Policy

The Australian government of Victoria has released an amended version of the Victorian Transmission Plan, adding 200,000 hectares of area to develop renewable energy – in addition to 230,000 hectares proposed in the first draft.

US solar industry representatives have voiced concern at the US Treasury Department’s new “start of construction” rules for large projects.

Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to develop a national solar module reuse and recycling scheme.

South Africa’s state-owned energy utility, Eskom, has issued a request for proposals for 291MW of solar capacity.

Despite policy setbacks, US manufacturing has come a long way since 2022 and shows strong potential looking ahead. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo looks at the data.

CEA said the US could lose 60GW of planned solar capacity if strict "start of construction" rules come into force.

The government of Indonesia has launched a programme that aims to build 100GW of solar PV in the coming years, mostly distributed across smaller projects in rural areas.

The US Department of Commerce has initiated antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations of crystalline silicon PV cells, whether or not assembled into modules from India, Indonesia, and Laos.

Energy storage escaped much of the pain inflicted on solar, but foreign entity restrictions may create some supply-chain challenges.

Solar PV is likely to become less accessible to low-income Americans after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cancels the US$7 billion Solar For All scheme.