Policy

The government of Pakistan has proposed to impose an 18% general sales tax (GST) on imported solar panels in its Federal Budget 2025-2026.

Venn Energy, a renewable energy developer, has seen its 500MW Cooba solar-plus-storage site selected for inclusion in Victoria’s Development Facilitation Program (DFP) scheme in Australia.

A group of Republican Congress members penned an open letter on Friday urging the US Senate to moderate proposed changes to renewable energy manufacturing and deployment support.

Growing political headwinds threaten to dent US solar manufacturing and project deployment, despite a strong start to 2025.

Australia’s Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has called on Australia’s climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, to “urgently intervene” on a rule change that could threaten to derail the uptake of rooftop solar PV.

Policy uncertainty in the US is likely to disrupt investment in clean energy, according to a recent report from Crux.

The passage of the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' could put 330,000 clean energy jobs at risk, and threaten 331 factories with cancellation.

Tariffs on US imports will increase the cost of US solar PV and energy storage technologies and slow the rate of project development, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

The US Department of Energy budget proposal promises to remove funding for solar and wind energy and expand support for nuclear weapons.

Indonesia has ratified the PLN Electricity Supply Business Plan 2025–2034, targeting 42.6GW of renewable energy generation.