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Solar Installations Fell 22% In 2025
Solar developers installed 26.5 GW last year, down 22% from the 33.8 GW they installed in 2024, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The decline in solar installations took place despite the ongoing rush to bring projects…
Helio & You: The Sun, Solar Wind, and Earth as a Connected System - NASA Science
The PUNCH mission is designed to gain new insights into how the Sun's atmosphere, or corona, becomes the solar wind, how the solar wind develops as it traverses the inner heliosphere, and what impacts this evolving space weather has on the rest of…
First Solar Inc. stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitors despite daily gains
Shares of First Solar Inc. FSLR advanced 1.10% to $199.42 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.72% to 6,575.32 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising…
Rooftop solar installations increase in T.N.
With rooftop solar adoption accelerating across residential and commercial segments in Tamil Nadu, Avaada Electro, which is the solar PV manufacturing arm of the Avaada Group, recently had a meeting in Coimbatore with leading EPCs, rooftop…
Solar was poised to help Puerto Ricans survive blackouts - until Trump axed nearly $1B in funding
María Pérez lost power for about three months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017. Her home in Salinas, on the island's southern coast, sits near a river. As the hurricane knocked out the island's grid and sent…
Hydro-Québec announces new grant to accelerate solar self-generation
MONTRÉAL, April 2, 2026 /CNW/ - Hydro-Québec is launching a new grant for residential and business customers who want to install solar panels. The grant will provide for $1,000 per kW installed and covers up to 40% of eligible project…
Rock Hill business sues Silfab Solar over unpaid bills for Fort Mill facility
FORT MILL, S.C. — Silfab Solar, a major player in the North American solar manufacturing market, is facing a legal challenge from a local York County business over allegations of unpaid work at its Fort Mill facility. In a lawsuit filed on…
US solar faces 53,000-worker gap ahead of 2026 deadline
The US solar industry faces a critical shortage of skilled labor as developers rush to meet the July 4, 2026, construction deadline mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Analysis from the 2025 US Energy & Employment Report (USEER) and…
US adds 26.6 GW of solar in 2025 as renewables dominate
The US solar industry installed 26,556 MW of new utility-scale capacity over the course of 2025, representing the vast majority of the 36,551 MW in total new builds for the year, said data from the FERC. While the annual total dipped slightly…
India to increase penalties on wind and solar generators for deviating from supply pledges
India's wind and solar generators will face higher penalties from April 2027, a year later than planned, when they provide either more or less electricity than they are scheduled to supply to the grid, an order…
Longi launches integrated solar-plus-storage platform strategy
China's Longi has unveiled “Longi One,” an integrated solar-plus-storage strategy that it said will replace conventional multi-vendor project architectures with a unified system design. The strategy, announced in Beijing on April 1…
Astronauts can face 'nearly lethal doses' of solar radiation - so why launch Artemis II during the sun's peak of activity? Space scientist Patricia Reiff explains.
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Global solar additions reached record 511 GW in 2025, says IRENA
A total 511 GW of solar was added globally across 2025, according to the latest report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA's Renewable capacity statistics 2026 finds solar energy remained the fastest-growing source of…
South Africa's Eskom extends small-scale solar registration fee waiver
South African utility Eskom has extended the current registration fee waiver for small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) systems until September 30. Eskom originally planned to waive the registration fee for SSEGs up to 50 kW until the end of March…
Middle East crisis exposes global energy fault line as UN urges shift to renewables
The Hormuz Strait in the Persian Gulf, through which one fifth of the world's supply of oil and gas passes, has been largely closed to shipping since the conflict involving Iran, the United States and Israel, as well as, to a lesser extent, other…
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