure from U.S. FEOC policy changes. Boviet Solar also continues negotiations to sell a separate U.S. cell project.

Rosi to build PV module recycling plant in Spain

Rosi has raised more than €20 million in a Series B funding round to scale its photovoltaic module recycling business and build a new 10,000-tonne-per-year facility in Teruel, Spain. The company uses pyrolysis-based technology to recover high-purity materials including silver, silicon, copper, aluminium and glass from end-of-life solar modules.

Cooling PV modules with hydrogel-coated paper

A Vietnamese research team has developed a low-cost passive cooling system for PV modules based on hydrogel-coated paper that combines water flow and interfacial evaporation to reduce operating temperatures. Outdoor tests showed temperature reductions of up to 14 C and efficiency gains of up to 16.8%, with stable operation achieved using both freshwater and natural seawater.

Longi announces world record efficiency of 28.13% for silicon solar cell

Longi claims to have achieved the world’s highest efficiency for a silicon solar cell. The result was confirmed by Germany’s Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH).

How to electrify greenhouses with semi-transparent PV, heat pumps

Researchers in Canada found that 69%-transparent crystalline silicon semitransparent PV modules can improve tomato greenhouse yields by up to 38% while maintaining healthy plant growth through beneficial partial shading. Their simulations also showed that combining rooftop agrivoltaics with heat pumps can fully eliminate fossil fuel heating.

CATL raises $5 billion in share sale, Sungrow files for Hong Kong IPO for the second time

CATL has completed a roughly $5 billion share sale in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Chinese inverter and battery manufacturing giant Sungrow is making a second attempt at an IPO after its initial listing bid, launched in October 2025, lapsed.

Energy Storage

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EU hydrogen mechanism connecting supply and demand activates hundreds of projects

The first operational round of the EU Hydrogen Facility matched 265 supply-side opportunities with 45 demand projects, with 87% of offers receiving at least one expression of interest and half attracting multiple buyers.

Chile reaches 4.6 GW of energy storage under construction

The March 2026 Energy Sector Construction and Investment Projects Report, released by the Chilean Ministry of Energy, records 38 storage systems under construction, for 4,597 MW and 18,780 MWh.

Installed BESS capacity in Spain grew by 589% since 2025 blackout

Some of the consequences of the blackout include a 589% increase in installed BESS capacity in Spain between April 2025 and April 2026, the introduction of renewable participation in voltage control, a greater role for gas in the generation mix, and continued progress on interconnections.

India launches 500 MW renewables tender requiring dispatch via power exchanges

Solar Energy Corporation of India has invited proposals to set up interstate transmission system (ISTS)-connected renewable energy projects for assured peak power supply of 1,500 MWh (500 MW for three hours) under a contract-for-difference (CfD) mechanism.

Sungrow proposes multi-microgrid clusters for mining above 100 MW

Sungrow has released a mining microgrid power solutions white paper in partnership with TÜV Rheinland and the China Electrotechnical Society covering application scenarios from 2.5 MW up to more than 100 MW.

Solar and storage expected to drive 86 GW capacity surge in the U.S. this year

New federal data shows solar and battery assets will comprise nearly 80% of all new utility-scale power additions planned for the U.S. electric grid this year.

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