Jonathan Touriño Jacobo

Continued “weak demand” from the commercial and industrial (C&I) and residential segments has negatively impacted SMA Solar’s sales and income in the first quarter of 2025.

The attachment rate of energy storage with a solar array has reached 69% in the first quarter of 2025 for US residential installer Sunrun, while the company expects the tariff outlook to be manageable.

The US National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) has laid off 114 employees as proposed federal cuts affect the Department of Energy (DOE).

Four leading Chinese PV companies, JinkoSolar, LONGi Green, JA Solar and Trina Solar, recently released their financial reports for Q1 of 2025, all with a decrease in their revenue. 

Israel-headquartered inverter producer SolarEdge has shipped 1.2GW of PV inverters in the first quarter of 2025.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo profiles Silicon Ranch, a US IPP whose ‘Regenerative Energy’ concept takes a holistic approach to PV development.

Swedish thin-film solar manufacturer Midsummer signed a 15MW order for a turnkey thin-film solar cells production line.

Continued supply strain has sent module prices on an upward trend in Europe during the month of April, according to the latest pv.index report from solar trading platform sun.store.

A study from researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has shown that a synthetic molecule in the design of a perovskite solar cell can boost its energy efficiency and longevity.

The Q2 2025 edition (Volume 42) of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download.