Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Polysilicon producer United Solar has reached financial close on a US$50 million equity investment from the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC) for its polysilicon facility in Oman.

Norwegian independent power producer (IPP) Scatec has started commercial operations at its 142MW Rio Urucuia solar PV plant in Brazil.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has awarded more than €160 million (US$183 million) in funding to 40 clean energy manufacturing projects, three of which are for solar PV.

The state of New York has reached 8GW of cumulative installed distributed solar PV, putting the state ahead of its 10GW target by 2030.

German solar PV generation has continued to grow in the first half of 2026, reaching a new all-time high of 43.2TWh.

Spanish utility Iberdrola has commissioned a 243MW solar PV plant in Italy, the country’s largest in operation.

The government of Mexico has targeted to install 22GW of new renewables by 2030, of which 12GW will be from solar PV.

The German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur, has awarded 482MW of solar-plus-storage in its latest innovation tender.

PV Tech spoke with Bloomberg Intelligence about Nextpower's acquisition of Zimmermann and how this was a logical next step.

Pathfinder Clean Energy (PACE) has secured a €100 million investment to support its deployment of a solar and BESS portfolio in the UK.