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Japanese plastics manufacturer Sekisui Chemical is investing in a 100 MW production line to make lightweight perovskite solar panels for low load-bearing rooftops, with an operational start in 2027. It will also acquire a production facility from Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite is now beginning operational testing. The new satellite will offer sharper and more detailed, frequent imagery, providing a significant boost to solar irradiance estimates.

Grenada’s Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has launched a call to prequalify bidders for a 15.1 MWp solar project at Maurice Bishop International Airport, as part of the island’s energy transition.

Scientists in the Netherlands proposed a new testing scheme for recycling silicon from end-of-life photovoltaic panels. Their methodology helped create different wafer categories for recycling silicon for new ingot production but also showed that most of recycled silicon in the near future will come from p-type products, which will harldy be reutilized in a market now dominated by n-type modules.

Gensol Engineering has agreed to handle engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) duties for a 225 MW AC (276 MW DC) grid-connected solar project in India. It will also manage operations and maintenance for three years.

The PV industry is embracing artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) techniques to automate operations and maintenance (O&M) diagnostics and predictive analytics in PV systems. More transparency and standard definitions are needed, however, as US-based Sandia Labs scientists Joshua Stein and Marios Theristis explain.

Excelsior Energy Capital has signed a multiyear deal with LG Energy Solution Vertech to source 7.5 GWh of fully integrated US-made lithium-ion energy storage, aiming to qualify for the domestic US content bonus.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar with Wildlife and Ecosystem Benefits program will fund R&D, technical work, and stakeholder engagement activities that promote compatibility of solar with the natural environment.

GCL Energy Technology and Ant Digital Technologies have raised CNY 200 million ($27.4 million) by tokenizing solar assets in a bid to pioneer blockchain-based financing in renewable energy.

Chemical battery storage, led by lithium, has made such significant strides in terms of cost, capacity and technology that batteries are now positioned to accelerate our already exponential solar growth.