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Hail accounts for 73% of financial losses for US solar PV projects, despite representing just 6% of the total number of loss incidents.

PV Tech Premium spoke with Geoffrey Lehv of kWh Analytics about cybersecurity, AI and solar project underperformance.

The industry must adopt better approaches to component management, to make more accurate energy yield predictions and optimise PV performance.

Australia’s Queensland government has confirmed an AU$2.4 billion investment in the CopperString transmission project, aiming to extend the National Electricity Market (NEM) to the North West Minerals Province.

Sonnedix has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Renfe to supply 420GWh of renewable energy annually for its commercial operations.

Saatvik Solar, a unit of Saatvik Green Energy Limited (SGEL), is building a 4.8GW solar cell and 4GW module manufacturing facility in Ganjam district of Odisha.

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

Independent power producer (IPP) NOA Group has reached financial close on a 349MW solar PV project in South Africa.

rPlus Energies has secured more than US$500 million for an 800MW solar-plus-storage project in Emery County, Utah, US.  

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.